Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote:
The format is none of those :-) It actually looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/movies $ sudo eix --dump | grep SLOT
DIFF_NO_SLOTS='false'
FORMAT_BEFORE_SLOT_IUSE='\n\t\{(blue)'
FORMAT_AFTER_SLOT_IUSE='()\}'
COLOR_SLOTS='red,1'
COLORED_SLOTS='true'
COLON_SLOTS='false'
UPGRADE_TO_HIGHEST_SLOT='true'
PRINT_SLOTS='true'
Wow, GREAT. Slots are such a great idea, thjey need more publicity.
Yeah they are very useful where appropriate. Trouble with SLOTS is, you
need to control their use very closely otherwise everyone and their dog
decides to use them all over the place especially where not
appropriate. And few people know how to use them correctly - for a
classic example have a look at the mess that was eselect gcc...
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Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to copy. Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball in the root of the broken VM. -- Neil Bothwick What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo PPC64 multilib how?
Hi, I have a ppc64 server at my company. A lot of ebuilds are working well on this platform, It is ok (apache, php, mysql, postgresql, samba, ftp, irc, etc.) But we need some game servers, too. For example the Quake3 dedicated server compiled perfectly and it is run smoothly, but clients totally useless: after connecting to the server, it is impossiple to move from the respawn point. After a long googling I found that mod's are compiled to 32 bit systems (OSP, WQ3 etc.) and due to that, it is not possible to get those sources and there are no ppc64 binaries for them, they are not working in ppc64. I realized, I need the multilib, but the question is, how? I found this old doc: http://www.clusters.umaine.edu/wiki/index.php/Gentoo_2006.0_64-Bit_Userland_to_2006.0_Multilib I would like to avoid to downgrade to 2006.0. I use this profile at this moment: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2007.0/64bit- userland/server/power5/ The system is: huinfoppc64 / # uname -a Linux huinfoppc64 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 10:05:24 CET 2008 ppc64 POWER5 (gr) CHRP IBM,9111-520 GNU/Linux Is anybody there, who use ppc64 gentoo system? Could you help me to find a solution (fully working quake3 dedicated server) without changing profile? Thx, -- GES -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde, AGP seems to be off on kdm-4.0 only
Hi, thanks for recalling of emerge usage I have set opengl and dri, Xorg seems to see properly agp, but kdm failed to aquire on it difference between 3.5 and 4.0, it's that 3.5 even if they fail, they seems to use it properly by not 4.0 I will wait for another version, more usable 4.0.2 has some disturbing bug, that should be correct in svn now wait and cross leg for 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 version How this version don't be disturb for downloading by Page Not Found exception (Error 404 :) ) Ok I get out See ya Dale a écrit : cypherstrong wrote: Ok I have found why kdm-4.0 don't work They doesn't support seamless login over pam even with nullpassword and nopassword activated !!! I use pamusb with a key, and login won't done without password sets ... I will ask to kde team why ... I have look in kdm.log and I have found another problem (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (EE) VIA(0): [drm] drmAgpAcquire failed 19 expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Type ONE_LEVEL has 1 levels, but RALT has 2 symbols Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server VIA(0) drmAgepAcquire failed The result is the same between kdm-3.5 and kdm-4.0 except on display speed If I use kdm-4.0, the screen display is really slow, I really think agp is totally disabled, and everything take long time to be show even if I use kde-4.0 or kde-3.5 session Now I have try the same on kdm-3.5, speed is good on kde-4.0 or kde-3.5, I think agp is good on it I have look in Xorg.0.log, dri and agp are well activated What happen ? Did I miss a use option ? opengl and dri are totally activated on my use, perhaps I have to try another drivers for via unichrome ? In kernel, I have disabled AGP for VIA (because i think it's not a via unichrome drivers), and activate DRI for VIA (it's a via unichrome dri drivers) with or without AGP for VIA in kernel, I have the same message on all log, so ... Did you have an idea ? I'm not real sure but I do have the USE flag dri in my make.conf. xorg-server is the package that shows it uses it but there may be other packages. To find out if you have a flag enabled or not, you can do a emerge -pv package-name and then look in the list to see if it is enabled or not. Something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv xorg-server These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5 USE=dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg xprint -3dfx -debug -dmx -kdrive -minimal INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse -acecad -aiptek -calcomp -citron -digitaledge -dmc -dynapro -elo2300 -elographics -evdev -fpit -hyperpen -jamstudio -joystick -magellan -microtouch -mutouch -palmax -penmount -spaceorb -summa -synaptics -tek4957 -ur98 -vmmouse -void -wacom VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia -apm -ark -chips -cirrus -cyrix -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx -glint -i128 -i740 -i810 (-impact) -imstt -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nsc -nv -r128 -radeon -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vesa -vga -via -vmware -voodoo 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] / If you have color on yours, red is enabled and blue is disabled. If not color, the flags with the minus sign is front are disabled. You can do a euse -i flag name to see a short, very short, description of what the flag does or it's use. If you change make.conf, you can do a emerge -avN world to make sure all the needed packages are recompiled with the changes. I have never seen that error before. Not real sure what to think about it. Anybody else here have a clue?? Dale :-) :-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:47 +, Stroller wrote: On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards talk IDE. Stroller. Yes they are. Another thought crossed my mind today: Does wear leveling work if I create loopback devices (ext2-formatted) on FAT32? By the way: Why is wear leveling filesystem-dependent anyway? I would have thought it were working on blocks (like device mapper, cryptsetup, lvm and so on) and not on files. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Received: from unknown
