[gentoo-user] xorg on ppc64

2012-01-26 Thread Roger Mason
Helllo, I have installed xorg-server on a mac G5 (ppc64, 32 bit userland). I configured the kernel for xorg according to the gentoo xorg howto. However, the server will not start: (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Jan 26 08:57:27 2012 (==) Using system config directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati nvidia-drivers

2011-07-13 Thread Roger Mason
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi Grant, another shot into an even much deeper dark ;) May be you have a problem here, which it is called Brummschleife in german...sorry dont know the English equivalent...may be something like buzzing loop...but this looks more like a strange

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-17 Thread Roger Mason
Jake, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure [solved]

2010-05-10 Thread Roger Mason
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:49:01AM -0230, Roger Mason wrote Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? No, it's not necessary. 64-bit Intel and AMD cpus will run

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes: I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer drivers and using a plain VGA console. Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. And

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) Boot from a rescue CD (preferably http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) then execute lspci -k it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Many thanks fir the information.

[gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. The latter was downloaded and burned from a very recent autobuild. The build process appears to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: root (hd --tab it will list all

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? If the answer to that is yes, then I don't understand why the x86 install CD booted without

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. Are you sure ext[234

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes: On 4/30/2010 12:40 PM, Roger Mason wrote: Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes: Have you tried using sys-devel/crossdev? Not in the present context. It will set up the entire 32-bit cross-compiler environment for you; then it's just a matter

[gentoo-user] Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-04-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I need to compile a 32 bit version of libtermcap on an x86_64 (multilib) system. Can someone tell me how to set up CFLAGS? This is what I have at the moment: CFLAGS=-O2 -m32 -march=native -msse3 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -m32 -march=native -msse3 -pipe ebuild libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-04-30 Thread Roger Mason
David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com writes: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Roger Mason wrote about [gentoo-user] Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64: Hello, I need to compile a 32 bit version of libtermcap on an x86_64 (multilib) system. Can someone tell me how to set up CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-04-30 Thread Roger Mason
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes: Have you tried using sys-devel/crossdev? Not in the present context. It will set up the entire 32-bit cross-compiler environment for you; then it's just a matter of setting a couple of environment variables to switch compilers. Some time ago I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-21 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Daid, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. It occurred to me tonight that adding slotting should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-20 Thread Roger Mason
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Renat Golubchyk ragermany at gmx.net writes: too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with keyboard and mouse. If my old (weak) memory serves me correctly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-17 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Alan, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: Did you get this worked out yet? Not yet, no. VERY strange that you don't see pcm as a mixer control... I've got alsamixer 1.0.21. Could it be that it choses its controls according to the capabilities of the sound card? It's a bit hard

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome keychain

2010-01-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Alexander, Alexander b3n...@yandex.ru writes: On Friday 29 January 2010 19:45:53 Roger Mason wrote: I would like to know how to configure gdm/gnome to ask for the passprhase once, at login so that I don't have to enter it multiple times. Thanks, Roger try to install app-crypt

[gentoo-user] gnome keychain

2010-01-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have previously used keychain as per the gentoo docs. Once I supplied the SSH passphrase at the console I was able to access other machines without providing a password. I have just started using gnome and am logging in using gdm. When I log in I am not asked for a passphrase. If I

[gentoo-user] crossdev/icecream

2010-01-22 Thread Roger Mason
hello, I'm trying to set up icecream as a cross-compiler to use a core2 duo (amd64) machine to compile for i686 machines. I worked my way through the gentoo wiki icecream howto. I ran crossdev: pyrope ~ # crossdev -t i686-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Roger Mason
Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com writes: Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run

Re: [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Roger Mason
Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de writes: Am 14.12.2009 21:39, schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors. I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB. Hello, the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Roger Mason
Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu writes: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler squawked: the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Roger Mason
Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu writes: Zaphod style? What is that? You perhaps are not familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A picture is worth a thousand words: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/gallery/tv/zaphod2.shtml Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox. (Unfortunately

[gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors. I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB. Server version: X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 ppc64 Current Operating

