Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:05:43 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664 =media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7664 Does it work with 7174?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci -s 01:00 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# eix -cI nvidia [I] media-video/nvidia-glx (1.0.7174-r5): NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries [I] media-video/nvidia-kernel (1.0.7174): Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA X11 driver -- Neil Bothwick Stupid user error. Terminate user (Y/n) ? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleanup kde-3.4
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:26:44 -0600, Kevin Hanson wrote: qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge --prune This is what I use and it works well: #!/bin/bash for x in `ls /usr/portage/kde-base`; do if [ $x != CVS ]; then echo -n =kde-base/$x-3.4* fi done |xargs emerge -Cpv This only works for 3.4, whereas --prune removed all older packages. Also, by using -I with qpkg, it only acts on packages that are installed, not the whole of kde-base. On the other hand,your approach works better if you used the monolithic ebuild for 3.5 and the split ebuilds for 3.5. -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag order confusion
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:54:59 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Using it on the emerge command line has the desired effect. That is, USE=-sasl emerge -v -p sendmail shows `-sasl' as expected. Why doesn't it work with the entry in /etc/make.conf? What do you get from grep sasl /etc/portage/package.use -- Neil Bothwick Next time you wave at me, use more than one finger, please. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] udev-077-r1 makes /dev/dsp disappear!
Hello, I am running Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron processor with an MSI K8MM-V motherboard runnning a VIA K8M800 chipset. This is the lspci output about my sound card: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0430 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 209 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 The system has been running without any problems with udev-077 and alsa 1.0.9 Yesterday, I upgraded to udev-077-r1 as part of a normal 'update world'. I shut off the system. Booted this morning only to find /dev/dsp missing and alsasound giving errors about soundcard '0' being not found. I tried to upgrade all the alsa packages (alsa-lib alsa-driver alsa-utils alsa-jack alsa-oss) to 1.0.10. I have been using 1.0.9, because I get a very very low volume, even with Master and PCM set to 100% with 1.0.10. Anyway, even after upgrading and running alsaconf, I still had the same problem. I decided to downgrade udev to 077, which I had been using till yesterday. It worked, I got my /dev/dsp back and sound worked. But I still had to downgrade alsa to 1.0.9 to solve the volume issue. My question is, has anyone else seen this issue? Should I report this as a bug? Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Compiling kde-meta for 3.5
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 22:45, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: As it seems xmlto needs the latest libxlst 1.1.15 and DOESN'T have a dependency for it. As I try to emerge kde-meta I run into the following error: /usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook XPath error : Undefined variable compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/autotoc.xsl line 544 element div using the USE=kdeenablefinal ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge kdeaddons-docs-konq-plugins commandline. I've checked and updated all the docbook stuff I have installed to no avail.. Anyone who has an idea or a pointer? Gerhard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy [solved, mostly]
Hi again, Well, I have KDE 3.5 installed now. K3b still did not work though. So, I keyworded the little puppy so it would get the latest. It did, now it works. I click the tools thing, then click copy CD and the windoze pops up. I click start and we are burning CDs. I do get a crash signal when I close it though. Not sure what is up with that. Next release I guess. :\ KDE 3.5 is pretty cool. I did a back-up of some stuff first but I don't see that anything was lost. All my email is still here. That is good since I have a lot. I did notice that after doing a revdep-rebuild, there is a lot of broken libraries. I let it do its thing but they are still broken. May do a emerge -e world and go take a nap. I upgraded gcc earlier but most of them are related to hal I think. I did a emerge -e system twice but maybe once more will do the trick. Is there a way to tell to do a world but skip the stuff in system that is already done? Just curious. Anyway, K3b is solved now. Moving on to the next fix. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] K3b and CD copy [solved, mostly]
Nagatoro wrote: Dale wrote: KDE 3.5 is pretty cool. I did a back-up of some stuff first but I don't see that anything was lost. All my email is still here. That is good since I have a lot. I did notice that after doing a revdep-rebuild, there is a lot of broken libraries. I let it do its thing but they are still broken. May do a emerge -e world and go take a nap. I upgraded gcc earlier but most of them are related to hal I think. I did a emerge -e system twice but maybe once more will do the trick. Is there a way to tell to do a world but skip the stuff in system that is already done? Just curious. To fix things regarding the gcc upgrade (3.3-3.4) revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 -p -v revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 and for some reason I had to do emerge qt before since it was _after_ kde in the revdep sugested order. I did the revdep-rebuild like in the guide. I actually copied and pasted it. My typing sucks. It was fine after that. It was after I emerged the masked hal that KDE 3.5 required that the libs went missing. This is what I get: Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /usr/lib/libIvmConfig.so.0.0.0 (requires libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0) broken /usr/bin/ivman (requires libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0 libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0) broken /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon (requires libhal-storage.so.0 libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0) broken /usr/X11R6/lib/libIvmConfig.so.0.0.0 (requires libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0) broken /usr/X11R6/bin/ivman (requires libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0 libhal.so.0 libdbus-glib-1.so.0 libdbus-1.so.0) done. It seems they have something to do with dbus and hal. I'm no expert though. Just noticing that they all have hal and dbus in the names. LOL I'm going to do emerge dbus hal and see if that fixes it. I think qt was one of the ones done during the emerge -e system though. emerge -e world should get it for sure though, if nothing else works. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation
I'm not installing on the slack box, 'cause i want to overwrite it. i'm booting from the CD. And sorry for the reply thing, i didn't know :-[ Felipe Zac Medico escreveu: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi all, I'm a Slackware user, but i decided to give Gentoo a try! :-) Gentoo instalation uses kernel 2.6.12, and it doesn't have my ethernet card module. It is the sis190, that have been added on 2.6.14, do i have to put another card while installing or is there another solution? Are you installing this on the slackware box? If the network is already working and you have a spare partition then you don't need the installation cd. Just download a stage3 and follow the handbook. By the way, when you click reply in the email client and start a new topic, it's called thread hijacking. My mail client seems to think that's what you did. :) Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Installing from scratch, using networked install, I've built two kernels from 2.6.14 sources, each time the mods I'd listed autoload fail to be loaded and are apparently never built. I resorted to usign genkernel since in the past that has always provided a working kernel and initrd. And sufficient modules. This time, with current gentoo-sources, genkernel fails to complete. I've left it alone for over an hour, in two attempts now. It never returns a prompt and worse, no initrd appears in boot. Running `genkernel --udev all' as directed by manual. after first having: zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 Again, as directed. The manual does mention: genkernel compiles a kernel that supports almost all hardware, this compilation will take quite a while to finish! This is on a 2Ghz P4. Can anyone comment on how long `Quite a while' might be? I don't recall spending over an hour on this in past installs. Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as /usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as to how an intitrd is built manually from a kernel compile. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev-077-r1 makes /dev/dsp disappear!
