Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start

2005-10-06 Thread Guy Yasko
On 6.10.2005, Charles Trois stated: Joseph Jezak a écrit : If Mackael's suggestion doesn't help, let's try with nvidiafb and a newer kernel: It did not help, causing a kernel panic that I couldn't resolve. Give 2.6.14 a try (there are some release canidates for vanilla sources), apply

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:50, Rumen Yotov wrote: Check to make sure that /usr/src/linux link point to your current/working kernel. svgalib depends on kernel link to build. Sorry this was covered in the earlier thread, should have covered it again. Linked as follows: rugosa src # pwd /usr/src

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./ make oldconfig make Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then cd /usr/src/linux cp

[gentoo-user] Re: Merging of config files in /etc

2005-10-06 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:43:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: On the first one, both /etc/init.d/alsasound and /etc/conf.d/alsasound were updated, so I was asked to run etc-update, I accepted the update, and that was it. On the second computer, no update to these files was

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. rugosa / # ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 3 14:22 /usr/src/linux -

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hi, Also, I have experienced a few problems. Firefox window got fully transparent somehow and I couldn't get it back. If I try to log out, the dialog where it asks logout/restart/shutdown doesn't appear also. gnome-panel goes to the

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread DmD (Spider) LJungmark
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 21:18 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:46:55PM -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: At the login screen, what have your chosen as the session type. Perhaps its still selecting your old KDE. Check that and select KDE-3.4 and see what happens. Yes, of course I

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Roger Miliker
On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:46, Wes Gray wrote: My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. The kde taskbar apps wouldn't start. I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta to see if it was related to the kde

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04, Bogo Mipps wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. rugosa / # ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config error / fix_libtool_files trouble

2005-10-06 Thread Frank Schafer
If your Python was built with i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, try re-emerging Python. Python has the compiler it was built with hard coded as the compiler to use. Regards Frank On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:05 +0200, Christian Fischer wrote: Hi all. I've some trouble with emerging dev-python/pyopengl. I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 October 2005 10:29, Tamas Sarga wrote: Without transparency I can change across virtual desktops from a second to another, That slow? It's instantaneous here. With a shitty SiS card. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Wes Gray wrote: My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. Upgrading from which version precisely? What is the full output of 'ls -l ~/.kde*' ? And of 'grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort' ? And of 'grep kde /etc/env.d/*'

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/5/05, Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge -p kde-metaThese are the packages that I would merge, in order:Calculating dependencies ...done![ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.1I tried emerging kde-meta.I then tried unmerging all the blockers it created and then emerging back kde, to get

[gentoo-user] portage bugs?

2005-10-06 Thread Erwin Lang
hi! During installation of a new system I recognised two things: 1) `emerge -e system' aborted two times. * The first time the command autoconf was missing so I manually installed the package autoconf. * The second time the command aclocal was missing so I manually installed the

[gentoo-user] vanilla-source-2.6.12.5 Xeon EM64T + SMP

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Ong
Hi Friends, I am having a machine with 2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz w/HT/EM64T. I am using the minimal-amd64 iso to boot up and install the machine and it's a sucess. But there's a doubt here.. During the installation stage, the kernel provided with the Minimal CD will actually

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config error / fix_libtool_files trouble

2005-10-06 Thread Christian Fischer
Am Thursday 06 October 2005 11:35 schrieb Frank Schafer: If your Python was built with i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, try re-emerging Python. Python has the compiler it was built with hard coded as the compiler to use. Well, that works, thanks for this hint. Christian -- pgpbgjb0OLEsz.pgp

[gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread John Lange
I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in Gentoo Portage and contribute it... Is there a How-To for this? My apologies, I know this must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:04:54 +1300 Bogo Mipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. rugosa / # ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Crossman
Thanks Holly. I understand it better now. On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Eric Crossman schreef: Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about using portage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall under the used to work category.

Re: [gentoo-user] vanilla-source-2.6.12.5 Xeon EM64T + SMP

2005-10-06 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Ong wrote: Hi Friends, I am having a machine with 2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz w/HT/EM64T. I am using the minimal-amd64 iso to boot up and install the machine and it's a sucess. But there's a doubt here.. During the installation stage, the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:57:09PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Here is the rest of the requested info: What does 'emerge -Dup world' say (after a sync)? # emerge -Dup world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread brettholcomb
Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds. You can use existing ones as models. From: John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT To: Gentoo User gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage I frequently need things

[gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everbody, I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4 where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to reset the box. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-06 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
may your hard disk rest in peace On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:02 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everbody, I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and restart it; that failed with an

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread John Lange
The Gentoo documentation on ebuilds is after-the-fact. Contributing Ebuilds: This guide explains how to submit ebuild packages through the Bugzilla tracking system. I did finally find it. Its apparently not in the gentoo documentation but there is a Wiki. Once I figured out the appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] bad jack(?) performance

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/20/05, Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed jack (jack-audio-connection-kit), and configured it, as far as I can tell, correctly. At least I can get multiple audio streams multiplexed together. However, the performance leaves something to be desired: it is *extremely*

Re: [gentoo-user] Latex spacing problem

2005-10-06 Thread John Green
Joseph wrote: Is there any Tetex/Latex guru on the list? I'm trying to modify the formation line in purchase_order.tex form. I think this line is responsible how the entry items are formated: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{\extracolsep [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, the line above if the part number is long

RE: [gentoo-user] portage bugs?

