RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel
Hi, If you check dmesg, is everything OK loading ivtv? You should see the ivtv messages between two lines. Using diff to compare the dmesg output for different kernels has led me to getting things to work. When you do a ivtv-tune -f xxx.xx to set frequency. After that cat /dev/video0 test.mpg and you playback test.mpg is that OK (or you do mplayer /dev/video0) -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:39 PM To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel I had MythTV working perfectly with linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5. I've tried to upgrade to linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 using genkernel and basing the newer kernel's configuration off of the older one. I've booted with the new kernel, remerged ivtv and rebooted again with the new kernel, but still I cannot watch LiveTV in mythfrontend. Here's the output of mythbackend.log: camille ~ # cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log Starting up as the master server. It is current (I stopped mythbackend, deleted the old mythbackend.log, restarted syslog-ng and then mythbackend.) When I start mythfrontend and ask to watch LiveTV, all I see is the blank screen. Here is the output of running mythfrontend from my terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend 2006-03-13 13:30:34.209 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2006-03-13 13:30:34.229 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2006-03-13 13:30:34.249 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-03-13 13:30:34.250 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2006-03-13 13:30:34.526 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2006-03-13 13:30:34.952 Joystick disabled. 2006-03-13 13:30:35.069 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2006-03-13 13:30:40.671 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-03-13 13:30:40.710 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.3:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2006-03-13 13:30:40.733 Using protocol version 15 2006-03-13 13:30:40.890 Using protocol version 15 2006-03-13 13:30:46.209 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2006-03-13 13:30:51.213 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2006-03-13 13:31:00.218 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:04.222 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:08.226 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:12.230 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:16.234 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:20.238 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:24.242 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:28.246 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:28.247 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available, aborting Couldn't read file: rbuf://192.168.1.3:6543/mnt/store//ringbuf1.nuv 2006-03-13 13:31:28.303 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-03-13 13:31:28.303 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2006-03-13 13:31:48.307 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2006-03-13 13:31:48.323 Changing from None to None 2006-03-13 13:31:58.483 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2006-03-13 13:31:58.483 RemoteFile::Read(): No response from control socket. 2006-03-13 13:31:58.483 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). 2006-03-13 13:31:58.495 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2006-03-13 13:31:58.495 ReadStringList: Bad socket 2006-03-13 13:31:58.495 Remote file timeout. I see there: mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory But mythbackend IS running; from another teminal tab I issue this: camille ~ # ps ax | grep 'mythbackend' 12762 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12766 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12767 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12769 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12770 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12771 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12772 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12773 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12774 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12775 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile
[gentoo-user] Still got a problem with vesafb-tng
Hi I am not able to fix the problem with vesa-tng, While the boot process the screen resolution is adjusted as specified on my kernel configuration [EMAIL PROTECTED] (actually I use 2.6.15) . Everything is ok until the xdm is loaded,then when I switch back to console using Ctrl+Alt+Fn the resolution seems to be bigger and shifted on the left of the screen that make the beginning of the line unreadble. I looked on topics on the forums but none could help me fix my problem. Any Idea Please ? Thanks a lot _ Balayez vos courriels entrants et sortants et les pièces jointes et contribuez à éliminer les virus destructeurs susceptibles dy être intégrés. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=fr-capage=features/virus Commencez dès maintenant à profiter de tous les avantages de MSN Premium et obtenez les deux premiers mois GRATUITS*. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem with helvetica font
Hi list, i'm trying to build the ROOT object-oriented framework (root.cern.ch) from scratch. Everything goes well but when i try to load the program, before the program prompt, i'm observing the following warning: Couldn't find font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, trying fixed. Please fix your system so helvetica can be found, this font typically is in the rpm (or pkg equivalent) package XFree86-[75,100]dpi-fonts or fonts-xorg-[75,100]dpi. Warning in TGClient::GetFontByName: couldn't retrieve font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using fixed Warning in TGClient::GetFontByName: couldn't retrieve font -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using fixed Warning in TGClient::GetFontByName: couldn't retrieve font -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using fixed Warning in TGClient::GetFontByName: couldn't retrieve font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using fixed Which gentoo package i need to install in order to have these fonts? Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
Zac Medico schrieb: Martin Gysel wrote: hi i have following problem emerging packages: gorilla ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3263, in ? if resume in portage.mtimedb and \ KeyError: 'mergelist' There are instructions to apply a patch that corrects the problem here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125993#c1 Zac Thanks Zac, it's working!!! Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to kernel update when executing emerge -u world?
Every time when I run emerge -u world, the kernel will be updated if it have some update. I delete the kernel line in /var/lib/portage/world, but it doesn't help. The most recent output of emerge -au world is as following: [ebuild U ] sys-process/procps-3.2.6 [3.2.5-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.38-r1 [1.38] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/readline-5.1_p2 [5.0-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r7 [2.59-r6] [ebuild U ] net-fs/samba-3.0.21b [3.0.14a-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r1 [4.0.7-r4] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14 [3.17] [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r8 [ebuild U ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2.2 [1.4.2.1] [ebuild U ] app-admin/webapp-config-1.50.10 [1.11] [ebuild NS ] mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.6 As you can see from the output suspend2-sources will be emerged as as new package and in another slot. How can I disable it? My uname -a output is Linux lp 2.6.15-suspend2-r6 #22 PREEMPT Sat Mar 11 19:05:36 CST 2006 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions
snip all Hi, The mystery gets deeper, every time I mounted the network storage server disk and rsync'd I had a lot of errors. It appears that the mount point was changing permissions every time I mounted. I want all of the directories and files to retain the original privileges during the rsync. Anyway after tearing my hair out (whats left of it) I realised that after a umount my mount point /mnt/network was still connected, the umount said that the mount point was disconnected. Overtired, frustrated and baffled I switched off the box and went to the land of dreams. Today as soon as the box had booted I checked /mnt/network and The network storage discs were connected. I don't know How and Why this is automatically happening -- can anybody give me any clues? I am rsync'ing at the moment with no errors but the backup is in the wrong directory on the network usb disc, so I need to understand how this device is automatically mounted so I can change the directory. Thanks for all who have helped so far Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Still got a problem with vesafb-tng
On 14 March 2006 10:03, sHadoW MaN wrote: Hi I am not able to fix the problem with vesa-tng, While the boot process the screen resolution is adjusted as specified on my kernel configuration [EMAIL PROTECTED] (actually I use 2.6.15) . Everything is ok until the xdm is loaded,then when I switch back to console using Ctrl+Alt+Fn the resolution seems to be bigger and shifted on the left of the screen that make the beginning of the line unreadble. I looked on topics on the forums but none could help me fix my problem. Any Idea Please ? I found fb/splash not working correctly with 2.6.15. I haven't had much time to investigate, so I simply went back to 2.6.14. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to kernel update when executing emerge -u world?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Every time when I run emerge -u world, the kernel will be updated if it have some update. This is normal; you're asking for updates (-u), so Portage is offering you the available update you asked for. Why is this a problem? Are you running a different kernel? Not suspend2-sources, but something else and you simply don't want suspend2-sources present on your system anymore, or is there an issue with the specific version of suspend2-sources that's being offered, so the issue is that you don't want to upgrade? If the former (you used to use suspend2-sources, but you switched to another kernel variant like gentoo-sources or ck-sources, and you don't want to upgrade suspend2-sources anymore), the solution is to emerge -C (unmerge) the version of suspend2-sources you had installed (delete the source in /usr/src before unmerging to speed up the process). Then it won't be updatable, because it's no longer present (but since the source of the kernel variant you are using is still present, that will continue to be upgraded).. If the latter (you are still using suspend2-sources, but you don't want to upgrade it beyond a certain version), the solution is to mask the versions beyond what you want manually, using /etc/portage/package.mask: (not with quotes) =sys-kernel/suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r7 (since you're using -r6 and attempting to upgrade to -r8, this will mask everything including to and above the version beyond the one you're using). The downside of this is that you have to keep an eye on the package to see if the problem has been solved in order to get any further updates, as Portage will no longer tell you or offer you updates to this package. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Welcome to gentoo-user@gentoo.org
hi guys, i have never done any posts before, so i am really unexperienced(a maillist virgin? ;) however, i have problem, more than one, like rest of us... But problem i would like you to help me with is somehow related to gentoo, and particulary to gnome. I am not good at searching information, but i tryed my best to find anything related to my problem. The problem is, i use gdm(yeah!!! usually i start it manually, i am too lazy to add it into loading processes) and i try to load my gnome(yeaaah!!), but i can't load it(booo), it simply hangs after i see a window which shows progress of gnome being loading(none of icons appear, boo!!!). Steps made: upgraded to current version(--sync is 2 days old), upraded to experemental version, upgraded X to current version(2 days old). I have deleted Gnome configuration files from users directory still does not load(boo), custom choice is loading(it looks a lot like clean X enviroment to me), but thats it(it did load before too). No mistakes in X output, so i am pretty confident it`s gnome, any ideas? In advance thanks for any reply. P.S. if it is of any help: clocks applet caused problems before major problems started, not major problems, but who knows, may be it is somehow related...
[gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space
Hey everyone, I have recently moved, and resized the partitions on my 120GB hdd (/dev/hdb). I moved and resized the partitions as there is data i very much want to keep, but dont have hard disk space elese where to back it up during a compleat re-write of the drive. The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer needed or wanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i had freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size, detales are as follows: Parted: Using /dev/hdb (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 120GB Disk label type: msdos Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 1 32kB87GB87GBprimary reiserfs 2 87GB119GB 32GBprimary fat32lba 4 119GB 120GB 543MB primary linux-swap (parted) df -h (extract): /dev/hdb1 67G 43G 24G 65% /mnt/hdb /dev/hdb2 30G 28G 2.8G 91% /mnt/games size of /dev/hdb4: /dev/hdb4 is a 518MB swap partition and incase you would like this infomation: fdisk: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 1063185393476 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 10632 1452731294620c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb4 14528 14593 530145 82 Linux swap / Solaris Thanks for u help; Nich Steicke - http://narthollis.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 04:18, Walter Dnes wrote: HT is being phased out *ACCORDING TO INTEL*. See article at... http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30087 Err... Never let it be said that facts will get in the way of a fun story - Mike Magee I call bull on that story. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Welcome to gentoo-user@gentoo.org
On 3/14/06, dimOK Seletski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, i have never done any posts before, so i am really unexperienced(a maillist virgin? ;) however, i have problem, more than one, like rest of us... Well, welcome to the list, sorry, but I gotta say, you should post stuff with a SUBJECT line regarding your problem, not a reply to the automatic welcome message, I guess that's why you got no answers (at least none to the list). But problem i would like you to help me with is somehow related to gentoo, and particulary to gnome. I am not good at searching information, but i tryed my best to find anything related to my problem. The problem is, i use gdm(yeah!!! usually i start it manually, i am too lazy to add it into loading processes) and i try to load my gnome(yeaaah!!), but i can't load it(booo), it simply hangs after i see a window which shows progress of gnome being loading(none of icons appear, boo!!!). Steps made: upgraded to current version(--sync is 2 days old), upraded to experemental version, upgraded X to current version(2 days old). I have deleted Gnome configuration files from users directory still does not load(boo), custom choice is loading(it looks a lot like clean X enviroment to me), but thats it(it did load before too). No mistakes in X output, so i am pretty confident it`s gnome, any ideas? In advance thanks for any reply. P.S. if it is of any help: clocks applet caused problems before major problems started, not major problems, but who knows, may be it is somehow related... Well, Its more a shot in the dark, but have you double checked file permissions on your home directory? KDE and Gnome use to crash on me because of that, but then I decided to use Fluxbox. Anyway, try chmod and chgrp to make your home folder completely YOURS. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Still got a problem with vesafb-tng
On 3/14/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 March 2006 10:03, sHadoW MaN wrote: Hi I am not able to fix the problem with vesa-tng, While the boot process the screen resolution is adjusted as specified on my kernel configuration [EMAIL PROTECTED] (actually I use 2.6.15) . Everything is ok until the xdm is loaded,then when I switch back to console using Ctrl+Alt+Fn the resolution seems to be bigger and shifted on the left of the screen that make the beginning of the line unreadble. I looked on topics on the forums but none could help me fix my problem. Any Idea Please ? I found fb/splash not working correctly with 2.6.15. I haven't had much time to investigate, so I simply went back to 2.6.14. Noticed lot of problems with it too, TFT screen just goes wacky on me, shaking like if it was afraid of something. Blank lines crossing the screen vertically on CRT, some red lines at the screen edge. Going back to 2.6.14 solved it too till I decided I would just disable it... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space [FIXED]
The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer needed or wanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i had freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size, detales are as follows: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list well its all fixed - i ran 'resize_reiserfs /dev/hdb1' as susjested by a friend (who was out all day) and i can now access all of my hard disk space :) Nich Steicke - http://narthollis.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] slots
Jim wrote: Hey group, I have dev-db/mysql 5.0.18-r30 installed. After a sync I get the following when I run: emerge -avb dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 +berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 -minimal +perl (-selinux) -srvdir +ssl -static 19,074 kB Total size of downloads: 19,074 kB I read about slots, however I didn't see anywhere to do an upgrade instead of a slot. I don't want/need to versions of mysql on my system. Is there an option to emerge to tell it to only use the latest version of mysql? Or do I need to emerge -c the older mysql? Jim please read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrade-slotted.xml will tell how revert to unslotted MySQL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
On Monday 13 March 2006 17.34, Chris Frederick wrote: Mike Myers wrote: This is a transcode problem. There's a couple filters for transcode that are bad. Get rid of (or rename) the /usr/lib/transcode/filter_compare.so and /usr/lib/transcode/filter_logo.so files. I had the same problem and I searched the net for hours to find this, and this is what fixed it for me. I don't know if this is a problem with transcode, or if it's a ebuild problem that causes those filters to hang, but I re-emerged dvdrip and transcode several times and those files were recreated every time. Hope that helps Chris Frederick Yes, thanks, it did help. However, now that I can compare, Acidrip/Mplayer is much faster than DVDrip/transcode and, as far as I am concerned, the results are not worse. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
Hi folks, perhaps someone can shed some light on this problem? nvidia driver fails to load. In dmesg I find this: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 NVRM: The IO regions for your NVIDIA card are invalid. NVRM: Your system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. NVRM: bar1 (framebuffer) appears to be wrong: 0x0 0x0 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :03:00.0 disabled nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: the NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)!! NVRM: no devices probed, aborting! NVRM: this often occurs when rivafb is loaded and claims the device's resources. NVRM: try removing the rivafb module (or reconfiguring your kernel to remove NVRM: rivafb support) and then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again. Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with 1GB ram. Kernel 2.6.15 gentoo sources r1, nvidia drivers nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r6. According to what little I've found on the web, there seems to be something weird with bios? I've tried cmos clear, and restarting with all cards unplugged, but I can't get it to work. Some sites suggested there might be some bios settings left if the pci-x had been plugged in before the ram expansion, which was the case here. Any suggestions? Thanks Jimmy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem during su
Hi list, after becoming root in a normal user console i've got these errors: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) i have no idea what they means. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: problem during su
configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) OK, it was my fault. I've forgot to run etc-update . Regards, and sorry, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:37, Jimmy Rosen wrote: Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with 1GB ram. Kernel 2.6.15 gentoo sources r1, nvidia drivers nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r6. Wow, I never knew Nvidia made a PCI-X graphics card. Perhaps it's a driver issue, 6629-r5 is quite old. I've got a 6600GT PCI-e, and I use the latest nvidia glx and drivers available in the tree. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, perhaps someone can shed some light on this problem? nvidia driver fails to load. In dmesg I find this: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 NVRM: The IO regions for your NVIDIA card are invalid. NVRM: Your system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. NVRM: bar1 (framebuffer) appears to be wrong: 0x0 0x0 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :03:00.0 disabled nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: the NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)!! NVRM: no devices probed, aborting! NVRM: this often occurs when rivafb is loaded and claims the device's resources. NVRM: try removing the rivafb module (or reconfiguring your kernel to remove NVRM: rivafb support) and then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again. Have you tried doying what the module message told you to? Remove rivafb from you kernel and then load the nvidia module. Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with 1GB ram. Kernel 2.6.15 gentoo sources r1, nvidia drivers nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r6. According to what little I've found on the web, there seems to be something weird with bios? I've tried cmos clear, and restarting with all cards unplugged, but I can't get it to work. Some sites suggested there might be some bios settings left if the pci-x had been plugged in before the ram expansion, which was the case here. I don't think its your BIOS, probably a imcompatibility between riva framebuffer support and nvidia module. As I remember, you can use just VESA for framebuffer and disable this specific framebuffer driver. That might solve your problem. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding unicode use flag?