Oh, qmail, I don't really know how they work for me the best and the easiest are postfix, Perhaps someone else could help you about qmail You can force qmail to use your host file, just install dnsmasq, move your resolv.conf to resolv.orig.conf and create this one: search jasoncarson.ca nameserver 127.0.0.1 in your dnsmasq.conf: resolv-file=/etc/resolv.orig.conf now qmail if they use the dns system, will see properly your host file could you give a piece of your host file ? any 127.0.0.1 line, and any 66.11.182.5 line ? Jason Carson a écrit : Push this: 66.11.182.5 jasoncarson.ca penguin.jasoncarson.ca in your host file remove reference to jasoncarson.ca in the 127.0.0.1 lines ok, I tried that and it didn't work. I came across this... qmail never uses /etc/hosts to determine the IP address associated with a host name. ...Which was in the Life with Qmail documentation ( http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html ) Jason Carson a écrit : try to push your external ip adress in your hosts file for your domain My static IP is 66.11.182.5 and my computer is called penguin.jasoncarson.ca so what exactly would I put in /etc/hosts? On 3/17/08, Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, When I send an email to myself, in the header information it says the following... Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 5901 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2008 23:57:45 - Received: from unknown (HELO jasoncarson.ca) (127.0.0.1) by penguin.jasoncarson.ca with SMTP; 16 Mar 2008 23:57:45 - Received: from 192.168.0.75 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jason) by jasoncarson.ca with HTTP; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Test From: Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Where it says Received: from unknown (HELO jasoncarson.ca) (127.0.0.1) What do I have to do so it doesn't say Received: from unknown but instead displays the correct information and IP address instead of 127.0.0.1? I am running qmail 1.03. Thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Capslock Remover 0.1? On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:08:22 +, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:08:22 + Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Sure, sci-mathematics/fann sci-mathematics/snns Don't know if any of these will be of use to you. By the way, we also know about lower case letters :P Try not to post using capitals because it's like yelling. -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? First of all, don't shout at us! AFAIK, snns is a very good OSS implementation - and it's in portage. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT CAPS LOCK? AM I MISSING SOMETHING. I REALLY DON'T GET THE JOKE! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:08:22 + Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Sure, sci-mathematics/fann sci-mathematics/snns Don't know if any of these will be of use to you. By the way, we also know about lower case letters :P Try not to post using capitals because it's like yelling. Ah, I get it. I use caps when I'm in a rush so my grammar 'falls' into line. Sorry! I am trying to address the protein folding prob. with neural nets. So I need something I can use/teach. Thanks. 'They' say sarcasm is the lowest form of whit. Really when not delivered correctly it's just annoying. Thank you for your help. Gavin. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 schrieb ext Gavin Seddon: WHAT'S THIS ABOUT CAPS LOCK? AM I MISSING SOMETHING. I REALLY DON'T GET THE JOKE! Well, there's a little difference between the letters in your mails and the replies you get. WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING! Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 12:45 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael AFAIK that's not possible. Most likely DRM will not work and even if it runs, you won't be able to burn CDs with it. You might have more success with Windows in a virtual machine but then you'd still need to emulate a CD-burner. I'm not sure if there exists an out-of-the-box solution for that. By the way: For questions like this, there exists appdb.winehq.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT CAPS LOCK? AM I MISSING SOMETHING. I REALLY DON'T GET THE JOKE! It's not a joke, and we are being quite serious, but in a light-hearted way. Typing all in caps on a public internet forum is about the rudest thing you could do -it means you are shouting in a rage. You obviously don't know this yet, so in future when you post to such a list as this, please disengage your Caps Lock and type your messages in the proper English capitalizations. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:08:22 + Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Sure, sci-mathematics/fann sci-mathematics/snns Don't know if any of these will be of use to you. By the way, we also know about lower case letters :P Try not to post using capitals because it's like yelling. Thanks again snns looks like what I want plus! a gui... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On 2008-03-18, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. Maybe he didn't spend the extra money for the lowercase option on his ADM3 terminal... -- Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Mark Shields wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the printer. I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP laptop. Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide on using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a brief Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. Regards, David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer. Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 These lines: public = yes guest ok = yes Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them. You will also want to configure cups.conf to listen not only to localhost, but to also listen to the IP address of the XP box. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
