Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 8:41:52 am Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? - Grant Quite possibly your cpu and/or cooling fan. To test this...pull your current units out, hook-up a known good fan (without any cpu) and apply power. If the fan spins, you've isolated your problem. -jm -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query
On Monday 30 April 2007 5:01:41 am Stuart Howard wrote: Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions as required? Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? Yes and yes...as an added bonus you can do this within your running system #swapoff -a (modify partitions and fstab) #swapon -a -jm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...
On Saturday 07 April 2007 8:54 am, Tony Stohne wrote: If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's full of valuable info on how to set up your network config. IMHO, ethernet configuration in Gentoo has gotten far too traumaticremember when net-config eth0answer a few simple questions, would produce a working ethernet? Those were the days my friend...:) -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)
On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote: but 'IceWeasel' is ugly. Bon Echo is such a nice name. I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells me what it is -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used genkernel. I followed these steps: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some other variant. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short
On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... Yes and yes. Unless you setup your sever(s) to receive requests from a non-standard port(s). Even then you'll want to be prepared to change ports if the bots catch on. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 2:01 pm, James wrote: Steve Brenneis sbrenneis at surry.net writes: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea where to look for debugging information. I can start KDE from a regular terminal session using startx. /etc/rc.conf may or maynot be used to start X/kdm at boot time. /etc/init.d/xdm script to see what's going on. look at your config file /etc/conf.d/xdm to see what you have set. You might also need to run 'revdep-rebuild -p' to clean rebuild some files. You might also try running kdm from the console to determine if kdm or xdm is the trouble point and/or get some output on errors. If kdm starts ok...try /etc/init.d/xdm start -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:22 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Update. After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped to hd2 The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hde (hd1) /dev/hdh (hd2) /dev/sda I edited the grub.conf file so that the splash image and root lines reference (hd2,5), then re-ran grub-install /dev/sda. Still no joy. On boot up, the screen stays blank for a while, then every 10 seconds or so, it adds another GRUB text element to the screen. No sign of any boot-up activity. Try running grub, then at the grub command line: root (hd2,5) setup /dev/sda quit -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Try running grub, then at the grub command line: root (hd2,5) setup /dev/sda quit -jm When I run setup /dev/sda, I get the error Error 11: Unrecognised device string Try setup (hd2)...also I think the root command needs to be adjusted to your partition that contains /boot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install. If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll take the computer back to the shop :-/ It seems to me that bios and grub have different ideas as to what the drive order is. I'd check bios for a drive order option. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem
On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. Unless you're using a laptop. Solar UPS? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help
On Thursday 19 October 2006 7:02 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3 = linux-swap /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1) Where sda2 should be used to be and XFS partition for Kubuntu. My question is thus: how would I tack that free space onto sda4? I don't want to reinstall SuSE if I don't have to. Throwing out an educated guess, do I have to delete sda3, and then make sda4 bigger, leaving enough space for sda5 (linux-swap)? If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, so your Suse fstab will require changes to reflect this. In theroy, resizing what was sda4 to fill the space gained by deleting sda3 should work. I'd suggest resizing sda3 to your desired swap partition size then formatting it as swap. And then resizing sda4 to grab what space is left over. Then your Suse partition will remain sda4. Of course, backing up any data of importantce is highly recommended before doing anything. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD recording speed is awfully low
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 10:43 am, Matias Grana wrote: Also, when I booted there was a message saying that it couldn't load ide-cd. I can't find that message now. I don't have ide-cd compiled into the kernel nor as a module, though. What say hdparm /dev/hdb ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 5:10 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: That's not the same as -5ing everything, which is what I was referring to and the easy way to toast /etc/fstab. Can you give an example of *any* situation that would make updating fstab sensible? Should never even be considered or an option, IMO. Important etc files should be placed in .example form and the user warned that editting is required. Etc-update has always been the thorn in Gentoo. Again, IMO. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kwallet [SOLVED]
On Thursday 21 September 2006 7:40 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:24:55 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: I looked into this a while ago, asking on this list and elsewhere, and it didn't seem possible to go back to the old KMail behaviour of storing email passwords in the config. If you go into kwallet manager and tell it to not allow kmail access, kmail should prompt you for a password and you can at that point tell kmail to keep password -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] backup tool for my Windows 98 desktop?
