[gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized

[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm

[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of dmesg | grep drm If I

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump. Like this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194832

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Sven Köhler
When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: WARN: postinst *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new version, which could cause

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-07 Thread Sven Köhler
To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. Which /boot partition? I don't have any ... If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed. So if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that command is

[gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-11 Thread Sven Köhler
emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now broken. They have to recompiled to link against the new libexpat. For me, it was gettext and

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Sven Köhler
Does anybody knows what had happened to: http://gentoo-wiki.com ? And http://www.gentoo-portage.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] postfix+cyrus+postgre?

2007-09-16 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, any tipps on setting up a mailserver with postfix, cyrus-imapd and postgresql? Actually, a web-frontend would be nice.It seems, that the web-cyradm projects stopped living some years ago :-( Does anybody run a complete and easy to configure sollution for SMTP+IMAP based on Gentoo?

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi. I am having a very frustrating prroblem when I use the pppoe plugin like so: config_ppp0=(ppp) link_ppp0=eth2 plugins_ppp0=(rp-pppoe) username_ppp0='vzeqmmst' pppd_ppp0=( updetach noauth ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local holdoff 3 lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 3 )

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi. I just tried to update to the new stable samba 3.025c and noticed two problems: - the init script does not work (known bug #191647) - after fixing the init script, the Windows box (XP SP2) can no longer connect to shared directories despite the new server being visible and

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Köhler
In addition, the mount.cifs binary is missing. So i cannot mount via CIFS anymore. Samba ebuild is VERY broken :-( The ebuild is not broken, you just didn't read what it told you The mount/umount.cifs helper applications are not included anymore. Please install net-fs/mount-cifs instead.

[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. But watch out, it has a huge security problem: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml Yeah, but i've got no time right now, to analyse the problems with 3.0.27a. I've run it in debug mode and so on - but i found

[gentoo-user] Re: Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Sven Köhler
Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined). In all of /etc/portage there are 4

[gentoo-user] PPPoA with AVM DSL Cards?

2005-12-25 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, afaik, these AVM Fritz!Card DSL-cards support PPPoA/PPPoATM, and afaik it is supported by some DSL-Providers. Does somebody know, how to make pppd/capi use PPPoA instead of PPPoE? Thank you Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Deer Park instead of FireFox

2006-01-14 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i just installed mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9. So when i start it, it says hooray, you've got Deer Park Alpha 2 installed! Thank you, for helping us testing. So what is Deer Park? What's the difference to a normal FireFox 1.5? Or the main question is: Why does that gentoo-ebuild install Deer

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 dmesg error

2006-01-15 Thread Sven Köhler
ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured. ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists. ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists. ipw2200: Firmware error

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 dmesg error

2006-01-15 Thread Sven Köhler
I got the same messages; they disappeared when I changed to the in-kernel modules for the ipw2200. so let me understand: changing from the ipw2200 external-provided driver to the in-kernel one solved this issue? Which kernel? But i thought that the in-kernel driver were older than the

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild never seems to work

2006-01-28 Thread Sven Köhler
What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this: emerge app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-editors/gedit app-text/evince gnome-base/control-center gnome-base/gdm because there are slotted packages - and revdep-rebuild would have to take the newest version within the same slot. That is a

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 lilo...

2006-02-25 Thread Sven Köhler
How should I translate this lilo.conf into grub.conf: - boot = /dev/md0 AFAIK, grub does _not_ support RAID. You would habe to install grub into the MBR of all drives part of md0. GRUB cannot be installed into the boot-sector of a partition. And AFAIK,

[gentoo-user] new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout

2008-07-28 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, have you noticed the hal update? It just informed me about some trouble concerning my keyboard-layout. Keyboards as well as mice are now added automatically to xorg (and the evdev driver is used - hooray! always wanted to use evdev). Yet, they are always added with us keyboard layout.

[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

2008-07-31 Thread Sven Köhler
So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it? There is no /etc/conf.d/clock anymore in openrc/baselayout 2.0. The openrc file is called /etc/conf.d/hwclock, and there's no TIMEZONE variable in that file.

[gentoo-user] Re: bridge configuration problem

2008-08-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Normally, the bridge works well. But everytime I execute /etc/init.d/net.br0 restart, the following error occurs: * network interface br0 does not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ] Then I execute such command one more

[gentoo-user] intel gma900 and linux

2005-06-10 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, what about buying a notebook with intel's 915 chipset which doesn't use any ati or nvidia-card but the integrated intel-thing called GMA900. I can't find any ebuild in portage, but there are drivers for linux on intel's support page. They seem to be at least for linux 2.4 - and perhaps for

[gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[gentoo-user] Re: too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-20 Thread Sven Köhler
Try setting the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes to no in /etc/conf.d/rc. Well, that helped! Thank you! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc

2005-06-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Answering my own mail. If /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname are both blank, we get: (none) ~ # hostname (none) (none) ~ # nisdomainname (none) (none) ~ # dnsdomainname dnsdomainname: Unknown host AFAIK, dnsdomainname will do a lookup on the hostname. If the lookup succeeds, the

[gentoo-user] vmware broken?

