Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:28, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same thing... I should have noted, I can get it running with softlevel=singlest don't know how to determine the problem. I had the same problem this morning after updating baselayout to 1.12.0_pre5, but the booting stopped after starting samba. Downgraded baselayout back to 1.11.13 and everything worked fine again. Thought that might be it, as My laptop is really booting weird now after upgrading as well. It runs some init scripts twice. Over enthusiastic use of etc-update option 5 ? There was a thread about this a while back, basically the new base-layouts move some of the init scripts to /etc/conf.d and can screw up networking if not properly configured. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?
Michael Swanson wrote: On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us Ctrl+F4 to close a tab. Does anyone know how I can avoid that? Thanks. You can use CTRL+W instead. -- msw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel
Thanks for the thoughts guys... I probably will wind up compiling the kernel again from scratch since I haven't been able to make any headway with this issue. I thought I'd read somewhere that genkernel was working pretty smoothly and saved a lot of hassle, but I guess it isn't all it's cracked up to be. As for your questions, the loss of keyboard and mouse occurs while I'm in X, however, I'm in X most of the time, so that doesn't necessarily mean that much. And after force-quitting X (there's something interesting... ctrl-alt-backspace still works!), I'm generally hosed on the command line too... sometimes I get the wrong characters for keys, sometimes I just get nothing and have to ssh in from another box and reboot. I also did try showkey and I'm pretty sure I was getting weird random keycodes popping out... especially if I typed fast. My hunch is that it's actually something in the PS2 driver and not anything in X or the keymap. thanks again, b Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, I don't really know what's going on. Just wanted to suggest some things: 1. I don't think it has anything to do with the 'Unknown key' messages. This simply means that there are some funny keys on the keyboard that the kernel doesn't recognize. You can check it with the showkey(1) program (but under X) 2. Does it happen also when X is not running, or only under X? 3. Maybe you should try recompiling the kernel, and see if there are any options specific to your keyboard (in menuconfig, you can search for a string by pressing /). Maybe you should grep the kernel docs (/usr/src/linux/Documentation) for your keyboard name. Sorry I can't help more, Moshe * Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18/08/05 06:20]: Really hoping someone has some idea on this... haven't found any solid answers on the web... b --- original message - Hello, I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let genkernel do it's thing, installing a 2.6 kernel. Things mostly went fine, however my keyboard and/or mouse keep going berserk... they just stop working half the time. I share the same keyboard with a windows machine, and it works fine (I'm typing this email with it). Last week, I noticed a lot of entries in the logs like this: Aug 16 22:33:53 venus atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xe0 on isa0060/serio0). Aug 16 22:33:53 venus atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e060 keycode' to make it known. Aug 16 22:40:18 venus atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x8e on isa0060/serio0). Aug 16 22:40:18 venus atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e00e keycode' to make it known. I found a thread on the forums where the poster went ahead and set the keycodes as indicated... for all of them. So, last week, I took the log and cut and paste it together to make a script that set all of them... at least until last night. It started printing these lines again, and I lost the mouse and the keyboard. Restarted X and it was okay for a few minutes, but then it freaked out again and then I couldn't type anything at the command line even after killing X. Oh, I also managed to find the mouse and keyboard boot info from my logs: Aug 9 20:28:35 venus input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Aug 9 20:28:35 venus input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 So, if anyone has any ideas or can point me in any direction at all, that would be great. Ben PS: I also found the following stuff in my logs starting at the time when I lost control of the keyboard and mouse; there's this MTRR stuff and then hundreds of lines with the call trace stuff: Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Aug 16 22:48:08 venus sibling Aug 16 22:48:08 venus task PC pid father child younger older Aug 16 22:48:08 venus init S 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) Aug 16 22:48:08 venus dfe3fecc 0082 00d0 c01313c2 c0131656 c039f200 c039eb00 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 0001 c14053e0 082a 534ee15d 0001d93f c0399bc0 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1527a20 c1527b44 1f056d90 1f056d90 dfe3fed4 0800 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace: Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01313c2] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0131656] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c033580f] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c011ca6e] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01554f3] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0155127] Aug
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:42 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Ian K wrote: Hi there, I was having to use Windows the other day, and it got me into wondering if Linux is able to automatically set up a network connection when an ethernet cable is inserted, or more importantly, establish a connection to my wireless network when I switch my network card on. (Yes it has a switch, its a laptop.) Basically, if it can just execute a script or something when I provide a network connection to my computer that would be good. ifplugd Yup... that works. Esp if there's already a DHCP server somewhere.. The issue that I face is if the network is a PC-Card. (my pccard has this issue. It can't detect the link) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:07:39 up 2:58, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 0.29, 0.16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze
-Original Message- From: Michael W. Holdeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 August 2005 21:11 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same thing... I should have noted, I can get it running with softlevel=singlest don't know how to determine the problem. I have found that Ctrl+c usually aborts the particular script/process and booting carries on with the rest of them. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi
Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 17:07, Jonathan Wright wrote: In the end I had to remove all the modules (rm -Rf /lib/modules) and reinstall all the modules before rebuilding wireless-tools, madwifi-driver, madwifi-tools in that order. Thanks, that worked! (I haven't rebuild madwifi-tools though). I the end I just didn't care! :) I rebuilt/remove/reinstalled anything that was associated with the wireless system. However, it seams that removing the modules is the major step, as anything user /lib/modules is governed by the configuration protection system and therefore nothing will be deleted/removed on a unmerge or clean. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Yup... that works. Esp if there's already a DHCP server somewhere.. The issue that I face is if the network is a PC-Card. (my pccard has this issue. It can't detect the link) Agreed. I've noticed that with my new laptop that as soon as you insert (or at least the laptop discovers) the wireless cart it automatically runs net.ath0 and establishes the network connection. I'm not sure where or how it's one (haven't looked into it), but it's quite nice :) -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Eastman Sent: 18 August 2005 05:19 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Tom Eastman wrote: I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the archives). In case it does not, try this. Since the real partitions usually start at the second sector (the first being the MBR that holds the bootloader and the partition table), I guess (iff the hard disk had only one partition taking all the space) you can extract only the hda1 partition by dd'ing the file onto another one but this time skipping the first sector, ie something like dd if=hda.img of=hda1.img bs=512 skip=1 or so. Hope this works. Thanks, I managed to solve it a different way in the end :-) I loaded up my own physical NTFS partition in a hex viewer, and looked at what byte sequence was right at the start of the partition, then I opened the disk image and searched for that same byte sequence in the file :-) Having found it (at the 32,256th byte) I was able to use 'losetup -o 32256' to offset the loopback device, and the partition loaded up without a hitch! Probably I need more coffee, but since I haven't ever used loopback and just in case I am being dense, would you mind detailing your steps above when you get a minute? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel
Ben Munat wrote: PS: I also found the following stuff in my logs starting at the time when I lost control of the keyboard and mouse; there's this MTRR stuff and then hundreds of lines with the call trace stuff: Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Aug 16 22:48:08 venus sibling Aug 16 22:48:08 venus task PC pid father child younger older Aug 16 22:48:08 venus init S 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) Aug 16 22:48:08 venus dfe3fecc 0082 00d0 c01313c2 c0131656 c039f200 c039eb00 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 0001 c14053e0 082a 534ee15d 0001d93f c0399bc0 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1527a20 c1527b44 1f056d90 1f056d90 dfe3fed4 0800 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace: Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01313c2] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0131656] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c033580f] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c011ca6e] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01554f3] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0155127] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01557bf] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0102649] This is what happens when you press Alt+SysRq+T. I assume you didn't actually press these keys..? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD
On Thursday 18 August 2005 05:13, Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:04, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: flash linux # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 80026361856, start = 0 flash linux # you may want to turn on 32 bit io and unmaskirq too. How do you do that ? man hdparm ;) -c1 turns on 32 bit io, -u1 turns on unmaskirq. Which are both beneficial. Can they be bad in some case ? never heard of one ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] rsync mirroring
I just set up a local rsync mirror using app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror. Now I'm just wondering if it's necessary to do it like suggested and put a separate portage tree under /opt? I mean, apart from syncing to the official Gentoo mirrors it's read-only anyway, so pointing my rsync daemon to /usr/portage should be fine, shouldn't it? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpD7LriGrY2Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Embedded Gentoo problems
To reactivate this old 486 laptop that's been sitting in my basement, I
set out to install it with a tiny Gentoo system and use it as a DSL
router. The HD is 1.3 GB, so a full glibc-based system wouldn't be much
of a problem, but I wanted to experiment with embedded stuff anyway,
so...
Well, I've never sone a Stage1 install. Upon my first try with Gentoo I
ran into some problem and thought WTH, I'll just go with Stage3. But
now, following the HOWTO at http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html, I
have to do it.
All is fine up to the bootstrapping. I have a P4 Gentoo machine, trying
to compile for i486. My short make.conf:
CFLAGS=-Os -march=i486 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CHOST=i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
FEATURES=-sandbox buildpkg
UCLIBC_CPU=486
USE=bitmap-fonts minimal truetype-fonts
Trying to boostrap gcc fails with a segfault:
gengtype-yacc.c: In function `yydestruct':
gengtype-yacc.c:725: warning: traditional C rejects ISO C style function
definitions
stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc/bin/ -DEFAULT_PIE_SSP
-DEFAULT_RELRO -DEFAULT_BIND_NOW -DUSE_UCLIBC -march=i486 -pipe -O2 -DIN_GCC
-W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -o
gengtype \ gengtype.o gengtype-lex.o gengtype-yacc.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a
/usr/i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: warning: creating a DT_TEXTREL in object.
./gengtype
make[2]: *** [s-gtype] Segmentation fault
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
I found that if I hack the Makefile to link all of those helper programs
in gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build/gcc statically, they won't segfault
and even produce something that will compile. But then I get another
segfault when the resulting xgcc binary is run for the first time, so
there is probably a systematic problem.
Any ideas on what might be going wrong would be highly appreciated.
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] mount point with hal and kde
Pupeno wrote: I'd like a couple of this devices to be mounted at a specific place, like /media/backup and /media/home. Is it possible ? Thanks. Yup. Read: /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi Basically you'll be forcing (using the device-id) the path where it is mounted. Then just drop your changes into: /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/storage-policy.fdi There are examples on Google, but since I'm temporally on dial-up, I don't have the sites at hand right now. Regards, Norberto -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgpiCXbvgfnZe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
Holly Bostick wrote: I think I thought that you were getting the contents when you weren't ls-ing the folder, but only the symlink. Mark was grep'ing /etc/make.profile/packages I should probably get some sleep, then, huh? Yes. The world will still be here tomorrow :) -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgpt1hu9jEZ5v.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting
One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP just fine from inside the network, but everytime I try to connect like he does (using ftp.espersunited.com) I get a 425 Security Bad IP error. I don't have access to a computer physically outside the network to use to diagnose this problem, so working around this Bad IP error is my only option. The IP address that ftp.espersunited.com points to is the external address of my router, so it might be complaining because the requesting IP is the same as the requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man page were no help... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: ethereal bug?
