Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater
* Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 03:20]:
I did some updates today. emerge --sync and updated world on my
production machine. Things went OK, including running python-updater.
Then I scp'd the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles over to my hot
backup machine, ran emerge --sync (pointing at my production machine)
and updated. Just like on the main machine, /var/log/portage/elog had
an advisory to run python-updater. This time, it didn't work...
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d531 elog # /usr/sbin/python-updater
* Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 :
* Adding to list: =sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.10
* Adding to list: =net-mail/getmail-4.7.6
* Adding to list: =app-office/gnumeric-1.8.2
* Adding to list: =dev-java/java-config-1.3.7
* Adding to list: =dev-java/java-config-2.1.6
* Adding to list: =dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1
* Adding to list: =dev-python/docutils-0.4-r3
* Adding to list: =dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc7-r1
* Adding to list: =dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies \
!!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been
!!! pulled into the dependency graph:
dev-python/setuptools:0
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc7-r1', 'merge') (no
parents)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1', 'merge') pulled in
by
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/docutils-0.4-r3', 'merge')
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Masking out =dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc7-r1 didn't work, so I'm
considering removing it. Having been burned before when unmerging
core-utils (OUCH!!!) I thought I'd ask here before doing anything
stupid. How do I get around this python-updater problem?
Just make an
# emerge -1 setuptools
and python-updater will run smoothly
If you are using gnome, also
# emerge -1 gnome-doc-utils
I hit the same bugs yesterday.
The second one is because python-updater seems to miss it and you would
get a snadbox violation.
HTH
Sebastian
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem
SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 According to this if you want to mount tour USB drive, you should use /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/usb On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a file called /dev/usb ? On my system they have longer names. What does ls /dev/usb* show? allan -- It shows: /dev/usbdev1.1_ep00 /dev/usbdev1.2_ep81 /dev/usbdev3.1_ep81 /dev/usbdev1.1_ep81 /dev/usbdev2.1_ep00 /dev/usbdev4.1_ep00 /dev/usbdev1.2_ep00 /dev/usbdev2.1_ep81 /dev/usbdev4.1_ep81 /dev/usbdev1.2_ep02 /dev/usbdev3.1_ep00 Regards, Norman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:49:39 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: When ordering items by name, a separate and distinct sequence is scene for A-Z before the sequence for a-z. This is the expected behavior. What might i need to look up to intermix [Aa]-[Zz]? That depends on what you are using to do the sort. The sort command uses the -f option for case-insensitive sorting. Bash has an option to handle this when presenting files that match a pattern, like *, see the man page. A more detailed question will elicit a more detailed answer. -- Neil Bothwick Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting
* Mark David Dumlao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 01:51]: When ordering items by name, a separate and distinct sequence is scene for A-Z before the sequence for a-z. This is the expected behavior. What might i need to look up to intermix [Aa]-[Zz]? Maybe should state in what application you are trying to sort... Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpb3kWxpaAN5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem
* Norman Hakim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 06:24]: From: Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 10:56 PM Hi all, I have problem regarding mounting my usb thumbdrive. I have tried to add this line to /etc/fstab: echo /dev/usb /mnt/usb auto noauto,rw,user /etc/fstab After i mount it: mount /dev/usb No wonder, this device node is unknown to the system. It shows there is no mount point for /dev/usb I wonder is it this is the correct line that i should put into /etc/fstab? Or should i post the output of dmesg here? Regards, Norman This is the output: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Here it states that it has the /dev/sda1 node sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda usb-storage: device scan complete sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 So the correct line for fstab is left as an exercise. And some warning in advance: The device node may change if you use multiple thumbdrives. For giving the thumbdrive a permanent node, refer to some HowTo on writing udev rules. HTH Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpAPIuOrfOn7.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop
Hello all I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? Also, I would appreciate if someone could give me some of yours make.conf's you use on laptop. Thanks -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.ba
