Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working
On Montag, 6. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel? first thing ;) Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200. I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked for over a week. emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported cards'. There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers. might be time to look at building a new box. luckily mid range graphic cards are cheap today ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?
Bo Ørsted Andresen escribió: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote: So, emerge portage results in one package being installed, portage, 61kb. emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus portage, 18Mb. Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring later I could do an emerge -u for the rest of it. But this is what happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9 USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB What I expected. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -puv portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now? Because --update stops calculating deps when none of the specified targets need updating. Only --deep checks the consistency of all dependencies even when none of the targets need updating. You could argue it's a deficiency in portage (although well-known).. It may sound a bit off-topic, but there is (at least) one very good reason for portage behaving this way, just think of the following scenario: We have installed an application called APP (yes, very smart name) and this application depends on a dynamic library called LIB (yet smarter name). At installation APP was in version 1.0 and LIB in version 2.0. Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this problem*. Just my 0.02 ;-) Abraham * Needless to say, the problem will still arise if two applications depend on the same dynamic library, which is a common case, and only one of them is updated, but still it's an improvement. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this problem*. That's what revdep-rebuild is for. Update your LIB, run revdep-rebuild, and if APP is really broken by the LIB update (it doesn't have to be), it will be rebuilt. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:25 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this problem*. SLOTs deal with this problem, allowing you to have LIB-1.0 and LIB-2.0 installed simultaneously. * Needless to say, the problem will still arise if two applications depend on the same dynamic library, which is a common case, and only one of them is updated, but still it's an improvement. Unless you use SLOTs. -- Neil Bothwick A. Top posters. Q. What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start
Hi, Last 2 lines of your log: Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented inotify comes from kernel, in my config: elwood linux # zcat /proc/config.gz |grep -i notify CONFIG_INOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y in menuconfig: ┌─── File systems [...] [*] Inotify file change notification support [*] Inotify support for userspace bye bye Mick ha scritto: On Saturday 04 August 2007 11:21, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Mick ha scritto: On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Mick ha scritto: Hi All, I noticed on a box of mine that hald won't start: == # /etc/init.d/hald restart * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ... [ !! ] == Confusingly, the logs don't show anything. How do I troubleshoot this? I had the same problem: hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work and launching hald from terminal with the option hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing something about rules so I got in /etc/udev/rules.d and found (by probing one by one) 99-libgphoto2.rules that was HALS's murder. Thank you Alessandro, what do you mean by probing - how did you probe them? moving it to /tmp and restart hald, becouse the error I got when launching # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes is Unhandled Rule (0) so deleting the rules (delete de rule, start hald, if it doesn't works put the rule back , and move another) from etc/udev/rules.d I debugged the problem, the bad rule was owned by gphoto2 I've had a chance to get back to this machine and this is what it is showing: == # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 11:16:08.930 [I] hald.c:533: hal 0.5.9 11:16:08.931 [I] hald.c:598: Will not daemonize 11:16:08.945 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-1LzyssbMzl,guid=faadd829b7aaff57dce0510046 b451e8 11:16:09.174 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 31241 11:16:09.180 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name 11:16:09.181 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 11:16:09.196 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x8096988 11:16:09.330 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1184442336 *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented == What do you make of this? I removed /usr/share/hal and tried to remerge it. It complained that I MUST compile pciutils without the zlib flag. Not sure why pciutils has the zlib flag as a default, but if it is causing a problem with hal shouldn't it be removed? Anyway, after masking zlib for pciutils and remerging both packages it now seems to be working again . . . Thanks for your suggestions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and preferred_aps (not associating)
I'm not sure what happened and my effort to find out what happened is
still largely surmised by don't know yet
Anyway, using ipw2100 and wpa_supplicant
I followed the gentoo guide and put in the
network={
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-999
}
such that it will pick up any un-encrypted APs.
Then suddenly it was not associating anymore.
I've ran wpa_supplicant on the command line and it kept spitting out
SSID Mismatch
I only got things to work after I added the SSID into the list in
wpa_supplicant.conf
Previously preferred_aps will work.
