Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mother a machine running Gentoo and have one of these (a 9200) lying around and am intending to use it I temporarily made my box with the Radeon 9550 run Gentoo (installed on a space disk) to try this out. It seems hardware acceleration works and is stable, 'tho not terribly fast for 3D (2200 FPS with glxgears), but very snappy for 2D (which is all I really use...). Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include it in any other doc format. Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new runlevel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:08:39 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:49:24 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: [...] Watch your boot messages to see when they come up. It is likely that udev is coldplugging them, which you can fix by setting RC_COLDPLUG in /etc/conf.d/rc. That was... See the comments in the file or the discussions on this list earlier this week. Uops! same problem, same week... Sorry, I usually read topics... but I did not consider this interesting, maybe because of the long of its name :-) thanks for your reply. -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Wiggum: Dispara a las ruedas Lou. Lou: eee, es un tanque jefe. Wiggum: Me tienes hartito con todas tus excusas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
On 1/11/07, Ralf Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include it in any other doc format. Regards, ralf I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: Generally, these devices provide full DHCP, DNS,NTP, Port/Host based routing/firewalling etc, and all users are NAT'ed behind it. Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of gettting the PPP stuff underway, and you cant even tell what your external IP is unless you query the modems web interface. To the user, you can just be 192.168.1.50, and the modem can be 192.168.1.1, and the modem being the default gateway, and all the rest is handled by NAT magic. So this means that all firewalling is made by the router, who knows with what software... That said, i have one reason why I myself would like a box i crafted myself with a PCI modem in it, and thats primarily so i can implement routing, traffic monitoring and the like more configurably, and in my experience, some modems are often 'poxy' and can crash occasionally as a result of using bittorrent. ( I have the modem set to send its syslog errors to my linux boxes syslog and its full of MASQUERADE: No route: Rusty's brain broke! ) Yes... I doubt a router-embedded firewall will allow me to configure it as I want. Thank you for your input. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: The firewall and router you get with an ADSL modem are essentially free these days. If you need more then what is in the router, nothing prevents you from building a box for traffic monitoring and advanced routing later. Good point. You must check if your ADSL modem has a splitter. It may be built-in, coming with the modem, or you may have to buy one (dirt cheap) separately. They provide both a splitter and a microfilter. Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/11/07, *Ralf Stephan* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include it in any other doc format. Regards, ralf I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. I think you need Open Office. emerge openoffice or emerge openoffice-bin. The last one is a binary version, no long compile times. I don't know your machine but I have a AMD 2500+ with 1GB of ram. It takes about 7 1/2 hours for me. Your mileage may vary. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:40 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent Fredric wrote: I'll put it here to keep you happy, but IMO, if the body of the message discusses a singular idea, then replying after the signature should be somewhat imo acceptable. Many mail readers (e.g Thunderbird) put the signature (that means, the text after a \r\n--\r\n token) in a different, lighter color. actually, I think that's supposed to be dash-dash-space-newline. Thus, replying below the signature may put your reply in the same color, potentially rendering it invisible to some eyes. evolution automatically deletes everything including and below the dash-dash-space-newline when you reply. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au We must believe in free will. We have no choice. -Isaac B. Singer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice, I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice, I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong? People, this poor guy has some documents, most probably *not* written by himself, he needs to read. Advice to re-write his documents is completely besides the point! Vlad, if you don't mind, please send one of your docs (a small one, not more than 100KB, I am with a modem) and I'll tell you whether they can be rendered properly in kword or OpenOffice. I'll let you know about the outcome. If you send it, please do so off-list. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan wrote: evolution automatically deletes everything including and below the dash-dash-space-newline when you reply. There we go... PS: newline-dash-dash-space-newline, - Without the first newline, any line that contains -- would be a signature from there on. - I'll see what happens after I press send and re-read it. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica ¿No sabés a dónde ir a comer o tomar algo? Visitá www.vivamoslavida.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpjT/AlpOsGhXcE0RAqobAJ4oozdA7a8eWwhjm5qiZim/IpnZ2QCfc1cq GTd/ECbcZPLQLvioSHxGYMo= =KlVK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: struggles with SATA
