Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Messed up fstab and /dev
Have you tried using /dev/hdc (or similar)? Best regards, Javi On 5/10/06, Mark M. Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what I did, but I messed up fstab and /dev/cdrom. Fstab used to have an entry /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0. It now reads /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0. I can't mount a cdrom with it because there is no /dev/cdroms directory in /dev. I can't go back to mounting /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom because I get the error: mount: /mnt/cdrom is not a block device. All help greatly appreciated! Mark M. Hart -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] Messed up fstab and /dev
Thanks! That's what I needed! Mark M. Hart -Original Message- From: Javier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:54 AM To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Messed up fstab and /dev Have you tried using /dev/hdc (or similar)? Best regards, Javi On 5/10/06, Mark M. Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what I did, but I messed up fstab and /dev/cdrom. Fstab used to have an entry /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0. It now reads /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0. I can't mount a cdrom with it because there is no /dev/cdroms directory in /dev. I can't go back to mounting /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom because I get the error: mount: /mnt/cdrom is not a block device. All help greatly appreciated! Mark M. Hart -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-web-user] Hand-off
All, As discussed at the meeting, I have prepared a couple of documents to help with the transition: [1]: a brief maintainer's guide listing the packages that are likely to require attention; [2]: webapp.eclass documentation describing how to write maintain web-apps ebuilds; [3]: Upstream info on the devwiki. CHTEKK vivo: let me know if you need any more information. [1] http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-webapps-overlay/wiki/MaintainersGuides [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/webapps/webapp-eclass.xml [3] http://devwiki.gentoo.org/tiki-index.php?page=Upstream+info -- Renat Lumpau all things web-apps C6A838DA 04AF B5EE 17CB 1000 DDA5 D3FC 1338 ADC2 C6A8 38DA America - land of the free* *Void where prohibited, restrictions apply. Cash value 1/100c. pgpBWbqdqPCtX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Most: rxvt-unicode because it's the fastest I've used (and it has unicode support), one down side is that it hasn't got 100% VT100 support so all colors doesn't work (still better then most others). Otherwise xterm. Least: Konsole + Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. Don't use the tabs since I like to be able to look at all (or many) sessions at once, so tabs makes no sense to me. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talking eye candy here. I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keyboard, which I don't know...). -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?
Alexander Skwar wrote: My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW, the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped, that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white on black). That's what I thought, too, and first used white on black. But somehow this strained the eye too much, so I got back to light grey on black, which is much more restful. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
060509 Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Konsole : it fits well with my KDE desktop, is very easy to configure, has tabs when I need them, has a nice font (Fixed GNU 11/13); KDE starts 2 for me at reboot, 1 for user 1 for root, I don't find it slow to start another on my fairly fast machine; also, it now handles Unicode properly, so I don't need Mlterm for Esperanto/Greek. Unfavorite is Xterm, which has ugly colors is difficult to configure (ok maybe I've never found out how to do those things easily). I don't like transparency other forms of intrusive eye-candy, just simple pleasing shapes, fonts colors I can go on looking at. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:31:46AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talking eye candy here. I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keyboard, which I don't know...). I think the defaults are (at least here ;) Ctrl-Alt-N for new tab, Shift-Left or Shift-Right to switch tabs. Or just Settings-Configure shortcuts, I personaly don't like Shift-arrows much, I'm used to use them in apps inside the term (vim, ...) yoyo -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- _ | YoYo () Siska http://www.ksp.sk/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Jorge Almeida wrote: I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keyboard, which I don't know...). To open a tab, hit Ctrl+Alt+n. To cycle: Shift+Cursor right or Shift+Cursor Left Alexander Skwar -- Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Warning: Color name black is not defined
Hi! Since a recent update, I always get error messages like the following, when I start certain applications (eg. xterm): Warning: Color name black is not defined xterm: Cannot allocate color red xterm: Cannot allocate color magenta On bgo, I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78385 which suggests to make sure that RgbPath is correct in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It is correct, I think: RgbPath /usr/share/X11/rgb [10:09:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ls -la /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17371 10. Mai 10:07 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt I'm, however, only and always using a VNC session to connect to the system. I use net-misc/vnc-4.0-r1. Does RealVNC use /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Any ideas about what might be broken? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use
dear all, how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. please help me -- ... (((o)))~--~--~-- Proud to be a Sinhalese. SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
Fixed. Something between the #150 and ~#180 packages of an ~250 package emerge system -ep was the problem. BillK On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:12:27 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well Did you re-emerge ocaml too? I did that at some time while trying to fix this so it may have had an effect. The font wanted to pull in dnd and xemacs packages - dnd failed to build and I dont want xemacs (I already have one operating system :) so I did it -nodeps. It didn't try to do that with me, must be a USE settings, try it with --tree instead of --nodeps. I had the exact same error and, after some Googling, it turned out that emerging these fonts fixed the error on two different architectures. -- Neil Bothwick Ad - Save regularly in our bank. You'll never reget it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs
On Tue, 9 May 2006 18:22:24 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: In /etc/make.conf I have PORT_LOGDIR=/var/tmp/portage-logs This is great in that I can then read through the billions of .log files to see if there are any post install manual tasks I have to do. However, a good majority of them are just compilation output. I really don't need or care to see those -- especially if the compilation concluded sans errors. I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action. There are two log files for each emerge, the smaller one contains the juicy bits. The latest portage, still in testing, has an option to save the relevant messages to a log directory or email them to you. You can choose the level of messages you receive; info, warn or error. -- Neil Bothwick This screen intentionally left blank. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] what does NR stands for?
anybody who has some ideas about this prefix of numerous macros within linux source code?NR_TASKS for instance, I just could not find any explanation. thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] what does NR stands for?
