Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
On Sunday 03 Feb 2008 20:50:47 Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been wanting to do this for months now, but failed to write up a coherent message to the list. Now I can finally reboot with ease and walk away, without having to mess with quickly switching grub (being impatient and having a short attention span, similar as they may be, are, in conjunction, quite an obstacle for multi-booters ;) ) I was thinking, though; wouldn't it be possible to just switch back and forth each boot? Have grub set windows as the default when it boots linux and linux as the default after booting windows, and you can just switch back and forth by rebooting - no grub-set-default required. However, this would be appropriate only for people who want to reboot into the other OS every time they reboot. info grub Look for savedefault. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
On Saturday 02 Feb 2008 18:27:55 Liviu Andronic wrote: Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login screen. info grub Look for grub-set-default. What I've done is to add the default entry in grub.conf normally. After every menu entry, I've added `savedefault 0'. Then when rebooting, you could issue a `grub-set-default foo', it'll reboot into that entry without you having to wait. If KDE has grub support, it'll allow you to pick which entry to boot into with the restart button. HTH -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:03:16 +0200, David Harel wrote: I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to initialization files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files from /etc/profile: FILES /bin/bash The bash executable /etc/profile The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells Where real life uses /etc/bash/bashrc This part is taken from strace dump: strace bash -i open(/etc/bash/bashrc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 Hmmm. bash -i is not a login shell. An interactive shell doesn't read /etc/profile if it's not a login shell. From man bash: ``When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. snip When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.'' -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?
On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 13:32:59 John covici wrote: Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so gnome does not run or am I doing something wrong here? Is your ~/.xinitrc proper? Someting like `exec gnome-session'. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp2VhXL6GfQ8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?
On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 18:36:59 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:19, John covici wrote: Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even there -- the line was commented out in the file. That sets a systemwide default. As others suggested, the file ~/.xinitrc might be used to choose on a per-user basis the X session to run (it has to be created by each user who wants it). Actually, GDM uses Xsessions and startx uses xinitrc files. If you look at the /etc/X11/xinitrc file, it looks for and uses the ~/.xinitrc file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses the variable XSESSION. If neither of the methods works, it starts a twm session. Correct me if I'm wrong please. HTH. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgprnaz4AOvRf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
On Tuesday 06 Feb 2007 05:06:29 Thomas Lingefelt wrote: I've been using truecrypt between Windows and Linux for just this purpose and it works great. Not so sure about MacOS though. emerge app-crypt/truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll start implementing tomorrow morning. Maybe by the time I get a Mac it will have been ported. Thanks! It would be nice if you could post a HOWTO to the wiki, if it doesn't exist already. I haven't checked yet.. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgphK9abt0mtt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote: I personally still love Gentoo. What's the problem then? :) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpmSykqzP83h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 00:24, Grant wrote: I'm thinking this over a bit more, and it seems like the best thing for Gentoo (or any distro) is a lot of users. More users must mean more active developers, and more active developers must mean an increased rate of growth for the software. I believe the great benefit of Gentoo is its flexibility, and flexibility is like a meta-benefit because it makes possible any other benefit. What do you think makes Ubuntu the distro of the moment? Is it ease-of-use? If Gentoo focused more on ease-of-use aspects of the Ubuntu variety, they would attract more users and thereby increase the rate of growth for the software. Popular migration from one distro to the next sends a very important signal to any distro that wants to grow. Methinks, Gentoo should stay focused. I don't think the goal of Gentoo was to become a Desktop Distro for the people migrating from M$ land. I don't care about ease of use. The current situation is great for me. I DO want the flexibility and the control. Quality matters, not the quantity. I'm not against ease of use. Its always welcome. I guess its up to the devs and the Council to decide on what Gentoo wants to be and for whom. Trying to cater too many different categories of people is shooting yourself in the foot. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpsdKD9aiW1j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 23:03, Richard Fish wrote: The upshot of this is this: by far the easiest way to solve the net-naming problem is to run /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces This will generate the rules for all interfaces, and then you can just edit the file to change the names as you like. So I guess I'll know that for the next person that asks. :-P Cool, that worked perfectly! I remember seeing an error about write_net_rules not being able to create a file during bootup, twice.. Btw, I really would like to master udev. Good documentation? I can see a couple of links at the bottom of the Gentoo udev guide. Anything else I should be referring to? Thanks a lot btw. :) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev upgrade and non-working eth0
Hi, I upgraded to udev-103 yesterday. Since then, my internet hasn't been working. I connect through eth0, which is a VIA Rhine adapter on my motherboard. ifconfig shows the link to be up. But, I can't even ping the gateway through eth0. I get destination unreachable replies. This is what syslog tells me after bootup: Nov 27 19:11:14 mrugeshkarnik kernel: eth0: link down And this is the ifconfig output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:45:C1:C9 inet addr:10.40.37.47 Bcast:10.40.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xe000 I don't see a RUNNING flag in there.. What do I do? I'm completely stuck without the internet on Gentoo.. :( Thanks in advance. Mrugesh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0
On 27/11/06, 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I also upgraded and find that my laptop, which previously had eth0 and eth1 for its two cards (one wired and one wireless) now has eth0 and eth2. After editing my scripts and configurations (e.g. wpa_supplicant startup and kismet conf), things seem to work fine. Right. The idiosyncrasies! I checked dmesg (Should have done that earlier.. duh!). Here's the output: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe000, 00:0d:88:45:c1:c9, IRQ 18 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth0: link down eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0xfa002000, 00:13:d3:60:4a:a5, IRQ 19. eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1. Now, how do I swap the two cards? I don't know how to write udev rules yet. I was planning on learning that next week.. I guess I should learn it as soon as the internet works.. Anyway, I'd very much appreciate the exact solution from the list right now :) Thanks to everyone who replied. And well, the ip addresses are correct. My ISP gives me a NAT'ed connection (duh! :/). Thanks again, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 04:16, Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# ethernet devices
ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==net, SYSFS{address}==00:13:d3:60:4a:a5,
NAME=eth0
ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==net, SYSFS{address}==00:0d:88:45:c1:c9,
NAME=eth1
No go. They didn't swap.
Just in case, you did make those 2, not 4, lines right? Silly gmail
word-wrapping... :-(
What do udevtest /class/net/eth0 and udevtest /class/net/eth1
report? Also udevinfo -a -p /class/net/eth0 and udevinfo -a -p
/class/net/eth1.
Aaah! Feels so good to be writing this email in kmail again!! So, as you might
guess, its working now.
The problem apparently was that I used upper case letters in the hex numbers.
I didn't know those hex numbers are lower case only :s
Oh and I HAD put them on two lines.
Anyway, now I get this message during bootup:
udevd-event[3110]: rename_netif: error changing net interface name eth0_rename
to eth1: No such device.
It works fine though. But, how do I get rid of that message? Its just annoying
to look at :/
/me thinks about setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes
Anyway, all you people, thanks for your help. Very much appreciated!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:38, Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
udevd-event[3110]: rename_netif: error changing net interface name
eth0_rename to eth1: No such device.
Hmm, haven't seen this error, but these rules (based on
70-persistent-net.rules) might work better:
SUBSYSTEM==net, ATTRS{address}==00:13:d3:60:4a:a5, NAME=eth0
SUBSYSTEM==net, ATTRS{address}==00:0d:88:45:c1:c9, NAME=eth1
Stupid question perhaps.. but does it matter in which files the rules go? I
can see a 75-persistent-net-generator.rules file in there..
/me thinks about setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes
This won't help for ethernet naming. There is no /dev/eth* device
node, after all.