On 12/9/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron processor with an MSI K8MM-V motherboard runnning a VIA K8M800 chipset. This is the lspci output about my sound card: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0430 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 209 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 The system has been running without any problems with udev-077 and alsa 1.0.9 Yesterday, I upgraded to udev-077-r1 as part of a normal 'update world'. I shut off the system. Booted this morning only to find /dev/dsp missing and alsasound giving errors about soundcard '0' being not found. I tried to upgrade all the alsa packages (alsa-lib alsa-driver alsa-utils alsa-jack alsa-oss) to 1.0.10. I have been using 1.0.9, because I get a very very low volume, even with Master and PCM set to 100% with 1.0.10. Anyway, even after upgrading and running alsaconf, I still had the same problem. I decided to downgrade udev to 077, which I had been using till yesterday. It worked, I got my /dev/dsp back and sound worked. But I still had to downgrade alsa to 1.0.9 to solve the volume issue. My question is, has anyone else seen this issue? Should I report this as a bug? Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I was suffering from this same problem and it does appear to be a bug in udev-077-r1 (-r2 is now in ~x86 but I've not tried it yet). The solution that someone else came up with (calr0x on the forums) was to run udevstart once the system is running, this causes all of the device nodes for the installed kernel modules to be created. Simon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Harry Putnam wrote: Installing from scratch, using networked install, I've built two kernels from 2.6.14 sources, each time the mods I'd listed autoload fail to be loaded and are apparently never built. I'm not big on the genkernel thing but I had the same thing earlier and I was doing it manually. I don't know how to fix it but you are not alone. This is on a running rig too, not from the CD. Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as /usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as to how an intitrd is built manually from a kernel compile. One would thnk that would work. I have never done it before though. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:24:26 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as /usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as to how an intitrd is built manually from a kernel compile. You don't need an initrd when compiling your own kernel. genkernel uses it because it needs modules for everything, including the kitchen sink, available to the kernel before mounting the root filesystem. Compiling them into the kernel would make it bloated. When you compile a kernel manually, you choose which modules you need in the kernel, build those in and either leave the rest out or compile them as separate modules. Genkernel is intended to make things easier, and it may do when things work as they should, but I find it makes life more difficult when anything goes wrong. Building a kernel manually is not rocket science, it is easier in the long run. -- Neil Bothwick An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag order confusion
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:54:59 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Using it on the emerge command line has the desired effect. That is, USE=-sasl emerge -v -p sendmail shows `-sasl' as expected. Why doesn't it work with the entry in /etc/make.conf? What do you get from grep sasl /etc/portage/package.use Bingo... grep sasl /etc/portage/package.use: mail-mta/sendmail mbox sasl milter Urk... ah well I ... er mutter mutter. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O
Hi. . . . again, Well, I did my upgrade with gcc. Then I went and done the KDE 3.5 upgrade. I have a problem or two and just want to do a emerge -e world and go to bed for a while. It is not a pretty site though. This is just *some* of what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -epv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kaddressbook-plugins-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeaddons-3.5.0) [blocks B ] =kde-base/konq-plugins-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeaddons-3.5.0) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkpgp-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.0-r3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/konsole-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/ksysguard-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/ksmserver-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/knetattach-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesktop-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kmenuedit-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kicker-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) I have the kde-base stuff in package.keywords, What else do I need to do so it will not block me from doing a emerge -e world? Do I need to add it to another package.* file? One of these days, I'm going to learn all this stuff. ;) Wait, they will change it when I do though. Thanks Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:24:26 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as /usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as to how an intitrd is built manually from a kernel compile. You don't need an initrd when compiling your own kernel. genkernel uses it because it needs modules for everything, including the kitchen sink, available to the kernel before mounting the root filesystem. Compiling them into the kernel would make it bloated. When you compile a kernel manually, you choose which modules you need in the kernel, build those in and either leave the rest out or compile them as separate modules. What about for frame buffering? Isn't it required for that? I thought the initram thingy was the way it was done currently. Genkernel is intended to make things easier, and it may do when things work as they should, but I find it makes life more difficult when anything goes wrong. Building a kernel manually is not rocket science, it is easier in the long run. Well, like I said I did try manually twice first. But on bootup the modules I needed were not only not available but were apparently not ever built. I must be making some wrong choices somewhere. I did list them in the autoloads file. The mods I need are for networking: 3c59x and e100 for my adapters. On the second build I did get 3c59x but it turned out not to be the one needed for eth0, and eth1 was not present. Looking back thru menuconfig, I don't see a choice that looks like it would build e100. e100 is present in livecd though so I know its there somewhere. I thought maybe genkernel would find it. I've gone thru the network devices in menuconfig several times and still do not see one that appears to include e100. Although in the install I'm replacing it was present going way back. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Harry Putnam wrote: The mods I need are for networking: 3c59x and e100 for my adapters. On the second build I did get 3c59x but it turned out not to be the one needed for eth0, and eth1 was not present. Looking back thru menuconfig, I don't see a choice that looks like it would build e100. Try this one: Intel(R) PRO/100+ support You can search if you know the name. Just hit the / key then type in the name of the module. Someone posted that the other day. They screwed up. I wore out the / key. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:05:43 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Does it work with 7174?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci -s 01:00 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# eix -cI nvidia [I] media-video/nvidia-glx (1.0.7174-r5): NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries [I] media-video/nvidia-kernel (1.0.7174): Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA X11 driver Thanks. I'll check if my GF2 works with 7174. I'm stuck with 6629 :( Regards, Norberto -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try this one: Intel(R) PRO/100+ support You can search if you know the name. Just hit the / key then type in the name of the module. Someone posted that the other day. They screwed up. I wore out the / key. LOL Hey that is a handy bit... thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Harry Putnam wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try this one: Intel(R) PRO/100+ support You can search if you know the name. Just hit the / key then type in the name of the module. Someone posted that the other day. They screwed up. I wore out the / key. LOL Hey that is a handy bit... thanks Yup, it is cool, if you know the name of the module. ;) If you don't, oh well, google it is. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options
Did you select framebuffer support - there needs to be a * beside it before you see the rest. If that doesn't work set the see experimental items flag in the general setup. From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/08 Thu PM 11:07:39 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's under device drivers-graphic support. You select Support for framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type Hit enter there and you can select vesa or vesafb-tng. I'm not seeing that here. device drivers-graphic support YES Select Framebuffer support YES I don't see any options like what you mention appearing in this list anywhere. No VESA VGA Graphics support I see Console Display Driver Support --- and then: Frame Buffer Console Support. Never any mention of VESA or Vesafb-tng There is no mention of it in .config either. Not even disabled or off. This is kernel-2.6.14-r4 Is that what you are looking at? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:38:29 -0600, Dale wrote: kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kicker-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) You have the split ebuilds installed yet emerge world is trying to install the monolithic ebuilds, you can't have both. I have the kde-base stuff in package.keywords, What else do I need to do so it will not block me from doing a emerge -e world? Do I need to add it to another package.* file? Do you have kde-base/kde installed? If so, unmerge it, it won't break anything because it doesn't contain anything (it is a meta-package), but it will stop emerge world trying to pull in all the monolithic ebuilds. Otherwise, reun emerge -utv world to see what is trying to install the monolithic packages. One of these days, I'm going to learn all this stuff. ;) Wait, they will change it when I do though. How else will the devs keep us on our toes :) -- Neil Bothwick Everything else being equal, fat people use more soap. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options
