Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:36 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:13 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Anyway, if you fix the downloading, I will do my best to write you an ebuild. I am half way through it. Oh and perhaps you could explain the rather weird permissions on the files in the tarball, viz: -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 3809210 Aug 22 14:16 graphics.pak -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users 446 Aug 22 14:53 highscores.dat -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users 515804 Aug 22 15:55 laby -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users1610 Mar 10 2004 laby.xpm -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users4104 Aug 22 15:48 liesmich.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users3890 Aug 22 15:28 readme.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users2023 Mar 10 2004 readme_waffen.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users3197 Aug 18 10:21 readme_zauber.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 973752 Aug 15 10:29 sounds.pak there is no need for the .txt files to be executable, nor the icon (laby.xpm), nor the highscores (I hope). Every file which comes from Sicromoft (R) Wondies (TM) has execute permission set. That's not an error. Due to Sicromoft this is a FEATURE ;-))) Please advise why these come with the executable permission set, or whether this is just an error? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [big OT] Export firefox profile
Hi Karol, dunno how to deal with XP. Regarding to the Linux machine ... simply take the whole ~/.mozilla folder and copy it over to the second machine, set the right permissions for the user there and all should work. Regards Frank On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 16:47 +0200, krzaq wrote: Is there a way to export a whole profile (including bookmarks, saved passwords, extensions, themes) in Mozilla Firefox? I want to export my Firefox profile to two machines: windowsXP and another gentoo. Can I just copy the whole profile over? -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
Hi Markus, have you ever wondered about the possibility to rewrite your game to another programming language. There's a lot of possibilities (even for FSF game engines). Just a thought Frank On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:42 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source. Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand. Can't change that. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...). It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small) open-source app on a source-based system... Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using a non-free (as in beer) compiler... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
You are right. Thats a feature! I will get gid of it! :-) Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 08:31 schrieb Frank Schafer: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:36 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:13 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Anyway, if you fix the downloading, I will do my best to write you an ebuild. I am half way through it. Oh and perhaps you could explain the rather weird permissions on the files in the tarball, viz: -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 3809210 Aug 22 14:16 graphics.pak -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users 446 Aug 22 14:53 highscores.dat -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users 515804 Aug 22 15:55 laby -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users1610 Mar 10 2004 laby.xpm -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users4104 Aug 22 15:48 liesmich.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users3890 Aug 22 15:28 readme.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users2023 Mar 10 2004 readme_waffen.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users3197 Aug 18 10:21 readme_zauber.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 973752 Aug 15 10:29 sounds.pak there is no need for the .txt files to be executable, nor the icon (laby.xpm), nor the highscores (I hope). Every file which comes from Sicromoft (R) Wondies (TM) has execute permission set. That's not an error. Due to Sicromoft this is a FEATURE ;-))) Please advise why these come with the executable permission set, or whether this is just an error? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
Purebasic is very fast. The generated assembler code kicks ass. And I can compile it for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. If I find a Open Source Basic Compiler that can do the task. I consider rewriting it again. We are programming this game since 12 years :-) The first Version we programmed on the Atari ST! :-)) There the language was calles STOS. Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 08:33 schrieb Frank Schafer: Hi Markus, have you ever wondered about the possibility to rewrite your game to another programming language. There's a lot of possibilities (even for FSF game engines). Just a thought Frank On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:42 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source. Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand. Can't change that. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...). It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small) open-source app on a source-based system... Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using a non-free (as in beer) compiler... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
Wow, 1MB sourcecode within 12 years! ;-) It should be rewriteable to ... say ... C within a few months. (I prefer C rather than C++) On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:06 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: Purebasic is very fast. The generated assembler code kicks ass. And I can compile it for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. If I find a Open Source Basic Compiler that can do the task. I consider rewriting it again. We are programming this game since 12 years :-) The first Version we programmed on the Atari ST! :-)) There the language was calles STOS. Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 08:33 schrieb Frank Schafer: Hi Markus, have you ever wondered about the possibility to rewrite your game to another programming language. There's a lot of possibilities (even for FSF game engines). Just a thought Frank On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:42 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source. Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand. Can't change that. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...). It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small) open-source app on a source-based system... Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using a non-free (as in beer) compiler... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] More splash problems
Hi, I've got another interesting problem with the splash. It seems like no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 resolution. At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play nicely): --- can't open config file /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/800x600.cfg No 8bpp verbose pic found... Failed to get ... --- But as you can see below i specify a 1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp mode (same result if I try 1024x768). dmesg: --- [2001] $ dmesg | grep fb Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 0080 vesafb: NVIDIA Corporation, NV34 Board - c116dnz , Chip Rev(OEM: NVIDIA) vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f090 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cf0c6, set palette = c00cf130 vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 76 Hz, hf = 81 kHz, clk = 140 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'livecd-2005.1' vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd000, mapped to 0xe888, using 937k, total 131072k fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device [c012fb07] load_module+0xa15/0xb69 [c012fb07] load_module+0xa15/0xb69 [c012fb07] load_module+0xa15/0xb69 [c012fb07] load_module+0xa15/0xb69 [c012fb07] load_module+0xa15/0xb69 fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'livecd-2005.1' fbsplash: console 1 using theme 'livecd-2005.1' fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 1 --- Kernel config: --- [2001] $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep FB_ CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=y # CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y # CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING is not set # CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set # CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y # CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE=[EMAIL PROTECTED] # CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set # CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_I810 is not set # CONFIG_FB_INTEL is not set # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set # CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set # CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set # CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set # CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_FB_GEODE is not set # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=y --- Does anyone have an idea as to what is wrong here? It used to work (some emerge -uDNav world 's ago...). -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:31 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Every file which comes from Sicromoft (R) Wondies (TM) has execute permission set. That's not an error. Due to Sicromoft this is a FEATURE ;-))) That would be an explanation if all the files in the tarball had their execute bit set, but they don't! never mind, we will whip these laby guys into decent gentoo shape LOL. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] No keyboard module