2005-10-06 Thread Bob Young
FWIW, while bringinging up a new dual AMD64 box last night, I got the exact same abort on autoconf during an emerge system. I solved it the same way, by manualy emerging autoconf and restarting the emerge with the newuse flag. I didnt run into the aclocal problem, instead the emerge of

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:15:32 -0500, John Lange wrote: I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). The latest Digikam, 0.8.0_beta2. is already in portage, you just need to unmask it. -- Neil Bothwick I have a

[gentoo-user] Re: Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-06 Thread James
William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: I'll also jump on board this - http-replicator works great. You build it from your existing distfile cache. You do not need the large mirror files as many, or rather most are unlikely ever to be accessed. Build it with what you already have,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread brettholcomb
That's good to know. It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant. From: John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Wes Gray wrote: # grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort kde-base/arts kde-base/kde-env kde-base/kde-meta kde-base/kdebase-meta kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/konqueror Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, if you've emerged kde-meta, none of the other kde things should be in your world file. You've

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread Steven Mertens
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1On 10/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's good to know.It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant. From: John Lange [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] init.d script run order

2005-10-06 Thread Antoine
Hi, I have a server that I have just installed. Everything is just fine except that gshield (and hence my NAT) seems to be stopped after boot. My understanding was that having the need net would mean that it would wait for all the interface cards to come up - is this not the case? Bizarrely,

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:54, Glenn Enright wrote: You still need to make sure the sources are 'bedded in' as it were, so perform the stuff described in the second part of my post as well. Done, and there is an improvement in the error code at least: * Determining the location of the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]

2005-10-06 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:27, Bogo Mipps wrote: *getfilevar VARIABLE CONFIGFILE * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources. * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment

[gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd]

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as it always ends in tears ... Using a liveCD, create your partitions and directories, then copy everything over (rsync or tar is best to make sure its accurate), change your fstab then reboot. When you are happy its working,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 07 October 2005 03:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the

[gentoo-user] two questions about gdm

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I've two questions about gdm (I use version 2.8.0.3): 1.) Recently I recognized that I get the following error message when logging in via gdm: The configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog, so using the default command. Please fix your configuration. Because

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Wes Gray
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:17:20PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Delete all the other kde files from /etc/env.d/, keeping only the 3.4 one. The older ones are not needed any more since you've uninstalled those versions, no? This may solve some of your problems by removing that KDEDIR

[gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-06 Thread Mark
I'd like to build a gentoo box to act as a single router between a hardware firewall (appliance) and two internal separate network segments. The goal is to allow both internal segments to access the Internet via the same firewall, but not allow them to see eachother. Here's my general idea -

[gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using udev now or not. I remember compiling into the kernel last time I did a kernel compile. Naturally,

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Alfaro
Read this article http://lwn.net/Articles/149479/ On 10/7/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Unless its limiting you in some fashion, leave it there as an extra layer of protection - dedicated HW firewalls are often more secure than a general purpose machine, but lose out in the flexibility/functionality stakes. You can also get funky and use the gentoo box to detect suspect traffic, and

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Alfaro
read this udev guide too: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml On 10/7/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using udev now or not. I remember compiling into the kernel last time I did a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] init.d script run order

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
Antoine wrote: Hi, I have a server that I have just installed. Everything is just fine except that gshield (and hence my NAT) seems to be stopped after boot. My understanding was that having the need net would mean that it would wait for all the interface cards to come up - is this not the

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-06 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using udev now

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
kde-base/kdeaccessibility selected: 3.3.2 protected: none omitted: none This one tells me that you've got old versions of KDE merged alongside the current version. I suspect path and library problems are the result... My suggestion is to: ls -ld /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*-3[0-3]*

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Kumar Golap
Hi all, I tried it on mine...pretty slow with shadow...but with translucence on without shadowits bearablle...but its not instantaneous... I am using a SiS 5591/2 AGP card . Kumar On 10/6/05, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06 October 2005 10:29, Tamas Sarga wrote: Without transparency

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: cat /var/lib/portage/world | while read pkg; do count=`equery depends $pkg | wc -l` test $count -eq 0 echo pkg done Um, sorry, I'm a complete idiot sometimes. You want to remove from world packages that are included as a dependancy of something

[gentoo-user] Problems with font-color and fbsplash

2005-10-06 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I'm using fbsplash for cool booting. I'm working on my own themes, but I've noticed that it doesn't matter what I put on the variable fgcolor or bgcolor, because it will do nothing. Always console color will be GRAY, it doesn't matter if I set on my 1024x768.cfg (for example)

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be