Isn't it at the Character Devices? I am not at my machine right now, but I remember it there... Just a thought, I was able to use the manual configuration for framebuffer use, and then decided to try genkernel, I must admit it is so easy to use I'm not switching for a long time. Following the instructions at the Installation Manual, copied the config.gz with zcat, used it as configuration and: emerge splashutils genkernel --install --gensplash=yourtheme all On 12/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you select framebuffer support - there needs to be a * beside it before you see the rest. If that doesn't work set the see experimental items flag in the general setup. From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/08 Thu PM 11:07:39 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's under device drivers-graphic support. You select Support for framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type Hit enter there and you can select vesa or vesafb-tng. I'm not seeing that here. device drivers-graphic support YES Select Framebuffer support YES I don't see any options like what you mention appearing in this list anywhere. No VESA VGA Graphics support I see Console Display Driver Support --- and then: Frame Buffer Console Support. Never any mention of VESA or Vesafb-tng There is no mention of it in .config either. Not even disabled or off. This is kernel-2.6.14-r4 Is that what you are looking at? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:38:29 -0600, Dale wrote: kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kicker-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.0-r1) You have the split ebuilds installed yet emerge world is trying to install the monolithic ebuilds, you can't have both. I have the kde-base stuff in package.keywords, What else do I need to do so it will not block me from doing a emerge -e world? Do I need to add it to another package.* file? Do you have kde-base/kde installed? If so, unmerge it, it won't break anything because it doesn't contain anything (it is a meta-package), but it will stop emerge world trying to pull in all the monolithic ebuilds. Otherwise, reun emerge -utv world to see what is trying to install the monolithic packages. One of these days, I'm going to learn all this stuff. ;) Wait, they will change it when I do though. How else will the devs keep us on our toes :) Thanks for the reply. I have been reading the forums. I was in the middle of a download and when on dial-up, you can't search and download a package at the same time. LOL Anyway, the download finished and I was looking around the forums. It wasn't making sense though. I thought I was going to have to unmerge *ALL* of KDE 3.4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge unmerge kde kde-base/kde selected: 3.4.1 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 Unmerging kde-base/kde-3.4.1... No package files given... Grabbing a set. Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # That seemed to work great. o_O Me like this. This means I have KDE 3.4 to fall back onto if I have too. Now I can do a emerge -e world and get some sleep. Uh oh, my girlfriend may send me a email. I have to stay awake a little longer. I LUV my Sweety. :-D All 100 lbs of her. She's tiny. Is emerge unmerge the exact some thing as emerge -C ??? Thanks Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ACCESS VIOLATION with emerge -e world
After upgrading gcc I did the safer post-installation,
emerge -e system
emerge -e world
The first went fine. The second died after about 300 emerges and
printed
making executable: /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-1.1.so.3.0.5
Completed installing gtkhtml-1.1.10-r1 into
/var/tmp/portage/gtkhtml-1.1.10-r1/image/
--- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
---
LOG FILE =
/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-gnome-extra_-_gtkhtml-1.1.10-r1-32251.log
open_wr: /usr/share/gnome/html/gtkhtml/gtkhtml-gtkhtml-enums.html.new
ajglap ~ #
The exact emerge I used was
emerge -e --tree --verbose --ask world
My make.conf is
# -*- shell-script -*-
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
# automatically built this stage.
# Then edited by allan.
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -pipe -O2
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
MAKEOPTS=-j3
USE=apache2 doc dvd dvdr emacs firefox imap mime nvidia ppds \
scanner tcltk unicode usb \
-arts -kde -libg -oss -qt
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo;
SYNC=rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
I presume I can safely do
emerge --resume --skipfirst
but will wait a few hours in case that is not advisible.
Thanks in advance for any help.
allan
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O
Holy smoke: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -ev world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of *656*) sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 to / May be a long nap. O_O Looks like folding may run a bit behind schedule this week. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What provides emaint?
Hi Gentoo folk, I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but found nothing that looked promising. Any hints/tips? -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What provides emaint?
Phil Sexton wrote: Hi Gentoo folk, I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but found nothing that looked promising. Any hints/tips? Linky alert. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2778758.html#2778758 It will scroll down to a specifc post. If you are on dial-up, be patient. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What provides emaint?
It's in the latest, masked portage, I believe. yup qpkg -f -i /usr/lib/portage/bin/emaint sys-apps/portage-2.0.53 * The Portage Package Management System. The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo. [ http://www.gentoo.org/ ] On Friday 09 December 2005 08:45, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Hi Gentoo folk, I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but found nothing that looked promising. Any hints/tips? -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 09:14:13 up 1 day, 15:47, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 0.30, 0.20 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT
I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing? Thanks, Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] BNEP module
Hi, I'm trying to configure my bnep0 as shown in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml. Well, I'm doing like this: # modprobe bnep # lsmod Module Size Used by bnep 12928 2 but when I try to setup the ip address for the bnep0 I got the following error: # ifconfig bnep0 192.168.2.1 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device bnep0: unknown interface: No such device What should I have to do to make my bnep0 working? I'm newbie in bluetooth subject, I have a simple question: I have a Motorola V3 with bluetooth enabled and I want to write a simple client/server application to transfer data through a socket connection between my desktop and my V3. So how can I setup the V3 ip or Am I thinking wrong about this and I should make a different configuration in order to connect my devices through socket? Thank you, Leandro. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:02, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/8/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:05, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: The problem I see periodically is that at time the java_vm will go to 100% CPU and I have to kill it by hand. But you only show one instance of java_vm, right? As far as I know, yes, I only have one copy. I do not see the multiple copies that you are seeing. This could be a nptl vs posixthreads issue. nptl threads show up as only a single process. For those having this problem, do you use nptlonly for glibc? If not, anyone willing to try remerging glibc with that flag? -Richard looks like I have to build a new kernel * Checking gcc for __thread support ... yes * Checking kernel version (=2.6.6) ... no * You need a kernel of at least version 2.6.6 * for NPTL support! -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 09:37:26 up 1 day, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.44 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT
Jeff Grossman wrote: I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing? Thanks, Jeff $ grep mcrypt /usr/portage/eclass/php5-sapi-r3.eclass crypt? ( =dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.4 ) enable_extension_with mcrypt crypt 1 so the use flag is crypt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and MCRYPT
Jeff Grossman wrote: I am running dev-lang/php 5.0.5. I installed phpmyadmin, and when I first go into it, it says I do not have mcrypt installed in my php. How do I enable mcrypt in PHP? I tried adding the use flag of mcrypt, but that does not seem to do anything. What am I missing? Thanks, Jeff This may point you in the area to look. There is something you have to enable in your kernel for it to work. I threw the error away earlier because I don't use crypt. I do remember that part though. No clue on php itself though. Hope that helps a little anyway. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What provides emaint?
