Re: [gentoo-user] distcc
John Blinka wrote: sean wrote: John Blinka wrote: I think this is backwards. The cross compiler should be on the Opteron box, since distcc is asking the Opteron box to produce 32 bit code for the P4 box. Check this out. Look at the line highlighted in green. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml Yep, that's exactly the document I used to get cross-compiling working with distcc on my machines. See the paragraph near the top under the heading Emerge the needed utilities. The first sentence of this paragraph refers to machines that will be involved in the compiling process. One might argue that both your P4 and Opteron machines are involved since the P4 calls the compiler and the Opteron does the compiling. But the sentence really refers to machines that will actually *do* the compiling, i.e., your Opteron. So you should do 2 things on the Opteron box: emerge crossdev and crossdev -t arg where I'm guessing arg is i686-pc-linux-gnu for your P4 box. The green highlighted stuff are things you do on the P4 box. The explanation for doing the green highlighted stuff is found at the end of the page under the heading Why this works. John Blinka Thanks John, Perhaps it is just me, but maybe the docs on this topic could use just a bit more sharpening to clear things. Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550
I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more success using the open source drivers also listed in the Gentoo ATI faq. Before I go much further, or post for any help here, have any others here managed to get this card working on Gentoo, or should i just go try and get an Nvidia based card instead? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Sean wrote: I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more success using the open source drivers also listed in the Gentoo ATI faq. Did you try the Xorg radeon driver? (think its part of xf86-video-ati). You want to unmerge ati-drivers if they have proved unstable (no surprise there...) I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mother a machine running Gentoo and have one of these (a 9200) lying around and am intending to use it Cheers Mark I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a reason why at this point. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
James wrote: Hello Sean, I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain Still in pain here. Never had so many problems with a card before. 1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web sites says there are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It was the only version that worked on my ati 1900 card. I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and unlike the stable drivers, these actually compiled. The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier xorg config. Here is a real odd one. Having specified the radeon driver, started xorg, and it fails stating cannot find the radeon driver. Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be. At a loss for this one. Right now to simplify things removing SMP from the kernel, saw a lot of remarks stating SMP often on early versions of the driver caused problems. Has anyone tried the driver install script right from ati instead of portage? I am just about ready to go get an nvidia card. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be. At a loss for this one. slocate only tells you the file was there the last time updatedb was run. Thanks Neil. That must of occurred from when I emerged xf86-video-ati and then later removed it before trying out the ati-driver, which I figured would supply it's own version of the radeon driver, which, at least for me, it has not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
James wrote: sean tech.junk at verizon.net writes: I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable drivers, these actually compiled. The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier xorg config. Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf file for my ati-1900. There are numerous differences compared to any of my radeon compatible xorg.conf files... Thanks James, sure. I am actually in the process rebuilding the system from scratch again. Install completed, and things upgraded. Still need to emerge xorg, ati-drivers and related. So which would best be first, xorg, or the ati-drivers? Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
James and all, thanks much for the help, however I have called it a day with this ATI Radeon 9550 card. I lost several days troubleshooting the thing, and every corner I tuned ran into another problem. Torture! Brought the card back to the store, replaced it with an Nvidia based card. Emerged Xorg and the Nvidia drivers and have already completed the successful test of Xorg and the bright and shinning nvidia logo as it started brought a smile! This was more like it should! I know Nvidia is not perfect, but they have yet to fail me. I will stick with them in the future. Now my son waits anxiously for KDE to build. Thanks again all, Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Tellico cddb configuration
Hello All, Is anyone able to tell me how to configure Tellico to retrieve music CD info from freedb.org? The only data source included by default is one for Yahoo music. The Tellico site says it can be done, but no apparent instructions on the steps for setup. Please note, I do not have KDE (or Gnome) installed, just the needed resources for Tellico. Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, what does ~ mean here: (example from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) ~net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 ? I think it means that the package is still in testing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support
Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) As you can see above my system does not allow anything to be done for /dev/agpgart, it just has three lines before it. How do I enable this in the kernel towards getting my nvidia card working? Please note: if it makes a difference I am running amd64. Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support
Sean wrote: Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) As you can see above my system does not allow anything to be done for /dev/agpgart, it just has three lines before it. How do I enable this in the kernel towards getting my nvidia card working? Please note: if it makes a difference I am running amd64. Thanks Sean Additional, when I run the glxinfo | grep direct, the reponse I get is Error: unable to open display (null) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no prompt for password
James Ausmus wrote: No problem- May have just been a /etc/pam.d/* file that hadn't updated properly in the first emerge of shadow. Enjoy your new system (and Welcome to Gentoo, it sounds like!) :) -James Thanks, looking forward to trying it out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 15 June 2006 04:24, Sean wrote: Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is under device drivers--- character devices--- --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) As you can see above my system does not allow anything to be done for /dev/agpgart, it just has three lines before it. How do I enable this in the kernel towards getting my nvidia card working? Please note: if it makes a difference I am running amd64. you don't set anything else on amd64. Just agp support. That is enough. Rebuild, configure X properly, emerge nvidia-kernel, eselect opengl set nvidia, start X. Is this Just agp support something else other then what the handbook instructions state about /dev/agpgart (agp support)? As mentioned above that option is not available to me. Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Sean wrote:
How do I enable this in the kernel towards getting my nvidia card
working?
--- means it's enabled (another part of your kernel wants it built-in)
Additional, when I run the glxinfo | grep direct, the reponse I get is
Error: unable to open display (null)
You need to run glxinfo inside X
Do: emerge nvidia-{kernel,glx}
Don't know why I did not realize that I had to have X started for the
glxinfo test, brain skip on my part.
Started X and works great. Thanks to all the tips. Very responsive group
here.