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: When I run ethereal as root (su -p) in a kde session, it dies off when I end the capture session. I do not use gnome, so I do not know if the problem exist there. If I comment out this line: gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 #gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 in the file: .kde3.4/share/config/gtkrc It does not die off (temporary fix) But each time I reboot the portable I have to edit the file again. What KDE theme style are you using? I don't seem to have this setting (or problem) in my gtkrc file...so I think maybe it is a theme-specific issue. Good question. I have never set this(these) setting. Going through 'control panel' Theme ManagerNothing is selected or highlighted under 'Choose your visual KDE theme: At the bottom under 'style' is says 'plastik is the 'widget style'. Can you be more specific as to what parameters I need to look at, or maybe they are consolitdated in a config file somewhere? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Hi, It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. Anyone know how to get rid of Mozilla in this case? If not should I file an ebuild request? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount point with hal and kde
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:38:16 -0300, Pupeno wrote: I'd like a couple of this devices to be mounted at a specific place, like /media/backup and /media/home. Is it possible ? Set up udev rules to give them their own names in /dev, these names are also used as the mount point under /media. It is the actual name that is used, not any symlinks, so set up your rules accordingly. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for details on writing custom udev rules. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as the Death Star exploded around him. pgpjx2WiJLQJN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:27:41 -0500, Michael Swanson wrote: I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about the above question. I've read on here many places about people writing their own ebuilds to install software. One of the pieces of software I run is Communigate Email, For which someone has already written an ebuild. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53249 -- Neil Bothwick Oregano: the ancient Italian art of pizza folding. pgpybhX8XjcV8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. I don't have mozilla installed: $ emerge -avt unison These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-misc/unison-2.12.0 -debug +gtk +gtk2 -static -threads 821 kB [ebuild N] net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.2-r1 28 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0 -debug -doc -glade -gnome -gnomecanvas +opengl -svg 622 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgl-1.00 -doc -glut -tcltk 381 kB [ebuild N] dev-lang/ocaml-3.08.1 -latex -tcltk 2,002 kB Anyone know how to get rid of Mozilla in this case? If not should I file an ebuild request? No. You should file a bug (if it really *is* a bug). But you'll need to be able to reproduce it first. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:09:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ^ delete this-| it _makes_ a difference ;) Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: You still haven't run this specific command. The command I gave was ls -l /etc/make.profile not ls -l /etc/make.profile/ or ls /etc/make.profile/ -- Neil Bothwick The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. pgpluqIoy81zC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. Found out some more: You seem to have the 'gnome', 'mozilla' and 'gtk' or 'gtk2' useflag in your make.conf. This is the relevant dependency tree (snipped out some stuff): [ebuild N] net-misc/unison-2.12.0 +gtk +gtk2 [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0 +gnome [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.10.2 [ebuild N]gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.3 +mozilla [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.11 You advised portage to build unison, which needs lablgtk. lablgtk gets built with gnome-support, so it needs gnome-panel, which in turn needs evolution-data-server. And since you have the global useflag mozilla, this will pull mozilla in. Right? (could also be some other combination of use-flags, you get the idea) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. On 8/18/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ emerge -avt unison These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-misc/unison-2.12.0 -debug +gtk +gtk2 -static -threads 821 kB [ebuild N] net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.2-r1 28 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0 -debug -doc -glade -gnome -gnomecanvas +opengl -svg 622 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgl-1.00 -doc -glut -tcltk 381 kB [ebuild N] dev-lang/ocaml-3.08.1 -latex -tcltk 2,002 kB Is it possible that the one of the dependencies pulls in Mozilla? Try emerge with the --tree option for more info. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel
Daniel Drake wrote: Ben Munat wrote: PS: I also found the following stuff in my logs starting at the time when I lost control of the keyboard and mouse; there's this MTRR stuff and then hundreds of lines with the call trace stuff: Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc00,100 found Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd00,80 found Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Aug 16 22:48:08 venus sibling Aug 16 22:48:08 venus task PC pid father child younger older Aug 16 22:48:08 venus init S 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) Aug 16 22:48:08 venus dfe3fecc 0082 00d0 c01313c2 c0131656 c039f200 c039eb00 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 0001 c14053e0 082a 534ee15d 0001d93f c0399bc0 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1527a20 c1527b44 1f056d90 1f056d90 dfe3fed4 0800 Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace: Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01313c2] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0131656] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c033580f] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c011ca6e] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01554f3] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0155127] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c01557bf] Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [c0102649] This is what happens when you press Alt+SysRq+T. I assume you didn't actually press these keys..? Daniel I don't even know what the SysRq key is... certainly nothing I did intentionally. b -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
On 8/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:09:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ^ delete this-| it _makes_ a difference ;) Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: You still haven't run this specific command. The command I gave was ls -l /etc/make.profile not ls -l /etc/make.profile/ or ls /etc/make.profile/ Sorry Neil. I did eventually see the difference. The trailing slash was generate using bash completion. I didn't, at the time, understand that it mattered, although it clearly does. Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirroring
Matthias Bethke wrote: I just set up a local rsync mirror using app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror. Now I'm just wondering if it's necessary to do it like suggested and put a separate portage tree under /opt? I mean, apart from syncing to the official Gentoo mirrors it's read-only anyway, so pointing my rsync daemon to /usr/portage should be fine, shouldn't it? cheers! Matthias I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main machine and then let the others sync off it. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b5 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 1 day, 6:36, 2 users, load average: 0.45, 0.30, 0.16 -- If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~ Bert R. Sugar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