Does anyone have any clue?
BTW, when I do iwconfig, I get the message that the wireless tools has
been compiled with version 20 when the kernel version is version 22.
I've already re-compiled wireless-tools-28
(or should I upgrade it to 29_pre22??)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
Remy Blank escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this problem*. That's what revdep-rebuild is for. Update your LIB, run revdep-rebuild, and if APP is really broken by the LIB update (it doesn't have to be), it will be rebuilt. -- Remy That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?
Neil Bothwick escribió: On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:25 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this problem*. SLOTs deal with this problem, allowing you to have LIB-1.0 and LIB-2.0 installed simultaneously. I'm afraid you misunderstood what I said. As you said, slots let different versions of the same package being installed in your system, however, that's only done when you REALLY need to do so; one of the cases in which you would have such a necessity is the one of a library which changes its API through versions in a way that breaks backwards compatibility. In this case you may have apps using the old API and apps using the new one, and hence you would need both versions installed. However, if you can go with only one version slots aren't used, can you imagine the great amount of garbage installed in your box if you had to use a new slot for every new version of a package? That's just crazy. In conclusion, if you update a library and uninstall its previous version (which you'd do very often, even if you haven't noticed it before) you may need to rebuild the apps using that library as well, there's no way you escape from that. Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you want to have the new features, or because another package needs the new version). Between the LIB update and the APP recompilation, APP will be broken. Even worse, if you don't know that the LIB update will break APP, you might not notice immediately that APP is broken, or you might only get some strange results from APP. That's where revdep-rebuild steps in: it can tell you that APP is broken, and what's needed to fix it. So you're better off running it consistently after your regular updates. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
Remy Blank escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you want to have the new features, or because another package needs the new version). Between the LIB update and the APP recompilation, APP will be broken. Even worse, if you don't know that the LIB update will break APP, you might not notice immediately that APP is broken, or you might only get some strange results from APP. That's where revdep-rebuild steps in: it can tell you that APP is broken, and what's needed to fix it. So you're better off running it consistently after your regular updates. I'm not talking about not needing revdep-rebuild nor saying non-deep updates would prevent breaking dependencies, I just said that non-deep updates will *reduce* the amount of packages that need to be rebuilt. I systematically run revdep-rebuild after every update world (in fact, it's all in a script which performs update world, revdep-rebuild and update-eix), but I'd rather have it reinstalling 2 packages than 20. That's all. Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:40:38 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Even worse, if you don't know that the LIB update will break APP, you might not notice immediately that APP is broken, or you might only get some strange results from APP. That's where revdep-rebuild steps in: it can tell you that APP is broken, and what's needed to fix it. So you're better off running it consistently after your regular updates. If the update is likely to cause such breakage, the ebuild should warn of this, as many do, giving the exact command to run to fix such breakage before it becomes a problem. Such breakages are inevitable on a source based system using dynamic libraries. Fortunately, being a source based system makes the fix simple. Try dealing with the same problems on a binary distro. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, call it Windows NT. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
sean a écrit : There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Thanks Sean Regards, Xavier Parizet -- http://www.linuxant.fr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
sean escribió: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks Sean If top doesn't show up anything only two things come to my mind: 1) There's no excess processor usage 2) Someone compromised your system and maybe added an application that is using you cpu, but also changed top so it doesn't show this new application (might seem paranoid, but I've seen it before). Abraham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
On 06/08/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. You might want to look at sysstat for tracking system load: app-admin/sysstat Oprofile will track down exactly what is happening on your box (modulo particularly clever root-kits). It requires kernel support and can be a bit daunting, but is very powerful: dev-util/oprofile Thanks Sean Cheers, Duane. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
Abraham Marín Pérez a écrit : sean escribió: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks Sean If top doesn't show up anything only two things come to my mind: 1) There's no excess processor usage 2) Someone compromised your system and maybe added an application that is using you cpu, but also changed top so it doesn't show this new application (might seem paranoid, but I've seen it before). Abraham If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... Regards, Xavier Parizet -- http://www.linuxant.fr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage, this usually occurs on CPU1. Things get a bit sluggish when this happens. This is a recent problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] distcc with other distro (Debian)
Hi, if there is an gcc version problem icecream is your friend there you dont have so big problems with different gcc versions and it is easier to configure 2007/8/4, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 03 August 2007 01:34:37 am Ric de France wrote: There may be a gotcha of glibc (or other) incompatibilities / inconsistencies between Gentoo and Debian, but I'm sure others on this list can advise you better. distcc only farms out the actual compiling. Pre-processing is done locally, so it uses your local header files. Linking is also done locally, so it will use your local libraries. [1] That said, if you have incompatible compilers (e.g. gcc-3.3 vs. gcc-3.4) you may have issues, and they may or may not be caught at link time. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ [1] distcc tries to be smart when passed a command-line that would do both compiling and (pre-processing or linking), but when it can't separate the stages, it will end up using your local compiler.