Numbers look impressive on the test, first line reads
70644 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14128.800 FPS
The successor lines average over 14500 FPS. That looks very impressive,
seems much higher then I would have expected.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia and kernel support
Peter wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:58:58 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: snip and: if you have enabled iommu support, agpsupport is built in the kernel. Because both are the same for AMD64. There is nio good reason to build agpsupport as modul on amd64, so it is ok to build it in. Just make a kernel, install the kernel and install nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. Actually, if you want to use the nvidia agpgart drivers, agpgart support should be a module. Depending on your nvidia options, it will be loaded when the nvidia module is loaded, or nvidia will handle agpgart itself. From the README: X Config Options Option NvAGP integer Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of: Value Behavior ----- 0 disable AGP 1 use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible 2 use AGPGART, if possible 3 use any AGP support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP) If agpgart is compiled into the kernel, only 2 will work. My menuconfig still shows --- for the agp line, so based on my responses I still have it built in some where do to another dependency. Tried playing with some of the options, but still shows ---. I will look at it more. I guess nvidia's agp looks better then agpgart? I have not done anything in the X config o wht you mention above. Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup
Hello All, I am trying to get my recently built system to recognize my Adaptec 29160 configured on the system. I have SCSI built into the kernel, here is the dmesg statement, SCSI subsystem initialized, I can see my sata drive, which from what I read, scsi needs to be working for sata access, but there is nothing in dmesg about my scsi card coming to life, and so I cannot see my cd burner and iomega jaz drive that hang off it. I figure it has something to do with getting drivers in place. Is it something in the kernel config? I have looked and there is nothing that catches my attention. Perhaps just to emerge some driver? Here is my version Linux version 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)) #4 SMP Sat Jun 17 22:56:38 EDT 2006 Running on a pair of dual opterons in amd64 mode. Thanks in advance for any help. Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup
Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:13:44 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get my recently built system to recognize my Adaptec 29160 configured on the system. I have SCSI built into the kernel, here is the dmesg statement, SCSI subsystem initialized, Do you have SCSI Transport Attributes --- Parallel SCSI (SPI) Transport Attributes turned on as either a module or loaded? I can see my sata drive, which from what I read, scsi needs to be working for sata access, SATA doesn't need specific attributes unless it's really a SAS interface. but there is nothing in dmesg about my scsi card coming to life, and so I cannot see my cd burner and iomega jaz drive that hang off it. Should only need, under SCSI devices support -- SCSI disk, SCSI CDROM, the previously mentioned parallel Transport, under low-level drivers -- Adaptec AIC7xxx (aka New driver), SATA support, and the SATA chipset driver. The rest is pretty much wasted space. Bob - Thanks Bob, Things are improving, but still not over the top yet. As you can see below the dmesg shows things starting to light up... I am able to see the scsi cdrw and the jaz drive. Tried mounting the jaz drive but as expected it failed, the format of the unit cartridge is UFS. But it at least saw it, assigned it, and tried to mount when I manually tried. However the scsi cdrw is still not working. Again, as you can see it dmesg shows the device. However it is not assigning it a dev. The sr0 assignment you see listed is for my sata dvd unit, which is able to mount when I tested it. Are you, or anyone, able to offer any other suggestions? Thanks Sean --- scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0 Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W4012S Rev: 1.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 target0:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:1: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 15) target0:0:1: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:1: Ending Domain Validation Vendor: iomegaModel: jaz 1GB Rev: J.83 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 target0:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:4: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 15) target0:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:4: Ending Domain Validation libata version 1.20 loaded. SCSI device sda: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back w/ FUA SCSI device sda: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back w/ FUA sda: sda1 sd 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 sd 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] etc-update
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to be updated? It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look them over to see what the differences are? Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup
Bob Sanders wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:07:42 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to see the scsi cdrw and the jaz drive. Tried mounting the jaz drive but as expected it failed, the format of the unit cartridge is UFS. But it at least saw it, assigned it, and tried to mount when I manually tried. Under - File Systems -- Miscellaneous filesystems -- enable UFS However the scsi cdrw is still not working. Again, as you can see it dmesg shows the device. However it is not assigning it a dev. Could be a udev issue? But, just for grins, under Device Drivers -- Block devices, enable Packet writing on CD/DVD media. The defaults should be ok for that selection. Also, I note I neglected to have you select Device Drivers -- SCSI device -- SCSI generic support, but it seems to be in the kernel. And under File Systems -- CD-ROM/DVD filesystems -- ISO 9660 CDROM system support is selected? Probably have to be if sr0: works, of course add UDF file system if it's no selected. By chance have you done an etc-update/dispatch-conf since the last udev update that occured this week? Bob - Hi Bob, Thought you might be interested on how things went. Sorry for the delay, I am recovering from an injury I suffered a little over a week ago. Anyway, due to not being able to troubleshoot the SCSI cd-rom problem for a while, and some other things I had half done, I decided to reinstall Gentoo from scratch. It was a new build so not like I had anything to loose. Once the build was completed, and made sure I included your options you suggested for troubleshooting with the initial build of the kernel I booted. Still could not access the scsi cd-rom. At least it was being assigned again, but unable to access. One thing I noticed in dmesg is that my sata dvd unit was showing up with the same identification, which they both are plextor brands, but that is where it ends, one is a scsi cdrw and the other a sata dvd burner. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Tried mounting the dvd unit, worked fine. Tried the cdrw, no luck, stated no medium present. With the above info, decided to disconnect the sata dvd. After system restarted, the scsi cdrw fired up perfectly. Brought system down, reconnected the sata dvd unit and after power up, both units are now working. In fact the dmesg statements are from the working config, though it was the same when it was not working. At this time all I have done is tried mounting the units and was able to view the contents, have not tried burning anything at this time. Still putting system together. Anyway I do not have a cause for the problem. Some how my sata unit and scsi unit were conflicting with each other it would appear. My scsi kernel settings have the suggestions you made, and all else that is there by default. I am reluctant to mess with the scsi kernel settings after things are finally working. Previously when I played with the settings one of my to units disappeared and I was unable to get it back. Thanks for your help, Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USE flag
I would like to fine tune my USE flags a bit more and have a question. Currently I am emerging gaim, and as it proceeds I see gnome and evolution related items across the screen. I am not running gnome desktop or evolution and could a -gnome and -evolution be placed in USE and would it cause any problems? I am not a big fan of gnome but some things I use, gaim for example seems to be tied to gnome. Can I filter it out without causing problems for some apps that may be tied to gnome. Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag
Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:30:26AM +0530, Penguin Lover Aniruddha Shankar squawked: Willie Wong wrote: Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. I moved from ufed to profuse, it's slightly better with multiple display interfaces (dialog/ncurses/gtk) I've tried both, and I didn't really find much difference between the tools. Care to elucidate on why profuse is better? (Or do you mean that it is better because it supports multiple display interfaces?) [I am not trying to start a flamewar. If there is some feature of profuse that I didn't know about that is useful and not present for ufed, I'd like to find out.] I think I ended up using ufed because it got support for the -* flag first. W They both like interesting, I did see some screen shots of profuse, does ufed operate the same? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] keyword mask over-ride not working
