Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you often do something quite computationally intensive. I have 384 megs of RAM and no imediate possibility of buying more. I realise it is arguably sufficient for many lightweight applications, but, as I mentioned, it is becoming increasingly frustrating, even with the real power of Gentoo and Fluxbox (the two have changed my life -- literally). This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9 konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions, noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are very responsive. One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. 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] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
Uwe Thiem wrote: This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9 konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions, noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are very responsive. One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. Uwe I tend to agree with this. I use KDE myself. I have 1Gb of ram but as I type only about 280 MBs of it is in use. The rest is disk cache. I have a full blown KDE and I have Seamonkey, Konsole with several tabs open, Kppp, Konqueror, Kpatience, Kopete and Gkrellm open. I also have a lot of server stuff running too. Ntp, cups, folding which uses a lot on this unit, nut, rsync, http-replicator, distcc and no telling what else I forgot about. With a fresh login. I use less than 100MBs and that is with all that servers stuff and folding running still. Well, folding varies. Sometimes it uses a lot. sometimes not. Maybe you need to use top to see what is using all that memory. I have ran KDE with 256MBs of ram and had no problems with that either. 128MBs may be a problem though. That's getting into using swap a bit. Post back what you find though. I'm curious now. Maybe post what top says. This is mine showing only what uses more than 1%: 8614 root 34 19 117m 90m 1384 S 0.0 9.0 0:01.51 FahCore_a0.exe 8616 root 34 19 117m 90m 1384 S 0.0 9.0 0:00.03 FahCore_a0.exe 8617 root 39 19 117m 90m 1384 R 24.6 9.0 5132:32 FahCore_a0.exe 8618 root 34 19 117m 90m 1384 S 0.0 9.0 0:00.00 FahCore_a0.exe 5373 dale 15 0 201m 78m 23m S 0.0 7.7 2:55.74 seamonkey-bin 20372 root 15 0 82616 48m 5380 S 1.3 4.8 5:00.31 X 16683 distcc35 15 47360 38m 5620 R 29.3 3.8 0:00.88 cc1plus 22159 dale 15 0 61004 29m 18m S 0.0 3.0 0:44.93 kopete 22578 root 15 0 36628 24m 19m S 0.0 2.4 0:02.19 konqueror 22119 dale 15 0 32028 18m 11m S 0.0 1.9 1:32.15 kdesktop 22143 dale 15 0 25704 15m 12m S 0.0 1.6 0:02.99 kpat 22126 dale 15 0 28460 14m 11m S 0.0 1.4 0:10.78 kicker 22144 dale 15 0 24012 14m 11m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.98 kppp 22150 dale 15 0 27848 13m 10m S 0.0 1.3 0:14.60 konsole 22149 dale 15 0 27396 13m 10m S 0.0 1.3 0:00.48 kgpg 22160 dale 20 0 23260 12m 11m S 0.0 1.3 0:02.85 kdesu 22102 dale 15 0 27776 12m 10m S 0.0 1.3 0:02.58 kded 6334 haldaemo 15 0 14048 12m 1632 S 0.0 1.2 31:51.26 hald 22117 dale 15 0 31744 12m 9528 S 0.0 1.2 0:03.84 knotify 22115 dale 24 0 25460 11m 9316 S 0.0 1.1 0:04.57 kwin 22169 dale 15 0 24448 10m 9016 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.33 klipper 6882 root 15 0 23724 10m 9100 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.14 kio_uiserver Maybe one of the gurus will see something strange. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd artifacts on screen
On Friday 19 January 2007 14:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, Recently I've noticed that I tend to get strange smudging effects on text displayed in X. I've attached a small (5k) .png that shows the effect (it's the smudge on the word have). I've been trying to narrow down some common factors to find what's behind it all. Here's my conclusions: It's not kde, as I get it in gnome as well It's not gnome for the same reason. It's not a kde lib as I get it in firefox too. It only affects text in the client window, the wm decorations are always OK, as is the menus, tab labels, graphics, etc, etc. It's also noticeable in konsole. I don't recall seeing it when I used fglrx, so I presume it started when I reverted back to the radeon driver. The logs show no errors but a few warnings that might be related (details below). Refreshing the display tends to make these effects go away, as does moving the pointer out of and back into the window client area. I am using the Radeon driver with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY card, and similar artifacts sometimes appear on OpenOffice and when viewing large pdf documents. AIGLX will give a list of warnings and then will load: (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31 (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x32 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/radeon_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0 I've just learned to live with it (since I haven't found a solution yet). -- Regards, Mick pgp9aRv9GQSLJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated machines to be still usable -the CPU is rarely a problem, unless you often do something quite computationally intensive. I have 384 megs of RAM and no imediate possibility of buying more. I realise it is arguably sufficient for many lightweight applications, but, as I mentioned, it is becoming increasingly frustrating, even with the real power of Gentoo and Fluxbox (the two have changed my life -- literally). This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9 konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions, noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo which also takes some memory. Switching between virtual desktops is instantaneous, all apps are very responsive. My current Fluxbox session uses 26% of 384 MiB of RAM, with 6 firefox tabs, Gaim, Eterm, Conky, mpd and other mostly insignificant processes. But I still experience a serious drop in responsiveness when opening, say, 3 Slashdot tabs at once, or when starting linuxdcpp. One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. I've tried to keep most things down to GTK and X. For instance, I haven't even installed qt. -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AIGLX and Compiz: No GLXFBConfig for default depth
