Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The machine name is unknown. Just put the files into a gzipped tar archive and attach that. Bye...

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> [...] >> Just to make sure you're doing it right... >> [...] > > Forgot to mention that no initrd is needed and the grub.conf should > not have an inird line. Ok Nikos... I'm going to do that right now but of course it will take a little wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > Forgot this one: dmesg output from the working setup. www.jtan.com/~reader/kdiag/dmesg.html

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 01:24:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Then did the above command. All it did was creating a file autounmask-xorg-server with this inside: # --- # BEGIN: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3 # --- =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3 ~amd64 # --- # END

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs writes: > From that and the contents of the original initrd you posted in the > former thread and what others already found out: > > This initrd has all all sorts of driver modules for SATA and SCSI > chipsets, so it's most likely that you forgot to compile in the > correct drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 December 2008 01:24:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: > >> I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, > >> but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. > > > > Make /

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. Make /etc/portage/package.keywords a directory, then run autounmask x11-base/xorg-se

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: > >> I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, >> but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. > > Make /etc/portage/package.keywords a directory, then run > autounmask x

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: > I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, > but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. Make /etc/portage/package.keywords a directory, then run autounmask x11-base/xorg-server, which will crea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Nikos Chantziaras : > Same here, plus that switching to VTs and back to X a couple of times hangs > the machine. That's has always the case with fglrx, with any version ever > produced, on any distro you can imagine. Oh, I can't believe! I'm almost sure at some point this afternoon I g

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Miguel Ramos wrote: 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : But the result isn't very good. I have the following behaviour consistently: boot system, X starts fine, I close X on purpose, second time X doesn't start, receives signal 11, third time on starting X my system hangs badly and I have to press

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: >> I did. Read again. (I also needed to add -DGL_GLEXT_LEGACY to compile >> fgl_glxgears) > > never needed that. I just upgraded to xorg 7.4. Did need that now too. >> But the result isn't very good. I have th

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: I've been looking for an ATI graphics card with a water cooling system built in. I'm very tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. I believe Sapphire has those under the label "WaterCooled". HD3870X2 and HD4870 I think. Google for "Sapphire WaterCooled".

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I've been looking for an ATI graphics card >> > with a water cooling system built in. I'm very >> > tired of l

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been looking for an ATI graphics card > > with a water cooling system built in. I'm very > > tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. > > > > Any suggestions? It doe

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Just to make sure you're doing it right... [...] Forgot to mention that no initrd is needed and the grub.conf should not have an inird line.

Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 20:13:11 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:07:44 Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles. I thought the thread > > subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query. > > > > Here is the general se

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] I then tried copying as best I can from the working kernel config of 2.6.24-r8 by running menuconfig in that directory and genkernel --menuconfig all in the new kernel directory. I'd already tried the same thing but without genkernel... just calling make after getti

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN and IPsec

2008-12-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 11 December 2008, 22:08, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to set up a VPN connection to a router which is using IKE > & IPsec: > http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25474&seqNum=7 > > Would I be able to achieve this using OpenVPN on my gentoo box? Unfortunately not

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenVPN and IPsec

2008-12-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-11, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to set up a VPN connection to a router which is using IKE & > IPsec: http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25474&seqNum=7 > > Would I be able to achieve this using OpenVPN on my gentoo box? AFAICT, no. OpenVPN uses SSL/TLS. > I

[gentoo-user] OpenVPN and IPsec

2008-12-11 Thread Mick
Hi All, I would like to set up a VPN connection to a router which is using IKE & IPsec: http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25474&seqNum=7 Would I be able to achieve this using OpenVPN on my gentoo box? I read the IPsec HowTo and scared myself to death (it seems long enough to wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 20:54: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:39:34 +0100 > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> and why do you blame Gentoo in >> bug #250632? >> > > Because I don't know how to find out where the problem comes from. They at > BGO say it is in overlay, resolved the bug "invalid"

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Andrey Falko
> > It is about catalystframework, which is in the perl-experimental overlay (a > misnomer if ever there was one, "experimental"). It is about perl 5.10.0, > which is long overdue for making it into the tree (never mind just into an > overlay). You want to upgrade to perl 5.10.0 on an experimenta

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking for an ATI graphics card > with a water cooling system built in. I'm very > tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. > > Any suggestions? It does not need to be the latest > smokin card, just reasonable at video

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:39:34 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 19:19: [8<] > dev-perl/MRO-Compat is not in portage, so from which overlay do you > have it. The perl overlay (where you get catalystframework ebuilds). > This overlay should also contain perl-5

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : > > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > >> Effectively, I didn't need anything more than picking the 8.552 ebuild > >> (which does not need Xserver 1.5), changing the source file name from > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 James : > Did you see this? > > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886 > > I sure hope we get at least a function level profile > that works with gcc with Catalyst 8.12. > > > I await your respone. I took a look at your link but I can't see what I was expected to see. Anyway, it see

Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:07:44 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles. I thought the thread > subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query. > > Here is the general setup and the general problem: > > vmware appliance made from gentoo-200

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: >> >> Effectively, I didn't need anything more than picking the 8.552 ebuild >> (which does not need Xserver 1.5), changing the source file name from >> 8-11 to 8-12, rebuilding the manifest and emerging. > > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:04:21 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Sure, we can give it a try. > > Please see the thread noted at the start of this message. > If you are willing to continue. Yep, will switch to that thread. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Higgins schrieb am 11.12.2008 19:19: > D] dev-perl/MRO-Compat [1] > Available versions: ~0.05 ~0.07 ~0.09-r1 > Installed versions: 0.09(01:15:13 PM 07/27/2008) > Homepage: > http://search.cpan.org/search?query=MRO-Compat&mode=dist > Description: Le

Re: [gentoo-user] new cron print job...