I am trying to emerge wsoundserver on my amd64 system, however it is masked. emerge wsoundserver Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy wsoundserver have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-plugins/wsoundserver-0.4.1 (masked by: missing keyword) I placed wsoundserver and wmix into my keywords file as shown below x11-plugins/wsoundserver ~amd64 x11-plugins/wmix ~amd64 Wmix which was also masked is now available and emerged fine, however wsoundserver still is masked by keyword. Is something wrong with how I setup the keyword file? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] keyword mask over-ride not working
Richard Fish wrote: On 6/28/06, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to emerge wsoundserver on my amd64 system, however it is masked. carcharias rjf # grep KEYWORDS /usr/.../wsoundserver/wsoundserver-0.4.1.ebuild KEYWORDS=~ppc x86 It is masked due to a *missing* keyword, not because you are not accepting a keyword. In other words, wsoundserver is available for x86 and ~ppc, but not amd64 and not ~amd64. Compare that to wmix: carcharias rjf # grep KEYWORDS /usr/.../wmix/wmix-3.1-r1.ebuild KEYWORDS=x86 ~sparc ~amd64 ~ppc -Richard Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup
Bob Sanders wrote: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Ah, but the problem is that it only thinks there is one type of drive. One of the above drives should show as a DVD capable drive. Not just as a CD-ROM/ writer. I realize this, and I may tackle it again, when I am ready. Brought system down, reconnected the sata dvd unit and after power up, both units are now working. In fact the dmesg statements are from the working config, though it was the same when it was not working. I wonder if the SCSI cable was not quite seated or had oxidized pins? This system runs more then one OS, and the other 2 have had no problems. Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ufed questions
Trying out the program for the first time and one simple question is if you choose an item how do you specify that you want it to be a '-'? Pressing the space bar selects it, and adds it to make.conf with a +, but how do you get it to add with the '-' in front of it? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] big problem, small solution
Philip Webb wrote: Hardware problems come up here occasionally experiences deserve swapping. Gentoo involves much exercise of the CPU, sometimes making it sweat a lot. My AMD 2500+ CPU (installed 2003) has been getting hotter the fan slower. Here in the summer heat of S Ontario, where my workroom is = 25 C , it had been running at a steady 64 C for a couple of weeks (was 55 C ). When I tried to emerge GCC 4.1.1 , it reached 75 C the box died; several attempts, the same auto switch-off. No fans to fit at the store all available CPUs are 64-bit nowadays, ie build another machine. So I opened up the box, removed the fan the heat-sink, blew wiped all the dust away, smeared on some silicon heat-conductor carefully kept from the original package 3 years ago, put it back together. Now the fan is running at 4400 RPM (was 4000 ) the CPU is at 51 C , rising only to 58 C while successfully compiling GCC 4.1.1 . Hopefully, I won't need to build a new machine till well into 2007 . I recently replaced the fans and heat sinks on my dual opterons to bring the temp down, I was also very much trying to bring the nose level down from the fans. I used 2 copper heat fans with heat pipes from thermaltake, and put some 90 mm fans on each cpu/heatsink. I also put a new case around them to improve air flow. You want more air being pulled out of your box then going in. I manually monitor and control the fan speed and with the new setup I have been able to get the processor fans rpms down to 1800-2000, a real help to reduce noise, with the temp averaging about 46c when idle. When I have done something, perhaps emerge some program, whatever, temp goes to about 50-52c. Check the specs on your processor to see what the operating temp range is so you do not burn things up. Hope it helps, Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ufed questions
Jure Varlec wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 04:09, sean wrote: Trying out the program for the first time and one simple question is if you choose an item how do you specify that you want it to be a '-'? Pressing the space bar selects it, and adds it to make.conf with a +, but how do you get it to add with the '-' in front of it? Thanks Sean It's been a while since I last used it, but as far as I remember it will do that only if an item is in the defaults AND you unselected it. No point in having it disabled in make.conf if it wasn't enabled in the first place. But from what I read, or at least thought I read, plus replies to another question I posted, I needed to add -gnome and -eds because I do not want this options when I was emerging gaim, and manually adding them was the only way. Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] big problem, small solution
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 13:15, Sean wrote: You want more air being pulled out of your box then going in. Yeah, and when all the air has been pulled out of the box and you've got a vacuum then you'll see the temperature in there rising... ;) I guess I should have worded it different to avoid such comments. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] big problem, small solution
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 14:31, Sean wrote: You want more air being pulled out of your box then going in. I guess I should have worded it different to avoid such comments. I'm sorry but such a statement is just plain incorrect no matter how you word it. But my reply was supposed to be humorous even if it didn't seem that way... ok -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] big problem, small solution
Dale wrote: with the temp averaging about 46c when idle. When I have done something, perhaps emerge some program, whatever, temp goes to about 50-52c. Well, I have a AMD 2500+ and mine doesn't run near that temp. Just plain old air cooling with folding running and I am at 37 and 27. I have a ThermalTake 12 on mine. Why does everybody have these high temps?? Dale :-) :-) When I checked out the specs for my Opterons the running temp was listed from 40-70, if I recall correctly, so i think I am doing fine now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Launch Firefox from Thunderbird
Recently did an update of the system and no when I click on a link in Thunderbird it no longer opens up in Firefox, actually nothing happens. I am guessing it is just some setting in the Thunderbird config editor that needs to be corrected? Would anyone know what might need to be set? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Setup
sean wrote: I am trying to get my locally attached printer to work, first time setup. Followed the instructions and so far nothing. I am using the default cups.conf setup, and have enabled the kernel support Device Drivers -- * Parallel port support * PC-style hardware Device Drivers -- Character Devices -- * Parallel printer support as the instructions state. Doing an lpq gives the following lpq: error - no default destination available. tardis sean # Would anyone be able to give me an ideas on how to get this thing running? Hopefully I included all needed information. Thanks in advance Sean A little more Doing a dmesg | grep -i print drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver shows me the previous. I am on a parallel port. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Setup
sean wrote: sean wrote: I am trying to get my locally attached printer to work, first time setup. Followed the instructions and so far nothing. I am using the default cups.conf setup, and have enabled the kernel support Device Drivers -- * Parallel port support * PC-style hardware Device Drivers -- Character Devices -- * Parallel printer support as the instructions state. Doing an lpq gives the following lpq: error - no default destination available. tardis sean # Would anyone be able to give me an ideas on how to get this thing running? Hopefully I included all needed information. Thanks in advance Sean A little more Doing a dmesg | grep -i print drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver shows me the previous. I am on a parallel port. Well I do seem to have managed to fire the printer up. Thanks anyway everyone. Hopefully no other problems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mozilla Lightening Alarms
Hello All, Is there an option I am missing in Thunderbird's Lightening extension, or some other way to get alarms to appear when Thunderbird is not running? I have noticed also that if Thunderbird is shutdown at the time of a reminder popping up, it does not pop up later after the fact when Thunderbird is started. Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Lightening Alarms
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM, seantech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Hello All, Is there an option I am missing in Thunderbird's Lightening extension, or some other way to get alarms to appear when Thunderbird is not running? I have noticed also that if Thunderbird is shutdown at the time of a reminder popping up, it does not pop up later after the fact when Thunderbird is started. From the FAQ on the Lightning website: Can Sunbird/Lightning remind me when closed? Can Sunbird start minimized? No, Sunbird and Lightning can't give pop-up messages or send e-mails when they are not running. There is a 'trick' for this problem. You can hide Sunbird in the tray. This can be done with Suntray or Minimize to Tray for Windows and Kdocker for Linux. Thanks, I had hoped there was some other undocumented trick.