Alan E. Davis lngndvs at gmail.com writes: Using an AsRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard and a Western Digital sata drive, I have been having alot of trouble. I found AHCI driver to work, at least detect the drive/partitions. I have had no end of problems.I had moved this drive from another machine w/ a Tyan motherboard, where it worked flawlessly. Hello Alan, You might want to contact the motherboard manufacture (or poke around the web) to see if that mobo has a newer release of firmware (bios). I recently has sata drive problems that on a firmware update to a MPI motherboard could fix.. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Sean wrote: I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more success using the open source drivers also listed in the Gentoo ATI faq. Did you try the Xorg radeon driver? (think its part of xf86-video-ati). You want to unmerge ati-drivers if they have proved unstable (no surprise there...) I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mother a machine running Gentoo and have one of these (a 9200) lying around and am intending to use it Cheers Mark I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a reason why at this point. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
James wrote: Hello Sean, I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain Still in pain here. Never had so many problems with a card before. 1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web sites says there are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It was the only version that worked on my ati 1900 card. I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and unlike the stable drivers, these actually compiled. The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier xorg config. Here is a real odd one. Having specified the radeon driver, started xorg, and it fails stating cannot find the radeon driver. Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be. At a loss for this one. Right now to simplify things removing SMP from the kernel, saw a lot of remarks stating SMP often on early versions of the driver caused problems. Has anyone tried the driver install script right from ati instead of portage? I am just about ready to go get an nvidia card. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches
Michael Sullivan wrote: I like the newer kernels because ivtv drivers that work with them are in portage, and I'm not sure drivers that work with 2.6.11 are still in portage. They are still in there, and I doubt we'll be removing them anytime soon. ivtv v0.4.5 through 0.4.9 will work with kernels =2.6.15. http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?
Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in the last twenty hours, and, if I'm reading this right, this single compile has been running for eleven hours??? Is this a problem? Should I stop it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?
Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:42:01 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in the last twenty hours, and, if I'm reading this right, this single compile has been running for eleven hours??? Should rather be 11 minutes. But that's probably (can't the the top headers, but assuming default config) CPU time, so it might be running for longer. Is this a problem? You'll never know... But the process is running. You can use strace -p PID to get a first impression what the process is doing/waiting for. If you don't care, just kill it, abort the emerge, check system and start over. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a look at man 5 portage. For your case, it's basically a line like pkg-category/package-0.0.1 assuming you want to keep 0.0.1. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 08:50, John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? Add an appropriate atom to your /etc/portage/package.mask file. There's a good section in the handbook about this, as well as it being documented in the various man pages installed with portage, such as man portage, man ebuild, and man 5 ebuild. Very quickly: If you have cate-gory/package-1.5.3 installed, and cate-gory/package-1.6.0_rc2 is available but you don't want to upgrade, add =cate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask (If it's a -rX upgrade, or and increase in the 3rd (or later) number in the version, you probably want the upgrade. Really. The former is an ebuild fix that won't change the upstream version you get (so, you will almost never encounter upgrade issues); the later is (for most packages) a security or bugfix release that should maintain compatibility with previous versions (so, you will rarely encounter upgrade issues).) -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpj7bcuD18k1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
On 1/11/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice, I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong? People, this poor guy has some documents, most probably *not* written by himself, he needs to read. Advice to re-write his documents is completely besides the point! That is correct, I am not in the position to rewrite the whole work. I already know some LaTeX and I love it, but I haven't the time or the credibility to do a rewrite (I am a student and the system is sub-par here in Romania). Vlad, if you don't mind, please send one of your docs (a small one, not more than 100KB, I am with a modem) and I'll tell you whether they can be rendered properly in kword or OpenOffice. I'll let you know about the outcome. If you send it, please do so off-list. Uwe Uwe, thanks for the offer, I sent you the file.