Hi all, on the recent topic of aiglx, etc., I decided to try it out. I followed these howto's: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX http://gentoo-wiki.com/Compiz but when I get to starting compiz, I get this error: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib compiz --replace gconf compiz: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work. compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 the only thing on google I found was a suggestion to re-install the nvidia drives, but I'm using the x11 drm drivers... any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 09:33 +0530, arnuld wrote: i ave installed X using emerge X and after hours of download-compile-install cycle startx tells me that drivers named mouse kbd are not found. here is what i have done [snip] did you forget to add these to /etc/make.conf? INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse synaptics VIDEO_CARDS=ati radeon vesa fbdev fglrx you may use a different set of drivers of course. See google on these for more info :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. - Winston Churchill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem
(EE) AGLRX: Screen0 is not DRI capable Try to # the DRI under modules and # at the end there might be a section for DRI # the DRI in xorg.conf.. OK? (EE) driver mouse was not found it should be /dev/input/mice it *is* /dev/input/mice, i am talking of drivers not of /dev. you did not get my point. here is my xorg.conf; Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse OptionProtocol auto OptionDevice /dev/input/mice OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 tell me if something is wrong here. (EE) driver kbd was not found should be keyboard what doe sthat mean in context of xorg.conf. -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ Linux registered user #439610 http://counter.li.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem
This is how mine is set up. Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse OptionProtocol auto OptionDevice /dev/input/mouse0 OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 Maybe there is something different on yours but it works here. May give you something to go by. Dale Dale, mine is same, except of /dev/input/mouse0. i have /dev/input/mice BUT it does not work :-( :-) :-) :-) :-) anyway -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ Linux registered user #439610 http://counter.li.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'
Richard Fish napisał(a): On 1/19/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please verify my plan. I should recompile my kernel with device drivers - character devices - radeon built in (or as a module) and in xorg.conf set driver to radeon. Am I right? Yeah, I think that will work. Good luck! -Richard New problems came up. # modprobe radeon WARNING: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Cannot allocate memory FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) # dmesg | grep radeon radeonfb: Found Intel x86 BIOS ROM Image radeonfb: Retrieved PLL infos from BIOS radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=500.00 Mhz, System=297.00 MHz radeonfb: PLL min 2 max 4 radeonfb: Monitor 1 type CRT found radeonfb: EDID probed radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found radeonfb (:01:00.0): ATI Radeon AR radeon: Unknown symbol drm_open radeon: Unknown symbol drm_fasync radeon: Unknown symbol drm_poll radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_len radeon: Unknown symbol drm_core_get_reg_ofs radeon: Unknown symbol drm_irq_uninstall radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ioctl radeon: Unknown symbol drm_exit radeon: Unknown symbol drm_debug radeon: Unknown symbol drm_core_get_map_ofs radeon: Unknown symbol drm_init radeon: Unknown symbol drm_addmap radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ioremapfree radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ioremap radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_start radeon: Unknown symbol drm_vbl_send_signals radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ati_pcigart_init radeon: Unknown symbol drm_mmap radeon: Unknown symbol drm_order radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ati_pcigart_cleanup radeon: Unknown symbol drm_core_reclaim_buffers radeon: Unknown symbol drm_release radeon: Unknown symbol drm_open radeon: Unknown symbol drm_fasync radeon: Unknown symbol drm_poll radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_len radeon: Unknown symbol drm_core_get_reg_ofs radeon: Unknown symbol drm_irq_uninstall radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ioctl radeon: Unknown symbol drm_exit radeon: Unknown symbol drm_debug radeon: Unknown symbol drm_core_get_map_ofs radeon: Unknown symbol drm_init radeon: Unknown symbol drm_addmap radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ioremapfree radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ioremap radeon: Unknown symbol drm_get_resource_start radeon: Unknown symbol drm_vbl_send_signals radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ati_pcigart_init radeon: Unknown symbol drm_mmap radeon: Unknown symbol drm_order radeon: Unknown symbol drm_ati_pcigart_cleanup radeon: Unknown symbol drm_core_reclaim_buffers radeon: Unknown symbol drm_release Any ideas? Regards, Jan -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get rid of errors related to glib