[gentoo-user] virtual modem
I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow me to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead communicate over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of such a package? I have an old program running in dosbox that I am tying to get to communicate with another system also running in dosbox. Thanks all in advance, Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] virtual modem
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, seantech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow me to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead communicate over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of such a package? I have an old program running in dosbox that I am tying to get to communicate with another system also running in dosbox. DOSbox has this feature built in. See: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:SerialPort http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=19256 Thanks Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
What version of Pidgin? I am running 2.5.8 and it connects to yahoo without problems. Did you emerge with the yahoo flag enabled, maybe that could be the culprit?
[gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.
Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system, accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it was plugged into the camera. Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in such a circumstance? I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it. Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.
Jesús Guerrero wrote: photorec is probably perfect for this concrete task. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Thanks, I will pass it on.
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.
Alan McKinnon wrote: What kind of card? It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that can undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain Mr Peter Norton when I was still but a little lad... I think they have a compact flash camera. As mentioned, they no longer have a Windows system at their house, they decided to try out Linux, and have been using it now for several months. It was an old pc and I set them up with Xubuntu. I felt Gentoo would have been to much for them to maintain. So far, leaving out some of the minor learning curves, they think it has been great.
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.
Mick wrote: It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery with testdisk or what not on that image. I pointed them to the testdisk package and the instructions.
[gentoo-user] USB auto mounting
Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager in place and that plugin is enabled. For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged in. I am not sure when this stopped working. My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine. If I lsusb I can see the flash drive listed when inserted. I have tried re-emerging various items hoping that it would bring it back to life. Obviously no luck since I am posting. Would anyone have any ideas on a possible cause and cure? Thanks in advanced, Sean
[gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
I do not run the KDE desktop here but do like and have used some of their apps, Gwenview and K3B being some examples. Previously I could install the minimum KDE 3 support needed and that was it. It would seem that now in order to install such an app as K3B I have to include the entire KDE 4 desktop. Is this what others are seeing or am I doing something wrong? Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
Dale wrote: I would also add, watch the USE flags. You may be able to turn some off, that may help as well. Dale Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering them, but finally it worked. I went from over 300 packages down to 32.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
Mick wrote: I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be that although I have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping up every time I start kmail? As the original poster of this thread, have fun, I found my answer, enjoy your discussion.
Re: [gentoo-user] cmake - need help
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
unfortunately I have no experience with cmake.
The current version of kde-base/step-4.3.4 fails because it cannot find
the eigen2 include directory. (I have created a bug report
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295411
)
Looking at kdeedu-4.3.4/step/CMakeLists.txt
there is
include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${EIGEN2_INCLUDE_DIR})
How is this CMakeLists.txt processed (how to debug it).
Many thanks for a pointer,
Helmut.
There is an eigen use flag.
Perhaps you need that?
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids
Robin Atwood wrote: Since the massive Qt 4.6.0/KDE 4.3.4 update I have noticed that the search widget for the various weather plasmoids always returns Cannot find 'London' or whatever. This is on two systems; anyone else notice this? Just tried it here, and had the same results as you wrote.
[gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+
Hello All, My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is supposed to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and drop. Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode on the Clip+ to MSC. I am wondering if I need to setup support in the kernel, or something else? Any tips anyone? Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+
Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you do yet the obvious first step, which is to plug in it and see what happens? If so, what happened? If not, do so, then post what happened. That I had tried. The device is not seen.
Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+
Alan McKinnon wrote: what is the output from dmesg? I have the Sansa Clip + in MSC mode, though have tried the other two modes. The tail end of my last few connects, and disconnects. Not sure of how much to include. [16243.196854] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6 [16248.196977] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64 [16253.197094] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64 [16258.196213] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64 [16258.262213] usb 3-3.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [16258.521154] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88023a512b40 path 3.2 ep0in 5fd6 cc 5 -- status -62 [16258.524141] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88023a512b40 path 3.2 ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62 [16258.527141] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88023a512b40 path 3.2 ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62 [16258.546169] hub 3-3:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2 [16258.549198] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg evt 0004 [16258.555149] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0100, change 0001, 12 Mb/s [16258.758118] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 175ms stable 100ms status 0x100 [16260.159893] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg evt 0004 [16260.164996] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0101, change 0001, 12 Mb/s [16260.278845] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 100ms stable 100ms status 0x101 [16260.345831] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7 [16265.345960] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64 [16270.345081] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64 [16275.345208] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64 [16275.411186] usb 3-3.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [16275.658149] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88017cd349c0 path 3.2 ep0in 5fd6 cc 5 -- status -62 [16275.661133] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88017cd349c0 path 3.2 ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62 [16275.664130] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88017cd349c0 path 3.2 ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62 [16275.683163] hub 3-3:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2 [16275.686154] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg evt 0004 [16275.692136] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0100, change 0001, 12 Mb/s [16275.894652] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 175ms stable 100ms status 0x100 [16275.894660] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg evt 0004 [16277.276874] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg evt 0004 [16277.287223] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0101, change 0001, 12 Mb/s [16277.431845] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 125ms stable 100ms status 0x101 [16277.498836] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8 tardis sean
Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+
Damian wrote: Did you enable USB in your kernel? Sure did, USB memory sticks work fine, and I believe they work on the same principal as the Clip+. I attached dmesg output into another reply.