True. Hmm.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:31, Richard Fish wrote: can see a 75-persistent-net-generator.rules file in there.. Hmm, not sure how I got a 70-persistent-net.rules. There is some interaction between that and 75-persistent-net-generator.rules (and the /lib/udev/write_net_rules script), but I'm a bit too tired to figure it out ATM. It looks like 70-... should be created by the write_net_rules script... RULES_FILE='/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' That's the first line of write_net_rules. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No working burning cdrom
On Thursday 09 November 2006 12:57, Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 06:49, giovedì 9 novembre 2006, Mrugesh Karnik ha scritto: [...] Its to do with a kernel upgrade. Do a ulimit -l unlimited before starting k3b in the same session. As user: $ ulimit -l unlimited bash: ulimit: max locked memory: cannot modify limit: Operation not allowed as root it is works! Now the question is how can I rescue it as default and allow it to users? What does it mean a kernel update? Thanks, Luigi Yes, it works as root. I was just investigating ways to set that only for growisofs. One way is to set it in /etc/profile, but that'll affect all processes. I'll let you know when I find the solution. One solution I can think of is to run ulimit followed by growisofs in a subshell.. but the issue is with being root. I'll let you know. As for the kernel upgrade, this limit was imposed in 2.6.16 or something from what I read. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpyQ5L7m0BGc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No working burning cdrom
On Thursday 09 November 2006 15:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:30:36 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Yes, it works as root. I was just investigating ways to set that only for growisofs. One way is to set it in /etc/profile, but that'll affect all processes. I'll let you know when I find the solution. One solution I can think of is to run ulimit followed by growisofs in a subshell.. but the issue is with being root. I'll let you know. This limit only applies to the root user, so the question becomes why is K3b running growisofs as root?. Is growisofs suid? ls -l $(which growisofs) -rws--x--- 1 root burning 71888 2006-10-19 11:33 /usr/bin/growisofs Apparently, it is. I suppose it is to do with avoiding issues with users being in the proper group for burning the disks. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpE72SsoiVaV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No working burning cdrom
On Thursday 09 November 2006 04:44, Luigi Pinna wrote: Hi! I tried today to burn some backup data with k3b. Until some days ago all worked perfectly, today I had that message: growisofs --- :-( unable to anonymously mmap 33554432: Resource temporarily unavailable growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2169087 -dvd-compat -speed=8 -overburn -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m My dvd-burner is the floppy drive? How can I solve that problem? Since it I can't burn my data more... Thanks, Luigi Its to do with a kernel upgrade. Do a ulimit -l unlimited before starting k3b in the same session. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpENLMz8hyFU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 23:10, Grant wrote: emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade? - Grant Done. Had to run revdep-rebuild after the upgrade and everything was nice and smooth. :-) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp4EahEyhy5K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
On Monday 06 November 2006 18:22, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: One flag per each plugin? I am mainly interested in the history plugin do you know which flag i need? where i can find a list of kopete flags? Thanks for your reply emerge -pv1 kopete ;-) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpLBqICDGN14.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag
On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:57:27 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile masked. Hmm... Welcome to the world of the testing tree :) Testing? This is all in the stable tree! -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp73KxJPX3kq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need lcms?
On Thursday 19 October 2006 21:18, Mick wrote: Hi All, I can see the lcms flag but am not sure if I need it: [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.9-r1 [1.0.8-r2] USE=-lcms% 541 kB # euse -i lcms global use flags (searching: lcms) [-] lcms - Adds lcms support (color management engine) local use flags (searching: lcms) no matching entries found Although http://www.littlecms.com/about.htm is quite informative, I am not sure if this falls into the category of if you don't know what it is, you don't need it! sort of thing. Hmm. It can be useful if you use Scribus. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpzmq32wBjyU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device
On Monday 02 October 2006 16:01, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Hi I am new to gentoo and I just finished a stage 1,2,3 installation, and I have followed the gentoo USB howto. When I plug-in a usb device no device coming up in /dev directory, yet dmesg tell me I have plugged in a mass storage device. I'm running kernel 2.6.17... please help. Ah, I wanted to ask about this too. The same thing happens to me. I need to reboot with the device plugged in, which is a pain. I'd appreciate an answer as well. I hope this is not highjacking the thread, because I have the exact same question.. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpxchfTK8lxG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords '/'
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 18:50, kiorky wrote: I ve heard about /etc/portage/package.keywords directory instead of file. So now what is the read priodity for files in ? There is no priority file. You can use package.keywords file itself. The directory feature is to give more flexibility. For example, I had separate files inside package.keywords directory for KDE, xgl, java, XFCE etc. IIRC, the files will be concatenated and interpreted as a single file by portage. HTH. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgptGmkHiYbgi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:28, Thomas Kear wrote: The real advantage that initng posesses are, unless runit's website is simply failing to mention it, auto-restarting of failed daemons, virtual dependencies, and clever multi-distro compatible scripts that use a preprocessor at install time (see the #ifd / #elsed / #endd statements in a file like http://svn.initng.org/initng-ifiles/trunk/initfiles/system/modules.ii ). I've used runit for a little while. It uses daemontools from qmail to monitor services. Hence it also has auto-restarting of failed daemons. I haven't used it long enough to know about dependencies though. I thought runit was pretty good. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp7kjRm5f0Os.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] app-office/openoffice-bin and kde
On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:14, Noack, Sebastian wrote: Hi, does somebody know if app-office/openoffice-bin supports native look and feel for kde? Or would I have to emerge app-office/openoffice with KDE-useflag? The icons, to me, look KDE-ish. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgptC0SHerdZm.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Changing CFLAGS and cloning the system.. What are my options?
Hi folks, Please bear with me, even if this seems a little newbie-sh. I have a perfectly running Gentoo AMD64 system, with XGL and all. Now I've figured that I need to change my CFLAGS. It's some stupidity on my part, please don't ask. So I guess I'll need to rebuild my entire system. Anyway, I have about 11GB free on the hard disk. I am thinking about building binaries of all the installed packages on the system, keep them burnt on a DVD. I'll back up my /etc. All my data partitions and /home are on different partitions, so I don't see any need to back them up. Also, I'll keep the 2006.0 minimal install CD handy. It does support LVM right? What do I do with the stage tarballs? How can I make a snapshot of this working system as a fallback? I remember something about a Stage 4 in the forums a while ago.. I installed this system well over a year ago with a Stage 1 tarball. Should I keep Stage 3 handy? Is there anything else I should be worried about? Have I forgotten something in case something goes wrong and I have to reinstall the entire thing... Another thing, I'll need to make an exact copy of this system, once rebuilt, on a friend's laptop, albeit with a different partition setup. My system has LVM setup, the laptop won't have that. What all needs to be changed? Sorry to ask so many question, I'm just worried about messing up the fine system.. :/ Thanks and regards, Mrugesh pgpCvdOKEFA21.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with NAT