Bo Ørsted Andresen schrieb: Your system is in an illegal state as you have two versions of glib in the same slot. Hmm, I don't know how this could happen. Can't remember doing anything specific related to glib. Any hints on this? Make sure that you have the latest portage (either latest stable or latest ~arch) i.e. run `emerge -u portage`. If that doesn't fix it I think you should file a bug against portage at bugs.gentoo.org. In the future as well as on bugs.gentoo.org please include `emerge --info` with portage tracebacks. Emerged portage, didn't help. Tried to mask glib-2.12, and then reemerge 2.10 to get one and only one glib-ebuild in one slot, to get able to unmerge it cleanly, didn't help either. So I assume I have to file a bug. Thanks, Stefan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem
arnuld wrote: (EE) driver kbd was not found should be keyboard what doe sthat mean in context of xorg.conf. The driver is called keyboard not kbd pgpvVQ0kf7GFs.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] slightly ot
Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't an issue). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance kel Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem
On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:10, Norberto Bensa wrote: arnuld wrote: (EE) driver kbd was not found should be keyboard what doe sthat mean in context of xorg.conf. The driver is called keyboard not kbd My understanding is (man keyboard) that kbd is the new driver while keyboard is the old...so nowadays kbd should be used. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't an issue). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance kel Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone media-libs/libdvdcss is a library you might want to look at. portage's description says A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption. Ive had no experience with it but this should be a step in the right direction. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsjEnUej1z0ta0fkRCLJOAKCTKDtPZmByyyoT22kyVrWfo9xg/wCgrSxh 3mYDFj7Lb5AUwS8V/It8gBQ= =wWp1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: [...] Anyone? Anything I could look into? Hm, logrotate -d? How's logrotate being called? E.g. if it's cron, what cron daemon are you using? E.g. fcron and dcron don't support a system wide crontab in /etc/crontab, so things in /etc/cron.* won't ever be called. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't an issue). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance kel Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone emerge eix update-eix eix -C -c -n media-video | grep -i dvd -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs
On 20/01/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: [...] Anyone? Anything I could look into? Hm, logrotate -d? How's logrotate being called? E.g. if it's cron, what cron daemon are you using? E.g. fcron and dcron don't support a system wide crontab in /etc/crontab, so things in /etc/cron.* won't ever be called. Thanks HW, this is what logrotate -d shows re. portage logs: # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf reading config file /etc/logrotate.conf including /etc/logrotate.d [snip...] reading config info for /var/log/portage/*.log olddir is now /var/log/portage/old [snip...] rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log weekly (1 rotations) olddir is /var/log/portage/old, empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/portage/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log log does not need rotating considering log /var/log/portage/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log log does not need rotating considering log /var/log/portage/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log log does not need rotating [snip...] However, the three files shown above as an example are more than 1 week old: # ls -la /var/log/portage/ total 231058 drwxrws--- 3 portage portage76632 Jan 20 09:48 . drwxr-xr-x 7 rootroot1208 Jan 20 09:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rootportage 6301 Dec 25 2005 4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rootportage 395 Dec 25 2005 4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rootportage 9137458 Dec 25 2005 4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log I am not sure if it is cron related at all because it won't rotate these files, even when I try it manually. Anyway, both machines are using vixie-cron-4.1-r9 which I have not modified whatsoever from its default: # cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.cron #! /bin/sh /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf I thought of forcing it through and therefore I have now used the -f option. It seems to