Assuming that you run KDM you can also add numlock by: == echo '/usr/bin/numlockx on' /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/Xsetup == -- Regards, Mick -Original Message- From: Anthony E. Caudel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2005 05:53 To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] No keyboard module I had been looking for a way to have KDE turn on numlock when it starts up but I just noticed I do not have a keyboard module under Peripherals in KDE's (3.4) Control Center. I re-emerged it but no go. Anybody else seen this behavior? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:38 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:31 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: Every file which comes from Sicromoft (R) Wondies (TM) has execute permission set. That's not an error. Due to Sicromoft this is a FEATURE ;-))) That would be an explanation if all the files in the tarball had their execute bit set, but they don't! never mind, we will whip these laby guys into decent gentoo shape LOL. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got the tarball too meanwhile ... and Purebasic itself to have some docs about that language. The source isn't that big. Due to the clean structure of the sources simply converting the BASIC syntax to a more *NIX like language shouldn't be a that big task too. I didn't look at the platforms Purebasic runs on but for these variables 'name.?' the '?' is a character defining the number of bytes the variable occupies. I don't have a clue how PB handles byte order ... not to mention 64 bit systems. If we help such guys into the FSF world we should wonder about portability too, shouldn't we? .02$ Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
-Original Message- From: Nagatoro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2005 09:26 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] More splash problems But as you can see below i specify a 1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp mode (same result if I try 1024x768). Have you tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2005, 09:06 +0200 schrieb Markus Döbele: Purebasic is very fast. The generated assembler code kicks ass. And I can compile it for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. If I find a Open Source Basic Compiler that can do the task. I consider rewriting it again. Did you ever look at Gambas? http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ At the moment it's dedicated to X environments with both QT and GTK support but I wouldn't be suprised if they will support Windoze in the future. The IDE itself is very nice and the compiler generates smooth code. It's in Portage BTW. And last but not least they have a very nice community. Another option might be RealBasic http://www.realbasic.com/ . The Current RealBasic version 2005 is commercial, but the older standard version 5.5 for Windows is free. It's a little strange but with that you are able to produce native Linux binaries for a QT environment. We are programming this game since 12 years :-) The first Version we programmed on the Atari ST! :-)) There the language was calles STOS. Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 08:33 schrieb Frank Schafer: Hi Markus, have you ever wondered about the possibility to rewrite your game to another programming language. There's a lot of possibilities (even for FSF game engines). Just a thought Frank On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:42 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source. Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand. Can't change that. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...). It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small) open-source app on a source-based system... Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using a non-free (as in beer) compiler... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Michael Kintzios wrote: Have you tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Same result I'm afraid :( -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
Title: Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 Hi, Last weekend I installed Gentoo 2005.1 (from the universal installation CD). I installed Gentoo next to Fedora and used Fedora's grub installation. The disk partitioning is as follows: hda1 : (primary) /boot hda2 : (primary) [swap] hda3 : (extended) hda5 : (logical) / root for Fedora hda6 : (logical) / root for Gentoo My grub.conf is as follows: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=30 #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img title=Gentoo GNAP Development 2.6.12-r6 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda6 udev initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 At the first reboot, the kernel unpacks, etc But after a while it stops: ... vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7 vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03 vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw (nothing more) Since 'vesafb' is last message I see, I think something goes wrong with the graphical adapter. However, I removed all kernel options that have to do with the framebuffer and I disabled the grub plash image. It still stalls. I assume installing Gentoo on an extended partition should not be a problem? Maybe the Gentoo install does not work well with Fedora's grub? Any help and/or pointers are greatly appreciated! Marcel Romijn
[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble compiling Xine-lib 1.1.0
On 8/1/05, Martin Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the following error while trying to compile Xine-lib 1.1.0: dsputil_mmx_avg.h:109: error: can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm' This was fixed with xine-lib-1.1.0-r1. M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
On 23 August 2005 09:25, Nagatoro wrote: Hi, I've got another interesting problem with the splash. It seems like no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 resolution. At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play nicely): --- can't open config file /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/800x600.cfg No 8bpp verbose pic found... Failed to get ... --- But as you can see below i specify a 1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp mode (same result if I try 1024x768). dmesg: --- [2001] $ dmesg | grep fb Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev Try video=vesafb:... instead of vesafb-tng. 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
[gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?
Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. I know that gentoo is a system for connected people (this means broad band in my country), this said, if you are online then you can go and check the web page of the project or do a search trough the web. But i miss the comfortability of checking some long descriptions at home, without the need to resort to search the web for every package that attracts my attention. I used this method before to look for new apps in my system that i may need and didn't know before. The questions would be: - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) -- Fernando Canizo - LUGMen: www.lugmen.org.ar - A8N: a8n.lugmen.org.ar sel need help: my first packet to my provider gets lost :-( netgod sel: dont send the first one, start with #2 * netgod is kidding -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Evolution 2.2.3 Filtering Time (Too Long!)
I have posted about this before, with no real solution, figured i'd throw it out again see what happens. I am using evolution 2.2.3. The speed of the filtering is atrocious. For example, this morning I had 42 new messages, and it took 3 minutes 50 seconds to get it done, an dmove it into the appropriate folders. People had previously suggested putting Stop Proccessing at the end of each of my rules, which did in fact speed it up quite a bit. However the remaining time is still just too long. Some mornings I have 120 or so new messages, and I may as well just walk away for a while. And this isn't a very slow system, mind you: Dual XP 1800+ with 1.5GB of ram on newer seagate IDE disks. So, any ideas out there? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something wrong with udev: cdrom dev-file does not appear!
Hi Cadaver, Cadaver wrote: udevd doesn't create's device file, but when i manualy copy it from static dev tree my cdrom works fine, and sometimes udevd even creates symlinks on it (i.e. cdrom and cdrw), but this is not restore's after reboot. What's going wrong with it? I'm running 2.6.12 kernel whith udev version 068. Build IDE cdrom support into your kernel. Don't use it as modular unless you are prepared to load the module (or create the device node) yourself :) Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Uwe Thiem wrote: Try video=vesafb:... instead of vesafb-tng. Same thing... -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ntp problem
Hello. I'm running ntpd as server on one of my machines, and it keeps itself in sync with 6 time servers around the globe. The synchronization works very well. The problem is when I try to get the other machines on the network to sync themselves with this one server. Most of them are running linux (kernel 2.6.x), but some are still running windows. Some machines can sync fine, and some don't. All of them can reach the server (same network), and there is no firewall at all. This is the output I get from ntpq on the machines that don't work: ntpq peers remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == timeserver 217.160.252.229 3 u 26 64 3770.214 46927.6 716.379 ntpq assoc ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 15036 9064 yes yes nonereject reachable 6 The only differences between this one and another machines where it's working fine are the status code (it varies a bit) and the condition (instead of reject, sys.peer). The ntp.conf for all machines have just: server 192.168.7.1 which is the ip address of the time server in question. I don't know the internals of ntp. What can be wrong in my configuration? Thanks -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
-Original Message- From: Nagatoro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2005 13:23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems Uwe Thiem wrote: Try video=vesafb:... instead of vesafb-tng. Same thing... Did you re-emerge your splashutils and rerun genitramfs with /boot mounted? Also, did you check the resolution for your vesa-tng entry in the kernel menuconfig? (see Holly's previous post on this topic). -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something wrong with udev: cdrom dev-file does not appear!