[gentoo-user] Joomla
Is anyone able to point me at a definitive write-up of Joomla on Gentoo (amd64)? Any recommend use flags or other tips from those who have set this up to get the best from this package? Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] Joomla
On 06/09/2010 02:14 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi Mick, Am 09.06.10 08:05, schrieb Mick: I can't answer directly your question, but unless you have a particular reason to use Joomla, I would strongly recommend to give Drupal a try. It is a more powerful CMS with more modules than Joomla. yes you are right with your comment, I currently use joomla and tried to switch to drupal, but an essential modul, docman, is not available for drupal. If you do not need a tool that manages you download I would recommend drupal too. Matthias I am only interested because it is being implemented where I work and want to try to become familiar with Joomla a bit.
[gentoo-user] Camera App
Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using a webcam? I would prefer one not really tied to Gnome or KDE, but if it is a must, I would choose KDE. Being in portage is a nice plus as well. Thanks, Sean
[gentoo-user] KDE's RSSNow Browser Selection
In a recent upgrade, I forget which one, the KDE Plasmoid RSSNow now only opens a link in Konqueror despite my setting of Firefox as the default browser. Is anyone else seeing this, and might now a setting or fix to correct this RSSNow setting? Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation
I thought Gentoo was supposed to be bleeding edge when it came to all things Linux. Why would something like E17, (or any package,) still need to be applied through an overlay after all this time instead of just being in portage? I thought building from scratch was to be the way to put a package together based on what you want, and what is available on your sytem. I understand that some basic needs are required to build a package, but again, I figured working from source would make such things so much more flexible. I am not trying to start any type of nasty discussion, it is just a nagging question I have wondered about. Thanks Sean
[gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to fix? Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut? Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you. I did not delete it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone
thanks for the info. As I said I do not know how this happened, this system has been running fine for years with little effort to maintain.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:55 AM, James wrote: sean tech.junk at myfairpoint.net writes: As I said I do not know how this happened, this system has been running fine for years with little effort to maintain. Hmmm, Not a good idea. What I mean by that is that I have had few real problems with it, the system is always kept up to date.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Did you reboot your system and then realize it was empty or did you notice it was empty after merging the updates? As the updates were running, when it came time to update the nvidia-drivers, a message appeared that it could not find a valid .config in /usr/src/linux I went to investigate and the linux directory under /usr/src was completely gone. Fortunately I keep a backup copy of .config.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote: Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I can think of that emerge would remove it. Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but it wouldn't have removed .config or anything resulting from compilation. Not unless it's horribly broken, in which case I'm sure we'd have heard by now. -- Rgds Peter I do run depclean after updating the system. Still at a loss as to the cause.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of Gentoo. On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your box was hacked. But, otherwise, you removed it, maybe without noticing. --depclean would never remove this, even if it was buggy enough to remove all your kernels (which it isn't) it wouldn't remove all the files that do not belong to the package, and there are thousands of these in any kernel tree that's been configured and/or compiled. Hence, the non-empty directories would never be removed either. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella If you have anything you wish me to check, I will. But I know that I did not remove it. I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. That is what led me to discover the missing directory. I update the system regularly.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he upgraded. Sean, Two questions. I don't think you ever replied as to whether /usr/src is a mounted partition, is it? Also, did you have multiple kernels emerged into different slots before this happened? if so, does portage still think they're installed? It was not a mounted partition. No multiple kernels. I try to clean up after myself.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone
On 03/09/2011 07:01 PM, walt wrote: Just as an example, I use the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources package for my kernel source code. I use gentoo-sources as well.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Is it possible you ran depclean prior to compiling the newest kernel that you emerged? Do not think so. I keep things up to date and there were no warnings flags such as the nvidia-drivers that notified me of the missing .config in usr/src/linux.
[gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount
I have two 500GB USB drives that my Gentoo system here will not read. Both these drives are fat formatted. The tail of DMESG, the entries actually go on for a long long time, has the following report for either of those two drives, [ 6027.085508] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len 0/8 retry 29 [ 6027.085636] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len 0/8 retry 30 [ 6027.085760] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len 0/8 retry 31 [ 6027.085885] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: devpath 3 ep0in 3strikes [ 6027.136031] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: GetStatus port:3 status 001002 0 ACK POWER sig=se0 CSC [ 6027.136052] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3 [ 6027.136062] hub 1-0:1.0: state 7 ports 5 chg evt 0008 Both these fat formatted drives are easily read on several other systems running Windows or MAC OS X. The Gentoo system will read small usb memory sticks up to 16 GB fat formatted. The Gentoo system will also read a 750 GB NTFS drive without problems. Is anyone able to point me in the direction to figure out why the fat usb drives will not be read by the Gentoo system? Thanks Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount
On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine. I've never determined what causes it and have sort of decided it's just some weird incompatibility... - Mark Mark, I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect the drives to my system. It cured the problem here. Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount
On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a drive case? I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical parameters on the cable just enough that it started working. I should give that a try here and see if I get so lucky! Cheers, Mark The external USB cable. Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver-5.15 doesn't find images
On 12/29/2011 08:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I tried updating to Xscreensaver 5.15 , but it fails to load images eg for the Jigsaw screensaver, using a default image instead. Going back to 5.14 solves the problem. Has anyone else seen this ? Same problem here on 5.15.
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions
a) The new user is asked to login with passwd as opposed to pubkey. This is surprising as (I thought) that I had set up sshd_config to allow pubkey authentication only - need to check this again when I get home. Other than a misconfigured sshd_config could it be anything else that causes this? If you want to disable password based logons, and only use shared keys, then change UsePAM yes to UsePAM no. b) Once logged in via sftp the new user can read and access other users files. This is because the default permission setting for /home/%u/ is 0644 (rw-r--r--). Is there a clever way of tightening this down without messing up all home file and directory permissions indiscriminately? chmod 700 /home/* I understand that there are many ways to skin a cat - in this case to contain somewhat what a plain user can and cannot do when they log in via sftp. Some ideas that I have across are to use a limited shell like rssh, use an ssh chroot, modify the umask for user directories. I am interested to find out what you might have tried and what you would recommend. If you're that worried about them having shell access, then don't use sftp. Use encrypted ftp (ftp + tls ... pureftpd provides this) for file transfers, or even webdav over https. -Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BIND DNS?