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 According to this if you want to mount tour USB drive, you should use /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/usb That is likely to break if he puts two usb devices in the system and inserts them in the wrong order to what he usually does Rather mount by fs LABEL on the device or it's GUID. First column in /etc/fstab: LABEL=MY_FS_LABEL GUID=VERY_LONG_GUID_GOES_HERE Personally, I feel fstab is the wrong place for pluggable filesystems. Rather use automounting daemons like ivman, or the desktop environment, for this purpose and leave only fixed disks in fstab that are not likely to change -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello all I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? Also, I would appreciate if someone could give me some of yours make.conf's you use on laptop. Thanks gentoo-sources is fine for laptops. What do you have in your laptop that makes you think some other patches will perform better? Someone else's make.conf is not going to help you much, it's way to customized for each machine. You could start by copying the one you already have on your desktop and working from there. It's what I do, the only things I change are the arch and the cpu-specific USE flags (things like mmx, sse) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast
Hi all, revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds as opposed to the 5 minutes or so it used to take ! I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast
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Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello all I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? Also, I would appreciate if someone could give me some of yours make.conf's you use on laptop. Thanks gentoo-sources is fine for laptops. What do you have in your laptop that makes you think some other patches will perform better? Someone else's make.conf is not going to help you much, it's way to customized for each machine. You could start by copying the one you already have on your desktop and working from there. It's what I do, the only things I change are the arch and the cpu-specific USE flags (things like mmx, sse) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list If you need advanced hibernate and suspend functions tuxonice-sources are fine too. -- Momesso Andrea
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem
* Alan McKinnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 09:19]: Rather mount by fs LABEL on the device or it's GUID. First column in /etc/fstab: LABEL=MY_FS_LABEL GUID=VERY_LONG_GUID_GOES_HERE Personally, I feel fstab is the wrong place for pluggable filesystems. Rather use automounting daemons like ivman, or the desktop environment, for this purpose and leave only fixed disks in fstab that are not likely to change but ivman does it in kind of a dumb manner: plugin first usb drive - mount point /mount/sda* plugin second usb drive - mount point /mount/sdb* unplug both plugin second usb drive - mount point /mount/sda* ! This can get confusing, if do not always use GUIs. If you give udev a rule to symlink the thumbdrive to something like /dev/first and add a line /dev/first /media/first, ivman will always use that mount point. If you have your boot partition on a thumbdrive you will appriciate this behavior. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpv92B5Ar7Uh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please.
Hi, Sebastian!
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:39:32PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote:
* Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.07.08 23:00]:
[ ]
Except I've hit a brick wall. I want to set up my console keyboard,
so I go to edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps, as described in the x86
Handbook.
Maybe you have just what the Germans call Ein Brett vorm Kopf
Hah! That reminds me of a Monty Python sketch involving monks. :-)
#
# Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete
tree
# of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from.
KEYMAP=uk
#
This is aggravatingly vague. I cannot find anything to tell me _HOW_ to
Use KEYMAP to specify Somehow, my current setting of uk seems
to find and load an appropriate keymap, perhaps
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz.
KEYMAP is just a env var which holds the arguments for loadkeys. And for
sure it finds this keymap. And this is by far not vague. See below.
So the question is how do I get the system to load up my own special
keymap, currently called boottime.keymap.gz on my Debian system?
Where must I write this file so that it gets loaded? Where do I find
the documentation telling where to write this file?
I've delved into /etc/init.d/keymaps (a runscript shell), but it
appears merely to use ${KEYMAP}. I cannot see how this script manages to
find a filename out of uk. Presumably the interpreter /sbin/runscript
runs the find command, somehow. But I can't find any documentation for
runscript.
Keymaps are loaded with loadkeys. man loadkeys gives the glory details.
(there is also a hint how to set this as kernel keymap ;-))
Ah, loadkeys, my old friend! I confess I'd not looked at man loadkeys
for around 5 years. It's changed.
It searches in /usr/share/keymaps for the string.
Ah! I've not seen this in *nix before, giving a filename fragment and
having the system DWIM. I'm not sure I like it.
As you may have noticed all keymaps differ before the .map.gz. So it
should go smoothly, if you put your keymap in any folder, an appropiate
for sanity, and rename it to something unique, a la
my-own-nifty.map.gz.
Test it with
# loadkeys my-own-nifty
Yes, it works. I should have just tried it.
How do I set my keyboard layout?
loadkeys
Thanks! It now works.
