Re: [gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?
On Saturday 02 June 2007 15:18:07 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: You could of course downgrade to 0.9.3-r2. Bad idea. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179532 -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Monday 04 June 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. top will tell you which process is hogging the resources and also let you kill it with the 'k' hotkey My X also locks up from time to time due to kde-type issues, the usual cause is konqueror and invaribaly I have to kill and restart kdeinit or even '/etc/init.d/xdm restart' in extreme cases. But I use enlightenment as the wm so that might not necessarily hold true for you. When using kde as the desktop, I've also had this trouble with kicker alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo update
On Sunday 03 June 2007, Benjamin Graf wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is a danger if I use a program during its updating (when I run emerge -uD world for example). For the most part, no danger. A running program will have certain files open and accesses them through it's inode on-disk, not the file name. When the file is replaced during an update, you get a whole new file with a different inode, and the original is only replaced when the last program using it closes the file. Occasionally (very) it does go wrong, then you simply restart the program. You are highly unlikely to break anything. alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world
on Monday 06/04/2007 Stefan Onken([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 schrieb John covici: checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Do you have any idea what is wrong? Mozilla did compile successfully. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:56 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I guess I should have expected it to rather simple to test. But I have never tried to configure a mailserver before hence my somewhat naive question. So what I did was to change my smtp server in thunderbird to use localhost (with my postfix server running) and the send a mail. This failed! Thunderbirds just claims that it could not connect to the server... I'm obvious doing something really simple completely wrong, but what? Start with telnet or even better netcat (nc) and try connecting directly, e.g. nc localhost smtp (replace nc by telnet if you have that installed -- you might need to install one of the utilities, in that case, chose netcat). My server give me this response: # telnet localhost smtp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host I have no firewall installed so it shouldn't be a firewal problem. The server should respond with 220 server's host name ESMTP product id. If not, check - whether localhost can be resolved (your /etc/hosts might be borked) - if there's a overly jealous firewall active, that doesn't allow this traffic. You can then try talking to your mail server directly (simple SMTP is fast to learn), e.g. enter ---snip MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATA Subject: Test this is a test. . QUIT ---snip (server will send replies not printed here) Do the same coming from the outside, in order to make sure that those attempts are blocked. Otherwise you'll create an open relay and you'll be blocked very soon on several other hosts. If you're not sure what is wrong, that might warrant a look into postfix' log files (below /var/log). I cant' seem to locate the log file. Any hint on the specific location? -hwh -- Regards / Venlig hilsen Johannes Skov Frandsen *Address:* Egelundsvej 18, DK-5260 Odense S *Web:* www.omesc.com | *Email:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Just for comparison, http://blog.spida.net/index.php?/archives/3-Powerusage.html has some measurements of a low-power system. That's not even optimal. My King Young w/ 1.6GHz Celeron, 500 MB RAM, and Intel 855 graphics uses just 30-35W at 100% CPU. And it's silent! ralf P.S. see e.g. http://www.mini-itx.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get Powernow/frequency scaling to work
Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 01:58 schrieb Jamie: I have recompiled my kernel as per the Powernow HOWTO at www.gentoo-wiki.com but cannot seem to get any Powernow or frequency scaling support. A dmesg | grep powernow returns nothing , it is enabled in the BIOS of the machine and works under Windows but will not work in Gentoo. I am running the an Athlon 64 3200+ but running the x86 version of Gentoo so that I can run the software I require that is not well supported under x64. Any ideas apprecaited. Thanks Jame Did you load the modules? That's not mentioned in the howto. modprobe powernow_k8 pgpc8q4yXV2G8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users