Phil Sexton wrote: Hi Gentoo folk, I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but found nothing that looked promising. Any hints/tips? installed by portage # which emaint /usr/sbin/emaint you need to be root to have it in the path -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: BNEP module
Yes... I executed with no problem: pand --listen --role NAP --master --autozap pand --connect 00:0A:0B:0C:0D:0E --service NAP --autozap I just replaced 00:0A:0B:0C:0D:0E to the address of my cellphone. Leandro 2005/12/9, David LIBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How about the pand --listen... line in the howto ? Did you forget it ? If that is not the problem, please submit your question to the bluez mailling list. David. Le vendredi 09 Décembre 2005 15:39, Leandro Melo de Sales a écrit : Hi, I'm trying to configure my bnep0 as shown in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml. Well, I'm doing like this: # modprobe bnep # lsmod Module Size Used by bnep 12928 2 but when I try to setup the ip address for the bnep0 I got the following error: # ifconfig bnep0 192.168.2.1 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device bnep0: unknown interface: No such device What should I have to do to make my bnep0 working? I'm newbie in bluetooth subject, I have a simple question: I have a Motorola V3 with bluetooth enabled and I want to write a simple client/server application to transfer data through a socket connection between my desktop and my V3. So how can I setup the V3 ip or Am I thinking wrong about this and I should make a different configuration in order to connect my devices through socket? Thank you, Leandro. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2
Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not sure that I understand how to properly install stuff. For example, there are programs from several different families that I like and that I want to use. For example From Gnome - I like Nautilus and gthumb (among others) From KDE -- I like Konversation, Akregator, and DigiKAM And from Generic (no specific family) I like Audacity and the Gimp I am pretty sure most or all of these are in portage, so getting them is no big deal. I will be running Fluxbox, and I would like the programs with all their proper features, without the extra bloat that installing GNOME and KDE would bring. Can someone please advise on the proper way to go about doing this??? Thanks TIM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I'm not installing on the slack box, 'cause i want to overwrite it. i'm booting from the CD. Okay, if I understand correctly, you want to overwrite your slackware installation? In that case, if there's some free space on your root partition, then you can in install a minimal gentoo system in /gentoo/ (build a kernel and everything while running slackware) and then boot off the cd and move everything into place. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not sure that I understand how to properly install stuff. For example, there are programs from several different families that I like and that I want to use. For example From Gnome - I like Nautilus and gthumb (among others) From KDE -- I like Konversation, Akregator, and DigiKAM And from Generic (no specific family) I like Audacity and the Gimp I am pretty sure most or all of these are in portage, so getting them is no big deal. I will be running Fluxbox, and I would like the programs with all their proper features, without the extra bloat that installing GNOME and KDE would bring. Can someone please advise on the proper way to go about doing this??? there is a very good howto on kde in the documentation on the gentoo.org site. I point you in that direction because it mentions a bunch of possibilities, and I don't recall them all. however, a google for site:gentoo.org kde should net you the relevant stuff. basically kde (can't speak to gnome, don't care for it) is broken into lots of ebuilds. I personally did an emerge kde-meta, because I use the full-blown kde. but there's also smaller bits you can install. Always do an emerge packagename -pv first, as it will evaluate your USE flags and tell you what prereqs it'll install. Thanks TIM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2
John Jolet wrote: there is a very good howto on kde in the documentation on the gentoo.org site. I point you in that direction because it mentions a bunch of possibilities, and I don't recall them all. however, a google for site:gentoo.org kde should net you the relevant stuff. basically kde (can't speak to gnome, don't care for it) is broken into lots of ebuilds. I personally did an emerge kde-meta, because I use the full-blown kde. but there's also smaller bits you can install. Always do an emerge packagename -pv first, as it will evaluate your USE flags and tell you what prereqs it'll install. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml?style=printable That may help. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] qpxtool ebuild and Qt problem
I have tried to build the 'qpxtool' app with ebuild file shown below.
The problem is I have sloted Qt3 and Qt4, and ebuild doesn't switch to Qt3.
The app _must_ be built with Qt3.
How to modify the ebuild file to force a Qt3 using?
Andrew
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# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
inherit eutils kde-functions
DESCRIPTION=cd/dvd quality check for Plextor drives
HOMEPAGE=http://qpxtool.sourceforge.net;
SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge/$PN/${P}.tar.bz2
LICENSE=GPL-2
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86
IUSE=
need-qt 3
DEPEND=
src_compile() {
qmake -project || die qmake -project failed
qmake qpxtool-${PV}.pro || die qmake qpxtool failed
emake || die emake failed
}
src_install() {
newbin qpxtool-${PV} qpxtool || die dobin failed
dodoc ChangeLog || die dodoc failed
}
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev-077-r1 makes /dev/dsp disappear!
On Friday 09 December 2005 16:04, Simon Hogg wrote: I was suffering from this same problem and it does appear to be a bug in udev-077-r1 (-r2 is now in ~x86 but I've not tried it yet). The solution that someone else came up with (calr0x on the forums) was to run udevstart once the system is running, this causes all of the device nodes for the installed kernel modules to be created. Simon Upgraded to udev-077-r2 and did udevstart. Everything is fine now. Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:28:36 -0600, Dale wrote: Thanks for the reply. I have been reading the forums. I was in the middle of a download and when on dial-up, you can't search and download a package at the same time. Of course you can, run each emerge in a different shell. It wasn't making sense though. I thought I was going to have to unmerge *ALL* of KDE 3.4. kde-base/kde is a meta-package, it doesn't contain anything itself, just a bunch of dependencies for the KDE monolithic packages. unmerging it doesn't remove any files. Is emerge unmerge the exact some thing as emerge -C ??? Yes, although it should really be emerge --unmerge. -- Neil Bothwick Memory Map - A sheet of paper showing location of computer store. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world has Blocks, big time. O_O
Neil Bothwick wrote: Of course you can, run each emerge in a different shell. Well, it is not practical. I only get 26K so if I go to the forums, it may take several minutes to download a page, much less several pages when I am searching for something. It also slows down my download as well. My pipe is pretty small here. It's like emptying the ocean with a drinking straw. :( Is emerge unmerge the exact some thing as emerge -C ??? Yes, although it should really be emerge --unmerge. Strange. I always did a emerge unmerge foo, no dashes. At least now I know. I'm on package 94 of 656. It's getting there, slowly. LOL Thanks Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?
Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc must belong to it! Wouldn't be interesting to implement this into Gentoo gcc ebuild as an USE? -- Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) http://www.sevein.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key ID: E2DB17E8 (pgp.escomposlinux.org) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:21 +0100, Jesús García Crespo wrote: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc must belong to it! Wouldn't be interesting to implement this into Gentoo gcc ebuild as an USE? Exactly what risk is there from an end-user running a compiler? A compiler doesn't access any kind of restricted environment, doesn't auytomatically create binaries with other rights than its own and is about as safe a product as there can be. And if you think that users running their own programs is a risk, simply mount /home as noexec, ( make sure to impose the same limitations on /tmp and /var/tmp as well, since users have write-access there) And.. really. python, perl, awk, bash ... All of those are fully capable of creating and running programs. And no, I do not think you can limit the use thereof from user accounts.: ) If you're really paranoid about execution and so on, start reading the SELinux FAQ and create a ruleset.. The default one is probably more lenient than you want it ;) //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Ethernet on installation
I've got another NIC, so i'm gonna use it while installing gentoo, then, when i recompile the kernel, i add the support to my nic. :D Thanks On 12/9/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I'm not installing on the slack box, 'cause i want to overwrite it. i'm booting from the CD. Okay, if I understand correctly, you want to overwrite your slackware installation? In that case, if there's some free space on your root partition, then you can in install a minimal gentoo system in /gentoo/ (build a kernel and everything while running slackware) and then boot off the cd and move everything into place. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?
Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc must belong to it! Wouldn't be interesting to implement this into Gentoo gcc ebuild as an USE? What stops the user from downloading the gcc source and install it on her home partition? -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?
Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc must belong to it! Wouldn't be interesting to implement this into Gentoo gcc ebuild as an USE? What stops the user from downloading the gcc source and install it on her home partition? I was a bit fast there. What i meant was: What stops the user from downloading the gcc source to another machine, compiling it there and installing the binary on her home partition on your machine? -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?
Looks perfect. I'll try it out tonight. I have camE working, but it's not so lightweight. Thanks, Michael On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the TCP/IP server part myself. This *might* be close to what you're looking for. It's lightweight and runs great. http://paginas.terra.com.br/informatica/gleicon/video4linux/videodog.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --resume' problem
Hello, I've been recompiling my system with gcc 3.4 and utilizing emerge --resume. The last time I used emerge --resume it started emerging firefox and said 1 of 3. The next time I checked on it, firefox had emerged successfully but the process then stopped. I ran emerge --resume again and it started emerging firefox again and again said 1 of 3. Is this a bug? If the emerge process stopped at Firefox instead of continuing with the next, the Firefox emerge did not complete successfully. That's why resume is starting it again. Use emerge --resume --skipfirst to emerge the rest of the outstanding packages, then emerge Firefox again with logging enabled - set PORT_LOGDIR in make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick Ok, thanks. Firefox must have failed. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems
I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in X. xterm won't start and terminal starts but doesn't display a prompt. Does anyone know what's going on here? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems
On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in X. xterm won't start and terminal starts but doesn't display a prompt. Does anyone know what's going on here? - Grant god, i hope nothingi just updated my vpn/firewall server that way and haven't rebooted yet! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs
On 12/9/05, Edwin Kapauni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: [...] Equery depends is a little brain damaged here. It lists _possible_ dependancies, not real ones. Good to know. Is there any more reliable replacement for equery d? Nothing really simple, but you can script it with something like: dep=gnome-vfs; for pkg in `equery depends $dep` ; do t=`emerge -Dvep =$pkg | grep $dep` test -n $t echo $pkg done HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options
On 12/9/05, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it at the Character Devices? No, you are thinking of DRM/DRI support, not framebuffer. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems
On 12/9/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in X. xterm won't start and terminal starts but doesn't display a prompt. Does anyone know what's going on here? I am assuming you _have_ upgraded to udev, as support for devfs has been removed from recent kernels? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of gnome-vfs
gentoo-user is reading my mind... I just had the same firefox-thunderbird/gnome-vfs/equery depends question this morning, and was on the verge of make a list/forum post. I wonder if I bleed purple... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
On 12/8/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it your opinion that this would help my situation with the multiple instances? If so I will give it a try tomorrow. No idea, but it is worth a shot. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks like I have to build a new kernel snip 09:37:26 up 1 day, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.44 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Yes, you haven't done that for at least a year! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
On Friday 09 December 2005 14:56, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks like I have to build a new kernel snip 09:37:26 up 1 day, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.44 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Yes, you haven't done that for at least a year! -Richard is NPTL a selectable kernel option? I can't seem to locate it. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 15:18:38 up 1 day, 21:51, 6 users, load average: 0.29, 0.10, 0.13 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is NPTL a selectable kernel option? I can't seem to locate it. Nope, it is a core kernel function..not configurable. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
On Friday 09 December 2005 15:45, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/9/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is NPTL a selectable kernel option? I can't seem to locate it. Nope, it is a core kernel function..not configurable. -Richard Thanks -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 15:47:55 up 1 day, 22:20, 6 users, load average: 0.32, 0.40, 0.42 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
Michael George wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:57:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at configuring system to use udev and never gets okay. I just sits there for ever. My system hangs at this point quite often. I have no idea why - it seems to be quite random but if I try again I usually get it to boot. I take it your system never gets past this line on boot? correct. I've left it for minutes several times. Never goes beyond... Take a look at the following link - it's a known bug in udev and LDAP. The workaround is listed in the bug notes. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99564 -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network problem :: new install
On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:14 pm, pat wrote: I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed the Gentoo handbook and setup the network as DHCP. But during the boot I have error like this: eth0 does not exist Sounds like the driver for your network card isn't loaded. If the NIC works with the liveCD but not with the kernel you compiled then you may just be able to `modprobe` it in, otherwise you may need to recompile. Try running `lsmod` from the LiveCD, and maybe post the output of `lspci` here. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users
another Gentoo user in Florida. (Jacksonville)On 12/8/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Lytle wrote:On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:59:21 +0900pclouds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:If you are stillinterested in frappr.com, please give one more pointto http://www.frappr.com/linuxusers :)--Bi Cờ Lao-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listThere may be a bug in the message listing.Or perhaps I have no ideawhat I am doing- it wouldn't be the first time.My message shows up twice in the same box.Rob LytleMine did too.I can't figure out how to edit it either.That makes mea double Linux nut and a double windoze hater.That last part is OK though.:-)Dale:-)--To err is human, I'm most certainly human.I have four rigs:1:Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2:Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.3:Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.4:Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Neil Bothwick wrote: When you compile a kernel manually, you choose which modules you need in the kernel, build those in and either leave the rest out or compile them as separate modules. Genkernel is intended to make things easier, and it may do when things work as they should, but I find it makes life more difficult when anything goes wrong. Building a kernel manually is not rocket science, it is easier in the long run. A lot of people have said not to use genkernel over the past months, but I'm going to be one to stand up for it. It is a very customisable tool and I find it very useful for all my kernel needs. When you compile a kernel with genkernel, you too are able to configure the kernel by selecting which modules to compile in or leave out simply by specifying the --menuconfig option. I prefer the way it handles config files by storing them in /etc/kernels after a successful build. Next time you build that kernel revision, it will pick the config out from that directory by default. ls /etc/kernels/ kernel-config-x86-2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel-config-x86-2.6.15-rc5-mm1 All you have to make sure of is that the filenames match, so if you upgrade the kernel revision you just have to copy the previous kernel config to match the name of your new kernel revision and build the new kernel. After running genkernel I end up with the same kernel that I would had I 'compiled it manually', I don't build the initrd as I don't require it. Like an automated script it has simply just run the steps while I'm off annoying my brother :D I've used genkernel for a fair bit now and not a single problem and a seamless transition from devfs to udev. The problems with genkernel generally come from using the default configuration and initrd, which you don't require with a correctly configured kernel. I'm sure there would be problems also if you didn't alter the original configuration when compiling the kernel manually. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I left Fedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten to where it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo because one can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losing what seems even more time with really slow compilations Just on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modern software and powerfull computers, to need to spend this amount of time just to get working software running. I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed something like 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are already compiled? Is that an option for us? Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve as well in most ways? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote: Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it! (Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...) I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I left Fedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten to where it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo because one can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losing what seems even more time with really slow compilations Just on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modern software and powerfull computers, to need to spend this amount of time just to get working software running. I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed something like 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are already compiled? Is that an option for us? Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve as well in most ways? -- Han Solo: Oh! I thought they smelled bad on the *outside*! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems
I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in X. xterm won't start and terminal starts but doesn't display a prompt. Does anyone know what's going on here? I am assuming you _have_ upgraded to udev, as support for devfs has been removed from recent kernels? -Richard I thought I had upgraded to udev but I guess I hadn't. I followed this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and rebooted and now everything works perfectly. Thanks Richard! - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is what makes Gentoo what it is.If you like, you can add an emerge option that will build a binary file for you after it's done compiling. Doing this will allow you to install from binary on future or additional installs (if you're setting up more than one system).Installations can take a bit longer than the traditional binary-based distros. However, what you get is a refined Linux install that include only what you asked to be installed. There's no bloat about it--you control every part of the installation. You can also look at it another way: Going through the process of installing Gentoo will make you much more familiar with Linux than your average distro, if you're not already there. ;-D ~ TomHarry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly:I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile ofkde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MBram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using alighter, faster compiling, X setup.I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I leftFedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten towhere it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo becauseone can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losingwhat seems even more time with really slow compilationsJust on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modernsoftware and powerfull computers, to need to spen! d this amount of timejust to get working software running.I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed somethinglike 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are alreadycompiled?Is that an option for us?Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hoursand hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serveas well in most ways?-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network problem :: new install
Stroller wrote: On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:14 pm, pat wrote: I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed the Gentoo handbook and setup the network as DHCP. But during the boot I have error like this: eth0 does not exist Sounds like the driver for your network card isn't loaded. If the NIC works with the liveCD but not with the kernel you compiled then you may just be able to `modprobe` it in, otherwise you may need to recompile. Try running `lsmod` from the LiveCD, and maybe post the output of `lspci` here. Stroller. I did this once. It lists the modules that are available but not loaded. modprobe -l . That may help. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is what makes Gentoo what it is. While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo.. Gerhard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo.. Gerhard And to think I still compile Open Office. I even compiled it on a 400Mhz rig once. Does anyone type in a command then take a nap? I'm disabled and do get some rest but I do wake up on occasion. LOL Gentoo is for those who want to compile from source. Having the option for binaries may be OK, but I doubt there is enough people going to use it for all the effort. Somebody has to still wait on it to finish compiling. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils
Hi, when doing emerge --update world -pv I get a blocking dependency: sys-apps/module-init-tools (is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27) is it save on a 2.6.14.2 kernel to do emerge --unmerge module-init-tools emerge modutils or will I run into trouble? Sorry for my ignorance, but asking google which package of both I should use didn't answer this important question, so I'd be glad if someone could confirm if I'm right or even not. Thanks best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
Well,I learn something new every day. I recalled reading in one of the Gentoo install docs that there was no way to download binary cuts of apps. Since there are /some/, KDE would probably be a good candidate for this... I agree. (I spent around two days anxiously waiting for KDE to compile.)Another option for the original poster is ccache. The initial install will still take some time but recompiles are said to proceed much faster.~ TomGerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences-! -this is what makes Gentoo what it is.While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo..Gerhard-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde? 1) `emerge kdebase` 2) ??? 3) Profit! I'm on a 1.6ghz, and being a dev I compile more packages than most users ever will, have patience my son :P. Chris White pgpjIqenCye97.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems
I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal in X. xterm won't start and terminal starts but doesn't display a prompt. Does anyone know what's going on here? I am assuming you _have_ upgraded to udev, as support for devfs has been removed from recent kernels? -Richard I need to update my remote server with this new kernel which means I need to update that server to udev as well. Are there any special precautions to take into consideration when moving a remote system from devfs to udev? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils
Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi, when doing emerge --update world -pv I get a blocking dependency: sys-apps/module-init-tools (is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27) is it save on a 2.6.14.2 kernel to do emerge --unmerge module-init-tools emerge modutils or will I run into trouble? Sorry for my ignorance, but asking google which package of both I should use didn't answer this important question, so I'd be glad if someone could confirm if I'm right or even not. Thanks best regards ce If I recall correctly, you need to unmerge modutils and emerge module-init-tools. One is for 2.4 kernels and the other is for 2.6 kernels if I recall correctly. I have done this and it worked fine. Dale :-D -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?
Hello, all. Need a clue, here.
I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content
over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that
in mind, I installed BIND.
I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of this minimal use of
the application, so on starting /etc/init.d/named, there was first an error
about a missing /etc/bind/named.conf.
I Googled around a bit and found something to start with, watched the syslog
messages and tweaked it, finally managing to get named to run. The problem is,
I'm still not convinced that I've got it set up correctly. From what I
understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up something once,
then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that...
So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows the right and
proper way to do this, I'd appreciate it.
Here's my /etc/bind/named.conf:
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options {
directory /var/bind;
pid-file /var/run/named/named.pid;
};
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; };
};
zone . IN {
type hint;
file named.ca;
};
zone localhost IN {
type master;
file pri/localhost.zone;
allow-update { none; };
};
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa IN {
type master;
file pri/127.zone;
allow-update { none; };
};
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TIA,
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Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils
If I recall correctly, you need to unmerge modutils and emerge module-init-tools. One is for 2.4 kernels and the other is for 2.6 kernels if I recall correctly. I have done this and it worked fine. this is what I have in mind, and this is what made me careful: I get told unmerge module-init-tools and emerge modutils, and this seems to be exactly wrong, isn't it? So I wonder which circumstance causes my machine to recommend this obviously non sense dependency, and how I can resolve this. Any hints anyone? Thanks a lot, ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Optimizing XFS, any clues?
