Re: [gentoo-user] Two taskbar panels after upgrade to KDE 4
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 19:03:13 Thorsten Kampe wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from KDE 3.5.10 to KDE 4. The upgrade went fine and KDE 4 KDM shows still my old KDE 3.5, XFCE and GNOME sessions as well as the new KDE 4 session. The only problem is that when I login to the old KDE 3.5 desktop (which I want to keep until I configured KDE 4 fully) shows *two* taskbar panels: at the bottom of the screen the KDE 4 taskbar panel and directly above the old KDE 3.5 taskbar panel. How can I stop the old KDE 3.5 session from loading any KDE 4 component and in particular: how can I stop the KDE 3.5 desktop loadling the KDE 4 taskbar panel?! Please provide more information, you are asking how long is a piece of string? Copies of the start-up scripts launched by your display manager when starting kde-4 would be a good start -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] how to find all executables with an inofficial group id
Hi, does anybody know a simple method to find all executables with a group id which is not mentioned in /etc/group? Once an executable with a group id which used to be 'fcron' but isn't anymore, broke one of my systems. Now, I suspect a similar problem on another machine. Otherwise I have to write a tiny Python script to do that. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] how to find all executables with an inofficial group id
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 10:53:45 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, does anybody know a simple method to find all executables with a group id which is not mentioned in /etc/group? Once an executable with a group id which used to be 'fcron' but isn't anymore, broke one of my systems. Now, I suspect a similar problem on another machine. Otherwise I have to write a tiny Python script to do that. find / -type f +perm 111 -nogroup -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 00:29 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two. From looking at Google, I think you're referring to kernel mode switching. I have looked all over make menuconfig and can't find it. What is the reference I should be looking for? I'm running the latest stable kernel as near as I can tell. Oh stable... never touch the stuff... ;) http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien It never crashed on mine tho. OO Calc and OO Writer kept running until I closed them. Was you using the right click copy and paste method? I will try that way if that will reproduce the problem. It appears to work here tho with no crash. I went back and looked at the vox that was created. All the cells are in there along with the stuff I typed in. It's just REALLY small. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
Dale, When you say vox, what do you mean? Thanks Damien Dale wrote: Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien It never crashed on mine tho. OO Calc and OO Writer kept running until I closed them. Was you using the right click copy and paste method? I will try that way if that will reproduce the problem. It appears to work here tho with no crash. I went back and looked at the vox that was created. All the cells are in there along with the stuff I typed in. It's just REALLY small. Dale :-) :-) -- Remember to respect your right to unfettered access to your computer, use free software. For a definition of free software, please go to http://www.fsf.org
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
Dale, I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. Thanks Damien Dale wrote: Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien It never crashed on mine tho. OO Calc and OO Writer kept running until I closed them. Was you using the right click copy and paste method? I will try that way if that will reproduce the problem. It appears to work here tho with no crash. I went back and looked at the vox that was created. All the cells are in there along with the stuff I typed in. It's just REALLY small. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk
2009/10/21 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org: On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:14 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I've enabled suspend-to-disk in the kernel. When I issue the command echo disk /sys/power/state, it suspends but *IMMEDIATELY* reboots and comes back up again. The session restores properly from the swap drive, so at least that part works. What can I do to keep it sleeping until I power up again? Ok I'm going to address this issue. You specified multiple issues in your email. I think it's better to split each issue into its own posting. It's simpler easier to work with one problem at a time and also replies to postings on different issues don't get all garbled up/confusing in archive searches. Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A better way is to use pm-hibernate --quirks (pm-hibernate is from the pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, quirks that are known with your hardware. echo'ing to /sys/power/state is a little more low-level and could be iffy on some types of hardware. You should also check dmesg. More than likely there is a kernel error that explains why it failed to suspend completely. Or use hibernate -v4 from a root terminal to see any error messages. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com: Dale, I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. Thanks Damien No consolation to your problem, but Oo-bin works fine. I cutted and pasted between calc and writer on a x86 and it works without problem. The cells had text and numeric values with formulas in them. Decoration like text format, borders, etc. pasted through fine and double clicking on the pasted cells in word opens the spreadsheet for editing. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
Oo-bin is the vanilla openoffice as opposed to the source version gentoo uses, which comes from go-o. When you say the x86 version is working fine, do you mean the bin or source version. Even so, I think we need to keep this bug open so the 64-bit version gets fixed regardless. Thanks for your prompt reply Mick, Regards, Damien Mick wrote: 2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com: Dale, I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. Thanks Damien No consolation to your problem, but Oo-bin works fine. I cutted and pasted between calc and writer on a x86 and it works without problem. The cells had text and numeric values with formulas in them. Decoration like text format, borders, etc. pasted through fine and double clicking on the pasted cells in word opens the spreadsheet for editing.