On 18 Mar 2008, at 10:33, Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:47 +, Stroller wrote: On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards talk IDE. Yes they are. Another thought crossed my mind today: Does wear leveling work if I create loopback devices (ext2-formatted) on FAT32? Surely so. In this case you would be writing to the flash device's FAT32 filessystem. It doesn't matter if you're writing a .RAW picture file, an .iso or your loopback fs. By the way: Why is wear leveling filesystem-dependent anyway? No idea. Please note that in this thread I have stated that I _understand_ wear-levelling to be filesystem-dependent - it is others who have made replies stating this more confidently. I would have thought it were working on blocks (like device mapper, cryptsetup, lvm and so on) and not on files. Ah! But here we come back to the problem of recording how many times a given block has been written upon, in order not to kill that block. Most filesystems don't have to do that. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:45, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Sorry, but I'm unable to help you with this. Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? UK residents can buy from the iTunes store, as I would imagine can residents of many other European countries. But I prefer to buy CDs, myself. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 schrieb ext Gavin Seddon: WHAT'S THIS ABOUT CAPS LOCK? AM I MISSING SOMETHING. I REALLY DON'T GET THE JOKE! Well, there's a little difference between the letters in your mails and the replies you get. WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING! Bye... Dirk Won't happen again. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT CAPS LOCK? AM I MISSING SOMETHING. I REALLY DON'T GET THE JOKE! It's not a joke, and we are being quite serious, but in a light-hearted way. Typing all in caps on a public internet forum is about the rudest thing you could do -it means you are shouting in a rage. You obviously don't know this yet, so in future when you post to such a list as this, please disengage your Caps Lock and type your messages in the proper English capitalizations. sorry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
David Blamire-Brown wrote: Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the printer. I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP laptop. Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide on using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a brief Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. I would think Samba would be more an option for when you already have a Windows/Samba domain running for the network that everyone authenticates through. Granted, as another poster provided, you can enable public/guest access, which would make it like a Win9x/Me printer share though XP should do fine with it. However, I think CUPS/IPP would be a better option. It's very easy to configure (I just followed the Gentoo guide for it). And it makes it very easy to install on any Windows system. If you have CUPS configured properly, you can even have it provide the drivers automatically to the Windows systems - I haven't tried that yet. It really impressed me how quick and easy it was to install CUPS - both on other Linux systems and on Windows. There is a Samba/CUPS guide, so I think you can even mix the two a bit. There is also one other issue to consider - AFAIK, the SMB protocol does not do spooling - so you could get job conflicts, while IPP makes the printer a true network printer running via a print server (e.g. CUPS) so it has spooling inherent to it. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong on this.) So you'll be safer using IPP. I have worked in environments where printers were shared similarly - no print server - and it causes problems when two people try to print something at near the same time; the printer will ignore one job, or switch jobs in the middle - never predictable what it would do, though I think ignoring jobs was what primarily happened. It's a pain - and that's even with printers that had built in network interfaces. Just something to consider. Ben -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-03-18, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. Maybe he didn't spend the extra money for the lowercase option on his ADM3 terminal... Grant That made me giggle -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:45, Michael Schmarck wrote: Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? UK residents can buy from the iTunes store, as I would imagine can residents of many other European countries. I went ahead and downloaded iTunes 7.6 and ran it with Wine 0.9.57. When I start iTunes (in Wine), it connects me to the US store. Although there's a link to change to other stores (like Switzerland), this action does not work - ie. even after changing to Switzerland, I'm still at the US store. Can a European (or rather a Swiss person, as I'm living in Switzerland) buy from the US store? Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list FANN -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT]nfs question