Sebastian
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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast
On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds as opposed to the 5 minutes or so it used to take ! I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? or you are a victim of that new preserved-libs stuff in portage -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems
On Friday 18 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: [...] For some reason on the 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 kernel the xf86-video-ati fails to install any modules, hence this message. I haven't configured this box for ages so I may be misunderstanding something here. Do I have to switch to the kernel drivers? You need to compile a kernel with DRM + ATI Radeon support. If you're not running this kernel in more than one machine, you can compile it in the kernel; no reason to make it a module. If you intent to also try the proprietary driver, then you need to make it a module (because this driver provides its own DRM module.) Right, found it - for some reason I had not emerged x11-base/x11-drm, which places the radeon.ko under /lib/modules/kernel_name/x11-drm/ module-rebuild would pick this up of course, but I suspect I hadn't run it after I compiled a kernel last time. Better make a note of this for the future! Thank you all for your help. :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:17:39 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? tuxonice-sources, which is gentoo-sources plus the tuxonice suspend/hibernate patches. -- Neil Bothwick Politicians are like nappies Both should be changed regularly, and for the same reason signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem
080718 Norman Hakim wrote: I have problem regarding mounting my usb thumbdrive. I have tried to add this line to /etc/fstab: echo /dev/usb /mnt/usb auto noauto,rw,user /etc/fstab I have '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0'. This is ok as long as I use only 1 USB stick at the same time: Udev creates /dev/sdb1 when the stick is inserted would create /dev/sdb2 etc if there were 1 , so that would require additional lines in 'fstab'. After i mount it with 'mount /dev/usb' it shows there is no mount point for /dev/usb I 'mount /dev/usb1 /mnt/usb' from the root command-line: there is already a dir /mnt/usb , which I created earlier, 'umask=000' in 'fstab' ensures I can access the stick as user. Once I have mounted the stick like this, I can read/write to it from my user's command-line or use Krusader with it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried connecting to a MSWindows RealVNC server with krdc and I remember that I couldn't login. It could be latency across the pond, or network traffic causing the login to time out. Eventually I ran out of patience/time and decided to remove the login passwd and instead lock down access to the RealVNC, MSWindows box and its network, from my IP address only. Sounds like this is in the opposite direction from what I'm talking about. I'm not experiencing any problems connecting with linux client to windows server (tightvnc both ends). I'm not sure what `krdc' that you mention, is, but would suggest you try tightvnc on both ends. It worked for me with no problems. However trying to connect with windows (tightVnc) client to Linux (tightVNc) server fails for me without any log info or debug info whatever. Makes it hard to see how to debug the problem. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
David Blamire-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it, but I do remember that it worked. Well at least that sounds promising. I did see mention of that in some of my google searches but I wondered, If I had to use ssh, why wouldn't I just pull the X session on linux across with ssh alone. And forget about VNC. I think I've heard that can be doneI think I may have even done it sometime way back, but VNC is so easy the other direction it seems it should be just as easy connecting windows vnc client to gentoo vnc server. For some reason the vnc server appears not to have any debug or verbose switches. But not sure even if it did, since it appears the connection is simply rejected, if that would help. I'd like to see some log info as to why the connection is rejected. I have sysklogd setup to report everything (*.* in syslog.conf) to a /var/log/debug file so tailing that while I attempt the connection I'm not seeing any evidence a connection is being rejected or even seen. Seems there should be some way to see what is happening maybe from the windows side but again no log info is being generated. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater
At Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:00:04 +0200 Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 03:20]: I did some updates today. emerge --sync and updated world on my production machine. Things went OK, including running python-updater. Then I scp'd the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles over to my hot backup machine, ran emerge --sync (pointing at my production machine) and updated. Just like on the main machine, /var/log/portage/elog had an advisory to run python-updater. This time, it didn't work... Just make an # emerge -1 setuptools and python-updater will run smoothly If you are using gnome, also # emerge -1 gnome-doc-utils I hit the same bugs yesterday. The second one is because python-updater seems to miss it and you would get a snadbox violation. How nice to receive a *pro*active fix. I read your mail while my python-updater was running. It then failed just as walter's and yours did. I applied your fix and ... ... voila, all is well. Thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today Installed it, and the problem is solved - thanks! -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch Summary: Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru the the KVM switch. Details: I've run a: Model: GCS-138 8-Port Iomega MiniView Ultra KVM Switch (ps/2 based) for at least 3 yrs and had no problems with gentoo recognizing mouse and keyboard, along with several PCs running windows. It was a ps/2 model of KVM. That KVM switch gave up the ghost and I've replaced it with a newer model: Model: GCS-1774 4-Port Iomega miniview `Symphony' (usb2 based) The specialized cables merge 2 usb, 1 mic, 1 speaker wires with the vga cable. On my windows PCs I can plug the KVMs keyboard and mouse usb plugs anywhere I have USB ports on the machine, but only the vga plugs into the Iomega (disregarding the audio cables for now) Then of course the monitors vga cable and a usb mouse and keyboard must be plugged into the Iomega as well. With that in place all windows PCs work thru the kvm switch but trying the same connections on my gentoo desktop I get the vga signal but no mouse or keyboard. That was with the KVMs usb cables plugged into two built in usb ports on the machine. I even tried converting the ps/2 keyboard and mouse ports on the machine to usb with adapters and plugging the KVM usb cables into that but still no soap. I don't know if I've ever really seen what keyboard or mouse recognition looks like in dmesg but looking there I see nothing I recognize as related to mouse or keyboard. Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? Anyone have an idea how I might debug this. Or that can tell me what I should be looking for in dmesg output? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble tweaking KDE package six