Am Sonntag, 21. August 2005 23:15 schrieb ext Cadaver: udevd doesn't create's device file, but when i manualy copy it from static dev tree my cdrom works fine, and sometimes udevd even creates symlinks on it (i.e. cdrom and cdrw), but this is not restore's after reboot. What's going wrong with it? I'm running 2.6.12 kernel whith udev version 068. Hmm, there was a bug in udev 067, which prevented the cdrom symlinks creation, but it should have been fixed with 068. If you still have the problem in 068, add to this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102669 Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpHyYR9kn9Fc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often
After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I have to buy new memory? 2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi Richard, First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during start up. please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others. gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was! The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
On 8/23/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm running ntpd as server on one of my machines, and it keeps itself in sync with 6 time servers around the globe. The synchronization works very well. The problem is when I try to get the other machines on the network to sync themselves with this one server. Most of them are running linux (kernel 2.6.x), but some are still running windows. Some machines can sync fine, and some don't. All of them can reach the server (same network), and there is no firewall at all. This is the output I get from ntpq on the machines that don't work: ntpq peers remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == timeserver 217.160.252.229 3 u 26 64 3770.214 46927.6 716.379 ntpq assoc ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 15036 9064 yes yes nonereject reachable 6 The only differences between this one and another machines where it's working fine are the status code (it varies a bit) and the condition (instead of reject, sys.peer). The ntp.conf for all machines have just: server 192.168.7.1 which is the ip address of the time server in question. I don't know the internals of ntp. What can be wrong in my configuration? I am no NTP expert, but there may be nothing wrong with your configuartion. NTP is a complex protocol. The machine has decided not to sync with the requested server. It thinks that the provided server is inacurate (the machine's internal clock is more acurate). Leave it running a couple of days and then see what happens. The whole idea is to calculate the drift of the machines internal clock. NTP will not trust specified timeservers blindly. Frankly I think that ntp works best with several timeservers. If you want your local machines to blindly set the date to your local timeserver try nptdate instead. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
On 8/23/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That offset looks rather large. NTP really wants to make constant small changes, not a single huge change. This is why the ntpd setup allows for an immediate sync via ntpdate before starting the daemon. To fix this I'd shut down ntpd, run ntpdate 192.168.7.1, and then start ntpd again. That's what I did yesterday before leaving work. It synced with ntpdate, and I left ntpd running. Today, the offset was like that. That's what I don't understand. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I'm running ntpd as server on one of my machines, and it keeps itself in sync with 6 time servers around the globe. The synchronization works very well. The problem is when I try to get the other machines on the network to sync themselves with this one server. Most of them are running linux (kernel 2.6.x), but some are still running windows. Some machines can sync fine, and some don't. All of them can reach the server (same network), and there is no firewall at all. This is the output I get from ntpq on the machines that don't work: ntpq peers remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == timeserver 217.160.252.229 3 u 26 64 3770.214 46927.6 716.379 ntpq assoc ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 15036 9064 yes yes nonereject reachable 6 The only differences between this one and another machines where it's working fine are the status code (it varies a bit) and the condition (instead of reject, sys.peer). The ntp.conf for all machines have just: server 192.168.7.1 which is the ip address of the time server in question. I don't know the internals of ntp. What can be wrong in my configuration? That offset looks rather large. NTP really wants to make constant small changes, not a single huge change. This is why the ntpd setup allows for an immediate sync via ntpdate before starting the daemon. To fix this I'd shut down ntpd, run ntpdate 192.168.7.1, and then start ntpd again. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The questions would be: - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) I think it's political correct to add this option to emerge, technically I would use the package metadata.xml file which contains a less brief explenation on what's the package about. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
On 23 August 2005 13:36, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I'm running ntpd as server on one of my machines, and it keeps itself in sync with 6 time servers around the globe. The synchronization works very well. The problem is when I try to get the other machines on the network to sync themselves with this one server. Most of them are running linux (kernel 2.6.x), but some are still running windows. Some machines can sync fine, and some don't. All of them can reach the server (same network), and there is no firewall at all. This is the output I get from ntpq on the machines that don't work: ntpq peers remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter === === timeserver 217.160.252.229 3 u 26 64 3770.214 46927.6 ^^^ This isn't 192.158.7.1. 716.379 ntpq assoc ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 15036 9064 yes yes nonereject reachable 6 The only differences between this one and another machines where it's working fine are the status code (it varies a bit) and the condition (instead of reject, sys.peer). The ntp.conf for all machines have just: server 192.168.7.1 This one should be the only peer of your inside boxes, no? 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] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7 vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03 vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw (nothing more) Im assuming you removed any references to frame-buffers in grub.conf after building a new kernel without framebuffer support? Also, did you use genkernel to build your kernel? You might want to try building the kernel by hand instead. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
On 8/23/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That offset looks rather large. NTP really wants to make constant small changes, not a single huge change. This is why the ntpd setup allows for an immediate sync via ntpdate before starting the daemon. To fix this I'd shut down ntpd, run ntpdate 192.168.7.1, and then start ntpd again. That's what I did yesterday before leaving work. It synced with ntpdate, and I left ntpd running. Today, the offset was like that. That's what I don't understand. H... If you specify one timeserver, ntp cannot tell which clock is drifting away (local or remote). Ntpd trusts the local clock more than the remote one. Large offsets cause ntpd to discard 192.168.7.1 as reliable timesource. Try adding on this one machine more time servers and observe what will happen. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
Just as a sidenote. My machine is running dhcpcd, and it sometimes overwrites /etc/ntp.conf for some reason, even though I have 'dhcpcd_eth0=-N' on /etc/conf.d/net. I don't know how to make dhcpcd leave /etc/ntp.conf alone OR make it write a correct ntp.conf (without a bunch of 'restrict' lines). -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 August, 2005 16:08 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7 vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03 vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw (nothing more) Im assuming you removed any references to frame-buffers in grub.conf after building a new kernel without framebuffer support? Also, did you use genkernel to build your kernel? Yes, I used everything as default as possible. I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? I used to initially have video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the kernel parameters. However, I removed it when the boot process stalled after vesafb: scrolling: redraw So it looks like I could go two ways: - Configure the framebuffer properly in grub.conf. - Build a new kernel with framebuffer disabled. I would prefer the first option... You might want to try building the kernel by hand instead. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Marcel Romijn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
Assaf Urieli wrote: But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). [2000] $ whereis emerge emerge: /usr/bin/emerge /usr/X11R6/bin/emerge /usr/bin/X11/emerge /usr/man/man1/emerge.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.gz At least here it should be in /usr/bin, might it be a $PATH problem? -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I have to buy new memory? 2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi Richard, First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during start up. please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others. gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was! The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list You can check memory settings in the BIOS, most BIOSes nowadays have options to change memory timings so you can set more relaxed ones and see if the errors disappear. Also you can try good oldfashioned re-seating of the memory modules, take them out and insert them again. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
Assaf Urieli schreef:
Hi all,
snip
So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose
Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine.
But when I try to run the emerge command, I get:
emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin).
Have I missed a step?
Are you trying to run emerge as a user? It can only be run as root
('command not found' often indicates that, assuming that the application
is installed, which in this case we know it is. The command cannot be
found in the user's $PATH-- because and so that the user cannot use it--
but in root's $PATH).
So if you missed a step, it was the step of su-ing to root before trying
to run emerge.
HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your kernel config. Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an override that may or may not work). Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] shared memory
Martins Steinbergs wrote: fstab has entry: none /dev/shm defaults 0 0 First and for all change defaults to noexec,rw , why would you want anyone to be able to execute anything in a volatile fs ? Second /dev/shm is `as far as I know` only added to be compatible with glibc2.2 and above so the POSIX shm_open and shm_unlink can be used, try running touch /dev/shm/foo if this works then nothing is wrong with /dev/shm or any related settings , I think .. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
Nagatoro wrote: Assaf Urieli wrote: But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). [2000] $ whereis emerge emerge: /usr/bin/emerge /usr/X11R6/bin/emerge /usr/bin/X11/emerge /usr/man/man1/emerge.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.gz At least here it should be in /usr/bin, might it be a $PATH problem? There is no whereis or find command either. I'm logging in as root, so I should have access to everything (couldn't adduser anyway). BTW, /usr/bin doesn't even exist - all /usr contains is lost+found Best regards, Assaf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
-Original Message- From: Bruno Lustosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2005 15:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem On 8/23/05, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: timeserver 217.160.252.229 3 u 26 64 3770.214 46927.6 ^^^ This isn't 192.158.7.1. Yes, I know. This is the external reference ntp server used by the timeserver, not by the client. This ip is on the server's ntp.conf. server 192.168.7.1 This one should be the only peer of your inside boxes, no? Yes, it's the only one. Have you set all the internal clients up as stratum 3, your internal server as stratum 2 and your external reference timeservers as stratum 1? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
-Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2005 16:19 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your kernel config. Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an override that may or may not work). Perhaps adding -nofb to the kernel will help? Also, why did you change your [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - did you change your monitor? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
Assaf Urieli wrote:
Holly Bostick wrote:
So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose
Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine.
But when I try to run the emerge command, I get:
emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin).
Have I missed a step?
Are you trying to run emerge as a user? It can only be run as root
('command not found' often indicates that, assuming that the application
is installed, which in this case we know it is. The command cannot be
found in the user's $PATH-- because and so that the user cannot use it--
but in root's $PATH).
Nope, I tried to create a user, but the adduser command couldn't be
found either. Neither can the find and whereis commands.
Apologies if this is completely obvious, but you did say newbie... :-)
After you select Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 do you see a lengthy boot process or do you get
a command line instantly?
It occured to me that you could somehow be getting to the grub command line, which has
about a dozen commands... definitely no emerge, adduser, etc.
Ben
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Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:52:22 +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote: BTW, /usr/bin doesn't even exist - all /usr contains is lost+found Do you have a separate partition for /usr? If so, is it mounted? What you describe is a classic symptom of installing /usr on its own partition and forgetting to add it to /etc/fstab. -- Neil Bothwick 8088 = model T Ford. Pentium = supercharged 400 horsepower model T Ford. pgpA7oOP9Zhjr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
Ben Munat wrote:
Assaf Urieli wrote:
Holly Bostick wrote:
So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose
Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine.
But when I try to run the emerge command, I get:
emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin).
Are you trying to run emerge as a user? It can only be run as root
('command not found' often indicates that, assuming that the
application
is installed, which in this case we know it is. The command cannot be
found in the user's $PATH-- because and so that the user cannot use
it--
but in root's $PATH).
Nope, I tried to create a user, but the adduser command couldn't be
found either. Neither can the find and whereis commands.
Apologies if this is completely obvious, but you did say newbie... :-)
After you select Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 do you see a lengthy boot
process or do you get a command line instantly?
It occured to me that you could somehow be getting to the grub command
line, which has about a dozen commands... definitely no emerge,
adduser, etc.
Please don't apologise and do point out anything you think could be
useful! I am a complete newbie to the whole Linux world - been trying to
get this install working afterhours for over a week now.
To answer your question, there is a lengthy boot process after selecting
the OS. It seems to be doing what it's supposed to (apart from a couple
of warnings).
What's more, other things I emerged while working chrooted from the
install CD are available working (e.g. dhcpcd).
Is there anything (config file, directory listing, ???) I could post
here to help the troubleshooting?
- Assaf
Ben
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Re: [gentoo-user] shared memory
defaults was there for ages and it worked until recent. I'm not sure is it good idea, but changed it to users and got things working. will add noexec, rw as you sudgest. thanx Martins On Tuesday 23 August 2005 20:40, Jonas Geiregat wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: fstab has entry: none /dev/shm defaults 0 0 First and for all change defaults to noexec,rw , why would you want anyone to be able to execute anything in a volatile fs ? Second /dev/shm is `as far as I know` only added to be compatible with glibc2.2 and above so the POSIX shm_open and shm_unlink can be used, try running touch /dev/shm/foo if this works then nothing is wrong with /dev/shm or any related settings , I think .. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
Assaf Urieli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Nagatoro wrote: Assaf Urieli wrote: But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). [2000] $ whereis emerge emerge: /usr/bin/emerge /usr/X11R6/bin/emerge /usr/bin/X11/emerge /usr/man/man1/emerge.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.gz At least here it should be in /usr/bin, might it be a $PATH problem? There is no whereis or find command either. I'm logging in as root, so I should have access to everything (couldn't adduser anyway). BTW, /usr/bin doesn't even exist - all /usr contains is lost+found did you try to set up /usr/bin as a separate partition? if so, was it mounted properly during install? And, is it mounted properly now? cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello List, Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be installed by a package without installing it? Thanks, Unlike a rpm package this is not possible AFIAK. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package
On 8/23/05, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be installed by a package without installing it? IIRC, it is not possible to get a complete file list without actually compiling the package, because the different USE flags declared change which files will be installed. However, if you are willing to build the package without actually installing it to your system, you can run emerge with the '-B' option to build a binary package. This command creates a .tbz2 archive containing all of the files that would be installed by the package, which you can then browse through. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 281 (19228-19277)
Hi, I have 2 questions: 1. How can I change the swap partition after I added some ram to my computer e.g. 512 MB. I just wonder in case I want to upgrade WITHOUT destroying anything. Do I just have to write another partition table and thats it? 2. Is the Alsa-RTC actually already applied to the kernel and if not, how do I add the diff files from the alsa-driver package to the kernel. Never did that before so no clue. Thanks, Karsten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:25:10PM +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote: Apologies if this is completely obvious, but you did say newbie... :-) After you select Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 do you see a lengthy boot process or do you get a command line instantly? It occured to me that you could somehow be getting to the grub command line, which has about a dozen commands... definitely no emerge, adduser, etc. Please don't apologise and do point out anything you think could be useful! I am a complete newbie to the whole Linux world - been trying to get this install working afterhours for over a week now. To answer your question, there is a lengthy boot process after selecting the OS. It seems to be doing what it's supposed to (apart from a couple of warnings). What's more, other things I emerged while working chrooted from the install CD are available working (e.g. dhcpcd). Is there anything (config file, directory listing, ???) I could post here to help the troubleshooting? Post the results of the following 4 from the commandline mount cat /etc/fstab fdisk -l /dev/hda echo $PATH W -- Ford grabbed him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from a telephone company accounts department. - Ford trying to rectify that situation. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 11 days, 20:42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:45:23 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for PHP but didn't see anything obvious. Is there an easy way to build PHP to have large file support? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24373 That was useful, thanks. It is indeed not enough for PHP to be able to handle large files, Apache has to as well (I think the video files are delivered directly by Apache and not via a script). Looks like I will have to wait for 2.2. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package