Hi list! I want to share my files in my lan with various files systems. I've tried so far sshfs and now nfs but both have the following issue: should the router/hub go down, or one of participants to my inner-circle sharing buddies close their pc, neither of the rest can enter home...we all have the nfs/sshfs mounted in /home/user/otheruserdir. I tried restarting nfs/nfsmount nothing. Umounting will not work because umount.nfs: Server failed to unmount '10.6.3.41:/home/cuci' umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: /home/iosz/temp: device is busy --as an example. And lsof gets stuck. Any ideas on how to avoid this? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Initrd-script questions
Hi list! I'd like to have some advice on my situation: I have a custom init-script (derived from genkernel). What it already does is to let gpg ask for a passphrase to decrypt a file on /boot and then to use to content of that file as the key to a LUKS-formatted swap (logical volume) which is then used to resume from disk. What I would also like to do is to use the very same key for other lvm-volumes like /var and /var/tmp but that doesn't seem that easy. First idea: Just do the same as with the swap-volume. However, all other mappings are gone after resuming/booting. Second idea: Write the plaintext-keyfile to /boot and then use it via /etc/conf.d/cryptfs before removing it in a secure manner (srm, provided by app-misc/secure-delete). Problem: When resuming, /boot is already mounted. Writing to it and then resuming leads to filesystem corruption. Third idea: Using a dedicated volume for storing the plaintext key. Cumbersome, doesn't reduce the risk that srm isn't enough to protect the key. So ... what I'd need is a way to transfer data between an initial ramdisk and the real init. Ideally in form of tmpfs-mountpoint. I don't think my odds are very high but I just wanted to ask... Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]nfs question
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 18:37 +0200, ionut cucu wrote: Hi list! I want to share my files in my lan with various files systems. I've tried so far sshfs and now nfs but both have the following issue: should the router/hub go down, or one of participants to my inner-circle sharing buddies close their pc, neither of the rest can enter home...we all have the nfs/sshfs mounted in /home/user/otheruserdir. I tried restarting nfs/nfsmount nothing. Umounting will not work because umount.nfs: Server failed to unmount '10.6.3.41:/home/cuci' umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: /home/iosz/temp: device is busy --as an example. And lsof gets stuck. Any ideas on how to avoid this? Try to use Coda. It's designed keep on working when you disconnect. However, I can't give you any support on it. I just know that it is capable of doing so. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Squid configuration include
Hi! i need to include a file in squid.conf because i need to divide the squid.conf file in two parts and export one of this to other servers...how can i do this? This included file will contain all the cal and rules for squid. Many thanks!
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]nfs question
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:37:52 +0200, ionut cucu wrote: I tried restarting nfs/nfsmount nothing. Umounting will not work because umount.nfs: Server failed to unmount '10.6.3.41:/home/cuci' umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: /home/iosz/temp: device is busy --as an example. And lsof gets stuck. Any ideas on how to avoid this? Use umount -l to avoid this. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, when his spliff went out. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Initrd-script questions
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:56:30 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Third idea: Using a dedicated volume for storing the plaintext key. Cumbersome, doesn't reduce the risk that srm isn't enough to protect the key. You could use an encrypted volume to store the key. Your init script asks for the key for that volume, then all other volumes use key(s) stored on that volume. I do this, but have no idea how it will work with suspend. -- Neil Bothwick Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
On mar, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(. Same here with VirtualBox. ITunes works fine for the ipod too. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:43 AM, andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On mar, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(. Same here with VirtualBox. ITunes works fine for the ipod too. Older versions of iTuens run OK under Codeweavers. I haven't kept up my subscription of Crossover Office as it's just far easier to use iTunes for purchases under Windows. Mostly I don't buy much from them as I don't like the sound of their encoding but it works great for keeping my kid happy. I tend to use iTunes to rip my CDs in Apple's lossless encoder as that format is supported in Windows and OSX as well as Aqualung on Linux. If I don't use iTunes to rip then I do it in Linux using K3b. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]nfs question
perhaps the soft mount option for nfs could help look in the man page On 3/18/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:37:52 +0200, ionut cucu wrote: I tried restarting nfs/nfsmount nothing. Umounting will not work because umount.nfs: Server failed to unmount '10.6.3.41:/home/cuci' umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: /home/iosz/temp: device is busy --as an example. And lsof gets stuck. Any ideas on how to avoid this? Use umount -l to avoid this. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, when his spliff went out. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?
