[gentoo-user] intel gma900 and linux

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

what about buying a notebook with intel's 915 chipset which doesn't use
any ati or nvidia-card but the integrated intel-thing called GMA900.

I can't find any ebuild in portage, but there are drivers for linux on
intel's support page. They seem to be at least for linux 2.4 - and
perhaps for 2.6 too.

Are the available driver compatible with Linux 2.6? Which X.Org driver
would work? Is the 2D-performance OK? Did anybody manage to get
3D-Acceleration to work?

Thx
  Sven

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[gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed
udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and
restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory
which is re-populated by udev?

Thx
  Sven


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[gentoo-user] Re: too many devs in /dev since udev

[Sven Köhler]

> Try setting the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" to no in /etc/conf.d/rc.

Well, that helped! Thank you!


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[gentoo-user] Re: Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc

[Sven Köhler]

> Answering my own mail.
> If /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname are
> both blank, we get:
>
>
>>(none) ~ # hostname
>>(none)
>>(none) ~ # nisdomainname
>>(none)
>>(none) ~ # dnsdomainname
>>dnsdomainname: Unknown host

AFAIK, dnsdomainname will do a lookup on the hostname. If the lookup
succeeds, the domain is extracted from the result. It seems that the
domain statement in resolve.conf is used too, but ...

Some programs use the hostname to connect via TCP/UDP. If /etc/hosts
doesn't contain valid entries that point to 127.0.0.1, you'll be stuck
with a not working system.

Since /etc/init.d/domainname doesn't touch /etc/hosts, it's AFAIK not
"complete".


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[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

[Sven Köhler]

> No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless
> you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from
> putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well):
> 
> Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration
>  
> ──
> 
> 
>  ┌─── 
> High Memory Support
>  ┐
>  │  Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hotkey of │
>  │  the item you wish to select followed by the . Press│
>  │   for additional information about this option. │
>  │ ┌┐ │
>  │ │(X) off │ │
>  │ │( ) 4GB │ │
>  │ │( ) 64GB│ │
>  │ ││ │
>  │ ││ │
>  │ ││ │
>  │ └┘ │
>  ├┤
>  │ < Help >   │
>  └┘

You definetly have to say "4GB" here. The Linux Kernel (Gentoo is not
responsible for detecting your RAM) will otherwise not access all RAM
available. Usually, if you execute "dmesg" the first lines talks about
LOWMEM and HIGHMEM. On a machine with 1GB of RAM, it will usually read
like that:

750MB LOWMEM
150MB HIGHMEM

Using "off" will result in something like that:

750MB LOWMEM
0MB HIGHMEM

which is what you're experiencing.



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[gentoo-user] Re: Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

[Sven Köhler]

Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge.  I don't know why.
The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4.  At least if
I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable.
I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined).
In all of /etc/portage there are 4 references to "x86", and they're in
package.keywords for particular package releases whose features I needed.

So why am I emerging these things?


Take a look here:
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-cdr/k3b

Or here:
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/k3b


k3b-1.0.4 is marked stable.

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[gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated 
graphics?
I'd like to see the output of "dmesg |grep -i drm" to see, of i actually 
have some advanatge of using it.


With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my "dmesg|grep -i drm" says:
Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on 
minor 0





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[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?

[Sven Köhler]

is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated 
graphics?
I'd like to see the output of "dmesg |grep -i drm" to see, of i actually 
have some advanatge of using it.


With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my "dmesg|grep -i drm" says:
Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on 
minor 0


Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of
"dmesg | grep drm"

If I remember correctly, only =x11-base/x11-drm-20071019 worked for me
(at least there was a reason for me to put it
in /etc/portage/package.keywords)


Looking at the sources of that exact version (20071019), i think the 
output should be "Initialized i915 1.11.0 20071019".


At least the date should match.

Are you sure, that you use the modules from the gentoo-package and not 
the ones from the kernel?




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[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?

[Sven Köhler]

With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my "dmesg|grep -i drm" says:
Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on 
minor 0


Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of
"dmesg | grep drm"

If I remember correctly, only =x11-base/x11-drm-20071019 worked for me
(at least there was a reason for me to put it
in /etc/portage/package.keywords)


Looking at the sources of that exact version (20071019), i think the 
output should be "Initialized i915 1.11.0 20071019".


At least the date should match.


So now, after downgrading to 2.6.24.5 and installing x11-drm, i get the 
following output:


[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] Initialized i915 1.11.0 20070209 on minor 0


So indeed, the version is higher than the kernel's driver. But 
unfortunatly, i couldn't find any things that are actually fixed now.




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[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

[Sven Köhler]

(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/


Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do
would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version
bump.


Like this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194832



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[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

[Sven Köhler]

When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console:
WARN: postinst
*** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install
the new version's stage1 to your MBR.  Until you do,
stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but
later stages will be the new version, which could
cause problems such as an unbootable system.


Yes, the ebuild writes that to the screen.

But silently, in the background (because every output is piped to 
/dev/null - how evil!), the ebuild calls grub with some commands inside 
your grub.conf.


If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed. So 
if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that 
command is not used by grub in any situation i know), the ebuild will 
execute that setup-command and write to some device's boot sector. How 
evil, again!


Regards,
  Sven

P.S.: here's the code from grub-0.97-r5.ebuild:

if [[ -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] ; then
egrep \
-v 
'^[[:space:]]*(#|$|default|fallback|initrd|password|splashimage|timeout|title)' 
\

"${dir}"/grub.conf | \
/sbin/grub --batch \
--device-map="${dir}"/device.map \
> /dev/null
fi




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[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

[Sven Köhler]

 To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot,
 just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable.


Which /boot partition? I don't have any ...


If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed.
So if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that
command is not used by grub in any situation i know), the ebuild will
execute that setup-command and write to some device's boot sector. How
evil, again!

