[gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...
I have installed the system from Kanotix live-CD, however I can't access /dev/hda3 on my HD. Kernel boots just fine. Since I think I had to save conf files somewhere else, how can I copy, for instance, /etc/fstab in my newly installed Gentoo? I can't save it on my floppy too. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!
Hi, googled a little bit around and found this one: title Windows XP Professionnal root (hd0,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 This one will map the second drive (/dev/hdb) to the first drive (/dev/hda) and vice versa. I'm not using grub but lilo so I can't confirm this by my own expierence. But I saw reports that this configuration works during my search for the same problem for lilo (basically it is a small variation with winxp on a SATA drive). BR Thomas Am Sonntag 03 Juli 2005 05:39 schrieb Zac Medico: Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf are: title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... Anyways, thanks to all for your support and encouragement. -mw You might already know this and have thought a way around it, but in my experience (plus I've read this in several places) Microsoft Windows will refuse to boot up unless it is taking up /dev/hda1. It wants to be the first OS on the primary hard drive so that it can believe that it is the only one... That's what I was thinking too. Maybe grub's map command can circumvent this though. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!
Oh, and here is the link to the thread I copied the lines from (just for completeness). http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/334378 BR Thomas Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf are: title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... Anyways, thanks to all for your support and encouragement. -mw You might already know this and have thought a way around it, but in my experience (plus I've read this in several places) Microsoft Windows will refuse to boot up unless it is taking up /dev/hda1. It wants to be the first OS on the primary hard drive so that it can believe that it is the only one... That's what I was thinking too. Maybe grub's map command can circumvent this though. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] acct: function not implemented
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:12:11PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been looking for a program that can audit my system, it seems that acct just fit, however, as i run accton /var/account/pacct it complains: function not implemented, i searched the web, and somebody says the kernel has to be compiled with accounting enabled, i checked the kernel config menu and found nothing. please help. thanks in advance. daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list i have added the BSD accounting support to my kernel, and the accton lastcomm now runs ok. but the output is in quite a mess, it seems that the acct does not make records in the way i assumed, root lastcomm --user root ?? root ?? 2.07 secs Thu Jan 1 08:03 ?? root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 08:16 ?? root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 08:16 i could not understand the question marks there, and the format does not match desctiption in the lastcomm man page. anyone ever used it before ? or any ideas about it ? thanks, best regards daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...
- Start Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files... Something more specific -- I have managed to view my /etc/fstab with built-in shell (ash). As expected I have no valid settings in /etc/fstab. All I have is code: more /etc/fstab /dev/ram0 ext2 defaults proc /proc defaults 0 0. Is there any way to edit files from within ash? I have installed the system from Kanotix live-CD, however I can't access /dev/hda3 on my HD. Kernel boots just fine. Since I think I had to save conf files somewhere else, how can I copy, for instance, /etc/fstab in my newly installed Gentoo? I can't save it on my floppy too. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list - End Original Message - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Start Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Probably lost all conf files... Something more specific -- I have managed to view my /etc/fstab with built-in shell (ash). As expected I have no valid settings in /etc/fstab. All I have is code: more /etc/fstab /dev/ram0 ext2 defaults proc /proc defaults 0 0. Is there any way to edit files from within ash? Well, if you are very careful in typing, you can do something like: # echo /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 0 0 fstab # echo /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0 fstab ... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can`t merge neon
Hi All I cant install neon, it gives me sandbox violation :-( Is there any way to solve this ? 10nx -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 105266647 6774-neon-0.24.7.log.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data pgpscZpz8QGjQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t merge neon
Makurin Roman wrote: Hi All I cant install neon, it gives me sandbox violation :-( Is there any way to solve this ? 10nx FEATURES=-sandbox emerge neon Be warned that build scripts will have unsandboxed root privivileges. This bug is strange. Others have experienced it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52209 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!