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:45:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It involves a new target in Makefile.am, but if I run a new 'automake' I get a Makefile.in which is _very_ different from the old one, and won't even compile the old target. Most obviously, a bunch of *.moc targets are not generated. The Makefile has some references to 'automoc', but that does not seem to be an executable or package in Gentoo (but if I'm reading it right, it is a package in Ubuntu). http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/moc.html seems to be Meta object compiler, a Qt thing. The ebuild x11-libs/qt seems to provide /usr/bin/moc, haven't found automoc (as an executable at least). I have a book on autotools, but have only used them, not configured them. I have a book on Qt (apropos of moc and automoc), but have never written Qt code. My tweak is for a non-GUI alternative, so I was hoping that the GUI stuff would just keep working and not bother me. KDE itself seems to be largely lacking in programming docs (or I just missed it), although there a a few short tutorials. See above, http://doc.trolltech.com has tons of (professionally written and maintained) documentation on Qt and everything around it. I'm not looking for answers (my questions may not yet be well-enough formulated for that), but pointers to resources. Of course, if anyone has answers, or can guide me, that would be welcome too. wikipedia Qt/moc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28toolkit%29#Meta_object_compiler the famous autobook on autotools: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ as well as the links above is all I have found just now. Hope this helps. Good Luck, Patric. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: However trying to connect with windows (tightVnc) client to Linux (tightVNc) server fails for me without any log info or debug info whatever. Makes it hard to see how to debug the problem. Have you checked the Linux firewall settings? Have you set the allow/deny or whatever access settings Linux TightVNC has in place correctly for your client's IP address? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: tuxonice-sources, which is gentoo-sources plus the tuxonice suspend/hibernate patches. I read the default site: http://www.tuxonice.net. Interestingly, I found this dysfunctional url using 'eix tuxonice': http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Any other locations where one can read up on this tuxonice, gentoo style offering? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:12 + (UTC), James wrote: Interestingly, I found this dysfunctional url using 'eix tuxonice': http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Those are two quite functional URLs -- Neil Bothwick Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Those are two quite functional URLs Must have been some transient error. Now I find it. Thanks James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
Harry Putnam wrote: Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both types terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using the USB option and didn't have to do anything, it just worked. I do have USB HID support compiled into the kernel, though. Do you? Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Sebastian G?nther wrote Just make an # emerge -1 setuptools and python-updater will run smoothly Thank you very much. That fixed things up -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
Harry Putnam wrote: KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch Summary: Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru the the KVM switch. Make sure you have USB Hid support compiled into the kernel (along with any other relevant options you see like USB Keyboard/Mouse support. Also, see if the BIOS setup of your mainboard has a USB Keyboard support option and if enabling it/disabling it makes a difference. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
I installed Gentoo recently, and have the following problem: In xterm I cannot see non-ASCII chars, when I 'cat' a file with UTF-8 characters, garbage comes out. In other applications (gnumeric, firefox), UTF-8 functions correctly. How to fix it? When I start another XTerm from one XTerm, I see this message in the old XTerm: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Some diags: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_ALL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale -a C en_DK.utf8 POSIX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/locale.gen | grep -v ^# en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I re-emerged xterm, x11-libs/libX11, glibc, but didn't help. Any ideas? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop
James pisze: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Those are two quite functional URLs Must have been some transient error. Now I find it. Thanks James Although these sources have some potential, I still am unable to boot into linux when running on battery, on AC everything works fine. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes, there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. What does special device mean here? Does it mean the physcial hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver in the kernel, or what? What is special about my DVD writer? Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I made one with # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 . This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). My kernel is an up to date linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives? Thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes, there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. What does special device mean here? Does it mean the physcial hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver in the kernel, or what? What is special about my DVD writer? /dev/hdc (and other files in /dev) are not called files, they're called special devices). Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I made one with # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 . This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). Use /dev/sdc instead of /dev/hdc. The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). Maybe there was some /dev/sda /dev/sdb or something similar? Why do you assume your drive is under /dev/hdx and not /dev/sdx ? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
Hi, Gentoo?
