Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware loading problem

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/1/17 : > I am running a vanilla linux kernel version 2.6.37 . > > Furthermore in > >    /lib/firmware > > there is a folder called > >    av7110 > > which I think contains the firmware for that card. I don't think this card needs a firmware. You just enabled to much dvb related stuff in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:33 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:19:38 Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351829 > > So it is. That was quick. I don't agree with his suggestion, which seems > to imply requiring all KDE systems to be built with

[gentoo-user] Firmware loading problem

2011-01-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a bttv0: detected: AVermedia AverTV DVB-T 771 [card=123], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:0771 dvb-t card installed in my PC. I am running a vanilla linux kernel version 2.6.37 . Furthermore in /lib/firmware there is a folder called av7110 which I think contains the firm

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread covici
Dale wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > > > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > >>> On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make > oldconfig/menuconfig w

[gentoo-user] lilo wants to re-assign volume ID on external USB device

2011-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
I have an older 1-gig MP3 player with a USB interface that plugs into a PC and looks like a mass-storage device. It also recharges the internal battery from the USB port. I had it plugged in when I made a tweak to my kernel, and ran lilo to update the boot process for the new kernel. I got the

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't i

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread covici
Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: > > > > > >> The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make > >> oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. > >> > > In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .con

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:27:27PM -0200, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > I think that this software, wicd, is just to ubuntu's users not to > Gentoo. You are in the minority. Many on this list (including me) use wicd for desktop/laptop use. > If work without gui,, why i need a gui? wicd doesn't require

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make oldconfig, com

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make oldconfig, compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: ... > > I think that's well worded. He has insufficient memory when emerging. > > If he's really running short of DRAM Then he mig

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Em 16-01-2011 18:29, Valmor de Almeida escreveu: > On 01/15/2011 06:03 AM, doherty pete wrote: >> yeah!it can work,now,this is my configure: >> /etc/conf.d/net >> >> config_eth0=("null") >> >> modules="wpa_supplicant" >> >> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" >> >> config_wlan0="192.168.1.99 netmask 255.

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:41:24 -0800, Grant wrote: > 'onice -c 3 emerge -DuN world' ended up working great. Or you can set PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND in make.conf to make it a default. -- Neil Bothwick Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before. signature.asc Description: PGP signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: >> >> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes >> >> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as >> >> chromium or openoffice.  Is there anythi

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 03:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:15 on Monday 17 January 2011, Mark Knecht > did opine thusly: > > [snip] > > > >> As Volker says, don't turn swap off. Make it small if you must, but > > >> keep some around. It's just disk space. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: > >> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > >> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > >> chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this > >> besides turning swap back on?

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:15 on Monday 17 January 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: [snip] > >> As Volker says, don't turn swap off. Make it small if you must, but > >> keep some around. It's just disk space. > > > > I thought swap was no longer necessary on a machine with sufficient

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Grant wrote: >>> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes >>> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as >>> chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this >>> besides turning swap back on?  I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Grant
>> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes >> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as >> chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this >> besides turning swap back on?  I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". >> >> - Grant >> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Grant
>> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes >> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as >> chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this >> besides turning swap back on?  I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". >> >> - Grant >> > Th

[gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/16/2011 05:18 PM, Daniel Tihelka wrote: Hallo, after update to 2.6.36-r5 kernel, xorg 1.9.2, mesa-7.9 and xf86-video- ati-6.13.2 (all from gentoo portage), the hw graphics acceleration stopped working. The problem seems to be in drm kernel module, as it is claimed by X.org (the part of X.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Grant wrote: > I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this > besides turning swap back on?  I have 3GB R

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: > I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this > besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKE

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/15/2011 06:03 AM, doherty pete wrote: > yeah!it can work,now,this is my configure: > /etc/conf.d/net > > config_eth0=("null") > > modules="wpa_supplicant" > > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" > > config_wlan0="192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > routes_wlan0="default gw 192.168.1.1" >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to forbid dhcp for eth0

2011-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/14/2011 10:39 AM, Kostya Sha. wrote: > > On 14.01.2011, at 12:41, Norman Rieß wrote: > >> Am 01/14/11 06:33, schrieb doherty pete: >>> when i start the kernel, it wait long time to dhcp for eth0: >>> eth0:dhcped 4.0.15 starting >>> eth0:waiting for carrier >>> >>> i want to forbid dhcp,how

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 16 January 2011 11:25:06 Grant wrote: > I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this > besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB R

[gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Grant
I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome problem (?)