2007-02-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, my vmware doesn't work anymore :-( I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus? # vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Köhler
I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not installed installed automatically. Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-dependency of some

[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Köhler
Any suggestions? I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not installed installed automatically. Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and evolution-webcal, because it's a

[gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, any ideas, why my cyrus-imapd isn't working anymore? In /var/log/imapd.log is says: Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process started Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25004]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1

[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format. But i have NO idea, which one it is. OK, it was the database in /var/imap/db. Deleted all files in that directory, and now everything's fine again. I wonder, what i broke by doing this. Anyway: all my mails are still there.

[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
is there any WLAN daemon that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into them, if he finds one, that i prefer? Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs! I think, it's just an application - a frontend. What i would prefer, is really a daemon running as root in background, scanning for networks, loggin

[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

2007-04-14 Thread Sven Köhler
As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate with the next available device when it comes into range. Some drivers are not that good at re-associating. Right, but just imagine you close the laptop in the university and open it at home again. There is no such

[gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Sven Köhler
is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. You have to tell smartmontools, that it's actually an ATA disk. SATA devices show up as SCSI devices, but the protocol is still ATA. So this can be done with the -d ata switch - also see

[gentoo-user] Re: glib-1.2.10-r5 broken for lame

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Köhler
trying to update my system , glib is broken here is the output Seems like a libtool problem. Please try to update libtool, and then try to update glib again. Maybe that works. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] no-multilib killed /lib link

2007-05-27 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i switched to the no-mutilib profile. Then, i emerged glibc and gcc. After that whole thing, i tried to reboot: But the link at /lib pointing to /lib64 was missing. I don't which step exactly removed it. But it's not good! Without the link, the system won't boot :-( Just wanted to let you

[gentoo-user] which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log. Maybe syslog-ng can be configured to behave like

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand,

[gentoo-user] Re: After update to glibc-2.4: /usr/bin/python: relocation error: /lib/libresolv.so.2: symbol __res_iclose, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time refere

2006-03-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Oh, I just noticed the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -lad /var/db/pkg/*/*glibc* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 864 19. Feb 19:13 /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 856 11. Mär 21:49 /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.4 Why do I have two glibc's installed? glibc is not

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html Well, there will be, i guess. Someday in the future, GAIM will include GoogleTalk/libjingle support, i

[gentoo-user] Re: Google-Talk

2006-03-18 Thread Sven Köhler
At present, you may try to use WINE. Thanks Sven, I've tried WINE but can't even connect to use IM, let alone VoIP. :-( Well, i've heard Google is working on using Wine to bring their apps to Linux - well, they could have developed cross-platform-apps right from the start, but they didn't

[gentoo-user] Re: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Sven Köhler
I've run onto few posting on Google regarding DMA resetting itself but no solution. That is simply annoying, that the Linux-Kernel resets DMA. You could try hdparm -k1 - but somethimes that doesn't help either. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?

2006-03-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Does anybody have some experiences with s-ata disks attached to via k8m880/890 (vt9251) and gentoo/linux? Or where could I find some info about the latest status of linux - k8m880/890 support? Googling revealed, that the SATA-ports in the VT8251 _should_ be AHCI-compliant and therefor

[gentoo-user] Re: VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?

2006-03-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Googling revealed, that the SATA-ports in the VT8251 _should_ be AHCI-compliant and therefor supported by Linux. vt8251 *is* ahci-compliant, and in bios there is option to set up sata controller as ide, or ahci. But no matter what you set, vt8251/sata is not recognised with standard 2.6.15

[gentoo-user] problems with ifplugd

2006-04-01 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, does anybody use ifplugd successfully? Assume a cable is inserted. Then i perform the following commands: - ifconfig eth0 up - mii-tool eth0 = works, shows infos about the link - ifconfig eth0 down - mii-tool eth0 = shows no-link even though cable is inserted! The problem: So assume i

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

2006-04-02 Thread Sven Köhler
Try adding the following to /etc/conf.d/net: postdown() { test ${IFACE} = eth0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up return 0 } Thank you. That was a big help, but somehow disappointing. I would rather like, if ifplugd would automatically do the ifconfig up so that no

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

2006-04-02 Thread Sven Köhler
No, the interface needs to be up for mii stuff to work. Well, the proper sollution is: set AUTO=yes in /etc/conf.d/ifplugd, and ifplugd sets the interface to up automatically. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] traffic shaping

