[gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

Hello list, I've tried to move my built-in ide (via) and rootfs (reiser) modules outside of the kernel, but when I try to boot the new kernel and its corresponding initramfs, it fails miserably with one of the following messages. If I use "root=/dev/hda7" (my root): Unable to mount root fs o

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad > I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style > runlevel system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? > > At the moment, its proble

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

On Sunday, April 30 2006 14:21, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad > I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style runlevel > system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gento

[gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing.  It seems to expect a RedHat style runlevel system. Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon

[gentoo-user] Exim and Spamassassin

Hi, I have installed exim-4.60-r1 and spamassassin-3.1.0. Both are started in daemon mode at boot. I can connect to port 783 via telnet: Spamassassin is listening. In the exim.conf file I found this line # For spam scanning, there is a similar option that defines the interface to # Sp

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Ryan Tandy wrote: > Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) > are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are > started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). Ah, OK. I will give those a try. I hope I don't have too much recompiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?

Ryan Tandy wrote: > JimD wrote: >> OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might >> have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? >> >> When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line >> in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c an

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

John Jolet wrote: > that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll > encounter other problems down the road is udev enabled in the kernel? I thought udev was just userland? What option would I need in the kernel? I followed the guide in the gentoo install handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?

JimD wrote: OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: root (hd0,0) Filesyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

> > For an FYI and for Google searches: > > I was able to fix the broken /dev in Gentoo by booting with the install > CD, and mounting my root partition under /mnt/gentoo. I then did the > following: > > cd / > tar -zcvpf /mnt/gentoo/tmp/dev.tar.gz dev/ > cd /mnt/gentoo > tar -zxvpf tmp/dev.tar.g

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

JimD wrote: > OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might > have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? > > When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line > in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: > > root (hd

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Jorge Martín wrote: > Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some > udev rulez too.. > > On 4/29/06, *JimD* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:47, JimD wrote: >> Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more >> user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for >> my wife such as: >> >> Automount/play a music CD, DVD >> Automout a USB camera > >

[gentoo-user] Broken install?

OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: root (hd0,0) Filesytem type is rei

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp and/or mailx delivery problem

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:58:53PM -0400, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > What is the senders address? > That is where the first clue will be. > Hi Maurice, Thanks for the reply. It turns out that my ISP has just started requiring SMTP AUTH. It took me a long time to figure out how to do this with ssm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:47, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera even without hal/dbus&co KDE asks everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

On Sunday, April 30 2006 10:17, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera Although I'm not a Gnome user (assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Jorge Martín wrote: > Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make > some udev rulez too.. > > On 4/29/06, *JimD* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too..On 4/29/06, JimD < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut?  I am looking for basic home user stuff formy wife such as:Automount/play a mu

[gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > You must not have the correct CD. A stage (among other things) is a > requirement for networkless install. There's been a stage on the full > (not minimal) install CDs of gentoo in the 2004.3, 2005.0, 2005.1 and > 2006.0 releases. > > I don't know about that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

On 4/29/06, Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:04:01 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just > noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage. > Apparently there is en

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On 4/29/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading > them. > Just tried that, and doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:04:01 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just > noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage. > Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on > tha

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD

On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:59, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD': > Is there anyway to modify the x86 install CD? Same as modifying any install CD. > Last night I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop and things just didn't > work out. Hrm, lets see if we can't

[gentoo-user] heads-up: udev-090 and "eth" devices naming - WAS: "Modules autoloading?"

First of all: thanks to Willie W. for spotting this issue. I was banging my head against the wall since yesterday! -- Warning: --- Upgrading udev to 090, don't accept the lines: # Module autoloading # Autoload modules that lack aliases but have them defined in autoload modules SYSFS{mo

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD - Success

Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > Yup, ipw2200 works fine with Gentoo. I have never tried installing with > wireless though. Have you tried networkless install to get it working > and then once gentoo is running update the system? Or perhaps install on > a wired connection (I'm sure you would try this if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD

Jim wrote: > Has anyone gotten an Intel pro wireless 2200 (ipw2200) working with > Gentoo and more specifically with the installer? Yup, ipw2200 works fine with Gentoo. I have never tried installing with wireless though. Have you tried networkless install to get it working and then once gentoo is

[gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

Hi, I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage. Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on that page that Firefox needs to run so something, so it appears to start up Wine via cxoff

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

Okay, sorry for the noise. But this would be my last post on this issue. Armed with my new bits of knowledge (udev-087 works but udev-090 doesn't), b.g.o turns up a nice collection of bugs. Of particular interest: 119989 130766 Basically there is a change in behaviour when 089 is introduced

[gentoo-user] Problems translating a web page using gettext and UTF-8

I'm translating a web page from English to Spanish using gettext, but I'm having problems with UTF-8. The problem: All my web pages translated with gettext declare themselves as UTF-8 encoding but it is actually iso-8859-1 (latin-1). I reach that conclusion using Firefox to enforce the encoding

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:39:02PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > A message would pop-up saying to the effect that "udev is processing > kernel events" and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules > which I didn't specify for loading in /etc/modules.autoload.d > > Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading > them. > Just tried that, and doesn't work. The modules are still loaded. I tried comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:34:38AM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > >You could try rebuilding the kernel without those modules... althoug why is > >the kernel loading them anyway if the hardware isnt there > > Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules > selected) but in m

Re: [gentoo-user] Evironment variables breaking ebuilds

Philip Lawatsch wrote: > In my case I have set the environment variable "PLATFORM" (for my > user). If I now just su to root and then emerge mono the emerge > will fail because mono also seems to make use of $PLATFORM but > does not seem to overwrite it if it is already set. > > -> Is this a bug in

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006/4/19, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Add the following two lines. Set the order which ever way you want. 0 will be your default card: options snd-ens1371 index=0 options snd-ice1712 index=1 > options snd cards_limit=2 > Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On 4/29/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules selected) but in menuconfig untick: Loadable module support ---> Automatic kernel module loading I don't believe this will work. This is specifically for when the kernel recognizes

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On 4/28/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading > them. > But if I understand this correctly, isn't modules.alias generated by depmod? And isn't module dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:18 +0100, Qian Qiao wrote: > That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production > environment. > > The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. > > A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs > and unicode key le

[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD

Is there anyway to modify the x86 install CD? Last night I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop and things just didn't work out. I know all the major devices work with Linux because I put in Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake and my Intel wireless ipw2200 and sound worked OTB. The sound didn't work with

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

Hi!I don't konw why you need two soundcard! I just think that maybe one is enough.Once before I had two sound cards too,and at that time my gentoo can not have any sound(maybe not because  i had two soundcards but the init script).Anyway, I just reset my bios,and mask my first  soundcard which is i

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers:fatal error...

Hi, I just installed ati-drivers for ATI mobility X700 on my laptop (only stable packages, no ~x86), and then I tried: # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) # dmesg fglrx: Unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)

Qian Qiao: > That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production > environment. > > The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. > > A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding > bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not >

[gentoo-user] Evironment variables breaking ebuilds

Hi, I've just noticed that one of the environment variables I (have to) have set causes troubles with an ebuild. In my case I have set the environment variable "PLATFORM" (for my user). If I now just su to root and then emerge mono the emerge will fail because mono also seems to make use of $PLAT

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hi, > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: >> I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: >> - - update the xorg to 7.X >> - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel >> - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon int

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

On 29/04/06, Maurice E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would seem that you failed to configure the necessary modules for loading any of the modules you list. Also, as of kernel 2.6.13, devfs is no longer in the kernel and you must use udev. without it you will never get your devices to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On 29/04/06, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:39 am, Willie Wong wrote: > Dear all, [snip] > Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the > config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything > obvious. > You could t

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)

On 4/28/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's happening about locales/languages? I've tried to install PHP-Nuke and Xoops, but one of them (I don't remember which one, now ;-)) doesn't like utf8 encoding, because it creates too long primary keys for MySQL. So I remerged MySQL and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:39 am, Willie Wong wrote: > Dear all, > > I performed a massive update on my laptop last night, and started > observing the following behaviour on boot. > > A message would pop-up saying to the effect that "udev is processing > kernel events" and then proceeds to