b.n. wrote: Hi, When I first installed Gentoo I missed the +unicode use flag, that I would have liked to have. I didn't worry for a long time, but I have been annoyed enough a bit here and there to consider adding it to my use flags. I'd do it straight, but I remember this old thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=274175highlight=ncurses+deathgrip This was a thread about *removing* unicode, actually. However I fear that messing with unicode could create serious problems. Expecially since I woulnd't emerge --newuse everything at once, if possible: I'd just be OK to have unicode when upgrading. Any advice / real life experience? Thanks, m. If your locale's alphabet does not end with z you might have to 1. declare LC_ALL=C in make.conf to override systemwide locale or 2. use per-user locales leaving sysadmin and root locales to default. A lot of configure scripts use awk,sed and the like in operations with [a-zA-Z] not realizing that some alphabets are not a-z but rather a-y for example. This can break stuff when portage gets used with an alphabet like this. The USE flag by itself haven't caused me any trouble, in the worst case you only have to emerge --newuse whatever causes trouble. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Bye Goran -- T - C o m - - W e b m a i l -- Ova poruka poslana je upotrebom T-Com Webmail usluge. T-Com te vodi na Svjetsko nogometno prvenstvo http://www.t-com.hr/naslovnica/nogomet/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
Hi Folks: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source / freeware is very very preferable. Thanks Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15.08, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, perhaps someone can shed some light on this problem? nvidia driver fails to load. In dmesg I find this: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 NVRM: The IO regions for your NVIDIA card are invalid. NVRM: Your system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. NVRM: bar1 (framebuffer) appears to be wrong: 0x0 0x0 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :03:00.0 disabled nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: the NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)!! NVRM: no devices probed, aborting! NVRM: this often occurs when rivafb is loaded and claims the device's resources. NVRM: try removing the rivafb module (or reconfiguring your kernel to remove NVRM: rivafb support) and then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again. Have you tried doying what the module message told you to? Remove rivafb from you kernel and then load the nvidia module. Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with 1GB ram. Kernel 2.6.15 gentoo sources r1, nvidia drivers nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r6. According to what little I've found on the web, there seems to be something weird with bios? I've tried cmos clear, and restarting with all cards unplugged, but I can't get it to work. Some sites suggested there might be some bios settings left if the pci-x had been plugged in before the ram expansion, which was the case here. I don't think its your BIOS, probably a imcompatibility between riva framebuffer support and nvidia module. As I remember, you can use just VESA for framebuffer and disable this specific framebuffer driver. That might solve your problem. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Hello, Yes, I have removed all riva support from the kernel, which didn't help, and also tried with a small and clean 2.6.14 kernel that doesn't have rivafb as module or compiled in. The motherboard also has an ATI card, which I have tried disabling in bios, but that doesn't help either. And in response to the other post by Mike Williams, it is of course a PCI Express card, my whimsical mind... I updated to nvidia drivers 8178, which give a slightly different dmesg, but still don't work. dmesg: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid: NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x (PCI:0003:00.0) NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! --- cut some other non-related usb stuff --- ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid: NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x (PCI:0003:00.0) NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! It does seem odd that the new 8178 driver probes the card twice and thinks it has found adapter_s_. Thankful for any further suggestions... I'm quite lost as to what to do at the moment. Jimmy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 2006-03-14 16:02, Goran Maksimovi� uttered these thoughts: I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Best tip I can give you is going through /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and pick the ones you think you need... From the requirements you laid down above, a start would probably be: USE=kde -gnome -gtk gtk2 mysql apache2 dvd dvdr xvid mp3 Then add whatever programming-languages you use in there too. F.ex. ruby, python, perl. Although you might want to add these per package instead, as they might just add scripting capabilities for certain applications. For more information about masking, package-specific use-flags and so on: $ man portage Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpJDGIxFKcIe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Goran � schreef: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Apologies in advance; this is likely to be a rather testy response. Normally I'm more patient and polite. The most likely reason that you haven't gotten the response you're looking for (though you did get a list of suggestions from Richard Fish, among others)-- or at least the reason that I didn't respond-- is because USE flags are really very relative to the programs you're installing, and without knowing that (which is, for us, /wy/ too much information, so we don't *want* to know), it's fairly impossible to give a complete list of the USE flags you specifically should use for the use that you specifically are going to put your system to. Furthermore, in the five days since the last response in your previous thread, you could have read /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc (not to mention http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml ) any number of times and figured this out for yourself-- which you have to do anyway (figure it out for yourself, I mean). It's your system. You are in control. That means you have to know what you're doing, and to know what you're doing, you have to know what you want-- specifically-- and how to make the system do what you specifically want it to do (which means read the docs provided to tell you how to make the system do what you want). Heck, the longest part of a Gentoo install for me is the two hours I spend reading these docs and setting up my USE flags (obviously, compiling things takes more time, but I don't have to sit there and pay attention for that). I mean, really, we just can't know what you need. Fine, you're not going to use GNOME but KDE, so I'm sure that you've figured by now that you need -gnome and +kde. What about GTK (or GTK2)? Are you going to use Firefox, Mozilla, or neither? Abiword? OpenOffice? /Evolution/? These are GTK applications (though not necessarily GNOME applications, with the exeption of Evolution), so they will need GTK support-- which they'll get automatically without reference to USE flags but what about their dependencies (which may need to be compiled +gtk or +gtk2, which may then cause the app to bug out if you've compiled the dependencies without such support, because you thought gtk=gnome and I don't want GNOME). Not to mention that some of these apps spawn USE flags of their own, and that may not always be what you want. Examples: Lots and lots of unaffiliated apps use web browser support. There are separate USE flags for firefox and mozilla, but in a few rare cases, the mozilla USE flag covers Firefox as well. If you plan to install Liferea (the RSS news reader) you'll need to know which one of those two browsers you're planning to use, because enabling both flags would mean that one of those browsers is going to be installed unnecessarily-- and they both take a pretty long time to compile. Are you going to upgrade/try out Xorg 7? If we don't know your video card, or whether you want all the wizbang possible (evdev, composite) or whether you do or don't have a joystick/gamepad, how are we supposed to tell you what you should put in VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES? You're going to do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Which apache? 1 or 2? Which mail server? Just because you're testing an Apache server, does that mean that any install of subversion or CVS that you might perform must also be compiled with apache(1/2) support? Maybe you don't want that, so how are we supposed to say oh, just enable it globally? I could go on like this forever, but hopefully you get the point. The reason why there is a USE= line in /etc/make.conf, in addition to default USE flags being set by /usr/portage/profiles/use.default, in addition to possible USE flag modifications from /etc/portage/package.use, as well as fairly copious documentation about what each USE flag generally indicates, as well as a --verbose flag in Portage to allow you to see what USE flags are in use before compiling, is because it's *your* system; its customization *is up to you.* No one but you is in a position to know that you need java support for your web browser, but you don't need it for OpenOffice.org. We can't say, enable it globally, or disable it globally, because *we have no way of knowing what you need your system to be capable of* *when you sit down in front of it*. You say, DVD ripping-- I say, Ripping to what? Do you need xvid/quicktime/ogg/theora support when you rip these DVDs? Maybe you do, maybe you don't-- but I have no way of knowing that, because I don't know what you need the final files to be capable of; only you do.