maxim wexler wrote: Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! Congratulations. So I nominate you to be our local grub expert! Cheers , -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kuser
Hi folks, kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general problem. That leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem or my system is messed. Anybody else experiencing the same thing? I am in the process of emerging gdb so I can get a backtrace. It probably won't be too helpful since the system is built without debug info. I'll try it anyway. :-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kuser
Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general problem. That leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem or my system is messed. Anybody else experiencing the same thing? I am in the process of emerging gdb so I can get a backtrace. It probably won't be too helpful since the system is built without debug info. I'll try it anyway. :-) Uwe Are you using monolithic or kde split ebuilds? I have kde-base/kuser-3.4.1 and it doesn't crash for me. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages
Hi, I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask gcc-4.0.1_pre* I've already tried to unmask ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre20050616 -* and also ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1 -* but it didnt work. The first only only unmasked this one package and the second one didnt unmask anything. I really do not want to unmask with = foo and = bar because I do not want to change any other defaults. I'd really appreciate any pointers as to how I might do this one. kind regards Philip -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds
Hi, another problem I've just run into: I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot). Is there any way I can force slots without creating my own ebuilds in the overlay? (which would force me to update them everytime a new version is available.) kind regards Philip -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:13 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask gcc-4.0.1_pre* I've already tried to unmask ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre20050616 -* and also ~sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1 -* but it didnt work. The first only only unmasked this one package and the second one didnt unmask anything. I really do not want to unmask with = foo and = bar because I do not want to change any other defaults. I'd really appreciate any pointers as to how I might do this one. kind regards Philip Try =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1* -* or =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre* -* Remember that ~ only matches -r* revisions of a package, not _pre, _alpha, _beta etc. This is covered (not all that clearly, admittedly) in ebuild(5). HTH, Ed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] system won't stop....
Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting it in such a state. Any ideas? Is there anything I can do other than a hard reset in this condition? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem unmasking packages
Edward Catmur wrote: I'd like to unmask (-*) certain versions of a package (gcc). I'd like to keep the defaults for everything but I'd like to unmask gcc-4.0.1_pre* Try =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1* -* or =sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1_pre* -* Remember that ~ only matches -r* revisions of a package, not _pre, _alpha, _beta etc. This is covered (not all that clearly, admittedly) in ebuild(5). Now I really feel stupid :( Thanks a lot! kind regards Philip -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok
On Saturday July 2 2005 4:44 pm, Paul Nolan wrote:
I knew as soon as I said that 'out loud' something would happen. Now it's
started segfaulting on startup. Bollocks.
Update: works fine again (after I removed all config files and the database
and re-emerged). I stand by my first comment (with a couple of reservations
now, but still...)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:19 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, another problem I've just run into: I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot). Is there any way I can force slots without creating my own ebuilds in the overlay? (which would force me to update them everytime a new version is available.) Well, you can hack this sort of thing in /etc/portage/bashrc: if [[ $CATEGORY/$PF == sys-devel/gcc-4.1.0_beta20050702 ]]; then declare -r SLOT=4.1.0 fi (because bashrcs are sourced before the ebuild, you have to make SLOT readonly to prevent the ebuild being able to set it) Note you would have to regenerate metadata after this (emerge regen, I think) - and be careful! Actually, looking at your question again, I think gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* have different SLOTs anyway (3.4, 4.0, 4.1 resp.) - so you should be able to have them installed together anyway? Ed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Different Slots for ebuilds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Catmur wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:19 +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, another problem I've just run into: I'd like to have gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* installed at the same time. However all gcc-4.* versions do not seem to use different slots (eg one 4.0.* and one 4.1.* slot). Is there any way I can force slots without creating my own ebuilds in the overlay? (which would force me to update them everytime a new version is available.) Well, you can hack this sort of thing in /etc/portage/bashrc: if [[ $CATEGORY/$PF == sys-devel/gcc-4.1.0_beta20050702 ]]; then declare -r SLOT=4.1.0 fi (because bashrcs are sourced before the ebuild, you have to make SLOT readonly to prevent the ebuild being able to set it) Note you would have to regenerate metadata after this (emerge regen, I think) - and be careful! Actually, looking at your question again, I think gcc 3.4.x, 4.0.1_pre* and 4.1.* have different SLOTs anyway (3.4, 4.0, 4.1 resp.) - so you should be able to have them installed together anyway? Ed portage alrealy support this behavior. you can install multi version of gcc simultaneously by adding multislot key word to your USE flags. enjoy! regards sunmoon1997 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCx/XnuOtwLijeKbwRAvb0AKCYecGMZ83wmPNMogK6cz0Atkj+XQCeKVM6 FKJCdspQgrVgdDZUJ26wWTo= =+mfz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] install fails