On 8/18/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. Found out some more: You seem to have the 'gnome', 'mozilla' and 'gtk' or 'gtk2' useflag in your make.conf. This is the relevant dependency tree (snipped out some stuff): [ebuild N] net-misc/unison-2.12.0 +gtk +gtk2 [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0 +gnome [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.10.2 [ebuild N]gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.3 +mozilla [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.11 You advised portage to build unison, which needs lablgtk. lablgtk gets built with gnome-support, so it needs gnome-panel, which in turn needs evolution-data-server. And since you have the global useflag mozilla, this will pull mozilla in. Right? (could also be some other combination of use-flags, you get the idea) Christoph Christoph, Hi, I think you're basically right but this is a case where the real meaning of flags is important? My understanding of the 'mozilla' flag was that it instructed apps to build in support for Mozilla and not that it required Mozilla to get emerged. My real thought here is not that I really want 'mozilla' support in Unison but if any app needs a browser that it should be happy with Firefox instead of any other app. I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area. thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:39:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: You still haven't run this specific command. The command I gave was ls -l /etc/make.profile not ls -l /etc/make.profile/ or ls /etc/make.profile/ Sorry Neil. I did eventually see the difference. The trailing slash was generate using bash completion. I didn't, at the time, understand that it mattered, although it clearly does. It does, because the trailing slash follows the link, without it you list the link itself. This is why cut and paste can be better than completion :) -- Neil Bothwick Is there another word for synonym? pgp5htTzz9zrR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
On 8/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:39:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: You still haven't run this specific command. The command I gave was ls -l /etc/make.profile not ls -l /etc/make.profile/ or ls /etc/make.profile/ Sorry Neil. I did eventually see the difference. The trailing slash was generate using bash completion. I didn't, at the time, understand that it mattered, although it clearly does. It does, because the trailing slash follows the link, without it you list the link itself. This is why cut and paste can be better than completion :) Completely correct. Good lesson. thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP just fine from inside the network, but everytime I try to connect like he does (using ftp.espersunited.com) I get a 425 Security Bad IP error. I don't have access to a computer physically outside the network to use to diagnose this problem, so working around this Bad IP error is my only option. The IP address that ftp.espersunited.com points to is the external address of my router, so it might be complaining because the requesting IP is the same as the requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man page were no help... Pleae be aware of how FTP works: there are two connections per user - one is the control port and one is for data. With active FTP, the user's FTP client picks a local port number for the data port. With passive FTP, the server picks a data port number and tells the client what port number to use. Obviously, your router and/or firewall needs to be configured to allow both types of ports into your LAN and to forward the ports to the correct place. Passive FTP is better from a firewall point of view but your firewall still needs to know to open the port for incoming connections. If you firewall is not capable of doing that then this wont work and you may need to put you FTP server outside of your firewall in a DMZ. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting
A quick search on google reveals the following as a possibility: Your server might be responding to the PASV connection by giving the lan-ip. Try setting the pasv_promiscuous=YES and/or pasv_addrs=insert wan ip here in the config. The suggestions are completely untested... and I don't use VSFTP myself, just acting as a Google-Proxy (= W On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP just fine from inside the network, but everytime I try to connect like he does (using ftp.espersunited.com) I get a 425 Security Bad IP error. I don't have access to a computer physically outside the network to use to diagnose this problem, so working around this Bad IP error is my only option. The IP address that ftp.espersunited.com points to is the external address of my router, so it might be complaining because the requesting IP is the same as the requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man page were no help... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Death Mech and Death EM should be events in the X-games. ~Willie Wong Sortir en Pantoufles: up 6 days, 20:16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:56 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP just fine from inside the network, but everytime I try to connect like he does (using ftp.espersunited.com) I get a 425 Security Bad IP error. I don't have access to a computer physically outside the network to use to diagnose this problem, so working around this Bad IP error is my only option. The IP address that ftp.espersunited.com points to is the external address of my router, so it might be complaining because the requesting IP is the same as the requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man page were no help... Pleae be aware of how FTP works: there are two connections per user - one is the control port and one is for data. With active FTP, the user's FTP client picks a local port number for the data port. With passive FTP, the server picks a data port number and tells the client what port number to use. Obviously, your router and/or firewall needs to be configured to allow both types of ports into your LAN and to forward the ports to the correct place. Passive FTP is better from a firewall point of view but your firewall still needs to know to open the port for incoming connections. If you firewall is not capable of doing that then this wont work and you may need to put you FTP server outside of your firewall in a DMZ. The user can login with his username and password and get a listing of his home directory just fine (as I said above) so I don't see how this could be a firewall issue. Nevertheless, I checked the firewall and port forwarding settings in my router. TCP port 21 is forwarded to port 21 of 192.168.1.2, which is my server box. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:19 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: A quick search on google reveals the following as a possibility: Your server might be responding to the PASV connection by giving the lan-ip. Try setting the pasv_promiscuous=YES and/or pasv_addrs=insert wan ip here in the config. The suggestions are completely untested... and I don't use VSFTP myself, just acting as a Google-Proxy (= W On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP just fine from inside the network, but everytime I try to connect like he does (using ftp.espersunited.com) I get a 425 Security Bad IP error. I don't have access to a computer physically outside the network to use to diagnose this problem, so working around this Bad IP error is my only option. The IP address that ftp.espersunited.com points to is the external address of my router, so it might be complaining because the requesting IP is the same as the requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man page were no help... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Death Mech and Death EM should be events in the X-games. ~Willie Wong Sortir en Pantoufles: up 6 days, 20:16 I can now log in to my account via FTP using the ftp.espersunited.com (extenal IP). This might fix the user's problem as well - he's not available to try it. If it doesn't, I'll probably right back in if further information from him and research doesn't provide the answer... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Injecting files into a gentoo installation ISO?
Hi, I have a computer colocated and I want to switch to gentoo, but I want to cause the technical support there minimal hassle (and a minimal cost to me :) ). The most I want them to do is pop in the gentoo disk, restart, and run a script that changes the root password and implements the correct network settings. I was thinking about putting a bash script onto the ISO and have them launch it after gentoo boots. Is this a feasible idea? Can anyone offer some ideas on how to do it in a better way?