2006-04-02 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i would like to shape the traffic of my DSL-connection, but somehow i never really understood the machanisms that linux offers. All the scripts i wrote were simply worthless somehow, because they didn't really improve anything. Is there any application or script that is easy to configure and

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

2006-04-03 Thread Sven Köhler
Of course, i also got to put the interface in the up state on boot, because i don't want to put net.eth0 in the default-runlevel for the case where there is no cable plugged in ... That's what you're doing wrong. The net.eth* scripts will detect ifplugd and use it. Put net.eth0 in the

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd

2006-04-03 Thread Sven Köhler
net.eth0 detects ifplugd? Are you sure? Yes. As I said, I've been using it. Do i need to set anything special in /etc/conf.d/net? Yes, read the example config file I mentioned. Which version baselayout do you have installed? My version is 1.11.14-r6, and that does not include that

[gentoo-user] Re: microcode already at revision 0x1d

2006-04-09 Thread Sven Köhler
My laptop Compaq Evo N600c (PIII) won't play with microcode (unlike a desktop box also PIII, which happily updates its microcode). This is the error during boot: == microcode: CPU0 already at revision 0x1d (current=0x1d) == Any ideas? That

[gentoo-user] reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i once read about a tool to convert a reiserfs to ext3 - but without using to much additional space. Instead, that tool claimed to use a sparse-file within the original filesystem to create the new filesystem by moving the files to new FS contained in the sparse file. Do you know tools, that

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... Yes! my Gentoo had just gone to hell! Don't use convertfs ;-) --

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Sven Köhler
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( mkfs, but make sure you have a backup. *SCNR* No risk, no fun! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] disable IPv6 for one interface?

2006-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, how can i disable IPv6 for my eth1-interface? In my /etc/conf.d/net, i only specify the IPv4 address, but the kernel or baselayout adds that local-link address to the interface. But i don't want an IPv6 address for that interface. /etc/conf.d/net.example doesn't tell anything about it, just

[gentoo-user] dialup + IPv6?

2006-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i have a normal DSL-connection. My provider only supplies a IPv4 address - and so my ppp0 does not have a IPv6 address. The IPv4 of ppp0 address changes every 24 hours. So i'd like to be abled to use IPv6 from my LAN which sits behind my Gentoo-based DSL router. I think, that 6to4 would be

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error

2006-04-15 Thread Sven Köhler
after xorg-server update fglrx driver wont work, even after (re)emerge, should i file a bug? any suggesions? now i see option to downgrade where i was before, yes and X just crashed with xorg ati drivers. from Xorg.0.log: (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: fglrx

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error

2006-04-15 Thread Sven Köhler
that is the point, i recompiled after xorg-server update, and before too if that matters ;) I see! So perhaps the ATI-driver is only for xorg up to version 7.0? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up eth0 directly. No, since baselayout-1.12*, gentoo uses ppp and ppp's pppoe-plugin. rp-pppoe is not needed anymore! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
(1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying that net.ppp0 is

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Sven Köhler
Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? config_ppp9=( ppp )

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Köhler
Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then, I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8: .UTF-8 changed from .utf8? That's not true. My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off)

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Köhler
I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? I would use the ebuilds. You're much more flexible that way in the case, that you experience

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Sven Köhler
In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse... xorg 7.0 is ~x86 - no need to unmask things

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Sven Köhler
From doing a google, it looks like i need to run emerge sync in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try

[gentoo-user] Re: Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Köhler
I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just impossible. What's the problem? emergeing ati-drivers doesn't work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Köhler
I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) What is unicode and why might an end user

[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Köhler
Sorry - I thought it was clear from my description. Everyone is using the word 'unicode' in the definition of 'unicode', or so it is seeming to me. I've managed to get far enough to understand it's a different way of expressing font usage, I guess, but I don't understand when someone would

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.1-rc1-r2

2006-05-20 Thread Sven Köhler
So, thank you, Portage Devs. You've made my Gentoo experience nearly 100% enjoyable. But but rsync still makes my harddisk glow, too many small files signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.1-rc1-r2

2006-05-20 Thread Sven Köhler
But but rsync still makes my harddisk glow, too many small files Use the right filesystem: Reiserfs. I already used reiserfs and now i'm using ext3. There was not much difference. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I get java compiler without x11?

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Köhler
Thanks Remy. That's exactly what I need. No need for x11 on a server only system! If you don't want X, then disable all X-related use-flags. The java use-flag is _not_ X related, since all JRE/JDK ebuilds (at least those, that i now) won't install X if the right use-flags are disabled. javac

[gentoo-user] Re: samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Köhler
//192.168.0.2/Temp /mnt/temp smbfs user,uid=smash,gid=users,password= 0 0 smbfs? No, that's not clever. Better use cifs ;-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-apps/pam-login

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Köhler
Calculating world dependencies . ... done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) Do I need to remove sys-apps/shadow? I thought that was part of system? unmerge pam-login and update shadow signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.1.1 unable to compile kdelibs due to missing libstdc++

2006-06-02 Thread Sven Köhler
And still I get this. Any ideas? Upgrade to gentoolkit 0.2.2 and run revdep-revbuild. It now also analyses *.la files and will discover the broken ones. (But i have to tell you, that even if you recompiled all the packages, some *.la files will remain. They don't get unmerged due to some bugs.