Hi, I have been having trouble forwarding packets using iptables on my Gentoo box. I am no iptables expert. I connect to the internet using rp-pppoe. I use firestarter for firewalling. Yesterday I installed VMware and chose host only networking between the VMs. vmnet0 was bound to 192.168.128.1 and the rest of the subnet being 192.168.128.0/24. As should be obvious by now, I need to forward packets from ppp0 to vmnet0 and allow outbound packets as well. I chose vmnet0 to be the adaptor connected to my LAN and enabled Internet Connection Sharing in Firestarter. I could ping my virtual hosts and do ssh and telnet, but I couldn't access the internet from those hosts. I also tried the Gentoo Home Router Guide. But to no avail. I still couldn't have the hosts access the internet. I have had this problem with actual physical LAN too. I haven't been able to allow any of the LAN hosts to connect to the internet through my Gentoo box. Could someone help me? Thank you. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpHLqsu2JtzA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:26, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no changes/additions we made. I rebooted and had the same problem occurring: System.map not found -- unable to check symbols Thanks for your inputs. -- Valmor I have the same problem. Does anyone know the solution? -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpPiGEVGP3qT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:58, Steven Gill wrote: Genkernel copies the file into /boot/ BUT names the System.map as System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.xx-gentoo-rx so all you need to do is copy/rename this file as System.map (note the capital S) and everything should be fine. I'm not sure what impacts/problems arise out of not having a System.map file but having fixed the problem on my own computers I haven't noticed any differences. I haven't used genkernel and here's my /boot: ls -l /boot/ total 13680 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2005-11-09 12:22 boot - ./ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2006-05-08 22:16 config - config-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32570 2006-01-18 22:11 config-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34144 2006-05-08 22:16 config-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33050 2006-03-15 15:50 config-2.6.15-gentoo-r7.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2006-05-08 22:16 config.old - config-2.6.15-gentoo-r7.old drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 2006-05-02 11:12 grub/ drwx-- 2 root root1024 2005-11-12 19:19 lost+found/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1281606 2005-11-10 20:09 splash-livecd-2005.1-1024x768 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1568408 2005-11-10 19:38 splash-livecd-2005.1-1280x1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 549029 2006-03-17 21:34 splash-livecd-2006.0-1280x1024 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2006-05-08 22:16 System.map - System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1159642 2006-01-18 22:11 System.map-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1183181 2006-05-08 22:16 System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1183181 2006-05-08 21:56 System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r7.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-05-08 21:56 System.map.old - System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r7.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-05-08 22:16 vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2270101 2006-01-18 22:11 vmlinuz-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2328333 2006-05-08 22:16 vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2307346 2006-03-15 15:50 vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r7.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2006-05-08 22:16 vmlinuz.old - vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r7.old -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpB5as7rLrab.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Webapp-config trouble
Hi, cgiirc-0.5.8 got installed as part of the regular update world cycle yesterday. It was slotted alongside 0.5.7. At first, I noticed that the vhosts USE flag was turned on when 0.5.8 got installed. So I re-emerged it with -vhosts. After that, I unmerged cgiirc-0.5.7. Tried to start apache with /etc/init.d/apache2 start and I get the following error: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: Usage: /usr/sbin/apache2 [-D name] [-d directory] [-f file] [-C directive] [-c directive] [-k start|restart|graceful|stop] [-v] [-V] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-t] [-S] Options: -D name : define a name for use in IfDefine name directives -d directory : specify an alternate initial ServerRoot -f file : specify an alternate ServerConfigFile -C directive: process directive before reading config files -c directive: process directive after reading config files -e level : show startup errors of level (see LogLevel) -E file : log startup errors to file -v: show version number -V: show compile settings -h: list available command line options (this page) -l: list compiled in modules -L: list available configuration directives -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS : show parsed settings (currently only vhost settings) -S: a synonym for -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS -t: run syntax check for config files I tried to run webapp-config --si -V and I get this: * Install directory is: /var/www/localhost/htdocs * Fatal error: No .webapp file in /var/www/localhost/htdocs; unable to continue * Fatal error(s) - aborting How do I solve this? Thanks. Mrugesh pgposWMvlehbE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Webapp-config trouble
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 10:37, Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: Usage: /usr/sbin/apache2 [-D name] [-d directory] [-f file] [-C directive] [-c directive] [-k start|restart|graceful|stop] [-v] [-V] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-t] [-S] I doubt this error message is related to your recent webapp-config install (it's probably just now that you noticed it). Generally when this message comes up, there is a problem with your APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2, usually a forgotten -D somewhere. Make sure every item in APACHE2_OPTS has a -D before it. Example (from my apache 2.2 configuration): APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D SUEXEC -D PHP4 -D MACRO -D USERDIR -D ERRORDOCS -D AUTH_PAM That solved it, thanks. What do I do about the webapp-config error though? -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpqBmdbzrMeB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 18:40, Sven Köhler wrote: Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. Okies, thanks :) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpojv1rScDsf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
On Sunday 23 April 2006 22:45, Sven Köhler wrote: (1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. Aah I see! Thanks for correcting me. :) Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? Thanks, Mrugesh pgp5KCL1QUvO3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
On Monday 24 April 2006 22:38, Sven Köhler wrote: Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? config_ppp9=( ppp ) plugins_ppp9=( pppoe ) link_ppp9=eth1 username_ppp9=XXX pppd_ppp9=( noauth defaultroute holdoff 0 ) That works perfectly for me. It reconnects automatically. To start/stop the connection at will: yes, you have to start/stop the init.d-script. Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? Thanks, Mrugesh pgpQMpG8ueFi1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:57, Chen Yufei wrote: I use adsl to connect to the internet and I use rp-pppoe in the past. But I found in the /etc/conf.d/net.example that the rp-pppoe module is being deprecated in favour of the PPP module. So I tried to use ppp to dialup the adsl connection and succeeded. But I have 2 questions now. (1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying that net.ppp0 is started but is inactive This is my /etc/conf.d/net modules=( iproute2) config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2/24 ) config_ppp0=( ppp ) link_ppp0=eth0 plugins_ppp0=( pppoe ) username_ppp0='xxx' password_ppp0='xxx' pppd_ppp0=( updetach defaultroute usepeerdns) Any suggestion? Yeah, I upgraded to rp-pppoe-3.8 yesterday. I had to change my /etc/conf.d/net file to look like this: config_eth0=( adsl ) adsl_user_eth0=username Here's where I found the relevant information: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=4chap=3#doc_chap4 Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up eth0 directly. HTH, Mrugesh pgpiUechhtOSZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VLC and Win32Codecs - Anyone success w/ playing Real/Quicktime?
On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi Guys, I asked this in the vlc mail-list already and was replied that VLC don't use external libraries like win32codecs. As such, it is not able to play rmvb (real Media) files and also it's current quicktime support is broken. I looked at the ebuild for vlc in gentoo and noticed the win32codecs USE flag. However, it does not seem to me that it is being honored in the compilation of VLC. Doing a configure --help of a VLC source does not have anything which shows the win32codecs usage. Has anyone in this list been able to successfully integrate Win32codecs into VLC and hence be able to play Quicktime/rmvb files? It is said that some Debian Sid people has managed to integrate it into their custom compilation. If anyone knows anything, would appreciate some heads up. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:25:22 up 1 day, 7:24, 2 users, load average: 0.64, 0.37, 0.37 Check this out: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html Look at the support for Real Media and your questions shall be answered :) HTH, Mrugesh pgp55ZiFP5mt1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to have default fedora font in gentoo ?