have moved all logs into the old dir. rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log forced from command line (1 rotations) olddir is /var/log/portage/old, empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/portage/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log log needs rotating considering log /var/log/portage/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log log needs rotating considering log /var/log/portage/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log log needs rotating Because it was forced it shows above that log needs rotating. Then it rotated them happily (I think): rotating log /var/log/portage/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log, log-rotateCount is 1 renaming /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 to /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.2 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 1), old log /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 does not exist renaming /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.0 to /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 0), old log /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.0 does not exist log /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.2 doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it renaming /var/log/portage/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log to /var/log/portage/old/4052-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 running postrotate script rotating log /var/log/portage/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log, log-rotateCount is 1 renaming /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 to /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.2 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 1), old log /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 does not exist renaming /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.0 to /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 0), old log /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.0 does not exist log /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.2 doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it renaming /var/log/portage/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log to /var/log/portage/old/4053-ati-drivers-8.14.13-r3.log.1 running postrotate script rotating log /var/log/portage/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log, log-rotateCount is 1 renaming /var/log/portage/old/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log.1 to /var/log/portage/old/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log.2 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 1), old log /var/log/portage/old/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log.1 does not exist renaming /var/log/portage/old/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log.0 to /var/log/portage/old/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log.1 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 0), old log
Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem
On 20/01/07, arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i ave installed X using emerge X and after hours of download-compile-install cycle startx tells me that drivers named mouse kbd are not found. here is what i have done 1.) used genkernel all to compile my kernel. 2.) added these 2 to /etc/make.conf INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse VIDEO_CARDS=flrx vesa via vga v4l 3.) emerge xorg-x11 4.) Xorg -configure. 5.) xorg.conf edited: HorizSync VertRefresh added /dev/mouse changed to /dev/input/mouse i got these errrors (not exact errors but something like them): (EE) AGLRX: Screen0 is not DRI capable (EE) driver mouse was not found (EE) driver kbd was not found i checked xorg.conf saw that Keyboard Mouse sections use kbd mouse drivers respectively. how to resolve this issue? Try emerging x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard Regards, Lewis
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
Luke Ravitch wrote: On 2007-01-19 09:45, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox (it's great, but quite a memory hog). I like links, what with its graphical capabilities, but it lacks tabs and that's a major downside in my vision. I've tried Conkeror for Firefox, but it's too Emacs-centric (vim person here) and also disables tabs (or maybe it's me -- I couldn't get them to work). I'd never heard of Conkeror, so I started playing with it. I really like it (but *I* am an Emacs guy). If you do M-x use-vi-keys (where M-x is probably Alt-x on your machine) then it feels more vi-like (j,k scroll up/down; h,l go back/forward; colon for commands instead of M-x). It doesn't seem to do tabs, but it will open pages in different (Emacs-like) buffers. Use C-x f (with emacs keys) to open a URL in a new buffer. Then C-x b to switch between buffers. (Not sure what the equivilent vi-style keystrokes are, but they might be there) Of course, Conkeror is still Firefox underneath, so that won't help with it being a memory hog. Anyway, thanks for showing me something new and cool! You mean Konqueror. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] php-5.1.6-r6 troubles