Hi Thiago, On 02/06/07, Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I have an gentoo-desktop box, with kde-3.5.5 running under 2.6.18 kernel. Last week, I upgraded the kernel to the 2.6.20 version, and the kde takes a whole eternity to start, and another to run any program. I use nis(ypbind) and nfs(the home folders) to log on my network. How did you upgrade your kernel? First things first, check your setup for anything obvious. I don't know much about KDE but I've seen problems like this with gnome when the machine's networking is not setup correctly. Check your /etc/hosts and hostname to ensure they are correct (not that upgrading your kernel should affect them). Do a diff between your configs to check nothing untoward has changed. Also capture and diff dmesgs from booting each kernel. Finally, check your network interfaces with /sbin/ifconfig. If that doesn't show anything interesting you will need to try and isolate the cause of the problem. Login as a local user on the console. Do a ypcat passwd and confirm that the command completes quickly and the user information is correct. If so then your network and NIS are fine. Next do an ls -l ~user with your NIS user name. If that completes quickly and shows your home directory then NFS is fine. If that all works fine then we are back to KDE. Next step I would suggest is strace'ing it to see what it is delaying on. See how you get on with the other stuff first. Cheers, Duane Griffin. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
Here it is in chroot: mode 1024x768-76 # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0 endmode /etc/fb.modes:5: syntax error Remove the rgba line from fb.modes, and it should work OK. I don't think it's necessary, and mine works without it. Good luck, -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F SIP : [EMAIL PROTECTED]PSTN: 0560 0030509 pgpPn37WVQUzH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. This kind of lockup is usually an error in the video driver, forgetting to drop a software lock after some operation and then on the next operation waiting endlessly for the lock to be dropped. Or it gave the video chip a wrong command that never ends, while holding a software lock. In this latter case restarting X probably won't help, as the video chip is deaf. 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. Check your video driver and see if there's a newer version available. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program
On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, James wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Any documents I can read about KmobileTools? there isn't much - but I could successfully get stuff, like sms or phone numbers from my Razr v3i with kmobiletools, the tty setting in the phone and the acm support in the kernel. To transfer data like pictures you have to switch to 'data' mode (AFAIR), and use the usb-storage driver. The model number of my phone is a V3C, underneath the battery. I got the kernel option set: CONFIG_USB_ACM=y make that a module... sometimes reloading the driver does the trick. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. I've run into this too had concluded it was minor defects in memory brought about when the box heats a bit more than usual (one memory bit's magnetism spills over into a neighbour). I boot into a raw terminal, then start X with 'startx', so your problem probably has nothing to do with Kdm. Your experience a couple of earlier reports on the list suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X , which would be very difficult to track down or even describe for bugzilla. It seems unlikely to be a driver bug, as I've not changed cards recently. I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously -- it blanks the screen, after which I can use 'Ctl-Alt-F1' to re-access the TTY, when 'Return' brings a terminal prompt I can restart X with 'startx' as usual (super-fast!); this depends on enabling the 'magic SysRq' option in the kernel. Of course, I don't know whether it will work next time X locks up (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: My server give me this response: # telnet localhost smtp Trying 127.0.0.1... Then, you must verify which program has opened port 25: Install lsof, then, as root: lsof -iTCP:25 - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Creative Commons Punk-Rock Band: http://www.music.com/futurabanda (by-sa 2.5-ar) Consulting and Secure Mail Hosting: http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZBTJAlpOsGhXcE0RCs1UAJ45lPwXlT86M7p1SLqzrV2Mcx/9VQCeN/Lx C3LCGw2rVcJk2+dDvB/3O5c= =Kb9C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8-r1.
On 6/3/07, nikhilnadig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/bin/xkbcomp -lfhlpR -o geometry.dir '*' make[2]: *** [geometry.dir] Illegal instruction (core dumped) Have you changed you CFLAGS? Show us: emerge --info cat /proc/cpuinfo -- Vladimir Rusinov GreenMice Solutions: IT-решения на базе Linux http://greenmice.info/
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:51:49AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Well, yes. But be aware of the fact that - depending on the configuration, this *might* not work when issued inside an X session (via an xterm or similar) or may at least lead to... undefined behaviour ;). But it is safe to issue from within a virtual terminal ([Alt][F1-F6]). A magic key combination is [Alt][Ctrl][Backspace]. This immediately kills the X-Session (if it is not disabled in the xorg.conf) - GDM and KDM will then restart right away (KDM will do that forever, GDM only about 3 times) though Slim for example wouldn't. Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
--- Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is in chroot: mode 1024x768-76 # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0 endmode /etc/fb.modes:5: syntax error Remove the rgba line from fb.modes, and it should work OK. I don't think it's necessary, and mine works without it. Nope. PC still boots with lame framebuffer. Now it's: #fbset -s /dev/fb0 Unknown video mode '/dev/fb0' But, #fbset -s -fb /dev/fb0 mode 640x480-60 # D: 25.171 MHz, H: 31.463 kHz, V: 59.930 Hz geometry 640 480 640 480 8 timings 39729 48 16 33 10 96 2 rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode Line 5 has been replaced #fbset -s /dev/fb1 Unknown video mode '/dev/fb1' And for #fbset -s -fb /dev/fb1 mode 1280x1024-60 # D: 108.944 MHz, H: 63.599 kHz, V: 59.999 Hz geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 32 timings 9179 217 79 32 1 137 3 vsync high rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 endmode Line 5 is baack! I don't think fbset even looks at /etc/fb.modes, least not with the -fb option. FWIW: $cat /proc/fb 0 ATY Rage 128 1 VESA VGA ??? Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users