On Monday 06 March 2006 22:28, Massimiliano Bellomo wrote: Hi, i'm searching the fedora/redhat default terminal font (maybe Luxi Mono ?) to use in my Gentoo Box. I've tried Luxi Mono following X11-font HOWTO but it doesn't look very well. If you're talking about the font used on the virtual consoles, it's LatArCyrHeb-16 I don't know about the fonts used in Gnome-terminal. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 20:54, Alec Shaner wrote: krgn wrote: hi I have a question concerning my modular X installation. I did this according to the gentoo guide here http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml. now, I have synced again, and a lot of blocks are coming up and I am not sure really how to solve this. These are the blocks. how can I get rid of them? is it to do with the virtual ebuild or so, I have not really an idea... This I had done back when I had the rc3 installed. cat /etc/portage/profile/virtuals virtual/x11 =xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc3 HTH, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out. Are you pushing it near its limits, perhaps with many disk drives? Can you remove some drives as a test? I thought this to be a possibility to start with... I have been wondering about buying a 400W supply. Hmm, this'll need some testing. Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
On Friday 17 February 2006 08:37, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it refused to boot, as I forced it, it became unstable, finally not booting anymore. I took it to the guy I got it from and he said part of the bus for the MOBO was fried, due to high temperatures, not in the processor, but at the chipset, that caused the BIOS to failure, finally crushing the entire system, reflashing BIOS did not solve it. Now I'm looking for a new motherboard as I write this from my notebook. Check the whole sys temperature. I have been running into problems with this kind of MOBO and processor, its the second fried mobo in 3 months, I changed the power supply, changed memory, drives, everything. So, my advice, cool your system... Again, that's my own experience and I just write this because you described exactly what happened to me last week. You scare me :P I wondered about the BIOS being dead when the computer refused to start, but then after a few hours the computer did start, so I guess it wasn't a BIOS issue. Thanks for your input. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: 1. Tell us the Watts of the power supply (perhaps you'll have to change it) 2. Take the PC powered off and try extracting the video card and replugging it. 3. Try to change the plug you use to give power to the PC. 4. Try to discharge the bios and reconfigure it. Add to this to make sure the line cord is plugged in well, both at the wall and at the computer. I once replaced a power supply only to find that the line cord wasn't plugged in all the way. It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought the case, I'm sure its only about 350W. The second and third I've tried. Fourth... Hmm, I'll try to do that. And yeah, the power cord is plugged in perfectly, I just checked. Thanks again, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably power-related
On Saturday 18 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought the case, I'm sure its only about 350W. More than enough. But maybe the mains is polluted (by electric motors or other high frequency stuff) or its tension has been lowered by some 10 or 20 volts? Hmmm. I have a feeling that there's just too much electrical load in our home... Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no matter what OS I'm using. A few days ago, the system shut itself down. I pressed the start switch but it would not respond, instead the power LED just kept blinking. I thought it to be an overheating issue and let it cool off for a bit. It worked fine for a few days and then this phenomenon just kept repeating itself and the frequency increased. There were a few lockups in between too. This would happen when running and update world while running Azureus in KDE or even when I was doing something as trivial as just chatting. One day, the system refused to start. I pressed the start switch after a few minutes of such a shutdown and all that happened was I could see the power, HDD LEDs and the DVD burner's LED all glowing, but the monitor wouldn't start. The CPU fan would be working. I let the thing sleep for a few hours. Later, I though I'd just run memtest to check if the RAM modules aren't causing any trouble. The pc actually started this time, but as soon as the memtest86+ screen came up, the thing shut itself down once again. Next day, I had the system lock up twice while editing the BIOS settings. This time I decided to dig out the processor and take the board and the processor to the dealer for checkup. Turns out that the processor had got stuck to the heat sink. After separating and reinstalling the two, the system worked fine for a few days. Now, again, a couple of days ago, I had the shut down. This time I decided to keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly. It's showing a pretty neat 35C right now, running Azureus, Kmail and Kopete. Anyway, the point of this lng emails is that I haven't exactly pin pointed the problem. If anyone thinks this is something other than over heating, please reply. Thank you, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 20:08, Benno Schulenberg wrote: James wrote: hddtemp /dev/hda for example /dev/hda: HTS726060M9AT00: 44 C # hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 22 C This doesn't look right, as system temperature is shown as 29°C. At startup hddtemp reported 12 C, while room temperature is 17°C. Benno Hmm, this is what I get: hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: ST3120022A: 41°C hddtemp /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: ST380011A: 41°C M/B Temp:+43°C (high = +17°C, hyst =+0°C) sensor = thermistor CPU Temp: +37.5°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C) sensor = thermistor temp3: +66.0°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C) sensor = thermistor ALARM What the heck is that temp3 then? Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Can bash do comments on files?
On Monday 13 February 2006 11:04, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: You can use extended attributes for this. See getfattr(1) and attr(5) from sys-apps/attr. Quoting the man page for attr: Extended attributes implement the ability for a user to attach name:value pairs to objects within the _XFS_ filesystem. Does it work for other file systems? Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] lm_sensors question.
Hello, I have a small query. I wonder what the temp3 in the output of sensors is? I have been having problems with the computer shutting down due to over heating. Here's my current sensors output: M/B Temp:+42°C (high = +16°C, hyst =+0°C) sensor = thermistor CPU Temp: +36.0°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C) sensor = thermistor temp3: +66.0°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C) sensor = thermistor ALARM Also, I just noticed that it has stopped showing my CPU fan rpms. Could anyone suggest what the problem might be? Thank you, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.
On Monday 13 February 2006 20:29, James wrote: Well I'm not sure, but you can 'emerge hddtemp' and verify the hard drive temperature quite easily. hddtemp /dev/hda for example /dev/hda: HTS726060M9AT00: 44 C Oh I'll do that, thanks. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64
On 04/02/06, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i emerge the common x86 sun-jdk(1.5) in my amd64 box? I simply downloaded the bin package from the Sun website and extracted it to wherever I needed it to be! Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 23:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. This happened to me a while back. Here's what I did. Change your /etc/make.conf to include +jack +jack-tmpfs and +portaudio if needed. Recompile all the packages with jack support. emerge --update --newuse world should do it i guess. Emerge qjackctl. Then emerge rosegarden with -arts and +jack.. Then simply start qjackctl and start jack server before starting rosegarden. This is assuming that you have timidity++ working properly beforehand and that it is started before starting jack. HTH, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict [SOLVED]
On Friday 16 December 2005 18:55, Dale wrote: This is funny. I have gnome-vfs installed and KDE 3.5 with the new hal. I wonder why it worked for me? Dale I had to emerge gnome-vfs-2.12* with KDE 3.5 and hal-0.5* Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev-077-r1 makes /dev/dsp disappear!
Hello, I am running Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron processor with an MSI K8MM-V motherboard runnning a VIA K8M800 chipset. This is the lspci output about my sound card: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0430 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 209 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 The system has been running without any problems with udev-077 and alsa 1.0.9 Yesterday, I upgraded to udev-077-r1 as part of a normal 'update world'. I shut off the system. Booted this morning only to find /dev/dsp missing and alsasound giving errors about soundcard '0' being not found. I tried to upgrade all the alsa packages (alsa-lib alsa-driver alsa-utils alsa-jack alsa-oss) to 1.0.10. I have been using 1.0.9, because I get a very very low volume, even with Master and PCM set to 100% with 1.0.10. Anyway, even after upgrading and running alsaconf, I still had the same problem. I decided to downgrade udev to 077, which I had been using till yesterday. It worked, I got my /dev/dsp back and sound worked. But I still had to downgrade alsa to 1.0.9 to solve the volume issue. My question is, has anyone else seen this issue? Should I report this as a bug? Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-077-r1 makes /dev/dsp disappear!
On Friday 09 December 2005 16:04, Simon Hogg wrote: I was suffering from this same problem and it does appear to be a bug in udev-077-r1 (-r2 is now in ~x86 but I've not tried it yet). The solution that someone else came up with (calr0x on the forums) was to run udevstart once the system is running, this causes all of the device nodes for the installed kernel modules to be created. Simon Upgraded to udev-077-r2 and did udevstart. Everything is fine now. Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not
On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote: But surely if you emerge firefox-bin on a amd64 system it will, by default, install the 64 bit version of the application? Or is there a magic trick to getting it to use 32 bit? AFAIK, firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, mplayer-bin and openoffice-bin are all 32 bit. I don't know of any other bin packages in portage. But it makes perfect sense to keep the 32 bit bin packages in portage. Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not
On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:25, Martins Steinbergs wrote: how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? there isn't such thing as opera-bin in portage however it must be 32 bit. i keep it'cause works with netscape-flash. martins I'm also using Opera on the same system. It's 32 bit and works perfectly with netscape-flash, which of course is 32 bit too. I just haven't been able to figure out how to get Sun's JRE to work with Opera though. It works fine with Firefox. So I use Firefox-bin and/or Opera for websites with Flash. Firefox-bin for Java. Though I also use Konqueror with Blackdown JDK, which is 64 bit, for Java stuff too. And there's Mozilla with VLC plugin for streaming stuff. Cheers, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:27, Richard Fish wrote:
The first is to figure out which .la files and packages still
reference kde 3.4 stuff:
find / -name *.la -exec grep --with-filename -l kde/3.4 {} \; 2/dev/null |
while read x; do equery belongs $x ; done
The output of the above will give you a list of .la files and the
packages that own them. Now you can either edit the .la files by hand
to fix the path, or emerge --oneshot pkgname each of the listed
packages. My preference is to remerge the dependant packages, but I
can't really explain why...it just feels safer to me.