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:18:22PM +0800, fei huang wrote: anybody who has some ideas about this prefix of numerous macros within linux source code? NR_TASKS for instance, I just could not find any explanation. number Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 10 May 2006, YoYo siska wrote: I think the defaults are (at least here ;) Ctrl-Alt-N for new tab, Shift-Left or Shift-Right to switch tabs. Or just Settings-Configure shortcuts, I personaly don't like Shift-arrows much, I'm used to use them in apps inside the term (vim, ...) Not bad. It may be convenient to use tabs instead of new windows sometimes, to save desktop space or to simplify cycling trough windows... I never had a real look at the functionallities of Konsole... Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems
Richard Fish wrote: On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vgchange -a y device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:0) Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree My guess is a conflict between the device-mapper version and your kernel. 2.6.7 is quite ancient, and looking through /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-1.02.05/WHATS_NEW.gz, there were a lot of changes to how the device nodes are created in the last couple of years. Possibly one of those changes broke backwards compatibility. -Richard I forgot one important bit here to mention, at least to me ;-) The server is miles away from my office, all I got is console access.. The other (older) kernel will not boot up properly either. Firering up lvm and typing help, show various commands, which I am not familar with. Does anyone see any option to get the fs back up just using console and no remote hands ? Thanks. ~Barny -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:29, Dave Jones wrote: I didn't get these errors when I ran the oowriter2 command above, so I guess my localdef for the en_GB.utf8 must have been OK. Case closed, an irritating problem fixed. From another thread: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote: For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. Without it, the ' and keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the quote keys and Open Office work perfectly. Does this not work for you (# means run as root, $ means run as user)? # localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-15 en_GB.ISO-8859-15 $ LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 oowriter2 -- Bo Andresen pgp7jTMR4TFw9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?
2006/5/9, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/7, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hdparm -Tt /dev/hda Thank you!Here are some results: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 816 MB in 2.00 seconds = 407.87 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.01 seconds = 55.17 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 900 MB in 2.00 seconds = 449.13 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.25 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 928 MB in 2.00 seconds = 464.21 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.03 seconds = 56.77 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 836 MB in 2.00 seconds = 417.79 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.51 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 908 MB in 2.00 seconds = 453.99 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.25 seconds = 43.11 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 892 MB in 2.00 seconds = 445.28 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.29 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 900 MB in 2.01 seconds = 448.79 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 164 MB in 3.01 seconds = 54.56 MB/sec I think the speed of cache is too slow!In my roommate's machine,this speed is almost 880~900MB/sec Sorry!But i just don't know what you mean by this? I expect your reply! Thanks again! I meant I want you to run the command above and send the output. The last parameter /dev/hda refers to the drive where you have Gentoo insalled. The drive/device path that you put in /etc/fstab. For example, if your 40 GB drive is the primary master, it would be /dev/hda. It it were the primary slave it would be /dev/hdb, etc. If the drive is an SATA drive it would be /dev/sda.. If you still do not understand, send me the contents of the file /etc/fstab and I will show you what command to run. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?