all the procedures about nfs/nis worked fine. i'll try strace with kde. On 6/4/07, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thiago, On 02/06/07, Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I have an gentoo-desktop box, with kde-3.5.5 running under 2.6.18 kernel. Last week, I upgraded the kernel to the 2.6.20 version, and the kde takes a whole eternity to start, and another to run any program. I use nis(ypbind) and nfs(the home folders) to log on my network. How did you upgrade your kernel? First things first, check your setup for anything obvious. I don't know much about KDE but I've seen problems like this with gnome when the machine's networking is not setup correctly. Check your /etc/hosts and hostname to ensure they are correct (not that upgrading your kernel should affect them). Do a diff between your configs to check nothing untoward has changed. Also capture and diff dmesgs from booting each kernel. Finally, check your network interfaces with /sbin/ifconfig. If that doesn't show anything interesting you will need to try and isolate the cause of the problem. Login as a local user on the console. Do a ypcat passwd and confirm that the command completes quickly and the user information is correct. If so then your network and NIS are fine. Next do an ls -l ~user with your NIS user name. If that completes quickly and shows your home directory then NFS is fine. If that all works fine then we are back to KDE. Next step I would suggest is strace'ing it to see what it is delaying on. See how you get on with the other stuff first. Cheers, Duane Griffin. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 194392373 __
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:21:19AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: --- Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is in chroot: mode 1024x768-76 # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0 endmode /etc/fb.modes:5: syntax error Nope. PC still boots with lame framebuffer. Did you try just running fbset -a 1024x768-76 on the command line, after bootup? If this works (and it just doesn't set itself correctly when booting) you could add this command to /etc/conf.d/local.start This is how I do it on my machine. -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F SIP : [EMAIL PROTECTED]PSTN: 0560 0030509 pgplExmsPv93y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. Run into that too. Exactly same situation -KDE, OO.org, heavy graphical editing (resizing images in Impress etc.), mouse moving but nothing responding, etc... Identical bug. I attributed the cause to the Beryl SVN I'm always running, so I didn't feel entitled to complain. If you are not running Beryl, however, it would be nice to know more -so to find what bug is or to file one. Thanks, m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo update
Thanks a lot for all these answers ! I'm reassured now. Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users
When I start kde, i enter a dmesg command and the last output was this: statd: server localhost not responding, timed out something about the nfs server ? On 6/4/07, Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all the procedures about nfs/nis worked fine. i'll try strace with kde. On 6/4/07, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thiago, On 02/06/07, Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I have an gentoo-desktop box, with kde-3.5.5 running under 2.6.18 kernel. Last week, I upgraded the kernel to the 2.6.20 version, and the kde takes a whole eternity to start, and another to run any program. I use nis(ypbind) and nfs(the home folders) to log on my network. How did you upgrade your kernel? First things first, check your setup for anything obvious. I don't know much about KDE but I've seen problems like this with gnome when the machine's networking is not setup correctly. Check your /etc/hosts and hostname to ensure they are correct (not that upgrading your kernel should affect them). Do a diff between your configs to check nothing untoward has changed. Also capture and diff dmesgs from booting each kernel. Finally, check your network interfaces with /sbin/ifconfig. If that doesn't show anything interesting you will need to try and isolate the cause of the problem. Login as a local user on the console. Do a ypcat passwd and confirm that the command completes quickly and the user information is correct. If so then your network and NIS are fine. Next do an ls -l ~user with your NIS user name. If that completes quickly and shows your home directory then NFS is fine. If that all works fine then we are back to KDE. Next step I would suggest is strace'ing it to see what it is delaying on. See how you get on with the other stuff first. Cheers, Duane Griffin. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 194392373 __ -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 194392373 __
[gentoo-user] Gnome does not 'see' DVD RW drive
I've just installed Gentoo 2007.0 after being a little annoyed by the
speed (or lack of) in the latest Ubuntu release.