-Richard
I ran into problems with DirectFB. I had to manually sort out the dependencies
and re-emerge libsdl and sdl-sound first. Other than that, everything was
fine. xine-lib also got recompiled perfectly after libsdl and DirectFB.
Thank you for your reply.
Regards,
Mrugesh
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Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 23:14, Steven Susbauer wrote: What about things like nvidia drivers, flash and java? (Obviously I could also just look through gentoo-portage.com...). Does firefox run in 64 bit? What about xmms and full alsa? I'm about to mess with my new system once I get the video card, it too is an AMD64. I have an NVIDIA card. NVIDIA has 64 drivers. Works perfectly. To run Firefox with Flash and Sun's Java, you can use 32 bit firefox-bin. Works perfectly fine when Flash is installed via Portage. As for Sun's JRE, you'll need to extract it yourself and just add a link to its plugin so in mozilla's plugins directory. This information is available in the AMD64 related documents on http://gentoo-wiki.com I also compiled Mozilla with VLC plugin for streaming stuff. Mplayer-bin which is 32 bit, is also installed for win32codecs to work. I don't use XMMS, I use amaroK. Works perfectly. So does ALSA. There's a nice guide in GPD for creating 32 bit chroots. Check it out. HTH, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled
Hello, I upgraded to KDE 3.5 and removed the slotted KDE 3.4. xine-lib was compiled with +arts back in the KDE 3.4 days. Yesterday, I installed imagemagick and now wanted to compile xine-lib with +imagemagick which was - previously. The trouble is, that xine-lib doesn't want to get compiled with +arts, because it looks for the libartsc.la from /usr/kde/3.4/blah.. The file doesn't exist anymore because I removed KDE 3.4. So, my question should be quite apparent by now. How do I get xine-lib to compile with +arts with arts-3.5? Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeutils-3.5.0
* kde-base/superkaramba Latest version available: 3.5.0 Latest version installed: 3.5.0 Size of downloaded files: 2,888 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: A tool to create interactive applets for the KDE desktop. License: GPL-2 * x11-misc/superkaramba Latest version available: 0.36 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,466 kB Homepage:http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ Description: A tool to create interactive applets for the KDE desktop. License: GPL-2 With KDE 3.5, you'll be using the kde-base version. Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what /etc/init.d/hotplug says: # nothing here anymore. Please use the coldplug package if you really # want to # load modules for devices that are discovered by your kernel before # init runs. # # However, please realize that if you have any problems, the developers # recommend just using the modules.autoload functionality to handle this # in a # much simpler manner. # Is that true? No more hotplug? That doesn't seem right, especially given your comment. Is it possible I have an old version of the hotplug script? Highlight: load modules for devices that are discovered by your kernel before init runs. Meaning, coldplug is for loading modules for devices that are attached before init was started. Hotplug still exists and is used for automatically loading modules for devices that are attached after the system is up. I think what that ebuild says comes from the fact that hotplug and coldplug used to be provided by the same package in the past. Now, we have two separate packages. HTH, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xine-lib and arts-3.5.. Doesn't get compiled
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:27, Richard Fish wrote:
The first is to figure out which .la files and packages still
reference kde 3.4 stuff:
find / -name *.la -exec grep --with-filename -l kde/3.4 {} \; 2/dev/null |
while read x; do equery belongs $x ; done
The output of the above will give you a list of .la files and the
packages that own them. Now you can either edit the .la files by hand
to fix the path, or emerge --oneshot pkgname each of the listed
packages. My preference is to remerge the dependant packages, but I
can't really explain why...it just feels safer to me.
-Richard
This is the only file that has libarts in its name. But the file xine-lib was
looking for was /usr/kde/3.4/lib64/libartsc.la, which obviously wasn't found
in the output of the command you mentioned.
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib64/ao/plugins-2/libarts.la in *... ]
media-libs/libao-0.8.5 (/usr/lib64/ao/plugins-2/libarts.la)
Anyway, should I still re-emerge all the packages with all the other *.la
files?
Thanks,
Mrugesh
P.S. I am emerging all the packages anyway. Let's see how it goes.
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Re: [gentoo-user] kpdf insisting in A4 paper size
On Sunday 04 December 2005 07:01, Joseph wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 22:03 +0100, Antoine wrote: Move from the US ;-) Antoine I wouldn't like to go there, besides there is no reason even to go there I'm in Canada :-) But Canada is a state of the US, isn't it? ;-) Antoine Oh boy, how can we solve the kpdf A4 page size format if some folks don't even know ;-/ where Canada is (second largest country in the world) -- #Joseph Did you people miss the ;-) that Antonie has placed after his message? I mean, to be quite honest, if your follow-ups were meant as jokes... err nevermind. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5
Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, someone has installed the kde 3.5 how it´s running ?? -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig __ I should have it running in a couple of hours. I'll let you know then. Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5
Thiago Lüttig wrote: how do you installed it ? i mean, the emerge parameters ?? :D I just did emerge --udpate --deep world. It slotted 3.4 and 3.5, so I first cleared out my distfiles to free up some space! Then, edited /etc/rc.conf to set XSESSION=kde-3.5. After restarting /etc/init.d/xdm, kdm-3.5 came up with entries for both 3.4 and 3.5. Some packages are still being compiled. I'll keep 3.4 till all of them are compiled and then unmerge 3.4. 3.5 is working just fine here. The only thing that went wrong is that it doesn't show my pop-up panel on the right hand side of the screen. The one at the bottom works just fine. Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5
Kumar Golap wrote: Also, after unmerging KDE 3.4, I had to rebuild all the other apps that were built for 3.4 viz. konversation, amarok, kdiff3, krename, kio-locate, krusader, kmldonkey, ktorrent, tellico, kchmviewer etc etc etc. Would not the command revdep-rebuild do this for you ? Just need to clarify before jumping in to kde-3.5 too. Thanks Kumar Actually, turns out that it was the moodin engine that required the rebuild. Rest were rather unnecessary. Anyway. I didn't try revdep-rebuild. amaroK failed to compile with visualization support with KDE 3.5. Tellico failed as well. Mhmmm. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Well, somewhere deep in the BIOS peripheral settings, there are things like Enable AGP Fast Write or similar. Set all those things to Off or Disabled. You wil want stability first, speed maybe later. It probably won't make a difference, but it at least excludes one possible source of problems. Yeah, those were all disabled when I was running Unichrome. I've turned them all on for NVIDIA though. No stability problems. You've said you have an MSI K8M800 motherboard. Looking at http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?class=mbcpu=3, such boards only support Sempron 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+, 3300+, not a 2500+. This may not be a problem, but then again, it might not be listed for a reason. H. Well I checked the motherboard manual when I bought this computer and it says Supports AMD K8 64 bit processors (Socket 754). No sse USE flag? You could try adding it and re-emerging Xorg. Well, 3dnow, mmx and sse are all masked in the amd64 profile anyway... To confirm your exact CPU, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'. It is an AMD Sempron 2500+ An 'lsmod' on this system under Gentoo. Module Size Used by w83627hf 34984 0 eeprom 8784 0 i2c_sensor 3840 2 w83627hf,eeprom i2c_isa 2816 0 snd_seq_oss36608 0 snd_seq_midi_event 8320 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq56896 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss55712 0 snd_mixer_oss 18880 1 snd_pcm_oss ohci_hcd 21316 0 snd_via82xx29312 4 snd_ac97_codec 91352 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm97420 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 25544 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 8320 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi28448 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 10064 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd60200 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device i2c_viapro 9300 0 i2c_core 23704 5 w83627hf,eeprom,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,i2c_viapro ehci_hcd 31944 0 uhci_hcd 33568 0 8139too28800 0 nvidia 4055676 12 This is the current one. Back with Unichrome, I had via and drm loaded in place of nvidia. Nothing fancy in there I guess. An 'emerge -pv xorg-x11'. [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk (-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB A 'cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf'. This is errr one of the xorg.conf files used of Unichrome. The other one had dri disabled, that's all... Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/lib64/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/lib64/modules FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load xtrap Load dbe Load glx Load dri Load extmod Load record Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 # Option Emulate3Buttons yes EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName LG Electronics ModelNameStudioWorks 700i HorizSync30 - 70 VertRefresh 50 - 160 Option dpms EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option ShadowFB # [bool] #Option VGAClocks # [bool] #Option KGAUniversal # [bool] Identifier Videocard0 Driver via VendorName VIA Technologies, Inc. BoardName S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01) BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option ForcePCIMode True EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Benno Schulenberg wrote: You've said you have an MSI K8M800 motherboard. Looking at http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?class=mbcpu=3, such boards only support Sempron 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+, 3300+, not a 2500+. This may not be a problem, but then again, it might not be listed for a reason. http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=647 That's the motherboard actually. K8M800-CE is the chipset name from VIA. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Flaky hardware? Timings too fast in the BIOS? What timings? :S Kernel misconfigured? When the vesa driver doesn't give acceptable performance, there is something wrong. You might want to actually answer the questions I asked earlier. I couldn't answer the questions back then due to a number of factors. Anyway, I still can't post the output of lsmod from my FC4 system, as I won't be able to boot into it for another couple of days atleast. Here's something you asked for: CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y # CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set CONFIG_DRM=m # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO=y CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY=y CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=m Here's emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64) = System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=k8 -pipe -O2 CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-march=k8 -pipe -O2 DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo; LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 LINGUAS=en_GB MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=amd64 X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt curl dbug dbus dio directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss emul-linux-x86 encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal idn imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack jack-tmpfs javascript jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libwww lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mime mng mp3 mpeg msn musepack mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png portaudio posix python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl sndfile snmp spell ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tiff till timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unichrome unicode usb userlocales vcd verbose vorbis xine xml xml2 xpm xsl xslt xv xvid yahoo zlib video_cards_via linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS Anything else you'd like to know? Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Well hi again, It took longer than I expected to change the server. Anyway. The VIA Unichrome situation turned out to be a no-go for me. I had to install an NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 on the machine and get X running. I think this whole thread and me compiling various Xorg versions about 8 or 9 times was a waste of time. Because as it turns out, fluxbox, even on the nvidia drivers took ages to open xcalc and such. The only difference was that, the mouse pointer moved properly with nvidia drivers when fluxbox was trying to open xcalc. With vesa, the pointer lagged like hell! Something interesting did happen though. I had that Unknown device in my lspci output for both Gentoo and FC4 when I was on VIA Unichrome. Now after switching to nvidia, I can see a Host Bridge properly identified in its place. I wonder why that would be? I still am confused about one thing though... which exactly is the 2D driver for VIA Unichrome? I apologise to those who wasted their time reading this thread and replying in it.. but I found the problem worth investigating and I am still intrigued by it.. Regards and a sincere thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user]Specific umask for a specific ext3 filesystem
Hello, I have couple of ext3 partitions for my data. I need to mount them in such a way that all the files created on those partitions would always bear a umask which is different from the umask globally set in /etc/profile. How do I achieve this? I tried mounting the partition with umask=whatever option, but apparently, according to man mount, umask option isn't available for ext3. Temporarily, I've put a little code into /etc/conf.d/local.start that checks if the the partitions are mounted and if they are, chmod's them. This, I don't think will be a good idea, once data starts filling up the partition Help would be really appreciated. Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ccache disabled
Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I have installed ccache and followed the instructions in the official documentation to set it up. Specifically I have this in my /etc/make.conf: MAKEOPTS=-j6 FEATURES=ccache # Probably not required but... CCACHE_DIR=/var/tmp/ccache CCACHE_SIZE=2G FEATURES=distcc DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/.distcc I put CCACHE_DIR in /etc/env.d/00basic Also, you'll need FEATURES=ccache That worked. Do an env-update and a source /etc/profile if you want to use it in the current shell. HTH, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player
what's the best video player in your opinion? Kaffeine is great for playing DVDs. I use kaffeine when in KDE. Kplayer is also good. Kplayer can use xine or mplayer as the backend, which is a nice feature. I prefer mplayer with directfb on the console though. Mplayer simply is great! Do not underestimate VLC though. I had some problems with its GUI, because I didn't compile it with wxwindows support. That I guess is an error on my part. But VLC is great! I use VLC in Windows. Haven't used it as much on Linux, but I think VLC has the best sound output. Cheers, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Well, the kernel modules have been loaded already... Which ones precisely? See the output of 'lsmod'. Do an 'lsmod' on your FC4 too and compare. That'd be drm and via I noticed one thing, the agpgart option in the kernel is always disabled... !x86_64 says the Help for that option. As it is, I have a PCI card... What PCI card? The Unichrome chip isn't a card. And it does need AGP, via_agp for the 400 chips, amd64_agp for the 800 chips. See the first line of 'lspci' for what chip you have. Hmmm. The first line of lspci is Unknown Device 00:00.0 Host Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown Device 0204 And this is my graphics card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technology, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01) Is the via driver present on your FC4? And if so, have you tried using it there? Maybe it simply doesn't work, by being unable to handle 64 bits? Which drivers exactly? As it is, I'm having problems with 2D performance and am not really concerned about 3D performance. The drm and via modules loaded above are 3D related... Hmmm. Thank you, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Richard Fish wrote: I think we have a failure to communicate here Actually no... The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (along with all other X11 drivers). I know! My xorg just doesn't want to compile that file! So what I tried was to enable the VIA drivers in the kernel. It then compiled both drm.ko and via.ko and also via_drv.o, but the via_drv.o never left the /usr/src directory. I don't understand why you don't have this file. The only case this should be missing is if you have USE=minimal. Could you please post the output of emerge -pv xorg-x11? I surely didn't use the minimal flag. The first time I had enabled insecure-drivers and disabled font-server. Then after reading your first email, I tried to compile it with the same USE flags as yours. Once you have this file, then you will need to update your xorg.conf Device section and change the Driver option to via. Already tried that, but of course, no via_drv.o! The kernel has a DRM driver for via, that (if compiled as a module) will be installed under /lib/modules as via.ko. To load that, you will modify /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to add the line via. However, again, this is only for DRI/DRM support, and will almost certainly require using the X11 via driver, so let's worry about that later! -Richard Well, the kernel modules have been loaded already... I noticed one thing, the agpgart option in the kernel is always disabled... !x86_64 says the Help for that option. As it is, I have a PCI card... I just can't understand why the file isn't compiled by xorg. Not to mention, FC4 uses vesa and works perfectly. I wonder what's going on with Gentoo :( Thanks for your help so far, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Holly Bostick wrote: Possibly because you don't have the 'insecure-drivers' USE flag enabled: I had insecure-drivers enabled the first time I compiled xorg. I think I had disabled it in the subsequent compilations. I found an ebuild with VIA Unichrome USE flag and patches added; in the forums. I'll try that ebuild because it's been reported to have worked. I'll also make sure that I enable insecure-drivers this time! I'll know the results in about an hour and half... Hope it works. Like most binary distros, the FC RPMs probably enable everything 'enableable'. I have no idea why the drivers are considered 'insecure', but assuming they are (which would not surprise me), it's well within the realm of possibility that they fall under the you have to know what you're doing and decide for yourself' section of the Gentoo design philosopy (which is the major thrust of the Gentoo design philosopy, so that doesn't surprise me either). Why