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area. I don't know what unison is, but in most cases you can't just swap out firefox for mozilla. Firefox is a web browser. Mozilla is a web browser (with email client, etc) plus a sofware development kit and relevant development libraries. So even though you are asking Why does it need mozilla? I have firefox, won't that do?, the answer (in the usual scenarios) is no, as they are very different packages and firefox does not provide a lot of stuff which mozilla does. Hopefully in the future, mozilla will split out the SDK/libraries into a seperate package so that you don't have to install the mozilla webbrowser/emailer/etc. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:05:51PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hopefully in the future, mozilla will split out the SDK/libraries into a seperate package so that you don't have to install the mozilla webbrowser/emailer/etc. For right now, the moznocompose, moznomail flags gets rid of the html editor and emailer. There are some other ones if you grep moz /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc W Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- omega says hi i think he might be sulking because he has fur ~S Sortir en Pantoufles: up 6 days, 21:40 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg, nvidia drivers and MX4000
I'm having trouble getting a new NVidia MX4000 to work using the nvidia drivers. I have tried the version that installs by default, which I think is 6629, and I have tried using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 so I can try the latest available. Both give the same result: namely when I type startx, I see the NVidia splash screen, and then nothing but a white X cursor on all black background. Nothing else happens, except I can move the mouse cursor. I have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to get back out. I have searched everywhere I can think of, and seen similar issues, but none of the suggestions have worked yet. If anyone has some suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg, nvidia drivers and MX4000
On 21:01, giovedì 18 agosto 2005, Mark wrote: the same result: namely when I type startx, I see the NVidia splash screen, and then nothing but a white X cursor on all black background. Nothing else happens, except I can move the mouse cursor. I have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to get back out. Did you issue the opengl-update nvidia command? Do you have a default session set up to start the wm of your choice in /etc/rc.conf? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cbqlimit children priority
Hi, I'm using cbqlimit to shape my bandwidth usage. What I want is that even if some user make some download from xyz.com using the full rate of the link I could start some other download at my external server and get the priority limiting the other user download speed and increasing mine. Well, since I've an adsl link using eth1, I did made some rules to match eth0 outgoing (which match internet inbound). I've created one general rule which one I'd setup with the full incoming rate matching all incoming address/port with a priority 3. To my server address, I'd setup a rule with priority 1, but that rule is using the genereal rule as parent. I think that's the way I have to follow but that doesn't work exactly like I want. Trying to make 2 downloas from differente sources (my own server and any other server), the unknown server get more speed than mine. I'd tried to separate my server rule removing the parent reference, so this time they both are main rules and my server have a priority 1 while the other rule have priority 3, but even in this way, the other server still getting more speed than my server. How can I fixate this? May I'll have to use just one rule for my server and let the unknown sources to have the free portion of the bandwidth? Tks in any advice, Claudinei Matos -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg, nvidia drivers and MX4000
Might be on to something there. I just changed the DISPLAYMANAGER to xdm and Xsession to xsession. That gave me a sort-of desktop, although I think there's some tweaking necessary on the mouse - it wasn't working correctly. I'll go ahead and emerge kde, make the appropriate changes in rc.conf and see if that helps. Thanks for the ideas! I'll drop back in after a while when kde finishes installing :-) On 8/18/05, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21:01, giovedì 18 agosto 2005, Mark wrote: the same result: namely when I type startx, I see the NVidia splash screen, and then nothing but a white X cursor on all black background. Nothing else happens, except I can move the mouse cursor. I have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to get back out. Did you issue the opengl-update nvidia command? Do you have a default session set up to start the wm of your choice in /etc/rc.conf? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Injecting files into a gentoo installation ISO?
Greg Shikhman wrote: I have a computer colocated and I want to switch to gentoo, but I want to cause the technical support there minimal hassle (and a minimal cost to me :) ). The most I want them to do is pop in the gentoo disk, restart, and run a script No need for that. Look at the end of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml 6. Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors
Hello everyone, Sound files played fine prior to the update. When unit boots speakers thump at Loading: snd-seq-oss...as before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod Module Size Used by fglrx 238332 0 agpgart33320 1 fglrx ppp_deflate 6272 0 zlib_deflate 22680 1 ppp_deflate zlib_inflate 18304 1 ppp_deflate ppp_async 11392 1 crc_ccitt 2176 1 ppp_async ppp_generic23828 6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async slhc7680 1 ppp_generic snd_pcm_oss58784 0 snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss33024 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq54416 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8844 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq uhci_hcd 31244 0 rtc 8212 0 ohci1394 32900 0 ieee1394 103220 1 ohci1394 snd_intel8x0 31040 0 snd_ac97_codec 69760 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm93320 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 24836 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd56452 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_m idi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9184 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10372 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ohci_hcd 29448 0 ntfs 207668 1 displays Sound files play but without sound and without any sort of error. Nothing in dmesg, messages amiss. alsasound(newly created in /etc/init.d) is listed in /etc/runlevels/boot and properly linked. Only hint that something is wrong: boot console fails to display mixer settings as before. Yes, my username *is* in the audio group. Must be something simple, but what? Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors
maxim wexler schreef: Hello everyone, Sound files played fine prior to the update. When unit boots speakers thump at Loading: snd-seq-oss...as before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod Module Size Used by fglrx 238332 0 agpgart33320 1 fglrx ppp_deflate 6272 0 zlib_deflate 22680 1 ppp_deflate zlib_inflate 18304 1 ppp_deflate ppp_async 11392 1 crc_ccitt 2176 1 ppp_async ppp_generic23828 6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async slhc7680 1 ppp_generic snd_pcm_oss58784 0 snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss33024 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq54416 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8844 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq uhci_hcd 31244 0 rtc 8212 0 ohci1394 32900 0 ieee1394 103220 1 ohci1394 snd_intel8x0 31040 0 snd_ac97_codec 69760 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm93320 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 24836 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd56452 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_m idi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9184 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10372 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ohci_hcd 29448 0 ntfs 207668 1 displays Sound files play but without sound and without any sort of error. Nothing in dmesg, messages amiss. alsasound(newly created in /etc/init.d) is listed in /etc/runlevels/boot and properly linked. Only hint that something is wrong: boot console fails to display mixer settings as before. Yes, my username *is* in the audio group. Must be something simple, but what? Idea #1: Put alsasound in default, rather than boot runlevel. There is no use for sound in the boot runlevel, and having it there often causes (weird, inexplicable) problems. Idea #2: might something have gone wonky with your mixer settings? HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk
Richard Fish wrote: Is this an initrd or initramfs (aka, cpio.gz) image? If it is initrd, you should have a /linuxrc script to initialize the system. For grub, you will need: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc initrd=/rootfs.gz Then your linuxrc script must *not* exit. It will probably need to call /sbin/init with something like: exec /sbin/init $@ In your case, /linuxrc probably doesn't need to do much of anything else. If it is initrams, then you just need to create a /init script and place the same exec /sbin/init... inside it. You do not need the init= option for the kernel in the grub configuration. For some more info, take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/early-userspace/README HTH -Richard Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all, Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only taking up 9mb (when gzipped). Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped image file into a ramdisk and use it as a root filesystem. Running the system directly from the CF card works great, but when trying to get it to run it in ram it fails with kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0). My attempt at running the system from ram is as follows: (grub config file): kernel /vmlinuzinitrd=/rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0 the rootfs.gz file is ~10Mb, and when uncompressed is an 100mb image (most of the image is free space to allow for future additions, this is a test bed). Now I presume this is probably what is incorrect, in which case can anyone help me regarding how to use ramdisks as root devices. (googling about tells me that the initrd image is not the root image, but rather a pre-root mounting fs to prepare the system for booting). P.S Please CC me as this mailinglist doesnt play nice with my email account. thanks! Thanks, that was helpful. Now the system finds the root fs and loads it. But the system still wont boot. It tells me RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 as a final kernel message, then just sits there (for ages). At lease its closer to functioning then before, but there are a few bugs to iron out. What could be wrong? Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?