* brullo nulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I equeried dcopidl, and dcopidl belongs to kdelibs itself! What does it mean? Simple: KDE folks still aren't confident with the concept of modularity (even it's an standard pattern since about 50 years) ;-P BTW: if libexpat.so.0 was there before the update and now isn't, there's an major bug in expat (either the ebuild or the source). I don't know if the Gentoo QM policies say that those bugs have to be fixed or relying on the revdep-rebuild workaround is enough. In the first case, you should file a bug. Otherwise could leave it out to save yourself from personal rants ;-o cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ - -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] graphic card driver status
* Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking about upgrading my parent's PC's graphic card because I have driver issues with their old Nvidia GF-2 MX which prevent me of using the closed source driver. Try to sell it to someone who's dumb enough to take it ;-O Now I want to ask: What's the status of the ATI drivers? Does the free driver support 3D-acceleration on newer cards? Is the closed source driver still such a pain to setup? Proprietary drivers always suck. I'd suggest not wasting time with them. For the status of the free drivers, you could ask the Xorg folks directly. How about VIA or Matrox? No idea about matrox, but via always worked fine for me. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ - -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
Hi In my system I didn't bother with any of embedded file systems - I've created 1 GB ext2 partition (journalising in ext3 increases read/write count), and it worked just like any other hard drive. Bios detected correct capacity - I was lucky with that, but in case where BIOS doesn't detect CF card properly google is Your friend. I don't have all doc I've used during setup but I remember reading this one http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-cf.html regards Stroller pisze: On 18 Mar 2008, at 10:33, Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:47 +, Stroller wrote: On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards talk IDE. Yes they are. Another thought crossed my mind today: Does wear leveling work if I create loopback devices (ext2-formatted) on FAT32? Surely so. In this case you would be writing to the flash device's FAT32 filessystem. It doesn't matter if you're writing a .RAW picture file, an .iso or your loopback fs. By the way: Why is wear leveling filesystem-dependent anyway? No idea. Please note that in this thread I have stated that I _understand_ wear-levelling to be filesystem-dependent - it is others who have made replies stating this more confidently. I would have thought it were working on blocks (like device mapper, cryptsetup, lvm and so on) and not on files. Ah! But here we come back to the problem of recording how many times a given block has been written upon, in order not to kill that block. Most filesystems don't have to do that. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PRELINK: Filters not supported with LD_TRACE_PRELINKING: Invalid argument'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HI all, I am just noticed some output from *prelink* and I couldn't explain the error message: *prelink*: /usr/bin/hklplot: Could not parse `/usr/bin/hklplot: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libccif.so: Filters not supported with LD_TRACE_PRELINKING: Invalid argument' Can anyone tell me what this is about. How can it be solved apart from adding it to PRELINK_PATH_MASK. Thanks, Justin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4BF/gAnW8HDreRYRAuxHAJ4nGlrgU/aukhNuCaSU0w9g3Dl1DACgkmPS IikQ63tfVhdr1CW7U3CNJ2o= =62+y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On 2008-03-18, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? No, afraid not. But I do know a good howto that tells you where the Caps Lock key is and how to press it. Maybe he didn't spend the extra money for the lowercase option on his ADM3 terminal... I got a bit curious and found this web page: http://www.decodesystems.com/lsi-adm3-kit.html I used quite a few of those terminals when I was in Univeristy. They didn't have a microprocessor: just a big board chock-full of 7400-series ttl logic and a 40-pin UART over in the corner. It must have been later that the ADM3a came out with lower-case support. That was plush (though a bit ugly, since I think it was still 5x7 without descenders). There are some better ADM3 pictures at http://www.thepcmuseum.net/hardware.php The ones I remember were the smaller without the numeric keypad (with the little brightness knob above the keyboard on the right-hand side). Except we had really ugly light-blue ones... -- Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Leadtek WinFast DTV USB Dingle