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

2009-12-04 Thread Roger Mason
Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com writes: i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2 remote machine is compiling, while the

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2.4 fails to build [solved]

2009-12-02 Thread Roger Mason
Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com writes: if you're using an intel core2 processor, the proper -march setting is -march=nocona Steffen Loos fe...@gmx.net writes: You can try march=native. Maybe it is a good choice for make.conf too?! Thank you Zeerak Steffen, it is now compiled

[gentoo-user] gcc 4.2.4 fails to build

2009-12-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I need to build gcc 4.2 on a core 2 duo system. The only 4.2.x version is 4.2.4, which is masked by ~. When I try to build it fails: ... /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.4-r1/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.4-r1/work/build/./gcc/

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello John Walt, Thanks for the responses. Here is the information you asked for. John Lowry johnlo...@gmail.com writes: What is the contents of your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules # PCI device 0x10b7:0x9200 (3c59x) SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:01:03:c5:2a:7b,

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't start [solved]

2009-11-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello John, John Lowry johnlo...@gmail.com writes: If you have only the two cards installed you can delete everything except for the first entry and the one referencing the card currently in the machine and change name to eth1. So: SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*,

[gentoo-user] eth1 won't start

2009-11-27 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I have a machine[1] into which I installed a second NIC. It is identified by lspci as: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) The driver, 8139too, is compiled as a module and loaded by udev. After booting, lsmod says: 8139too

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Daid, Thanks for your reply. daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: # emerge alsa-util alsa oss ...and alsa-utils I should go to sleep... After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the internet

[gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a 20 inch aluminum imac: uname -a Linux pyrope 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #9 SMP Sat Nov 14 14:04:55 NST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux The sound card is listed by lspci as: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac

2009-11-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello David, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/6 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca: I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video card.  I have not been able to get X working. I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video

[gentoo-user] apache https setup

2009-07-17 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to set up an apache https server. I keep getting Page Load Error when trying to connect. I'm using apache 2.0.58. I've generated certificates, worked my way through various problems and apache starts OK, asking me for the passphrase for the certificate, but it is not serving

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-08 Thread Roger Mason
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: Hm. Well, I have only two more thoughts (which is three times my usual number :o) I had a thought once, but I've forgotton what it was. Have you tried using an absolute path for that directory? Unfortunatly it makes no difference. The word SITE suggests

[gentoo-user] xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a new install (not an upgrade) of xorg-server (1.5.3-r6) and xorg-x11 (7.2), to which I added xset (1.04) so I can add a font path. The fonts in question are in ~/AMRITA/SITE/fonts/TrueType. When I run xset fp+ fonts/TrueType from ~/AMRITA/SITE I get the following error: xset:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xset fp+ fails

2009-07-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello walt, walt w41...@gmail.com writes: Do you have a fonts.dir in that directory? If not, you need to run mkfontdir in that directory. Yes: ~/AMRITA/TEST $ ls ../SITE/fonts/TrueType/ -l total 572 -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 88408 Apr 19 2003 dour45w.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 80676

Re: [gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-05 Thread Roger Mason
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: How can I install libtermcap? if you like a real libtermcap, check for libxtermcap that comes with the schily source consolidation: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ Many thanks Joerg

[gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to compile (outside portage) a program that needs libtermcap. I installed libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 but that seems not to provide it (I looked with 'find'). How can I install libtermcap? Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions [solved]

2009-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Looks good to me. Finally, what is the PATH in /etc/profile.env? According to the order of your gcc paths, I guess it has /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc- bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 in it, while only the second one should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Roger Mason writes: If there is something else that I need to do then I did not see it in the upgrade guide, so please, will someone enlighten me? No, your steps worked fine for me. What is your $PATH? (echo $PATH) I have /usr/i486

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello again, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for the specific application that needs

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Mark, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - performance probably won't be a huge problem -

Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: The compilation finally completed. It only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 06/28/2009 08:54 PM, Roger Mason wrote: [...] I followed the info presented at the end of the installation Did you read the Gentoo documentation about upgrading GCC? If not, now's the time :) This is what it says: # emerge -uav gcc (Please