Uwe Thiem schreef: On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) snip Thank you very much, Uwe, but I simply cannot get the livecd themes to work. Adapting your methodology-- because I don't use genkernel-- in combination with the wiki how-to, I compiled the initramfs into the kernel, and the kernel does boot with the livecd theme-- but the theme itself does not appear. This is an improvement, actually, as previously I would get a kernel panic with the silent theme selected. Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose splash: no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice) could not find silent image. Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and I'd really like to give the new ati drivers a spin for a while. I have: - copied most of the (working, afaik) emergence config file to the livecd config file; - converted the images to 8bit and saved them with the proper names; - put the full path to the images in the config file; - converted the 32-bit images from .png to .jpg None of it works. The images cannot be found. I really don't know what else I can do, nor even what to file for a bug, as I have no clue what's wrong. I've looked in the forums (nothing), and the only partially relevant bug on b.g.o was marked invalid, being about a 'non-standard' resolution (1280x800), whereas my issue is with a standard resolution (1280x1024). I really don't want to bother Spock with this, since it seems to be a problem limited to me-- but honestly, what could it be? Holly P.S, oh btw, thanks for the instructions about setting up a GRUB theme (which I have done, although using different instructions from yours, as yours didn't mention that the image must be created with certain constraints), but what I had said was that I needed a matching *GDM* theme :) . Not that it matters, since I have no splash to tie the GRUB theme to any future matching GDM theme anyway H. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting
Are you blocking port 20 outgoing? http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Willie Wong wrote: A quick search on google reveals the following as a possibility: Your server might be responding to the PASV connection by giving the lan-ip. Try setting the pasv_promiscuous=YES and/or pasv_addrs=insert wan ip here in the config. The suggestions are completely untested... and I don't use VSFTP myself, just acting as a Google-Proxy (= W On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from outside the network. I can connect and interact with my personal account through FTP just fine from inside the network, but everytime I try to connect like he does (using ftp.espersunited.com) I get a 425 Security Bad IP error. I don't have access to a computer physically outside the network to use to diagnose this problem, so working around this Bad IP error is my only option. The IP address that ftp.espersunited.com points to is the external address of my router, so it might be complaining because the requesting IP is the same as the requested IP. Any help on fixing this? Google and the vsftpd.conf man page were no help... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
On 8/18/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area. I don't know what unison is, but in most cases you can't just swap out firefox for mozilla. Firefox is a web browser. Mozilla is a web browser (with email client, etc) plus a sofware development kit and relevant development libraries. So even though you are asking Why does it need mozilla? I have firefox, won't that do?, the answer (in the usual scenarios) is no, as they are very different packages and firefox does not provide a lot of stuff which mozilla does. Hopefully in the future, mozilla will split out the SDK/libraries into a seperate package so that you don't have to install the mozilla webbrowser/emailer/etc. Daniel Daniel, Hi. You make a very valid and important point. Thanks. Beyond Mozilla splitting out portions of it's functionality it seems to me that, as a pure user type, I have no way of determining what a given flag is intending to do when emerge is run. If, for instance, there was some query through emerge that told me something about what feature a flag was enabling then in this case (possibly) we'd see that Unison was depending on Mozilla's mail features, or Mozilla's browser features, or Mozilla's SDK. If it told me it was SDK then clearly I wouldn't expect Firefox to provide that. If it's a browser feature then I think I'd be warranted in asking why it didn't accept Firefox. Is this not reasonable? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro
Hi Tero, I put this off for a long time. I'm a bit confused about exactly what driver is getting loaded here and how it got built. When I set VIDEO_CARDS=mach64 I did not get a driver called 'ati' but I did get a driver called 'mach64'. I am currently loading the following drivers: godzilla ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by SNIP mach64 53952 0 drm65304 1 mach64 agpgart29384 2 via_agp,drm godzilla ~ # This gets me to the point where I have no errors in =/var/log/Xorg.0.log, but I do have warnings. I think that doesn't matter until I get the drivers straightened up though. I presume this is the ATI driver that normally comes with xorg-x11 is it not? If so how do I get both it and the mach64 driver built? I hope I'm not totally missing your point. Sorry if I'm being dense. With best regards, Mark On 7/15/05, Tero Grundström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I also have this video card. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 to FC4 upgrade. Questions: 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the right way to configure a new machine for a specific card? Yes it is the right way but only used by the x11-drm package. If you want dri to work you also have to emerge xorg with the 'insecure-drivers' USE flag. That's right, the dri drivers for this video card are considered insecure... 2) If the answer to #1 is yes then what's the right setting for a 3D Rage Pro? (I.e. - where's the list of legal names?) The 3D Rage Pro has uses a mach64 chip so the right setting is VIDEO_CARDS=mach64. Finally, here is my video card section in xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver ati VendorName ATI BoardName 3D Rage Pro 215GP ChipSet ati ChipId 0x4750 ChipRev 0x5c Option backingstore EndSection HTH -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/18/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area. I don't know what unison is, but in most cases you can't just swap out firefox for mozilla. Firefox is a web browser. Mozilla is a web browser (with email client, etc) plus a sofware development kit and relevant development libraries. So even though you are asking Why does it need mozilla? I have firefox, won't that do?, the answer (in the usual scenarios) is no, as they are very different packages and firefox does not provide a lot of stuff which mozilla does. Hopefully in the future, mozilla will split out the SDK/libraries into a seperate package so that you don't have to install the mozilla webbrowser/emailer/etc. Daniel Daniel, Hi. You make a very valid and important point. Thanks. Beyond Mozilla splitting out portions of it's functionality it seems to me that, as a pure user type, I have no way of determining what a given flag is intending to do when emerge is run. If, for instance, there was some query through emerge that told me something about what feature a flag was enabling then in this case (possibly) we'd see that Unison was depending on Mozilla's mail features, or Mozilla's browser features, or Mozilla's SDK. If it told me it was SDK then clearly I wouldn't expect Firefox to provide that. If it's a browser feature then I think I'd be warranted in asking why it didn't accept Firefox. Is this not reasonable? Not completely. I was going to say, most of the time when one installs a program, one has some idea of what it does, and thus could hazard a guess as to what