Re: [gentoo-user] xml2 USE flag description should not have deprecated
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:08, Aniruddha Shankar wrote: Until I realised that OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 does not have the ability to save files as odt or sxw anymore. Wow!!! That sucks. I also compiled everything according to the new profile last night but don't know what all has been damaged. Didn't notice the OOo thing since I am using bin package. I hope nothing has been lost here. -- Regards, Abhay pgpRbIgBPfVXH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 3/14/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. What was wrong with the USE flags I recommended? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source / freeware is very very preferable. Not sure about distinctly (that will certainly depend on the switch's electronic and programmatic design), but - tada - you can usually cause the traffic light on the switch to blink with network traffic ;-) So broadcasting some UDP packages out into the wild should be sufficient. Use e.g. netcat. OTOH, you might want to play with ethtool and switch connection rates for short intervals. Usually switches have a light indicator for the speed, too, so that should be easier to distinct on a busy switch. Toggle this in a shell loop with a few sleeps inserted... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:03 +0100, Rik van de Bovenkamp wrote: Hi, If you check dmesg, is everything OK loading ivtv? You should see the ivtv messages between two lines. Using diff to compare the dmesg output for different kernels has led me to getting things to work. I booted with my old kernel and copied the ivtv stuff from dmesg into a file. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat ivtv-2.6.14-r5 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 SMP 486 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:00.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32552, rev = C168, serial# = 8059944 tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b) tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] saa7115 0-0021: ivtv driver saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21] msp3400 0-0040: ivtv driver msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40] msp3400 0-0040: msp34xxg daemon started tda9887 0-0043: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Then I booted with the new kernel and did the same thing. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat ivtv-2.6.15-r1 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 SMP 486 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:00.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 32552, rev C168, serial# 8059944 tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx 68, type 47) tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4448 (idx 27) tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19) tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has no IR remote tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x8004646b! msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40] msp3400 0-0040: msp34xxg daemon started tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream tuner 0-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40085618! ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0xc0045627! ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40085618! ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40045613! ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40045612! ivtv0:
RE: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. I will try to run down the tools that you mentioned and see if any of them provide a solution -- thank you TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source / freeware is very very preferable. Not sure about distinctly (that will certainly depend on the switch's electronic and programmatic design), but - tada - you can usually cause the traffic light on the switch to blink with network traffic ;-) So broadcasting some UDP packages out into the wild should be sufficient. Use e.g. netcat. OTOH, you might want to play with ethtool and switch connection rates for short intervals. Usually switches have a light indicator for the speed, too, so that should be easier to distinct on a busy switch. Toggle this in a shell loop with a few sleeps inserted... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 3/14/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. I'll just second Holly's email. In your previous thread most of us even had the trouble of typing all the process of building a USE= at make.conf and package.use with all needed commands, c'mon. You are kinda mocking at us when you double an already answered thread, you got yourself almost a Tutorial on choosing your USE flags, and instead of following it, you ask again?! So, go and read the docs... PS: Don't get me wrong, I just love to RTFineM, and encourage people to do the same. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
Am Dienstag, 14. März 2006 18:08 schrieb Timothy A. Holmes: Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. Save the following script as floodping.sh, and try it, you should be able to notice the traffic from your regular traffic: #!/bin/sh ifconfig $1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 while true do ping -f -w $2 -b 10.0.0.255 sleep $2 done ./floodping.sh eth0 5 would mean that it does five seconds of intensive traffic (which has packets going to the switch in the order of 20ms or so, depending on your laptop, and the lamp should blink very frequently), then does five seconds of data sleep, which should be almost completely quiet on the switch (except for that occasional broadcast packet from another computer directed at yours). Be sure to use a network that isn't on your local net for testing, as my network is 192.*, I've used 10.* in the example. If you use a network that's regularily used on your network, you might get problems discerning the sleep phase, as the arp address of your laptop propagates to all other endpoints on your net due to the use of a regular network, and this might mean a lot of ARP queries, depending on your network size. I've used a technique like this to check the cabling in a building, and it worked just fine. HTH! -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
Hi list, i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program installed on the system, as a backup of everything. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] apache issues
Hello, I'm having some really frustrating issues with Apache 2.0.55-r1: I started out by upgrading from a previous version of php to match the package versions in a separate, development box. When the version upgrade was finished, the server stopped parsing php... php code was being served as text. I knew there was likely some configuration issues to be dealt with, but I noticed that the version of Apache on this box also didn't match the version on the development box, and decided to remedy that at the same time. After emerging this version of Apache, I now am unable to get any response from the server at all: i.e. I can start and stop apache, and there are no errors at all, but when I try to browse to a page on the box, it just loads forever. There is no difference in the symptoms based on the page source (i.e. I tried first with a complex php app, but then tried a simple html test page I wrote... both acted the same way). Any ideas? Let me know what other information you need for troubleshooting... Thanks, Jason Ausmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Thanks! I didn't only understand something about per packages which you mentioned in your mail. One more thing I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and with some GRP packages which were on LiveCD should this fact be a problem when I change configuration of USE flags? And finally the programming languages which I will use is C, C++, php so which flags are usful to include? Bye MAX On 2006-03-14 16:02, Goran Maksimovi� uttered these thoughts: I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who coul d write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop s ystem with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playi ng DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Best tip I can give you is going through /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and pick the ones you think you need... From the requirements you laid down above, a start would probably be: USE=kde -gnome -gtk gtk2 mysql apache2 dvd dvdr xvid mp3 Then add whatever programming-languages you use in there too. F.ex. ruby, python, perl. Although you might want to add these per package instead, as they might just add scripting capabilities for certain applications. For more information about masking, package-specific use-flags and so on: $ man portage Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. -- T - C o m - - W e b m a i l -- Ova poruka poslana je upotrebom T-Com Webmail usluge. T-Com te vodi na Svjetsko nogometno prvenstvo http://www.t-com.hr/naslovnica/nogomet/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:50, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program installed on the system, as a backup of everything. Just add buildpkg to your FEATURES in make.conf. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