For what it's worth, I'd second djbdns. I've been using it (and qmail) for a long time now, and haven't yet run into an issue. Cheers, Sean On 12/13/05, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 December 2005 20:54, Tom Smith wrote: I'm looking to install BIND DNS on one of my server (the first Gentoo box on my network) but haven't been able to locate it in Portage. I tried the obvious searches for bind, nameserver, dns, etc, but still haven't been able to find it. Does Gentoo have a BIND package and, if so, what's it name? Uhh, there is a bind package: maya / # emerge -p bind These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-dns/bind-9.2.5-r6 maya / # Although personally I'd be tempted to recommend djbdns, much in the same way as I'd advise something like postfix over sendmail. There's some info on the wiki on how to install and configure djbdns, along with links to more info: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_DJBDNS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?
Travis, Check out SugarCRM. We just purchased it for our office. There is a free/professional version. We moved from SalesForce to SugarCRM and it is working very well for us. Sean On Tuesday 26 April 2005 01:15 pm, Travis Osterman wrote: Does anyone have a good recommendation for a contact information management system for a relatively small group of people (~200)? I would prefer web-based and it should allow users to update their own information easily while allowing everyone easy access to searching and viewing the directory. Thanks for any input. -- Travis Osterman -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Web Based Job Ticket System?
I've used RT ( http://www.bestpractical.com ) at two places so far, and _really_ liked it. It can be a bit of a pain to install, but once it's up and running, it's been very stable for me. On 4/29/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a web based job ticket system. We use apache 2 and mysql currently, and also have php 4/5. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ximian-Connector Version for Evol-2.2.1.1
I am running ximian-connector-2.2.1. I found the ebuild in bugzilla and put it in my portage overlay. It seems to be working fine for me. Sean On Sunday 15 May 2005 10:48 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: GUys/Gals, Is there a version of ximian-connector that works with Evo-2.2.1.1?? The latest version in portage right now is 2.0.2-r1 and it seems like it's not compatible with evo-2.2.1.1 in which the EXchange protocol is not recognised. I've tried recompiling it but always end up with Development Libraries not found ANyone else has this issue? It would be great to be able to solve this as I really would like to have my Address Book back. (above anything else) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:44:47 up 1:22, 9 users, load average: 1.99, 1.02, 1.00 -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apr blocking apache-2.0.54
I had the same problem with php and had to edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and change: DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var to DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php This did not make sense because /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php.conf added it to the directory search, but that did not seem to work. Sean On Sunday 15 May 2005 11:36 pm, Robert Persson wrote: On May 15, 2005 02:28 pm Aaron E. Klemm was like: I'm having this problem as well. Anyone know what's the deal with apr? Thanks! I unmerged apr and the new release of apache merged properly and started up OK. Trouble is that php no longer works. Might, for all I know, have been a mistake I made in etc-update rather than an apr thing as such, but I don't know what apr does exactly so I couldn't say for certain. I tried remerging mod_php, but that borks now with a No safe MPM installed. error. Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wi-Fi in a hostel
Grant, The latest version of wpa_supplicant can connect to unencrypted access points. You have to set ssid=. I am running version 0.4.1 and it is working for me. Sean On Friday 20 May 2005 10:04 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, I'm going to stay in a hostel in San Francisco for a bit. They have free wireless Internet access. What should I know to be sure I can connect once I get there? I use the madwifi drivers with wpa_supplicant right now. Is it true that wpa_supplicant can't connect to an unencrypted AP? Thanks for any tips on this. - Grant -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?
With apologies for my ignorance, what did sash used to do? My understanding is that busybox is a very small embedded linux for SBCs and controllers and such (I noticed busybox yesterday too, and it made me curious as I didn't remember emerging it). On 6/4/05, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: My usual emerge -uavDt world this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? I believe it's been added to system in place of sash. It's similarly very small in size but has a much larger feature set that is generally very useful in emergencies. Regards, Jason Stubbs Hi, The answer *is* above, also emerged busybox and later as it didn't depend on anything checked the system with emerge depclean -pv. The result: unmerged sash. evidently busybox takes the place of sash (in system-profile). HTH. Rumen -- Sean Crandall Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the number 'e'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 802.1x Wireless Configuration
Hi All, I'm having a devil of a time getting my laptop on the school's wireless network. Here's what I've managed so far: I've got a Dell Inspiron 5160. I know the wireless card works with the network because it works in WinXP without a problem. I also know that the linux driver is working because I have been able to connect to an unsecured network, and I can successfully scan this network with iwlist. The only problem appears to be authentication. I've emerged wireless-tools and wpa-supplicant, and I know I have to use them in some combination, but I can't for the life of me figure out what goes where. The network protocol is 802.1x and I've got an alphabet soup of Open WEP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAPv2 that I don't totally understand. I know the ESSID and I have a valid login. The problem I have is that I have no idea how to use wpa-supplicant and/or iwconfig to get the thing running. I've read the help files and man pages, but I'm still confused. Do I use both in a certain order, or just one? It seems like the WEP needs an encryption key, but I think I use my password for the MSCHAP authentication. So where do I get the encryption key from? Is that my password too? Any help anybody could offer would be great. Thanks much! Sean Crandall -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade / downgrade infinite loop
Hello, Can anybody tell me why portage constantly upgrade and then downgrade GCC (versions 3.3.5 3.3.6) each time I emerge -pvuD world ??? A little trick I do when this kind of stuff happens. In portage, there's a file called /etc/portage/package.mask. You can use it to mask packages that aren't in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask. It is however, useful in finding out why packages are downgrading. So, here's what you can do: echo =sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5 /etc/portage/package.mask Cool idea, but on better is to do the following: echo sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 /etc/portage/package.mask I tried what you suggested for a different package and it wanted to downgrade to an earlier version than the one I masked. The will not let it downgrade. Thanks for your tip! Sean -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Central syslog server and then
Hello Patrick, I'm going to setup a central syslog server for Linux and windows machines, but whats the best program to examin these logs, and send out email alerts to users ? I am currently using two programs to monitor my logs: swatch - http://swatch.sourceforge.net/, which I use for monitoring realtime events in my log files, like failed logins, administrator/root logins, etc. logwatch - http://www.logwatch.org/, which I use for generating daily reports on the logged information. Is this perfect, no, but a start. Some of the other programs I have looked as but not really implemented are: sec - http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/, which does some event analysis. tenshi - http://tenshi.gentoo.org, which is a Gentoo project for log parsing and notification. There are some event analysis tools, but I have not even considered looking at them yet, like: OSSIM - http://www.ossim.net OpenSIMS - http://www.opensims.org A good site is http://www.loganalysis.org Sean It seems that there are not so many opensource solutions. TIA -- This is Unix-Land. In quiet nights, you can hear the Windows machines reboot. -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability
Title: Message Greetings, I've installed Postfix. But when I try to use Pine as a mail client, I can't seem to read an inbox. It looks like Pine is trying to use an "inbox" which is a file, and Postfix delivers things as individual messagesto a folder. Can I configure Pine to read messages from a folder? Or, does pinerequire messages appended as one file? Or, is there something I can change in Posfix? I'm flexable :-) Thank you for your time Sean
[gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet
Title: Message Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've checked my iptables and port 25 is open both ways. Also, each error I've gotten has been that the target smtp server has "Timed Out." Can anyone point me in the right direction? Postfix? Firewall? Host or Domain Name resolution? Other? Thank you for your time. Sean
RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability
Thank you to all that replied! I although it isn't resolved, I know
were to turn and I'm sure I'll get it.