I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special
optimiesed keyboard layout. :-)
However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them
works, because I installed Gentoo from it.
When I do
mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
, it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes,
there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists.
Do you mean
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
What does special device mean here? Does it mean the physcial
hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver
in the kernel, or what? What is special about my DVD writer?
It means the directory entry /dev/hdc.
Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I
made one with
# mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
. This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no
mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard
drives are (don't ask!)).
Can't resist what is on hd{a-f}
My kernel is an up to date linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got
all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest
how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives?
Thanks in advance!
What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it
wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata
library in the kernel even IDE devices are under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Curious ping problem with no FW
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm asking for here is advice about where to start debugging this. How about running tcpdump on your outgoing ethernet interface while running ping? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
I did an update yesterday that pulled in, amongst other things,
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1
I'm running 32-bit linux on an Intel Prescott. The video card is
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
(rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
Memory at fdef (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fde0 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
I prefer to run usenet and email on a real textmode console, at 80
columns x 48 rows (YES; fourty-eight). For web-browsing or spreadsheets,
I have to flip over to X.
- if I walk away from the machine for several minutes *WHEN IT'S IN
TEXT CONSOLE MODE* and the screensaver kicks in, I can get the
screen back by hitting the shift key, or whatever.
- if I walk away from the machine for several minutes *WHEN IT'S IN
X11 GUI MODE* and the screensaver kicks in, I *CANNOT* get the
screen back by hitting the shift key, or whatever. Even hitting
{CTRL-ALT-F1} (back to the text console) doesn't allow me to get the
screen back by hitting a key. I have to monkey around with the
buttons on my LCD monitor, essentially switching from the DVI input
to the VGA input, and back. This is a pain. Is there any way to
turn off this behaviour?
Another thing I noticed is that X11 spits out a whole bunch of garbage
on the tty that invoked it. I do not have TV or any other special video
stuff. A 24 1920x1600 LCD is enough for me. Here is a sample of the
output on the tty that invokes X11...
best_post_div: 2
restore memmap
restore common
restore crtc1
restore pll1
finished PLL1
restore FP
enable montype: 3
enable montype: 3
disable montype: 3
finished PLL2
finished PLL1
Entering Restore TV
Restore TV PLL
Restore TVHV
Restore TV Restarts
Restore Timing Tables
Restore TV standard
Leaving Restore TV
disable montype: 3
init memmap
init common
init crtc1
init pll1
freq: 15400
best_freq: 15400
best_feedback_div: 308
best_ref_div: 27
best_post_div: 2
restore memmap
restore common
restore crtc1
restore pll1
finished PLL1
restore FP
enable montype: 3
enable montype: 3
disable montype: 3
finished PLL2
finished PLL1
Entering Restore TV
Restore TV PLL
Restore TVHV
Restore TV Restarts
Restore Timing Tables
Restore TV standard
Leaving Restore TV
--
Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop
* dexter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 20:44]: Although these sources have some potential, I still am unable to boot into linux when running on battery, on AC everything works fine. Strange problem... but I would think it to be more a hardware problem. Did you ever tried to use a gentoo-source-kernel and experienced teh same problem? I have abolutely no problem with the tuxonice-sources. booting, suspending, resuming: everything on ac or battery, no problem. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgprBDLehrBeT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
How about: not using screensavers at all? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Am Samstag, 19. Juli 2008 schrieb Miernik: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Some diags: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale -a en_DK.utf8 And you don't see the difference? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A ps -ef doesn't show any process with screen in the name. Man x and man xorg don't help. I'm running blackbox, so I don't have a gazillion settings widgets (nothing helpful in man blackbox). How can I find what program is blanking the screen? Once I do that, I can either set parameters or disable it. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Hi, Nikos, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:06:15PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes, there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. What does special device mean here? Does it mean the physcial hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver in the kernel, or what? What is special about my DVD writer? /dev/hdc (and other files in /dev) are not called files, they're called special devices). Ah! I really wish they weren't. Didn't they used to be called device files? Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I made one with # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 . This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). Use /dev/sdc instead of /dev/hdc. I booted up in to the kernel, did # ls /dev/sd*, and the only things displayed were /dev/sda and /dev/sda1. That is the place where my USB stick gets mounted. The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. I'm totally confused. Doesn't sd* mean SCSI disk drive? When I was installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive as /dev/sdb5. When I built my own kernel, it needed /dev/hdh5. This seems crazy. Is it documented anywhere in Gentoo? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Hi, Miernik, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Miernik wrote: Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). Maybe there was some /dev/sda /dev/sdb or something similar? There's /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, and no other /dev/sd*. That's where my UBS stick gets mounted. Why do you assume your drive is under /dev/hdx and not /dev/sdx ? Er, because it's an IDE drive, and on my old Debian system it appears at /dev/hdc. My HDD is at /dev/hdh on both old Debian and new Gentoo. When I do an lspci -v, on my Gentoo system, this shows up for hd[cd]: 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 [virtual] Memory at 01f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 03f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 0170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 0370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at a400 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 This suggests that the IDE controller has been initialised properly, but the kernel has ignored it. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)
[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Alan Mackenzie wrote: The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. I'm totally confused. Doesn't sd* mean SCSI disk drive? When I was installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive as /dev/sdb5. When I built my own kernel, it needed /dev/hdh5. This seems crazy. Is it documented anywhere in Gentoo? Not sure. But if you have /dev/hd* instead of /dev/sd*, it means you configured your kernel with the legacy IDE drivers instead of the new (P)ATA drivers. The new drivers use /dev/sd* (for IDE/PATA/SATA and SCSI alike; there's no difference anymore.) The CD/DVD-ROM can show up as /dev/sd* even with the old legacy drivers if you have enable SCSI Emulation for it. In any event, try to build a new kernel using the new drivers. The old legacy driver you're using will probably get declared deprecated at some point (if it didn't happen already). To enable the new drivers, first disable the legacy drivers. (Device Drivers section): ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --- Now enable the new drivers: * Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --- Enter that section and pick your chipset. Don't enable the: Generic ATA support unless you can't find a native driver for your chipset (I doubt you have some extremely rare/exotic mainboard ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, and no other /dev/sd*. That's where my UBS stick gets mounted. What about any /dev/sr*?
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
I guess that X is blanking the screen (I have a similar problem with blanking). So the correct location to look would be /etc/X11/xorg.conf Regards, Jan Seeger -- Four bits at a time www.thenybble.de
Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Hi, Daniel
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:11:09PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
Hi, Gentoo?
I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special
optimiesed keyboard layout. :-)
However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them
works, because I installed Gentoo from it.
When I do
mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
, it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes,
there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists.
Do you mean
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
Maybe. Is that different?
What does special device mean here? Does it mean the physcial
hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver
in the kernel, or what? What is special about my DVD writer?
It means the directory entry /dev/hdc.
OK.
Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I
made one with
# mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
. This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no
mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard
drives are (don't ask!)).
Can't resist what is on hd{a-f}
Nothing on hd[abef], a DVD writer on hdc and a DVD reader on hdd. My PC
was built in 2001, and the 2 onboard IDE ports are ordinary IDE,
whereas the two IDE ports stuck on the side do UDMA66.
My kernel is an up to date linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got
all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest
how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives?
Thanks in advance!
What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it
wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata
library in the kernel even IDE devices are under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX.
No, the box is no longer young, and contains no SATA or SCSI bits at all.
I'm just going away to see if I've got any /dev/s[gr]X on the box.
No, I've got no /dev/s[gr]X at all.
Could it be that the kernel has looked at hd[ab], found nothing there,
and therefore decided it's not worth the bother even looking at
hd[cd]?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?
Alan Mackenzie schrieb: When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes, there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. Do you mean mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom Maybe. Is that different? Yeah, there is a space between -t and iso9660 :-) What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata library in the kernel even IDE devices are under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. No, the box is no longer young, and contains no SATA or SCSI bits at all. I'm just going away to see if I've got any /dev/s[gr]X on the box. No, I've got no /dev/s[gr]X at all. Could it be that the kernel has looked at hd[ab], found nothing there, and therefore decided it's not worth the bother even looking at hd[cd]? Hmm, maybe the output of `dmesg`, `lspci -v` and `ls -al /dev` could be helpful. Probably also your kernel configuration.
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A ps -ef doesn't show any process with screen in the name. Man x and man xorg don't help. I'm running blackbox, so I don't have a gazillion settings widgets (nothing helpful in man blackbox). How can I find what program is blanking the screen? Once I do that, I can either set parameters or disable it. so you are not using a screensaver but dpms screen blanking? xset --help will answer your question.
