Re: [gentoo-user] after major upgrade questions remain

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if anyone responded to this yet, so with > the fear of being redundant > here it goes: Yes, you are a trifle tardy ;) > > emerge -upDv sys-fs/udev It was already emerged. Problem was CONFIG_UNIX was set to instead of <*> All sorted. > > Hmm,

[gentoo-user] console blanks permanantly--addendum

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just after getting my unit w/2.6.19-r5 kernel to work this happens: I wanted to look at syslog so I did as I usually do and found the console completely blank -- no login or cursor. don't have to use the keyboard -- screen goes to sleep on its own but doesn't wake up when a key presse

[gentoo-user] console blanks permanantly

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just after getting my unit w/2.6.19-r5 kernel to work this happens: I wanted to look at syslog so I did as I usually do and found the console completely blank -- no login or cursor. When I try to get back to , it's blank too. Keyboard still works so I and reboot where everything's OK

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disasterFIXED

2007-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check that you have CONFIG_UNIX=y in your .config. Bingo! Thanks Devon! -Maxim Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Dr

[gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

2007-04-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII, re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel it's time to call on the authorities. Don't even have gpm so I can't scroll the choice bits of the boot messages. It all starts to fall

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-10 Thread maxim wexler
> > Good luck with your /dev problems, and may the > solutions be swift and > painless ; ) > > -- Dan Thanks Dan. As it happens I went ahead and did a sync followed by a deep portage update followed by deep world update. Avg. download speed ~ 2.9k/s. Took about 36hrs. Phew! Thankfully there wa

[gentoo-user] after major upgrade questions remain

2007-04-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I did an emerge -uD world on a box with the 2.6.12 kernel on it via the 2005.1 livecd. 1)From the logs or perhaps an online doc I read that I must "manage a static /dev or ensure udev starts on boot. But how? There's no udev in init.d or conf.d. 2)The emerge process terminated with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-10 Thread maxim wexler
--- Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > don't use -O3 unless you need _extreme_ performance > -O2 -finline-functions is close to -O3 but doesn't > use -fno-home-register > For toolchain, I just stick to -O2. For power-hungry > apps, I use -O2 > -finline-functions > glibc developer said that i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-10 Thread maxim wexler
--- Francisco Rivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all :D > > I think what "-march=your_arch -O2" it's enough, > because -O3 it's highest > but have some details > (http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS#-O2_or_-O3.3F). My > guess is "-march=your_arch > -O2". I was compiled my entire system with those >

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I note two schools of thought on the best CFLAGS for the Pentium III processor. One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without the pipe. How much difference does this make? Is the extra level of optimization with pipe the equivalent of the lower level without? -mw __

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-07 Thread maxim wexler
> Dude, your kernel is really old. We're on 2.6.19 or > 2.6.20 right now. > There were significant updates and bugfixes. Youve > got to update your > system. Why on earth is a new install getting > 2.6.12? So what? The Pentium III is older that the software. I don't need all the bells and wh

[gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Got the above error on first reboot of fresh system. Only link to this particular error in google is from a German site which I can't read. (none)/# dmesg|tail reveals <...> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed NET: Registered proto

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-07 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:21, deface wrote: > > do you have ssh running on both machines? sshD is > a service, must be > > installed. > > It should be already installed on (any) LiveCD. > Just run: > > /etc/init.d/sshd start > > to start it. It *was*

[gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd

2007-04-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I want to copy some files from my gentoo box via eth0 to another box which has only livecd on it and a blank hard drive. I can ssh to the gentoo box from the livecd but not the other way. However, ping works OK from the gentoo box. Here's a sample of the output from the gentoo box: l

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!-FIXED

2007-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
> that error looked familiar. I googled to make sure I googled lots but didn't find that particular nugget. Unless my eyes were glazing over. What search terms did you use? Maxim Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!-FIXED

2007-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
> > Did a bit of googling for ya. You did compile in > support for your IDE Bingo! Thanks everybody! Maxim TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ -- gento

[gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!