Regards,
  Sven

P.S.: here's the code from grub-0.97-r5.ebuild:

if [[ -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] ; then
egrep \
-v
'^[[:space:]]*(#|$|default|fallback|initrd|password|splashimage|timeout|title)'
\
"${dir}"/grub.conf | \
/sbin/grub --batch \
--device-map="${dir}"/device.map \
> /dev/null
fi 

And following the code of the functions which does the job:
found in ebuild: /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r5.ebuild

setup_boot_dir() {
local boot_dir=$1
local dir=${boot_dir}

[[ ! -e ${dir} ]] && die "${dir} does not exist!"
[[ ! -L ${dir}/boot ]] && ln -s . "${dir}/boot"
dir="${dir}/grub"
if [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] ; then
mkdir "${dir}" || die "${dir} does not exist!"
fi

# change menu.lst to grub.conf
if [[ ! -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] && [[ -e ${dir}/menu.lst ]] ; then
mv -f "${dir}"/menu.lst "${dir}"/grub.conf
ewarn
ewarn "*** IMPORTANT NOTE: menu.lst has been renamed to grub.conf"
ewarn
fi

if [[ -e ${dir}/stage2 ]] ; then
mv "${dir}"/stage2{,.old}
ewarn "*** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install"
ewarn "the new version's stage1 to your MBR.  Until you do,"
ewarn "stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but"
ewarn "later stages will be the new version, which could"
ewarn "cause problems such as an unbootable system."
ebeep
fi

einfo "Copying files from /lib/grub and /usr/lib/grub to ${dir}"
for x in "${ROOT}"/lib*/grub/*/* "${ROOT}"/usr/lib*/grub/*/* ; do
[[ -f ${x} ]] && cp -p "${x}" "${dir}"/
done

if [[ -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] ; then
egrep \
-v
'^[[:space:]]*(#|$|default|fallback|initrd|password|splashimage|timeout|title)'
\
"${dir}"/grub.conf | \
/sbin/grub --batch \
--device-map="${dir}"/device.map \
> /dev/null
fi

# the grub default commands silently piss themselves if
# the default file does not exist ahead of time
if [[ ! -e ${dir}/default ]] ; then
grub-set-default --root-directory="${boot_dir}" default
fi
}


How you can see isn't the message piped to /dev/null, only
the command "/sbin/grub -batch -device-map...".


Why should i worry about the message being piped to /dev/null?

I worry about a message saying "you have to do it by hand" although some 
harmful "magic" is going on behind the scenes (the egrep+grub command) 
although we are not informed about it (command is piped to /dev/null, 
not message about it, etc.).




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[gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

[Sven Köhler]

>>>emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is
>>> complaining about here?
>> I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser.

expat has been updated. Some Apps are now broken. They have to
recompiled to link against the new libexpat.

For me, it was gettext and XML-Parser that had to be re-emerged. Without
it, emerging gnome failed.



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[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

[Sven Köhler]

> Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ?

And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/



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[gentoo-user] postfix+cyrus+postgre?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

any tipps on setting up a mailserver with postfix, cyrus-imapd and 
postgresql?


Actually, a web-frontend would be nice.It seems, that the web-cyradm 
projects stopped living some years ago :-(


Does anybody run a complete and easy to configure sollution for 
SMTP+IMAP based on Gentoo?



Thanks,
  Sven

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[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin

[Sven Köhler]

> Hi.  I am having a very frustrating prroblem when I use the pppoe
> plugin like so:
> 
> config_ppp0=("ppp")
> link_ppp0="eth2"
> plugins_ppp0=("rp-pppoe")
> username_ppp0='vzeqmmst'
> pppd_ppp0=(
> "updetach"
> "noauth"
> "ipcp-accept-remote"
> "ipcp-accept-local"
> "holdoff 3"
> "lcp-echo-interval 15"
> "lcp-echo-failure 3"
> )
> 
> What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network
> has intermittent connection problems -- it connects to google just
> fine, but not to Microsoft sites and other places.

Use this:

iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -p tcp --syn -j TCPMSS --clamp




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[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

[Sven Köhler]

> Hi. I just tried to update to the new "stable" samba 3.025c and noticed two
> problems:
> 
> - the init script does not work (known bug #191647)
> 
> - after fixing the init script, the Windows box (XP SP2) can no longer
> connect to shared directories despite the new server being visible and
> browseable. Strangely enough, connecting to the server via smbclient (on
> the server itself) works fine. Restarting the Windows box does not help
> and should not be necessary either.

Same problem here with samba 3.0.27a


In addition, the mount.cifs binary is missing. So i cannot mount via
CIFS anymore. Samba ebuild is VERY broken :-(



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[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

[Sven Köhler]

>> In addition, the mount.cifs binary is missing. So i cannot mount via
>> CIFS anymore. Samba ebuild is VERY broken :-(
> 
> The ebuild is not broken, you just didn't read what it told you
> 
> "The mount/umount.cifs helper applications are not included anymore.
> Please install net-fs/mount-cifs instead."

Yes, sorry for the noise.

Yet, mount-cifs is not stable yet :-(


Anyway: the other problem still remains. For some reason, i cannot
access my samba shares :-(

Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it.



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[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

[Sven Köhler]

>> Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it.
> 
> But watch out, it has a huge security problem:
> http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml

Yeah, but i've got no time right now, to analyse the problems with 3.0.27a.

I've run it in debug mode and so on - but i found nothing suspicious.
Actually two of my shares work - and another one (the important one)
does not.
Very strange!



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[gentoo-user] new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

have you noticed the hal update?

It just informed me about some trouble concerning my keyboard-layout. 
Keyboards as well as mice are now added automatically to xorg (and the 
evdev driver is used - hooray! always wanted to use evdev).


Yet, they are always added with us keyboard layout. So hal's ebuild 
suggested, that i use gnome's keyboard settings or that i use setxkbmap 
to override the us-setting.


So my first thought was: how to hell do i tell gdm to use "de" keyboard 
layout?


So what's the answer? How do i do it properly? How do i tell xorg-x11 to 
use "de" layout for all hot-plugged keyboards?
Because gdm offers no keyboard-settings, as far as i know. And since my 
keyboard is "qwertz", i see a "y" when typing a "z" in gdm. gnome 
settings kick in AFTER logging in - so that's pretty useless for gdm.



Regards,
  Sven

[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Sven Köhler]

So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it?


There is no /etc/conf.d/clock anymore in openrc/baselayout 2.0.

The openrc file is called /etc/conf.d/hwclock, and there's no TIMEZONE 
variable in that file.