Hi, I am trying to install gentoo following the instructions in the manaul. When doing (progressing from stage2 to stage3): emerge --emptytree system I get an error that one file's size is different that recorded size and stops. Message reads: !!! Digest verification Failed !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/libpng-manual.txt !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Any idea how to skip-the-file (it does not seem very important) or othe way to solve the problem and continue installing? I tried two or three times, even removing all usr/portage/distfiles/libpng* files first but it did not work. One of the problem is that I don't know where the libpng-manual.txt file belongs to. In the manifest of libpng-1.2.8 does not appear this file. Any idea? Thanks, Juan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? Yes, with 2.6.12 gentoo-sources and inotify. The system freezes if you try to umount a ntfs partition after using it. My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting it in such a state. Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from console and so on. Any ideas? Is there anything I can do other than a hard reset in this condition? Usually, when my desktop freezes, I try to ssh in with my laptop and see what happens. If I can ssh in, I know the problem is with X. Regards, DigbyT Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyB4IcxLzpIGCsLQRAuTxAJ9VhNU05jjS4J0VrsleD4UfgHmzmQCePFRL lmuILXJMJB2ekNPPqkTpZ/0= =Bsg2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Omit certain parts of portage tree during sync
Hi, I run a couple of gentoo boxes which are mostly servers. Is there a way to omit certain portions of the portage tree from emerge sync so that the sync will go faster? For example I would likely omit any X and games based sections on my server syncs. Thanks, Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dmesg
Le 02 juillet à 00:40:14 Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | Disable legacy USB support ? | | On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | | Hi all, | I have a strange message at boot, appearing at various places; then typing | dmesg, I get the same message many times repeated, with nothing else: | | drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: input irq status -75 received | | 261 lines of that in dmesg! | | | I switched kernel at least one time since it began some time ago. | Here is what I have in my kernel as far as HID goes: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jean# grep HID /usr/src/linux/.config | CONFIG_USB_HID=y | CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y | # CONFIG_HID_FF is not set | # CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV is not set | # CONFIG_USB_PHIDGETKIT is not set | # CONFIG_USB_PHIDGETSERVO is not set [...] Hi all, well I made some tests with usbhid, trying to put as module rather than into the kernel, no change! Bryan thanks but I'm sorry, I don't know what 'Disable legacy USB support' refers to; is it an option in the kernel (saw nothing of that sort)? any hint still welcome -- Jean Magnan de Bornier | email: jean-at-bornier.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: install fails
Thanks Michael and Edward, emerge --sync; emerge -e system failed again. However it seems that it is working after I deleted the file /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/files/digest-libpng-1.2.8 as suggested by Edward and running cd /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/; ebuild libpng digest For what I saw in some gentoo forums, this procedure is correct if you are sure that the package (libpng-1.2.8.tar.gz) is right. Now it is working, I hope it will complete but it takes a long time because of the emptytree option. Juan Juan wrote: Hi, I am trying to install gentoo following the instructions in the manaul. When doing (progressing from stage2 to stage3): emerge --emptytree system I get an error that one file's size is different that recorded size and stops. Message reads: !!! Digest verification Failed !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/libpng-manual.txt !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Any idea how to skip-the-file (it does not seem very important) or othe way to solve the problem and continue installing? I tried two or three times, even removing all usr/portage/distfiles/libpng* files first but it did not work. One of the problem is that I don't know where the libpng-manual.txt file belongs to. In the manifest of libpng-1.2.8 does not appear this file. Any idea? Thanks, Juan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Omit certain parts of portage tree during sync
On 05/07/03(Sun) 10:48, Fred Moyer wrote: I run a couple of gentoo boxes which are mostly servers. Is there a way to omit certain portions of the portage tree from emerge sync so that the sync will go faster? For example I would likely omit any X and games based sections on my server syncs. You can probably use RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM (which you can define in /etc/make.conf). This is the relevant section from /etc/make.conf.example: # RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM is a file that portage will pass to rsync when it # updates # the portage tree. Specific chunks of the tree may be excluded from # consideration. This may cause dependency failures if you are not # careful. # The file format is one pattern per line, blanks and ';' or '#' # lines are # comments. See 'man rsync' for more details on the exclude-from # format. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpwwwsoNqRZS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Sound question.