Thank you
Sean
-Original Message-
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:54 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:17:32 -0400
Dave Nebinger wrote:
You're looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and
a maildir-based tool (postfix).
I'm not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default
behaviour, but you could try -mbox maildir in your USE flags and
re-emerge both.
Where do you get the idea that pine has a mbox or maildir USE flag? It
doesn't:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Brother/UK-ENG $ emerge -pv pine
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N] app-misc/mime-types-3 5 kB
[ebuild N] mail-client/pine-4.63-r2 -debug -kerberos
-largeterminal -ldap +pam -passfile +ssl 3,173 kB
Total size of downloads: 3,178 kB
However pine does have maildir built in, If you look at the ebuild (or
read as it flashes past the screen) you will see:
maildir_warn() {
einfo
einfo This build of Pine has Maildir support built in as
einfo part of the chappa-all patch.
einfo
einfo If you have a maildir at ~/Maildir it will be your
einfo default INBOX. The path may be changed with the
einfo \maildir-location\ setting in Pine.
einfo
einfo To use /var/spool/mail INBOX again, set
einfo \disable-these-drivers=md\ in your .pinerc file.
einfo
einfo Alternately, you might want to read following webpage, which
explains how to
einfo use multiple mailboxes simultaneously:
echo
echo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/pine-info/collections/incom
ing-folders/
echo
:
Personally rather than trying to get pine to work I switched to mutt.
-Original Message-
From: Sean Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:00 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability
Greetings,
I've installed Postfix. But when I try to use Pine as a mail
client, I can't seem to read an inbox. It looks like Pine is trying
to use an inbox which is a file, and Postfix delivers things as
individual messages to a folder. Can I configure Pine to read
messages from a folder? Or, does pine require messages appended as
one file? Or, is there something I can change in Posfix? I'm
flexable :-)
Thank you for your time
Sean
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RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet
That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Thanks to all that responded. Sean -Original Message- From: Bryan Whitehead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet Many ISP's route all outgoing port 25 traffic to a black hole (as in they drop the packets not going to their smtp servers). You just need to configure postfix to push all your mail to your ISP's mail server. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've checked my iptables and port 25 is open both ways. Also, each error I've gotten has been that the target smtp server has Timed Out. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Postfix? Firewall? Host or Domain Name resolution? Other? Thank you for your time. Sean -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adsl, rp-ppoe and new IP assignment
Title: Message Greetings to the group, First, if this is not the first time you've seen this I apologize. I lost all of my last 24hrs of email. And, I didn't see this on the reflectors. So,I appreciate your patience - thank you. I have been running pppoe by roaring penguin for a couple of years now. Everything works fine when I bring up the network (myinterfacecomes up, an ip is assigned, my firewall is configured, and dns2go is fired up). This runs fine as long as my ISP doesn't change my IP address. I have a file called ip-up.local in the etc/ppp directory that coordinates all of this, so I think the if-up.local is working. Once my ISP changes my IP, my network is hung (meaning I can't get out and routing is messed up).If I type "route" I don't have a default route anymore. If I run adsl-status, it'll tell me that it's up. However, I'm not so sure it is. What I have to do is run adsl-stop, adsl-start, than the iptables configuration. What is different here, then at startup? Any advice? Thank You Sean
[gentoo-user] Postfix and no worthy mechs found
Title: Message Greetings, I am "lucky" enough to have an ISP that blocks outbound port 25 traffic. Fortunately, inbound is wide open. However, I am not able to configure Postfix 2.1.5 to successfully use my ISP mail server as a relayhost. I get a reply in my logs that states: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found Authentication failed: cannot SASL authenticate to server smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.229.41]: no mechanism available I've edited main.cf and added the following: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain, login smtp_sasl_security_options = I've updated my password file "saslpass" to contain: [smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com] login:password and ran postmap hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass And I've run postfix reload... Oh, I also crossed my fingers that didn't seem to help either :-) Is SASL able to log into an smtp server like outlook does to send email? Or is there another solution I need to pursue? The good news is that inbound mail works great! Thank you for your help Sean
RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix and no worthy mechs found
Thanks for the input. I edited my relayhost as suggested (rebuilt the password file and reloaded postfix) with the same errors. No, my provider doesn't support SSL or TLS for email. It's all plain text. This one is strange Could it be my firewall? Sean -Original Message- From: Willie Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:03 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and no worthy mechs found On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:44:32PM -0500, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I am lucky enough to have an ISP that blocks outbound port 25 traffic. Fortunately, inbound is wide open. However, I am not able to configure Postfix 2.1.5 to successfully use my ISP mail server as a relayhost. I get a reply in my logs that states: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found Authentication failed: cannot SASL authenticate to server smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.229.41]: no mechanism available While whatever you posted in terms of config files looked correct, I have two quick questions: 1) What did you set as relayhost? 2) Does your provider support SSL or TLS? I ask because: [01:54 PM]wwong ~ $ nmap 68.142.229.41 Starting nmap 3.83.DC13 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-12-01 13:54 EST Interesting ports on smtp1-a.sbc.mail.vip.re2.yahoo.com (68.142.229.41): (The 1665 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORTSTATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http 587/tcp open submission Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 48.081 seconds shows that it uses TCP 587 for mail submission as defined in RFC2476, which is slated to replace TCP 25, and uses ESMTP. You might need to set relayhost=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com:587 (I am not sure since my mail providers have always only used TLS on port 25 or SSL on port 465). HTH W -- ARTHUR What is an Algolian Zylatburger anyway? FORDThey're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts of a creature well known for its total lack of any pleasant parts. ARTHUR So you mean that the Universe does actually end not with a bang but with a Wimpy? - Cut dialogue from Fit the Fifth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 19 days, 11:16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?