Hello, Trying to run a routine upgrade I get this error: hecking for Informix support... no checking for InterBase support... yes checking for isc_detach_database in -lfbclient... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lgds... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lib_util... no configure: error: libgds, libib_util or libfbclient not found! Check config.log for more information. !!! ERROR: dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile php-5.1.6-r6.ebuild, line 173: Called src_compile_normal php-5.1.6-r6.ebuild, line 323: Called php5_1-sapi_src_compile php5_1-sapi.eclass, line 576: Called die !!! configure failed I looked in this file for clues, but found nothing: /var/tmp/portage/php-5.1.6-r6/work/php-5.1.6/config.log But found nothing that looked like a problem (at least to me). So all I have to go on is this line (repeated from above): configure: error: libgds, libib_util or libfbclient not found! Check config.log for more information. Any words of wisdom on how to fix this? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: Of course, Conkeror is still Firefox underneath, so that won't help with it being a memory hog. You mean Konqueror. Err.. obviously not. Konqueror isn't based on Firefox... http://conkeror.mozdev.org/ -- Bo Andresen pgpU3M3RpE3zj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:32, Avaricen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system': Luke Ravitch wrote: On 2007-01-19 09:45, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox. I've tried Conkeror for Firefox, but it's too Emacs-centric (vim person here) and also disables tabs (or maybe it's me -- I couldn't get them to work). I'd never heard of Conkeror, so I started playing with it. I really like it (but *I* am an Emacs guy). If you do M-x use-vi-keys (where M-x is probably Alt-x on your machine) then it feels more vi-like It doesn't seem to do tabs, but it will open pages in different (Emacs-like) buffers. Of course, Conkeror is still Firefox underneath, so that won't help with it being a memory hog. You mean Konqueror. No, Konqueror doesn't use Firefox or any Gecko technology underneath. I believe the KDE developers are calling their technology (that is also used the KDE applications KHTML parts) either webkit or webcore. Also, as far as I know, Konqueror doesn't have this strange emacs-like behavior and definitely has normal tabs. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgp249kfPdgC1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: You mean Konqueror. No. See http://conkeror.mozdev.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: slightly ot
On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:46, James wrote: Daniel Iliev danny at ilievnet.com writes: eix -C -c -n media-video | grep -i dvd That's a pretty cool search string. If I wanted to search the entire tree, why does this not work? eix -C -c -n * | grep -i dvd eix does not expand wildcards for matches? It would be helpful if you would take just one look at `man eix` to see what the arguments do. -n isn't necessary since eix will automatically disable colors when it detects a pipe (the | sign). -c just makes the output more compact. -C means you're specifying a category but * isn't a category.. Furthermore if you type the above command (assuming you're using bash) eix doesn't get an * at all because bash expands it before ever executing the command. Try typing `echo *` to see what bash expands it to. But no, even if you escaped or quoted the * properly eix doesn't expand it. But if you don't use --exact it always assumes wildcards. Hence `eix -C -c video` results in the same output as `eix -C -c media-video`. And `eix -c` outputs everything in the tree. Instead of the silly grep above I'd just search descriptions with -S though... -- Bo Andresen pgpWQ4x11TSi6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem
On Saturday 20 January 2007 17:23, Lewis Handy wrote: On 20/01/07, arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i ave installed X using emerge X and after hours of download-compile-install cycle startx tells me that drivers named mouse kbd are not found. here is what i have done 1.) used genkernel all to compile my kernel. 2.) added these 2 to /etc/make.conf INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse VIDEO_CARDS=flrx vesa via vga v4l Should flrx above be fglrx? -- Regards, Mick pgpurzkSTVXOk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: You mean Konqueror. No. See http://conkeror.mozdev.org :O I thought you were referring to the KDE app. ;) My apologies. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem
did you forget to add these to /etc/make.conf? INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse synaptics VIDEO_CARDS=ati radeon vesa fbdev fglrx Iain, it seems likee you have not read my 1st post, here is the relevent part of it: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx vesa via vga v4l BTW, what does synaptics do? and what do ati radeon fbdev do? if i add them, will they solve my problem? ( i am asking as i have installed BLAG Linux for now,so that i can communicate with you folks, i have to reinstall Gentoo to try that) you may use a different set of drivers of course. See google on these for more info :) i tried google. it confused me even more. what is DRI OpenGL replacing X window system? what does mesa has to do with DRI why ATI RADEON search opens the links to AMD web-site then they show me something like AMD 9600 series for Linux x86_64 ? ? -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ Linux registered user #439610 http://counter.li.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: Of course, Conkeror is still Firefox underneath, so that won't help with it being a memory hog. You mean Konqueror. Err.. obviously not. Konqueror isn't based on Firefox... http://conkeror.mozdev.org/ Thanks for this, Bo. I didn't even know of the existence of conkeror before now. Best regards Avaricen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is comparably capable). -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users