[gentoo-user] Re: bridge configuration problem

[Sven Köhler]

Normally, the bridge works well. But everytime I execute
"/etc/init.d/net.br0 restart", the following error occurs:
 * network interface br0 does not exist
 * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) 
  [ !! ]
Then I execute such command one more time, it works well.

Does anyone know what's wrong with it?


So you have bridge-utits installed and there's also kernel-support for 
bridging?


Can you create the bridge manually?


BTW: i would add a RC_NEED_xenbr0="net.eth0" to your /etc/conf.d/net


Regards,
  Sven

[gentoo-user] vmware broken?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

my vmware doesn't work anymore :-(

I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus?


# vmware
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware:
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
process 12397: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6b46c20 user data
0x8802b90, but no such filter has been added
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware:
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware:
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
process 12408: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6effc20 user data
0x88041f0, but no such filter has been added
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace


So what might be wrong here?



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[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?

[Sven Köhler]

>> I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided.
>>
>> Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not
>> installed installed automatically.
>>
>> Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and
>> evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-dependency of some other
>> gnome-package.
>>
> 
> I thought an -eds USE flag will keep evolution-data-server from being
> installed?

There is a gnome-package, that doesn't compile without
evolution-data-server (I forgot the name, unfortunatly).
So evolution-data-server must to be installed.

Anyway: with the eds-useflag, you can ONLY disable the build of
evolution-data-server-related features of certain packages.
Even if you disable it, there may be packages, that don't recognize the
use-flag and have a hard dependency on evolution-data-server.

These packages need evolution-data-server for being compiled. There is
no way around this! The gentoo-guys can do nothing about it.



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[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?

[Sven Köhler]

> Any suggestions?

I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided.

Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not
installed installed automatically.

Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and
evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-dependency of some other
gnome-package.



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[gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

any ideas, why my cyrus-imapd isn't working anymore?

In /var/log/imapd.log is says:
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process started
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25004]: about to exec
/usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: recovering cyrus databases
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: skiplist: recovered
/var/imap/mailboxes.db (72 records, 12920 bytes) in 0 seconds
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: skiplist: recovered
/var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR: critical database
situation
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25004 exited, status 75
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25009]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/idled
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet idled[25009]: DBERROR pÕ^F^H: db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet idled[25009]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25009 exited, status 75
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: ready for work
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25022]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/tls_prune
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet tls_prune[25022]: DBERROR : db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet tls_prune[25022]: DBERROR: critical database
situation
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25023]: about to exec
/usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_deliver
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet cyr_expire[25023]: DBERROR àÚ^F^H: db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet cyr_expire[25023]: DBERROR: critical database
situation
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25024]: about to exec
/usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25022 exited, status 75
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25023 exited, status 75
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25024]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25024]: DBERROR: critical database
situation
Apr  1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25024 exited, status 75
Apr  1 19:29:22 gwinet master[25000]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT




So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format.
But i have NO idea, which one it is.

Before the upgrade to sys-libs/db-4.3* and a recompile of cyrus-imapd,
the same version of cyrus imapd worked fine with db4.2.


Any ideas?


Thanks,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

[Sven Köhler]

> So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format.
> But i have NO idea, which one it is.

OK, it was the database in /var/imap/db.

Deleted all files in that directory, and now everything's fine again.

I wonder, what i broke by doing this. Anyway: all my mails are still there.



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[gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
them, if he finds one, that i prefer?


Thanks,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

[Sven Köhler]

>> is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
>> them, if he finds one, that i prefer?
> 
> Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs!

I think, it's "just" an application - a frontend. What i would prefer,
is really a daemon running as root in background, scanning for networks,
loggin into them, etc.



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[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

[Sven Köhler]

> As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate 
> with the next available device when it comes into range. Some drivers are 
> not that good at re-associating.

Right, but just imagine you close the laptop in the university and open
it at home again.

There is no such thing as "re-associating". The interface is still
configured for the university net which simply isn't there anymore. Some
application needs to scan for available nets and it should then realize,
that it should reconfigure the interface for my home net.



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[gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

[Sven Köhler]

> is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart?
> sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks.

You have to tell smartmontools, that it's actually an ATA disk. SATA
devices show up as SCSI devices, but the protocol is still ATA.
So this can be done with the "-d ata" switch - also see /etc/smartd.conf.

BUT: recent versions of smartmontools can recognize SATA disks. No need
for -d ata anymore! smartmontools-5.37 (which is still ~x86 and ~amd64)
correctly SATA disks in all my computers.



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[gentoo-user] Re: glib-1.2.10-r5 broken for lame

[Sven Köhler]

> trying to update my system , glib is broken
> 
> here is the output

Seems like a libtool problem. Please try to update libtool, and then try
to update glib again.

Maybe that works.



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[gentoo-user] no-multilib killed /lib link

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i switched to the no-mutilib profile.
Then, i emerged glibc and gcc.

After that whole thing, i tried to reboot:
But the link at /lib pointing to /lib64 was missing.

I don't which step exactly removed it. But it's not good!
Without the link, the system won't boot :-(


Just wanted to let you know.


Regards,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] which syslog?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log,
mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log.

Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled
with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log.

Maybe syslog-ng can be configured to behave like sysklogd. But i would
rather like a default-config that behaves like sysklogd.


So the next thing i could try is metalog.

Does it have a nice default config?



Regards,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

[Sven Köhler]

I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd
> layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log
> daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons?

Last sysklogd version if from 2001.
And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me.

And on the other hand, other distributions don't use sysklogd anymore.
Instead they use syslog-ng, for example.

But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going
to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the
layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated
default setting.



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[gentoo-user] how to create bridge without interfaces!?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i'm trying to create a bridge, but without interfaces! The interfaces
will be added by xend. When i put the following in /etc/conf.d/net,
baselayout just complains "xenbr1 does not exist".

bridge_xenbr1=" "
config_xenbr1=(
"192.168.0.1/24 brd 192.168.0.255"
)
brctl_xenbr1=(
"setfd 0"
"sethello 0"
"stp off"
)



I also tried bridge_xenbr1="null" and so on.
So am i supposed to do? Is this a missing feature in baselayout?