2006/5/9, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes you should get much faster startup times of Gnome 2.14 than that. How to do that?I really don't know how to read the startup script.How can i improve or rebuild my system. My laptop is a Pentium M 1.73 GHz, 1 GB memory and a 5400 RPM SATA laptop drive. From startx to complete Gnome is only about 5 seconds or so. On my AMD64 3200+ with 2 GB and pretty fast SATA II I get in Gnome in less than 5 seconds. Something is slowing down you system. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I don't have much use for other frills: I open and close konsole windows via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easier to open a new window than a new tab (unless there is a way to open, close and cycle through tabs via keyboard, which I don't know...). To open a tab, hit Ctrl+Alt+n. To cycle: Shift+Cursor right or Shift+Cursor Left Thank you. I should have browsed the Settings menu, but really only mentioned it as an afterthought, after noticing that there isn't a shortcut info in the Session menu. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid
On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has 256mb physical ram. I've got a nearly identical setup, except i've got the second proc, but 3 9 gig drives. Here's what I did: set up a 100 meg partition (bootable) on all 3 drives. set up a second partition for the rest of the space on all 3 drives. use mdadm to create a raid 1 (mirror) with /dev/sda1 and / dev/sdb1. use mdadm to create a raid 5 with /dev/sda2, sdb2 and sdc2. create a volume group with /dev/md1 (raid 5) as the pv. then create an lv for root, one for swap, home, var and tmp, and usr. mount all that on /mnt/gentoo, then mount /dev/md0 on /boot. after untarring the stage and snapshot and chrooting into the environment, use genkernel --lvm2 --dmraid --menuconfig --install all to create my kernel (genkernel follows the /usr/src/linux symlink, so make sure it's right). the only other thing is to make sure all your scsi drivers are built into the kernel, not modules and make sure you put the initrd line in the grub.conf. at what point is it telling you you don't have enough ram? did you swapon your swap before chrooting? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Least: ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid
pls see my below answers... On 5/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has 256mb physical ram. this netfinity5000 comes with a RAID card. it can configure using IBM Server Guide CD. so i bootd from that cd but its said not enough ram 'need 256mb'. I've got a nearly identical setup, except i've got the second proc, but 3 9 gig drives. Here's what I did: set up a 100 meg partition (bootable) on all 3 drives. set up a second partition for the rest of the space on all 3 drives. use mdadm to create a raid 1 (mirror) with /dev/sda1 and / dev/sdb1. use mdadm to create a raid 5 with /dev/sda2, sdb2 and sdc2. create a volume group with /dev/md1 (raid 5) as the pv. then create an lv for root, one for swap, home, var and tmp, and usr. mount all that on /mnt/gentoo, then mount /dev/md0 on /boot. after untarring the stage and snapshot and chrooting into the environment, use genkernel --lvm2 --dmraid --menuconfig --install all to create my kernel (genkernel follows the /usr/src/linux symlink, so make sure it's right). the only other thing is to make sure all your scsi drivers are built into the kernel, not modules and make sure you put the initrd line in the grub.conf. at what point is it telling you you don't have enough ram? did you swapon your swap before chrooting? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- ... (((o)))~--~--~-- Proud to be a Sinhalese. SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid
On May 10, 2006, at 7:15 AM, El Nino wrote: pls see my below answers... On 5/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimum 256mb ram. i don't know y, its already has 256mb physical ram. this netfinity5000 comes with a RAID card. it can configure using IBM Server Guide CD. so i bootd from that cd but its said not enough ram 'need 256mb'. then you don't have a gentoo problem yet...you have an ibm problem. Mine doesn't have the raid controller, just an adaptec scsi controller. i'm doing raid in software. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
[snip]
Least:
... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support.
[snip]
Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has
beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program
that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program
gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago.
Matthias
Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached)
(higher is better):
eterm: ~ 14 000 l/s
xterm: ~ 8 500 l/s
gnome-terminal: ~ 3 500 l/s
frame-buffer: ~ 40 l/s
Btw: I should have written __80__ instead of __50__.
PS: Please note that the attached program is an ad hoc implementation to
do some basic comparisons, and not a sophisticated program. Compile it
with 'g++ -Wall -O3 filename.cc -o executable'.
#include ctime
#include iostream
#include string
#include algorithm
using namespace std;
static string
rStr(AaBbCcEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz(){}[]?*+-/_-:.;, );
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int lines;
if(argc == 1)
lines = 2;
else if(argc == 2)
{
lines = atoi(argv[1]);
if(lines 1000)
{
cerr Please enter at least '1000' for lines ! endl;
return 1;
}
}
else
{
cerr Usage: tspeed lines endl;
return 2;
}
time_t t1 = time(NULL);
for(int i=0; i != lines; ++i)
{
cout rStr endl;
random_shuffle(rStr.begin(), rStr.end());
}
time_t t2 = time(NULL);
time_t elapsed = t2-t1;
if(elapsed == 0)
{
cerr Writing lines lines to the screen took less than one second. endl;
cerr Please choose a bigger value for lines. endl;
return 3;
}
double speed = double(lines)/double(elapsed);
cerr endl;
cerr terminal speed: speed l/s endl;
return 0;
}
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
I use terminal from Xfce4. It's very much like gnome-terminal, which I like, but it appears to be much lighter. Next to that I just use plan ol' xterm when I don't need colors or tabs. It's about as light as you can get... If it makes a difference, I use ctwm as my window manager... On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:33:51PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the typical KDE/GNOME flamefest ;-/ -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, more from force of habit than anything else. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex
1. install the windows ext2/3 driver.2. install rfsd (http://rfsd.sourceforge.net) to access reiserfs partitions. An alternative for accessingin read-only mode Linux drives isTotalCommander'sExt2+Reiser plugin. Ext2 and ext3 work fine. Never tried ReiserFS. Plugin to open Ext2 and Reiser file systems on your own machine! This is useful when you have Linux installed on the same machine (multi-boot) and want to access your files. For security reasons, this plugin is read-only. It combines two open source projects to access Ext2 partitions and Reiser partitions. This plugin is Open-Source (GPL). Version 1.3 fixes read errors with newer ReiserFS partitions.-- Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Matthias Langer wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Least: ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago. Matthias Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached) (higher is better): eterm:~ 14 000 l/s xterm:~ 8 500 l/s gnome-terminal: ~ 3 500 l/s frame-buffer: ~ 40 l/s Om my (slow?) laptop I get: frame-buffer: 34 l/s rxvt-unicode: 12 000 l/s xterm: 4500 l/s Konsole: l/s gnome-terminal: l/s ^^^ _not_ faked :) And another thing I love about rxvt(-unicode) is that if you change the width of the terminal the text rewraps ie: it follows the window size. -- Naga -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talking eye candy here. You can change those colors for all tereminals by copying /etc/DIR_COLORS to ~/.DIR_COLORS. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: dear all, how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. please help me I think I saw a posting about that on the netfilter (aka iptables) mailing list, search around. In short, it is very difficult indeed. -- When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you. And then they are purified, and become a holy fire in you. -- Ancient Hasidic Saying -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g
Hi, Im use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg dont work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas? Thanks Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card
I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just impossible. What's the problem? emergeing ati-drivers doesn't work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use
fire-eyes wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. I think I saw a posting about that on the netfilter (aka iptables) mailing list, search around. In short, it is very difficult indeed. I think squid could solve this problem. Although skype can use port 80 for communication, afaik it does not use http-protocol, but some private one. So if you turn nat/masquarading on your router off and set up your squid to act as transparent proxy for http+ftp, it will work for valid http/ftp requests, but not for skype or any other IM... HTH, Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:25 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
Matthias Langer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
[snip]
Least:
... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support.
[snip]
Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has
beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program
that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program
gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago.
Matthias
Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached)
(higher is better):
eterm: ~ 14 000 l/s
xterm: ~ 8 500 l/s
gnome-terminal: ~ 3 500 l/s
frame-buffer: ~ 40 l/s
Om my (slow?) laptop I get:
frame-buffer: 34 l/s
rxvt-unicode: 12 000 l/s
xterm: 4500 l/s
Konsole: l/s
gnome-terminal: l/s
^^^
_not_ faked :)
Maybe this has something to do with your screen resolution; as you are
using a 'slow' laptop, i guess you are using 1024x768, while i use
1280x1024 in my athlon-xp 2400+.
PS: Did you pass any values to the prog ? It's because, it stopps after
it has written 20 000 lines if no arguments are passed. For very fast
terminals this is bad; Imagine a terminal that puts out 11 000 lines per
second. It will then take about 1.8 s to write 20 000 lines. However,
the program uses time(...) and therefore it will write:
20 000 l/s. The '' is not a big surprise, because 20 000 / 3 =
.7. Thus, if your terminal needs from 3s to 4s for 2 lines, you
will always get this result if specifying no arguments. As i said before
this is just a quick hack to make some comparisons. However, here is a
slightly impoved version ...
#include cmath
#include ctime
#include iostream
#include string
#include algorithm
using namespace std;
static string
rStr(AaBbCcEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz(){}[]?*+-/_-:.;, );
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int lines;
if(argc == 1)
lines = 2;
else if(argc == 2)
{
lines = atoi(argv[1]);
if(lines 1000)
{
cerr Please enter at least '1000' for lines ! endl;
return 1;
}
}
else
{
cerr Usage: tspeed lines endl;
return 2;
}
time_t t1 = time(NULL);
for(int i=0; i != lines; ++i)
{
cout rStr endl;
random_shuffle(rStr.begin(), rStr.end());
}
time_t t2 = time(NULL);
time_t elapsed = t2-t1;
if(elapsed == 0)
{
cerr endl;
cerr Writing lines lines to the screen took less than one second. endl;
cerr Please choose a bigger value for lines. endl;
return 3;
}
double speed = double(lines)/double(elapsed);
if(elapsed 6)
{
cout endl;
cout Warning: writing lines lines took fewer than 6 seconds. endl;
cout The the results may be inaccurate. endl;
cout Try tspeed value with valueceil(6*speed) endl;
}
cout endl;
cout terminal speed: floor(speed) l/s endl;
return 0;
}
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]
Bo Andresen wrote on 10/05/06 12:55: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote: For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. Without it, the ' and keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the quote keys and Open Office work perfectly. Does this not work for you (# means run as root, $ means run as user)? # localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-15 en_GB.ISO-8859-15 $ LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 oowriter2 No, it doesn't work, I get these error messages when I try to start oowriter2: I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale en_GB.ISO-8859-15 Qt: Locales not supported on X server The accented keys don't work either with this setup. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