This affects suspend2-sources users (and maybe others) who have been using the ipw2200 ebuild in portage rather than the in-kernel ipw2200 support. It confused me pretty badly yesterday, so I thought I'd post in case it can help someone. The ipw2200 ebuild is now masked, pending removal from portage (see current package.mask). So it's probably time to migrate to using the kernel's ipw2200 support. A problem arises because (AIUI) installing the ipw2200 ebuild removes what's needed in suspend2-sources to compile the kernel with its own ipw2200 support. Or maybe the removal was done manually; ISTR having to remove some files after being prompted by the ebuild. Anyway, trying to compile the kernel after configuring for ipw2200 support results in failure. The fix is to unmerge ipw2200 and ieee80211, then emerge suspend2-sources again before reconfiguring and recompiling. Thanks to Phil for filing a bug (invalid) and to Alon Bar-Lev for pointing toward the cause of the problem. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162856 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:58, »Q« wrote:
This affects suspend2-sources users (and maybe others) who have been
using the ipw2200 ebuild in portage rather than the in-kernel ipw2200
support. It confused me pretty badly yesterday, so I thought I'd post
in case it can help someone.
The ipw2200 ebuild is now masked, pending removal from portage (see
current package.mask). So it's probably time to migrate to using the
kernel's ipw2200 support. A problem arises because (AIUI) installing
the ipw2200 ebuild removes what's needed in suspend2-sources
to compile the kernel with its own ipw2200 support. Or maybe the
removal was done manually; ISTR having to remove some files after
being prompted by the ebuild. Anyway, trying to compile the kernel
after configuring for ipw2200 support results in failure.
The fix is to unmerge ipw2200 and ieee80211, then emerge
suspend2-sources again before reconfiguring and recompiling.
Thanks to Phil for filing a bug (invalid) and to Alon Bar-Lev for
pointing toward the cause of the problem.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162856
This issue is specific to neither suspend2-sources nor ipw2200. You hit the
same issue with any other kernel if you emerge ieee80211. From the ieee80211
ebuild:
eerror Your kernel source contains an incompatible version of the
eerror ieee80211 subsystem, which needs to be removed before
eerror ${P} can be installed. This can be accomplished by running:
eerror
eerror # /bin/sh ${FILESDIR}/remove-old ${KV_DIR}
if [ ${KV_DIR} != ${KV_OUT_DIR} ]; then
eerror # /bin/sh ${FILESDIR}/remove-old ${KV_OUT_DIR}
fi
eerror
eerror Please note that this will make it impossible to use some of the
eerror in-kernel IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN drivers (eg. orinoco).
You ran the script and you were warned. The ieee80211 ebuild is depended upon
by four external, wireless net drivers: ipw{2100,2200,3945} and rt2x00.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router
The only last thing I could suggest is running lsof to see what files are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. I tried lsof, but is there a possibility to run it constantly or for a specified time to catch the complete progress of the script, like the top command to monitor all files which are used by this process. As far as i can see lsof list only the current processes and the files used and then it stops. a better option would be `emerge --noconfmem package`, which esentially re-does all your conf files. I tried this also but i can't figure out which files could be responsible for this Additionally i tried this, running the init-script and then i applied this find command find / -mount -cmin -1 which lists all the files which status has changed the last minute, but there are no files which could be the reason for the changing if the tables. I don't know if this command does what i want. I think it lists the files which are altered and which are accessed. Am i right here? I used this find command for reinstalling shorewall and setting back the old settings too but without success. This gets a bit frustrating for me now i always have to reset my iptables manually after i start my internet connection. Is it possible that there is no real file causing this trouble? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users
On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:23, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
snip
This issue is specific to neither suspend2-sources nor ipw2200. You hit the
same issue with any other kernel if you emerge ieee80211. From the
ieee80211 ebuild:
eerror Your kernel source contains an incompatible version of the
eerror ieee80211 subsystem, which needs to be removed before
eerror ${P} can be installed. This can be accomplished by running:
eerror
eerror # /bin/sh ${FILESDIR}/remove-old ${KV_DIR}
if [ ${KV_DIR} != ${KV_OUT_DIR} ]; then
eerror # /bin/sh ${FILESDIR}/remove-old ${KV_OUT_DIR}
fi
eerror
eerror Please note that this will make it impossible to use some of
the eerror in-kernel IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN drivers (eg. orinoco).