[gentoo-user] Ethernet Bridging
I am following this guide to setup my wireless access point. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#Bridging_the_wired_.26_wireless_segments I have my network up and running with WPA. When I configured my kernel to use bridging (compiled into the kernel, not as a module) and rebooted I got a kernel panic, It was a whole screen full of stuff. Here is some of it I manually typed out... Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: wlan_scan_ap ath_rate_sample ath_pci wlan ath_hal(P) Pid: 4033, comm:runscript.sh Tainted: P (2.6.24.7 #3) EIP: 0060: stuff EIP is at ieee80211_add country+0x8f/0xd0 [wlan] Stack: Bunch of numbers Call Trace: bunch of stuff Code: numbers and letters. kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt. Anyone know what to do?
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A ps -ef doesn't show any process with screen in the name. Man x and man xorg don't help. I'm running blackbox, so I don't have a gazillion settings widgets (nothing helpful in man blackbox). How can I find what program is blanking the screen? Once I do that, I can either set parameters or disable it. so you are not using a screensaver but dpms screen blanking? xset --help will answer your question. In your xorg.conf check the setting for: Option SuspendTime 10 under ServerLayout. If you set it to 0 I think that it will not suspend anymore. Also you could set it with xset (look at the dpms settings) as said above. Pressing the Alt button should however get you out of it. If you are running xscreensaver then the PID could be found by greping for xscreensaver. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Bridging
I am following this guide to setup my wireless access point. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#Bridging_the_wired_.26_wireless_segments I have my network up and running with WPA. When I configured my kernel to use bridging (compiled into the kernel, not as a module) and rebooted I got a kernel panic, It was a whole screen full of stuff. Here is some of it I manually typed out... Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: wlan_scan_ap ath_rate_sample ath_pci wlan ath_hal(P) Pid: 4033, comm:runscript.sh Tainted: P (2.6.24.7 #3) EIP: 0060: stuff EIP is at ieee80211_add country+0x8f/0xd0 [wlan] Stack: Bunch of numbers Call Trace: bunch of stuff Code: numbers and letters. kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt. Anyone know what to do? This kernel panic happened while loading ath0 on startup.
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update
On Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A ps -ef doesn't show any process with screen in the name. Man x and man xorg don't help. I'm running blackbox, so I don't have a gazillion settings widgets (nothing helpful in man blackbox). How can I find what program is blanking the screen? Once I do that, I can either set parameters or disable it. so you are not using a screensaver but dpms screen blanking? xset --help will answer your question. In your xorg.conf check the setting for: Option SuspendTime 10 you don't need to edit xorg.conf you can set all that stuff via xset (or kcontrol).
[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both types terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using the USB option and didn't have to do anything, it just worked. I do have USB HID support compiled into the kernel, though. Do you? No. I did not. I guess I haven't had need of it until now. However compiling that in desn't seem to have helped (see below) Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch Summary: Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru the the KVM switch. Make sure you have USB Hid support compiled into the kernel (along with any other relevant options you see like USB Keyboard/Mouse support. That was not compiled in no, but I have now done so but seemingly it has not helped. Current .config shows: grep HID /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-r6/.config CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_HID=y CONFIG_HID_DEBUG=y CONFIG_HIDRAW=y CONFIG_USB_HID=y # CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK is not set CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y # CONFIG_USB_PHIDGET is not set After make modules_install and moving the new kernel to /boot; upon reboot I see no difference. Once I get the console prompt I have no mouse or keyboard Also, see if the BIOS setup of your mainboard has a USB Keyboard support option and if enabling it/disabling it makes a difference. Hooking the usb keyboard direct to the machines USB ports allows it to work so that must be set. Since that is the case it would appear then that the problem is in the KVM switch. I just realized I'd left the usb to ps/2 adapters in place from when I tried that to see if it would help. I hooking the KVM usb cables to actual USB ports again now and rebooting. Maybe it will be ok... I'll know soon.