Thanks,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: how to create bridge without interfaces!?

[Sven Köhler]

> bridge_xenbr1=" "
> config_xenbr1=(
> "192.168.0.1/24"
> )
> brctl_xenbr1=(
> "setfd 0"
> "sethello 0"
> "stp off"
> )



Hmm, forget about my question. Exactly the configuration above works
fine now.



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[gentoo-user] verify, that "noexec"/nx-bit is effectively enabled

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

do you guys know any possibility to detect, whether the nx-bit is
effectively enabled and being used?
I'm passing "noexec=on" and even "noexec32=on" to the kernel. But i want
to check whether it really changes something.

Any ideas?


Thanks,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies

[Sven Köhler]

> After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started
> noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle
> of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken.  It always
> shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement.  A flash makes it
> very visible.  It looks like one half of the screen is moving a litle
> slower than the other half of the screen.
> 
> It happens in totem, mplayer, and vlc and mplayer terminal output
> confirms that I am using xv.  I'm using nvidia-drivers and I've tried
> the masked version with no luck.  Has anyone else seen this?

That's due to the lack of vertical synchronisation.

The graphicscard sends the picture to your monitor. While that happends,
in the middle of the movie-picture, the movieplayer switches to the next
frame of the movie. The result: you see the upper half of frame N and
the lower half of frame N+1


Greetings,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: Help! Xorg broken!

[Sven Köhler]

> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line.

Can you tell us, which nvidia related ebuild you have installed?




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[gentoo-user] Re: What does "future video mode" mean for the i810 xorg driver?

[Sven Köhler]

> I looked at this tool. It allows me to patch the bios table w/ resolution and 
> bpp value - but not with the rest of the mode line timings. How can I change 
> that?

It seems, that you can't.

All the Linux-stuff is using the BIOS to switch modes. Also see this page:
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

Question: Is the BIOS still used for mode setting?
Answer
Yes, the direct mode setting work isn't finished yet, and therefore the
released driver still uses the system BIOS to select and set the
graphics mode. There is an experimental version of the direct mode
setting driver available via git: You're free to give it a try; it's
published on the mode setting branch in the xf86-video-intel git
repository. The mode setting branch supports the i810 through i945 hardware.



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[gentoo-user] hald doesn't allow my cdrom to spin down

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

do you have the same problems?

When hald is running, it seems to access the dvd-drive on a regular
basis. That means, that the drive doesn't spin down :-(



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[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[Sven Köhler]

> When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages
> involving
> early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
> Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

Old *.la files are broken. They have not been unmerged. That's a known
bug, because some gentoo-tools have modified the files, and so they were
not unmerged.

Just delete them.
You can verify, that they don't belong to any installed package by using
"equery b "



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[gentoo-user] switched from SiS to VIA chipset -> vesa framebuffer broken

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

this is a really strange issue i'm having:

i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based
motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based.

So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And
actually it worked perfect!

No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see
the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but
the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the
lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where
the consolefont is set. And guess what:

then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen
and so on.


So something is wrong here.

Any clue, how i might fix it?



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[gentoo-user] Re: switched from SiS to VIA chipset -> vesa framebuffer broken

[Sven Köhler]

> this is a really strange issue i'm having:
> 
> i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based
> motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based.
> 
> So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And
> actually it worked perfect!
> 
> No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see
> the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but
> the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the
> lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where
> the consolefont is set. And guess what:
> 
> then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen
> and so on.
> 
> So something is wrong here.
> 
> Any clue, how i might fix it?

So my theory is, that the System-BIOS (which uses graphics mode too,
IMHO) does some strange initialization of the graphics card, and the
linux-kernel doesn't reset it.



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[gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had
libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now.
Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too!

Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers
don't replace the old ones, at present time. But are they planned to? Or
do they just exist "for the fun of it" ?


Greetings,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI/libata based PATA support

[Sven Köhler]

>> do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had
>> libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now.
>> Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too!
>>
>> Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers
>> don't replace the old ones, at present time. But are they planned to? Or
>> do they just exist "for the fun of it" ?
> 
> yes, they will replace the old drivers at some point in the future.
> 
> And they don't exist just for the fun of it. ide is in a horrible state for 
> many, many years. And every attempt to 'fix' it, went very wrong. libpata is 
> the latest attempt to clean up the mess. What do we get? Hopefully better 
> drivers, better error handling, better powermanagment support.

I see! very nice ...

But with the new drivers, you can't enable/disable DMA (yet) etc.
Well, but they work nice, as far as i can tell.



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[gentoo-user] Re: udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

[Sven Köhler]

> Hmm - I don't have this issue - what version of alsa-utils are you
> running? I'm running 1.0.13. I don't even have a /etc/init.d/coldplug
> init script on my system - maybe you need to do an emerge -C coldplug?
> Maybe if the coldplug script doesn't exist then alsasound won't
> complain about it... Just a theory. ;)

/etc/init.d/coldplug has to be removed by hand, unfortunatly :-(



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[gentoo-user] patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i attached a patch. See comments #70 and #72 of this bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149307
from where i got it, and so on ...

It fixes the sandbox violations with vanilla 2.6.19 kernel.
It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in
2.6.19.1 :-(


I thought, that you could find that patch quite handy.


Greetings,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels

[Sven Köhler]

> It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in
> 2.6.19.1 :-(

But it will be in 2.6.19.2 - hooray!



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[gentoo-user] which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

"emerge --sync" should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP
adresses (5 at the moment).

Here's what host says:
# host rsync.gentoo.org
rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73
rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73
rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74
rsync.gentoo.org has address 140.211.166.165
rsync.gentoo.org has address 64.127.121.98

The order of the adresses is random, when i rerun the command above. So
i _would_ expect, that "emerge --sync" randomly choses on the the mirrors.

But that is not true, and actually, on all my machines, "emerge --sync"
uses always the 64.x.x.x mirror, and on the machine of a friend, it used
always 129.x.x.x mirror - well, "always" is not true, but i run "emerge
--sync" over and over again, and it did never try to use another one.