2007-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I've been working and reading and tweaking and editing all day and gentoo will not boot. Typical kernel panic: grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x13d208] grub>boot ,,,VFS:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem

2007-01-28 Thread maxim wexler
> insight... Does anyone see what it is I'm missing > that causes the > >udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting > for >'/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed > > error below? There's no ppp0 directory under > /sys/class/net/ but I > don't know what creates it. PPP can

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
> IMHO audacious is using a perfectly reasonable > amount of resources, OP here. My original problem was that xmms wouldn't play wmas and mplayer, which does, sputtered whenever the hard drive was active. Following the thread led me to audacious which I hadn't even heard of. So far it's perfo

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
> Will audacious not work for you? Haven't tried yet. Fellow down the list says it's a resource hog like mplayer. Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
> So why don't you just keep using xmms? Do you have > any problems with it? > > > mplayer *can* play wmas, so that's a plus. > > Doesn't the xmms-wma plugin work for you? No. It just skips the wmas. > > $ eix -c xmms-wma > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix -c xmms-wma [I] media-plugins/xmms-wma (1.0.

[gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, mplayer has some problems that xmms doesn't. Whenever a lot of hard-drive activity takes place on my PC, mplayer faulters and sputters. I have to run xmms if I want uninterrupted music. And this is a fairly up-to-date unit with a Gig o' RAM. If I want shuffle mode I must first open xmm

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-12 Thread maxim wexler
> So did you set "ao=alsa" in /etc/mlayer.conf > (~/.mplayer/config should work > too)? > No, I uncommented "ao=sdl:esd". So now I've set "ao=alsa" and that's a definite improvement. Both gui and command line work OK. Thanks Bo. I note the mplayer man page is 6700 lines long. Is there somethin

[gentoo-user] (g)mplayer and queue

2006-12-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, xmms has a cool queue feature; mplayer, not so much. Did a search and came up with vdr. Since I'm only playing tunes, was kinda hoping for something with a smaller footprint. Is there some other plugin or...? Maxim __

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2006-12-11 Thread maxim wexler
> Ahh its so nice to have answered someone elses > question for a change :-) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Whoa! I typed too soon. It doesn't work if I enter $ mplayer -playlist myplaylist.pla. It just scrolls through the list without a sound. Ctrl-C kicks me out. However $gmpla

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED

2006-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What output device is gmplayer set to use? > > Try explicitly setting it to alsa. > > for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf works for gui too, thanks Nick Maxim __

[gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error

2006-12-09 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, When I try to use gmplayer to play audio I get this ugly error message on my desktop: [A0 0SS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Doesn't stop gmplayer from working. It uses alsa OK. Got this on the command line too but it wasn't so in your face. A

Re: [gentoo-user] dual boot install advice

2006-12-07 Thread maxim wexler
> > comments and advice are welcome. Resizing the XP > partitioning (NTFS) without > reformatting nevers seems to work for me. My method is to boot the linux cd and partition the drive but I don't format the 1st one. Then boot the XP cd and install it to the first partition _then_ boot the linux

[gentoo-user] audacity export mp3 crash

2006-12-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, When I try to edit an mp3 file in audacity and then "export" the result, a window opens which says audacity must search for libmp3lame, OK? I click yes and another window opens after a few seconds with libmp3lame.so in /usr/lib highlighted. Now it gives two choices: 'Cancel' and 'Open'.

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer keybinding

2006-11-22 Thread maxim wexler
--- Redouane Boumghar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Maxim, > > Did you try "<" and ">" to move back and forward in > the playlist ? No, I didn't but I see it doesn't work in shuffle mode. -Maxim Do you Y

[gentoo-user] mplayer keybinding

2006-11-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This should be easy but I can't seem to find the answer. Just started using mplayer from the command line. I see it has lot's of possibilities. Right now just using it to play tunes but can't seem to get it to jump back to the previous tune. When I hit it says "No bind found for key 'T

