I'll be 56 next month.
I first used Caldera in 1997, then Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, LFS (Linux
From Scratch). I discovered Gentoo in 2004.
Sergio
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Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
My school has some Windows/Mac setup instructions here (scroll
down a bit):
http://rorschach.concordia.ca/neg/remote_access/wireless/
They mention Xsupplicant in relation to Linux, but once again I
find myself way out of my depth. .
Michael Sullivan:
Is there a way to add something to the boot-up process that's not
in /etc/init.d? I thought I remembered something from Red Hat
like /etc/rc.local, but I can't remember...
Look at /etc/conf.d/local.start. Which is run by /etc/init.d/local.
Sergio
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Mick:
On Monday 11 December 2006 20:56, Sergio Polini wrote:
Yes, it was OT and very few of you are interested ;-)
However, somebody would like to know who the killer was.
The original subject was wlan0 is ssslw [99% SOLVED]
because pinging the Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router
Yes, it was OT and very few of you are interested ;-)
However, somebody would like to know who the killer was.
The original subject was wlan0 is ssslw [99% SOLVED] because
pinging the Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router worked from Windows but
not from Linux.
The answer is: because Windows
Richard Fish:
Ok, two things to try. First, remove the 192.168.2.1 nameserver
from resolve.conf. That nameserver may be broken and unable to
resolve names on the internet. This should help the ping
www.google.com case.
Yes, I've already said that, but you are great! ;-)
I read your
Mark Knecht:
Following along in the spirit of your response I don't even see
version 1.23 so I've tried installing the newest masked version,
even though I expect this failed on your machine:
Sector9 ~ # eix -I ndiswrapper
* net-wireless/ndiswrapper
Available versions: 1.2-r1 1.25
Scenario:
- I have a HAG (Home Access Gateway, which embodies an ADSL modem)
installed by my provider;
- the HAG has three RJ45 ports; when a PC is connected to one of
theese ports, it gets an IP address via DHCP;
- I have connected a Belkin wireless rooter to one of theese ports;
- I connect my
Richard Fish:
On 11/26/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can just notice an astonishing difference between metrics: 25
under Windows, 2000 (!) under Linux.
The absolute value of an interface metric is meaningless, they only
matter in relation to other interface metrics active
Mark Knecht:
Unless I'm mistaken, that module is ndiswrapper which was
emerged again after the kernel was rebuilt.
Was ndiswrapper emerged *and updated*?
My card name is Broadcom BCM4310 UART, my gcc is 4.1.1, my udev is
087-r1. I have to use ndiswrapper 1.23 because more recent versions
Neil Bothwick:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote:
May I undo an emerge --sync?
Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer
that you haven't synced yet.
I apologize for my delay.
What have I to backup to be able to restore a previous sync
Michael Sullivan:
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote:
Neil Bothwick:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote:
May I undo an emerge --sync?
Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another
computer that you haven't synced yet.
I
Richard Fish:
Unfortunately, even though I can get all the right libraries to
load, I cannot get sound to work reliably on amd64. Neither aoss
nor vmdsp seem to work for me, either as a user or root.
That's very strange, because...
However, I think I know how to make aoss work as a normal
Dear Bo, Hans-Werner, and Richard,
I wish at first to thank you for your help.
Then, I think that a small recap could be useful.
Please, select a fixed font ;-)
a) vmwarearts (in vmware-dsp):
userlibvmdsp.so result
-- --- ---
normal chmod -s no preload
root
Me:
As to:
Richard:
Sergio, try doing chmod +s on /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so
There is no such file!
Sorry, Richard. I was looking in /emul/linux/x86/lib ;-))
However the results are those reported in my previous message.
Sergio
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Richard Fish:
On 11/8/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sergio, try doing chmod +s on
/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so
There is no such file!
Hold up. Previously you posted:
[cut]
If this file doesn't exist,
That file esists. I was looking in /emul/linux/x86/lib
Richard Fish:
Sorry for the late reply...I've been away for a couple of days.
That's very kind of you :-)
Hmm, looks like building this is broken on AMD64 arches...too bad.
I'll check the patch submitted by Bo.
testing ~ # ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp.so
ldd: warning: you do not have execution
Bo Ørsted Andresen:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150495
I've attached a patch for the ebuild on the bug that although not
excactly optimal it works for me.
Thanks! Now I've just to understand how to emerge an ebuild with a new
patch ;-)))
Sergio
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Sergio Polini:
Bo Ørsted Andresen:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150495
I've attached a patch for the ebuild on the bug that although not
excactly optimal it works for me.
Thanks! Now I've just to understand how to emerge an ebuild with a
new patch ;-)))
Well, it was easy
Richard Fish:
Ah, libvmdsp.so is a 64-bit library. I am pretty sure that vmware
is still distributed as a 32-bit application, so yeah, preloading
64-bit libraries won't work.
Try changing the vmwarearts script to preload the library from
/usr/lib32 instead of /usr/lib.