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
OK, thanks I will try that and see what it does. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a look at man 5 portage. For your case, it's basically a line like pkg-category/package-0.0.1 assuming you want to keep 0.0.1. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be. At a loss for this one. slocate only tells you the file was there the last time updatedb was run. -- Neil Bothwick Press any key to continue or any other key to quit signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 which is my current version of php and emerge said [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=berkdb cli crypt gdbm iconv ipv6 ldap ncurses nls pcre readline reflection session spell spl ssl truetype unicode xml zlib -adabas -apache -apache2 -bcmath -birdstep -bzip2 -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype -curl -curlwrappers -db2 -dbase -dbmaker -debug -discard-path -doc -empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fastbuild -fdftk -filepro -firebird -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -ftp -gd -gd-external -gmp -hardenedphp -hash -hyperwave-api -imap -informix -inifile -interbase -iodbc -java-external -kerberos -libedit -mcve -memlimit -mhash -ming -msql -mssql -mysql -mysqli -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pdo -pdo-external -pic -posix -postgres -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sasl -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml -snmp -soap -sockets -solid -sqlite -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc -threads -tidy -tokenizer -vm-goto -vm-switch -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a look at man 5 portage. For your case, it's basically a line like pkg-category/package-0.0.1 assuming you want to keep 0.0.1. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:10:29 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a look at man 5 portage. For your case, it's basically a line like pkg-category/package-0.0.1 assuming you want to keep 0.0.1. It would be better to use ~pkg-category/package-0.0.1. this allows patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a higher upstream version. Patch level updates, -r1, -r2 etc, install the same version but with some changes, such as security fixes. -- Neil Bothwick There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult -C.A.R. Hoare signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 you don't want to mask the currently installed version (=), but rather the versions greater () than it. which is my current version of php and emerge said [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=berkdb cli crypt gdbm [...] interesting. Yes, that NS is for a New, Slotted version. I.e., PHP4 will still be on your system, so you might already stop worrying at this point. In fact, I don't really know how to mask a version in a different slot. I would have even expected my suggestion to do that anyway. But this makes much more sense, because there should be a seperate masking for each of the slots -- and it resembles the behaviour from the profile's masks. So you might add another line to your package.mask, following Boyd Stephen's suggestion to mask with =: =dev-lang/php-5.0.0 -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:13:21PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Both (er, all if you happen to have more than 2) interfaces will need to be listed there for it to be effective. The problem is that if some device comes up without a rule and grabs eth0, then udev won't take eth0 away from it when a device with a matching rule comes up. This seems to have worked! Thanks! Any hints, also about the gnome-settings-daemon problem? Well the other old standby advice is to remove/rename ~/.gnome, so you end up with the default gnome settings again, and see if that helps. This did not help. But a Friend told me to do a # emerge --emptytree world This ended up with: Emerging (229 of 418) net-libs/gnutls-1.4.4-r1 to / [...] * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out balearen chrissie # cat /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out * autoconf * configure.in:326: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_LIBOPENCDK If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: It would be better to use ~pkg-category/package-0.0.1. this allows patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a higher upstream version. That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did it wouldn't have the intended effect since it would mask -r*... -- Bo Andresen pgpeF6vSQd6T3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: add =cate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask That too isn't a valid atom. Lose the '*'. It's only valid with '=' not '=' or '~'... Valid atoms are described in `man 5 ebuild`. -- Bo Andresen pgp9EzkNnmr9O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I don't really know how to mask a version in a different slot. I would have even expected my suggestion to do that anyway. But this makes much more sense, because there should be a seperate masking for each of the slots -- and it resembles the behaviour from the profile's masks. A '' masking will indeed mask later slots. It doesn't require a mask pr. slot. -- Bo Andresen pgpdKXUAxXzCm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:30, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: add =cate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask That too isn't a valid atom. Lose the '*'. It's only valid with '=' not '=' or '~'... Valid atoms are described in `man 5 ebuild`. Ah, fooey, I was hoping I could mix and match, freely. I clearly don't use atoms enough. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgp3ip7BAsmiY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be. At a loss for this one. slocate only tells you the file was there the last time updatedb was run. Thanks Neil. That must of occurred from when I emerged xf86-video-ati and then later removed it before trying out the ati-driver, which I figured would supply it's own version of the radeon driver, which, at least for me, it has not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 you don't want to mask the currently installed version (=), but rather the versions greater () than it. which is my current version of php and emerge said [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=berkdb cli crypt gdbm [...] interesting. Yes, that NS is for a New, Slotted version. I.e., PHP4 will still be on your system, so you might already stop worrying at this point. In fact, I don't really know how to mask a version in a different slot. I would have even expected my suggestion to do that anyway. But this makes much more sense, because there should be a seperate masking for each of the slots -- and it resembles the behaviour from the profile's masks. So you might add another line to your package.mask, following Boyd Stephen's suggestion to mask with =: =dev-lang/php-5.0.0 -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0 device initiated services
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could emerge ifplugd, then the startup scripts won't try to initialise eth0 if no cable is detected. Is there something like this which will bring my wireless connection up or down depending on whether the device is found? (My laptop has a hardware switch to turn the wireless card on/off). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On 1/11/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? I think there was just a thread on top-posting, btw. IIRC, you pass -DPHP5 or -DPHP4 to apache in /etc/conf.d/apache (or possibly /etc/conf.d/apache2). As for cli, I'm not sure, I haven't used it much. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 you don't want to mask the currently installed version (=), but rather the versions greater () than it. which is my current version of php and emerge said [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=berkdb cli crypt gdbm [...] interesting. Yes, that NS is for a New, Slotted version. I.e., PHP4 will still be on your system, so you might already stop worrying at this point. In fact, I don't really know how to mask a version in a different slot. I would have even expected my suggestion to do that anyway. But this makes much more sense, because there should be a seperate masking for each of the slots -- and it resembles the behaviour from the profile's masks. So you might add another line to your package.mask, following Boyd Stephen's suggestion to mask with =: =dev-lang/php-5.0.0 -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:56, John covici wrote: If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? Apparently there's a php-select tool [1]. And I think apache has separate init scripts and use flags for each slot. You should have a look at the apache docs at [2] too. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml -- Bo Andresen pgpKiOopkXCe8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
John Covici wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? Thanks. Assuming this is going back to the PHP thing, this will allow you to update to future versions of 4.x without moving to 5.0 or better. echo =dev-lang/php-5 /etc/portage/package.mask kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] hda soundcard and microphone
I'm still trying to get an external microphone working on my laptop. I've been googling around for the last few hours and searching the alsa-wiki for info but I've not found the answer yet. Here's the setup. I have a Compaq Presario V5000 laptop. It has the HDA soundcard (82801G (ICH7)) with the Conexant CXT5047 chip. I do not have the alsa drivers compiled in the kernel I'm using alsa-driver-1.0.14-rc1 which was compiled with ALSA_CARDS set to hda_intel. Sound playback is fine with amarok, mplayer, xine, etc alsamixer gives me the following controls to play with Master, PCM, Mic Bypa, IEC958, Capture, ExtMic I know what Master and PCM do Mic Bypa can be set to capture or not I'm not sure what to do with IEC958, it can be either muted or on Capture can be set to capture or not and has volume control ExtMic is set to capture and can not be changed, it also has no volume control I've tried various combinations of setting but without success Can anybody help me out, I'd love to be able to use skype again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than making international calls home from a regular telephone. Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL
Jorge Almeida ha scritto: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: Generally, these devices provide full DHCP, DNS,NTP, Port/Host based routing/firewalling etc, and all users are NAT'ed behind it. Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of gettting the PPP stuff underway, and you cant even tell what your external IP is unless you query the modems web interface. To the user, you can just be 192.168.1.50, and the modem can be 192.168.1.1, and the modem being the default gateway, and all the rest is handled by NAT magic. So this means that all firewalling is made by the router, who knows with what software... Well, you can disable router firewalling and firewalling your box, why not? Actually, that's the most sensible thing to do. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:28:51 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It would be better to use ~pkg-category/package-0.0.1. this allows patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a higher upstream version. That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did it wouldn't have the intended effect since it would mask -r*... I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, allowing a upgrade. -- Neil Bothwick What colour is a chameleon on a mirror? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: It would be better to use ~pkg-category/package-0.0.1. this allows patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a higher upstream version. That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did it wouldn't have the intended effect since it would mask -r*... I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, allowing a upgrade. It doesn't work at all. Nothing gets masked. It's simply ignored: # cat /etc/portage/package.mask ~dev-lang/php-4.4.4 # emerge -p php [SNIP] [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=... # cat /etc/portage/package.mask dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r # emerge -p php [SNIP] [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6 USE=... That goes for both stable and ~arch portage. -- Bo Andresen pgpG32TLg1EjY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] lspci missing ATI details
On 1/10/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm not sure when it happened, but lspci (lspci -vvv) does not report on the details of my ATI 1900 video card, like it did a few weeks ago, when I last checked. Any ideas which upgrades/packages could be affecting this, lack of detail? I rebuilt the lastest stable release of pciutils, but that did not restore the information on the card, nor did installing version (~)2.2.4 fix the problem. Any ideas or suggestions? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I think pciutils was updated same days ago, maybe it helps to downgrade to the version before. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
Also, what did work was dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see what it was ignoring, etc. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: It would be better to use ~pkg-category/package-0.0.1. this allows patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a higher upstream version. That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did it wouldn't have the intended effect since it would mask -r*... I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, allowing a upgrade. It doesn't work at all. Nothing gets masked. It's simply ignored: # cat /etc/portage/package.mask ~dev-lang/php-4.4.4 # emerge -p php [SNIP] [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=... # cat /etc/portage/package.mask dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r # emerge -p php [SNIP] [ebuild N] dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6 USE=... That goes for both stable and ~arch portage. -- Bo Andresen -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
John covici wrote: Also, what did work was dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see what it was ignoring, etc. emerge eix eix -pv php kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem with 'source' in heartbeat init script
I'm trying to use heartbeat, but running into a bit of a snag at the very beginning. The init script attempts to source a file with '. $HA_DIR/shellfuncs'. shellfuncs tries to figure out what its name is with 'basename $0'. The problem is that $0 contains the name of the shell instead of the name of the file being executed, and so it quietly fails, although the init script appears to start successfully. Is there a good workaround for this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, b.n. wrote: Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of gettting the PPP stuff underway, and you cant even tell what your external IP is unless you query the modems web interface. To the user, you can just be 192.168.1.50, and the modem can be 192.168.1.1, and the modem being the default gateway, and all the rest is handled by NAT magic. So this means that all firewalling is made by the router, who knows with what software... Well, you can disable router firewalling and firewalling your box, why not? Actually, that's the most sensible thing to do. I think I was confused and said nonsense. The box having a private IP doesn't preclude it seeing the IP of incoming packets, so I suppose I can have the router firewall active (whatever it may be) and also Shorewall on the workstation. After all, redundant security doesn't hurt. Cheers. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:43, John covici wrote: Also, what did work was dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see what it was ignoring, etc. An invalid atom like e.g.: =dev-lang/php-4* will make portage 2.1.2 spit out a warning about it being an invalid atom. I do consider the fact that it completely ignores ~ atoms rather than spitting out a warning to be a bug. In other words portage is moving towards more validation and unit tests so eventually it will catch all sorts of invalid input... In the mean time `man 5 ebuild` describes valid atoms. PS: Please stop top-posting. -- Bo Andresen pgptQW9olSqn1.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550