[gentoo-user] no sound realplayer net radio

2006-11-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, I have Realplayer-10.0.6776(gold) installed. When I click on a radio site with mp3 stream it opens and runs. But without sound. The plugin is there. snd_pcm_oss is loaded. madplay, xmms, kde widget sounds all OK. Somebody said do $killall artsd but that didn't work. -Maxim

[gentoo-user] many corrupt links

2006-10-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, I came across the following corrupted links(except as noted). From my notes I see they date from the time I did #emerge gentoo-source-2.6.12-r6. It's now 2.6.16-r3. I'm wondering if this is a problem. Doesn't seem to be and besides this box is i686. Should I just ignore them? They'

Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-18 Thread maxim wexler
> You have made a typo or some other mistake. It is > documented in the portage > guide: Oops, I left off the 'x' in '~x86' So that's sorted now. Thanks Darren. -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection ar

Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-18 Thread maxim wexler
> # echo "media-sound/dir2ogg ~x86" >> > /etc/portage/package.keywords > > and that will install dir2ogg-0.9.1. Not yet. There's gotta be more to it than that. I ran the above command then did #emerge -C dir2ogg then #emerge -pv dir2ogg: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: C

Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-17 Thread maxim wexler
>digg2ogg should be dir2ogg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, I recently sync'ed portage, but when I did #emerge digg2ogg it installed version 0.8 which is way out of date. I thought sync was supposed to "prime" portage to get the latest versions of software when needed. Here's the sync line in make.conf. SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
Please see my reply to Neil re this thread > Once you marked some directories from protection, > emerge will, instead of > using the file from a package, install the file from > a package > as ._cfg- (or somesuch). Tools like > dispatch-conf and > etc-update are then used to merge your file

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
> If you really have an empty CONFIG_PROTECT, > dispatch-conf didn't touch > this file, it was replaced during emerge. You must > fix this before > emerging anything else or you will overwrite more > config files. > > What do > emerge --info | grep CONFIG > and > grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf > show

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread maxim wexler
One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without telling me or leaving any record was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko failed to load. > What is the output of: > > # portageq config_protect > > and > > # portageq config_protect_mask > localhost heathen # portageq config_

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster

2006-10-14 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, As I expected it would, dispatch-conf over-wrote/corrupted a lot of files without giving me a chance to stop it. It left no log(file was empty)in /var/log/dispatch-conf.log. or any record of its passing that I can find. Worst of all I can no longer dialout. /dev/ttyS0(external modem

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
> dispatch-conf is just a more robust and > full-featured system for > updating config files. I read the first page of that > discussion and it > seems most of those who use etc-update haven't tried > dispatch-conf. > The rest feel they don't need the added features. > IMHO dispatch-conf > should b

[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, Interesting discussion here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478783.html What does the group think? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
What does $cat /proc/cpuinfo say on the "flags" line? If they show up there I'd say add them. Because the cpu is at the center of the system they ought to be available for all of portage's tasks. My $.02. --- "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a bit of advice. I have these use

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ah, the old local.start hack > > Apparently we should never use it for things like > this. But we all > do :-) > > As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you > always remember that > you put it there - future updates often end up doing > strange things > because of the contents of l

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-12 Thread maxim wexler
> What baselayout and udev version are you using? > Thanks Alan, I added the commands to local.start and that seems to have done the trick. But here's the baselayout and udev info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv baselayout These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

[gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the process? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the

[gentoo-user] no reiserfs with quota?

2006-10-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, Quota still gives no output except [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ quota -F reiserfs -u heathen quota: Unknown quota format: reiserfs Supported formats are: vfsold - original quota format vfsv0 - new quota format rpc - use RPC calls xfs - XFS quota format or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ quo

Re: [gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agreeRESOLVED

2006-10-09 Thread maxim wexler
--- Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 06:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen > wrote: > > At that point you were supposed to follow the > migration to modular X guide > > [1]. > > Heh, forgot the reference.. > > [1] > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modul

[gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agree

2006-10-08 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, I don't remember the exact details but I noticed that any attempt to upgrade x11 revealed that everything under xorg-x11 was blocked. So I did emerge -C xorg-x11 then emerge xorg-x11. So far so good. I ran xorgconfig and passed it the same values as before since the hardware hasn't ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no usb mouse in xorg 7.1