FC 4 would enable them and Gentoo would mark them as insecure well, heck-- FC4 uses GCC 4.0 *by default* as I understand it, and we have it completely masked (and most other distros don't use it either, afaik, certainly not by default yet). So since FC4 seems to want to live even further out on the 'bleeding edge' than we are said to do, again, I'm not surprised that the drivers would be enabled by default, no matter their status in terms of security, completeness, or stability. HTH, Holly Hmmm. Well, I love my Gentoo. I can always use the bleeding edge stuff with ~ keywords (As you would already know of course ;))! Anyway, I think Mandriva 2006 also uses GCC 4 by default now. It also comes with xorg 6.8.9*. I read on xorg.freedesktop.org that the new xorg release includes updates from the VIA Unichrome project. I looked into portage and yaay! The VIA drivers package is there.. Only, its -amd64. I am on AMD64. I'm wondering what to do. If all fails, I'll have to buy an NVIDIA AGP card I guess. I love Gentoo too much to remove it just because of this graphics card issue. (Wise choice spending money on an FX5200 just to have Gentoo running??? Well, I can always install UT and say to myself, YES! Wise choice indeed :P ) Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Richard Fish wrote: Too many variables to answer that question...kernel versions, kernel configuration, kernel patches, frame buffer options, xorg versions, xorg patches, and so on. You could try to eliminate some of those variables by using the same kernel version .config under both. Ay! Great idea! I think I'll get the FC4 kernel sources and the .config file as well! Let's see how it goes! Thanks again! Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Hi, I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a problem.. 1GB of it. I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file. First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo and filled in stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor and graphics card configuration from the FC4 file. I tested the file with X -config /root/xorg.config.fc4 and it worked fine. I then copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and gave startx. But twm refused to start. I could just a see a black screen with a black X mouse pointer in the middle. I moved it and it was lagging very badly. So I killed the X server and emerged fluxbox. Fluxbox started fine. But when I tried to open xedit.. it went terribly slow.. Same thing with xcalc. People in #xorg on Freenode told me that I needed to look for via_drv.o module. I didn't find it. Xorg doesn't install it. vesa gives very bad performance as stated above. Interestingly, vesa is what FC4 uses and it runs absolutely fine! What am I to do? I would appreciate any help anyone can offer! Thank you, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a problem.. 1GB of it. I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file. First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo and filled in stuff like mouse, keyboard, monitor and graphics card configuration from the FC4 file. I tested the file with X -config /root/xorg.config.fc4 and it worked fine. I then copied it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and gave startx. But twm refused to start. I could just a see a black screen with a black X mouse pointer in the middle. I moved it and it was lagging very badly. So I killed the X server and emerged fluxbox. Fluxbox started fine. But when I tried to open xedit.. it went terribly slow.. Same thing with xcalc. People in #xorg on Freenode told me that I needed to look for via_drv.o module. I didn't find it. Xorg doesn't install it. I don't use it, but it looks like I got a via_drv on my install of xorg-x11. Which version of xorg-x11, and what USE flags? carcharias rjf # locate via_drv /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-suspend2-r5/drivers/char/drm/via_drv.h carcharias rjf # equery belongs /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o in *... ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (/usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o) carcharias rjf # emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc +font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Hmmm. I am using the stable version. That's 6.8.2-r4. I'll try emerging r6. One thing.. my Sempron surely supports mmx and sse. I have both of those USE flags in my make.conf, but when emerging something, both those flags are in the () and are not used... why is that? Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. I am using the stable version. That's 6.8.2-r4. I'll try emerging r6. Well, give it shot. But looking at the ChangeLog, I don't see any references to via driver changes in -r5 or -r6, so I wouldn't hold my breath that you will see a difference just from the minor bump in the ebuild version. However, looking through the ebuild, it looks like the 'via' driver will be disabled if you use the 'minimal' flag. So make sure you don't merge with that in any case! One thing.. my Sempron surely supports mmx and sse. I have both of those USE flags in my make.conf, but when emerging something, both those flags are in the () and are not used... why is that? Flags in () are hard-masked by the profile. In this case, /usr/portage/profiles/linux-default/use.mask masks out mmx, mmx2, sse, and others. It is then up to the profile-specific mask to unmask them if they will work there...and at present only the x86 profile does this, so if you are using the amd64 profile, these flags are simply disabled. Ebuilds can still add the appropriate CFLAGS or configure options to enable mmx/sse however. The xorg-x11 ebuild does this for the amd64 profile. -Richard Still no luck. I tried compiling VIA Unichrome suppport in the kernel, but the kernel version of via_drv.o doesn't move out of /usr/src. xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 doesn't compile via_drv.o and my X is performing very badly! What I don't understand, is why it would work perfectly fine on FC4 and not on Gentoo with vesa driver! Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
brullo nulla wrote: Looks like your hard drive has something bad, bad, bad. Try to run the badblocks utility, maybe not from Gentoo but from a live-cd. m. Even then, you might get the same errors. Looks like a hard disk failure to me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. My dear fellow, I speak from experience. Just last month a hard disk (IDE) of mine died after giving out io errors first on the logical volume that hosted my /usr/portage. Then my entire volume group started giving the same errors and the next thing I know, the drive is dead! Thinking about it though, is it just a mere coincidance that the errors started with /usr/portage? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is left in the log files. How can I find the reason? Better get all the stuff backed up... Could be a hard disk failure coming your way! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I am using kernel 2.6.12-r4 ans splashutils 1.1.9.7, I had tried emergence and livecd-2005.0 themes and none had worked :( Check your kernel config and see if you've used vesafb-tng. Also, set the resolution for vesafb-tng the same as the resolution of your splash theme. For example, on my system, im using the 1280x1024 version of emergence (2005.0/2005.1 doesn't work for me though) with the default console resolution for vesafb-tng set also to 1280x1024. HTH. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I tried to use bouth vesafb and vesafb-tng, in tng I used the same resolution as the theme agian neather one of then worked Are you trying Gensplash or Bootsplash? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!
I wanted kguitar on my system. I got the ebuild from bugs.gentoo.org. It has a tse3 use flag. Now without it I get this: * *TSE3 not found!* * * * You will not have MIDI Support in KGuitar! * * * * Download TSE3 at: http://tse3.sourceforge.net * * -- * * If you have installed libtse3 in an unusual * * directory use --with-libtse3-include= * * and/or --with-libtse3-libs=* * I want MIDI support. So I enabled tse3 and emerged it. But tse3 isn't getting compiled. This is the output with gcc-3.3 /bin/sh ../../../libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -c -o DisplayParams.lo `test -f 'DisplayParams.cpp' || echo './'`DisplayParams.cpp i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -c DisplayParams.cpp -MT DisplayParams.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/DisplayParams.TPlo -fPIC -DPIC -o DisplayParams.lo In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/include/g++-v3/backward/strstream:51, from ../../../src/tse3/file/XML.h:25, from DisplayParams.cpp:5: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/include/g++-v3/backward/backward_warning.h:32:2: warning: #warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header. Please consider using one of the 32 headers found in section 17.4.1.2 of the C++ standard. Examples include substituting the X header for the X.h header for C++ includes, or sstream instead of the deprecated header strstream.h. To disable this warning use -Wno-deprecated. In file included from DisplayParams.cpp:5: ../../../src/tse3/file/XML.h:157: error: `void TSE3::File::XmlFileWriter::element(const std::string, unsigned int)' and ` void TSE3::File::XmlFileWriter::element(const std::string, unsigned int)' cannot be overloaded make[4]: *** [DisplayParams.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tse3-0.2.7/work/tse3-0.2.7/src/tse3/file' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tse3-0.2.7/work/tse3-0.2.7/src/tse3' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tse3-0.2.7/work/tse3-0.2.7/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tse3-0.2.7/work/tse3-0.2.7' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-libs/tse3-0.2.7 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 37, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I get a similar error with gcc-3.4.4 Any ideas? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!