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com: Oo-bin is the vanilla openoffice as opposed to the source version gentoo uses, which comes from go-o. When you say the x86 version is working fine, do you mean the bin or source version. Yes, I mean the OpenOffice-bin version. Even so, I think we need to keep this bug open so the 64-bit version gets fixed regardless. Thanks for your prompt reply Mick, You're welcome. -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] HP ScanJet 7670
Hello, I've never set up a scanner on gentoo (or any other linux before). So here's what I've done. Looking at the sane website I see support for these models: http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-hp5590.5.html ScanJet 7650 is listed as basic support. I have a HP Scanjet 7670, so it should work? lsusb lists the devices like this: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 dmesg shows nothing. sane-find-scanner reveals this: sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the result is different from what you expected, first make sure your scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x0403 [FTDI], product=0x6001 [UC232R]) at libusb:002:002 Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. Not checking for parallel port scanners. so am I out of luck? I have this installed: media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.19-r2 USE=ipv6 usb v4l -doc -gphoto2 replugging the usb cable does not make the device appear on the usb bus? any ideas? James
[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Well, monkeying around with all the cables It now registers as a: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c scanimage -L device `hp:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 63x0C flatbed scanner So I guess I need some advice as to a software front end or some syntax examples to use the scanner. It has an ADF, Automatic Document Feeder, which work be keen to get working or figure out how to use. It works fine under windows with the scsi card. I'ts not on a gentoo system via a usb cable. The sane website says support is complete. any suggestions are most welcome. James
[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C
On 10/21/2009 09:23 AM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Well, monkeying around with all the cables It now registers as a: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c scanimage -L device `hp:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 63x0C flatbed scanner So I guess I need some advice as to a software front end or some syntax examples to use the scanner... I'd suggest media-gfx/xsane, which is a great GUI front end for sane.
[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history
I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 15 07:09:01 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history
Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? genlop -u -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Microsoft: When do you want to crash today? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? genlop -u Of course! I googled before posting, but genlop manpage didn't occurred to me, too obvious! To be exact to see which packages were unmerged for example in the last two days: genlop -ul --date 2 days ago Thanks for your reply... I could have searched for ages ;-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 15 07:09:01 CEST 2009 Two 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 8844.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make make modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the new kernel and rebooted. The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: ... VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 #2 Call Trace: [c0479986] ? printk+0xf/0x11 [c04798dc] panic+0x39/0xd4 [c020135z] init_post+0x13c/0x13e [c05b62dc] kernel_init+0x148/0x152 [c05b6194] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 [c02033cf] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 So far I've tried adding 'init=/bin/bash' and 'init=/sbin/init' to the command line. No help. Someone in a forum suggested chrooting and emerging sysvinit. But that's already installed. There's a million hits on google for this error message with about as many solutions. Assuming it has something to do with my kernel config, I tried running $diff -y on the two configs but at approx. 2600 lines per file I'm going to need some advice on what to zero in on. I tried to keep the new config as same as the old. But there's a lot of new features, weird stuff like CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS=y and the new decompression protocol. Maxim
[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
as a follow up go here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560 Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine, save for the hardware and fs differences. mw On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make make modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the new kernel and rebooted. The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: ... VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 #2 Call Trace: [c0479986] ? printk+0xf/0x11 [c04798dc] panic+0x39/0xd4 [c020135z] init_post+0x13c/0x13e [c05b62dc] kernel_init+0x148/0x152 [c05b6194] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 [c02033cf] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 So far I've tried adding 'init=/bin/bash' and 'init=/sbin/init' to the command line. No help. Someone in a forum suggested chrooting and emerging sysvinit. But that's already installed. There's a million hits on google for this error message with about as many solutions. Assuming it has something to do with my kernel config, I tried running $diff -y on the two configs but at approx. 2600 lines per file I'm going to need some advice on what to zero in on. I tried to keep the new config as same as the old. But there's a lot of new features, weird stuff like CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS=y and the new decompression protocol. Maxim
[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as root=) doesn't contain any of the following: /sbin/init /etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't any init available on it. PS: In case you were wondering how I knew it was /dev/sda1, that's what device 8:1 means: the block device with major number 8 and minor number 1, which happens to be the major:minor assigned to /dev/sda1. - -- Jonathan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrfW+UACgkQOypDUo0oQOo/NgCgq1C7LyfDRiEAFRiuqq9Me+5Q EyMAnjvpfvmfcFFlczPJb7SruygZF/lN =KMh5 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:07:18 Jonathan Callen wrote: Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as root=) doesn't contain any of the following: /sbin/init /etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't any init available on it. PS: In case you were wondering how I knew it was /dev/sda1, that's what device 8:1 means: the block device with major number 8 and minor number 1, which happens to be the major:minor assigned to /dev/sda1. Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools
=== On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to check the fs at every boot. An 8G card contains /home and /var. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:22 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to check the fs at every boot. An 8G card contains /home and /var. FYI you can still create the filesystem as, e.g., ext4 with -O ^has_journal and still enjoy the performance benefits such as extents and delayed allocation without the (minor) overhead that journalling incurs. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as root=) doesn't contain any of the following: /sbin/init /etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't any init available on it. The partitioning scheme and fs hasn't changed. Just the kernel. It wasn't a problem before. Also, I don't think the fs id is significant since, if you look at the photo attached to the bug report, ext3 is involved in that case. In the new config have CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set, whereas it's set 'y' in the old. Maybe that's it. The help page says choose N if unsure, which is what I did this time. I'll wait to hear back from the group and give it another try. mw
[gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools
On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)
Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion
On Sunday 18 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag 18 Oktober 2009 18:54:54 schrieb econti:
[ebuild N] app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1 USE=mysql -sqlite
[nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2
[ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1 [4.5.2]
[ebuild UD]x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1 [4.5.2]
[ebuild UD]x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1 [4.5.2-r2] USE=dbus*
gtkstyle%* [ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1 [4.5.2]
[ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1 [4.5.2]
[ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1 [4.5.2]
Hmm, looks like your installed version of qt-dbus is responsible for the
wanted downgrade. Strange.
Could you diff the installed .ebuild for x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2
(/var/db/pkg/x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2/qt-dbus-4.5.2.ebuild) with the one in
your portage tree and re-install the package if they're different?
Then, there are two other things which make me wonder:
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1- r is blocking
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1)
Those -r versions emerge is talking about. Any chance you have
installed qt packages (or some apps which need them) from an overlay?
('installed', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by
x11-libs/qt-webkit required by world
2) Do you have qt packages listed in your world file? They're usually
pulled in as dependencies of other packages, so they shouldn't appear
there.
Bye...
Dirk
Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the OP):
x11-libs/qt
x11-libs/qt-core
x11-libs/qt-gui
Should I delete them?
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Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools
Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) No. It works fine with other operating systems too.
Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:54:02PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A better way is to use pm-hibernate --quirks (pm-hibernate is from the pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, quirks that are known with your hardware. echo'ing to /sys/power/state is a little more low-level and could be iffy on some types of hardware. I ended up emerging hibernate-script and it runs great. I added a few tweaks to hibernate.conf. Here's what it looks like... TryMethod disk.conf Distribution gentoo OnResume 00 setfont lat1-10 DownInterfaces auto UpInterfaces auto UseSysfsPowerState disk PowerdownMethod shutdown As for pm-utils... RANT Why the bleep can't some programmers go to the bathroom without invoking hal and dbus? They're hard-coded dependancies for pm-utils. I've managed to keep hal and dbus (and java and pam) off my machine, and will continue doing so. If I had a bunch of money lying around, I'd hire some programmers to seriously slim down Firefox while I was at it. There is no reason a browser should need an SQL database. /RANT You should also check dmesg. More than likely there is a kernel error that explains why it failed to suspend completely. Nothing obvious in dmesg when I tried manually shutting down. The listing showed the system shutting down, and then starting up. No warnings, let alone errors. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, I'll have to go into my backups and dig up a working xorg.conf. And save a text copy of the xorg.conf man page while I'm at it. The xorg configuration tools are nowhere to be seen. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools
Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07: Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) No. It works fine with other operating systems too. Oops. Extract foot from mouth. Of course emerging vmware-modules is for Gentoo host only. Guests using other operating systems are fine once you've emerge'd the host modules.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools
=== On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) === Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a make config). The build sets up some symlinks that building other, third-party modules need. I also have a modified rc script for the tools, that works with openrc. Let me know if you want it. I also have an up-to-date Gentoo x86 server VM with the tools already installed. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===
[gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3
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Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:01 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, I'll have to go into my backups and dig up a working xorg.conf. And save a text copy of the xorg.conf man page while I'm at it. The xorg configuration tools are nowhere to be seen. You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:54 +0100, Mick wrote: Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the OP): x11-libs/qt x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui Should I delete them? Do you run them yourself? If not, they don't belong in world. The first could be particularly troublesome as it is masked for QT4. -- Neil Bothwick If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On 10/21/2009 03:55 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: ...All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all... How do you deal with font paths? That's one of the few reasons I still have an xorg.conf.