On Saturday 02 September 2006 8:41 pm, Zhang Weiwu wrote: am tired of re-installing Windows 98, and then complete with other software (filezilla, 7-zip, extra editors..., OOO). I think perhaps it's easier after I re-installed everything I make a backup of the Windows partition onto a CDROM and later use that CDROM to restore the partition. The partition is 5GB but actual data on it is smaller then 600MB right after Win98 and complementary software installed. First I thought using gentoo live CD, use dd(1) to copy the partition to a file and burn it on the live CD. However the file must be too big to fit on CDR (en I think perhaps I can compress it), and yet how do I add it to the live CD iso image so that cdrecord(1) can burn it? I think perhaps I should first try borrow experience on gentoo user list. How do you think is the best approach? Partimage was made for this... http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Use http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page if you don't want to install it locally. There's also a static version which is what I use. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 3:27 pm, Samuel Baldwin wrote: If anyone can show me a good WD or Seagate drive for a similar price and the same amount of space, please, do so :) . http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1901400CatId=134 -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ltmodem - is there one installed?
On Monday 08 May 2006 6:43 pm, JimD wrote: Do you know what winmodem it is? lspci -v should show something. How about in the product specs? Once you have the specific winmodem, post it here. Maybe someone has experience with the same winmodem as you. Best bet is... http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 4:42 pm, David Miller wrote: Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described. It requires a linux server to serve the images I believe. There may be a way to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described. http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page You can mount a local partition (other then the one you're backing up), save image to disk (you can specify file size limit) and burn later. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing
On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote: Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt really quick and no output. No such file reiserfschk, typo or are you looking for... Usage: reiserfsck [mode] [options] device Modes: --check consistency checking (default) --fix-fixable fix corruptions which can be fixed without --rebuild-tree --rebuild-sb super block checking and rebuilding if needed (may require --rebuild-tree afterwards) --rebuild-treeforce fsck to rebuild filesystem from scratch (takes a long time) --clean-attributesclean garbage in reserved fields in StatDatas Options: -j | --journal device specify journal if relocated -B | --badblocks file file with list of all bad blocks on the fs -l | --logfile file make fsck to complain to specifed file -n | --nolog make fsck to not complain -z | --adjust-sizefix file sizes to real size -q | --quiet no speed info -y | --yesno confirmations -Vprints version and exits -a and -p some light-weight auto checks for bootup -f and -r ignored Expert options: --no-journal-availabledo not open nor replay journal -S | --scan-whole-partition build tree of all blocks of the device -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing
On Saturday 11 March 2006 10:19 am, Harry Putnam wrote: But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence as reported. reiserfschk -su: reiserfschk: command not found So it was a typo, I used the right command and then again adding --check after bootup had finished. (That is the default though so shouldn't make any difference) and it didn't. No output from `reiserfsck /dev/hdb6' whatever. Yet on reboot ... again the same stop and error report occurs. Hmmm, that sounds not good. Some things I would try... check fstab for proper entry try to mount the partition manually in maintenance mode try accessing the partition from another o/s or live cd. good luck -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote: thanks... ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline and replace the drive... Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills it completely. My advice is don't use the drive until a replacement is available, and then only use it to transfer data to the new drive. Whatever you decide, only attempt backup/transfer after the drive is over night cold. HTH-jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
On Monday 30 January 2006 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory Check for /dev/floppy/0 (note: floppy is a folder) If neither /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy/0 exist then verify the drive is valid via bios setup. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting fsck
On Saturday 07 January 2006 8:04 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote: ReiserFS: hdb9: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hdb9 thats ok, there is no reisefs, but ext3 Check that /etc/fstab contains a correct entry for hdb9 file system (ext3 not reiserfs). -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. Receiving email works properly. Try deleting and setting up smtp server. Check what server supports is your friend. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
On Monday 02 January 2006 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 08:57, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write: On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. Receiving email works properly. Try deleting and setting up smtp server. Check what server supports is your friend. -jm I've tried that in the past and tried again. No joy. I appreciate the suggestion though. I had a similar problem on another distro and the problem was with sasl not installed. You gotz that? -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
On Monday 02 January 2006 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at qmail, it seems postfix blocks it. I suppose I won't be any worse off without postfix. I'll read up on qmail and see if it will serve my purpose for the short term, but I REALLY want to get kmail working. I'm becomming obsessed, perturbed and frustrated. The fact that sasl wasn't on your system would dictate that kdepim was built without it's support. Try re-emerging kdepim and say yes to sasl/saslauth, or whatever it's called. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble
On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I ran alsaconf (again). When it tried to start alsasound it gave all those same errors again. Alsaconf is only used for modular kernels. Running it on compiled in modules tends to muck up the system pretty good. The easiest way to fix this is go back to alsa drivers compiled as modules and run alsaconf. I manged to fix my system after I made the same error, but the process was such a run around that I couldn't explain how I did it. lol -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble
On Friday 30 December 2005 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:00 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I ran alsaconf (again). When it tried to start alsasound it gave all those same errors again. Alsaconf is only used for modular kernels. Running it on compiled in modules tends to muck up the system pretty good. The easiest way to fix this is go back to alsa drivers compiled as modules and run alsaconf. I manged to fix my system after I made the same error, but the process was such a run around that I couldn't explain how I did it. lol -jm I'm confused. The ALSA stuff is compiled into my kernel AS modules. You say the easiest was to fix this is to go back to alsa drivers compiled as modules and run alsaconf Isn't that what I did yesterday? I'm confused as well...I was replying to your earlier post today in which you stated... Yesterday I compiled a kernel with ALSA support for my card compiled in. I booted with that kernel yesterday and everything worked great. Today when I booted into Linux I got errors when alsasound tried to start. Here are the errors: Compiled in says to me that you built your kernel with alsa support built in, sorry if I misunderstood. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble
On Friday 30 December 2005 7:15 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I meant that I compiled ALSA with support for my sound card as modules... Try deleting your config file and rerun alsa conf. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread: Li . . . . Hang forever I know no way of viewing mbr. I've heard of lilo not being able to overwrite grub, but never vice-versa. Perhaps it would help if you post your exact grub install command. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 1:27 pm, Steven Susbauer wrote: Where is it posted? Did plugging this back in end up fixing the problem? On 1/7/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out to be unrelated to memory. Just as I posted it had to do with what I last had in my hand. Apparently plugging one of the IDE ribbons pulled out another tiny plug. I can't tell from the terrible little quick reference that comes with that intel board what the heck it was. It appears to be a connection for front USB 2. I've posted a picture with 2 arrows. A red one showing the memory cards to orient the viewer and a green one indicating where this tiny plug is. My grandson did the honors holding back the extra junk. Most likely your cpu fan. USB errors wont stop POST. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
On Saturday 29 October 2005 11:50 pm, Qiangning Hong wrote: I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of hard disks? http://grc.com/spinrite.htm -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd] # mv /usr /mnt/newHD/ # mv /home /mnt/newHD/ # ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr # ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work. Any comments or suggestions ? In theory I suppose that would work. Myself, I would copy the contents to /mnt/newHD/ then rename the original directories and create the links. The renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive results. And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed back to /usr and /home. You should consider creating separate partitions for these though. At some point you may wish to blow out the install but retain your /home. Separate partitions makes this much easier. And also opens the possibility of sharing your /home with multiple installs. HTH -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
On Tuesday October 4 2005 8:36 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get dates and times as well as specific links... (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;) Clearing the history file is a well know practice for today's teens. I have one and I'm here to testify. :) -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble
On Wednesday September 21 2005 2:56 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? The solution can be found in the Gentoo forums. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation trouble
On Wednesday September 21 2005 5:54 pm, Grant wrote: Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I click Start this virtual machine, nothing happens at all. Does anyone know why this is happening? The solution can be found in the Gentoo forums. I can't find it. Can you suggest some search terms? Search on the error you're getting. But it seams you haven't found it yet (running vmware in a terminal should shed some light). I think your problem can be found here.. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-381798-highlight-vmware.html If that's not it post the terminal output? -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?
On Monday September 5 2005 8:50 am, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Brett. I did think that Windows cared where it's boot loader was and that it had to be the first partition on the drive. Is that not true? Windows bootloader needs to be on the first nfs/vfat partition on the boot drive and that partition must be active/bootable. However, if using Grub you don't need Windows bootloader. ie: # Windows title Windows rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 This loads windows on hdb1 partition. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email
On Monday September 5 2005 2:56 pm, Matthew Lee wrote: I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the problem. In answer to the other question the SMTP server does require authentication. The settings I have now worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's something on my laptop, but not kmail itself. Try going into kmail settings for smtp, click on Modify then the Security tab and then Check what server supports. Even tho the setting didn't change, this has solved this problem for me in the past. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update
90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and admittedly myself doing something stupid. I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running update. So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus giving us goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right. Any thoughts? -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update
On Saturday August 27 2005 11:57 am, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote : So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. Why not use dispatch-conf instead? First I've heard of it, thanks (you and Alex) I'll check it out. For other curious folk... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=184107start=0postdays=0postorder=aschighlight=dispatchconf -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ftp
On Saturday August 27 2005 9:08 pm, John Jolet wrote: I like gftp...works in kde, too. Ditto. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote: I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the original passwd file (or merge other users into the known file keeping the root entry of course)... this might grant you access. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's next
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote: I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out! It's too flaky at the moment. I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a bork (either from software or operator error) Personally, I prefer to backup at the partition level. Partimage works quite well for me. http://www.partimage.org/ I boot with SystemRescueCd (has partimage built in) to backup and/or restore my partions. http://www.sysresccd.org/ -jm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)