-Original Message- From: Glenn Enright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:58 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make all modules_install install This will do all the necessary steps. I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no changes/additions we made. 'make all' is supposed to compile the kernel, 'make modules_install' will compile the kernel modules, 'make install' will install the kernel and 'make all modules_install install' will do all three of those things. I tried multiple times, different ways installing the kernel (vanilla sources) and reinstalling grub. Still the same message of System.map not found during booting. I rebooted and had the same problem occurring: System.map not found -- unable to check symbols Could you provide the output of: # df -h | grep boot # ls -l /boot Nothing from the previous commands since /boot is not mounted (it is no in fstab as suggested by the install handbook) # uname -r 2.6.15.1 Where is the message comming from? do you get it during kernel load or once the initscripts with the green stars beside them start doing their thing? Yes after the green starts. The actual message scrolls up tagged with a yellow asterisk I'm guessing from the OP that you have x86 hardware? Yes I have x86 1) If its the kernel load (easier to check) I suggest the following. As root user... - make sure the boot partition is mounted run 'mount /boot' - make sure the /usr/src/linux link is pointing to the kernel you want to boot from - cd /usr/src/linux - run 'make clean' (this will essentially deletes all the compiled stuff except for your config file, in other words cleans up the tree :) - run 'make all modules_install install' - have a look in /boot to make sure the installer created the appropriate link 'System.map' to the version it just installed. use 'ls -l' to see this - now try a reboot making sure you use the same kernel you just built do you still get the message? If so you may need to alter the kernel config and see if that makes any difference, or you might like to try a different kernel version. 2) If its happening while the initscripts load, or at some other time after kernel boot, then its a gentoo specific issue and you need to work through those scripts somehow to isolate the cause. -- Thus spake the master programmer: After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming Thanks, -- Valmor -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Matthias Langer wrote: Maybe this has something to do with your screen resolution; as you are using a 'slow' laptop, i guess you are using 1024x768, while i use 1280x1024 in my athlon-xp 2400+. Same resluts (more or less) with 100 000 lines and new version. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Justin Findlay wrote: + On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ important--we're not talking eye candy here. You can change those colors for all tereminals by copying /etc/DIR_COLORS to ~/.DIR_COLORS. But can I use them in any terminal, e.g. xterm? I suppose so, but how can a non-initiate know how to do it? I'm not saying that Konsole is perfect, far from it--for example, the font I use (Luxi mono) is impossible to choose from the settings dialog, I had to edit a conf file thanks to a suggestion by someone in this list, long ago. But at least I can set the colors for the background and the text. Anyway, in my home computer (just 1.5GHz, P4) Konsole is reasonably fast... I just launched a xterm, just to see how it goes. The TrueType Fonts entry in the VT Fonts menu is dimmed; I checked that xterm was emerged with the truetype flag selected. The fonts are not too bad, but Luxi Mono is better. And I see no menu entry to change it... I don't doubt that xterm is a good piece of software, it's just that some functionalities are important for some of us. And the same goes for other emulators. Anyway, thanks for the hint. It may be usefull. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
This message is being issued by /sbin/module-update. It is called from /etc/init.d/modules to update /etc/modules.conf. It's complaining because /boot has not been mounted yet. As far as I can tell, /boot is treated no differently than any other non-root filesystem. Ultimately, I think, the fault lies in /sbin/rc which should be checking for /boot being a filesystem and mounting it up front.dcmOn 5/10/06, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Glenn Enright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:58 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to checksymbols System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make all modules_install install This will do all the necessary steps. I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside/boot/grubthat points to grub.conf. Other than that there nochanges/additionswe made. 'make all' is supposed to compile the kernel, 'makemodules_install' will compile the kernel modules, 'make install' will install the kernel and 'make all modules_install install' will do all three of those things. I tried multiple times, different ways installing the kernel(vanilla sources) and reinstalling grub. Still the same message ofSystem.map not found during booting. I rebooted and had the same problem occurring: System.map not found -- unable to check symbols Could you provide the output of: # df -h | grep boot # ls -l /boot Nothing from the previous commands since /boot is not mounted (it isno in fstab as suggested by the install handbook) # uname -r 2.6.15.1 Where is the message comming from? do you get it during kernel load or once the initscripts with the green stars beside them start doing their thing?Yes after the green starts. The actual message scrolls up tagged with ayellow asterisk I'm guessing from the OP that you have x86 hardware?Yes I have x86 1) If its the kernel load (easier to check) I suggest the following. As root user... - make sure the boot partition is mounted run 'mount /boot' - make sure the /usr/src/linux link is pointing to the kernel you wantto boot from - cd /usr/src/linux - run 'make clean' (this will essentially deletes all the compiledstuff except for your config file, in other words cleans up the tree :) - run 'make all modules_install install' - have a look in /boot to make sure the installer created the appropriate link 'System.map' to the version it just installed. use 'ls -l' to see this - now try a reboot making sure you use the same kernel you justbuilt do you still get the message? If so you may need to alter the kernel config and see if that makes any difference, or you might like to try adifferent kernel version. 2) If its happening while the initscripts load, or at some other time after kernel boot, then its a gentoo specific issue and you need to workthrough those scripts somehow to isolate the cause. -- Thus spake the master programmer: After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of ProgrammingThanks,--Valmor--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:54, Philip Webb wrote: 060509 Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use konsole because of tabs and because of manner how to cut/copy/paste. And because konsole is first I learned, it works for me and I dont see the need to learn some other X terminal m Linux 2.6.16-ck9 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 23:09:05 up 2:13, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 1.53, 1.33 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Devon Miller wrote:
This message is being issued by /sbin/module-update. It is called from
/etc/init.d/modules to update /etc/modules.conf. It's complaining because
/boot has not been mounted yet. As far as I can tell, /boot is treated no
differently than any other non-root filesystem.
