Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH tunnel With Portage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: 2008/1/15, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You do not need wine to run putty on Linux. There's a UNIX port. Just emerge putty and run it. Not that I don't agree it's useless with all the alternatives that are available on Linux too.. ;) What alternative are you advice me ? openssh Many of the same things available on putty are available on OpenSSH too. If you know putty it won't be real hard to learn to use openSSH. I can tell you that you might get a good response at comp.security.ssh with your questions too. I always have there. Its not about any particular kind if ssh so openssh putty etc will fit in there. If what you want is to create tunnels, and you want a GUI (I imagine this since you want to use putty), then why not use gstm Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/)? Gabriel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?
b.n. wrote: Walter Dnes ha scritto: Tried to do an update today. Gnumeric has a new dependancy, namely goffice. Trying to build goffice fails with the following message... Use another spreadsheet and go ranting on your blog. Bye. m. Yep, I don't see why he's shocked by having SVG and Unicode, especially the later as a dep, they seem perfectly logical to me. What shocked me is his WTF Gabriel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem
Grant wrote: If both Sprint and Verizon offer it, there is probably a good chance that ATT and/or T-Mobile do too. Neither Sprint nor Verizon offer GSM, they use CDMA, thus you can't travel anywhere (that I know of) with those phones. If you are looking for a world phone, get a quad-band GSM phone, Cingular/ATT or T-Mobile carries them in the US, in Europe everyone carries them. I'm talking about the free dial up service above, not GSM. - Grant Ahh, ok, sorry, I miss understood. I use my cell (GSM) to go on the internet, and if I don't use UMTS and GPRS (turn it off), I just get charged local (per minute) rates to connect to the internet, but maybe it's diff. with other carriers. -Gabriel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem
Grant wrote: Nice, I'm very glad to hear it works so well. I guess something like that would work even over an analog connection. On a true analog (800MHz AMPS service) cell phone, I've had pretty decent success using MNP5 modems up to about 2400 baud. The standard CCITT error dectection/correction schemes used on landline modems isn't resilient enough for RF links. Good luck finding MNP5 analog modems. ;) Multitech in St. Paul was the last vendor I knew about that sold them, and that was 10+ years ago. If you're talking about an analog connection to a digital phone, it just won't work. The Codecs that digital phones use are optimized for human speech and won't pass QPSK (or even FSK) modem signals in a usable manner. What I meant there was that I should be able to dial up in this manner even if the signal is reported to be analog instead of digital. Is that true? I still don't understand what you're asking. Unless you're 800MHz AMPS service, it's all digital. There is no analog signalling on the network. If you're using an 800MHz AMPS service, then the voice channel is an analog FM link band-limited to 300-3KHz with C message weighting (just like a landline phone connection). You can push an analog modem signal through that voice channel, but the channel quality varies a lot and you need a really bullet-proof error-correction scheme like MNP5. What I'm trying to determine is, if ATT or T-Mobile have the type of service you're describing: 1. will it work in both analog and digital service areas 2. does the phone need to support anything in particular to use it Are you saying it depends on whether or not the phone is capable of 800MHz AMPS service? I guess so. The carriers are going to shut down AMPS service soon anyway. It's just passing on digital data that's carried by the wireless protocol in use (GSM/TDMA or 1xRTT/CDMA). When you dial up a landline with a digital cell phone, the wireless carrier actually has to connect a modem to a landline at the carriers switch and dial the number. The digital data from the cellphone is then routed to that modem. If you're using the wireless carrier as the ISP, then there are no modems involved at all: the digital data from the modem is simply routed onto the Internet. I see. So the only ways you know of to get a laptop online with a cell phone are with a data plan in a digital service area, or with any Verizon plan in either an analog or digital service area? If you're using analog service, you can use any carrier that allows normal phone calls to access a dial-up modem. You just need a phone with a phone jack into which you can plug an analog modem. Motorol bag style phones used to have a accessor that plugged between the handset and the radio which provided a modem jack. I don't think you're going to find too many current phones that provide an analog modem jack. I don't think I'll have any luck finding a cell phone with an analog modem jack. Were you using an analog modem plugged into your cell phone with the service you were first describing? Sprint also apparently has a free low-speed Internet access service similar to Verizon's QNC service. I don't know if Sprint's free low-speed service allows you dial up a landline-modem or not. FWIW, I just plugged my VX4400 into my laptop, and Verizons low-speed QNC service is still working. There are rumors that Verizon is about to pull the plug on QNC, but those rumors have been around for years. I've got to go with GSM. If both Sprint and Verizon offer it, there is probably a good chance that ATT and/or T-Mobile do too. Neither Sprint nor Verizon offer GSM, they use CDMA, thus you can't travel anywhere (that I know of) with those phones. If you are looking for a world phone, get a quad-band GSM phone, Cingular/ATT or T-Mobile carries them in the US, in Europe everyone carries them. -Gabriel - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons
Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional allows flexibility for unforeseen storage needs, but it adds a layer of complexity potential problems arising therefrom. I wonder whether LVM slows down disk access whether there's a disaster lurking unseen if anything goes wrong with LVM: a bad package update, a damaged config file or file storing LVM's layout would seem to risk losing everything on the HDD require re-installation. Hello, I chose to use it on my laptop because of it's flexibility. On a desktop system, it you ever need more room, you can just a a new HD. If you use LVM on it, you can expand whatever you need to, if you don't, you can move data around and free up some space where needed. On a laptop, unless you attach an external drive (and in reality, those are annoying to carry around all the time), it's hard to free up some space, but with LVM, such a task is possible. I found it not hard to configure and it's benefits largely outsize the cons one could find. I would recommend it on single and multi-HD systems. Cheers, Gabriel Rossetti -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I did notice something, I had the gnome volume control open also and when I recorded it toggles the audio capture from Capture, if I untoggle it while I'm recording, it works, the mic's input is recorded. Sounds like a misconfiguration somewhere. Or like a bug in Gnome. Maybe these forum posts give you new ideas: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-529738.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-514297.html What are you using to record, by the way? Benno Well, it could be, I think I solved it, I muted the microphone, the digital capture, and I don't touch Gnome sound recorder anymore :-) I basically just left Capture unmuted and toggles the audio capture from it, if I mute Digital it just unmutes it'self at some point, but the audio capture from it stays toggled off. I can't hear myself in the speakers (since I muted the microphone, I didn't want to have echoes and such) but Ekiga can hear me speaking, from either the front internal mic or an external mic. They can't be controlled independently though. If someone wants any of my config files, just ask and I'll send them. My setup is not optimal, but at least it sort of works. Thanks Benno for your time and links, I know this issue isn't really solved. Gabriel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, You might need to pass a different model option during modprobe. First check with 'aplay -l' to see precisely what chip you have, then put that number into the search box (lower left) on https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view_all_bug_page.php You might need to advance again to unstable for the alsa packages, as hda-intel is seeing many changes. Lenove/IBM Thinkpad T60p, Hmm... You had alsa working on this laptop two or three years ago? Benno Ok, I checked the bugs, I'm not really sure they help me much, but I did use the alsa-driver instead of the in-kernel stuff. I have my front mic (internal) sort-of working, it isn't called that, it's mixed with the external mic. Sound now comes out of both, but no apps seam to be able to use it. I noticed with gnome's sound recorder that it won't keep my input choice, it always sets it to something else, when wanting to see to what is was set right now, gnome recorder gave me this error msg when I ran it : Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings. This was due to my .asoundrc, copied from the howto on the gentoo-wiki, once removed gnome record works again, when I try to record it always want's tu use digital. I did notice something, I had the gnome volume control open also and when I recorded it toggles the audio capture from Capture, if I untoggle it while I'm recording, it works, the mic's input is recorded. I tried playing with it, muting one, then the other, toggleing one, then the other, the only way I get anything to record is to use the digital as the recording source, and toggle capture once it's started to record. Gabriel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, You might need to pass a different model option during modprobe. First check with 'aplay -l' to see precisely what chip you have, then put that number into the search box (lower left) on https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view_all_bug_page.php You might need to advance again to unstable for the alsa packages, as hda-intel is seeing many changes. Ok, I'll try this and keep the list up to date on my advancements. Lenove/IBM Thinkpad T60p, Hmm... You had alsa working on this laptop two or three years ago? no, you're right about that, a year ago then (I think), when it came out, feels like more though :-), but I had it working and the front mic was also there. Benno Thanks for the reply, Gabriel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board
Hello, I used to be able to use my mic with Alsa, about 2 or 3 years ago, I hadn't tried since, but the otherday I did and it didn't work. I have reinstalled everything from scratch since (to go from unstable to stable). I followed the guides/howtos on the Gentoo site, but no luck, the mic won't work correctly. I also noticed that I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, that's the only one I explicitly remember. My front mic doesn't work at all (this is a laptop, details later), and if I plug a mic in the input, I can hear myself in the speakers, but none of the apps can, I tried to use gnome's recorder program, wengophone, ekiga, etc, no sound. Could anyone please help me? Here are the details : Lenove/IBM Thinkpad T60p, gentoo-sources-2.6.22, alsa kernel module (I tried to use the module in portage, but it wouldn't compile), alsa-utils-1.0.14_rc2-r3. I used this howto : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix I didn't install media-libs/alsa-oss, since the howto in the gentoo docs doesn't say to, I think it's used if I install the driver in portage and not the kernel module (correct me if I'm wrong), the reast is the same. lspci output : 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) I have this in my make.conf : ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol The sound works fine, I can listen to music and everything. any ideas? Thanks! Gabriel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't ssh w/out password as root into my gentoo box any more