You ran the script and you were warned. The ieee80211 ebuild is depended
upon by four external, wireless net drivers: ipw{2100,2200,3945} and
rt2x00.
Having just gotten my ipw2100 to be working (kind of), I want to comment on
this. This is just stupid. There's nothing wrong with having that source in
the kernel if it's not configured is there? The solution used here seems
just wrong to me.
David
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:39 +0530, arnuld wrote: BTW, what does synaptics do? Well I can't answer your other questions, but synaptics is the driver for a touchpad. Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Stamp out organized crime!! Abolish the IRS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) alan Have you ever tried pinfo ? [I] app-text/pinfo Available versions: 0.6.9 Installed versions: 0.6.9(01:58:33 PM 12/26/2006)(nls readline) Homepage:http://pinfo.alioth.debian.org/ Description: Hypertext info and man viewer based on (n)curses Regards Niki signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't an issue). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance AFAIR dvdrip should work with encrypted ones too. I can confirm it does. Just make sure to have libdvdcss and the corresponding use flags. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users
On Saturday 20 January 2007 23:06, David Corbin wrote:
You ran the script and you were warned. The ieee80211 ebuild is depended
upon by four external, wireless net drivers: ipw{2100,2200,3945} and
rt2x00.
Having just gotten my ipw2100 to be working (kind of), I want to comment on
this. This is just stupid. There's nothing wrong with having that source
in the kernel if it's not configured is there? The solution used here
seems just wrong to me.
Oh, I'm sure the devs would be interested if you have a better solution.. I
haven't bothered to even attempt to find out whether or why this is
necessary. Fortunately we as ipw2100 users don't have to care any longer
because the external ipw2x00 kernel modules are no longer required. Just use
the in-kernel modules and you won't have to deal with this ever again...
That's what this thread is all about.
Also just a side note to the OP. Just because ipw2200 has been masked doesn't
mean you have to rebuild a working kernel that allready has the external
modules working. You could just unmerge ipw2200 and ieee80211. /lib/modules
are under forced CONFIG_PROTECT so the modules won't be removed from there
during the unmerge. Next time you upgrade your kernel anyway you just have to
make sure they get enabled as modules in the kernel.
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[gentoo-user] Re: info for ipw2200 users
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also just a side note to the OP. Just because ipw2200 has been masked doesn't mean you have to rebuild a working kernel that allready has the external modules working. You could just unmerge ipw2200 and ieee80211. /lib/modules are under forced CONFIG_PROTECT so the modules won't be removed from there during the unmerge. Next time you upgrade your kernel anyway you just have to make sure they get enabled as modules in the kernel. Thanks, and thanks for clearing up the actual cause of the problem. My recollection of having been warned before running the cleaning script was pretty hazy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php-5.1.6-r6 troubles
Hi, James wrote: Hello, Trying to run a routine upgrade I get this error: hecking for Informix support... no checking for InterBase support... yes checking for isc_detach_database in -lfbclient... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lgds... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lib_util... no configure: error: libgds, libib_util or libfbclient not found! Check config.log See the line above. Check your USE-flags (some of these USEs must be enabled). libgds - about 'firebird' support; libib_util - 'interbase' support; libfbclient - again is somehow linked with 'firebird'. All this is just result from a quick Google-search using lib names. for more information. !!! ERROR: dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile php-5.1.6-r6.ebuild, line 173: Called src_compile_normal php-5.1.6-r6.ebuild, line 323: Called php5_1-sapi_src_compile php5_1-sapi.eclass, line 576: Called die !!! configure failed I looked in this file for clues, but found nothing: /var/tmp/portage/php-5.1.6-r6/work/php-5.1.6/config.log But found nothing that looked like a problem (at least to me). So all I have to go on is this line (repeated from above): configure: error: libgds, libib_util or libfbclient not found! Check config.log for more information. Any words of wisdom on how to fix this? James HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is comparably capable). I'm using Gaim because it is lighter, but Kopete can do more (e.g. voicecalls with Gmail). Once I have loaded Kmail or any other KDE base application then the added load of Kopete is not that much. In any case, running Gaim ontop of KDE is more or less imperceptible. -- Regards, Mick pgpK9W9zkhrOt.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Does anybody know if there is some driver+tools that could present an x11 display as a v4l device? SOmething like what x11vnc does, but instead of being able to see the display x11vnc attached to via vnc, been able to see it as a local v4l device. That is: 1) run x11v4l 2) now all v4l aware applications can see that same screen. Any ideas? Pointers? Insults? :) - -- 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 iD8DBQFFsr9cAlpOsGhXcE0RAmLaAJ0TOQXZRxI13YdH8DdUsxeitbew7QCfZwnP CxdMpKaDrP4Gu0OICSo9nfc= =UdSp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?