Ultimately, I think, the fault lies in /sbin/rc which should be checking for
/boot being a filesystem and mounting it up front.
Unless it has changed recently, the system I just installed last month
actually looks for it in /usr/src/linux, not /boot. It still complains
during boot even though I actually have one there, presumably it is looking
before filesystems are mounted.
I considered opening a bug, but it wasn't that important and I never really
got around to it.
A kludgy temporary fix would be:
# mount -o bind /dev/rootdev /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/usr/src/linux
# cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /mnt/usr/src/linux
# umount /mnt
8-/...
# We also call depmod here to stop insmod from complaining that
modules.conf
# is more recent then modules.dep
#
if [ -d `depdir` -a -f /proc/modules ]
then
if [ -f /usr/src/linux/System.map ]; then
depmod -a -F /usr/src/linux/System.map ${KV}
else
ewarn System.map not found - unable to check symbols
fi
fi
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Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
On 5/10/06, Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless it has changed recently, the system I just installed last monthactually looks for it in /usr/src/linux, not /boot. It still complainsduring boot even though I actually have one there, presumably it is looking before filesystems are mounted.Ugh, then it's a duet between /sbin/module-update and /sbin/rc. Looking in /usr/src/linux is just plain wrong. If for any reason I build a kernel, but don't install it, then it's not just looking for data from an unmounted filesystem (/boot or /usr) but it's also looking for the *wrong* System.map. I'm going to file a bug on this. I can imagine cases where this might leave a system hosed.dcm
[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: ... At home I use rxvt. Simple, very fast on startup. At work I use konsole. I like the session thing it has and the tabs, since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave at work they often comes quite handy. If you like rxvt and tabs, then try mrxvt: I tried various terminals a year or so ago and I am still very happy with mrxvt: and it is developing fast. I like: - tabs, with k/b shortcuts to change quickly - lightweight (run-time and compile time (only X libs)) - works on Linux (at home) and Solaris (at work) - can easily configure colours, incl. tabs. (I am not sure what the session thing you like is, but with mrxvt you can pre-define commands in the config file to run in each different tab when mrxvt is started; but you can not save a session from an existing mrxvt.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?
Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble. I assume things are alot more refined now. I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from, Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on device detection, in particular Network cards, USB, and to a lesser extent graphics/monitors. If someone, in the know, could compare GENTOO against say SUSE or Knoppix in that area, that would be very helpfull. I produce a LIVE DVD for a company, and SUSE has made a pretty good bases, but their release cycle is not to quick, and of course GENTOO, a good thing in this case, has almost a perpetual release cycle. In particular, DELL has started selling PC's with no PS2 ports for keyboards/mice, and thats taking its toll on distros that were released last year. So I am contemplating moving to GENTOO, but I can't test the device recognition on other then a few machines I have, but when I release it to my target audience, it has to work 99.99% across 400+ employees computers, which can be just about any computer of recent vintage, including of course brand new Dells with no ps2 ports. -tl -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
No, ocaml hasnt been touched since Nov last year. If dnd errors off on the -ep, I'll try tree and see if that shows anything. Thanks, BillK On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:12:27 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:11, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here running a ~x86 box and have the latest glibc and a 4.0.3 gcc running on it? I used to run gcc-4.0.3 and latest glibc (don't remember the version number) some time ago.. But now running gcc-4.1.0 and glibc-2.4-r2.. No problems with both.. Any hurdles to leap? Well except doing a emerge -e system emerge -e world after upgrading to gcc-4.x, no hurdles to leap.. :) Farhan Ahmed Thanks for the info Farhan. I'm in the process of completeing the upgrade. So far, everything has been perfectly ok. It's all compiling cleanly, no errors and there's even a slight performance increase. I haven't done and real, hard performance evaluation... but my glxgears number has jumped from 800 fps to just over 1200 fps... and that was only after competing a emerge -e system with the new glibc and gcc. I can;t wait to see what it looks like after a complete system recompile... I'll be back after a day or so to report. Cheers. And thank you. Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cvsweb - error: permission denied
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: I have a cvs-repository on my gentoo box, used in my exam project. However, cvsweb gives following error when trying to access the module in the repository: Error: eksamen/: Permission denied It's no doubt something really stupid, but I can't seem to find the solution. Googling didn't bring up anything particularly helpful. cvs-web version is 1.112 Likely permissions related or least those are the problems I usually have with cvsweb. I do a chmod -R 755 every day or so that Apache can read the repository. I'd make a copy of your current cvs dir and point apache to it. Then try various permissions till you get it right. Then do the same on the real cvs dir. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:41 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: Samuel Baldwin wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it does look nice. Yes, it certainly has the potential to look nice. No doubt. I don't use transparency. I don't care about it enough to spend the time to get the right balance. Also, I use a laptop, and my screen's brightness fluctuates with my battery level. So, the opacity for being plugged in isn't the same for being unplugged. I just use this green on black scheme which is visually intimidating but remarkably easy to read at all different screen brightnesses. I like it. It provides a nice change of pace, so that way, when you're running a terminal in X, it doesn't look exactly like the regular shell. Well - a terminal is something to work with. And this has to be functional and not provide a change of pace. Totally. That's why I push YaKuake. It's so darn accessible that it's there when I want it. I learned most of what I know about Linux command shells with YaKuake on Kubuntu, just because it was so easy to be reading a web page, pop down YaKuake, try something out, all while still looking at the web page. It was truly awesome. As far as making it harder to read, I've found it quite easy. If it conflicts with your background design, just change the text color. My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW, the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped, that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white on black). You're using a CRT and a desktop, no doubt. You see, reccommending this for all users is a big no-no, since on many displays a higher contrast ratio will make eyestrain a first rate problem. I don't think there's any setting that is best, rather, I think users should be encouraged to experiment around to find the best balance of eye candy, readability, and functionality for them and their monitor and lighting. It is also possible to turn the transparency off, if needed. Yep. That's what I do. Same. Partially because my poor Intel i810 series graphics chip would wither up and die if I tried to put any more compositing than I do now with it (none.) My CPU ends up rendering most things, which is annoying, since my CPU spikes whenever I'm rendering anything. Oh well... someone will make a better driver someday. Either way I don't care - if I need power I go to my desktop machine, which will make most other boxes look like small graphing calculators with USB ports. : ) pgpadANZAyPbr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:33 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop* there's trusty old YaKuake. It supports multiple console tabs, which is almost a total necessity in my point of view. Second in my list is Konsole, chiefly because of it's customizability. I can tinker with the visual settings until I'm happy. Next is XTerm, and I've only used that out of necessity. It's really bland, but it gets the job done. I understand YaKuake works in Gnome, but it is a native KDE app. If you don't think YaKuake is worth your time, perhaps giving it a try will change your mind. It's far easier than finding a bare patch of desktop in Red Hat, right clicking, and the selecting new XTerm window, and it's much easier than KMenu-Terminal Sessions-Linux Console. My favorite keyboard combination for YaKuake (I think the default ones were made by Gnome developers) is alt+`. This is a deviation from the Quake-style in-game console (for which Kuake is named, which YaKuake is a descendent of) which is activated by hitting `. This isn't feasible in a desktop enviornment since that key will be needed by other applications and things, however, I find that by combining it with the alt key it tends to work out really quite nicely. I'm still waiting for it to become avaliable in Gentoo, though now that I've figured out about package masking I'm reconsidering my decision to wait... Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the typical KDE/GNOME flamefest ;-/ I will throw myself onto any grenades thrown in a possible flamewar. pgp2SlneQ5JZV.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)
I set up my spare Gentoo box up as a wireless router for my new
Verizon ADSL connection by following the instructions here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml
My setup is a little different though because I'm using a madwifi card
to provide wireless access. Things are working really well, but I've
got a couple questions I'm hoping someone can help with.
1. I can't actually get:
config_eth0=adsl
to work. It always says: TIMED OUT. I'm using:
config_eth0=dhcp
instead which times out half the time and half the time gets me the IP
192.168.1.47 and provides connection to the Internet. Isn't that
weird? Is it even checking my username/password that's in the
ppp/pppoe config files?
2. I followed the instructions at the above link to set up iptables.
When I try to ssh into the router from another machine on the network,
I get Connection refused. I'm guessing it's from the firewall. Is
there a good utility that will allow me to manage the firewall?
3. I'm using iwconfig and WEP right now, but I'd really like to use
WPA. I believe wpa_supplicant is the way to do that. I tried to set
up wpa_supplicant in mode=1 on the router, but the ath0 interface
times out when I try to start it. I took the config straight from
wpa_supplicant.conf.example:
network={
ssid=mynetwork
mode=1
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-NONE
pairwise=NONE
group=TKIP
psk=mypassphrase
}
Can anyone help with any of this stuff?
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Re: [gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?
On May 10, 2006, at 4:48 PM, ted leslie wrote: Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble. I assume things are alot more refined now. I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from, Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on device detection, in particular Network cards, USB, and to a lesser extent graphics/ monitors. I haven't tested live cds extensively, but i have a fairly odd box here, amd64 with a broadcomm gig-e adapter and an nvidia gig-e adapter, no sound card, ati rage xl video onboard. I also have an ibm netfinity 5100 and a dell laptop, all running gentoo. all devices available at the live cd. However i did find quite a bit of problems with the amd64 with a 3ware 8000 series sata raid controller. I ended up having to install ubuntu 64-bit on a small partition and use that to install gentoo. wasn't too happy about that. But that is the ONLY device non-starter on all the hardware i've thrown at gentoo. Now, i'm not really using the livecd...just for install purposes... But I must say, knoppix was every bit as good on the same hardware...except for sound on the inspiron 1100 laptop. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro Advice Needed!