Things are going pretty well but for some reason Gnome does not appear to
be able to 'see' my DVD burner. I cannot right click in Nautilus and burn
to disc, nor does a DVD drive show up in Place - Computer.
/etc/make.conf:
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
CFLAGS=-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
# This should not be changed unless you know exactly what you are doing. You
# should probably be using a different stage, instead.
CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu
USE=X arts avi cups mpeg jpeg png qt quicktime truetype gtk kde samba nfs
opengl dvd xvid cdr dvdr dvdread
I should note that I am running an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ but running a 32
bit environment as I have never quite got my head around running a 32 bit
chroot (?is that the correct term?) to enable the things that don't run
under 64 bit to run in a 32 bit environment.
Hopefully this will be something easily fixed and I welcome any
suggestions and will provide further information if asked.
Cheers
Jamie
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome does not 'see' DVD RW drive
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 07:45 +1200, Jamie wrote: [...] for some reason Gnome does not appear to be able to 'see' my DVD burner. I cannot right click in Nautilus and burn to disc, nor does a DVD drive show up in Place - Computer. /etc/make.conf: Is the hal service running? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
Did you try just running fbset -a 1024x768-76 on the command line, after bootup? If this works (and it just Well, well, well. I've tried this command before --shoulda mentioned it. What happened was that the screen would try to change itself but drop back into default(?) mode with a lot of staticky looking stuff all over the screen. But, this time, boom! Now everything is scrunched into the upper left hand corner of the screen. I've maxed out the settings in the screen control panel on the monitor itself and managed to move the text to a band down the center of the screen with margins of about two inches. Now instead of no margins, they're too big. I tried adjusting the command but whatever I enter it replies; Unknown video mode '800x600-60' for example. or Unknown video mode '1024x768-60'. But the display is otherwise just like with the boot CD. And the bare fbset command reveals the new mode. Another thing: doesn't the -a switch set (a)ll the consoles? Not in this instance. Now for my finale, hot off the hard drive there is: localhost ~ # fbset -fb /dev/fb0 mode 1024x768-76 # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 accel true rgba 5/10,5/5,5/0,0/0 endmode localhost ~ # fbset -fb /dev/fb1 mode 1280x1024-60 # D: 108.944 MHz, H: 63.599 kHz, V: 59.999 Hz geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 32 timings 9179 217 79 32 1 137 3 vsync high rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 endmode If I try using the last mode the screen goes blank for about a solid minute then reverts back to the first. What's even more confusing is that in the .config I have CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE=[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Why doesn't it try that since now my command line has just video=vesafb with *no* parameters at all? And no complaints in dmesg. mw Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Install Migration
I've set up my desktop machine using LVM over software raid, and although I like it I'm getting weary of the complication of the setup for a simple desktop system. What I would like to do is get the same install (packages, config files, etc) as are currently used, but have it all on one file system for simplicity. I know I can use DD to copy a filesystem, but I don't think that will work in this case. I was thinking of doing a fresh install and then using my backup of /etc to try and get the same setup. If I copy the world file from the previous system and emerge -e world, will that get all the packages I currently have? Afterwards I would just copy the rest of /etc into place and go about on my merry way. Are there any problems with this approach? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Install Migration
I've set up my desktop machine using LVM over software raid, and although I like it I'm getting weary of the complication of the setup for a simple desktop system. What I would like to do is get the same install (packages, config files, etc) as are currently used, but have it all on one file system for simplicity. I know I can use DD to copy a filesystem, but I don't think that will work in this case. I was thinking of doing a fresh install and then using my backup of /etc to try and get the same setup. If I copy the world file from the previous system and emerge -e world, will that get all the packages I currently have? Afterwards I would just copy the rest of /etc into place and go about on my merry way. Are there any problems with this approach? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
O/H Denis έγραψε: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. i can think only of amarok,but it's very 'heavy'... maybe you could find a nice gui client for mpd... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. I gotta give a recommendation for Amarok. It is a kde package so it might not be what you had in mind, but it is a great music player. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZH2D0PM4px2/kjgRApkBAJ4nQYt5XRfuvQUynFq/KKXazEyz7ACff/PC ZKgIadtb4RG0kmODTpLLzvk= =e1py -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System
