Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct

2007-05-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 schrieb ext maxim wexler: Hi group, After upgrading from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernel I no longer can access CD or DVD. Did you change anything in the setup? Forgot CDRom support, maybe? I can't even manually make the link cause there's no more /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd

[gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Grant wrote: CLOCK=UTC TIMEZONE=US/Pacific That looks fine. Do you dual-boot with Windows? In this case, set CLOCK=local. If not, something else is amiss. Where does /etc/localtime point? Is it consistent with the entry in /etc/conf.d/clock? HTH, Anno. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] zd1211 patch?

2007-05-09 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 8 May 2007 17:56:36 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Ok, but, what is the content of net_dev.patch? It's right there in your original mail: [...] That IS what the patch file looks like. It will alter your Makefile, and the epatch function in

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct

2007-05-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, After upgrading from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernel I no longer can access CD or DVD. LOTS of kernel config changes related to ATA/SATA/PATA/IDE/libata changed in 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 - menus moved around, the code was refactored, selection

[gentoo-user] I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. Workstation 5.5.3). Works great. I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory called LAMP. I edited the .vmx file changing the appropriate paths. Now when I start the new VM, my networking fails. (I changed nothing inside the linux

[gentoo-user] gnome power manager and gentoo-sources 2.6.21

2007-05-09 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, Some days ago I upgraded my kernel from gentoo sources 2.6.20-r5 to 2.6.21. After this, gnome-power-manager could not sense the power source. It shows always AC connector in, even it is running from battery. Acpi shows me the fact, is it running from battery, but gnome power manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-09 Thread Stuart Howard
All versions of the ATI driver are blocking xorg-server 1.3 at the moment so you are not going to get around that one easily. If you look at the --tree to find out what package is asking for the upgrade of xorg-server and then mask that? this may help. On 08/05/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 08 May 2007 13:13:05 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to help. The way that emerge currently behaves, that won't help if

Re: [gentoo-user] I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 02:55:42 Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. Workstation 5.5.3). Works great. I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory called LAMP. I edited the .vmx file changing the appropriate paths. Now when I start the new VM,

Re: [gentoo-user] I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-09 Thread Elias Probst
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:55:42 Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. Workstation 5.5.3). Works great. I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory called LAMP. I edited the .vmx file changing the appropriate paths. Now when I start the new VM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-09 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi Johannes and every friend of the list :D. Johannes two things: 1.- I think (i guess) it's better install the 8.36.5 ati drivers, because the 8.32.5 ati drivers is too bugs and is better have the actual driver, you can download from the ati page and put on the portage distfiles and install

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:22 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2007 13:13:05 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to

[gentoo-user] Error Compiling splashutils

2007-05-09 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi all, I try to emerge splashutils and I get this error CC objs/splash.o In file included from /usr/lib/klibc/include/linux/fb.h:5, from util.h:42, from splash.c:26: /usr/include/linux/i2c.h:66: error: array type has incomplete element type

RE: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct

2007-05-09 Thread gummnmi-live
I can't even manually make the link cause there's no more /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd under $ls /dev. Nor do these devices appear in dmesg. Maybe you didn't built your kernel with IDE support. This might be the case if you use SATA harddisks. Try this command: zgrep IDE= /proc/config.gz;zgrep -w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Grant
CLOCK=UTC TIMEZONE=US/Pacific That looks fine. Do you dual-boot with Windows? In this case, set CLOCK=local. If not, something else is amiss. Gentoo only. :) Where does /etc/localtime point? Is it consistent with the entry in /etc/conf.d/clock? I have: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Apr 25

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct

2007-05-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, After upgrading from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernel I no longer can access CD or DVD. LOTS of kernel config changes related to ATA/SATA/PATA/IDE/libata changed in 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 - menus

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 May 2007 23:23:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to help. should there be a = before the package name? No, not for package.provided. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 May 2007 14:27:52 +, Grant wrote: I have: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Apr 25 20:58 /etc/localtime on the laptop with the incorrect time, and the router with the correct time. That only tells us that /etc/localtime is a file, not which timezone data it contains. Re-emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Grant
I have: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Apr 25 20:58 /etc/localtime on the laptop with the incorrect time, and the router with the correct time. That only tells us that /etc/localtime is a file, not which timezone data it contains. Re-emerging timezone-data will ensure that it has the data for

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct

2007-05-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: --- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, After upgrading from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernel I no longer can access CD or DVD. LOTS of kernel config changes related to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Hello everyone, I recently had to reset my clock to a more correct (that may be subjective) setting. In your case I would set my /etc/conf.d/clock file as: CLOCK=UTC TIMEZONE=US/Pacific then I would assure that my /etc/localtime file is correct with the next command: $ cp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Dale
Redouane Boumghar wrote: Hello everyone, I recently had to reset my clock to a more correct (that may be subjective) setting. In your case I would set my /etc/conf.d/clock file as: CLOCK=UTC TIMEZONE=US/Pacific then I would assure that my /etc/localtime file is correct with the next

[gentoo-user] superblock write time in future (UTC vs localtime)