sean tech.junk at verizon.net writes: I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable drivers, these actually compiled. The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier xorg config. Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf file for my ati-1900. There are numerous differences compared to any of my radeon compatible xorg.conf files... Here is a real odd one. Having specified the radeon driver, started xorg, and it fails stating cannot find the radeon driver. Hold on a second; you need to 'double check' my advice because I did everything over and over, including building new kernels with the options that various web pages recommended, before I got mine to work. So I'll give you advice and relate my experiences, but, I do not have ati-drivers worked out to the point of a flawless (correct) installation proceedure. Sometimes you just have to bang on the install a few times. What is really needed is for one of the smart peole on this list to write a simple one page wiki for ati-drivers, with version 8.32.5 and xorg 7.1. That said here goes: A. You are not running the 'radeon driver' you are running the ati-drivers binary driver, sometimes referred to a fglrx B. /etc/make.conf: I have this entry, because somebody told me that what they did, not that is was perfectly correct: VIDEO_CARDS=radeon vesa vesa is the backup if radeon croakes yes it conflicts with what I just told you, but, who knows? Ati driver referred to a radeon? C. 'modules-update' needs to be ran after building kernels and after rebuildling xorg-x11? (or something like that). D. Graphics acceleration (dri, drm, fglrx, glxgears, opengl etc etc) and many more specific are still a little confusing to me. So you have to surf the various web pages and figure out a sequence that works... E. No matter what I did, mine did not work, until I deleted my xorg.conf and used 'xorgconfig' to build a new file from scratch. If you do that Then you have to get the monitor work and check what modules you are loading. When I first generated the file, only a few modules where in the xorg.conf and it worked fine: Load dbe Load freetype Load dri Load glx Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again, it states that the radeon driver is where it should be. At a loss for this one. man updatedb tells you that in order to update the database that slocate access, you have to periodically run 'updatedb' after updates I use this command string to catch the system files and other things I use (like slocate): env-update source /etc/profile etc-update update-eix eupdatedb come up with your onw scheme and use it, so you do not get caught with the slocate, eix or other tools, out of wack. Right now to simplify things removing SMP from the kernel, saw a lot of remarks stating SMP often on early versions of the driver caused problems. I keep 4 or more kernels on every system. When I run into issues, I can just go back a few revs/versions on kernels to see if that is an issue. I experiment with lots of kernel options and stuff, as do many gentoo folks... Has anyone tried the driver install script right from ati instead of portage? nope, but the page I used which I have now lost the bookmark to was discovered right after looking at the ati site. It was not even gentoo specific. I am just about ready to go get an nvidia card. Well, that's your business, but as a firmware engineer, I do not see nvidia as any better. In fact they *NEVER* release hardware details about driver cards. I'm not so sure that the problems with figuring out problems with ati-drivers is so much due to the lack of ati-driver quality, as it is with a lack of enthusiasm with the folks that take the published ati-binaries and package the drivers for the varous versions of linux kernels, X sources, and linux distros. yea it's my opinion, but, I write firmware all day long and deal with digital hardware and semiconductor vendors but it's just a feeling resulting in an option Futhermore, just look at the amount of old gentoo documentation that has not even been update for xorg 7.x or the newer (testing) ati-drivers). Even in the gentoo community, there is little enthusiams to straighten out the documentation mess surrounding Even if Nvidia is better (which I doubt) certainly we can maintain the ATI docs in a little bit more concise manner, just like amd and intel are both supported, but amd64 definately is more linux friendly. Which leads me to hope that AMD cleans up the ati-drivers mess also. Futhermore if you follow the kernel stuffage, you definately see certain vendors and their consultants and employees gaining uneven treatment with the whole area of drivers(again in my opinion).
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:43:34 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, allowing a upgrade. It doesn't work at all. Nothing gets masked. It's simply ignored: You're right, I didn't test very effectively. I should have just checked the man pages. Apologies for the noise. Portage usually complains about invalid atoms. Why did it wait until I was about to make a prat of myself before deciding not to do so? :( -- Neil Bothwick Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550
sean wrote: I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a reason why at this point. Hmmm - I notice from another email that you have lost your .so for radeon, so that might be an issue, so after reinstalling xf86-video-ati maybe try the steps I followed. I didn't select direct rendering support in-kernel (not sure if doing that and *not* emerging x11-drm is better, but anyway): # echo INPUT_DEVICES=\keyboard mouse\ /etc/make.conf # echo VIDEO_CARDS=\radeon vesa\ /etc/make.conf # VIDEO_CARDS=radeon emerge x11-drm # emerge xorg-x11 # env-update # source /etc/profile # Xorg -configure # fails mouse detect # sed 's/\/dev\/mouse/\/dev\/input\/mice/' xorg.conf.new xorg.conf.newer # Xorg -config `pwd`/xorg.conf.newer # cp xorg.conf.newer /etc/X11/xorg.conf # only if prev works! Note that Xorg -configure seems to fail to detect the mouse device, but gives an otherwise good file. The 2nd to last last step should give a working X server (default background with a mouse cross). If it doesn't then there is an issue! Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?