I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if you're curious about gory details). What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19. Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about severe file system damage. -- hendrik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidia card swap
hello, I have a system using this card: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I want to use this card: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications. Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit (xorg.conf) and recompile some software, such as xorg-server ? ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 15:21 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: [...] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:49:33 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have a system using this card: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I want to use this card: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications. Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit (xorg.conf) and recompile some software, such as xorg-server ? ideas? James Hi, Currently don't have a NVidia card, but IIRC the former uses: x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers, the latter: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. But please check again, can't confirm.No other changed needed. HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap
Rumen Yotov rumen at qrypto.org writes: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] Currently don't have a NVidia card, but IIRC the former uses: x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers, the latter: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. But please check again, can't confirm.No other changed needed Hello Rumen, Thank Rumen, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:49:33 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have a system using this card: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I want to use this card: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] Hi, Currently don't have a NVidia card, but IIRC the former uses: x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers, the latter: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. But please check again, can't confirm.No other changed needed. It looks like the GF2 MX 400 is supported by the current nvidia-drivers, so the legacy ones were never needed here. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap2_sect4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if you're curious about gory details). What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19. Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about severe file system damage. -- hendrik there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches have been applied by looking at the ebuilds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap
»Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:49:33 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have a system using this card: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I want to use this card: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] Hi, Currently don't have a NVidia card, but IIRC the former uses: x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers, the latter: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. But please check again, can't confirm.No other changed needed. It looks like the GF2 MX 400 is supported by the current nvidia-drivers, so the legacy ones were never needed here. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml#doc_chap2_sect4 After he installs the new card, he may have to reemerge the drivers though and reload the modules too. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot
Thanks for the help there got everything running perfectly the libdvdcss sorted out my issues with encrypted dvds. Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Thomas Lingefelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:11:41 To:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't an issue). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance kel Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone media-libs/libdvdcss is a library you might want to look at. portage's description says A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption. Ive had no experience with it but this should be a step in the right direction. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsjEnUej1z0ta0fkRCLJOAKCTKDtPZmByyyoT22kyVrWfo9xg/wCgrSxh 3mYDFj7Lb5AUwS8V/It8gBQ= =wWp1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap
Dale wrote: I have a system using this card: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I want to use this card: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] After he installs the new card, he may have to reemerge the drivers though and reload the modules too. Nope. I've swaped my MX200 for a FX5500. Turn the box on and enjoy. :) Regards, Norberto pgpOMdTJ6ZVAm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system
On 20 January 2007 20:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and memory usage goes up. With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is comparably capable). If one is short of ram, it makes a difference, though GTK isn't much of a problem. If you run one single GNOME app under KDE, it pulls in a lot of GNOME libraries - and vice versa. Ue -- 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] Re: nvidia card swap
Norberto Bensa wrote: Dale wrote: I have a system using this card: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] and I want to use this card: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] After he installs the new card, he may have to reemerge the drivers though and reload the modules too. Nope. I've swaped my MX200 for a FX5500. Turn the box on and enjoy. :) Regards, Norberto Hmmm. Now I know. That's interesting though. I guess it doesn't look to see what kind of card you have until it loads up then. Learn something every day. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