So the thing is, that from my friend's DSL-connection, the server
129.x.x.x was unreachable, while the others were reachable. So we had to
change the server manually in /etc/make.conf - but i don't understand,
why "emerge --sync" used the one it was using, and why it didn't switch
to one of the other ones.


Thanks,
  Sven



BTW: Merry Christmas!



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[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

[Sven Köhler]

> I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either.  I noticed 
> that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time).  When 
> I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific 
> mirror (again first time).

it's not portage!
it's rsync!!!

execute "rsync rsync.gentoo.org::" for a few times. I always see the
banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other.

That is STRANGE!




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[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

[Sven Köhler]

>>> I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either.  I
>>> noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror
>>> (first time).  When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I
>>> always hit a different specific mirror (again first time).
>> it's not portage!
>> it's rsync!!!
>>
>> execute "rsync rsync.gentoo.org::" for a few times. I always see the
>> banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other.
>>
>> That is STRANGE!
> 
> i think it's not strange at all.  i'm sure rsync uses mechanisms to find
> the closest server, and it's no surprise that this would be the same all
> the time, and different from the point of view of different networks.

Then, rsync behaves kind of stupid, because if rsync always uses the
same server, and the server doesn't work, then the sync will not work.

But rsync could chose a different server, well, the second-best server,
if the best server has failed. But it didn't do that :-(

Well, but any discussion about that would be off-topic.



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[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

[Sven Köhler]

»Q« schrieb:
> Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a
> gentoo machine?  The only thing I've thought of is
> using /etc/portage/package.mask to mask everything in the dev-java
> category, but I'm hoping for something simpler.
> 

disable java use-flag.
mask virtual/jdk, virtual/jre and maybe also dev-java/sun-jdk, etc.

BTW: what's so frightening about java?



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[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

[Sven Köhler]

> If it is a hard-requirement, you'll get "blah depends on java which is 
> hardmasked" and your emerge will die.


I think, that what's Q wants.



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[gentoo-user] Re: Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

[Sven Köhler]

> I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the
> system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to
> make.
> 
> Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was
> about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process.
> So is there any way to build those utilities like bzip2 or gzip in a
> thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at
> all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :)

I think, that is a misconception within bzip2.

The alternative would be:
- decompress one chunk, and write it to the stdout while the next block
is already being decompressed.
- compress a chunk, while reading the next one from stdin

That would eat up at least twice the memory as it does now.


And after i searched portage, i found "pbzip2" - what about that? It may
solve your problems ;-)



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[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up "vif" interfaces?

[Sven Köhler]

> I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other
> Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to
> experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution
> kernel.
> I got the FC5 isos.
> I made a file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg" (see attached)
> But the problem is about vifX interfaces.
> Neither http://fr.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XEN#Windows_XP
> nor http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo tells how to bring up
> such interface.
> In fact I dont see anywhere any documentation on how to setup networking
> for the need of Xen.

Actually, you just have to start xend, and it will setup xenbr0.
But i prefer, to setup xenbr0 manually, by myself. And that's the way i
do it, in /etc/conf.d/net:


bridge_xenbr0="eth0"
config_xenbr0=(
"a.b.c.d/24"
)
routes_xenbr0=(
"default via a.b.c.d"
)
brctl_xenbr0=(
"setfd 0"
"sethello 0"
"stp off"
)

> When I run Xen, I have:
> 
>   asus ~ # xm create fc5-guest.cfg
>   Using config file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg".
>   VNC= 3
>   Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug 
>   scripts not working.
> 
> bridge-utils is already emerged.
> vnc is also emerged with USE="server"
> 
> What didi I do wrong?

Do you have the necessary backend-driver in your dom0 kernel?
Please check CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND.


> 
> 
> kernel = "/usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> builder='hvm'
> memory = 512
> name = "fc5-guest"
> vcpus=1
> vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
> disk = 
> ['phy:/dev/sda5,ioemu:hda,w','file:/home/mihamina/downloads/isos/FC-5-i386-disc1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
> device_model ='/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> boot='d'
> vnc=1
> vncviewer=1
> serial='pty'
> ne2000=0


In my config, it reads:
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]


So yes, your config should work.


Greetings,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up "vif" interfaces?

[Sven Köhler]

> I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other
> Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to
> experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution
> kernel.
> I got the FC5 isos.
> I made a file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg" (see attached)
> But the problem is about vifX interfaces.
> Neither http://fr.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XEN#Windows_XP
> nor http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo tells how to bring up
> such interface.
> In fact I dont see anywhere any documentation on how to setup networking
> for the need of Xen.


Actually, you just have to start xend, and it will setup xenbr0.
But i prefer, to setup xenbr0 manually, by myself. And that's the way i
do it, in /etc/conf.d/net:


bridge_xenbr0="eth0"
config_xenbr0=(
"a.b.c.d/24"
)
routes_xenbr0=(
"default via a.b.c.d"
)
brctl_xenbr0=(
"setfd 0"
"sethello 0"
"stp off"
)

> When I run Xen, I have:
> 
>   asus ~ # xm create fc5-guest.cfg
>   Using config file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg".
>   VNC= 3
>   Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug 
>   scripts not working.
> 
> bridge-utils is already emerged.
> vnc is also emerged with USE="server"
> 
> What didi I do wrong?

Do you have the necessary backend-driver in your dom0 kernel?
Please check CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND.


> 
> 
> kernel = "/usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> builder='hvm'
> memory = 512
> name = "fc5-guest"
> vcpus=1
> vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
> disk = 
> ['phy:/dev/sda5,ioemu:hda,w','file:/home/mihamina/downloads/isos/FC-5-i386-disc1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
> device_model ='/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> boot='d'
> vnc=1
> vncviewer=1
> serial='pty'
> ne2000=0

In my config, it reads:
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]


So yes, your config should work.


Greetings,
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Deer Park instead of FireFox

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i just installed mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9. So when i start it, it says
"hooray, you've got Deer Park Alpha 2 installed! Thank you, for helping
us testing".

So what is Deer Park?
What's the difference to a normal FireFox 1.5?

Or the main question is: Why does that gentoo-ebuild install Deer Park,
and not just plain FireFox?


Thanks
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 dmesg error

[Sven Köhler]

> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> 
> Is this a known issue of these drivers?