thus-and-so USE flag could be expected to enable. But in order to say that, I would have to know what unison was, so I looked it up: eix unison * net-misc/unison Available versions: 2.9.1-r1 2.12.0 ~2.13.0 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Description: Two-way cross-platform file synchronizer ... and thought I could see no reason why a file-synchronization program would demand mozilla at all, so I emerge -pv'ed it: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-lang/ocaml-3.08.1 -latex +tcltk 2,002 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgl-1.00 -doc +glut +tcltk 381 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0 -debug -doc -glade +gnome -gnomecanvas +opengl +svg 622 kB [ebuild N] net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.2-r1 28 kB [ebuild N] net-misc/unison-2.12.0 -debug +gtk +gtk2 -static +threads 821 kB ... and I do have 'mozilla' in my USE flags-- why, I don't know, actually, but I disable the flag for individual programs, as I don't want Mozilla, and don't have it installed: eix mozilla * app-office/mozilla-sunbird-bin Available versions: [M]0.2 [M]0.2.20050724 Installed: none Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html Description: The Mozilla Sunbird Calendar * mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird Available versions: 1.0.5 1.0.5-r1 1.0.6-r2 1.0.6-r3 1.0.6-r4 Installed: 1.0.6-r4 Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Description: Thunderbird Mail Client * mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin Available versions: 1.0.6-r3 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird Description: The Mozilla Thunderbird Mail News Reader * net-www/kaffeine-mozilla-plugin Available versions: 0.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/ Description: The Kaffeine Mozilla starter plugin. * www-client/mozilla Available versions: 1.7.10-r1 ~1.7.10-r2 ~1.7.10-r3 1.7.11 ~1.7.11-r1 [M]1.7.11-r2 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org Description: Mozilla Application Suite - web browser, email, HTML editor, IRC * www-client/mozilla-bin Available versions: 1.7.10-r1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org Description: Mozilla Application Suite - web browser, email, HTML editor, IRC * www-client/mozilla-firefox Available versions: 1.0.6-r2 1.0.6-r3 1.0.6-r4 1.0.6-r5 [M]1.0.6-r6 Installed: 1.0.6-r5 Homepage:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Description: Firefox Web Browser So I don't know what's dragging mozilla in for you-- except that evolution data server, which I noticed in one of your previous posts, which does require mozilla, and is enabled these days via the 'eds' USE flag, which I
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:19:59 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Beyond Mozilla splitting out portions of it's functionality it seems to me that, as a pure user type, I have no way of determining what a given flag is intending to do when emerge is run. If, for instance, there was some query through emerge that told me something about what feature a flag was enabling then in this case (possibly) we'd see that Unison was depending on Mozilla's mail features, or Mozilla's browser features, or Mozilla's SDK. If it told me it was SDK then clearly I wouldn't expect Firefox to provide that. If it's a browser feature then I think I'd be warranted in asking why it didn't accept Firefox. It wouldn't help in this case, because Unison does not depend on Mozilla, nor does it use the mozilla USE flag. You can get the sort of information you need by reading the ebuild, USE flag settings normally alter configure options. Some way of getting this information in plain English would be nice, but that would require it to be added to every ebuild individually. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips. pgpG0OFA6LopC.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] How to enable core dumps?
Hi Does any one knows how to enable core dumps? It seems like they are disabled by default. I have already tried putting * C20480 in /etc/limits and * soft core 2048000 in /etc/security/limits.conf and still no core dumps from my code's features... ;-) -- Antonio SoutoLaboratorista e mestrando doPIPCA - Programa Interdisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Computação AplicadaBacharel em Ciência da ComputaçãoUNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Fones (0xx51) 590- | 591-1100 | 591-1122 ramal 1658São Leopoldo - RS[The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology.]
Re: [gentoo-user] mount point with hal and kde
On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:47, Norberto Bensa wrote: Read: /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi Basically you'll be forcing (using the device-id) the path where it is mounted. Then just drop your changes into: /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/storage-policy.fdi This looks like a configuration file. Why is it located on /usr instead of /etc ? -- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://pupeno.com) Reading ? Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar pgpesGTfDfNZe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to enable core dumps?
Antonio Souto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Does any one knows how to enable core dumps? It seems like they are disabled by default. # ulimit -c unlimited hth, cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Injecting files into a gentoo installation ISO?
Unfortunately, I have all space taken up. I would need to ask the colo technician to insert a floppy and run the program, which is a bit much... On 8/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Shikhman wrote:I have a computer colocated and I want to switch to gentoo, but I want to cause the technical support there minimal hassle (and a minimal cost to me :) ). The most I want them to do is pop in the gentoo disk, restart, and run a scriptNo need for that.Look at the end of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml6. Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distributionBenno--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to enable core dumps?
Thanks a lot. As a matter of fact I forgot do logout login. Cores dumping all over the place now! ;-) Sorry.On 8/18/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antonio Souto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Does any one knows how to enable core dumps? It seems like they are disabled by default.# ulimit -c unlimited hth,cooper.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Antonio SoutoLaboratorista e mestrando do PIPCA - Programa Interdisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Computação AplicadaBacharel em Ciência da ComputaçãoUNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosFones (0xx51) 590- | 591-1100 | 591-1122 ramal 1658 São Leopoldo - RS[The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology.]
Re: [gentoo-user] Injecting files into a gentoo installation ISO?
Just a thought... extract the iso to your local hard drive, hack it up however you like, repack it and ship it off to your datacenter. As far as I know that should do the trick. -MikeOn 8/18/05, Greg Shikhman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I have all space taken up. I would need to ask the colo technician to insert a floppy and run the program, which is a bit much... On 8/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Shikhman wrote:I have a computer colocated and I want to switch to gentoo, but I want to cause the technical support there minimal hassle (and a minimal cost to me :) ). The most I want them to do is pop in the gentoo disk, restart, and run a scriptNo need for that.Look at the end of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml6. Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distributionBenno-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Injecting files into a gentoo installation ISO?