WOW -- that looks great -- Thank you very very much I will be trying it shortly TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: Heiko Wundram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:50 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed Am Dienstag, 14. März 2006 18:08 schrieb Timothy A. Holmes: Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. Save the following script as floodping.sh, and try it, you should be able to notice the traffic from your regular traffic: #!/bin/sh ifconfig $1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 while true do ping -f -w $2 -b 10.0.0.255 sleep $2 done ./floodping.sh eth0 5 would mean that it does five seconds of intensive traffic (which has packets going to the switch in the order of 20ms or so, depending on your laptop, and the lamp should blink very frequently), then does five seconds of data sleep, which should be almost completely quiet on the switch (except for that occasional broadcast packet from another computer directed at yours). Be sure to use a network that isn't on your local net for testing, as my network is 192.*, I've used 10.* in the example. If you use a network that's regularily used on your network, you might get problems discerning the sleep phase, as the arp address of your laptop propagates to all other endpoints on your net due to the use of a regular network, and this might mean a lot of ARP queries, depending on your network size. I've used a technique like this to check the cabling in a building, and it worked just fine. HTH! -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
Am Dienstag, 14. März 2006 19:24 schrieben Sie: I created the script as you suggested, and when I executed it ALL the lights on the ports that have connections go nuts Okay, your switches are layer 2 switches, not layer 3 switches then... (they don't understand IP traffic, only ethernet traffic; a broadcast ping is a broadcast ethernet packet which gets forwarded to every port by a layer 2 switch). I didn't think of that when I sent out the snippet; our switches are layer 3 switches, and they won't forward packets between different network segments, even when they are in the same ethernet segment. But, you can still make this work if you have two computers connected to the network, one which you know the switch port and IP of. Your setup should look something like this: | Switch | --|--|-- Port 1 (192.168.0.1) Port x (your Laptop, fixed at 192.168.123.45, some address not on your network) Port 1 mustn't necessarily be port 1, may also be any other port, just as you may use any other IP you know. Then, try the following: #!/bin/sh # Set up networking, adjust to fit your network. ifconfig $1 192.168.123.45 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255 # Standard loop. while true do ping -f -w $2 192.168.0.1 # Your known host IP sleep $2 done When you call this script (just as before), only those two ports which are present in the diagram above should start to fire (and sleep), and as you know one of them, the other can't be hard to actually discern from the rest of the ports on the switch. If the above doesn't work, there are other ways which involve creating ethernet packets with invalid recipient address at high speeds which shouldn't get forwarded by a layer 2 switch, but these involve a little more trickery than a small shell script. I'd be happy to write a little Python-Program which does just this, but before I do, test the above. ;-) -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Port Tracer Program Needed
Timothy A. Holmes tholmes at mcaschool.net writes: Hi Folks: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source / freeware is very very preferable. check out jffnms, it's in portage now and works with a very large array of routers, switches, snmp, and other devices/portocols. There is also an excellent installation/configuration page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html The docs are new, and there is a jffnms.org support group. I have yet to see, Javier fail to provide a monitoring solution for any sort of device you may have. As one that builds/noodles with all sorts of ethernet attached hardware, jffnms rules. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Port Tracer Program Needed
Timothy A. Holmes tholmes at mcaschool.net writes: Hi Folks: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). Also take a look at 'fping' as you may find what you are looking for among it's many features. It also has a perl script at the bottom of the man page that is highly configurable for different needs. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 3/14/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I didn't only understand something about per packages which you mentioned in your mail. Always, when you are going to emerge some app, do an emerge -pv app and see its flags, if there's one you want that is not enabled (it'll appear with a minus before it), add it to the file /etc/portage/packages.use, like this: net-print/cups samba app-emulation/qemu-softmmu kqemu This means that whenever I reemerge or update cups it will always get samba, and whenever I update qemu, it will get kqemu too. You can do it for your whole system, using emerge -epv world will cause emerge to output your entire package listing with all the flags they are using, so you can check each one and add the flags that you may want to change to packages.use to make it permanent. I recommend doying it right after installing and updating portage, because after a while this list grows A LOT (just did it in my system and got a few hundred packages). One more thing I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and with some GRP packages which were on LiveCD should this fact be a problem when I change configuration of USE flags? And Whenever you change your flags (big changes or some useful flag you want enabled all around) or want to see what new flags are available, you do an emerge -uDN world -pv and see what packages have changed, the yellow flags are new, the green flags have changed. (if I'm not mistaken). Really, this is all on man emerge... finally the programming languages which I will use is C, C++, php so which flags are usful to include? Depends on the package... Check uses per package... Bye MAX On 2006-03-14 16:02, Goran Maksimovi� uttered these thoughts: I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who coul d write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop s ystem with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playi ng DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Best tip I can give you is going through /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and pick the ones you think you need... From the requirements you laid down above, a start would probably be: USE=kde -gnome -gtk gtk2 mysql apache2 dvd dvdr xvid mp3 Then add whatever programming-languages you use in there too. F.ex. ruby, python, perl. Although you might want to add these per package instead, as they might just add scripting capabilities for certain applications. For more information about masking, package-specific use-flags and so on: $ man portage Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. -- T - C o m - - W e b m a i l -- Ova poruka poslana je upotrebom T-Com Webmail usluge. T-Com te vodi na Svjetsko nogometno prvenstvo http://www.t-com.hr/naslovnica/nogomet/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
On 3/14/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:50, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program installed on the system, as a backup of everything. Just add buildpkg to your FEATURES in make.conf. That will work for new merges and updates. For current packages: quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/* -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/14/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I didn't only understand something about per packages which you mentioned in your mail. Always, when you are going to emerge some app, do an emerge -pv app and see its flags, Correct. But I'd like to add, to *ALWAYS* add a -t/--tree to it, so that it's relatively easy to see the dependency tree - with -t, it's overly easy to see why a certain package is being pulled. Alexander Skwar -- ...a most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn! -- _Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure_ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Port Tracer Program Needed (SOLVED)
Thanks to all who provided ideas or suggestions - it turns out one of my fluke devices has the functionality built in. Thanks again very very much TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:19 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Port Tracer Program Needed Timothy A. Holmes tholmes at mcaschool.net writes: Hi Folks: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). Also take a look at 'fping' as you may find what you are looking for among it's many features. It also has a perl script at the bottom of the man page that is highly configurable for different needs. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Goran � schreef: Thanks! I didn't only understand something about per packages which you mentioned in your mail. USE flags can be (and of course, are) set globally in /etc/make.conf (and /usr/portage/profiles/use.defaults), but USE flags can also be enabled or disabled for a particular package only using /etc/portage/package.use. You might do this for a number of reasons: 1) Every USE flag does not apply to every package, and some local USE flags only apply to one specific package. It keeps your /etc/make.conf neater and easier to read if it only contains the really global USE flags. Some of us care about that kind of thing :-) . But the main reason you'd use /etc/portage/package.use is because 2) You have a globally-enabled (or -disabled) USE flag that you want to disable (or enable), for a particular package. Example (from my own config): USE=*-kde* -arts -eds -esd -apache -apache2 16bit 3dnow aalib acpi -apm audiofile bash-completion -berkdb bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bmp bzip2 caps cairo cddb cdr curl dbus dga directfb dri dts dv dvd exif expat extrafilters fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server gamin ggi gimpprint glut gtkhtml gnutls -gstreamer gstreamer10 guile hal iconv idn imagemagick inkjar inotify -ipv6 jack *java* jikes kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap libcaca libnotify lua maildir math mmx mng -mozilla mpi nas nfs nptl nptlonly offensive openexr -pam pcre pic portaudio povray *samba* scanner slang sndfile socks5 sqlite sse -sse2 svg svga tcltk tetex theora threads tiff toolbar truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l wmf xml xprint Xaw3d v4l v4l2 xvid yv12 As you can hopefully see, the java and samba flags are enabled (globally), and the kde flag is disabled (globally). You can't see it here, but the default profile I'm using also disables the doc USE flag (which is extra documentation, not man pages and the like), as well as the symlink USE flag (which automatically re-targets the /usr/src/linux symlink when a new kernel source is installed. Now, the java USE flag is enabled globally, and it is a valid USE flag for OpenOffice, but I don't want it enabled for OpenOffice, because I don't need for OO.o to use Java, and it slows an already-slow application down. As for doc, well, I have Imagemagick installed, and it's very complex, so I want the extra documentation, but generally, I don't need it; --help and man pages are usually good enough. As for samba, I don't want Midnight Commander to have samba support, because if I'm using mc that extensively, my system is probably borked somehow (hey, I'm a GUI kinda girl, as great as mc is), or if somebody has compromised the system and has managed remote command-line access to mc, at least they can't just go right to the network shares. In either case, I want to limit access to network shares to try and minimize the ability to do damage to them. (Yes, I know it's not massively protective and perhaps not even effective, but at least I care enough to try-- and since Gentoo gives me the option, I took it ;-) .) As for kde, well I use it extremely rarely, but I want the OpenOffice to be correctly integrated with the environment if I do ever have to log into KDE rather than my preferred DE (KDE is my fallback DE of last X-resort, and it's much more likely that I'll need to print out a cv or something during a computer emergency that resulted in my having to use my last X-based fallback than that I'll have to read my mail-- that can wait, or I'll use webmail-- which is why you'll see that my fallback mail-client does not have kde support). So, in /etc/portage/package.use I have the following lines (among others): app-misc/mc 7zip -X -samba app-office/openoffice-bin kde -java media-gfx/imagemagick fpx inkjar plugin doc =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 symlink Thus, when I do an emerge involving those packages : emerge -pv openoffice-bin mc imagemagick mozilla-firefox kdebase-kioslaves sylpheed-claws =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5 (additional packages to show use of the default settings) | cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : Building checksum index... (takes a few seconds) done! These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.2 USE=gnome -java 0 kB [ebuild R ] app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r14 USE=7zip gpm ncurses nls slang unicode -X -pam -samba 49 kB [ebuild R ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.6.0 USE=X bzip2 doc fpx jpeg lcms mpeg perl png tiff truetype wmf xml2 zlib -graphviz -gs -jbig -minimal -nocxx 0 kB [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2 USE=gnome java xprint -debug -ipv6 -mozdevelop -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.1 USE=hal kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas ldap openexr samba -arts -debug -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild R ] mail-client/sylpheed-claws-2.0.0 USE=clamav crypt dillo gnome ldap spamassassin spell ssl -doc -imap -ipv6 -kde -pda -xface 0 kB [ebuild R ]
[gentoo-user] Portage Problem
Hi folks -- I put this one out on #gentoo earlier and no-one had a solution but im hoping someone here might have one I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way to install JFFNMS without installing php4 and have it use php5 properly? thanks TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
Is there any limitation in using dd to generate backup of DVD (dvd is 4.7, unencrypted)? If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] JFFNMS answer for Timothy
Hello Timothy Sorry for not directly answering your post, but Gmane.org is confused today, as your request will not let me reply (Nothing you have done, just a snafu with Gmane.org). Question (from Timothy): I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way to install JFFNMS without installing php4 and have it use php5 properly? The very end of the web page http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html You may also fall into problems configuring Apache to work with PHP (specially if you run both PHP4 and PHP5 in the same system). In that case, our guide Configuring Apache to Work with PHP4 and PHP5 may give you some help. It is available here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml What I did is put Jffnms on a system without php5, as a temporary work around, for now. If that does provide a solution for you, just refine your question and post again. If the documentation is not clear, go to bugs.gentoo.org and respond to Bug 125721 if you find the install information inadequate. Also, I'll try to answer questions. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache issues
Hi Jason, I am suposing somethings here, but i guess that when you upgraded apache the first time you lost your /etc/conf.d/apache file, so PHP wasn enabled, when you downgrade it you unmerge it before ? if you don, try it first and the emerge apache. Good luck, Allan On 3/14/06, Jason Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having some really frustrating issues with Apache 2.0.55-r1: I started out by upgrading from a previous version of php to match the package versions in a separate, development box. When the version upgrade was finished, the server stopped parsing php... php code was being served as text. I knew there was likely some configuration issues to be dealt with, but I noticed that the version of Apache on this box also didn't match the version on the development box, and decided to remedy that at the same time. After emerging this version of Apache, I now am unable to get any response from the server at all: i.e. I can start and stop apache, and there are no errors at all, but when I try to browse to a page on the box, it just loads forever. There is no difference in the symptoms based on the page source (i.e. I tried first with a complex php app, but then tried a simple html test page I wrote... both acted the same way). Any ideas? Let me know what other information you need for troubleshooting... Thanks, Jason Ausmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
Hello everybody! I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it was stopped. I have two questions: 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) emerge -e world without compiling every package again? 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) Thank you, Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs. Linux chameleon 2.6.13-15-default i686 GNU/Linux 5:38pm up 5 days 0:20, 6 users, load average: 0.65, 0.57, 0.42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome troubles, hangs on boot without much explanation, X shows no mistake.
On 3/14/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/06, dimOK Seletski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, i have never done any posts before, so i am really unexperienced(a maillist virgin? ;) however, i have problem, more than one, like rest of us...Well, welcome to the list, sorry, but I gotta say, you should poststuff with a SUBJECT line regarding your problem, not a reply to theautomatic welcome message, I guess that's why you got no answers (at least none to the list).But problem i would like you to help me with is somehow related to gentoo, and particulary to gnome.I am not good at searching information, but i tryed my best to find anything related to my problem.The problem is, i use gdm(yeah!!! usually i start it manually, i am too lazy to add it into loading processes) and i try to load my gnome(yeaaah!!), but i can't load it(booo), it simply hangs after i see a window which shows progress of gnome being loading(none of icons appear, boo!!!). Steps made: upgraded to current version(--sync is 2 days old), upraded to experemental version, upgraded X to current version(2 days old). I have deleted Gnome configuration files from users directory still does not load(boo), custom choice is loading(it looks a lot like clean X enviroment to me), but thats it(it did load before too). No mistakes in X output, so i am pretty confident it`sgnome, any ideas?In advance thanks for any reply.P.S. if it is of any help: clocks applet caused problems before major problems started, not major problems, but who knows, may be it is somehow related...Well, Its more a shot in the dark, but have you double checked filepermissions on your home directory? KDE and Gnome use to crash on mebecause of that, but then I decided to use Fluxbox. Anyway, try chmod and chgrp to make your home folder completely YOURS.--Daniel da VeigaComputer Operator - RS - Brazil-BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-Version: 3.1GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++--END GEEK CODE BLOCKgentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listthe problem is - created new user to check if permissions are set correctly, didnt help, i did delete old config files from home directory, dint help too, so it is not permissions, unlesess there is some sort of default gnome session config file, which i need to delete as well...