Mick wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 23:44, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I had setup password-less ssh login for a backup process from another machine (FreeBSD) and all was working well, but for some reason it no longer works anymore, I tried to redo everything, but still no luck. I also tried as a regular user and it works fine. I tried to add : PermitRootLogin without-password I thought that the syntax for this is boolean: PermitRootLogin yes or PermitRootLogin no nope, it also works. PubkeyAuthentication yes (the second seems useless since it works for non-root users) Yes, it should work with any user who has a public key saved in the .ssh/authorized_keys file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] firefox can't save anything...
Hello, I can't save stuff (images, webpages, etc) using the save as menu with firefox 2.0.0.2, anyone else noticed this? Thanks, Gab -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't ssh w/out password as root into my gentoo box any more - SOLVED
Duane Griffin wrote: On 26/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had setup password-less ssh login for a backup process from another machine (FreeBSD) and all was working well, but for some reason it no longer works anymore, I tried to redo everything, but still no luck. I also tried as a regular user and it works fine. I tried to add : PermitRootLogin without-password PubkeyAuthentication yes (the second seems useless since it works for non-root users) but still no luck, any ideas anyone? Check the logs on the server. Run ssh with -vvv to see what it is trying. Check permissions on ~/.ssh and its contents. If all that fails try running sshd in debug mode to get more diagnostics out. Cheers, Duane. Thanks Duane, it was an ownership problem using -vvv didn't show anything usefull (I had tried it before posting) but the server logs helped a lot, beats me why I didn't think of that... Anyways, works great now, thanks again, my backups are once again working! Cheers, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] can't ssh w/out password as root into my gentoo box any more
Hello, I had setup password-less ssh login for a backup process from another machine (FreeBSD) and all was working well, but for some reason it no longer works anymore, I tried to redo everything, but still no luck. I also tried as a regular user and it works fine. I tried to add : PermitRootLogin without-password PubkeyAuthentication yes (the second seems useless since it works for non-root users) but still no luck, any ideas anyone? Thanks, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Gabriel There is some more info, if I do : grep -r 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 linux I get : linux/include/linux/autoconf.h:#define CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 linux/include/config/auto.conf:CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE=2.6.19-gentoo-r4 but my linux symlink is from the 2.6.20 kernel, not 2.6.19-r4 : ls -la total 3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 176 Feb 6 11:29 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 496 Jan 31 20:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Aug 3 2006 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 6 11:29 linux - linux-2.6.20-gentoo drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1296 Feb 6 09:44 linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1328 Feb 6 11:45 linux-2.6.20-gentoo Thanks, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
Ric de France wrote: Hi Gabriel, On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. It sounds like you're doing the right thing. Could you do a: $ ls -al /boot $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf $ ls -al /usr/src and then post the outputs to this list? ...Ric Hi Ric, yes, here is what you asked for : ls -al /boot total 12526 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 792 Feb 6 11:45 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 576 Jan 20 16:37 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 6 11:45 System.map - System.map-2.6.20-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 999613 Feb 6 09:44 System.map-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 999613 Feb 6 09:09 System.map-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 999613 Feb 6 09:00 System.map-2.6.19-gentoo-r5.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1016626 Feb 6 11:45 System.map-2.6.20-gentoo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 6 09:44 System.map.old - System.map-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 19 13:42 boot - . lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 6 11:45 config - config-2.6.20-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43780 Feb 6 09:44 config-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43780 Feb 6 09:09 config-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43780 Feb 6 09:00 config-2.6.19-gentoo-r5.