Hello, I'm trying to push to work *subject*. I follow this (the method a): http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Gentoo_DVB_driver I have couple of question to this: 1) cannot find these kernel setups: - Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly - Hotplug firmware loading support - Initial RAM disk (initrd) support (is that one necessary?) - /dev/nvram support (can found, but cannot enable it) 2) there's noted (enable every module in here) is that realy necessary? 3) there's necessary to setup DVB_CARDS which one to enable? Or is there an easier way to do this? :-) Thanks a lot for all help Pat -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed increase but probably only in certain areas such as compiling. So, for those users who have used both, is it worth it overall? Here are my experiences with amd64, I just helped a friend installing it. After reading here we thought it might not be worth the potential trouble, but this many registers not being used just feels a little bad. And she does mpeg encodings frequently, which is one thing that should work faster. First peoblem was the minimal Gentoo boot CD. It hang, I think when mounting the root FS from the squashfs image on CD. I thought I had a faulty CD-RW medium, but a second ttempt with a new CD-ROM gave the same result. But there was a kubunto install CD with 64 bit support. We had trouble with grub. Tab completion did not work, in and outside the chroot. I did not dare to install, because there were other disks I did not want to endanger. I found and emerged grub-static then, which automatically installed into /boot, but something went wrong and grub only showed a GRUB message. I installed gurb manually (root (hd0,0), setup (hd0)), and all was fine then. BTW, the manual says that grub-static is only needed when you are on the multilib profile. I think I am (/etc/make.profile is $PORTDIR/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0(desktop), but emerge --info does not show the multilib use flag, which I have defined in make.conf. Huh? But it seems that if I were not on multilib, grub would have been masked and refused to build. Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink that to somewhere else. But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? I would expect this to be around 30 MB, which is double the size of these directories on my other system, but even ten times more than that? Is something wrong here? The installation handbook does not mention this, and also suggest a small root partition. The examplee shows 132 MB used there, this looks okay to me. Flash does not work (yet). I emerged netscape-flash and and nspluginwrapper, but firefox and konqueror do not have flash working. Did not investigate this further yet. OpenGL works with software rendering only. The card is a Radeon X1550 / RV505 and should be supported by the ati-drivers. Module fglrx loads, but when starting X, I get this error: (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering I did not find much helpfun information on this yet. One hint is to disable Option AIGLX in ServerFlags section of xorg.conf. This gets rid of the mesage, and I have dirent rendering enabled in the X log file, but glrxinfo shows this: libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2) Any ideas on that? We do not want the radeon driver because things like multiple displays and tv-out are not working well, I read. I tried anyway, I could modprobe radeon, but cannnot start X because a missing device section for the 2nd BusID. Maybe I should specify this in xorg.conf (I tried a little but to no avail), or get a fresh config instead of one from another boot CD. But X -configure does not work. X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux tanja 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 #9 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 17 15:14:45 CET 2008 x86_64 Build Date: 16 March 2008 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Mar 18 22:02:27 2008 List of video drivers: radeonhd ati r128 atimisc fglrx radeon vesa Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x47cd4d] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2b7db9a29430] 2: /lib/libc.so.6(memcpy+0x46) [0x2b7db9a6e916] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxProbeMain+0xf1) [0x2b7dba934731] 4: X(DoConfigure+0x1f5) [0x47a955] 5: X(InitOutput+0x6a5) [0x468025] 6: X(main+0x275)
[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Can't get trackball scroll to work
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 16:04 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to follow http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-414623-highlight-emulatewheelbutton.html . AFAIK, I'm using the same trackball the author is using, but I can't get mine to scroll. I can't even figure out which button is button #4. I've altered my configuration to the one the author suggested, and restarted X, but whenever I try to scroll, although it does scroll (sort of), it highlights everything. I don't want that. I'm running x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5 . The trackball is a Logitech Marble Trackball... Nevermind. It's because I'm running xorg-x11-7.1 and the forum tip doesn't work with xorg-x11-7 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Can't get trackball scroll to work
I'm trying to follow http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-414623-highlight-emulatewheelbutton.html . AFAIK, I'm using the same trackball the author is using, but I can't get mine to scroll. I can't even figure out which button is button #4. I've altered my configuration to the one the author suggested, and restarted X, but whenever I try to scroll, although it does scroll (sort of), it highlights everything. I don't want that. I'm running x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5 . The trackball is a Logitech Marble Trackball... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