Noah Roberts wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: I wanted kguitar on my system. Does kguitar do ProTab? I don't see it on their site but they seem to support guitar pro, which has no OSS library to work with and figured maybe protools would be supported since there is. Well, I don't know about ProTab, but I saw Guitar Pro support too.. Anyways, as for my problems, I looked up the forums and the bugs.. fixed some ebuilds... patched some... and well, tse3 is compiling right now. Oh and just as I type this, I can see it merged successfully! Now I'll emerge kguitar and Noah, will tell you how it is ;) Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!
Noah Roberts wrote: Noah Roberts wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: I wanted kguitar on my system. Does kguitar do ProTab? I meant powertab. I don't think so. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ooffice 2.0 and kde
Richard Fish wrote: Massimiliano Bellomo wrote: I mean the rendering of the KDE native widget, icons, file dialog (open, save as, ...); in 2 words the use of the kde look feel. I've red somewhere that OO 2.0 will have this feature, but my beta release looks always like a java application. I did some more digging, and it seems you are correct in thinking that OOo should have this feature. But it doesn't seem to be enabled in the binary beta builds. I did an strace of the OOo startup under KDE, and it looks for but doesn't find a library named libvclplug_kde608li.so. Since it doesn't find that, it drops to libvclplug_gen680li.so, which is what results in the generic 'java' look. The closest I got to the KDE LF is by installing the Geramik theme (x11-themes/gtk-engines-geramik), since I use Keramik in KDE, and updating my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file to include that. I also had to start OOo with OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome oowriter. If you don't like the look of Keramik/Geramik, you can probably find another GTK theme that you do like. Hopefully, a future build of the beta and/or the final release will include the KDE plugin. Cheers, -Richard Well, I am not very much knowledgable about this issue. But, as far as I know, the SuSE folk modify their version of OOo to integrate with KDE. The native KDE looks and such... Apparently, as I have read somewhere, the SuSE folk are in sync with the community. Maybe, these changes will be in OOo 2.0. Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] package.* mess!
Hello all, My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie, use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc to list out the options i've used for the different software. Now the problem is that I've installed the software with different use flags and keywords right now the command line. Now I want to make it systematic and proper. I'm just wondering if you people could help me find a good way as to how to go about this. Right now I can see myself doing a very very tedious job of using equery and such and listing out everything properly... a few hours' work. I'm prepared to do it of course, but I'd like any suggestions that might help me do it better. Thank you. Yours faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:34 am, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Well, it's also really useful when you don't know you exact requirements
(and when do you?) because it lets you shrink/expand volumes with much
less hassle than doing the same thing with partitions.
Also, even if you only have one drive now, who says you won't add another
one later? With standard partitions, it impossible to grow one partition
onto the other drive. It's trivial to do with LVM and you can also take
advatage of LVM striping -- the poor man's software raid :).
Unless I know I'm never going to upgrade the system *and* I can justify
just throwing everything ('cept /boot) onto a single partition, I say
always go with LVM.
Actually, now the system is up and I converted all the windows
partitions into Linux ones. All the data has been moves from those
partitions to the Linux ones. In the process, I added another 2 hard
disks. I had to extend the data partitions 3 or 4 times according to the
need... It's just so easy with LVM2. I'm glad I went for it! Well worth it!
Regards,
Mrugesh Karnik
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[gentoo-user] pppoeconf and pppstatus... How do I install them?
Hello, I'm on Knoppix right now and I found pppoeconf and pppstatus to be really good. They both aren't in portage. There is an alternative to pppstatus in portage, which I can do with. But I would really like to use pppoeconf. How do I install it? I would want portage to recognize that it's installed. I would have liked to write an ebuild, but I'm no programmer... Could anyone help? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(
OK. I just booted into Windows right now. This is the 5th time I've tried to install Gentoo from the 2005.0 LiveCD and have failed. Now, before you make any comments about anything... I've installed Gentoo from the 2004.3 LiveCD and had used it for over a month. IIRC, in my second attempt, I got it working fine with 2004.3. Anyways... Firstly, I managed to boot into the installed system once, but stuff like KDE failed to emerge. After that, I had to switch the hard disk, so I chose to reinstall anyways. Also, when in the chrooted environment, after compiling and installing the kernel and nvidia-kernel, nano breaks up. When I say nano -w /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, the console gets garbled and I have to use Alt+SysRq+e to get back to the prompt! Also, I have this problem with netmount trying to start (and failing) during boot up that I haven't found an answer to... All in all, I'm completely frustrated and pissed off. Now, I'm looking for alternatives. Maybe I can install from the 2004.3 LiveCD but I'm using LVM2 and I don't think the 2004.3 LiveCD supports it. Someone (sorry I don't remember the name) suggested to me in #gentoo that it has LVM1... So can someone please tell me how I can accomplish an installation with LVM2? Also, can I install 2005.0 using the Knoppix CD? I think Knoppix supports LVM2... right? Guys, I seriously need ideas... I can't afford to waste too much time trying to install Gentoo... But I certainly don't want to move back to those rpm based distros... Faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] test
Jan Han Xie wrote: Hi, Sorry but it seems my post won't appear in the list... This is a test post. I got the email... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2
OK. Installation complete. Everything went fine (well, I'm a lier ;) ). Anyways, just a few more queries... During the installation, I extended one of the volumes by 2GB. But if I run df -hT, it still shows me the previous value. Why is this? How do I solve this? Also, after installation, now, if I want to expand a volume, do I have to do it from the LiveCD? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing 2005.0 with LVM2
Eamon Caddigan wrote: W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on the filesystem type: I use reiserfs and the tool is resize_reiserfs from sys-fs/reiserfsprogs. I have increased the size on partitions containing data with no problems at all, but have not tried to reduce a partition yet (you shrink the fs first, then the LVM partition). I've reduced reiserfs partitions, and it works. Takes a *lot* longer than increasing their size, natch. I wouldn't try it with important data that has not been backed up. Okay I'm lying, I totally would. But *you* shouldn't. -Eamon What are the tools for ext3? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing 2005.0 with LVM2
Oh, I found the information on how to resize the partitions in the LVM HOWTO at TLDP. Thanks guys for all your replies :) Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error while bringing eth0 up
Hello, Following the installation guide, I've set the value of eth0 to up as I use rp-pppoe. While booting the system, I get an error similar to following: No loaded modules provide up (up_start) Error starting required services netmount not started What have I done wrong? I haven't encountered this with my previous Gentoo installations! Oh, btw, I haven't emerged rp-pppoe yet! Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error while bringing eth0 up
Hello, Following the installation guide, I've set the value of eth0 to up as I use rp-pppoe. While booting the system, I get an error similar to following: No loaded modules provide up (up_start) Error starting required services netmount not started What have I done wrong? I haven't encountered this with my previous Gentoo installations! Oh, btw, I haven't emerged rp-pppoe yet! Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PPPoE auto reconnect
Hello, I've been using rp-pppoe to connect to the internet. I modified the config file to make it auto reconnect if the line got dropped, but somehow it doesn't work for me. Now I'm wondering if I should use the kernel module or rp-pppoe. I haven't tried the kernel module yet, but there seems to be an auto reconnect option in the config file.. Also, how do I constantly keep a watch on whether the link is up or not? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is my /dev/cdrom using UDEV
Wenju Zhang wrote: I have install gentoo 2005.0 with udev (without devfs) following the gentoo udev guide, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV I can't find the /dev/cdrom. FYI gt-dell rules.d # dmesg |grep hdc Kernel command line: hdc=ide-cd ro ide_setup: hdc=ide-cd ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: SAMSUNG SC-140B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive help me, please. Thanks in advance. zwj My CD writer is found at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 HTH Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!
Thanks to all the people who replied. I finally bought the LG GSA-4163B. Interestingly, it must be the only component in my system that isn't made in China. This thing's made in Japan. Interesting! Well, I haven't had a chance to use it with Gentoo yet, but its working as expected on Windows (Ok. Don't hate me! I'm right now using the burner to backup the data, so that I can convert the entire disk to Linux, which right now takes up 15GB!) Anyways, thanks once again for all your replies :) Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