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44623 Feb 6 11:45 config-2.6.20-gentoo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Feb 6 09:44 config.old - config-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 672 Feb 6 12:58 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 6 11:45 vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2145374 Feb 6 09:44 vmlinuz-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2145431 Feb 6 09:09 vmlinuz-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2145430 Feb 6 09:00 vmlinuz-2.6.19-gentoo-r5.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2159920 Feb 6 11:45 vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 6 09:44 vmlinuz.old - vmlinuz-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 - cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # # Grub Configuration file # # Load the splash image splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # Boot automatically after 30 secs. timeout 10 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # Fallback to the second entry. fallback 1 # For booting the main version title Gentoo - default runlevel root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose libata.atapi_enabled=1 #initrd /boot/fbsplash # For booting the main version, wireless runlevel title Gentoo - wireless runlevel root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose libata.atapi_enabled=1 softlevel=wireless #kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:2,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 gentoo=nodevfs apm=off acpi=on CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet softlevel=wireless #initrd /boot/fbsplash # For booting a fall back version title Fall Back root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda5 splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs apm=off acpi=off - ls -al /usr/src total 3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 176 Feb 6 11:29 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 496 Jan 31 20:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Aug 3 2006 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 6 11:29 linux - linux-2.6.20-gentoo drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1296 Feb 6 09:44 linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1328 Feb 6 11:45 linux-2.6.20-gentoo - Thanks Ric! PS I have not changed my way of compiling / installing the kernel for at least 4 years (since switching to 2.6 kernel series) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Gabriel There is some more info, if I do : grep -r 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 linux I get : linux/include/linux/autoconf.h:#define CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 linux/include/config/auto.conf:CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE=2.6.19-gentoo-r4 but my linux symlink is from the 2.6.20 kernel, not 2.6.19-r4 : ls -la total 3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 176 Feb 6 11:29 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 496 Jan 31 20:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Aug 3 2006 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 6 11:29 linux - linux-2.6.20-gentoo drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1296 Feb 6 09:44 linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1328 Feb 6 11:45 linux-2.6.20-gentoo Thanks, Gabriel did you do a make menuconfig from scratch, or did you copy an old .config over from a prior release? It looks like the latter may have happened and your .config does not agree with what is actually in the source tree. Either that or you have a 2.6.19-r4 source tree thaqt is named 2.6.20 alan Thanks for your reply Alan, I copied over my .config and did a make oldconfig then I had to choose the new options. Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Ric de France wrote: Hi Gabriel, On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. It sounds like you're doing the right thing. Could you do a: $ ls -al /boot $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf $ ls -al /usr/src and then post the outputs to this list? ...Ric Hi Ric, yes, here is what you asked for : [snip listings] PS I have not changed my way of compiling / installing the kernel for at least 4 years (since switching to 2.6 kernel series) Well, everything there looks just fine and how it should be, and you do appear to know exactly how to compile kernels. It looks to me like you slipped up just this once and have a PEBKAC or a made a little typo - it happens :-) If you run 'strings' on /boot/vmlinuz, is that really a 2.6.20 image? Did you verify that /usr/src/linux-2.6.20 really does contain a 2.6.20 tree by examining the actual files? alan here's the output of strings strings /boot/vmlinuz | grep 2.6 2.6.20-gentoo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 6 14:09:46 UTC 2007 I didn't check the kernel tree against my files because I'm not really sure how to do that :-) Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Do you have a seperate /boot partition and forgot to mount it before installing the kernel? Harm! That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Do you have a seperate /boot partition and forgot to mount it before installing the kernel? Harm! That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel I feel like a newbie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] did anything major change in acpi?
Hello, I reinstalled and there for upgraded my kernel form 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, and also upgraded all the acpi related stuff like acpid. My laptop overheats a lot now, it is around 90-96 degrees celcius when compiling, and before it was a lot cooler (75 max). Has anything major changed when dealing with acpi? My acpid is running and my fans are on, but maybe they are not on as strong? Is there something new to do now? Thanks, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] did anything major change in acpi?