You can build one from scratch using catalyst, just like the big boys at gentoo-dev do. I have done so, but it was a bit of a PITA, and time consuming. Or quicker would be to unpack the compressed filesystem, change the startup script and make a new iso. You will need to make it bootable with the right kernel and so forth. On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:38:44 -0400 Greg Shikhman wrote: Unfortunately, I have all space taken up. I would need to ask the colo technician to insert a floppy and run the program, which is a bit much... On 8/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Shikhman wrote: I have a computer colocated and I want to switch to gentoo, but I want to cause the technical support there minimal hassle (and a minimal cost to me :) ). The most I want them to do is pop in the gentoo disk, restart, and run a script No need for that. Look at the end of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml 6. Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:42:23 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: So I don't know what's dragging mozilla in for you-- except that evolution data server, which I noticed in one of your previous posts, which does require mozilla, and is enabled these days via the 'eds' USE flag, which I have explicitly disabled. But even eds doesn't seem to be dragged in via the unison emerge; I certainly don't see any 'eds' USE flag on any of the dependencies. Ultimately, I'm questioning whether unison is in fact the culprit here you might want to disable the 'eds' USE flag for gnome-panel, if that's the real bad guy here, as Christoph suggested. Basically, as far as i can work out, mozilla is a dependency of something that is a dependency of (add layers of recursion) unison IF gtk and mozilla are in the use flags. USE=mozilla doesn't directly affect unison, it works on one of the packages down the recursion chain a bit. (I think it is in fact EDS) Thats just from a play I had, can't be bothered repeating it or whatever, -v, -a and -t are there to prevent unwanted consequences of emerge. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:11:09 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: Idea #1: Put alsasound in default, rather than boot runlevel. There is no use for sound in the boot runlevel, and having it there often causes (weird, inexplicable) problems. boot is what the gentoo alsa docs say to do, although they aren't always right for all situations Idea #2: might something have gone wonky with your mixer settings? very very likely, and perhaps tied in with: Idea #3 new config options in /etc/conf.d/alsasound: you probably want to enable SAVE_ON_STOP and RESTORE_ON_START [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc $ less /etc/conf.d/alsasound # ENABLE_OSS_EMUL: # Do you want to enable in-kernel oss emulation? # no - Do not load oss emul drivers # yes - Load oss emul drivers if they're found ENABLE_OSS_EMUL=yes # RESTORE_ON_START: # Do you want to restore your mixer settings? If not, your cards will be # muted. # no - Do not restore state # yes - Restore state RESTORE_ON_START=yes # SAVE_ON_STOP: # Do you want to save changes made to your mixer volumes when alsasound # stops? # no - Do not save state # yes - Save state SAVE_ON_STOP=yes -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount point with hal and kde
Pupeno wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:47, Norberto Bensa wrote: Read: /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi Basically you'll be forcing (using the device-id) the path where it is mounted. Then just drop your changes into: /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/storage-policy.fdi This looks like a configuration file. Why is it located on /usr instead of /etc ? Hm... Perhaps it's the same maintainer that puts swat on /usr/share/doc (swat, is a configuration tool for samba...) Honestly, I have no idea. It's like KDE dropping its config files on /usr/kde/3.4/ instead of /etc/kde3. And I guess thousand of more examples. -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgpNjNWCdB1vU.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
It's time for me to get a DVD recorder for this system, so I went to Best Buy, and started reading the boxes. Every single one states that Windows in some form is a requirement. Surely this is FUD, right? Nevertheless, with memories of winmodems and winprinters, I fear to take the leap. What's the real state of things? Can I use any of them? All of them? What? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations
I should probably add, since processor speeds were listed on most boxes, that this is a dual Xeon (P IV based), (2 hyperthreads each for a total of 4) rated at 1.2 GHz. ++ kevin On 8/18/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's time for me to get a DVD recorder for this system, so I went to Best Buy, and started reading the boxes. Every single one states that Windows in some form is a requirement. Surely this is FUD, right? Nevertheless, with memories of winmodems and winprinters, I fear to take the leap. What's the real state of things? Can I use any of them? All of them? What? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:23:38 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Every single one states that Windows in some form is a requirement. Surely this is FUD, right? yes absolutely. However be aware that to update firmware windows may be required. Like CD writers they are fundamentally ATAPI devices that plug straight into the ide bus and the power supply. I recently bought an LG and it works fine. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
yes absolutely. However be aware that to update firmware windows may be required. Like CD writers they are fundamentally ATAPI devices that plug straight into the ide bus and the power supply. I recently bought an LG and it works fine. I too would heartily recommend LG drives, I have 2 of them and have never had any issues apart from the odd low quality disc that will only write at 8x ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Nick Rout schreef: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:23:38 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Every single one states that Windows in some form is a requirement. Surely this is FUD, right? yes absolutely. To add to this, I think that what is really meant by this typical marketing-speak is that Windows is necessary to run the included software bundle. It's not actually needed for the drive itself, but obviously you're paying for the software bundle, so the fact that Linux users (all two of us ;) ) are just going to toss these CDs aside (because they can't use them) would be a consideration for the type of manufacturers that are going to put their products on display at a chain like BestBuy, and the information is 'simplified' for the market segment that shops at Best Buy for computer parts (no offence; there are exceptions to every rule). You might consider getting a 'whitebox' (OEM) product from a real computer store instead (for whatever product you decide on)-- the 'white box' means that you don't pay for the fancy packaging, or the included retail package (which is useless to you anyway), but the Original Equipment Manufacturer package which usually just has the drive and the driver disk (probably with WinDVD as well, but it's still less wastage than with the full retail monty). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?
Holly Bostick wrote: None of it works. The images cannot be found. A shoot in the dark but I saw something regarding a default sym link in /etc/splash. If you have that try and delete it (think it was on the wiki page regading making your own splash theme) / HTH Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