Will try. Thanks a lot. -- Valmor -Original Message- From: Matthew Cline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:55 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package On 8/23/05, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be installed by a package without installing it? IIRC, it is not possible to get a complete file list without actually compiling the package, because the different USE flags declared change which files will be installed. However, if you are willing to build the package without actually installing it to your system, you can run emerge with the '-B' option to build a binary package. This command creates a .tbz2 archive containing all of the files that would be installed by the package, which you can then browse through. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Holly Bostick wrote: Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the kernel to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever your preferred resolution is, thereby specifying a bit depth to the kernel config) recompile the kernel, and try again, using the setting you want in grub.conf, and it should work. At least, that's what fixed it for me. Sorry didn't work. The 8bpp message did dissapear but the framebuffer still want's to read the config file for 800x600. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Michael Kintzios wrote: Did you re-emerge your splashutils and rerun genitramfs with /boot mounted? Also, did you check the resolution for your vesa-tng entry in the kernel menuconfig? (see Holly's previous post on this topic). Yes, unfortunaly no change. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
On 8/23/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you set all the internal clients up as stratum 3, your internal server as stratum 2 and your external reference timeservers as stratum 1? No, but do I have to do this manually? It seems ntp can discover the stratum of the servers by itself. I have put all the servers I was using in my local server in one workstation, and am monitoring it now. It seems it's always picking one of them as peer, though it varies a lot. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 281 (19228-19277)
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 18:58, karlos wrote: Hi, I have 2 questions: 1. How can I change the swap partition after I added some ram to my computer e.g. 512 MB. I just wonder in case I want to upgrade WITHOUT destroying anything. Do I just have to write another partition table and thats it? no, you don't need to. more ram=less swap used (in an ideal world*) If you need more swap, create a swapfile: dd if=/dev/null of=/tmp/swapfile bs=whatyoulike, count=howmuchyouwant mkswap /tmp/swapfile swapon /tmp/swapfile tada, a lot of swap, no partitioning needed. And with 2.6 a swapfile is not slower than a swap-partition. * Well, until two weeks ago I had 512mb ram and 1gig swap. Even light loaded and swappiness down to 10 - after some hours, there are some kb in swap, while there is pretty much free memory - and they are always the wrong few kb, making everything sluggish. I bought additional 512mb - and nothing changed, after some hours, a lot of ram is free, but linux insistes on putting hundred and something kb into swap. That is vry annoying ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Nagatoro schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the kernel to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever your preferred resolution is, thereby specifying a bit depth to the kernel config) recompile the kernel, and try again, using the setting you want in grub.conf, and it should work. At least, that's what fixed it for me. Sorry didn't work. The 8bpp message did dissapear but the framebuffer still want's to read the config file for 800x600. Well, actually it did work-- it solved *half* the problem, which is an improvement. Now I'm wondering: 1) What command did you use to generate the splash initrd? Is it compiled into the kernel, or do you use an initrd line in grub.conf? If the latter, what does that line say? 2) Did you ever attempt to use 800x600? Maybe it's a cache issue, then. I didn't find out how to remove /lib/splash/cache from /etc/mtab (short of manually deleting it, which I didn't want to do), but I did manage to unmount it as root (umount cachedir), which (afaics) allowed it to be regenerated when I rebooted. Maybe that would help. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Matthias Krebs schreef: And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch which you get with the gentoo kernels, which is no surprise, given that it was created by spock, a gentoo developer), then it most certainly is a valid kernel parameter (and was selected in the kernel config output that was posted in a previous message. If the post you're referring to was Uwe's, I don't think he meant that the parameter was invalid, but rather that rather than using vesafb-tng, that the OP should try regular vesafb, which might work where vesafb-tng wasn't working. Oh, and btw, Nagatoro... it's silly, but just open up your grub.conf with nano and make sure that some word-wrap somewhere didn't mess up your kernel line. That happened to me a couple of times, and in that respect, Matthias is on to something: if the line wraps to another line (with some kind of soft return), and is not really all on one line as it is supposed to be, the second half of the kernel line (after the soft wrap) will be ignored. So opening up the file with nano and going to the beginning of any apparently wrapped line and hitting Backspace to pull it all together is not a bad idea. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Sorry didn't work. The 8bpp message did dissapear but the framebuffer still want's to read the config file for 800x600. -- Naga Maybe you want to use a mode your graphic board doesn't support. Do a cat /proc/fb0/modes to get the modes your board supports. And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. HTH, Matze -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
But this is a game and not an aplication. I need fast scrolling and all this stuff. I don't think this languages can handle that. Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 09:57 schrieb Heinz Sporn: Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2005, 09:06 +0200 schrieb Markus Döbele: Purebasic is very fast. The generated assembler code kicks ass. And I can compile it for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. If I find a Open Source Basic Compiler that can do the task. I consider rewriting it again. Did you ever look at Gambas? http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ At the moment it's dedicated to X environments with both QT and GTK support but I wouldn't be suprised if they will support Windoze in the future. The IDE itself is very nice and the compiler generates smooth code. It's in Portage BTW. And last but not least they have a very nice community. Another option might be RealBasic http://www.realbasic.com/ . The Current RealBasic version 2005 is commercial, but the older standard version 5.5 for Windows is free. It's a little strange but with that you are able to produce native Linux binaries for a QT environment. We are programming this game since 12 years :-) The first Version we programmed on the Atari ST! :-)) There the language was calles STOS. Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 08:33 schrieb Frank Schafer: Hi Markus, have you ever wondered about the possibility to rewrite your game to another programming language. There's a lot of possibilities (even for FSF game engines). Just a thought Frank On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:42 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source. Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand. Can't change that. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...). It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small) open-source app on a source-based system... Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using a non-free (as in beer) compiler... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Matthias Krebs wrote: Maybe you want to use a mode your graphic board doesn't support. Do a cat /proc/fb0/modes to get the modes your board supports. And as Well that's where it get weird! cat /proc/fb0/modes report that 800x600 *is* the highest resolution I can have but I've had 1280x1024 before and altho not the same driver but the same card X is at 1280x1024. This needs some probing... someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. Since I get exactly the same result with vesafb as whit vesafb-tng I don't think this is the problem. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