I have the same errors. I use ipw2200-1.0.10 with kernel 2.6.15.

The connections breaks, the card is resseting and then the card works
again. Then connection breaks again, the cards resets again - and so on ...

So there is no continuous connection :-(
That's not what i call "working".



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[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 dmesg error

[Sven Köhler]

>> I got the same messages; they disappeared when I changed to the
>> in-kernel modules for the ipw2200.
> 
> so let me understand: changing from the ipw2200 external-provided
> driver to the in-kernel one solved this issue? Which kernel?
> But i thought that the in-kernel driver were older than the driver you
> could directly get from the ipw2200 site

Kernel 2.6.14 included ipw2200 1.0.0, i think.
I once heard, that 2.6.15 will include some "updated" version, but i
have no clue, which one it is.



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[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

[Sven Köhler]

> What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this:
> 
> emerge app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-editors/gedit app-text/evince
> gnome-base/control-center gnome-base/gdm

because there are slotted packages - and revdep-rebuild would have to
take the newest version within the same slot. That is a task, that is
not very simple - well, actually portage (emerge itself) has a major bug
for slotted packages:
  emerge only noticed updates within the latest slot

(so portage will not notice any update to gcc 3.3 if you've got gcc 3.4
installed, for example)

> In other words, why does it try to force the = and the version?
> 
> More often than not, if I take those off (like the second line), then shit
> just works.

yes, it does because you're lucky and don't have slotted packages in
that line.

> I've tried the flag --package-names, but it doesn't seem to do anything
> different.
> Am I being retarded? 

I remember, that it once worked for me! really!

You have to remove ~/.rev* and then run "revdep-rebuild --package-names"
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[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 & lilo...

[Sven Köhler]

> How should I translate this lilo.conf into grub.conf:
> -
> boot = /dev/md0

AFAIK, grub does _not_ support RAID.

You would habe to install grub into the MBR of all drives part of md0.
GRUB cannot be installed into the boot-sector of a partition.

And AFAIK, there are some problems with installing GRUB into both MBR.
Well, LILO manages all the problems for you. GRUB doesn't.

In addition, i see a stable amd64 ebuild and even a ~amd64 ebuild in
portage. So what was the problem again?




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[gentoo-user] Re: After update to glibc-2.4: /usr/bin/python: relocation error: /lib/libresolv.so.2: symbol __res_iclose, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time refere

[Sven Köhler]

> Oh, I just noticed the following:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -lad /var/db/pkg/*/*glibc*
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 864 19. Feb 19:13 /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 856 11. Mär 21:49 /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.4
> 
> Why do I have two glibc's installed? glibc is not slotted.

I guess, emerge stopped before unmerging the old glibc due to the error
you noticed.

> Is it safe to unmerge glibc-2.3.6-r3?

Well, i hope so :-)
Otherwise, it should be slotted.



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[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

[Sven Köhler]

> Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is
> using Google Talk?  He is running the Google Talk Windoze application.

http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html

Well, there will be, i guess. Someday in the future, GAIM will include
GoogleTalk/libjingle support, i guess.

At present, you may try to use WINE.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

[Sven Köhler]

>> At present, you may try to use WINE.
> 
> Thanks Sven, I've tried WINE but can't even connect to use IM, let alone
> VoIP.  :-(

Well, i've heard Google is working on using Wine to bring their apps to
Linux - well, they could have developed cross-platform-apps right from
the start, but they didn't :-(

> I found this on the Gaim FAQ's:
> ===
> How do I use Google Talk? 
> Create a Jabber account as per Google's FAQ. The Audio component is not
> currently supported and will not be until 1)the protocol is published and
> 2)Gaim-vv is ready for mainstream use.
> ===
> from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q17

I think GAIM 2.1 will include it. At least i've heard, that they
currently work on integrating gaim-vv to GAIM 2.1.
(and i have no clue, when it will be released)


Greetings
  Sven

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[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

[Sven Köhler]

> unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either.
> and dmesg does not show anything about my
> cdrom or hdc. just odd.

how about modprobe ide-cd ?


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[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

[Sven Köhler]

> P-ATA only | S-ATA only | P-ATA & S-ATA etc and some others. 
> i use a Native Mode, so that my disk can be recognized as /dev/hdaXX
> instead of /dev/sdaXX. and P-ATA only but with S-ATA enabled.

What's wrong about /dev/sdaX ? That's exactly how it should be. So
disable that strange "native-mode" and instead enable the SATA driver in
the SCSCI-driver section of your kernel.


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[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

[Sven Köhler]

> OK, I tried again. I do get an IP, I can connect to the internet, but
> the dhcpcd-process does not finish. In a working gentoo environment that
>  is not a big problem, but while booting, this is bad.

The dhcpcd process must not finish. Imagine a DHCP-lease that is invalid
after 10 minutes. The dhcpcd must regularly (well, before the lease is
invalidated by the server) renew the lease.


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[gentoo-user] Re: why is Joe part of 'system' ?

[Sven Köhler]

> In  /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says
> 
>   virtual/editor  app-editors/nano

yes, so nano is the default of virtual/editor

> there's no mention of Joe.

no, but joe _provides_ virtual/editor, so that's why portage may think
it's part of system.


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[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

[Sven Köhler]

>>The dhcpcd process must not finish. Imagine a DHCP-lease that is invalid
>>after 10 minutes. The dhcpcd must regularly (well, before the lease is
>>invalidated by the server) renew the lease.
> 
> But the boot process stops, and I can't work with my gentoo box. It does
> not with the old version. So something is broken, maybe my configs,
> maybe the ebuild.

Well, usually i'd say that the dhcpcd-process should daemonized itself
somehow, so that the boot-process continues.

I don't have any problems with the upgrade to dhcpcd, but i know of one
friend that has problems with his network-card. Getting a DHCP-address
taked about 20 seconds with that NIC and i don't know why.


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[gentoo-user] PPPoA with AVM DSL Cards?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

afaik, these AVM Fritz!Card DSL-cards support PPPoA/PPPoATM, and afaik
it is supported by some DSL-Providers.

Does somebody know, how to make pppd/capi use PPPoA instead of PPPoE?