Greetings, I have just optimized my EXT3 partitions and now they are running smooth, and I wanted to do the same with the XFS one. Can somebody help me? Is there a way to turn a XFS partition into a EXT3 without loosing data? Thanks in advance, Claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers
Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use newer nvidia drivers. Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into this text file. I sure would appreciate some input! http://fire-eyes.org/temp/badness.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?
On Friday 09 December 2005 18:20, michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. ---snip--- ... I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that... So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows the right and proper way to do this, I'd appreciate it. Turn off the browser cache, then make a test... call up a website and time the lookup time then do it gain, then again. Does the second call take less time than the first? How about the the third? No? Then have a look at the logfiles, whereever you have them and see what's going on. If you totally strike out... then reach me via email and I'll see if I can help you futher. Jerry -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 6:49pm up 82 days, 10:14, 3 users, load average: 3.10, 2.99, 2.84 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers
On 12/9/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use newer nvidia drivers. Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into this text file. I sure would appreciate some input! Well, I don't use the nvidia driver, so I'm certainly no expert here, but: (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode 896x672 (height 1344 is larger than (WW) NVIDIA(0): EDID-specified maximum 1200) and: Section Device snip Option UseEdidFreqs on #Option UseEdidFreqs off #Option IgnoreEDID 1 #Option UseEdidDpi DFP-0 What happens if you play with these EDID options? Particularly, the UseEdidFreqs looks like a likely candiate to be disabled. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia
While trying to eliminate another problem, I built a new kernel, booted to it and unmerged and emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. I then started X. So far, so good. I tried to open a konsole and got pty permission errors. I rebooted to my 2.6.5 kernel, did some research and emerged udev (/usr/src/linux points to the new kernel.) I then rebooted the new kernel and can not start X I get errors saying it can't load the nvidia module. Do I need to creat a device node for the nvidia card? A little help here or a point in the right direction. Odd thing is, I didn't need to unmerge/remerge the nvidia pakages for 2.6.5 to run X in this kernel. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 18:49:08 up 7 min, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.37, 0.18 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!
Hello everybody, Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed past the point of no return and dropped me into my new gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA partition. What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then emerge --sync emerge -Du system emerge -Du gentoo-sources. Phew! 24 hours -- no phone! I'm now using the 2.6.14-r4 kernel. As opposed to the *r2 which didn't seem to work --the bad news Using my grub floppy I can get in but PPP balks at: ... pppd: Serial connection established pppd: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument. ... and it hangs up. The only thing that's changed is that I've modularized the PPP drivers and have to modprobe them. But all the config files: resolv, secrets etc are the same as before when I would boot the LiveCD, mount and chroot to the SATA partition /dev/sda6 which held my fully(except for the booting part) functioning OS, and from where the web was accessible via pon and PPP. So I'm still stuck as far as using web is concerned with the OS on my IDE drive where pon also works a la sudo. Here's grep =[ym] for the new kernel in case some sharp-eyed soul might see the source of my difficulty. Or even of my triumph over non-bootingness since at best I was making educated guesses about what works and what doesn't :) CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_AUDIT=y CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_M586=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m CONFIG_DCDBAS=m CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y CONFIG_FLATMEM=y CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_SECCOMP=y CONFIG_HZ_250=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI=m CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_FAKE=m CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_UNIX=m CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m CONFIG_CONNECTOR=m CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=m CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=m CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=m CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y CONFIG_IEEE1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_MII=m CONFIG_NET_PCI=y CONFIG_FORCEDETH=m CONFIG_S2IO=m CONFIG_PLIP=m CONFIG_PPP=m CONFIG_SLIP=m CONFIG_INPUT=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y CONFIG_SERIO=y CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y CONFIG_SERIO_LIBPS2=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_NVRAM=m CONFIG_RTC=m CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m CONFIG_AGP=m CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=m CONFIG_DRM=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_I2C=m CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m CONFIG_FB=m CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=m CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=m CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=m CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=m CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=m CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD=m CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SND=m CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?
On 12/9/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. nscd does this, and is much simpler. It is already installed as part of glibc. Just do rc-update -a nscd default. From what I understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that... It will cache until named is restarted, or the lookup expires. The lookup expiration time is determined by the authoritative name server for that domain. So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows the right and proper way to do this, I'd appreciate it. From one terminal: tcpdump dst port 53 From another terminal: ping -c 4 google.com ping -c 4 google.com If you see domain queries being sent when you do the second ping, then you are not caching. BTW, if you really want to use named for this, your /etc/resolv.conf should contain only nameserver 127.0.0.1. If you are use nscd, then resolv.conf can be left as is. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizing XFS, any clues?
On 12/9/05, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have just optimized my EXT3 partitions and now they are running smooth, and I wanted to do the same with the XFS one. Can somebody help me? What do you mean by optimized? xfs_fsr will defragment an xfs partition. Is there a way to turn a XFS partition into a EXT3 without loosing data? tar -c umount mkfs.ext3 mount tar -x -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?
michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of this minimal use of the application, so on starting /etc/init.d/named, there was first an error about a missing /etc/bind/named.conf. I Googled around a bit and found something to start with, watched the syslog messages and tweaked it, finally managing to get named to run. The problem is, I'm still not convinced that I've got it set up correctly. From what I understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that... Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. Make sure it lists your local machine as a nameserver. Otherwise your system will ignore it and just use whatever sever is listed in there. Also be careful, if you use DHCP on a network or anything, it might be rewriting the resolv.conf file to have the nameserver entries that are gotten from DHCP. What sort of set-up is this? Is this a single machine by itself connected to the internet, or is this part of a network? If it's part of a network, do you want it to also cache all the queries for other clients on the network? Shawn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sata drive on abit fatal1ty an8-sli
the dev tree? I didn't have anything like /dev/sda. Oops, sorry, I didn't see this part. If the SATA drivers are loaded when LiveCD boots it should see the drive. I'm currently having a tussle w/ a SATA drive myself(mostly resolved) from dmesg: ... [ 31.970006] nv_sata: Primary device added [ 31.970021] nv_sata: Primary device removed [ 31.970036] nv_sata: Secondary device removed [ 31.970052] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 [ 31.970068] scsi0 : sata_nv [ 32.170535] ata2: no device found (phy stat ) [ 32.170551] scsi1 : sata_nv [ 32.170637] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD1200JD-00G Rev: 02.0 [ 32.170770] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI [ 32.171366] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) [ 32.171390] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back [ 32.171445] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) [ 32.171467] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back [ 32.171484] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda5 sda6 sda7 [ 32.217661] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ... Does the drive show up in the POST? If not there I don't think gentoo will see it either. If you run lsmod after LiveCD boots you'll see what drivers it loaded. -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils
On 12/9/05, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I wonder which circumstance causes my machine to recommend this obviously non sense dependency, and how I can resolve this. Any hints anyone? Output of emerge --info and emerge -Duvpt world please. Nothing in the current portage tree depends on sys-apps/modutils, only virtual/modutils. And for every profile except embedded, virtual/modutils defaults to sys-apps/module-init-tools. -RIchard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/9/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use newer nvidia drivers. Instead of covering the whole story and info here, I have placed it into this text file. I sure would appreciate some input! Well, I don't use the nvidia driver, so I'm certainly no expert here, but: (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode 896x672 (height 1344 is larger than (WW) NVIDIA(0): EDID-specified maximum 1200) and: Section Device snip OptionUseEdidFreqs on #Option UseEdidFreqs off #Option IgnoreEDID 1 #Option UseEdidDpi DFP-0 What happens if you play with these EDID options? Particularly, the UseEdidFreqs looks like a likely candiate to be disabled. -Richard I have messed with them (hence the comments), no change. Those EDID maxes are surely bogus, I have run 2048x1536 (real, not virtual) on this before no problems, within spec. Only with the newer driver does it complain. Even if i tell it to ignore EDID. Thank you for the reply :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:35:43 +0100, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo.. Those binary packages are supplied by upstream, it's not the same as the Gentoo devs providing compiled packages, although they do in the GRP collections. It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a suitable value and you can keep using the computer while the new KDE is compiled in the background. KDE is slotted, so installing 3.5 has no effect on the 3.4.x version you are currently using. -- Neil Bothwick She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] X.org can't get up
Hi, I've done an emerge -vuD world, and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices. Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I rebooted with this new udev version. I have lots of kernel versions, but none of them will work (the last one that I've installed is gentoo-sources-2.6.14-gentoo-r4). Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -- A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes - Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia
I think you are having the same problem that I did: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:42:22 +1030 Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of this minimal use of the application, so on starting /etc/init.d/named, there was first an error about a missing /etc/bind/named.conf. I Googled around a bit and found something to start with, watched the syslog messages and tweaked it, finally managing to get named to run. The problem is, I'm still not convinced that I've got it set up correctly. From what I understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that... Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. Make sure it lists your local machine as a nameserver. Otherwise your system will ignore it and just use whatever sever is listed in there. Also be careful, if you use DHCP on a network or anything, it might be rewriting the resolv.conf file to have the nameserver entries that are gotten from DHCP. Okay. I don't use DHCP. I edited /etc/resolv.conf to take out the ISP nameservers and put 'localhost' in their place. Do I need to restart something to make this change take effect? What sort of set-up is this? Is this a single machine by itself connected to the internet, Just a single machine behind a router/firewall to DSL. or is this part of a network? If it's part of a network, do you want it to also cache all the queries for other clients on the network? Just for this box. -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael_higgins[at]iinet[dot]com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
Chris White wrote: On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde? 1) `emerge kdebase` 2) ??? 3) Profit! I'm on a 1.6ghz, and being a dev I compile more packages than most users ever will, have patience my son :P. Chris White He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a 200Mhz machine. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X.org can't get up
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, I've done an emerge -vuD world, and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices. Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I rebooted with this new udev version. I have lots of kernel versions, but none of them will work (the last one that I've installed is gentoo-sources-2.6.14-gentoo-r4). Bye, Rafael Fernández López. I saw this earlier: On Friday 09 December 2005 16:04, Simon Hogg wrote: I was suffering from this same problem and it does appear to be a bug in udev-077-r1 (-r2 is now in ~x86 but I've not tried it yet). The solution that someone else came up with (calr0x on the forums) was to run udevstart once the system is running, this causes all of the device nodes for the installed kernel modules to be created. Simon Upgraded to udev-077-r2 and did udevstart. Everything is fine now. Thanks, Mrugesh Try that and see if it helps. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:08:55 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/9/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. nscd does this, and is much simpler. It is already installed as part of glibc. Just do rc-update -a nscd default. Ah. Now, that sounds like the better way to go. From what I understand (right or wrong, IDK), I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that... It will cache until named is restarted, or the lookup expires. The lookup expiration time is determined by the authoritative name server for that domain. So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows the right and proper way to do this, I'd appreciate it. From one terminal: tcpdump dst port 53 From another terminal: ping -c 4 google.com ping -c 4 google.com If you see domain queries being sent when you do the second ping, then you are not caching. Excellent, thanks! I'm emerging tcpdump as I type. Well, the test is the ticket. The thing I needed was to change /etc/resolv.conf. Now it begins to make sense to me. BTW, if you really want to use named for this, your /etc/resolv.conf should contain only nameserver 127.0.0.1. If you are use nscd, then resolv.conf can be left as is. Okay. Too bad I didn't ask the list first. It sure looked like BIND was overkill, but I didn't come across another option. Thanks again, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael_higgins[at]iinet[dot]com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed past the point of no return and dropped me into my new gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA partition. What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then emerge --sync emerge -Du system emerge -Du gentoo-sources. Phew! 24 hours -- no phone! I'm now using the 2.6.14-r4 kernel. As opposed to the *r2 which didn't seem to work --the bad news Using my grub floppy I can get in but PPP balks at: ... pppd: Serial connection established pppd: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument. ... and it hangs up. The only thing that's changed is that I've modularized the PPP drivers and have to modprobe them. But all the config files: resolv, secrets etc are the same as before when I would boot the LiveCD, mount and chroot to the SATA partition /dev/sda6 which held my fully(except for the booting part) functioning OS, and from where the web was accessible via pon and PPP. So I'm still stuck as far as using web is concerned with the OS on my IDE drive where pon also works a la sudo. Here's grep =[ym] for the new kernel in case some sharp-eyed soul might see the source of my difficulty. Or even of my triumph over non-bootingness since at best I was making educated guesses about what works and what doesn't :) Well, I don't know about everybody else but I compile my ppp stuff in my kernel. pon and poff works fine here. May be worth a shot. This is how my config looks: * PPP (point-to-point protocol) support [ ] PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] PPP filtering * PPP support for async serial ports * PPP support for sync tty ports * PPP Deflate compression * PPP BSD-Compress compression That is from the config screen itself, not the .config file. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia
On Friday 09 December 2005 19:30, a tiny voice compelled Matthew Cline to write: I think you are having the same problem that I did: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 HTH, Matt Thanks for the info. you saved me a lot of time and energy. I don't know why I thought creating the nodes and setting perms would work while booted to the old kernel... Thank God for bash history. For anyone else with the same problem: # mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 # mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 # chmod 666 /dev/nvidia* And you should be good to go -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 20:05:57 up 10 min, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.14, 0.09 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