[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
On 10/21/2009 01:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... The partitioning scheme and fs hasn't changed. Just the kernel. It wasn't a problem before... Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
Ok, I went back and found what looks like a glaring error. The old config had the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100 under processor options, the new one was missing a zero. A ha! sez I and fixed it. Nope. I get the exact same panic. Setting CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y doesn't help either. On a related note, I see that CONFIG_NR_CPUS only allows for 8 in the 30 kernel. Trying any other number leads to an error Invalid Number , whereas for the 29 kernel, 64 seems to be the default. On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as root=) doesn't contain any of the following: /sbin/init /etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, that looks like it mounted your /boot as /, which fails as there isn't any init available on it. The partitioning scheme and fs hasn't changed. Just the kernel. It wasn't a problem before. Also, I don't think the fs id is significant since, if you look at the photo attached to the bug report, ext3 is involved in that case. In the new config have CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set, whereas it's set 'y' in the old. Maybe that's it. The help page says choose N if unsure, which is what I did this time. I'll wait to hear back from the group and give it another try. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:11 -0700, walt wrote: On 10/21/2009 03:55 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: ...All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all... How do you deal with font paths? That's one of the few reasons I still have an xorg.conf. Font paths? You mean X11 fonts? Who needs those? The only app I ever use that uses those is xterm, and it just requires fixed. Everything else I uses uses freetype/fontconfig. But xset tells me that /usr/share/fonts/misc/ is already in my font path and, apparently that's all that I need for bitcrap fonts.
Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV. Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate Production and Experimental kernels. This allows me to reboot and flee to a sane config if things go wrong. It appears that nothing is simple. The Intel driver works great in X, without an xorg.conf. However, it insists on running framebuffer in text console mode. I *CANNOT* turn off framebuffer. Passing parameters to lilo via... append = noexec=on noexec32=on nofb doesn't help. In make menuconfig graphics/console, I see -*- Framebuffer Console support there is no box to uncheck. Could it be related to my /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS=intel vga Would changing that to VIDEO_CARDS=intel (and re-emerging xorg) help? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] SIT-file format (Mac?) on linux
Hi, does anyone know an unpacker for the sit fileformat (I think, this one is Mac-based?!) ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekende! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV. Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate Production and Experimental kernels. This allows me to reboot and flee to a sane config if things go wrong. It appears that nothing is simple. The Intel driver works great in X, without an xorg.conf. However, it insists on running framebuffer in text console mode. I *CANNOT* turn off framebuffer. Passing parameters to lilo via... append = noexec=on noexec32=on nofb doesn't help. In make menuconfig graphics/console, I see -*- Framebuffer Console support there is no box to uncheck. Could it be related to my /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS=intel vga Would changing that to VIDEO_CARDS=intel (and re-emerging xorg) help? KMS drivers and framebuffer console drivers are different and AFAIK mutually exclusive. The boot parameter to disable KMS would be, e.g., i915.modeset=0
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong? I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. Least I still have the 29 kernel; it works fine ;) mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... BillK On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong? I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. Least I still have the 29 kernel; it works fine ;) mw -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff
I missed? Read the OP again. On 10/21/09, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... BillK On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong? I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. Least I still have the 29 kernel; it works fine ;) mw -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools
well, currently i am using the open-vm-tool, which is the open source version. but i want to know if they are the same in function. can someone tell me? thanks. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) === Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a make config). The build sets up some symlinks that building other, third-party modules need. I also have a modified rc script for the tools, that works with openrc. Let me know if you want it. I also have an up-to-date Gentoo x86 server VM with the tools already installed. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz === -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:54 +0100, Mick wrote: Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the OP): x11-libs/qt x11-libs/qt-core x11-libs/qt-gui Should I delete them? Do you run them yourself? If not, they don't belong in world. The first could be particularly troublesome as it is masked for QT4. Thanks. It seems that I have forgotten to add -1 to emerge once too many and keep finding stuff that shouldn't be in world. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