Thank you
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

[Sven Köhler]

> I've run onto few posting on Google regarding DMA resetting itself but
> no solution.

That is simply annoying, that the Linux-Kernel resets DMA.

You could try "hdparm -k1" - but somethimes that doesn't help either.



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[gentoo-user] Re: VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?

[Sven Köhler]

> Does anybody have some experiences with s-ata disks attached to
> via k8m880/890 (vt9251) and gentoo/linux? Or where could I find
> some info about the latest status of linux <-> k8m880/890 support?

Googling revealed, that the SATA-ports in the VT8251 _should_ be
AHCI-compliant and therefor supported by Linux.

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[gentoo-user] Re: VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?

[Sven Köhler]

>> Googling revealed, that the SATA-ports in the VT8251 _should_ be
>> AHCI-compliant and therefor supported by Linux.
> 
> vt8251 *is* ahci-compliant, and in bios there is option to set
> up sata controller as ide, or ahci. But no matter what you set,
> vt8251/sata is not recognised with standard 2.6.15 kernel...
> 
> But there is unofficial patch/mod for ahci.c, and right now
> I'm testing it. BTW, I have read on via forum that kernel-dev's
> refused to include this patch in official kernel tree, because
> there is something peculiar about it (some fix they do not like).
> BTW, it's made by via and modified by some developers...

IMHO, the patch should only include the PCI-Id or something like that -
well, but the patch doesn't seem to be as simple as that.

Do you have a link to the patch? or even a link to the discussion in the
 LKML?

Thanks
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] problems with ifplugd

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

does anybody use ifplugd successfully?

Assume a cable is inserted. Then i perform the following commands:

- ifconfig eth0 up
- mii-tool eth0 => works, shows infos about the link
- ifconfig eth0 down
- mii-tool eth0 => shows "no-link" even though cable is inserted!

The problem:

So assume i unplug the cable. ifplugd calls "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop"
and the interface goes down (same as ifconfig eth0 down above)
Now ifplugd polls the interface and waits until the a cable is inserted,
but this will never be detected, because mii-tool always reports "no-link".

So i assume that ifplugd was written to detect the when the cable is
reinserted - but in my case, it can't.

Is that a proper behaviour? I mean: is mii-tool supposed to report the
link infos when a cable is inserted and the interface is down?
I may have found a bug in the network-driver (bcm4400).

Can you perform those three steps with your network card?
- ifconfig eth0 up
- ifconfig eth0 down
- mii-tool eth0

What does the mii-tool report?


Greetings
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

[Sven Köhler]

> Try adding the following to /etc/conf.d/net:
> 
> postdown() {
> test "${IFACE}" = "eth0" && /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
> return 0
> }

Thank you. That was a big help, but somehow disappointing.

I would rather like, if ifplugd would automatically do the "ifconfig up"
so that no configuration tweaks are needed.

Of course, i also got to put the interface in the "up" state on boot,
because i don't want to put net.eth0 in the default-runlevel for the
case where there is no cable plugged in ...

Therefor, at the moment, i also do a "ifconfig eth0 up" in
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[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

[Sven Köhler]

> No, the interface needs to be up for mii stuff to work.

Well, the proper sollution is: set AUTO="yes" in /etc/conf.d/ifplugd,
and ifplugd sets the interface to "up" automatically.



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[gentoo-user] traffic shaping

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i would like to shape the traffic of my DSL-connection, but somehow i
never really understood the machanisms that linux offers. All the
scripts i wrote were simply worthless somehow, because they didn't
really improve anything.

Is there any application or script that is easy to configure and does
all the necessary things to shape my DSL traffic?


Thanks
  Sven

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[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

[Sven Köhler]

> Well... what is wrong?
> I think that putting the interface in the "up" state on boot is wrong, 
> but perhaps removing net.eth0 from the default runlevel is not, even 
> if there is a cable plugged in.

Saying AUTO=yes in /etc/conf.d/ifplugd is one way to keep the interface
up - and at least for now, it's my preferred way.
I don't see, why should write "dirty" hacks like the postdown()-thing in
/etc/conf.d/net to keep the interface up.

> I mean that net.eth0 is executed by /etc/iflugd/ifplugd.action.

Yes, it is. And if a start ifplugd on boot, and if it puts the interface
in "up" state, and if it then executes "net.eth0 start", then i can't
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[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

[Sven Köhler]

>> Of course, i also got to put the interface in the "up" state on boot,
>> because i don't want to put net.eth0 in the default-runlevel for the
>> case where there is no cable plugged in ...
> 
> That's what you're doing wrong. The net.eth* scripts will detect ifplugd
> and use it. Put net.eth0 in the default runlevel. there is no
> configuration to do, it "just works" [tm]. I have my laptop set up like
> this, even though it usually starts up with no network cable connected

net.eth0 detects ifplugd? Are you sure?
Do i need to set anything special in /etc/conf.d/net?



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[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

[Sven Köhler]

>> net.eth0 detects ifplugd? Are you sure?
> 
> Yes. As I said, I've been using it.
> 
>> Do i need to set anything special in /etc/conf.d/net?
> 
> Yes, read the example config file I mentioned.

Which version baselayout do you have installed?

My version is 1.11.14-r6, and that does not include that support yet -
IMHO. Also my /etc/conf.d/net.example does not contain any hint about
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[gentoo-user] Re: microcode already at revision 0x1d

[Sven Köhler]

> My laptop Compaq Evo N600c (PIII) won't play with microcode (unlike a
> desktop box also PIII, which happily  updates its microcode).
> 
> This is the error during boot:
> ==
> microcode:  CPU0 already at revision 0x1d (current=0x1d)
> ==
> 
> Any ideas?

That means, that the microcode in your CPU is already up2date.
There is no need to update it! That's all!




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[gentoo-user] Re: Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

[Sven Köhler]

> I still cannot get X to start with the nvidia drivers. However, I did take
> (someones?) suggestion and tried both the "vesa" and "nv" drivers and they
> both "work". I say "work" because with 'vesa', I get a HUGE (i.e. low rez)
> screen = unuseable. And with the 'nv' I get the right resolution 1600x1200,
> but I get horrible frame-rates (glxgears).
> 
> I tried to turn off the RenderAccel option with 'nvidia' but no joy.