You are absolutely right. We got a multidimesional record for the players. Which is called spieler in german. I will step by step translate everything to english if anybody here likes to participate in delepment. Gentoo users seem to be different. Our Windows gamers all never wanted to participate in coding, so there has not been a need to rewrite all comments and variable names to english. But I can do that. Will take a while. But if this is helping I will do that. Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 16:47 schrieb Holly Bostick: Frank Schafer schreef: The only thing I don't understand after 5 minutes looking at the code; what means: spieler(i) \Status = 1 I don't know anything about code, but I looked at this and immediately saw spieler = Player in German. Maybe that helps you understand what it's doing. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error
Hello everybody, Been chewing on this for weeks. So far have run opengl-update ati, added Option Kernel ModuleParm agplock=0 to xorg.conf, re-emerged ati-drivers, used both yes and no in xorg.conf re using internal drivers, juggled fglrx, agpgart, nvidia-agp in different order, configured kernel according to ati-FAQ. Here's the tail of startx and dmesg. $startx (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error xf86_ENOMEM (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! $dmesg Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes. ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:00.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.12.10 [Apr 4 2005] on minor 0 [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes. [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x (hardware caps of chipset) [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 18737 using kernel context 0 Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Krebs schreef: And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch which you get with the gentoo kernels, which is no surprise, given that it was created by spock, a gentoo developer), then it most certainly is a valid kernel parameter (and was selected in the kernel config output that was posted in a previous message. To quote the author of vesafb-tng: The driver name used in the video= kernel command line section is still vesafb, and not vesafb-tng. Thus, video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid, video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] being the proper form See his website at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ Cheers, Matze -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
I got a response of the other programmer. He told me that we got a cms on this server, which also provides the files. Is also sends a http header: Content-disposition: filename=$filename Content-type: $mimetype Content-length: $filesize Pragma: no-cache Expires: 0 We also got a sourceforge site. Maybe this is helping? http://sourceforge.net/projects/lostlaby Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 02:05 schrieb Nick Rout: I am trying to make an ebuild. when i download the compiled tarball with wget using this url: http://laby.toybox.de/download15/laby_1.0.1.tar.gz I get a file called download2.php\?fileid\=15 which i then have to rename to laby_1.0.1.tar.gz This is not a good start. So whats up with your web server, or is there a better url i could use for automated downloading? On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:42:19 +0200 Markus Döbele wrote: So we have to treat Lost Labyrinth as closed source. Because the source code of this game is only useful to other purebasic programmers. And people that got the compiler. I understand. Can't change that. Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except for the -bin version of some rather big packages, manly to save people the compile time...). It feels kinda wrong to install a binary package of a (small) open-source app on a source-based system... Its also weird having an opensource app that you can only compile using a non-free (as in beer) compiler... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error
Hi Maxim, An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are you using? My recommendation (which sounds like you've been doing so I'm not sure there's any value here.) would be: 1) Build your kernel with support for /dev/agpgart and the right chipset support under that section. Make them both modular. 2) Set UseInternalGART=no in xorg.conf 3) Add agpgart agp-XXX fglrx (where XXX is the chipset support you built in step #1) to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 4) Do a complete reboot. 5) Check dmesg and make sure the agp support loaded 6) Re-emerge ati-drivers and ati-drivers-extra. Make sure they really build. 7) Do another reboot. 8) Check lsmod to make sure the modules 9) Check /var/log/xorg.0.log for warnings and errors. 10) Check glxinfo to see if you're getting acceleration support. 11) Grab a beer. Good luck, Mark On 8/23/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, Been chewing on this for weeks. So far have run opengl-update ati, added Option Kernel ModuleParm agplock=0 to xorg.conf, re-emerged ati-drivers, used both yes and no in xorg.conf re using internal drivers, juggled fglrx, agpgart, nvidia-agp in different order, configured kernel according to ati-FAQ. Here's the tail of startx and dmesg. $startx (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error xf86_ENOMEM (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! $dmesg Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes. ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:00.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.12.10 [Apr 4 2005] on minor 0 [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes. [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x (hardware caps of chipset) [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 18737 using kernel context 0 Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:02 +0200, Markus Döbele wrote: I got a response of the other programmer. He told me that we got a cms on this server, which also provides the files. Is also sends a http header: Content-disposition: filename=$filename Content-type: $mimetype Content-length: $filesize Pragma: no-cache Expires: 0 I am told that wget does not parse headers. We also got a sourceforge site. Maybe this is helping? http://sourceforge.net/projects/lostlaby That would be good if it had the latest version. It doesn't. there are facilities built into portage to download from sourceforge mirrors, but I cannot use it if you don't actually release there) Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 02:05 schrieb Nick Rout: I am trying to make an ebuild. when i download the compiled tarball with wget using this url: http://laby.toybox.de/download15/laby_1.0.1.tar.gz I get a file called download2.php\?fileid\=15 which i then have to rename to laby_1.0.1.tar.gz This is not a good start. So whats up with your web server, or is there a better url i could use for automated downloading? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often
From:: Eugene Rosenzweig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:03:01 +1000 Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I have to buy new memory? 2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] al.de: On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi Richard, First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during start up. please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others. gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was! The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list You can check memory settings in the BIOS, most BIOSes nowadays have options to change memory timings so you can set more relaxed ones and see if the errors disappear. Also you can try good oldfashioned re-seating of the memory modules, take them out and insert them again. Eugene. I remember an application which would identify the bad memory cells and isolate them so that your machine could happily carry on using the rest of the memory - unfortunately just like yours my memory is not what it used to be . . . ;-) I've googled but can't find it. -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/23/2005 5:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your kernel config. Hmmm..., I just followed the installation handbook. Plain, unmodified kernel configuration, which has framebuffer support enabled. At the chapter of configuring grub, it mentiones that using the framebuffer was optional. quote If you have configured your kernel with framebuffer support (or you used genkernel's default kernel configuration), you can activate it by adding a vga and/or a video statement to your bootloader configuration file. /quote I tried some kernel parameters in grub.conf: video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Still stalls. video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because I read in a mailing list about vesafb not being able to switch refresh rates (might have been an old mailing list) Still stalls. video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Removed the mtrr and ywarp in case they were not supported. Still stalls. video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In case 'vesafb-tng' is not supported but 'vesafb' is. Still stalls, but messes up the remaining text on the screen. In the mean time, I have done the same install in VMware. That install boots (succesfully!) with the video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] setting!! (Although in 640x480, but that's caused by VMware). So my conclusion is that there is something with my hardware configuration. I'm using a VIA Epia ME6000 Mini ITX board. I had Gentoo 2005.0 running on this board, so maybe something changed in this area between 2005.0 and 2005.1? When I boot this board with the Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD, it seems to use the framebuffer. The isolinux.cfg mentions vga=791, but that doesn't seem to solve my problem as well. Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an override that may or may not work). -nofb , as suggested by Michael Kintzios, did not help. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thanks for the help so far... Marcel Romijn winmail.dat
[gentoo-user] Is there a screensaver that shows emerge status?