2006-10-08 Thread maxim wexler
I'm using the same mouse. Here's what works for me: # ** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ** Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier

Re: [gentoo-user] no output from quota

2006-10-08 Thread maxim wexler
> did you enable quota support for your filesystem in > the kernel? What > Filesystem do you use? > > - -daniel No. Reiserfs. Thanks for the tip, Daniel. -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around htt

[gentoo-user] no output from quota

2006-10-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, I just emerged quota but when I try to use it it responds with nothing. Sometimes it gives me the help menu: quota: Usage: quota [-guqvs] [-l | -Q] [-i] [-F quotaformat] quota [-qvs] [-l | -Q] [-i] [-F quotaformat] -u username ... quota [-qvs] [-l | -Q] [-i] [-F quot

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-03 Thread maxim wexler
> What is your TV source? Digital satellite? (DVB-S) > Digital terrestial? > (DVB-T), analogue terrestial? Cable? What country > are you in? > Outdoor pole-mounted antenna. It brings in the two local(relatively) stations quite well depending on the atmospherics. No cable in this neck of the woods

[gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is it gentoo-friendly. I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture quality quite poor. Have they improved much since then? -Ma

[gentoo-user] exporting mp3 in audacity crashes pc

2006-09-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, When I try to export an mp3 in audacity a box opens which tells me it must search for libmp3lame.so. Then another box opens indicating it found the file in /usr/libs and offers me the choice: cancel or open. I click the button marked 'open'(Didn't know you could "open" library files) and

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv RESOLVED

2006-09-29 Thread maxim wexler
> I believe the right syntax is: > > find /path/dir -type f -ctime -3 > > This should mean "show all files created for the > last 3 days". > > Use "-3" not "3" > That's it :) -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-29 Thread maxim wexler
> > How did you use it? $find ~/ (-type f, -fstype mp3) (-mtime, -mmin, -ctime) (72, 3, 4810, whatever) -exec cp {} ~/ \; And it never said "bad option" or "file not found". -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
> find has many options related to searching by time > (hours, > minutes, etc) and you can select by atime, ctime or > mtime. It's > all in the man page I can't get it to work. I used -ctime, -mtime, -mmin. The files were created on the 26th of this month using abcde. All the other files in the

[gentoo-user] -u system corrupts many links

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I notice that after emerge -u system all the links of the form /usr/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnu/*, /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin/* and /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/lib/* point nowhere(flashing white on red). Since this is a 686, should I worry? Is it safe to just delete them or should they be fixed, a

[gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't think that's what I need. Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or python pass that'll do it? -Maxim

[gentoo-user] many corrupt links

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I don't even know if this is a problem because my unit is a 686 but these all display in flashing white on red: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /usr/i386*/bin total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Dec 20 2005 addr2line -> /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.15.92.0.2/addr2line lrwxrwxrwx 1 r

Re: [gentoo-user] bad nanoRESOLVED

2006-09-26 Thread maxim wexler
> Remove the debug USE flag from your /etc/make.conf. > > Benno Awsome! May I ask how you knew this? Was it something in my post? What is the connection between the debug flag and strange nano behaviour? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Y

[gentoo-user] bad nano

2006-09-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Nano starts and displays a blank screen but whatever I type this is what appears: tget_key_buffer(): key_buffer_len = 1 pparse_kbinput(): kbinput = 119, meta_key = 0, func_key = 0, escapes = 0, byte_digits = 0, retval = 119 gget_shortcut(): kbin

[gentoo-user] wwong's fvwm2rc

2006-07-14 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks Willie, I lost the original post(oops!). I haven't tried it yet. On your site it says I'll have to scroll the mouse to see the whole desktop? Can that be turned off without screwing everything else up? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spa

[gentoo-user] fvwm conf file request

2006-07-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I decided to bring some order to the chaos on my x-console. So I emerged fvwm. Anybody got a .fvwm2rc they'd be willing to let me use? Something simple, plain, not a lot of eye-candy. Just something to juggle a few xterms, nedit, firefox, xmms etc without having to sort through a jumbl