Re: [gentoo-user] list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, James j...@nc.rr.com writes: Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? Listing /var/log/portage with appropriate options to ls may work. Cheers, Roger

[gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-27 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: emerge -pv gcc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal GNU screen

2009-04-06 Thread Roger Mason
Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com writes: I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it in a xterm. I haven't got a clue where to

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-20 Thread Roger Mason
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc trivial issue (i'm sure)

2008-08-02 Thread Roger Mason
Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have scp all distcc config files to all hosts, One possibility is that you forgot to edit each /etc/conf.d/distccd file to _listen_ on its own IP address. HTH, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build [solved]

2008-07-08 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install firefox-bin on a new (to me) machine. pango-1.20.3 is a depenency that, unfortunately fails to build: On a hunch I changed CFLAGS from -mtune=pentium4 to -march=i686 and did emerge -e world. Now pango compiles without any problem

[gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I'm trying to install firefox-bin on a new (to me) machine. pango-1.20.3 is a depenency that, unfortunately fails to build: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -Wall -o .libs/pangox-view viewer-render.o viewer-x.o viewer-main.o viewer-pangox.o pangox-view.o

Re: [gentoo-user] pango fails to build

2008-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On AD 2008 July 04 Friday 01:02:39 PM -0230, Roger Mason wrote: /usr/lib/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' Did you try revdep-rebuild, or even just remerging cairo? I rebuilt cairo several times and revdep-rebuild says

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-07-01 Thread Roger Mason
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more up-to-date install CD. I'm currently installing from 2008.0_beta2, so far without any problems. For the record, this turns out to be a fairly straightforward blocker. A recent version

[gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I'm building a system using a 2006.0 minimal install disk and following the (current) installation docs. I got to the part where it is suggested I upgrade portage. However, there is a blocker: (chroot) livecd / # emerge -p --oneshot portage These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emerge -O bash and Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, first try this: emerge -1a =app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more up-to-date install CD. I'm currently installing from 2008.0_beta2,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
dany2a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've got to update portage first, looks like you have an older portage version, that cannot handle lzma. Had the same prob and updating portage was the fix (besides installing lzma-utils). emerge -a1 portage That was it. Thanks very much. Cheers, Roger

[gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Has anyone else run into this: emerge virtual/emacs [snip] Unpacking m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11/work unpack m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring. Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11 ... !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW: if you don't actually *need* NFS, but just some network filesystem, you might want to try 9P. I finally got this solved with some help from this list. Your comment about the 9P filesystem is interesting as I'm somewhat interested in an operating

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-28 Thread Roger Mason
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 failed. I looked on bugzilla, where it was suggested to run: emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils I did that but the error on m4 persists. If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. Thanks, Roger First try to do rm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:11 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 11 April 2008 13:49:11 Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. Do you have the option to run

[gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. rpcinfo -p on the server shows: beryl rmason # rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Roger Mason
Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale writes: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the boot runlevel? Looking at the init script it seems like if the

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-08 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Randy, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have tried both the ipp and lpd devices to no avail. Just FYI, IPP is the Internet Printing Protocol and it is used to print to a device on another machine, so that's why it didn't work for you here :) Yes, I finally

[gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to set up a printer using CUPS. I have worked my way through the printing guide but cannot get a test page to print from the printers tab of the cups configuration page. I turned up the logging level to debug2 and am seeing this in the logs: d [07/Dec/2007:16:00:26 -03-30]

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Billy, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: see if this helps http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2005/12/24/wheres-my-parport0/ Bingo!. For the record, I built ppdev and lp as modules, modprobe'd them and now everything works. Thanks very much. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] X forwarding

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes On machine A I have in ssh_config: ForwardX11 yes I can ssh from A to B without problems but when I try to start a simple application: B ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Hi James, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I I re-emerge 'timezone-data' and just wait until spring to see if there is a problem? Here is the procedure I used last spring (you'll need to set the TIMEZONE according to your location: (1) Sync. (perhaps not required if portage is fairly up to

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding [fixed]