When I'm emerging 'world', sometimes (like today) there are 50 packages that need to be done. Fine. No problemo. It would be nice to have a screensaver, or even better, an overlay of some-kind (so I could have my normal OpenGL screensavers running in the background) that told me the basic statistics. Then I could leave my box locked and know that stuff is hapily working. As it is, I have to continually interrupt the screen-saver, login, notice it's fine, then logout. * Which # emerge out of total I'm on. * what stage of this emerge I'm in: - downloading - unpacking - compiling/linking - installing - unmerging old package + error (this should notify me visualy/audibly) * If it's downloading, how may bytes (a moving bar would be ideal) it has out of how many to go. * if possible, the estimated time to complete the current emerge * and of course, the estimated time to complete all emerges Does such a thing exist? D.Vin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a screensaver that shows emerge status?
You could try a combination of XOSD with some of the suggestions at gentoo-wiki.com, for example http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Watch_emerge_progress could be tweaked to replace all echo commands with xosd ones. Basically you'd end up with some amount of text over the top of everything else (configurable of course) and the last line would be relevant to your progress. As for actual screen savers, I doubt you'll find one already built for xscreensaverd, but I've been wrong in the past. -- Wade Brown On 8/23/05, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm emerging 'world', sometimes (like today) there are 50 packages that need to be done. Fine. No problemo. It would be nice to have a screensaver, or even better, an overlay of some-kind (so I could have my normal OpenGL screensavers running in the background) that told me the basic statistics. Then I could leave my box locked and know that stuff is hapily working. As it is, I have to continually interrupt the screen-saver, login, notice it's fine, then logout. * Which # emerge out of total I'm on. * what stage of this emerge I'm in: - downloading - unpacking - compiling/linking - installing - unmerging old package + error (this should notify me visualy/audibly) * If it's downloading, how may bytes (a moving bar would be ideal) it has out of how many to go. * if possible, the estimated time to complete the current emerge * and of course, the estimated time to complete all emerges Does such a thing exist? D.Vin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem
From:: Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:50:43 -0300 On 8/23/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you set all the internal clients up as stratum 3, your internal server as stratum 2 and your external reference timeservers as stratum 1? No, but do I have to do this manually? It seems ntp can discover the stratum of the servers by itself. I have put all the servers I was using in my local server in one workstation, and am monitoring it now. It seems it's always picking one of them as peer, though it varies a lot. I'm not the best man to advise on ntp (because I don't use it), but that's what I remember being recommended by a developer in the forums. May be you want to do a quick search there on time synchro or something like that. -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
[gentoo-user] gforce4 and gensplash
Hi all, Can I make gensplash to work with gforce4? Thanks in advance, Sasha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Flash MX 2004
Hey all, Has anyone been able to get the trial working under Wine? Also, because I would use it under Wine, would it be easy to uninstall the trial and re install it after 30 days? :) Ian 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] More splash problems
Matthias Krebs schreef: On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Krebs schreef: And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch which you get with the gentoo kernels, which is no surprise, given that it was created by spock, a gentoo developer), then it most certainly is a valid kernel parameter (and was selected in the kernel config output that was posted in a previous message. To quote the author of vesafb-tng: The driver name used in the video= kernel command line section is still vesafb, and not vesafb-tng. Thus, video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid, video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] being the proper form See his website at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ Well, thanks for the heads-up; that seems to be a change from the previous behaviour (and also means that the wiki entry needs updating; the Handbook seems to have been updated). I'll change my grub.conf. But it's good to know that the previous behaviour still works (so it's more like deprecated rather than obsolete). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox
Alle 15:03, domenica 21 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: [...] Extensions that *must* be installed by root are, afaik, global installations by default. But this may not have been one of them. Did you try installing it as a user and get an error saying that the extension couldn't be written to /usr/lib/wherever? If you get such an error, the extension must be installed by root (and is therefore global), because only root can write to /usr/lib/anywhere. If the extension installs as a user, then it's local, but it's quite possible that if you install it as root it will be global (since Firefox almost certainly searches /usr/lib/whatever/plugins for global plugins like flash and other media, prior to then searching ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile/plugins for local plugins). I tried in the last two days but the insttation is everytime local (there are no questions as the other exstensions!). Now I found another problem (it is an old problem what I remember was solved): I can't use the mplayerpug-in (I have the 2.85)! I use the info from http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/install.php and I copied mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in.xpt in the firefox directory (/opt/firefox/plugins/) but firefox says that a plug-in is missing... What's it wrong? Thanks, Luigi Ps. I have no more mozilla installed, can it be a/the problem? -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpjGb2d4hr6e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 2.2.3 Filtering Time (Too Long!)
Not a real solution if you dont have your own mail server, but I moved the spam and filtering to spamassassin/procmail/amavis etc onto my own imap email server and turned off all filtering on that account. Now its not a problem for the main account. An interesting aside is it seems to take as long for the mail gateway to do its checks as evo does. However on my work accounts, Ive found turning off junk mail online tests sped it up a lot. Other things that it sounds like you have tried. 1. added a stop rule to each filter 2. move the busiest filters to the top 3. use a compound filter rather than separate ones (this assumes there is less overhead doing this - subjectively it does seem quicker) 4. dont move/copy files to a remote mail account Most delays seem outside evo's control, though I acknowledge the filters themselves are not the fastest. Lastly, due to my inbuilt laziness, I use suspend2 each night, leaving evo running on suspend. I use the bios clock to start the machine up at 05:55 in the morning - when I stumble out of bed and stare blearily at the screen some time after the 6am alarm has gone off, the filtering is complete and my desktop is ready for use by the time the caffeine starts to work ... BillK On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 07:25 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I have posted about this before, with no real solution, figured i'd throw it out again see what happens. I am using evolution 2.2.3. The speed of the filtering is atrocious. For example, this morning I had 42 new messages, and it took 3 minutes 50 seconds to get it done, an dmove it into the appropriate folders. People had previously suggested putting Stop Proccessing at the end of each of my rules, which did in fact speed it up quite a bit. However the remaining time is still just too long. Some mornings I have 120 or so new messages, and I may as well just walk away for a while. And this isn't a very slow system, mind you: Dual XP 1800+ with 1.5GB of ram on newer seagate IDE disks. So, any ideas out there? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 2.2.3 Filtering Time (Too Long!)
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:06 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Not a real solution if you dont have your own mail server, but I moved the spam and filtering to spamassassin/procmail/amavis etc onto my own imap email server and turned off all filtering on that account. Now its not a problem for the main account. An interesting aside is it seems to take as long for the mail gateway to do its checks as evo does. I had to totally disable spam-assassin due to the slowness. I get ~600 email every day and it was brutal. I use bogofilter now set up with hacked rules I found in the forum and it is blazing fast. -- Owen Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email /\ and proprietary formats. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:48:45 +0200
Markus Döbele wrote:
Okay, then lets use sourceforge.
I will release a new version tonight! Will be 1.0.2.
(Integrated 10 new magical items, The special levels look really nice now and
I included a new one: underground forest. The dragon room is new. And we got
a room for trainers now :-) )
How do we handle it with sourceforge that we always get the newest version?
Do I have to edit the same release all the time. Or is there a mechanism that
gets the neweset file automatically?