On 12/5/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number of users with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003). I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever such as Courier (which I'm familiar with). Each user will have to change their password on the domain every couple of weeks and because I want to provide webmail access to their IMAP accounts it's desirable that their IMAP username password be the same as their Windows one. I don't mind adding users by hand on the Linux-based IMAP server but I would prefer that passwords be changed automatically - I guess the best way to do this is for the IMAP server to authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email? Has anyone any experience of this, please? You might be able to use samba winbind for this, and modify the imap pam config to use system-auth-winbind. I haven't actually tried this, but it might be something worth playing with. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I want to configure an email server
Dan Cowsill wrote: However, I would very much like to have my very own email server under my own domain name. You should really have a static public IP address for that. So what I'm asking you guys for is documentation, software packages, recommended setups, anything you can add. I am not looking for an all in one HOWTO (and don't really expect to find one with such a complicated process) and I am willing to RTFM when necessary. Personally, I'm a qmail person, and he Life with qmail documentation is pretty good: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html The package name for qmail has changed recently under Gentoo, so you would emerge netqmail instead of qmail. There are many different mta softwares out there. I would suggest trying a few of them, and see which one seems to fit your thought process the best. For me it's qmail, but you might be more of an exim or postfix or (god forbid) sendmail person. Good luck! -Sean signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues
Christopher E wrote: Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are having with playing cds of audio / DVD: Error from duoble clicking on the icon on the desktop of audio cd or a dvd: Cound't display ccda:///dev/hda. I had an issue before accessing my dvd drive. I fixed it by adding my user to the cdrom group. Is your user in the cdrom group? - Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources
Leopold Gouverneur wrote: except that emerge --sync delete package.provided so I must recreate it before running emerge -upD world! There is something weird here. You need to put it in /etc/portage/package.provided. If you put it in the profile then yes, it will be overwritten by an emerge --sync. - Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I too noticed this a while back, and when looking in /etc/cron.daily I saw two files: 00-logwatch logwatch According to equery f logwatch | grep cron.daily, 00-logwatch is the file that is associated with the currently installed logwatch package. So my assumption is that the other file is a left over from a previous version of logwatch. At any rate, I removed the /etc/cron.daily/logwatch file, and now I receive only one report from each of my logwatched systems. ;) Hope that helps, Sean Michael Sullivan wrote: I have three computers on my network. All three of them have logwatch installed. Each one stays on pretty much all the time (I don't like rebooting - it takes too long.) Each morning I wake up and read my email. You'd think I'd get three logwatch reports - one from each computer, right? Nope. I get at least six, sometimes more. I look at the time stamps; the first ones are sent out at 3:00am. The next set it sent out at 3:05 with the exact same information. It's very annoying. How can I set it where I only get one logwatch report for each computer? -Michael Sullivan- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjENQURAzA7YU73YRAjHTAJ4hKW0Kt5EmZGJLg2NoW76fPICHrwCfaDoG BVbxD1L473dUwRs8wPp3Thk= =imVA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Copy portage tree
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 05:49 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have one computer that currently does not have internet access. Can I copy a freshly sync'ed portage tree (/usr/portage/*) from another computer to this one? Or does the tree have some sort of per-computer dependencies (use-flags, etc.)? Hello Tony, I do this all the time. I use rsync to do it for me, the command I use is: rsync -auvz -e ssh --delete /usr/portage/ calvin.systura.home:/usr/portage/ Sean Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM
Did you recently update your kernel? There is a problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4. There is a bug in iptables that causes problems with KDE logins. If you stop iptables, your login will work. If you upgrade to gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5, the problem will be solved. Sean On Tuesday 12 July 2005 10:46 am, Yuval Scharf wrote: Hi, I'm using KDE 3.4. Since few days ago I can't login using KDM. The login process can't pass the initializing peripherals stage. I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the father of the other) which I can't kill. After rebooting the machine I can login once and then the probelm returns. Any ideas? Thanks, Yuval Scharf -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM
Hello Daniel, Just to clarify, this is a problem with all 2.6.12 releases (not just -gentoo-r4) Thanks for the information. I only became aware of the issue when -gentoo-r4 became stable. Sean -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev
Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this file sets the permissions of devices during boot. My line in that file is: null:root:root:0666 which sets the permissions to 0666 which is what you expect. I had problems with some other devices, like misc/nvram, and had to make modifications to the file. Sean On Thursday 14 July 2005 05:07 am, renna wrote: hi to all i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up to 660, like this crw-rw 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/null crw-rw 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/zero so when i login as a normal user, i get /dev/null: Permission denied and i have to chmod 666 /dev/null to be able to login in kde furthermore, in kde, when i launch konsole, the window of konsole shows up, but there's only the cursor blinking, and i cannot enter commands - i have to ctrl+alt+fn to a terminal and allways in kde, when i launch a program that requires root's password, as kuser, i get a window with this message The program 'su' is not found; make sure your PATH is set correctly. though su, which is perfectly working in a terminal, is in /bin which IS in my PATH i really don't know if these problems in kde are correlated with the permissions in dev, but on google i found many persons having problems with udev and having more or less the same problems (though i couldn't find a solution to my case). i tried, as explained on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml#doc_chap3 to mknod new null and console in /dev, but when i boot the permissions are again set to 660. does somebody have an idea of what i should do? if there's some information i lacked to give please ask thanks -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resize of a reiser4 filesystem?
AFAIK, and according to the README in the reiser4progs, Reiser Co have not gotten around to implementing the resizer for reiser4. So, for an 'offline' option, backup, resize, reformat, restore Since practically all my partitions are LVM, not being able to resize really takes reiserfs4 out of the running for me. Of course, by the time a resizer is available, a significant number of bugs should have also been worked out, and perhaps it will even be included in the mainline kernel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2
Richard, On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:53 am, Richard Watson wrote: Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move (or copy) the complete contents of /boot located on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If so would anyone know the correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc. One way to do it is to do the following: mount -o ro /dev/hdb1 old mount /dev/hda1 new cd old tar cvf - * | tar xf -C ../new/ Sean -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 25/07/2005 -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