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode: /usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d then in another terminal ssh -p 23 $host Your suggestion gave me the idea to run sshd with strace, the output of which lead me here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Roger Mason
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any other ideas? Maybe I need to 'reemerge' something? timezone-data? Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Sean, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set up diskless booting recently but I'm by no means an expert, so take my comments with plenty of salt. Below is my in.tftpd file. # /etc/init.d/in.tftpd # Path to server files from # Depending on your application you may have to change this. #

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh [solved]

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Richard, Richard Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try adding -e ssh to your rsync command. Search for -e in the rsync man page for an example. === This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab): 0,15,30,45 * * * * rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on mymachine to another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job. Which cron? vixie-cron This is the crontab entry

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Steve, Steve Dommett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that did not work, the same error ocurs. This may not be applicable, but I run rdiff-backup from cron on many machine with no problems at all. It uses

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Ralph, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have done a similar thing at work, except what I do is first create an ssh tunnel, then rsync to the locally listening port. Works perfectly. In my setup the remote server is running an SSH server which is not accessible directly. Maybe

[gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on mymachine to another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job. This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab): 0,15,30,45 * * * * rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason backup_machine:mymachine_rmason The logs on

[gentoo-user] nfs server problem

2007-10-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I installed a vanilla 2.6.20 kernel in order to (eventually) run kerrighed. The kernel boots fine but the nfs server won't start and I see this in the logs: Oct 3 07:34:40 lowalbite rpc.statd[103835]: Version 1.1.0 Starting Oct 3 07:34:41 lowalbite nfsd: last server has exited Oct 3

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs server problem

2007-10-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:54:30 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed a vanilla 2.6.20 kernel in order to (eventually) run kerrighed. The kernel boots fine but the nfs server won't start and I see this in the logs

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-10-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:57:05 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I tinkered some more with pixegrub and broke it again. Now pxelinux won't work either. I've attached my

Re: [gentoo-user] doing minimall install from a pc within a lan

2007-10-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Rafael, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ¿how can i connect to the pc which booted from the livecd to continue the install without moving from my main gentoo workstation? (ssh livecd from my pc does not work even after startin sshd in the remote machine where i

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured that out for yourself. I'm almost certain to get stuck so I'll probably be back asking again. Let me know. Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-09-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:03:59 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The client boot process hangs, with the following dialog between the server (192.168.0.2, 00:04:75:77:98:4f) and client (192.168.0.3, 00:01:03:ce:52:a8) repeated three

[gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-09-28 Thread Roger Mason
:98:4f 00:01:03:ce:52:a8, ARP, length 42: arp who-has 192.168.0.3 tell 192.168.0.2 I'm not sure what information is needed to help debug this, but if anyone is willing to assist I'll provide whatever is required. Thanks, Roger Mason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I want the latest and greatest version of claws-mail in /etc/portage/package.keywords I have: mail-client/claws-mail Should'nt that be mail-client/claws-mail ~x86 ? HTH, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge claws-mail

2007-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why assume that everyone runs x86? If you don't specify an arch in package.keywords, if defaults to ~whatever-arch-you-have-in-make.conf Thanks, learned something new. Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] blender crashes X

2007-06-26 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I compiled blender 2.43 and have tried to work through this introductory tutorial: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Modeling_a_Simple_Person. Blender crashes X windows when I try the extrusion exercise. This behaviour is reproducible on the two machines I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish I could get DSL of any kind out here but it is not available yet. The last upgrade we got on our phone service is when we got off the party line system. That's where 3 or 4 people share the same phone line. Yea, that old. They

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-02 Thread Roger Mason
Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues. For what it's worth, in 99.9% of cases, the

[gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io scheduler deadline registered (default) I have tried booting with

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrew, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: === Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
David Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But you don't need to do this as you've already found that the problem is in bash and it's related to something in the environment. If the PS1 didn't fix it, try with either just --norc or just --noprofile to try and narrow things down

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Arturo, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Are it [...] single-user maintenaince mode? Does it happen when running from a liveCD? I'd add: Does it happen on memtest86 I'm

[gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice. The problem has bee present for some time and I have noted the following: (1) I see the

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be entered twice. The problem has bee

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