quoth the Randy Barlow: One more question - I'd like to install Gentoo on a very old and small system that doesn't have a CD-ROM, or even an IDE cable that can connect two drives. Can I put the harddrive from that system on my normal desktop and install as normal onto that drive? The old system has a very different and old processor from my normal Gentoo system (it's a Cyrix MediaGX MMX Enhanced according to /proc/cpuinfo with a whopping 16 kB of cache!) Any problems doing something like this on a modern system that I haven't thought about? R Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be i386-pc-linux-gnu. There is a kernel config in Processor family that says CyrixIII/Via-C3. Is that what you have? If not or if you are not sure then choose plain old 386. Grub should work alright, as best as I can figure, as long as (as per the guide) you install it onto the HDDs MBR. Maybe something I am not thinking of. Just make sure that when going through the guide that anything that requires CPU specific choices you remember to select for your target, not the host. This may have a side-effect of not booting whilst in the host, only when you move the HDD to the target machine. Good luck! -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
+++ Denis [gentoo-user] [Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:26:09PM -0400]: I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? XMMS was removed due to it being no longer maintained I believe. I was also a huge XMMS fan and switched to Audacious. But it's so slow and buggy that I've converted to Amarok. Amarok is *not* an XMMS replacement though and fanbois suggesting it to ex-xmms users should note that (it's like suggesting a hummer to somebody looking for a compact). -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // Jesus saves! And takes half damage. pgpIbHdZDDpy5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users
On 04 June 2007, Thiago Lüttig wrote: When I start kde, i enter a dmesg command and the last output was this: statd: server localhost not responding, timed out something about the nfs server ? I don't think so. Would you please post the content of /etc/hosts and the output of ifconfig as well as route -n? Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
quoth the Denis: I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it...I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems to be a lot of take xmms out of my cold dead hands sort of folks out there. I am in the same boat as you, I tried audacious as a replacement but it just wasn't working for me. I have many playlists with 1000+ songs on them, and audacious seems to choke on them. When it doesn't outright crash the interface freezes when I scroll the playlist and it reads the id3 tags. Makes it all but unusable for me. Amarok isn't my cup of tea either. I wrote my own scripts to organize my music, and create playlists, and amarok seems to want to organize my tunes for me. Ugh. To be fair I have not delved too deeply into all the options. Perhaps there is a way to turn it into an xmms/audacious clone. Perhaps xmms2 (which moves to a client/server approach) may have a similar lightweight client to the old xmms. Running a server to simply play tunes does seem like overkill to me though... I'll likely get shouted down for this, but when they removed xmms from the tree I simply deleted xmms and related packages from my world file without actually uninstalling them. You can get away with this with emerge, but not paludis. So: I still use xmms, but it will be a version frozen in time for all eternity. Sigh. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo update
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:12:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007, Benjamin Graf wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is a danger if I use a program during its updating (when I run emerge -uD world for example). For the most part, no danger. A running program will have certain files open and accesses them through it's inode on-disk, not the file name. When the file is replaced during an update, you get a whole new file with a different inode, and the original is only replaced when the last program using it closes the file. Occasionally (very) it does go wrong, then you simply restart the program. You are highly unlikely to break anything. alan Quite true, but the program might have to be rebuilt if the dependancies change, before it can be conviced to run again. That is, if you plan to use them while they're being updated, better have them running so updates to the things they need don't effect them. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
070604 Philip Webb wrote: 070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually while I'm editing something heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. Your experience a couple of earlier reports on the list suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X . I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously -- Well today, I've had 2 lock-ups ! Both involved Epiphany -- which I find a bit faster more convenient than FF/Konqueror -- , the 1st merely locking the browser, which I was able to kill after going to another desktop with a Konsole running Htop, the 2nd just now involving a total lock-up as described above yes the 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' manoeuvre does act as a get-out-of-jail card: you have to re-enter the TTY with 'Ctl-Alt-F1', where there are a lot of msgs announcing that X has been killed you can restart it with 'startx' (my normal method). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:34:23 -0300 Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start kde, i enter a dmesg command and the last output was this: statd: server localhost not responding, timed out rpc.statd needs to be running on NFS client hosts. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:00:51 -0400 Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. I gotta give a recommendation for Amarok. It is a kde package so it might not be what you had in mind, but it is a great music player. Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. But if you like xmms, maybe before you try to find more alternatives you'll consider trying to compile and install it from downloaded sources, manually. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:00:51 -0400 Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. I gotta give a recommendation for Amarok. It is a kde package so it might not be what you had in mind, but it is a great music player. Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. But if you like xmms, maybe before you try to find more alternatives you'll consider trying to compile and install it from downloaded sources, manually. What about XMMS2? It's not in portage but I thought it was designed to fix all the flaws of the original XMMS. I have not tried it so I can't say for sure if its even remotely the same as the old XMMS. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZJl50PM4px2/kjgRAi7gAJ4jHqtY3AC3jV0kcOf6eY7f9UL2CgCdHXjU EtKc0bAlLsK914QckPqcsXs= =hMaq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. Ha... yea, my use flags have -gnome and -kde in them, and I run a very simple fluxbox environment... I just want the music player to have a decent graphical interface, but just the essential features, without bloat. It seems like I got the Audacious to work... But I still miss the XMMS ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:52:26PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: I've set up my desktop machine using LVM over software raid, and although I like it I'm getting weary of the complication of the setup for a simple desktop system. What I would like to do is get the same install (packages, config files, etc) as are currently used, but have it all on one file system for simplicity. I know I can use DD to copy a filesystem, but I don't think that will work in this case. I was thinking of doing a fresh install and then using my backup of /etc to try and get the same setup. If I copy the world file from the previous system and emerge -e world, will that get all the packages I currently have? Afterwards I would just copy the rest of /etc into place and go about on my merry way. Are there any problems with this approach? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Normally I just use the dump and restore utilites for this. Forgive me if the syntax is a bit off, I haven't had to do this for a little while. I usually do this from a seperate machine on the network: On the machine you don't want to reformat do: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump 0fz9 - /dev/device_to_backup backup.image That will do a full dump of the filesystem to your other machine that you will restore later. When you restore that, it won't care about partitions or filesystem so you can change them however you want. Wipe / format you old machine how you want it, and boot a gentoo install cd or some other live cd (unless the gentoo cd has changed recently it won't have restore on it tho). Then on that old machine that you just wiped mount the new fresh filesystem (should be completely empty, no stage install or anything). cd to that directory you just mounted and do: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /path_to/backup.image | restore -xf - That'll cat the file back to restore on the old machine and should do a restore into the current directory. From there chroot in and reinstall your bootloader / edit fstab if you need, etc etc. :) -Rick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Message at bootup about superblock last write time
A while ago, I was troubleshooting serial port modem/ppconfig problems, and I did a lot of recompiles and reboots. It seems that every time my system reboots, I get the following message... * Checking root filesystem ... /dev/hda1: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED. /dev/hda1: clean, 6975/160960 files, 32843/307235 blocks [ ok ] * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ] Despite the message, I haven't encountered any problems. I'm running an 1999 Dell 450mhz PIII into the ground, but it refuses to die. Sort of like a watched kettle never boils, actually a backed-up harddrive never crashes. Here are the harddrive-related entries of /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 noatime 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind,noatime 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind,noatime 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind,noatime 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdromiso9660 noauto,ro0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd auto noauto,ro0 0 -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
But, this time, boom! Now everything is scrunched into the upper left hand corner of the screen. I've maxed out the settings in the screen control panel on the monitor itself and managed to move the text to a band down the center of the screen with margins of about two inches. Now instead of no margins, they're too big. ... mode 1024x768-76 # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 accel true rgba 5/10,5/5,5/0,0/0 endmode Okay, this is somewhat of a guess, but perhaps some of the timings are incorrect, as this controls margins (see fbset manpage). First it may be wise to change the first timing setting (pixclock) to 0 (at least for now), as this'll auto-select that setting. For the others, perhaps you could experiment with the settings individually, using fbset, to get an idea of whether they may have a part to play in this most odd problem. Something like fbset -left 100. Another thing: doesn't the -a switch set (a)ll the consoles? Not in this instance. Yes, it should, and does for me... What's even more confusing is that in the .config I have CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE=[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Why doesn't it try that since now my command line has just video=vesafb with *no* parameters at all? And no complaints in dmesg. As far as I can see it should... Hmm... Sorry I can't be more help. Good luck -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F pgpwDqnfczooW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
On Monday 04 June 2007 23:40:44 darren kirby wrote: Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it... I'd rather say it's unmaintainable. People have tried and failed. It was kept in the tree for years literally after it became unmaintainable because people were trying. And the bugs have piled up during that period.. I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems to be a lot of take xmms out of my cold dead hands sort of folks out there. What surprises me is that no-one has put it in a dedicated overlay and announced it for use with layman (the zugaina overlay does have it but I think it contains so much other crap too that I cannot recommend using that). -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration
Richard Cox wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:52:26PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: I've set up my desktop machine using LVM over software raid, and although I like it I'm getting weary of the complication of the setup for a simple desktop system. What I would like to do is get the same install (packages, config files, etc) as are currently used, but have it all on one file system for simplicity. I know I can use DD to copy a filesystem, but I don't think that will work in this case. I was thinking of doing a fresh install and then using my backup of /etc to try and get the same setup. If I copy the world file from the previous system and emerge -e world, will that get all the packages I currently have? Afterwards I would just copy the rest of /etc into place and go about on my merry way. Are there any problems with this approach? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Normally I just use the dump and restore utilites for this. Forgive me if the syntax is a bit off, I haven't had to do this for a little while. I usually do this from a seperate machine on the network: On the machine you don't want to reformat do: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump 0fz9 - /dev/device_to_backup backup.image That will do a full dump of the filesystem to your other machine that you will restore later. When you restore that, it won't care about partitions or filesystem so you can change them however you want. Wipe / format you old machine how you want it, and boot a gentoo install cd or some other live cd (unless the gentoo cd has changed recently it won't have restore on it tho). Then on that old machine that you just wiped mount the new fresh filesystem (should be completely empty, no stage install or anything). cd to that directory you just mounted and do: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /path_to/backup.image | restore -xf - That'll cat the file back to restore on the old machine and should do a restore into the current directory. From there chroot in and reinstall your bootloader / edit fstab if you need, etc etc. :) -Rick Hi, Nice info, thanks (i'm not the OP) Could recommend mkstage4.sh script (search gentoo-wiki.com) Works for me. HTH, Rumen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
On 6/5/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. * media-sound/bmpx Available versions: ~0.36.1 Homepage:http://www.beep-media-player.org Description: Next generation Beep Media Player Although I prefer mplayer console on most of my multimedia needs, I've been using bmp on my old Debian box and it works okay with a nice xmms-like feel to it. I use mplayer on the console on Gentoo. I think bmpx [http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/site/BMPx_Homepage] looks different from its predecessor though. Haven't tried it yet. -- Jed R. Mallen | GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 | http://jed.sitesled.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users
Folks, i've tried install nfs-utils on my client boxes, and guess what !??! it worked !!!. I guess the rpc.statd is started when I start the nfs service on my client box. Anyway, i think my problem is solved(by now :) ) Thax all of you for the time and help. On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:34:23 -0300 Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start kde, i enter a dmesg command and the last output was this: statd: server localhost not responding, timed out rpc.statd needs to be running on NFS client hosts. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 194392373 __
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list There's sometimes no obvious offending process. Sending a term to X doesn't always do much when this is going on. I'll have to wait till it happens again to be specific. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
Sorry I can't be more help. Geert Uytterhoeven, who's listed as the author at the end of man fbset, pointed out that since I only have one video card, I only need one framebuffer, whereas I had two: ATI and VESA. So I reconfig'd w/o VESA and removed the video=vesafb... from the kernel line in grub.conf. Then I put fbset -a 1024x768-76 in local.start and rebooted. The framebuffer opens up beautifully. Without the scrunch or big margins but still only in the one console and it doesn't switch until the boot process gets to the .start file. Rather have a continuous high-res o/p from the start like with the bootCD. I think I should put it in /etc/inittab but where? Does it matter? Or maybe it should be video=aty128fb...on the kernel line. Still some tweaking to do. But I think most of the heavy lifting is over. Thanks Dale. Maxim. Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Message at bootup about superblock last write time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that every time my system reboots, I get the following message... * Checking root filesystem ... /dev/hda1: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED. I get this also. I've always thought it's because my system time is local instead of UTC. Sounds like clock skew. Do you use anything like ntp to set the time automatically? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZNLg0PM4px2/kjgRAr1sAJ4lCr3Q6QP6kJI4Czuqcr2DiFDxuQCcDgvf QXJFEiIttsXmeN7zb0mS7lE= =xRyN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge ekiga
Yup, I think that will fix it. Thank you for your time. On Saturday 02 June 2007 01:55, Neil Walker wrote: Mike Diehl wrote: I'm trying to install ekiga and it won't compile. It's complaining about not having XML::Parser installed. But XML::Parser is installed: I've had this kind of problem a couple of times. The configure script looks in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl but not /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl. A symlink will fix it. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- Mike Diehl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