2008-12-11 Thread David Sveningsson
Mark Knecht skrev: Hello, Thanks to those that helped me with the new printer thread the other day. We purchased an HP M1522nf from NewEgg. It arrived in under 24 hours and tool me less than 2 minutes to get a test page. Quite a success. Thanks! I'd now like to set up a cron job to print a

[gentoo-user] Perl woes MRO-Compat requires perl-5.10.0 [?!?!]

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Hey, folks -- IMO, maintaining a decent perl library isn't difficult in the least. With Gentoo, there is an extra level of confusion when using Portage to manage the perl libraries and modules. Even so, it hasn't been too bad. Until now. I've come across this issue several times, solved it by u

[gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
"Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)" writes: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 08:05 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk > (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): >> > I'll extract `exact' messages if you are willing to spend some time >> on >> > this. But I suspect we should begin another th

[gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
"Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)" writes: [...] >> > What is the error message you get? Posted in thread: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP [...] > Did you try to examine the contents of that initrd with the one you > produce. Maybe somthing is missing

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Miguel Ramos <2...@miguel.ramos.name>: > > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : > >> Just do this: > >> kill X > >> eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > >> emerge -C ati-drivers > >> emerge =ati-drivers-8.552-r2 (for 8.11 - you don't miss anyth

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras writes: >> >>> Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: >> [...] >> mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup >> ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} >> scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=00

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread James
Miguel Ramos <2008 miguel.ramos.name> writes: > Thanks for the info. > It really looks like the 8.12 is more recent than the 8.54.3 after all... > I'm going to try to install this one and I'll get back to you. > As to GPU programming, I'm certainly there too! > However, there is another obstacle

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just do this: > > kill X > > eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > > emerge -C ati-drivers > > emerge =ati-drivers-8.552-r2 (for 8.11 - you don't miss anything when you > > wait some days for the

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Miguel Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Just do this: >> kill X >> eselect opengl set xorg-x11 >> emerge -C ati-drivers >> emerge =ati-drivers-8.552-r2 (for 8.11 - you don't miss anything when you >> wait >> some days for the 8.12 ebui

[gentoo-user] new cron print job...

2008-12-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, Thanks to those that helped me with the new printer thread the other day. We purchased an HP M1522nf from NewEgg. It arrived in under 24 hours and tool me less than 2 minutes to get a test page. Quite a success. Thanks! I'd now like to set up a cron job to print a small file each even

[gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread James
Hello, I've been looking for an ATI graphics card with a water cooling system built in. I'm very tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. Any suggestions? It does not need to be the latest smokin card, just reasonable at video games and quite as can be. R580 engine or above. Low dB is th

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just do this: > kill X > eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > emerge -C ati-drivers > emerge =ati-drivers-8.552-r2 (for 8.11 - you don't miss anything when you wait > some days for the 8.12 ebuild) > eselect opengl set ati > reboot But the 8.552-r2 r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "ATI Stream Computing Support" > > It seems that with ATI Catalyst 8.12, we commoners can > finally access and program so that the GPU is another > available processor for us to access and use. > > > Anyone with information, particularly relate to 'howto' >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > for 8.11 there is already a bug open. > > for 8.12 the ebuild of 8.11 - edited and renamed works fine (I am using > > it since yesterday). > > I'm confused with version numbers. I'm new to

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread James
Miguel Ramos <2008 miguel.ramos.name> writes: > I'm new to these lists. > I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for > FirePro/FireGL chips. > Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; > so this one is better because it solves these issues an

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > for 8.11 there is already a bug open. > for 8.12 the ebuild of 8.11 - edited and renamed works fine (I am using it > since yesterday). I'm confused with version numbers. I'm new to the ATI driver. Apparently, when you try to get a Radeon HD 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluez hcid.conf syntax

2008-12-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I have a minor problem: I recently bought a Microsoft Presenter Mouse (I know, shame on me, but it's the only affordable device with this kind of functionality). So far, it works as expected: - it works out of the box with the Microsoft dongle - it works with

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to these lists. > I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for > FirePro/FireGL chips. > Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; > so this one is better because it solves thes

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread damian
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel Ramos schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to these lists. >> I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for >> FirePro/FireGL chips. >> Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread KH
Miguel Ramos schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm new to these lists. > I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for > FirePro/FireGL chips. > Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; > so this one is better because it solves these issues and because the > dri

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread KH
Justin schrieb: > Miguel Ramos schrieb: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to these lists. >> I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for >> FirePro/FireGL chips. >> Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; >> so this one is better because it solves thes

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Justin
Miguel Ramos schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm new to these lists. > I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for > FirePro/FireGL chips. > Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; > so this one is better because it solves these issues and because the > dri

[gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Miguel Ramos
Hi, I'm new to these lists. I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for FirePro/FireGL chips. Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; so this one is better because it solves these issues and because the driver is more recent. Whom should I gi

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd - Couldn't set profile

2008-12-11 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I just encountered a mysterious phenomenon regarding cpufreqd. After booting, it works properly for a while, including switching policies, without any problem. Then, without any reason and without changing anything in the configuration, cpufreqd fails to enable certain profiles, and a

[gentoo-user] {OT} Offline reading of online (flash) magazines

2008-12-11 Thread Momesso Andrea
Does anyone know an easy way to download for offline usage such a magazine? http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=wrprss The ideal would be to be able to convert it in something more portable (and user friendly) such as PS or PDF. === Momesso Andrea http://topperh.blogsp