2007-05-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
In aug 06 bug 142850 was opened. The symptom is the boot message /dev/hda6: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED. From the bug report and followups, I gather that early in the boot sequence the system believes the hwclock is in UTC and hence for those of us using localtime to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2007, Dale wrote: Redouane Boumghar wrote: Hello everyone, I recently had to reset my clock to a more correct (that may be subjective) setting. In your case I would set my /etc/conf.d/clock file as: CLOCK=UTC TIMEZONE=US/Pacific then I would assure that my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:05:05 -0500, Dale wrote: I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in /etc will still be the old one. You are not supposed to link it any more, because that will break if /usr has not yet

[gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:05:05 -0500, Dale wrote: I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in /etc will still be the old one. You are not supposed to link it any more, because that will

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 May 2007 19:53:08 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: You are not supposed to link it any more, because that will break if /usr has not yet been mounted. Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? And if so, why? I do, because everything but / and /boot is

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Randy Barlow
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? And if so, why? I only have /home and /usr/portage on separate partitions, everything else is on /, even /boot. I have /usr on a separate lvm device just so I can shift around drive space (my gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:53 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? And if so, why? Because if you've got a lab full of similarly-configured workstations or a forward-facing cluster of load-balancing servers, it may be more convenient

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-09 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 13:07:54 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: I need a procmail recipe that will allow all mails marked as spam to be delivered to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off

2007-05-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:05:05 -0500, Dale wrote: I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in /etc will still be the old one. You are not supposed to link it any more, because

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 09 May 2007 19:53:08 +0200 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? And if so, why? Yes, I'm one of those. Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more importantly it gives (partial)

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED

2007-05-09 Thread maxim wexler
CONFIG_M586=y Nothing to do with your disks, but why this setting? You seem to have a 64bit Opteron, not a MkI pentium CPU is an AMD product, sempron3100, 32bit. It's based on the 3200 64bit. CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m is this module loaded? Overlooked this one. I loaded it and the

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-09 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just updated my laptop and noticed that freetype-2.3.3 was installed. Restarted xorg and the font size and legibility of X apps changed for the worse. The fonts are now considerably smaller, anti-aliasing makes them look really blurred,

[gentoo-user] Error Compiling splashutils [SOLVED]

2007-05-09 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi all, The solution to the error is install a new linux-headers, Spock said try remerging klibc or updating your kernel and the problem was about linux-headers. Updating linux-headers solved the problem for me. now I emerge splashutils and it works. Thanks to every people help me with this :d

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daniel Iliev, Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more importantly it gives (partial) protection from file system damage. How come? The partitions with most frequent writes are those containing /var /home and /tmp. In case of power failure or system lock-up

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 13:07:54 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: I need a procmail recipe that

[gentoo-user] Re: zd1211 patch?

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Schweizer
I have added a new fixed ebuild to the tree now :) Best regards, Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 9 May 2007 21:03:58 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Daniel Iliev, Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more importantly it gives (partial) protection from file system damage. How come? The partitions with most frequent writes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]': Hello Daniel Iliev, Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more importantly it gives (partial) protection from file system damage.

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-09 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:30, Elias Probst wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:51:51 Nistor Andrei wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, Just updated my laptop and noticed that freetype-2.3.3 was installed. Restarted xorg and the font size and legibility of X apps

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 May 2007 00:21:06 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: You could also argue that /usr needs the least protection from filesystem damage, because it contains no data. /usr can be repaired with a reinstall, unlike /var, /home or /etc. That's a good point. Only for the sake of arguing:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Walker
Michael Sullivan wrote: OKay. It emerged. Now, how do I plug it into sendmail? emerge -C sendmail Nobody with any sense has run sendmail for years - it has been replaced with several superior alternatives. Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Benno Schulenberg: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:05:05 -0500, Dale wrote: I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in /etc will still be the old one. You are not supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]': Hello Daniel Iliev, Some say it gives performance boost (I'm not sure about it), but more

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-09 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:33:34 Mick wrote: Unless the string you suggested above is wrong you may want to also emerge fontconfig to see if it makes any difference? Thanks again. :) Oups, you're right. emerge fontconfig did the trick for me! Ugly rendering of Konsole and password bullets

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote: I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to /usr/portage is stupid. The logical location for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:49:45 -0600, darren kirby wrote: I have heard you can use a separate /usr to enhance security by mounting it readonly under normal circumstances. This way, bad guys can't mess with your binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, Instead of only being able to get at the really

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 May 2007 01:01:32 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to /usr/portage is stupid. The logical

[gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-09 Thread JD
Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... On looking at the details dialog, I find Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-09 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:52 -0400, JD wrote: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... On looking at the details dialog, I find Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: (EE) Failed to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 01:01 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote: I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:49:45 -0600, darren kirby wrote: I have heard you can use a separate /usr to enhance security by mounting it readonly under normal circumstances. This way, bad guys can't mess with your binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, Instead of only

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 May 2007 18:31:07 -0600, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:49:45 -0600, darren kirby wrote: I have heard you can use a separate /usr to enhance security by mounting it readonly under normal circumstances. This way, bad guys can't mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: The part I trimmed was though it seems to me if they have access to mess with your /usr they can mess with anything anyway so... which I guess could mean what you say you meant rather than how I read it. Sorry if you think I twisted your post, that wasn't my

RE: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-09 Thread JD
Thanks, Alex. I had to run 'installer' from commandline. Went with the recommended setup; got an Exception that the dialog says this is a Bad Thing ... I've done it twice, gotten to this point, and whether I choose 'yes' or 'no' to the prompt at this point, the system hangs, with no choice but