[gentoo-user] managing yahoo group issue

2006-07-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This is weird. When I tried to edit my yahoo group account at groups.yahoo.com no groups were listed under my account name. And when I did a search for "gentoo-user" in the search field it didn't show up in the results. Ditto for "ubuntu-users", another group I subscribe to. Most of t

Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

2006-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/5/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 > > > > which contains the following: > > > > move net-wireless/madwifi-tools > > net-wireless/madwifi-ng

[gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

2006-07-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Following emerge --sync I was informed a new update was available and directed to a file /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 which contains the following: move net-wireless/madwifi-tools net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools move net-wireless/madwifi-driver net-wireless/madwifi-ng move gam

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I give up gentoo ?

2006-06-22 Thread maxim wexler
gentoo is vast. I've been at it for nearly two years and I still only grok a tiny fraction of it. Get ubuntu, breezy is the version I'm familiar with, and do a generic install. Let it choose kernel config, module config, fstab etc. Then you can compare and contrast and your linux enlightenment will

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run `X -configure' successfully.

2006-06-12 Thread maxim wexler
--- gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > maxim wexler wrote: > > > > --- gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run `X -configure' successfully.

2006-06-11 Thread maxim wexler
--- gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jason's recent inquiry about the alternate terminals > caused me to > revisit an issue that I've had for some time. > AFAIK, I don't have an > xorg.conf. I've tried running `X -configure Don't know i

Re: [gentoo-user] module questions

2006-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> > Just run: > === > # modprobe -v radeon_drv > === > localhost heathen # modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file then it may > be already loaded > (check with lsmod). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod Modu

[gentoo-user] module questions

2006-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This appears at the bottom of the console when I startx: [...] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Using vt 7 (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found Symbol drmGetClient from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved! The

[gentoo-user] lcd console fonts

2006-05-30 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E. Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub prompt after the kernel line has no effect. Here's the entire grub session: grub> root (hd0,1) grub> kernel /vmlinuz vga=794 #1280x1024(so I'm told) grub> boot I'm not using a

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bugFIXED

2006-05-23 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/19/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ls -l /dev/ttyS*: > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS0 > -> > > tts/0 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS1

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-19 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/18/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just one little problem left. From the boot > console: > > > > udevd-event[3787]: udev_make_node: > mknod(/dev/ttyS0, > > 020660, 4, 64) > >

[gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hi all, A bunch of things came together in the mother of all screw-ups. One, somehow the /boot line in fstab got set to noauto. How that happened have no idea. Two, at some point I must have compiled a kernel after chrooting without making sure /dev/ was mounted on /boot. Then, when I copied ove

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/15/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Kernel panic! That's what happens. > > Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root > device? Did it detect > your hard drives corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 May 2006, maxim wexler wrote: > > > Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I > created a > > franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to > get > > me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the > fee

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-14 Thread maxim wexler
> > Have you read the info after you use "genkernel > all"? You need a lot > more options when using this kind of kernel, take a > look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml > Yikes! I'm too far behind for this. A search for "vanilla-sources", another supposedly "easier" alternati

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread maxim wexler
Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. --- Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The folks who work the gentoo bugzilla do us an > en

[gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, My hand-made kernel was giving me grief(see bug #132141) so I did #emerge genkernel, #zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6, #genkernel all, and rebooted. Here's the grub session(not using grub-conf): grub> root (hd0,1): ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-07 Thread maxim wexler
mebbe you must change permissions on the device. What does $ls -l /dev/sda say? --- Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry bout this newbie like question but my brain > isn't acting normally (so > searching on the forums didn't solve anything > either) :( > I'm trying to mount my SanDisk Cru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modprobe looks in wrong dir

2006-05-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Maurice E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > modules-update only updates for the running version. > In order to update > the new version, you could simply reboot to the new > version. Ok, here's where it gets weird, at least to me: The symlink points to the new sources. When I cd /usr/sr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modprobe looks in wrong dir