On 1/12/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in You may find sys-process/htop more useful for everyday tasks. But if you have a problem with real memory allocation somewhere and its working on everything in swap space, you might get things a little slower than you expect. Apart from that situation, you may have had gcc die and you may want to restart it. -- Kent -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c
Hi, I have an USB scanner HP2200c. It is automatically detected and used with Fedora and Ubuntu. But on my personnal laptop, I use Gentoo and I would like it to be detected. I have installed xsane and its dependencies (sane-backends, hplip,...) When I launch xsane, it says it does not detect any device. I launch it as user, I already added me to the scanner group. # grep mihamina /etc/group root::0:root,mihamina disk::6:root,adm,mihamina wheel::10:root,mihamina audio::18:mihamina cdrom::19:mihamina cdrw::80:mihamina portage::250:portage,root,mihamina mihamina:x:1000: scanner:!:1002:mihamina I did not touch any of the files under /etc/sane.d/. And last: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x0605 [HP ScanJet 2200C], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:003:003 found USB scanner (vendor=0x05e1, product=0x0501) at libusb:001:003 The second found device is an embeded webcam. Nothing to do with a scanner. What should I do to make my scanner detected by xsane? Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] CTRL-ALT-NUM+
For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1) I do not have DontZoom in my xorg.conf file. 2) xrandr lists several resolutions (more than I expected) and can switch between at least two. But the switch is different than expected, in that it changed the desktop size too. 3) X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Any ideas on how to solve this problem are appreciated. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD
Hi, I miss the tool cpio on the install CD. Where ca I submit that feature request? I would really appriciate it to have cpio on the install cd. Thx a lot Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1) I do not have DontZoom in my xorg.conf file. 2) xrandr lists several resolutions (more than I expected) and can switch between at least two. But the switch is different than expected, in that it changed the desktop size too. 3) X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Any ideas on how to solve this problem are appreciated. I *think* these events are passed directly to X, not to kde. So that would rule out the upgrade from monolithic kde. If I recall correctly the kde monolithic switch was around the same time Xorg had a major upgrade. In that upgrade there were some radical changes to the keyboard configuration. Is it possible the CTRL-ALT-NUM+ event doesn't trigger because the keyboard config is incorrect? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, I miss the tool cpio on the install CD. Where ca I submit that feature request? I would really appriciate it to have cpio on the install cd. Thx a lot Matthias I'd suggest reading, start here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_LiveCD_and_LiveUSB -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpuxshd3kS+HiI0sRAsy3AKCWjh2jQrJIFxJLOutMbZ8u55bf2ACguINA QFzz6mHyZrb/o5nPk0uLyog= =ayU5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1) I do not have DontZoom in my xorg.conf file. 2) xrandr lists several resolutions (more than I expected) and can switch between at least two. But the switch is different than expected, in that it changed the desktop size too. 3) X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Any ideas on how to solve this problem are appreciated. I *think* these events are passed directly to X, not to kde. So that would rule out the upgrade from monolithic kde. If I recall correctly the kde monolithic switch was around the same time Xorg had a major upgrade. In that upgrade there were some radical changes to the keyboard configuration. Is it possible the CTRL-ALT-NUM+ event doesn't trigger because the keyboard config is incorrect? Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpuzihd3kS+HiI0sRAtolAJ4zh6NnT6IUEq7FbmeuD7DlVPaZOACfbIPL 56LmmvQl8vOKihkWdeIEJ7M= =OXe9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
On AD 2007 January 12 Friday 02:05:22 AM +, Avaricen wrote: Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? Even TWM should work in case you don't want to emerge anything. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Findlay wrote: On AD 2007 January 12 Friday 02:05:22 AM +, Avaricen wrote: Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? Even TWM should work in case you don't want to emerge anything. Justin Agreed, however if its a case of which its not DE specific. Then you'd be dealing with a matter beyond the scope of my horizon. I think you should ask an xorg developer if thats the case. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpvolhd3kS+HiI0sRAk3sAJ9HUg8kDOddz+SXJjkfYY9d1xFA6QCcCUWS ARxhDIz3kvynSPIu0cmqKaE= =O1nJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:05, Avaricen wrote: Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1) I do not have DontZoom in my xorg.conf file. 2) xrandr lists several resolutions (more than I expected) and can switch between at least two. But the switch is different than expected, in that it changed the desktop size too. 3) X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Any ideas on how to solve this problem are appreciated. I *think* these events are passed directly to X, not to kde. So that would rule out the upgrade from monolithic kde. If I recall correctly the kde monolithic switch was around the same time Xorg had a major upgrade. In that upgrade there were some radical changes to the keyboard configuration. Is it possible the CTRL-ALT-NUM+ event doesn't trigger because the keyboard config is incorrect? Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? I have now, and it also fails. And I notice that CTRL-ALT-F1 will not switch me to a virtual terminal. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Corbin wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:05, Avaricen wrote: Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1) I do not have DontZoom in my xorg.conf file. 2) xrandr lists several resolutions (more than I expected) and can switch between at least two. But the switch is different than expected, in that it changed the desktop size too. 3) X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Any ideas on how to solve this problem are appreciated. I *think* these events are passed directly to X, not to kde. So that would rule out the upgrade from monolithic kde. If I recall correctly the kde monolithic switch was around the same time Xorg had a major upgrade. In that upgrade there were some radical changes to the keyboard configuration. Is it possible the CTRL-ALT-NUM+ event doesn't trigger because the keyboard config is incorrect? Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? I have now, and it also fails. And I notice that CTRL-ALT-F1 will not switch me to a virtual terminal. David I suggest reporting the matter to xorg developers. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpv4Thd3kS+HiI0sRAvm1AJ9tCvCnytw/Mm6Qwp6ZXKbk5/SktACfWJVG YYwPgNIimNMYbL0lbNesT98= =4UIC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
Success, but I can't explain it all. First, I removed 'Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys ' from xorg.conf. That got the VT working and the Zooming. But ALT-TAB wasn't working at all. Now, earlier I had problems with the WIN key not working for me as I wanted it to, and adde some xmodmap entires for the WIN key (but not the ALT key). Still, I got suspicous, and took those out, but the XkbVariant back, and now everything including the WIN key is working. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Corbin wrote: Success, but I can't explain it all. First, I removed 'Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys ' from xorg.conf. That got the VT working and the Zooming. But ALT-TAB wasn't working at all. Now, earlier I had problems with the WIN key not working for me as I wanted it to, and adde some xmodmap entires for the WIN key (but not the ALT key). Still, I got suspicous, and took those out, but the XkbVariant back, and now everything including the WIN key is working. Nice to know you got it working alright, did you modify your xorg.conf? Was this problem since your inception to Gentoo? Best -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpwLohd3kS+HiI0sRAtVfAKCkPJ/i0ksw41dFvz5zHlVt/Av2twCgl0dx QIEiINJRdG3/mno1v+3Pmbc= =H3sE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems
On 1/11/07, chrissie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out balearen chrissie # cat /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out * autoconf * configure.in:326: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_LIBOPENCDK If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Looks like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161173 Try: WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.9 emerge --oneshot =net-libs/gnutls-1.4.4-r1 emerge --resume -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge fails after eix-sync
This amd64 machine hasn't been updated in a while. Now, after updating, any emerge, eix-sync, or ebuild command gets a long message, as follows: Littlebird etc # emerge --sync cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index OK... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4391, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4100, in emerge_main settings, trees, mtimedb = load_emerge_config() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4011, in load_emerge_config trees = portage.create_trees(trees=trees, **kwargs) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7122, in create_trees config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 1057, in __init__ for k, v in rawprofileuse.iteritems(): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems' I found that /etc/make.profile was linked to a non-existent (now) /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd-64/2005.1 FInding a message about this on the forums, I deleted /etc/make.profile, and linked it to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd-64/2006.1/desktop emerge still doesn't work. Should I set PORTDIR=/usr/portage in make.conf? Thank you for any ideas. I haven't had this machine online for some months. Alan Davis -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails after eix-sync
On Friday 12 January 2007 08:00, Alan E. Davis wrote: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems' In the future at the very least include what version of portage you use with a traceback from portage like this. In this case, however, it just requires to search bugzie: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143730 -- Bo Andresen pgpKNTwNJ83Gq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails after eix-sync
Gee whiz! That was fast! That didn't seem like the same bug, exactly, but the cure worked. mkdir /etc/portage/profile ! Alan On 1/12/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 08:00, Alan E. Davis wrote: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems' In the future at the very least include what version of portage you use with a traceback from portage like this. In this case, however, it just requires to search bugzie: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143730 -- Bo Andresen -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley
Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:12:28PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Looks like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161173 Try: WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.9 emerge --oneshot =net-libs/gnutls-1.4.4-r1 emerge --resume Thanks, this works. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