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage, this usually occurs on CPU1. Things get a bit sluggish when this happens. This is a recent problem. I suspect IO. Disk IO makes everything slow. Especially if swap is involved. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the same. But my point is: You can never be sure, since a hypothesis can't be proven correct, just invalid. If there are indications a rootkit might be present, there's no secure way to remove it but to reinstall. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage, this usually occurs on CPU1. Things get a bit sluggish when this happens. This is a recent problem. I suspect IO. Disk IO makes everything slow. Especially if swap is involved. Thanks Volker, I will have to look this one over carefully. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the same. But my point is: You can never be sure, since a hypothesis can't be proven correct, just invalid. If there are indications a rootkit might be present, there's no secure way to remove it but to reinstall. -hwh Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:49:01 -0400, sean wrote: Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. Which may not prove much. Rootkit detectors (I prefer rkhunter BTW) are most effective when installed before a computer is open to infection. If you install it on a machine that has already been rootkitted, the rootkit may be able to conceal itself. -- Neil Bothwick Excuse for the day: daemons did it signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? - Why ? - Any known problems related to this migration ? As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it if necessary, but I'd like some users feedback. Be happy. -- ~adj~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? - Why ? - Any known problems related to this migration ? As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it if necessary, but I'd like some users feedback. Be happy. -- ~adj~ I did the switch with no big problem, but I regularely receive mail (in French or German) where I have to change the encoding in kmail to get the correct caracters. I don't know if this is rather a problem of the sender or of kmail not identifying the encoding correctly (the setting is set to auto-detect. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Excessive processor usage
Hans-Werner Hilse hilse at web.de writes: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the same. But my point is: You can never be sure, since a hypothesis can't be proven correct, just invalid. Well you are right and you are wrong. You are right for noobs. If the person has a second system and sets up a flat hub and the ethernet in stealth mode, you can sniff the ethernet I/O all day long and use a variety of tools to discern if nefarious activities abound on a given system. Sure it's a bit of work, but all hacked systems I've ever seen use the system to ethernet I/O. They can encrypt that traffic, but if you know what should/not be traversing the ethernet, there is no way to hide an actively compromised system. If the hacker scantly uses resources, and is elite, often it's the best thing for a noob, because they keep the systems in pristine condition building a gentoo based firewall, that runs off of a non rewritable media (CD and such) is definitely a good idea, if you want to control your resource utilization ymmv, hth, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have. Yes, I know - different hardware. I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much followed all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on installing Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times I installed Gentoo!) Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the same. But my point is: You can never be sure, since a hypothesis can't be proven correct, just invalid. If there are indications a rootkit might be present, there's no secure way to remove it but to reinstall. -hwh Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. The problems remain: You can't be sure. :-( Uwe -- Jack Nicholson: My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
so there is always an assumption On 8/6/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the same. But my point is: You can never be sure, since a hypothesis can't be proven correct, just invalid. If there are indications a rootkit might be present, there's no secure way to remove it but to reinstall. -hwh Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. The problems remain: You can't be sure. :-( Uwe -- Jack Nicholson: My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
what is the output of ifconfig -a does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? On 8/6/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have. Yes, I know - different hardware. I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much followed all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on installing Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times I installed Gentoo!) Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