Hello every one! Is there any one out there that has a All-in-Wonder that is able to watch TV on a Gentoo system? IF so could you be so kind and inform me of how you got it to work. I have on my sys: stable is what every is from portage Gentoo (latest stable) Gnome (latest stable) X11 7 (latest testing) MySQL (latest stable) I think that covers the ones that I would think or my have connection wth a tv program. Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro Advice Needed!
i used to, not with gentoo, but i think regardless of what distro you use, you need to check out the gatos project it also depends on what AIW you use, there are three, the old rage, the radeon, and the newest one, which might be a variation of the radeon, but perhaps different. With gatos i had no problem using AIW rage, and radeon vintage cards to watch tv. If you have a pci-express based card, i'd love to know if you get it working, I was thinking about getting one. If you just have an old AGP type card, i am pretty sure it will work fine with gatos. -tl On Wed, 10 May 2006 21:42:46 -0400 Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello every one! Is there any one out there that has a All-in-Wonder that is able to watch TV on a Gentoo system? IF so could you be so kind and inform me of how you got it to work. I have on my sys: stable is what every is from portage Gentoo (latest stable) Gnome (latest stable) X11 7 (latest testing) MySQL (latest stable) I think that covers the ones that I would think or my have connection wth a tv program. Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 05:26, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT': Hi, I have been having trouble forwarding packets using iptables on my Gentoo box. I am no iptables expert. I connect to the internet using rp-pppoe. I use firestarter for firewalling. Yesterday I installed VMware and chose host only networking between the VMs. vmnet0 was bound to 192.168.128.1 and the rest of the subnet being 192.168.128.0/24. As should be obvious by now, I need to forward packets from ppp0 to vmnet0 and allow outbound packets as well. Add net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding = 1 to /etc/sysctl.conf and apply the setting by issuing sysctl -p as root. Issue the command: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING \ -o ppp0 \ --source 192.168.128.0/24 \ -j MASQUERADE also as root. You may also want to issue: iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT \ -p tcp \ --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN \ -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu and possibly iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT \ -p tcp \ --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN \ -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu as root to help control packet fragmentation. I believe the iptables init script should handle saving/restoring these rules on reboot. I have NO IDEA how to add these iptables rules to firestarter. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpd4zSypOuyO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 09:32, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)': Hi folks, anybody using them? If so I have got a question. I'm not but... Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag determines whether the UPS itself is to be switched of by software. It seems to me that this flag never gets removed. So a manual halt also tries to switch off the UPS which might not be intended. Sounds like a bug to me. I can't give you confirmation, but I will encourage you to file a bug report. It should be a trivial patch. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpnk1T4j75Qt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)
Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag determines whether the UPS itself is to be switched of by software. It seems to me that this flag never gets removed. So a manual halt also tries to switch off the UPS which might not be intended. Sounds like a bug to me. I can't give you confirmation, but I will encourage you to file a bug report. It should be a trivial patch. Sounds like a bug to me too. I am running NUT, but amazingly have never had a power outage long enough to warrant shutting the pc down, if I have time later tonight will hit the mains switch and see what happens. -- Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] +64211031910 == Mozilla Firefox: Take back the web www.mozilla.org/products/firefox -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 10:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems': I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my mounted fs. /dev/cont/swap noneswapsw PV /dev/hda3 VG cont lvm2 [111.23 GB / 6.74 GB free] Found volume group cont using metadata type lvm2 So, it would seem that your volume group is named cont, yes? 8 logical volume(s) in volume group zoom now active Then why do we see zoom here? Clearly, there is some metadata that doesn't agree. Try a vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore to get your metadata in sync. If that doesn't fix things try: vgchange -an cont zoom vgrename cont zoom vgrename zoom cont Also, be /very/ careful with upgrading LVM / device-mapper. I've certainly had issues where old LVM wouldn't work with new dm or new LVM wouldn't work with old dm. (But, I have LVM dynamically linked instead of the Gentoo default of statically.) Oh, BTW, if it /is/ a dm/kernel conflict, and you have LVM statically linked, you'll have to recompile it *after* you've changed to a dm supported by your kernel (if you change you kernel, but not your dm, this won't apply). Otherwise, it won't use your new dm version. Such is the benefit and detriment of static linking. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpLsJcKTB2o3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 problems
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 12:40, Barny M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] LVM2 problems': Any further suggestions how to troubleshoot or fix the issue ? See my answer to your previous post. Also, gmail doesn't show you your own messages. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgp2bju5VCxIc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 03:29, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how to stop skype im use': how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables. Have you looked at the layer7 packet filtering kernel patches and iptables extensions? -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpoP3Pht8jBK.pgp Description: PGP signature