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
Dne úterý 14 březen 2006 23:39 Petr Uzel napsal(a): Hello everybody! I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it was stopped. I have two questions: 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) emerge -e world without compiling every package again? OK, I can answer this myself (I hope correctly) : pick your emerge script or emerge --resume. I should better RTFM. 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) With this I still need your help... :) Thank you, Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] slots
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:22:38 +0100 Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrade-slotted.xml will tell how revert to unslotted MySQL Thanks! I read searched Google for Gentoo slots and got everything about slots except for what I wanted :) Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:53 +0100, Petr Uzel wrote: Dne úterý 14 březen 2006 23:39 Petr Uzel napsal(a): Hello everybody! I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it was stopped. I have two questions: 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) emerge -e world without compiling every package again? OK, I can answer this myself (I hope correctly) : pick your emerge script or emerge --resume. I should better RTFM. 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) With this I still need your help... :) wouldnt say it is possible, unless u have hibernaton enabled, which probably is not in your case. besides emerge --resume only resumes not downloaded fully files from internet to be downloaded... Thank you, Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:08 -0700, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb Is it the same size every time? Is is the same with different discs? It could be a fault on the disc. I usually use cp /dev/dvd file.iso but dd has always worked for me in the past, albeit slightly slower (even with a larger block size). -- Neil Bothwick Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:09:29 +, Unknown wrote: 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) With this I still need your help... :) wouldnt say it is possible, unless u have hibernaton enabled, which probably is not in your case. besides emerge --resume only resumes not downloaded fully files from internet to be downloaded... Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. I doubt the fact that some packages are compiled with one GCC and others with a different one is going to cause a problem, especially as you'll carry on with the recompiling after the reboot. Even if you don't reboot, your system will be running with a mixture of 3.3/3.4-compiled packages during the emerge. -- Neil Bothwick When puns are outlawed only outlaws will have puns. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:40 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Should be the hplip driver. See the printing howto on how to set that up. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. Chris White pgp6wrGzY3bTm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:14 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:08 -0700, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb Is it the same size every time? Is is the same with different discs? It could be a fault on the disc. I usually use cp /dev/dvd file.iso but dd has always worked for me in the past, albeit slightly slower (even with a larger block size). Yes, almost the same size. I know there is a file size limit on ext2 but I'm using ext3, so there shouldn't be a problem. If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
wouldnt say it is possible, unless u have hibernaton enabled, which probably is not in your case. besides emerge --resume only resumes not downloaded fully files from internet to be downloaded... Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. I doubt the fact that some packages are compiled with one GCC and others with a different one is going to cause a problem, especially as you'll carry on with the recompiling after the reboot. Even if you don't reboot, your system will be running with a mixture of 3.3/3.4-compiled packages during the emerge. Ok, I'll give it a try. Thank you for quick answers. Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:53:26 +0100 Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) That should not be a problem. Before I switched to Gentoo I used Ubuntu. Ubuntu compiled the kernel with a different version of gcc than what most of the other programs were compiled with. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
Trey Sizemore wrote: Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. linuxprinting.org list this printer as working perfectly. You will need ppds in your USE flag to compile the ppd files. Emerge hplip after adding ppds in your /etc/make.conf then log into your web setup for cups and it should just work. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Problem
On 2006-03-14 16:47, Timothy A. Holmes uttered these thoughts: I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way to install JFFNMS without installing php4 and have it use php5 properly? That depends entirely on if JFFNMS runs on php5 or not... I'd guess that if it's trying to draw in php4 as a dependency when you already have php5 installed, it's probably not running on php4 reliably yet, in which case you'll have to make some choises... - If you don't really need php5, you just install php4 and unmerge php5 (and mask it if it's getting dragged in by emerge again). - If you want to run both php4 and php5, read this: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml - Or you edit the ebuild for JFFNMS to not have a depencency for php5 and try out running it on php5 instead... Probably wont work since either the maintainer or developers of JFFNMS has tried running it (or knows it wont run) on php5. Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpKUAhgbWbma.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:40:16 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. You will want to emerge net-print/hplip. Tons of drivers from HP, I use it for my HP PSC 2110 printer/scanner. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf
Did you check Linux on Laptops [http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/hp.html]? http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=1563 http://www.unicolet.org/nx9105.html -- ellotheth rimmwen * monjoy * -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On 2006-03-14 23:39, Petr Uzel uttered these thoughts: Hello everybody! I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it was stopped. I have two questions: 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) emerge -e world without compiling every package again? 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) Actually, the faster way would be to use revdep-rebuild instead of emerge -e world (isn't this mensioned in the upgrade guide for gcc?). If you still have gcc-3.3.6 installed on your system, you won't have a problem from rebooting (as far as I know). Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgplqB4K6fc7W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. Just a note when you issue an emerge --resume, if you stopped the emerge in the middle of a compile it will not pick up in the middle it will start compiling that package from the beginning again. I doubt the fact that some packages are compiled with one GCC and others with a different one is going to cause a problem, especially as you'll carry on with the recompiling after the reboot. Even if you don't reboot, your system will be running with a mixture of 3.3/3.4-compiled packages during the emerge. I have a slower computer (celeron 800 mhz) and a family that doesnt like to leave the computer on all the time so when I ran my gcc upgrade it took close to a week and I didnt encounter any problems during this time with a system that was only partially recompiled with GCC 3.4. A.J. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 00:32 +0100, Petr Uzel wrote: wouldnt say it is possible, unless u have hibernaton enabled, which probably is not in your case. besides emerge --resume only resumes not downloaded fully files from internet to be downloaded... Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. what i meant is that it will have to recompile allover again(it might use some cahching mechanizm as well?) if he has turned emerge process off and in case if file wasnt downloaded fully it(emerge) will resume file downloading I doubt the fact that some packages are compiled with one GCC and others with a different one is going to cause a problem, especially as you'll carry on with the recompiling after the reboot. Even if you don't reboot, your system will be running with a mixture of 3.3/3.4-compiled packages during the emerge. Ok, I'll give it a try. Thank you for quick answers. Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
Actually, the faster way would be to use revdep-rebuild instead of emerge -e world (isn't this mensioned in the upgrade guide for gcc?). Yes, it is. But in addition to upgrade of gcc I have changed CFLAGS form O2 to O3 so I wanted to recompile the whole system. Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?