2011-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/15/2011 11:17 PM, Victor Fragoso wrote: Hello, After upgrading xorg to 1.9 now Gnome is not able to start session. This is the message I get after login in using GDM Protocol not supported by server. xmodmap: unable to open display ':0' which: no keychain in [PATH] *** gnome-session: 32

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
110116 pk wrote: > On 2011-01-16 06:50, Philip Webb wrote: >> Can anyone explain why the latest stable Openoffice can't use >> the latest stable slotted Boost(-build), which is used only for OO ? >> Perhaps the devs have tripped up slightly in the sequence of updates. > eselect boost ? That looks

Re: [gentoo-user] No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 January 2011 15:18:50 Daniel Tihelka wrote: > And the kernel seems to use them (when started with boot options > 'video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3 vga=792'): Dan, try removing uvesa/vesa/radeon/etc. framebuffer modules from your kernel and the above line too from grub when you boot and see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X -config fail

2011-01-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 January 2011 13:53:14 doherty pete wrote: > how can i confim i have evdev,if i donn't have ,i think i have to edite > /etc/make.cof USE=-evdev -dri -dri2 or VIDEOCARD="-evdev -dri -dri2" > and recompile xorg-server Pete, can you please read the documentation and follow it to the lette

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 16 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:54:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That's nonsense. > > It is not. It has not been a problem for me, not once, in 4 years at least, both on x86 and amd64. Other posters

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:54:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: > That's nonsense. It is not. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: > The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make > oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make oldconfig, compiled the kernel and copied it to

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:56 on Saturday 15 January 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, john wrote: > > Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox. > > > > Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse > > within VirtualB

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread pk
On 2011-01-16 06:50, Philip Webb wrote: > Can anyone explain why the latest stable Openoffice can't use > the latest stable slotted Boost(-build), which is used only for OO ? > Perhaps the devs have tripped up slightly in the sequence of updates. eselect boost ? Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X -config fail

2011-01-16 Thread doherty pete
how can i confim i have evdev,if i donn't have ,i think i have to edite /etc/make.cof USE=-evdev -dri -dri2 or VIDEOCARD="-evdev -dri -dri2" and recompile xorg-server 2011/1/16 walt > On 01/15/2011 07:17 AM, doherty pete wrote: > >> when i input >> Xorg -configure >> the log is >> > > [ 442.76

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
110116 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: >> On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: >>> Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' >> Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? What I wrote. > Probably -c, which is the one that checks for

[gentoo-user] perl-5.12.2-r6 emerge installs but with warning

2011-01-16 Thread Mick
As the title says, I got this warning at the very end: = ... --- replaced obj /usr/bin/a2p --- replaced dir /usr/bin --- replaced dir /usr <<< dir /usr/share/doc/perl-5.12.2-r4 * Linking /usr/bin/ptar-1.54-perl-5.12.2 to /usr/bin/ptar (relative) *

Re: [gentoo-user] lxpanel-oddity

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:22:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > with my openbox desktop I am using lxpanel as taskbar. > > Unfortunately lxpanel gets confused what and where windows > were opened and which of the desktop is currently active > very often. > > I want to ask whether this general a

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:06:30 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a > > > kernel version other than the currently running one - it complains > > > it can't find a valid kernel config. This means that, after > > > emerging a new kernel versi

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:18 on Sunday 16 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Adam Carter wrote: > > > Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the > > > module is built to suit whatever ke

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > I am using x86 rather than 64 and I did emerge it after rebooting to the > new kernel, but I got invalid argument when issuing the modprobe > command. > > Can you cut/paste the command and output? and also the command "modinfo nvidia" and its output?

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:19:38 Peter Ruskin wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351829 So it is. That was quick. I don't agree with his suggestion, which seems to imply requiring all KDE systems to be built with +accessibility, like it or not. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Cou

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread covici
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Adam Carter wrote: > > > Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the > > > module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If > > > its not set correctly you'll need to re-e

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > >> >> > > I have compiled a kernel for 2.6.37 but I have not booted it yet. I'll set > the link to the new kernel, emerge nvidia and see what happens when I boot > the new kernel. > > In the past, I was on x86 on my old rig. Maybe it is the arch that affects > something. I'm not sure but wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:26:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Oh, very droll! I just had to laugh at this: > > # emerge --sync > [...] > $ emerge -puDv world > [...] > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "~x11- > libs/qt-gui-4.7.1[accessibility=,aqua=,debug=]". > !!! One of t

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:48:45 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a kernel version other than the currently running one - it complains it can't find a valid kernel config. This means that, after emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:48:45 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a > > kernel version other than the currently running one - it complains > > it can't find a valid kernel config. This means that, after > > emerging a new kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Adam Carter wrote: Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If its not set correctly you'll need to re-emerge nvidia

[gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Oh, very droll! I just had to laugh at this: # emerge --sync [...] $ emerge -puDv world [...] emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "~x11- libs/qt-gui-4.7.1[accessibility=,aqua=,debug=]". !!! One o

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: > >> Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' > > Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? Probably -c, which is the one that checks for reverse dependencies. ,[ man emerge ] |

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: > Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the > > module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If > > its not set correctly you'll need to re-emerge nvidia-drivers. > > linux i