2006-05-01 Thread maxim wexler
> when I > > ran make modules_install. ^^! > It seems like you compiled your kernel but forgot to > execute > "make modules_install" step. > > ciao > Francesco > > -- > Linux Version 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT > Wed Apr 26 06:59:58 > CEST 2006 > On

[gentoo-user] modprobe looks in wrong dir

2006-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This should be an easy fix -- if you already know! The reason many of my modules are not loading is because modprobe is looking in /lib/modules/2.6.12-r6 and not /lib/modules/2.6.16-r3 which was filled when I ran make modules_install. The link to the newer kernel is OK. Yes, I ran mo

Re: [gentoo-user] no net modules will load

2006-04-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Maurice E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would seem that you failed to configure the > necessary modules for > loading any of the modules you list. > Also, as of kernel 2.6.13, devfs is no longer in the > kernel and you must > use udev. without it you will never get your devices > t

[gentoo-user] no net modules will load

2006-04-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, After running -Du gentoo-sources, I noted that /etc/modules.autoload.d/2.6 had been overwritten by a blank form. So I re-wrote it and rebooted. All, and *only* modules having to do with net stuff, ie, ppp, eth0, serial devices etc failed to load. Here's a sample from dmesg: kb ppp_gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-25 Thread maxim wexler
> Oddly, running kernel 2.6.16, it is showing up as > /dev/ttyS2, so I had > to re-run wvdialconf (the only such package that > ever detected the > modem as /dev/ttyS14, by the way). Although I > cannot be certain, I > suspect that serial support in the 2.6.X kernel > series has gone > through a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-25 Thread maxim wexler
> > To check for serial port support in your kernel, do: > cd /usr/src/linux > make menuconfig > go to Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial > Drivers > Then make sure that "8250/16550 and compatible > serial support" has > either a * or an M > > If it doesn't, then go ahead and add it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Simon Kellett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > #pon > > /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: > unrecognized > > option '/dev/ttyS0' > > Sorry if it sounds obvious, but do you have seri

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issuesFIXED(sortof)

2006-04-24 Thread maxim wexler
almost forgot: yes, I did update baselayout :) > > -MW > > -- > > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux > > /sbin/init is Job #1 > > My musings on technology and security at > > http://tech_sec.blog.ca > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > >

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

2006-04-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Chen Yufei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First thanks! > > As Mrugesh mentioned rp-pppoe-3.8, I took a look in > the rp-pppoe > ebuild file and found this, > > "Gentoo is moving toward common configuration file > for all network > interfaces. Please use baselayout adsl module for > configur

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issuesFIXED(sortof)

2006-04-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim > wexler wrote > > > And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial > insist on installing all > > this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my > serial port hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-23 Thread maxim wexler
> > > As I recall I completey destroyed the boot > partition > > on a brand new HD while fumbling with GRUB. But it > was > > still under warranty "Whew!" > > Using the fixmbr command from a WinXP installation > CD would restore > it. Not this time! Even the diagnostic floppy from the Maxtor si

[gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-22 Thread maxim wexler
Hi all, emerge wvdial conked out at checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency sty

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-22 Thread maxim wexler
I've done this on SATA and IDE drives and combos of the same and I never got XP to boot unless I used rootnoverify (hd0,0). Macro$haft insists on being first in my experience. FWIW. Make a grub boot disk(if you haven't already) and practice until you find the proper sequence of commands; then you

[gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, When I try to dialup the 'net on a fresh 2.6.16 install I get: #pon /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: unrecognized option '/dev/ttyS0' Sure enough, there's no such file, just /dev/tty, 0, 1 ... On my 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 boxen /dev/ttyS0 is a sym-link to tts/0 and I can dial

[gentoo-user] woe is ftpd!

2006-04-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi Rich, Sorry, lost my end of the thread. I checked that file: /usr/include/sys/mman.h:20:1: unterminated #ifndef If the error meant missing semi-colon, they all seem to be there. Don't have equery so did emerge -pv gentoolkit and the machine crashed. Booted into single user and did fsck.re

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