The versioning is handled like this:
each ebuild has a name and version in it. I would call the current laby
ebuild laby-1.0.1.ebuild and it would include a line like:
SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge/synce/${P}.tar.gz
${P} includes the version number automatically.
When a new version is released someone needs to write a new ebuild, but
as all versioning is handled automatically, this is usually just a
matter of copying the previous one and renaming it to e.g.
laby-1.0.2.ebuild.
portage picks up the new version number from the filename and adjusts
the download URL by virtue of the ${P} variable.
It does rely on you keeping the filenaming consistent and not suddenly
changing from laby-1.0.1.tar.gz to lostlabyrinth-1.0.2.tgz.
For more info see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1
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Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 08:32 -0700, Grant wrote: Do you know how to get 'emerge -fp world' to return only one path per file or get wget to use the %20-separated alternate paths properly? Try this.. it's a 2 step process, I believe it can be done in 1 step but, I'll let you figure it out. emerge -fp mono 2 /tmp/link.txt 1 cat /tmp/link.txt | cut -d -f1 | xargs wget -c Note : If the 1st link doesn't work, then it won't try another mirror. Be aware -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:50:09 up 3 days, 15:54, 5 users, load average: 2.45, 2.31, 2.43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] finding IP address of device on the network
Well since you need to know it's IP address I will assume that you are not using static IP addresses and thus you are using DHCP. It should be as easy as checking the DHCP server logs or the table of active leases and searching for you MAC address. -Mike On 8/23/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address.How to list devices connected to local network?--#Joseph--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] Flash MX 2004
Michael Crute wrote: Nobody has yet to get any of Studio MX 2004 working under Wine. The issue (so I have been told) is the activation system doesn't play real nice with Wine. Perhaps if you are skilled in the black art of cracking you could hack out the activation routines and make it work? (Note: for personal use only please, I don't advocate software piracy) Ah. Well no, I dont like illegal software. Um, I have Flash 5, does that work under Wine? Thanks! Ian -Mike On 8/23/05, *Ian K* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Has anyone been able to get the trial working under Wine? Also, because I would use it under Wine, would it be easy to uninstall the trial and re install it after 30 days? :) Ian -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? 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] Flash MX 2004
Nobody has yet to get any of Studio MX 2004 working under Wine. The issue (so I have been told) is the activation system doesn't play real nice with Wine. Perhaps if you are skilled in the black art of cracking you could hack out the activation routines and make it work? (Note: for personal use only please, I don't advocate software piracy) -MikeOn 8/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all,Has anyone been able to get the trial working under Wine?Also, because I would use it under Wine, would it be easy to uninstallthe trial and re install it after 30 days? :)Ian -- 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] finding IP address of device on the network
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address. How to list devices connected to local network? You could try running: arp -e -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash MX 2004
Yes Flash 5 and I believe that even MX works anything before they started adding activation. Though I believe this is not without its flaws (i.e. I have heard the color chooser crashes the program) in either case it definately works. I ran DW MX under Wine for the longest time without any major issues. -MikeOn 8/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: Nobody has yet to get any of Studio MX 2004 working under Wine. The issue (so I have been told) is the activation system doesn't play real nice with Wine. Perhaps if you are skilled in the black art of cracking you could hack out the activation routines and make it work? (Note: for personal use only please, I don't advocate software piracy)Ah. Well no, I dont like illegal software. Um, I have Flash 5, does that work under Wine?Thanks!Ian -Mike On 8/23/05, *Ian K* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Has anyone been able to get the trial working under Wine? Also, because I would use it under Wine, would it be easy to uninstall the trial and re install it after 30 days? :) Ian -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?-- Michael E. CruteSoftware Developer SoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: Yes, I used everything as default as possible. I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. Many people have problems when uysing genkernel to build their kernels, so I will repeat my earlier advice: build the kernel by hand without genkernel. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Wayne Clement wrote: try PowerBasic Ah, a contradiction in terms ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] finding IP address of device on the network
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:38 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address. How to list devices connected to local network? You could try running: arp -e Thanks, that is perfect (need to record this command in my handy book). I've assigned static address to this device (it is an ATA phone adapter AG468). It worked initially, but when I pressed reset button it shows (incomplete), is it off. Address HWaddress Flags Mask Iface 10.0.0.111 (incomplete) eth0 The manual is indicating that the ATA should return to its default setting, that is: IP 192.168.1.200. Though, I have another network running on IP 192.168.1.2 and can not find it on 192.168.1.200 either. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] finding IP address of device on the network
maybe with arp? but that's only if it's on your local segment. On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Joseph wrote: I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address. How to list devices connected to local network? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems
Holly Bostick wrote: wrap) will be ignored. So opening up the file with nano and going to the beginning of any apparently wrapped line and hitting Backspace to pull it all together is not a bad idea. Nope al in one line. On side note I found some fourum posting claming that agppart and nvidia doesn't play together so I'm recompiling (again...). Hope it works this time. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file
i say plug the bloody computer into a network and be done with it. the darn things aren't much fun without connectivity anyway IMHO :-) On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:50:45 +0800 Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 08:32 -0700, Grant wrote: -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading packages from a txt file
Seriously this time:
How about changing your strategy to this:
Get a list of the packages you want to update from the target machine.
something like:
emerge -uDp world|grep ebuild|awk '{print($4)}'packlist
take packlist to the connected machine and type:
for package in `cat packlist` ; do DISTDIR=/where/ever/i/want emerge
--nodeps -f =$package; done
The files will then be in /where/ever/i/want and you can put them on a
cd or whatever method you are using and take them away.
--nodeps will make sure that your connected host doesn't substitute its
own idea of what the deps are (perhaps based on different USE flags)
You could also probably do something like:
for package in `cat packlist` ; do DISTDIR=/where/ever/i/want
GENTOO_MIRRORS=local
/usr/portage/distfiles emerge --nodeps -f =$package; done
The GENTOO_MIRRORS=local /usr/portage/distfiles should take files from
the local system in preference to downloading them, which will save your
bandwidth, although i am not 100% sure of the syntax.
In other words let your network connected host choose where to download
from.
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:18:08 -0700
Grant wrote:
Hello, a little while ago I asked this list for help with updating a
machine with no network connection. The solution was to get a txt
list of the package paths and then download them on a networked
machine with this command:
sort -u links.txt | xargs -n 1 -i{} sh -c 'for i in {}; do wget -c $i
break; done'
This worked great then, but something must have changed because that
now only downloads about 12 or so files and then quits without an
error. There are a lot more packages in links.txt to be downloaded.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Flash MX 2004
Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2005, 16:59 + schrieb Ian K: Hey all, Has anyone been able to get the trial working under Wine? Yup got it running a while ago. Problem is it did not run stable. Lots of stalls, lots of graphic and cursor problems. Working was pretty much not possible. Also, because I would use it under Wine, would it be easy to uninstall the trial and re install it after 30 days? :) Ian -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