My perl book, Sams Teach Yourself Perl In 21 Days says that I should have a utility called perlfunc as part of my perl package. I went to use it last night and couldn't seem to find it. Does it still exist? Do I need to remerge perl with different USE flags? Here are my current USE flags for perl: bullet ~ # emerge -pv perl These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r3 +berkdb -build -debug +doc +gdbm -ithreads -minimal -perlsuid 9,608 kB Total size of downloads: 9,608 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 16:25, Michael Sullivan wrote: My perl book, Sams Teach Yourself Perl In 21 Days says that I should have a utility called perlfunc as part of my perl package. I went to use it last night and couldn't seem to find it. Does it still exist? Do I need to remerge perl with different USE flags? Here are my current USE flags for perl: Check your book again - last time I checked, perlfunc isn't a utility, it's a section of the Perl Programmers Reference Guide that covers the builtin functions of Perl. You can browse it with man perlfunc. Maybe that's what they mean. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:25:06 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My perl book, Sams Teach Yourself Perl In 21 Days says that I should have a utility called perlfunc as part of my perl package. I went to use it last night and couldn't seem to find it. Does it still exist? Do I need to remerge perl with different USE flags? Here are my current USE flags for perl: snip perldoc perlfunc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] php4 vs php5
Hello, I've installed php4 as needed by a package (JFFNMS). Everytime I run a 'emerge -uDp world' It wants to upgrade the php4 to either php5 or another form of php4. This gets a little confusing, so I'll try to be very clear. I do not have php5 installed, and I do not want php5 installed on this system. I've tried all sorts of machinations in the /etc/portage dir, without success. Here's what I have installed: dev-lang/php Available versions: 4.3.11-r5 4.4.1-r3 ~4.4.2 [M]5.0.5-r5 [M]5.1.2 Installed: none dev-php/mod_php Installed: 4.4.0-r9 dev-php/php Installed: 4.4.0-r4 So I've tried various entries in my /etc/portage/package.mask file to get the system happy. package.mask contains: '=dev-lang/php-5.0.5' Focusing on php, I run 'emerge -pv dev-lang/php' and here is the response. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 So the question is what do I put in /etc/portage/? file to get the system to accept the older dev-php files and not try to install 'dev-lang/php' ? I cannot just install 'dev-lang/php' as it is blocked by the (2) dev-php files that I need: dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. Of coarse, take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, as I'm describing the symptoms of a php problem without fully understandings what these package name/group changes really mean...(where does one read about what the developers are doing with php and why?). jffnms is the critical package here that is causing the php heartburn. Everythings works, I just want the system to quit asking to upgrade php, everytime I upgrade the rest of the system. ideas? What did I miss? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php4 vs php5
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:35:27 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 You want to remove dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. Php 4 and php 5 is in dev-lang/php-XXX. dev-lang will also build your apache module for you. I made the same mistake at first. I installed mod_php, though I wanted php5 and couldn't get it to install with mod_php. Once I instlled dev-lang/php everything worked out. Just do and emerge -pv first to make sure you have all the use flags you want. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php4 vs php5
James wrote: Hello, I've installed php4 as needed by a package (JFFNMS). Everytime I run a 'emerge -uDp world' It wants to upgrade the php4 to either php5 or another form of php4. This gets a little confusing, so I'll try to be very clear. I do not have php5 installed, and I do not want php5 installed on this system. I've tried all sorts of machinations in the /etc/portage dir, without success. Here's what I have installed: dev-lang/php Available versions: 4.3.11-r5 4.4.1-r3 ~4.4.2 [M]5.0.5-r5 [M]5.1.2 Installed: none dev-php/mod_php Installed: 4.4.0-r9 dev-php/php Installed: 4.4.0-r4 So I've tried various entries in my /etc/portage/package.mask file to get the system happy. package.mask contains: '=dev-lang/php-5.0.5' Focusing on php, I run 'emerge -pv dev-lang/php' and here is the response. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 So the question is what do I put in /etc/portage/? file to get the system to accept the older dev-php files and not try to install 'dev-lang/php' ? I cannot just install 'dev-lang/php' as it is blocked by the (2) dev-php files that I need: dev-php/mod_php and dev-php/php. Of coarse, take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, as I'm describing the symptoms of a php problem without fully understandings what these package name/group changes really mean...(where does one read about what the developers are doing with php and why?). jffnms is the critical package here that is causing the php heartburn. Everythings works, I just want the system to quit asking to upgrade php, everytime I upgrade the rest of the system. ideas? What did I miss? James If you are going to change from the old-style PHP (dev-php/php) to the new-style PHP (dev-lang/php), then you need to follow the PHP upgrading instructions on this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml I highly suggest it, as IIRC the old-style PHP is no longer supported. -- Michael Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developerhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar GnuPG Key ID 0x08614788 available on http://pgp.mit.edu -- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] php4 vs php5
James wrote: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 dev-php is on it's way out and has not been updated in some time. You're likely vulnerable at this moment. So the question is what do I put in /etc/portage/? file to get the system to accept the older dev-php files and not try to install 'dev-lang/php' ? You don't. You remove dev-php and install dev-lang/php when you have some time to deal with change. I had no issues moving from dev-php to dev-lang/php with 4.4.x and the whole thing took about 30 minutes. Didn't even have downtime as Apache had the old module cached until I stopped and started to pick up the new build. However PHP USE flags have gotten a bit more complex. You'll want apache (or apache2), cli for the php commandline binary, and session at minimum plus anything else you might need. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 19:35, JimD wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:25:06 -0600 perldoc perlfunc or man perlfunc -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: php4 vs php5
kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: James wrote: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 dev-php is on it's way out and has not been updated in some time. You're likely vulnerable at this moment. Um, I must not have been clear. JFFNMS is critical. It requires php4. so upgrading to php5 is NOT an option, until the JFFNMS devs move to php5. All I need is to figure out how to get 'emerge -uDp world' to quit asking to upgrade php. I have many systems. Keeping one at php4 so I can run JFFNMS until it is upgraded to php5, is not a problem on my network. Ideas/syntax to get a gentoo server to quit asking to upgrade php is what I need to know, not why I should upgrade to php5. I hope this explains my questions more in detail, without offending anyone? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php4 vs php5
James wrote: kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: James wrote: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-4.4.2) [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.2 dev-php is on it's way out and has not been updated in some time. You're likely vulnerable at this moment. Um, I must not have been clear. JFFNMS is critical. It requires php4. so upgrading to php5 is NOT an option, until the JFFNMS devs move to php5. Since it wants to install 4.4.2 I figured your package.mask was good. If not use this. echo =dev-lang/php-5 /etc/portage/package.mask Then it's pretty much remove the dev-php php4 packages and install the dev-lang php4 package like I mentioned before. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:08 am, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. I will try to run down the tools that you mentioned and see if any of them provide a solution -- thank you TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source / freeware is very very preferable. Not sure about distinctly (that will certainly depend on the switch's electronic and programmatic design), but - tada - you can usually cause the traffic light on the switch to blink with network traffic ;-) So broadcasting some UDP packages out into the wild should be sufficient. Use e.g. netcat. OTOH, you might want to play with ethtool and switch connection rates for short intervals. Usually switches have a light indicator for the speed, too, so that should be easier to distinct on a busy switch. Toggle this in a shell loop with a few sleeps inserted... -hwh -- Netwox (+ optionally netwag) has some neat tools. One that I have found handy is the audible ping. Whenever it receives a successful ping response it beeps your pc speaker. It may or may not have any benefit for you in this secenario but it can be useful at times when you are muddling around and can't see your screen, you can just listen for the beep, beep, beep then disconnect the proper cable and it goes silent. Or in the reverse, plug in the right cable and you start to hear the beep, beep, beep. Netwox has a ton of other neat tools, servers and clients. If your switches are manageable you can probably look up your switches cam table (MAC address to eth port mapping) then look at your clients ARP cache after pinging your broadcast address on each network. Good luck on your network mapping. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:02 pm, Goran Maksimovi? wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Bye Goran Try reading this page, it is quite nice. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
Netwox (+ optionally netwag) has some neat tools. One that I have found handy is the audible ping. Whenever it receives a successful ping response it beeps your pc speaker. It may or may not have any benefit for you in this secenario but it can be useful at times when you are muddling around and can't see your screen, you can just listen for the beep, beep, beep then disconnect the proper cable and it goes silent. Or in the reverse, plug in the right cable and you start to hear the beep, beep, beep. You can do that with ping -a too :D Dave -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Welcome to gentoo-user@gentoo.org
try as root chown YOURUSER:users /home/YOURUSER -R this should fix your permission problems if it still don't load create a new user with a new home directory start gnome there if it loads copy over your backups like .mozilla .amsn and stuff gnome once failed to load when i installed gentoo after ubuntu and that's what fixed it for me -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On 3/15/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error there's a problem with the disk then it's not reading it -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:50, Ghaith Hachem wrote: On 3/15/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error there's a problem with the disk then it's not reading it the disk is unmounted right? -- Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign. -- Anatole France -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On 15 March 2006 00:00, Joseph wrote: Is there any limitation in using dd to generate backup of DVD (dvd is 4.7, unencrypted)? There is not. If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it with lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. Also: You have a iso like my.iso that you have burnt to a dvd. Now you read it back to back.iso and compare checksums to make sure the dvd has been burnt correctly, you will almost always get an error. Reason is that dd reads a couple of bytes of trailing garbadge back. :-( Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Read it! But with that you didn't still answer my question :). Bye Goran -Original Message- From: Justin Krejci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:51 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:02 pm, Goran Maksimovi? wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Bye Goran Try reading this page, it is quite nice. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ NOD32 1.1441 (20060313) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