Hello All, I notice that on my laptop, my KDE startup sound is quite garbled. (Only when starting up). Im guessing that this is due to heavy resource use. I was wondering though, how I could go about giving Arts or whatever it is, a higher priority at boot so it doesn't sound so bad. On the topic of sound, Audacity gives me an error when loading, but only in KDE (not FluxBox). The error is: There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to play or record audio. Error: Host error. Again, this doesn't happen in FluxBox, but as I prefer KDE, I really would like audacity to run. Thanks!! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/net/tun doesn't exist
Do you have Universal TUN/TAP device driver support (CONFIG_TUN) enabled in your kernel configuration? It should be a network device in your kernel configuration: Device Drivers -- Networking support -- Network device support -- * Universal TUN/TAP device driver support You can also build it as a module, and it will be called tun. Hope that helps! -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 GPG Public Key Fingerprint: A5E9 EA8E 146B 4B44 E26A 385B 278C 74CC 87C5 9026 Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preferred. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] kdeaddon-3.4.1 emerge fails
Hello, my emerge -u world wanted to compile the new kde 3.4.1, but it fails on kdeaddon-3.4.1 with the following text: kfile_cert.cpp: In function `KSSLCertificate* readCertFromFile(const QString) ': kfile_cert.cpp:110: error: `ERR_clear_error' undeclared (first use this function) kfile_cert.cpp:110: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) kfile_cert.cpp:127: error: `d2i_X509' undeclared (first use this function) kfile_cert.cpp:130: error: `X509_free' undeclared (first use this function) kfile_cert.cpp: In member function `virtual bool CertPlugin::readInfo(KFileMetaInfo, unsigned int)': kfile_cert.cpp:156: error: `ERR_clear_error' undeclared (first use this function) Anyone seen this and knows what to do about it? Thanks. Henk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. Here is why ATI won't become much better over time - most of their developers don't use Linux. If you've followed any of the interviews from ATI and Nvidia, you'll note significant differences. ATI has a dedicated team - started at around 5 developers, after they consolidated their driver teams. This grew to around 15, perhaps more today. ATI's management controls how much resources get dropped into Linux via dedicated funding. Nvidia has had a lot of internal pressure from their developers as many run Linux to do development, even for other platforms. Thus they have more than a dedicated core of driver developers for Linux, they have hard core Linux using developers. While Nvidia's management would like to control how much money goes into Linux driver development, they can't just tell their developers to switch platforms for their core work. But that doesn't mean that Nvidia's drivers are golden. They've got a broken driver with the 6x00 series of cards right now if you are running 16x10. It works fine with 5200/5900, previous gen cards. And, 1280x768 is not supported under WinXX or Linux with any version of Nvidia drivers. And this is with any current version of their drivers - nv (in Xorg), 6629, and 7664. ATI, on the other hand has never considered 16x10, it's not a valid resolution. They do support 1280x768, but their cards - 9250, seem to die pretty quickly with heavy 3D use - well, half an hour of UT. I'm happy with them at the moment, yes there are things that could be improved - but aren't there always? :) I really tried to not pre-judge them and tried various options using their cards - Xorg, flgrx, and even went third party - Xig. Simply put - I'll not be buying any more ATI cards. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
Alle 00:03, lunedì 04 luglio 2005, Bob Sanders ha scritto: [...] I really tried to not pre-judge them and tried various options using their cards - Xorg, flgrx, and even went third party - Xig. Simply put - I'll not be buying any more ATI cards. Bob Ok, in this case a question: which other cards support a good 3D? If I don't buy ATI or NVIDEA, but other one Can I use UT2004? I need 3D only to play... But I don't want to have a expensive card... And ATI and NVIDEA start to 50 € Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpryqQVk7uKw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound question.