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.1.1 unable to compile kdelibs due to missing libstdc++

2006-06-02 Thread Sven Köhler
(But i have to tell you, that even if you recompiled all the packages, some *.la files will remain. They don't get unmerged due to some bugs. Just rerun revdep-rebuild to discover them, and remove them my hand.) It is usually because you have run fix_libtool_files.sh at some point, which

[gentoo-user] Re: dangerous to emerge --depclean

2006-06-03 Thread Sven Köhler
I just can't understand why emerge -- depclean such a dangerous command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am right). Have you seen the big fat warning that says emerge --depclean may damage your system ? --depclean is a nice service for advanced users. It's nothing for

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-11 Thread Sven Köhler
I was using the (nowadays) old /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe script to start/stop my adsl connection, but I did an emerge world without looking at the messages that now the net script should handle all possible types of connection, so now I don't know how to configure it. config_ppp0=( ppp )

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-12 Thread Sven Köhler
The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Here are the advantages of using baselayout: - you can unmerge rp-pppoe - the pppoe-plugin provided by pppd uses the kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-13 Thread Sven Köhler
The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Perhaps we don´t need it, but we like to use it. The OP said he wanted to use the script. If he wants to use that, it´s his decision,

[gentoo-user] how to create bridge without interfaces!?

2006-10-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i'm trying to create a bridge, but without interfaces! The interfaces will be added by xend. When i put the following in /etc/conf.d/net, baselayout just complains xenbr1 does not exist. bridge_xenbr1= config_xenbr1=( 192.168.0.1/24 brd 192.168.0.255 ) brctl_xenbr1=( setfd 0

[gentoo-user] Re: how to create bridge without interfaces!?

2006-10-08 Thread Sven Köhler
bridge_xenbr1= config_xenbr1=( 192.168.0.1/24 ) brctl_xenbr1=( setfd 0 sethello 0 stp off ) Hmm, forget about my question. Exactly the configuration above works fine now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] verify, that noexec/nx-bit is effectively enabled

2006-10-10 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you guys know any possibility to detect, whether the nx-bit is effectively enabled and being used? I'm passing noexec=on and even noexec32=on to the kernel. But i want to check whether it really changes something. Any ideas? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Köhler
After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it very visible. It

[gentoo-user] Re: Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Köhler
I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Can you tell us, which nvidia related ebuild you have installed?

[gentoo-user] Re: What does future video mode mean for the i810 xorg driver?

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Köhler
I looked at this tool. It allows me to patch the bios table w/ resolution and bpp value - but not with the rest of the mode line timings. How can I change that? It seems, that you can't. All the Linux-stuff is using the BIOS to switch modes. Also see this page:

[gentoo-user] hald doesn't allow my cdrom to spin down

2006-10-28 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you have the same problems? When hald is running, it seems to access the dvd-drive on a regular basis. That means, that the drive doesn't spin down :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Köhler
When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. Old *.la files are broken. They have not been unmerged. That's a known bug, because some gentoo-tools have

[gentoo-user] switched from SiS to VIA chipset - vesa framebuffer broken

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, this is a really strange issue i'm having: i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And actually it worked perfect! No, after the switch to the

[gentoo-user] Re: switched from SiS to VIA chipset - vesa framebuffer broken

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Köhler
this is a really strange issue i'm having: i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And actually it worked perfect! No, after the switch to

[gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-12 Thread Sven Köhler
do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old

[gentoo-user] Re: udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Köhler
Hmm - I don't have this issue - what version of alsa-utils are you running? I'm running 1.0.13. I don't even have a /etc/init.d/coldplug init script on my system - maybe you need to do an emerge -C coldplug? Maybe if the coldplug script doesn't exist then alsasound won't complain about it...

[gentoo-user] patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i attached a patch. See comments #70 and #72 of this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149307 from where i got it, and so on ... It fixes the sandbox violations with vanilla 2.6.19 kernel. It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in 2.6.19.1 :-( I thought,

[gentoo-user] Re: patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in 2.6.19.1 :-( But it will be in 2.6.19.2 - hooray! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, emerge --sync should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP adresses (5 at the moment). Here's what host says: # host rsync.gentoo.org rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74 rsync.gentoo.org has

[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-26 Thread Sven Köhler
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!!

[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2007-01-01 Thread Sven Köhler
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!!

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