Has this already been suggested?

Take the most recent version of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (~x86) and
take a look at /etc/modules.d/nvidia. There something about a
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[gentoo-user] reiserfs->ext3

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i once read about a tool to convert a reiserfs to ext3 - but without
using to much additional space. Instead, that tool claimed to use a
sparse-file within the original filesystem to create the new filesystem
by moving the files to new FS contained in the sparse file.

Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way
round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-(


Thanks
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs->ext3

[Sven Köhler]

> Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way
> round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-(

http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/

And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ...

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[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs->ext3

[Sven Köhler]

>> Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way
>> round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-(
> 
> http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
> And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ...

Yes! my Gentoo had just gone to hell!
Don't use convertfs ;-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs->ext3

[Sven Köhler]

>> Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way
>> round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-(
> 
> mkfs, but make sure you have a backup. *SCNR*

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[gentoo-user] disable IPv6 for one interface?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

how can i disable IPv6 for my eth1-interface?

In my /etc/conf.d/net, i only specify the IPv4 address, but the kernel
or baselayout adds that local-link address to the interface. But i don't
want an IPv6 address for that interface.

/etc/conf.d/net.example doesn't tell anything about it, just that
config_eth1 may include IPv6 addresses - but what i want is simple:

eth1 with only an IPv4 address and no IPv6 address.

Any suggestions?


Also read some of the HOWTOs, but no hints there :-(


Thanks.

  Sven

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[gentoo-user] dialup + IPv6?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

i have a normal DSL-connection. My provider only supplies a IPv4 address
- and so my ppp0 does not have a IPv6 address. The IPv4 of ppp0 address
changes every 24 hours.

So i'd like to be abled to use IPv6 from my LAN which sits behind my
Gentoo-based DSL router.

I think, that 6to4 would be right for me. If i do a traceroute to the
192.88.99.1 (the host, that all the 6to4 packets goto), i get contact
after really few hops. Great!

I'm facing many many questions. My friend is telling me, that in theory,
i would be abled to use IPv6 addresses based on the 6to4-address of the
IPv4 address of my ppp0 - but that changes every 24 hours.

A MASQ-target seems not to be available for IPv6 - so if my router
disconnects/reconnets, all the computers in my LAN will have to change
their IPv6 address.


Has anyone ever tried to supply his homenetwork with IPv6 through a
normal IPv6 connection?
If so, did it work? And what did you do?


Thanks.

  Sven

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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error

[Sven Köhler]

> after xorg-server update fglrx driver wont work, even after (re)emerge, 
> should 
> i file a bug? any suggesions? now i see option to downgrade where i was 
> before, yes and X just crashed with xorg ati drivers.
> 
> from Xorg.0.log:
> 
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
>   compiled for 6.8.99.8, module version = 8.23.7
>   Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
> (EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1)
> (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

compiled for 6.8.99.8 ? perhaps you should recompile the ati-driver.

Well, besides that: i assume, that you don't want the latest
alpha/beta/rc-version of xorg, but there are more and more masked
xorg-related packages of that kind in portage. xorg 7.0 is already
marked as ~x86, so you can safely remove all xorg-packages from
/etc/portage/package.unmask.


Greetings
  Sven



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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error

[Sven Köhler]

> that is the point, i recompiled after xorg-server update, and before too if 
> that matters ;)

I see!
So perhaps the ATI-driver is only for xorg up to version 7.0?




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[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

[Sven Köhler]

> Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up 
> eth0 directly.

No, since baselayout-1.12*, gentoo uses ppp and ppp's pppoe-plugin.

rp-pppoe is not needed anymore!

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[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

[Sven Köhler]

> (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.

> (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?

I have no clue what's wrong here.

But i have to tell you, that my net.ppp0 was provided by net-dialup/ppp
instead of baselayout. So i symlinked net.lo to net.ppp9 and used
net.ppp9 instead. (I'm using ~x86 baselayout with x86 ppp)


Greetings
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[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

[Sven Köhler]

> 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:
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[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

[Sven Köhler]

> 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.

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[gentoo-user] Re: xf86-input-mouse-1.0.4 not compiling?

[Sven Köhler]

> Sorry for the big post. I solved by emerging the 1.1.0 version, which is
> hard masked at the moment.

Hmm, that 1.1.x versions are part of xorg-x11 7.1 i guess - i wouldn't
use 7.1 material with xorg 7.0 - well, perhaps it works without
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[gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

[Sven Köhler]

> Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then,
> I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because
> the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8:

.UTF-8 changed from .utf8?

That's not true. My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off) never
creates such locales.


# equery f glibc|grep -i utf |grep CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/aa_DJ.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/af_ZA.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/an_ES.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_AE.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_BH.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_DZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_EG.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_IQ.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_JO.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_KW.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_LB.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_LY.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_MA.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_OM.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_QA.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_SA.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_SD.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_SY.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_TN.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ar_YE.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/az_AZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/be_BY.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/bg_BG.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/br_FR.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/bs_BA.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/ca_ES.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/cs_CZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/cy_GB.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/da_DK.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/de_AT.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/de_BE.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/de_CH.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_CTYPE
/usr/lib/locale/de_LU.utf8/LC_CTYPE
...

I also looked it up on a Redhat-System: no .UTF-8 locales.


What might have been the last glibc-version with UTF-8 locales?
(i don't remember to have seen that over the last few years)



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[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

[Sven Köhler]

> I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card.
> Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in
> portage?  Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo?

I would use the ebuilds. You're much more flexible that way in the case,
that you experience bugs. (I'm using the ~x86 version at the moment)

I don't know, which version has been integrated into the kernel. There
were definitely some bugs conncerning hwcrypto and other things in older
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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

[Sven Köhler]

> In my recent experience the frequent changes to the
> xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I
> have been constantly adding things to package.keywords
> and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade.
> And then it got 1000 times worse...

xorg 7.0 is ~x86 - no need to unmask things anymore.

The problem is, that you still habe packages unmasked and therefor, you
now get xorg 7.1 stuff. Please clean your portage.unmask of any xorg-stuff.

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