I've tried aoss32,
Richard Fish:
[sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so'
from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
What are the permissions on this?
a)
ls -l /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 - -rwxr-xr-x
[sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware
[1] 5409
[sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object
Hans-Werner Hilse:
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have:
- emerged alsa-oss
- chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.*
^^^
Why did you do that?
I did that because, as far as I have understood, I
Tim Garton:
Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running
kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file?
$ strings kernel file | head -20
;-)
... but I don't know how to automate that.
HTH
Sergio
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Richard Fish:
The workaround to this is to use a wrapper such as aoss or
vmware-dsp that fakes out the application when it tries to open
/dev/dsp and uses another audio API instead (alsa for aoss, esd or
artsd for vmware-dsp).
Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have:
-
I'm experimenting with VMWare.
I've installed VMWare Workstation (5.5.1.19175-r7 ebuild) and created
a Windows Virtual Machine.
Then I've installed VMWare Player (in another Gentoo partition), so I
can play the VM I've created.
It works fine. Running Internet Explorer under Linux is rather
Richard Fish:
On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sound does not work. Sometimes (not always) I get a message
like cannot connect to /dev/dsp.
Even if I do not get that message, even if the sound card looks
connected (no red x) sound is not working.
I've found a VMWare
Greg Morin:
Device Boot Size System Filesystem Mount point
= = =
/dev/hda1 * 32MLinux ext2 /boot
/dev/hda2 3GLinux swap none none
/dev/hda3 ~71GLinux
Mick:
My touchpad does not seem to have a problem:
=
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver synaptics
Option Protocol SynPS/2
Option InputFashion Mouse
Option Device /dev/input/mice
May I undo an emerge --sync?
Thanks
Sergio
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Mick:
On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:00, Sergio Polini wrote:
May I undo an emerge --sync?
Thanks
Sergio
No, but wait for a while for the mirrors to refresh themselves and
resync later. Hopefully, what ever package/version you couldn't
download would be updated for synch-ing
I wish to thank Benno, Jerry and Richard for their help.
However, I've found another solution ;-)
I have presented my daughter with my HP dv5000z, and so I've got rid
of that irksome and ill-supported ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M.
I'm going to purchase a new HP dv2000 (Turion X2, Geforce 6150).
;-)
Jerry:
Which kernel?
2.6.12-r10
(2.6.18 is masked ;-)
Here, running 2.6.18, I compile the kernel drm,
agpgart and ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm. In
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I add; agpgart, ati-agp, drm
then radeon. In that specific order. Also, run eselect opengl and
be sure
Sorry, I can't understand...
Richard Fish:
If you want DRI, you have two choices:
1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver.
For this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in
your kernel configuration. This doesn't work for all chips yet
AFAIK.
2.
I need your help ;-)
I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-(
My configuration:
HP dv5078EA (laptop)
Gentoo AMD64
Kernel 2.6.12-r10
in /usr/src/linux/.config:
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
# CONFIG_DRM is not set
output of
Bo Ørsted Andresen:
Look at the first section at the GWN from the 16. of January [1].
Also this (autouse) has recently been added to the release notes of
portage 2.1 [2] (they forgot until now).
Thanks! I didn't subscribe to the GWN. My fault ;-)
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Mick:
As I understand it (I'm sure this has been covered in GWN, forums,
etc.) USE flags which had been set automatically by certain
packages are no longer valid universally. Therefore, either add
those USE flags missing (e.g. ldap mozilla for OOo) in your
/etc/make.conf, or if you only
dirk dil:
I'm having trouble mounting a jetflash 110 onto usb.
Please, check http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/usb-guide.xml and your flash
drive will work well ;-)
Sergio
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I'ld like to know how to get the card working ;-)
That is:
-- minimal kernel version;
-- kernel config options;
-- auxiliary packages (pcmcia-cs, pcpcia-cs-cis, pcmciautils,
etc.).
Thanks
Sergio
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Qian Qiao:
That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production
environment.
The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess.
A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding
bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not
What's happening about locales/languages?
I've tried to install PHP-Nuke and Xoops, but one of them (I don't
remember which one, now ;-)) doesn't like utf8 encoding, because it
creates too long primary keys for MySQL.
So I remerged MySQL and replaced utf8 with latin1
in /etc/mysql/my.conf.
I've
Ric de France:
Hi Sergio,
On 4/22/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then I got the error Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some
technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.
As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password
algorithm in mysql 4.1
I can't install Mediawiki 1.4.15.
I've installed:
a) apache 2.0.55-r1
b) dev-lang/php 5.1.2 (current flags in /etc/portage/package.use: dba
gd -gd-external pcre mysql mysqli session)
c) mysql 4.1.14-r1
I got the error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000
bytes when creating the
Daevid Vincent:
* Dependancy info is missing! Please run
* #/sbin/depscan.sh
* to fix this.
Well, of course I do run that script and it does absolutely
nothing. No output. No anything.
I'ld try remerging baselayout.
HTH
Sergio
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Daevid Vincent:
How can I do that when I don't have networking?! :(
-Original Message-
From: Sergio Polini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:32 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run
/sbin
Neil Bothwick:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:47:18 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
I would rather like, if ifplugd would automatically do the
ifconfig up so that no configuration tweaks are needed.