Paul wrote: what is the output of ifconfig -a does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment. Regards, Colleen On 8/6/07, *Colleen Beamer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have. Yes, I know - different hardware. I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much followed all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on installing Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times I installed Gentoo!) Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ ( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers stopped working
You did check the new and updated nvidia guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml Regards, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Unknown Tool hd
I have a problem with a script refering to several tools, one is hd -snip- TESTECHO=$($ECHO -e '\061\062' \ | hd \ | grep -Eom1 '^[[digit:]]+[[:space:]]+[[digit:]]+[[:space:]]+[[digit:]]+' \ | tr -s '\t ' ' ' -snip- Searching has proved fruitless, I *think* it may be a Debian tool/script. Any pointers ? Please !!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? If you have no problems, then just stick with ISO-8859-15. But switching to UTF-8 now, when you have time to deal with any problems, will save you from doing it when it becomes a pressing need for some reason. I regularely receive mail (in French or German) where I have to change the encoding in kmail to get the correct caracters. I don't know if this is rather a problem of the sender or of kmail not identifying the encoding correctly (the setting is set to auto-detect. Where do you set KMail to do auto-detect? As far as I can tell, KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some autodetection. What exactly these Fallback encoding and Override encoding do in Settings Configure KMail Appearance Message window, I haven't been able to figure out. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Colleen Beamer schrieb: However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times I installed Gentoo!) Any ideas? Stefan, you are totally my hero, in an ethereal sort of way! ;-) This worked! And another lesson learned - one of the many, many reasons I *absolutely love* Gentoo - I've learned *so* much! Thanks ever so much! :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Bibble Pro 4
Has anyone used the Linux version of the Bibble photo editing software? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: VIDEO_CARDS= Intel Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller ?
W.Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: For my Sony: Section Device Identifier i915 Driver i810 VideoRam32768 Option DPMS On Option DDC Off Option IgnoreEDIDtrue Option MonitorLayout CRT,LFP Option Clone true Option CloneRefresh 60 #Option NoAccel BusID PCI:0:2:0 #Option ForceBIOS 1366x768=1280x1024 Screen 0 EndSection Hello, This did not work for the 965GM chipset this sony viao (VGN-FZ140E) has. I went to the vesa driver and have it working at 800x600... I'll keep after it until I figure it out. For now I have a baseline xwindows running... Looking around the net folks are talking about the latest driver release from Intel, for X does cover this chipset, so it's a waiting game for it to make it to gentoo. Also I guess after reading quite a lot, SONY is pretty much not very friendly to the greater Linux community.. thanks, James thanks for the ideas. James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
Colleen Beamer schrieb: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Colleen Beamer schrieb: However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times I installed Gentoo!) Any ideas? Stefan, you are totally my hero, in an ethereal sort of way! ;-) I consider quoting this on my website ... ;-) This worked! And another lesson learned - one of the many, many reasons I *absolutely love* Gentoo - I've learned *so* much! Thanks ever so much! :-) I am happy it worked out for you. Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?
On 8/3/2007 7:15 AM Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-08-03, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: Flashplayer 9 doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it in both Opera and Firefox, but for most videos (e.g. nytimes.com) it just sits there with the spinning loading arrow. Clicking play does nothing. Working here. I had a similar problem on a Kubuntu system, and it was audio related (disabling aRTs was the solution). Are you using aRTs, gstreamer or similar? No, and flashplayer doesn't have any problems with sound on videos from other sites or with videos using a smaller format on nytimes.com This may help: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=186198 Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
On Monday, 6. August 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Where do you set KMail to do auto-detect? As far as I can tell, KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some autodetection. You seem to be right - I've checked on a series of mails and this setting does change - seems to quite often be on autodetect, though... What exactly these Fallback encoding and Override encoding do in Settings Configure KMail Appearance Message window, I haven't been able to figure out. Benno Dunno either. I've tried different choices but it does not ssem to change anything. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