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:34:51 + Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reinstalled and there for upgraded my kernel form 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, and also upgraded all the acpi related stuff like acpid. My laptop overheats a lot now, it is around 90-96 degrees celcius when compiling, and before it was a lot cooler (75 max). Has anything major changed when dealing with acpi? My acpid is running and my fans are on, but maybe they are not on as strong? Is there something new to do now? acpid probably isn't related to that anyway. Or did you configure some thermal triggers there? Does your new kernel have proper support for ACPI (and its thermal module) and (although not important during compile run) CPUfreq? MCE support? All relevant modules loaded? I guess it's not the (speed of the) fans, but rather speed throttling what's not working as desired here. -hwh The throttling is almost always off, except when I not connected to the AC. I did turn off the acpi compat. api, I trying to see if that was it. Other than that, I just copied my old config file to the new kernel directory and added the new stuff and turned off that I stated above. I'll keep you up to date, thanks for sparking the idea. Cheers, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] did anything major change in acpi?
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:34:51 + Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reinstalled and there for upgraded my kernel form 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, and also upgraded all the acpi related stuff like acpid. My laptop overheats a lot now, it is around 90-96 degrees celcius when compiling, and before it was a lot cooler (75 max). Has anything major changed when dealing with acpi? My acpid is running and my fans are on, but maybe they are not on as strong? Is there something new to do now? acpid probably isn't related to that anyway. Or did you configure some thermal triggers there? Does your new kernel have proper support for ACPI (and its thermal module) and (although not important during compile run) CPUfreq? MCE support? All relevant modules loaded? I guess it's not the (speed of the) fans, but rather speed throttling what's not working as desired here. -hwh The throttling is almost always off, except when I not connected to the AC. I did turn off the acpi compat. api, I trying to see if that was it. Other than that, I just copied my old config file to the new kernel directory and added the new stuff and turned off that I stated above. I'll keep you up to date, thanks for sparking the idea. Cheers, Gabriel Well that didn't change anything. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch
Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: -Original Message- From: Gabriel Rossetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 January 2007 22:24 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch yes, I have that, but I had that before in my previous installation. FF seems slower (at launch) at school where they have a proxy server. If my memory is correct, it seems to do that when I go from my home network to my school's network and vice versa. Have you tried re-emerging firefox? Or possibly do a revdep-rebuild to check for missing libraries? Alternatively see if the binary package gives you the same issues? David Yes, but re-emerging did not help. I did install the binary client, and it does not have this problem. revdep-rebuild only wants gcc rebuild, it always does for some reason...I'm re-emerging it as we speak. Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch
Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but that doesn't help. This is not the firefox binary ebuild/install but the regular ebuild. Thank you, Gabriel Hey! Try starting firefox in the shell and paste the output you get. I had a similar problem as firefox couldn't load some libs properly. Best Regards Jay I get no errors, just the usual : No running windows found msg. Thanks, best regards, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch
Alan wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:36:15PM +, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but that doesn't help. This is not the firefox binary ebuild/install but the regular ebuild. See if you have the line 127.0.0.1 localhost in your /etc/hosts file. It might be a DNS lookup timeout issue. yes, I have that, but I had that before in my previous installation. FF seems slower (at launch) at school where they have a proxy server. If my memory is correct, it seems to do that when I go from my home network to my school's network and vice versa. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch
Hello, I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but that doesn't help. This is not the firefox binary ebuild/install but the regular ebuild. Thank you, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: have the same problem as with Gnome, still can[not] switch to a VT... If I open a term and try the usual Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F7 key combination I get : PQRS;7~;7~;7~ First: stop top-posting. A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on mailing lists? Second: re-emerge xf86-input-keyboard, xkeyboard-config, and xkbcomp. Then restart X. If then it still doesn't work, show the output of 'setxkbmap -print' and 'emerge --info'. Benno Ok, it worked great! Thanks Benno and all the rest for your help/suggestions! Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] no Affix bluetooth protocol stack on gentoo?
Hello, is there a reason (other than no one having created an ebuild) that the Affix bluetooth protocol stack is not in portage? I know there is Bluez, but it seams not to work as well with symbian os based smartphones. Thank you, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT
Hello, sorry for the long wait to reply, I switched to E17 and I have
the same problem
as with Gnome, still can switch to a VT...
Ifr I open a term and try the usual Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F7 key combination
I get :
PQRS;7~;7~;7~
Which I don't ever remember getting in the past. I tried killing
gnome-settings-manager but that doesn't change anything either.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gabriel
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
I recently switched to ~x86 and with it to xorg 7.x.
Are you sure it's due to upgrading Xorg and not Gnome?
See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/175870
I saw that
the xkb syntax changed, so I updated it accordingly,
but now I can't switch to VT's anymore.
When using almost exactly your arrangement it works fine here.
$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include xfree86+aliases(qwerty) };
xkb_types { include complete };
xkb_compat{ include complete+lednum(group_lock) };
xkb_symbols { include
pc(pc104)+us(basic)+us(intl):2+ch(fr):3+group(ctrls_toggle)+level3
(win_switch)+ctrl(nocaps)+compose(menu)+eurosign(e) };
xkb_geometry { include pc(pc104) };
};
If it's not the failing Gnome daemon, maybe it is Gnome interfering
in some other way with the keyboard? Here I had to switch off all
things in KDE's Control Center Regional Keyboard Layout to make
the settings in xorg.conf work.
Benno
Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
Hi, If it's in a USB enclosure, you need your /boot to be in a partition on your main disk (the one inside of the laptop), if I'm not mistaking, Fei seams to think so too. The hda* is now an sda* (or sdb*, sdc*, etc) because usb storage stuff emulates scsi. Gabriel Bruce Burden wrote: Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from hda0,x to hda1,x, and attempted to boot Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with the: VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6) message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802. Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was a SCSI notation? My GRUB is: default 0 timeout 8 splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 title Windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I had hda0,X... I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't right... Thank you, Bruce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT
Hello, I recently switched to ~x86 and with it to xorg 7.x. I saw that the xkb syntax changed, so I updated it accordingly, but now I can't switch to VT's anymore. I searched google but all the solutions didn't apply to me, since they hadn't updated their xorg.conf. I use diff. keyboard mappings, us-basic, us-international and swiss-french. I checked the xorg logs and it has no xkb problems. Here are my xorg keyboard settings : Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option AutoRepeat500 30 Option XkbLayout us,us,ch Option XkbVariantbasic,intl,fr Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbOptions grp:lwin_toggle,grp_led:num,eurosign:e EndSection does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? If use only us-basic it works fine (I haven't tried only swiss-french, but a colleague uses it and has no problems). Thank you, Gabriel Rossetti -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome-Panel's Network Monitor gives an error
Thanks, I'll give it a try. Gabriel Adam Carter wrote: I had a similar issue with the gnome clock, I tried a number of things to get it working but I think revdep-rebuild -X was the winner. Emerge gentoolkit if you don't have it. HTH, Adam -Original Message- From: Gabriel Rossetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:44 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gnome-Panel's Network Monitor gives an error Hello, I just went from stable to ~x86 and now gnome gives me this error when it tries to load the gnome-panel's network-monitor : The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_NetstatusApplet. Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome-Panel's Network Monitor gives an error
Hello, I just went from stable to ~x86 and now gnome gives me this error when it tries to load the gnome-panel's network-monitor : The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_NetstatusApplet. Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration? I had this once before, I think, but I can't remember what to do and I can't find what to do on google. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ipw3945d no longer starting when wifi switch is set to on with udev-103 (without coldplug now)
Hello everyone, I updated my system and the new udev-103 didn't like coldplug (since it is now able to do it itself). My problem is that now ipw3945d is no longer started when I switch on the wifi switch on my laptop, like it was when coldplug was installed. Any ideas on how to achieve this functionality now? Thank you, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945d no longer starting when wifi switch is set to on with udev-103 (without coldplug now)
Hello Jakommo, I use testing (~x86), I see the startup script, but before coldplug took care of running it when I switched on my wifi, I'd like that same convenient way of doing things if possible. Regards, Gabriel jak gentoo wrote: On 12/5/06, *Gabriel Rossetti* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I updated my system and the new udev-103 didn't like coldplug (since it is now able to do it itself). My problem is that now ipw3945d is no longer started when I switch on the wifi switch on my laptop, like it was when coldplug was installed. Any ideas on how to achieve this functionality now? Thank you, Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Gabriel, do you use ipw3945d stable or testing? it seems the stable release has problems with udev 103, mybe try to use the testing ipw3945d. I use testing and i didn´ t had any problems after the update of udev. also testing comes with an rc-start-script now. greez jakommo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