On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote: I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems) Thanks for the input, I appreciate it! There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since partimage cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other operating systems while running Gentoo. SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform misc tasks on your pc. Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the cd, mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html -jm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] net-setup
After messing up my eth1 via manual configuration, and discovering that net-setup wasn't on my disc, I reverted back to dhcp by copying net.sample to net. Searching the forums enlightened me to the fact that net-setup is part of the livecd-tools build. I'm thinking that net-setup should be part of net-tools as well? -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help
On Saturday August 20 2005 2:42 pm, John Dangler wrote: my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf) alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: I changed it to alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 I had the same problem (caused by running alsaconf with kernel support enabled), after fixing my alsa file I couldn't track down where the call for the snd-*** was coming from. My solution was to recompile my kernel with module support and then rerunning alsaconf. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help
On Saturday August 20 2005 4:27 pm, John Dangler wrote: if you had kernel support built-in, and running alsaconf was what caused the problem (which I think is what caused this problem as well), why would you rerun alsaconf after recompiling the kernel ? wouldn't that cause the same problem to occur twice? Thanks for the input. My recompiled kernel didn't have alsa built-in, it was compiled as a module. Which is what alsaconf expects. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help
On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote: Joe~ That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) Just peeked at my config, looks like alsa also has to be modular, as well. # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help
On Saturday August 20 2005 6:13 pm, John Dangler wrote: Mike~ As a matter of fact, no. all the other snd_ modules show, but not intel8x0 Thanks for the assistance. This is beginning to give me a slight headache... You will still need alsa-drivers if you have built snd_intel8x0 as a module. You just need to get the module installed, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. :) I would try running make make modules_install from your kernel sources directory. Then try modprobe snd_intel8x0 again. If that turns up ok, run alsaconf again and you should be all set. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD
On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds = 2.28 MB/sec (or whatever drive you are concerned about.) Greater than 15MB/S is almost certainly DMA but good DMA from newer drives should be 25-50MB/S The second speed is evidently wrong. You can look at the drives parameters using hdparm and reading through the man page to understand what all the values mean. I tried to enable dma, but this happened: # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) What am I doing wrong ? some kernel option ? Thanks If you want the kernel to set dma you need to enable it and the support for your motherboard chipset. For a 2.6.12 kernel, you'll find this under Block devices ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support Enable Generic PCI bus-master DMA support (BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI) Use PCI DMA by default when available (IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO) And below that support for your MB chipset. However, hdparm should have set this even without kernel support (I'm pretty sure)...what say #hdparm /dev/hda -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD
On Wednesday August 17 2005 9:02 pm, Pupeno wrote: I have all as modules, maybe I am just missing to load it. Personally, I would compile them into kernel. You can get the module names from menuconfig/xconfig by selecting them and choosing help. Modprobe them, then hdparm /dev/hda. If dma is now on, add them to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glibc builds but won't install
On Monday August 15 2005 7:20 pm, darren kirby wrote: Hello, # chown -R root /usr/share/i18n/locales chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/tig_ER': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/translit_combining': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/wal_ET': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/translit_font': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/translit_wide': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/translit_small': Permission denied So these files are owned by someone more powerfull than root? I am really confused here... Yikes! I saw on eBay where someone had a perogi that Jesus had appeared on...maybe the same has happended to your hdd? ;) My guess is it's some sort of file corruption, if worse comes to worse, I guess you could just rename the locales directory so the new files can be installed? Caution...I know nothing, you've been warned. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two? I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. IMO googlegentoo=3,990,000 hits googlelfs=877,000 hits -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. IMO What about package management? Good point, since LFS has none built in, I guess Gentoo wins here as well. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:37 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500 Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does anyone wish to share a comparison of the two? I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. IMO Well given that LFS is nothing but documentation ( along howto), that doesn't leave much... When an app doesn't compile, the 1 page howto doesn't help much, seeing as how you probably already followed it. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. Can you name any version of Linux where version upgrades go directly into stable? It's all about choice...the latest n greatest or tried n true. And that's how it is in any flavor of Linux I've tried, LFS included. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Sunday August 14 2005 8:48 pm, Zac Medico wrote: You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put them directly on the command line. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -s foo It's best to use /etc/portage/package.keywords to keep your package specific keywords (documented in the portage manpage). From the wiki, a handy little scripts for doing this... http://gentoo-wiki.com/Masked#Script_for_.2Fetc.2Fportage.2Fpackage.keywords -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