Alex Schuster wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed increase but probably only in certain areas such as compiling. So, for those users who have used both, is it worth it overall? Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink that to somewhere else. But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? I would expect this to be around 30 MB, which is double the size of these directories on my other system, but even ten times more than that? Is something wrong here? The installation handbook does not mention this, and also suggest a small root partition. The examplee shows 132 MB used there, this looks okay to me. Here's my FS setup from df: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 9.4G 7.2G 1.8G 81% / /dev/hdb2 471M 27M 420M 7% /boot /dev/hda2 31G 3.7G 25G 13% /usr/portage /dev/mapper/vg_tmp4.0G 154M 3.6G 5% /tmp /dev/mapper/vg_var 11G 518M 9.8G 5% /var /dev/mapper/vg_usr9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /usr/local /dev/mapper/vg_opt9.9G 505M 8.9G 6% /opt /dev/mapper/vg_home30G 26G 2.1G 93% /home I have a few other partitions for things too, but the above covers the normal and essential. Additionally I have a couple gigs of swap space. YMMV I also checked my lib size - which is about 53MB for /lib64, and 4.3MB for /lib32. /usr (including sub-mounts, e.g. local and portage) comes out to 11GB. /opt is 335 MB, and /var is 309 MB. So I don't know what went wrong for you. Flash does not work (yet). I emerged netscape-flash and and nspluginwrapper, but firefox and konqueror do not have flash working. Did not investigate this further yet. I've only really been able to get Flash working with the 32-bit Firefox binary. It will randomly work in the 64-bit Firefox build for some reason, but nothing consistent - and when it does, only one web page can use it at a time - not multi-tabs each with their own flash. Perhaps that's just a result of the nswrapper-plugin to make the 32-bit and 64-bit work together...not sure. Any how...overall, it runs really well. I can't offer any advice on the video issues. Ben -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink that to somewhere else. You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me. But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m? % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r) 9.9M/lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3 Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config. % df -h / FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 reiserfs385M 189M 196M 50% / That includes /boot with two kernels. -- Neil Bothwick A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 08:08:22 am Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? Hi Gavin, What would you do with a neural net? You've got me interested. For a long time now, I've been wanting to write a smart piece of software that would take in answers to a bunch of questions and generate some sort of diagnosis. It would be used to aid repair tech's in diagnosis hardware failure. Something to refer to, perhaps to get some training from it also. Is that what you've got in mind? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink that to somewhere else. You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me. But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m? % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r) 9.9M/lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3 $ du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r) 19M/lib/modules/2.6.23-gentoo-r6 Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config. % df -h / FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 reiserfs385M 189M 196M 50% / FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 8.1G 1.3G 87% / That includes everything except /home. That includes /boot with two kernels. I haven't run into any significant problems with x86_64. To use flash and shockwave I just use wine and the windows version of Firefox, it works perfectly for me. Everything else I've tried either works, or has a suitable alternative that I don't mind using, but this rarely happens. -Hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:29 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ? Here it is: Evaluating package order... Warning: Failed to resolve package order. Will merge in random order! Possible reasons: - An ebuild is no longer in the portage tree. - An ebuild is masked, use /etc/portage/packages.keyword and/or /etc/portage/package.unmask to unmask it . done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order) emerge =gentoolkit-0.2.4_rc3 and see what revdep-rebuild gives with that version. Unfortunately, the --package-names in gentoolkit-0.2.3 doesn't work correctly, which causes problems with rebuilding after the expat upgrade. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Squid configuration include
Hi! i need to include a file in squid.conf because i need to divide the squid.conf file in two parts and export one of this to other servers...how can i do this? This included file will contain all the cal and rules for squid. You can refer to external files in some of the directives, so that might be good enough. From squid.conf; # TAG: acl # Defining an Access List # # acl aclname acltype string1 ... # acl aclname acltype file ... # # when using file, the file should contain one item per line -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Network problem: following gentoo diskless howto for PXE diskless systems
Hi, I am following the gentoo diskless howto for PXE diskless systems but I cant seem to stop the slave from restarting its network partway through and losing its root fs (if I have the problem correct). I am using config_eth0=( noop ) as suggested in the howto but the network still seems to startup, getting a new dhcp lease with a blank rootpath=, after which init fails: #_ ip-config: Complete: device= ... lot of text that looks ok ... bootserver=192.168.1.1, rootserver=192.168.1.1,rootpath= ... VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly ... kernel panic: - not syncing: No init found. Try passing ... #_ Hints? BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