[gentoo-user] GtkMozEmbed error
I'm really struggling with the error I get when trying to compile miro via the bugs.gentoo.org ebuild. It used to work but something happened a while ago that prevents it from compiling now. I've tried quite a few things to fix it. Does this tell anybody anything? /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9/unstable/gtkmozembed.h:63:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/miro-1.2.3/work/Miro-1.2.3/platform/gtk-x11/platform/frontends/html/MozillaBrowser.c: In function 'void log_warning(char*)': /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/miro-1.2.3/work/Miro-1.2.3/platform/gtk-x11/platform/frontends/html/MozillaBrowser.c:246: error: invalid conversion from 'long int' to 'PyGILState_STATE' /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/miro-1.2.3/work/Miro-1.2.3/platform/gtk-x11/platform/frontends/html/MozillaBrowser.c: In function 'gint __pyx_f_8platform_9frontends_4html_14MozillaBrowser_new_window_cb(GtkMozEmbed*, GtkMozEmbed**, guint, PyObject*)': /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/miro-1.2.3/work/Miro-1.2.3/platform/gtk-x11/platform/frontends/html/MozillaBrowser.c:1435: error: cannot convert 'GtkWidget*' to 'GtkMozEmbed*' in assignment /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/miro-1.2.3/work/Miro-1.2.3/platform/gtk-x11/platform/frontends/html/MozillaBrowser.c:1438: error: cannot convert 'GtkWidget*' to 'GtkContainer*' for argument '1' to 'void gtk_container_add(GtkContainer*, GtkWidget*)' error: command 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++' failed with exit status 1 - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just realized I'd left the usb to ps/2 adapters in place from when I tried that to see if it would help. I hooking the KVM usb cables to actual USB ports again now and rebooting. Maybe it will be ok... I'll know soon. Ahh didn't need the reboot even. So the HID stuff was the problem. Thanks to both of you for your fine help.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: | Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? | | I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It | supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both | types terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using | the USB option and didn't have to do anything, it just worked. I do | have USB HID support compiled into the kernel, though. Do you? | | No. I did not. I guess I haven't had need of it until now. | However compiling that in desn't seem to have helped (see below) | | Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch | | Summary: | Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not | recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru | the the KVM switch. | Make sure you have USB Hid support compiled into the kernel (along | with any other relevant options you see like USB Keyboard/Mouse | support. | | That was not compiled in no, but I have now done so but seemingly it | has not helped. | | Current .config shows: | | grep HID /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-r6/.config | | CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT=y | CONFIG_HID=y | CONFIG_HID_DEBUG=y | CONFIG_HIDRAW=y | CONFIG_USB_HID=y | # CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK is not set | CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y | # CONFIG_USB_PHIDGET is not set | | After make modules_install and moving the new kernel to /boot; upon | reboot I see no difference. Once I get the console prompt I have no | mouse or keyboard If you have only done make modules_install and not make and/or make modules you will see no effect i think. It looks like you've configured USB support to be compiled in directly so compiling modules won't do you any good. HTH -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkiCo/UACgkQxNZfa+YAUWF1XwCcDL23ETSt5bmlo7Fj+OMd8Z/K sg4AoMAzlNm6yBa5J5cNOXTOsfuFdBuL =SXrX -END PGP SIGNATURE- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.2/1561 - Release Date: 18/07/2008 18:35
[gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Doesn't Filter Incoming Mail
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:27 +0100, Richard wrote: Dear all, I use Evolution as my mail client. I receive Gentoo mailing list email at my GMail address, and access this email in Evolution over IMAP. I want Gentoo mailing list messages to go into a Gentoo mailing list folder in Evolution, and so I've setup an incoming mail filter to take all mail with a sender or recipient address matching '@lists.gentoo.org' and move it to my Gentoo mailing list folder. Despite ticking the 'Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server' check-box in the Evolution Account Editor, I have to highlight new email and click 'Apply Filters' in Evolution's 'Message' menu so that Evolution will actually move them to the desired folder. Can anyone help with this? Yes and no! I can explain why, but I don't know the workaround. - there are various bits of info set on each email in IMAP folders (eg, unread, replied to, important, etc) and there's one (forget the name) lets say accessed. MUA's use this accessed bit to decide whether or not to do processing, such as filtering, on each email. Evolution would filter a message and then set accessed. It does this so that next time, it doesn't filter it again (I presume). It is typical for IMAP servers that do their own filtering to set this accessed bit on each message also, even if it stays in the inbox. (I don't know if there's a gmail setting for this type of thing). The same happens on my cyrus IMAP server, because I have sieve rules going through my mails on the server-side. Therefore evolution sees the messages as already accessed, and doesn't touch it (unless you specifically say filter). I've put this together from bits and pieces of experience, so it's probably not technically correct, but I hope you get the general idea :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler
