Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba
On 8/11/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick. Though as far as I know the only one Windows can actually mount (as a drive) is Samba. I think that newer versions of Windows can access WebDAV shares using Web Folders. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Question about duplicate lines in file
On 6/12/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried this: uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort I think that you need to run sort on the file first, then uniq. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Perl Geo-IP
On 6/4/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to compile dev-perl/Geo-IP and I got the following message: Did you try searching bugzilla? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123546 HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage
On 6/1/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. Depending on how much free space you have available, you could send a copy of the portage tree along with the binary package. If you pack /usr/portage into a squashfs, it only takes up about 25 megs. Mount the image, install your binary package. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I get java compiler without x11?
On 5/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get the java compiler without installing x11? Try adding -X to your USE flags. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package
I am not a portage expert, but would it be possible to re-tar the fixed source, then re-generate the ebuild digest using: # ebuild path to ebuild digest Then you should be able to continue with the emerge? HTH, Matt On 5/23/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the emerge, it will fail the md5 check. How can I do this? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs
On 5/9/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action. Is there a setting to tailor this? I can think of two things off the top of my head: 1) In the unstable version of portage, there is a feature called elog that is supposed to parse out the important messages and place them in a certain directory. AFAIK, the only real documentation of this feature is in /etc/make.conf.example 2) There is a script called portlog-info: http://gentooexperimental.org/archive/portlog-info/portlog-info that extracts the important messages from PORT_LOGDIR. It is pretty flexible HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?
On 5/7/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile the portage xorg maintainers have decided that they are not going to reinstate 1.0.2-r3, not even hard masked, which means that, unless 1.0.2-r4 decides to work for me second time round, I'm stuffed. I think that you should be able to find that version of the ebuild in the portage CVS attic: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x11-base/xorg-server/ HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP
There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that explained the different options for the net scripts. However, I cannot seem to locate it anymore. Matt On 5/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to go about doing this? I would prefer to use dhclient over dhcpcd, as I already have it installed and it has always worked nicely for me in the past (on BSD). What is the best way to go about configuring this? /etc/conf.d/net.example seemed a bit cryptic about the proper way to do this. Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP
Ahh, here is the relavent section on dhcp: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=3#doc_chap3 On 5/5/06, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that explained the different options for the net scripts. However, I cannot seem to locate it anymore. Matt On 5/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to go about doing this? I would prefer to use dhclient over dhcpcd, as I already have it installed and it has always worked nicely for me in the past (on BSD). What is the best way to go about configuring this? /etc/conf.d/net.example seemed a bit cryptic about the proper way to do this. Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, portage niceness and distcc
One solution to this issue is to use the faster server as a binary host for the slower one. I was able to do something similar with a slow laptop and a fast desktop machine. I'm not in front of my gentoo machine right now, so I can't provide the exact details, but it goes something like this: On the fast machine (you can optionally do all of this inside a chroot): 1) set-up an ftp server and create a new user for the slower machine to use 2) in make.conf, set PKGDIR to a directory accessible to the ftp user created above 3) for each package you want to install on the slow machine, run: # emerge -B package name (Also, in make.conf, you can add buildpkg in FEATURES to always build binary packages whenever you emerge something.) On the slow machine: 1) in make.conf, add getbinpkg to FEATURES 2) in make.conf, set PORTAGE_BINHOST to ftp://login:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/binpkgs where fastmachine is the address of the fast machine used to build the packages. 3) then try to emerge the package on the slow machine This setup worked for me, but, of course, YMMV Matt On 5/4/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I've been trying to upgrade an really old machine to the new gcc, and so, following the guide, I'm at the emerge --oneshot sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 step. This old hardware suits my needs for a web server and MySQL mirror, but that's about the charge it can handle, so, I've set PORTAGE_NICENESS to 15, I don't mind if it take a whole month to compile, but it must be responsive to other processes all the time. What I've noticed is that the process is using nice 0 (that pretty much makes the machine unusable), and distcc is not working, if it was, I'm pretty sure the time would reduce greatly because other emerge operations that use it are getting super fast responses thanks to the distcc and ccache wonders (my host is already upgraded). Is there a way to compile this or migrate GCC with binary packages or something like it? I have compatible CHOSTs flags on both machines and the other one is a fast server. Any advice would be great. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6629? was: modular Xorg made it to ~x86
On 3/28/06, Chad Feller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an old nVida card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15) and am using the 7174. GLX, DRI it all works well. I've been putting off upgrading to modular X on this box until I knew that any bugs which might affect the nVidia kernel were resolved. So has anyone using this unified driver upgraded to modular Xorg and still had GLX, DRI all work using the nVidia 7174? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I also have an old nvidia card: # lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a4) and am using the 7167 driver. I upgraded to modular X this weekend. The only problem i ran into was this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111877 To get around this, I had to switch to the X opengl interface, emerge X, then switch back to the nvidia interface. I also made sure to rebuild the nvidia module after the X upgrade. No problems so far. Haven't really noticed any differnce in speed, stability, etc. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration
On 2/23/06, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use xpdf, because acroread takes ages to load. For this to work I added xpdf as handler for the application/pdf MIME-type to the list of helper applications. It should be somewhere in the preferences. I can't seem to find this option in firefox 1.5.0.1 Under Edit - Preferences - Downloads I see Download actions. Clicking on View and Edit Actions shows an entry for some Flash-related files, but nothing for pdf and no option to add a new entry to this list. Am I missing something obvious? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Asking dhcp for a static address
On 1/6/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address. I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using Any hints? I know that you can do this with udhcpc using the -r option: -r ADDRESS, --request=ADDRESS Request IP address ADDRESS. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia
I think you are having the same problem that I did: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages
On 12/3/05, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. I don't know what the exact format of your particular text file is, but why don't you just sed and friends to convert the text file into a format that wget can use? HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2 blocking subversion
Hi All, Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ? Is there any reason to do this ? Do you have the apache2 USE flag enabled? HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation
My partner's computer is running the 1.0.7174 drivers, the latest that work with the TNT2 card, on gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r1 with no stability problems. It also worked fine on later the 2.6.12 revisions. That may indicate that the fault is elsewhere in your setup, or it may mean that the combination is only flakey on certain hardware, but I thought I'd let you know. Thanks for the info, that is good to know. I wouldn't be suprised if there were some other hardware issues also involved. I may try out the 2.6.13 series, though, to see if the problem persists. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation
On 9/14/05, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/portage/package.mask: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 In /etc/portage/package.unmask =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 Thanks for the help. So the atoms in package.unmask are evaluated after the atoms in package.mask? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing portage in my LAN without rsync?
On 9/15/05, aka Sevein Jes__s Garc__a Crespo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Was Portage developed to work with a /usr/portage directory mounted from another computer with NFS or SMB? I did it and it worked. I thought this way could be easier than rsync when you have maybe two or three computer working with the same network-shared directory. But I noticed a poor performance even when the newtwork connection is very good. And I get messages like this: I have a similar setup, with one portage tree shared via NFS to several computers. I have also noticed some performance drawbacks. Usually, the first time I run a command like emerge -av whatever there is a noticable delay (20-30 seconds). However, subsequent invocations of emerge start-up normally. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation
I've been having serious problems with newer versions of gentoo-sources (basically 2.6.12-r9 and 2.6.12-r10), so I have downgraded to 2.6.12-r4, which is rock solid for me. So, I thought to add something like this atom to /etc/portage/package.mask: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 However, what I really want to to is mask all versions of gentoo-sources greater than 2.6.12-r4 and less than or equal to 2.6.12-r10, so that I can test newer versions of gentoo-sources beyond 2.6.12-r10 when they become available. So, what I really want is something like this: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 Of course, this syntax doesn't work and spits out an Invalid atom error when I run emerge. Does anyone know the proper syntax for what I want to achieve? Is it even possible to acheive this? Thank you for the help in advance, Matt As an aside, I think this latest instability with new versions of gentoo-sources has to do with problems using older versions of the nvidia drivers with newer kernel versions. Unfortunately, I cannot upgrade my nvidia drivers because my Geforce2 GTS is officially unsupported by the latest drivers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Broken build of grass
On 9/6/05, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package grass seems to be broken (emerge): Did you try searching bugs.gentoo.org? There are several bugs about this issue, including: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27915 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?
On 9/7/05, Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? How about disown, a bash built-in? $ disown -h job number HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package
On 8/23/05, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be installed by a package without installing it? IIRC, it is not possible to get a complete file list without actually compiling the package, because the different USE flags declared change which files will be installed. However, if you are willing to build the package without actually installing it to your system, you can run emerge with the '-B' option to build a binary package. This command creates a .tbz2 archive containing all of the files that would be installed by the package, which you can then browse through. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. On 8/18/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ emerge -avt unison These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-misc/unison-2.12.0 -debug +gtk +gtk2 -static -threads 821 kB [ebuild N] net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.2-r1 28 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0 -debug -doc -glade -gnome -gnomecanvas +opengl -svg 622 kB [ebuild N] dev-ml/lablgl-1.00 -doc -glut -tcltk 381 kB [ebuild N] dev-lang/ocaml-3.08.1 -latex -tcltk 2,002 kB Is it possible that the one of the dependencies pulls in Mozilla? Try emerge with the --tree option for more info. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files
On 8/17/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy (http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the webapps/ directory, as it should according to the Tomcat documentation. What is interesting is that I have another computer running the same version of Tomcat that does auto-deploy WAR files. Thinking that this might be a problem with Tomcat, I also tried installing another Servlet container in portage, resin. Once again, on one computer resin will not auto-deploy WAR files, while it does auto-deploy them on the other. There isn't anything thrown into the Tomcat log files. OTher troubleshooting steps I have tried include: 1) setting permissions on the WAR file to 777 (no effect) 2) setting the $CLASSPATH on each computer to the same value (no effect) 3) unmerging and re-emerging tomcat several times (no effect) I really don't know any other avenues to pursue. Thanks in advance, Matt I apologize for responding to my own post, but I saw this in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out on the not-working machine: Aug 17, 2005 1:49:22 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWARs WARNING: Exception while expanding web application archive sshwebproxy.war Does anyone know how I can increase Tomcat's logging level so it will throw more detailed information into the log file? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files
On 8/17/05, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Take a look here http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/server.html. Ok, I changed the debug attribute to 9 and restarted tomcat, but the log file still looks the same. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk
On 8/17/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only taking up 9mb (when gzipped). Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped image file into a ramdisk and use it as a root filesystem. Running the system directly from the CF card works great, but when trying to get it to run it in ram it fails with kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0). My attempt at running the system from ram is as follows: (grub config file): kernel /vmlinuzinitrd=/rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0 the rootfs.gz file is ~10Mb, and when uncompressed is an 100mb image (most of the image is free space to allow for future additions, this is a test bed). Now I presume this is probably what is incorrect, in which case can anyone help me regarding how to use ramdisks as root devices. (googling about tells me that the initrd image is not the root image, but rather a pre-root mounting fs to prepare the system for booting). I'm not in front of my linux box right now, but try this for a grub config: kernel /vmlinuz root=/rootfs.gz HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files
I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy (http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the webapps/ directory, as it should according to the Tomcat documentation. What is interesting is that I have another computer running the same version of Tomcat that does auto-deploy WAR files. Thinking that this might be a problem with Tomcat, I also tried installing another Servlet container in portage, resin. Once again, on one computer resin will not auto-deploy WAR files, while it does auto-deploy them on the other. There isn't anything thrown into the Tomcat log files. OTher troubleshooting steps I have tried include: 1) setting permissions on the WAR file to 777 (no effect) 2) setting the $CLASSPATH on each computer to the same value (no effect) 3) unmerging and re-emerging tomcat several times (no effect) I really don't know any other avenues to pursue. Thanks in advance, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash details
On 8/12/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I cannot seem to find detailed document/manual on using bash robustly in a programming environment. Let me be the first of many to point you to the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)
On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the MythTV-Users list I've seen people talking about using NFS devices but recommending that they be set up with TCP instead of UDP. So far I haven't yet found any Gentoo docs on how to do this. IIRC, there is also a kernel config option that enables NFS over TCP, which you need to enable on the server (maybe also client?). Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)
On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize option is being used? Thanks, Mark Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ssh-client?
On 7/26/05, Oscar Carlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone :) I'm currently at work (in a drug store, or whatever it's called in english (: ), using a public computer, and I don't think I dare to download and run putty on this machine... So I'm out looking for a web based ssh client, like a package I can put on a webserver, and run whenever necessary. I'm not even sure this machine has java installed, so something based on like php / perl (or whatever packages you might find on a webserver), and hopefully something secure would be nice... One option is anyterm, seems to work pretty well: http://anyterm.org/ HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?
What would be the easiest way to somehow map a network drive on my Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH? Could you try something like WebDAV? It should be easy to forward the necessary port over ssh to a web server on your Gentoo box. Plus, XP has built-in support for WebDAV through its Web Folders stuff. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc
On 7/12/05, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working on: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html Comments, etc are welcome. I think this is very good. I liked the discussion on user privilages, but maybe it would be possible/a good idea to add an explicit discussion of MySQL security issues. Also, just a minor typo right under Creating a Database: We now have a mysql promt displayed Overall, a nice guide. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from /etc/inittab with a respawn action? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Latitude D610
On 6/21/05, Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had success installing Gentoo 2005.0 on a Dell Latitude D610? Specifically I'm worried about getting the ATI RADEON X300 video card and the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 working. I don't foresee any problems with the Sigmatel sound, Broadcom wired network, DVD+-RW, or hard drive. http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html has a huge list of guides for installing on Dell laptops. I'm sure your model is one the list. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
On 6/21/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my systems, since they are frontend only, this might work but I don't know how to do it. Can someone point out basically how to try? Also, what user account would be used if mythfrontend was started this way? Maybe that will be apparent when I get a clue about how to do this. Here's the format of the /etc/inittab on my system: # TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux So try changing it to something like this: c1:12345:respawn:su mythuser -c startx with 'mythuser' being the username you want to run mythfrontend and 'startx' replaced by whatever script or program you want. If X is exited for killed for some reason, then init should respawn it again. Of course, you should also read man inittab for more info. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Alienware laptop
On 6/16/05, Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten Gentoo to work on a Alienware Area-51m 7700 or Sentia? I am leaning towards the Sentia since I still get performance and mobility without the bulk of the Area-51m 7700. Have you seen this: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/alienware/ (for the 7700) http://www.transient-iss.com/sentia.html (for the Sentia) BTW, both of these links came courtesy of http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?
is there a way to display images directly in links? i think it is possible, but could not find any option to turn it on, any ideas? Have you tried running links with the '-g' option? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?
the links2 -g -driver fb works. i tried links2 -g before, but it stops responding. the -driver option is not mentioned in the man page. so... there might be tips somewhere i dont know.. I think that if you just specifiy the '-g' option, links is supposed to auto-seach for an appropriate display device. On my system, it just works -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard
lspci -v reveals: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22 I/O ports at e000 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 I have the same card integrated into the mobo of one of my systems. I get the same no soundcards found message during kernel boot-up. However, I was able to move forward anyway using the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml#doc_chap3 and everything seemed to work fine. The only quirk I ran into was that the output volume of my card was controlled by the headphone volume setting in alsamixer. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?
x, svgalib, sdl What USE flags did you use for links? (I think) you need to include fbcon and/or directfb in order to use links with the framebuffer. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java
echo dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask echo =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask What's the difference between sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin? At first glance, it appears that one should be the development kit whereas the other should only install the runtime environment, however URL for each ebuild points to the same website and the tarbell that the sun-jre-bin ebuild instructs you to download contains the full J2SE development kit and runtime environment. I'm mostly interest, because the sun-jdk-1.5.03 is hard-masked, whereas sun-jre-bin-1.5.03 is not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?
I assume either xterm or utempter is requiring ssmtp, but I don't understand why. Any ideas? Looking at the ebuilds themselves, neither ebuild has a dependency upon ssmtp or an other mta. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc
On 6/8/05, Marchal Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another solution could be to run distcc in colinux on your Windows box, that's I do home. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/colinux-howto.xml Just be sure to have Windows XP Pro edition, Windows XP home doesn't work for me... Laurent Marchal there is also an article in the Gentoo-Wiki about running distcc in Windows via cygwin: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Distcc_server_on_Windows The process is pretty long and tedious, so be warned, but it seems to work. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions
Hi, Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the partition information from fdisk. Anything else? partimage has an option to backup a partition to a remote location. So you could run it on the remote computer sending the backed-up partition to your local machine. The online documentation for partimage is excellent: http://www.partimage.org/doc/ Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LayeredTech.com not Gentoo friendly
On 4/28/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to sign up with LayeredTech.com but they are rabidly refusing to go through the: 1. boot to LiveCD 2. start networking 3. set passwd 4. start sshd If there is already a Linux distro installed on the system, you could use the Alternative Installation HOWTO: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6 IIRC, someone also posted some time ago their method for remotely installing Gentoo from an existing RH install. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No MySQL 4.1 Support ?
Gentoo must be the only distribution on the planet that doesn't have support for MySQL 4.1, what's up with that ? Actually, Debian stable only includes 3.23 Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?
If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find something that interacts with something else that you've already done that makes what you've already done irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all through the [deleted] thing before making changes. Itsa drag, yeah, but it does make things like kernels more safely. You could try looking at the kernel config file used by Knoppix, then comparing it to the one used in Gentoo. Check the relavent sections for any differences between the two. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?
probably that you forget 50% of the times the # mount /boot ;) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I seem to recall that the make install script will spit out an error if it doesn't find grub or lilo in /boot, which would likely indicate that /boot is not mounted. It would seem, then, that it would be easy to change the make install script to check whether or not /boot is mounted, and if not, mount it automatically? Interesting, sounds like a project for this weekend. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