Of course, i also got to put the interface in the up state on
boot, because i don't want to put
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am using KDE 3.4.3 Gentoo amd64.
Almost every time I login the icons of the desktop moved and mixed.
I tried checking every possible options (KDE Comtrol Center), with
no results. Any hints.
Try checking right-button-mouse-click / Icons / Align to grid.
Sergio
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Ryan Tandy:
Try calling your favorite rc-script with 'help' as the argument (for
example, /etc/init.d/net.eth0 help). This gives a fairly detailed
description of what you're asking.
Neil Bothwick:
Run any init script with help instead of start/stop and you'll see
a fairly comprehensive
I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up.
There are such functions as after() and before() (f.i., in net.lo),
and commands like before, need, after in depend() functions (f.i., in
cupsd).
I'ld like to understand:
- what's the difference between after/before commands and
Bo Andresen:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:26, Sergio Polini wrote:
I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up.
Did you look in the Gentoo handbook?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=
4
If after reading that you still have unanswered
Mauro Faccenda:
If I use the synaptics driver, my touchpad stop working after starting
a
GTK app (tried vmware, grkellm2, firefox). It doesn't occours when I'm
using a mouse driver for it. But I want to use some advantages in
synaptics driver.
Is there
InputDevice TouckPad AlwaysCore
in your
Mauro Faccenda:
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 13:34, Sergio Polini wrote:
Is there
InputDevice TouckPad AlwaysCore
in your xorg.conf?
hi Sergio, thanks for your help.
but there is a weird thing:
adding this parameter in xorg.conf [etc.]
That line should have been in xorg.conf ;-)
Have
Mark Knecht:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164
I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some
problem with doing it this way.
There are several hints in that topic.
I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say:
1. create and format your new partition;
Mark Knecht:
Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no
longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are
lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files.
(/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...)
That happened to me too ;-)
But the reason
Marco Calviani wrote:
I need to search and copy a list of files that end with a particular
extension and belong to a certain user: i've managed this part with
find -name *.C -user username
now i would like only these files copied to a certain directory.
You could try:
find -name '*.C' -user
Felipe Ribeiro:
I'm thinking about buying the Acer Aspire 5002.
Does any of you have one? Did you have problems to set things up?
(video, wlan, etc)
You should look at:
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
which sends you to:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
and then to:
Holly Bostick:
[...]
Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think
it is assumed that ls will display the year only for files older
than a year old. Quite clever, in my opinion.
OK, I see what you mean-- or maybe I don't:
[...]
I see that many files that are more than
Peter:
iface_eth0=192.168.2.100 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
#iface_eth0=dhcp
#dhcpcd_eth0=-N
gateway=eth0/192.168.2.1
This last part is important. Your PC has to find the gateway.
Done. But it doesn't work :-(
You might also have to add the
gateway address to
I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address.
I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using
config_eth0=( IPaddress netmask netmask brd broadcast)
in /etc/conf.d/net configures my network interface _instead of_ asking
dhcp (the files in /var/lib/dhcpc are not updated).
If I use
Holly Bostick:
3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one
(xorg.conf)?
Why would you bother? There is a configuration utility, you know. I
don't know what it's called though, as I've never used it (just
renamed my XF86Config to xorg.cfg and went on from there).
Oh,
Holly Bostick:
John Lange schreef:
And does that file name libglx.so.1.0.7174 seem right?
Now that you mention it, no. Isn't that an nVidia file (I'm not
sure, having never had an nVidia card, but that number looks like
an nVidia driver revision number to me).
Here's mine:
[cut]
Here's
John Lange:
Note the dates in:
/usr/lib/modules/extensions/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 16580 Apr 10 17:38 libdbe.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 32470 Apr 10 17:38 libdri.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 167396 Apr 10 17:38 libextmod.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 Apr 10 18:20 libglx.so.1.0.7174
Christoph Daldrup:
I've recently done an emerge -tuvD world and dhcpcd was updated
from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went
fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything
seemed to be fine.
But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP
Hareesh Nagarajan:
Hi All:
Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server?
I don't know ;-)
But I can notice:
emerge
...
[ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls
^
Michael Kintzios:
There's nothing wrong with dd, but I see no reason to create my own
script to extend the basic dd functionality. I would rather use
shred which does everything I want it to do - if only I can avoid
the deletion if the device node itself.
Why -u?
From the man page:
William Kenworthy:
Is there a link that states how many packages are available in
gentoo? Stable, ~x86 etc?
Do you speak perl? Sorry, I don't speak python any more ;-)
begin gentoo_packages.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use File::Find;
use vars qw/*name/;
*name =
Ed Jabbour:
After a recent emerge -uDv system, which upgraded xine-lib, I
cannot use xine to watch dvds anymore. It cannot find /dev/hdc.
The output from running xine from the console is at
http://rafb.net/paste/results/ac0MJP75.html. I've tried downgrading
and re-emerging to no avail. I'm
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