On the topic of sound, Audacity gives me an error when loading, but only in KDE (not FluxBox). The error is: There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to play or record audio. Error: Host error. Again, this doesn't happen in FluxBox, but as I prefer KDE, I really would like audacity to run. Guess: * you have a soundcard which does not support hardware mixing. If it's an AC '97 compliant chip, it is * arts is running and blocks the device * Therefore Audacity cannot start Three solutions: * Kill arts before starting audacity (try 'artsshell -q terminate') * Create an asoundrcfile including the DMIX software mixing plugin * Install ALSA 1.0.9 which has softwaremixing enabled per default Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
Hi everyone, I really need some help. Here is the story: I wanted to play NWN over my network. I had it on my XP partition, so I tried to boot it. Grub gives me error 13, I cant remember the exact message off hand.. I boot into Linux, and try a number of different things, such as a ntfsfix. I tried again, and it still didn't work. At this point I gave up. This is not the most important issue on this post though, so please ignore this problem temporarily. Another thing that I wanted to do sometime is try Ubuntu. I of course did not want to get rid of Gentoo. I used QTParted on a system rescue disk I got a little while ago. I booted in, and then went to resize /dev/hda4 (My / in Gentoo). I got an error during the resize. This partition was not mounted. As I recall, the error was something like error during ped_filesystem_resize_call or something very close. It seemed to abort after that, bringing me back to the main screen, where everything seemed to be back to normal (partition size-wise). I thought, 'ok, we'll do that someother time.' I decided to just boot back into Linux and get on with my day. But, while loading Gentoo, I get a crippling kernel panic: ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4) ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 28521 does not match the expected one 3 ReiserFS: hda4: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 32866. Fsck? ReiserFS: hda4: warning: vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [1 2 0x0 SD] ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority is Linux working. Windows can wait. Thanks!! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority I boot off the LiveCD then run fsck on the partitions: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 If it successfully fixes it then you can reboot (remove CD) hopefully back into Linux. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:42 -0400, ««Omega21»» wrote: Hi there. I have a Toshiba A70 here, and it has some nice media buttons on the left, and I really want them to work on Linux. I have tried a lot. I have tried xev with no success, and emerged linEAK and it wasn't able to detect them. I've tried a few logitech and dell keyboards in the past with extra keys. I did some searching on the internet and found a good site (something to do with X) explaining that USB keyboards often show up as two keyboards, which X will put together on the one display. (It was actually a site explaining how to use two separate keyboards, but still relevant - I don't have the link, sorry). My keyboard had a usb - ps2 adaptor with it. I discovered that I got different keycodes for the same extra keys when using the keyboard in usb, or ps2 (overall, more didn't work when used as a usb keyboard than a ps2 keyboard) so you could try ps2 if it has that option. Lastly, I had no luck whatsoever if the particular key didn't show up in xev in the first place. Sorry! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority I boot off the LiveCD then run fsck on the partitions: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 If it successfully fixes it then you can reboot (remove CD) hopefully back into Linux. Here are the results: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 ### reiserfsck ### Replaying Journal.. Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda4' in blocks [18.8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree../ 1 (of 4)block 32866; The level of the node (28521) is not correct, (3) expected. the problem in the internal node occured (32866), whole subtree is skipped finished Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped 1 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree ### reiserfsck finished date ### Thats the output. Thanks! begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
On Monday 04 July 2005 00:13, Luigi Pinna wrote: Ok, in this case a question: which other cards support a good 3D? If I don't buy ATI or NVIDEA, but other one Can I use UT2004? I need 3D only to play... But I don't want to have a expensive card... And ATI and NVIDEA start to 50 € Luigi most problems with 6x00 cards can be solved with a bios-update (the bios of the card). If you want to play, there is no alternative for nvidia. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
Yeah, let me echo that. If you run Linux, and you want to play games, and you want a brand new video card, get an nVidia. It's that simple. Justin On 7/3/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 July 2005 00:13, Luigi Pinna wrote: Ok, in this case a question: which other cards support a good 3D? If I don't buy ATI or NVIDEA, but other one Can I use UT2004? I need 3D only to play... But I don't want to have a expensive card... And ATI and NVIDEA start to 50 € Luigi most problems with 6x00 cards can be solved with a bios-update (the bios of the card). If you want to play, there is no alternative for nvidia. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions
Ian K wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names VFS: Cannot open root device hda4 or unknown-block(3,4) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,4) So you know: hda1 = NTFS hda2 = boot hda3 = swap hda4 = root I need lots of help! Thanks! Ian PS If I need to wipe Gentoo, is there any way to recover some important files of mine? It said 'fsck?' does this mean it could be recoverable? Again, my higher priority I boot off the LiveCD then run fsck on the partitions: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 If it successfully fixes it then you can reboot (remove CD) hopefully back into Linux. Here are the results: # fsck -y /dev/hda4 ### reiserfsck ### Replaying Journal.. Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda4' in blocks [18.8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree../ 1 (of 4)block 32866; The level of the node (28521) is not correct, (3) expected. the problem in the internal node occured (32866), whole subtree is skipped finished Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped 1 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree ### reiserfsck finished date ### Thats the output. Thanks! Run fsck with the --rebuild-tree option. However, this will cause any/all folders to be renamed and stuck inside /lost+found. At least that's what happened to me. Then you'll have to sift through files and save the ones you can. This is why I make backups of my config files and save them on my /home partition. Now when I go to reinstall Gentoo (as soon as I get my new hardware), I can copy back make.conf and the other important ones and get back up to speed faster. Also copy over your distfiles if you find them, that saves a lot of time. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kdedeltas
I just noticed a new (maybe?) USE flag for kde called kdedeltas The description says [-] kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire new tarballs for every new release Can someone expand on this: is it a diff against the final stage1 binary (I doubt it), is it a diff against the tarball?, a diff against the stage3 files? ... Is it useful ... BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdedeltas
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: I'm not a KDE person; but if I'm not mistaken, that tells Portage to use binary diffs (xdeltas) against the source tarballs themselves. So, for example, you could have a source tarball for version 3.4.1 of a KDE program and installing version 3.4.2 of that program would not require downloading an entire 3.4.2 source tarball but a patch against the 3.4.1 source tarball that you have in your distfiles directory. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 GPG Public Key Fingerprint: A5E9 EA8E 146B 4B44 E26A 385B 278C 74CC 87C5 9026 Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preferred. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] kdedeltas
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 20:09 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Sorry about that. Evolution quotes the original message and I forgot to delete that from my reply. (Note to self: Get some caffeine. :O ...) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 GPG Public Key Fingerprint: A5E9 EA8E 146B 4B44 E26A 385B 278C 74CC 87C5 9026 Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preferred. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....
I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to report runlevel 5. The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then doing telinit 3 is largely pointless. What runlevel was the system that you ssh'ed from running at? Was that a gentoo system? I then ran 'halt' as root to attempt a reboot, and this also had no effect. The system carried on as though nothing had happened, except with no console. Did you try to Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the X server? Repeated attempts to halt or 'kill -9' the X server had no effect, so I pressed the button, which had the desired effect. The proper way to shutdown from the console is to run /sbin/shutdown -r now Obviously you need to be working as root. or press Ctrl-Alt-Del did you try /etc/init.d/xdm stop This should stop the X session if you started it using the standard bootup proccess. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- Why does New Jersey have more toxic waste dumps and California have more lawyers? New Jersey had first choice. pgppdgho0wOoT.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Crontab best practices: ideas anyone?
I have a small number of logins on my gentoo box that I use for automated chores. I would prefer that they never have passwords, since they are run solely by cron jobs. However, if the login is locked then cron will no longer run the jobs -- I presume (without knowing for sure) that it's because of the warning messages that are issued when you 'su' into such a login. These logins are data gatherers for me, that send emails to other automated systems to get information. They process the answers in various ways for later harvesting by other automated processes. As it is, I have assigned passwords to these accounts, but as I said, I'd prefer not to. SO: is there a way to get cron(1) to run jobs for an account whose password is disabled? Perhaps by doing something to the shadow file that passwd(1) would not do? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?
Hi! When connecting to one of my gentoo servers via SSH, I've got a strange problem: Ctrl+S is not sent to my screen sessions any more, instead handled directly by the shell, causing the sesssion to freeze. This is extremly annoying as many emacs shortcuts require Ctrl+S. Anyone got any idea what could have changed? Best regards, Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
