[gentoo-user] What cpu type in make.conf for E4600

2008-06-26 Thread waltdnes
A computer of mine died, and I'm now setting up the replacement. What do I set -march= to in /etc/make.conf? Below is cpuinfo data for one of the cores... livecd gentoo # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name

Re: [gentoo-user] What cpu type in make.conf for E4600

2008-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:13:37PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote core2 if you use GCC 4.3, nocona for earlier, or set it to native if you don't use distcc. any idea which gcc version is installed by stage3-i686-2008.0_beta2 (along with portage-2008.0_beta2 snapshot)? that makes a difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] What cpu type in make.conf for E4600

2008-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:16:59PM -0700, Brian Johnson wrote http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags suggests using: -march=prescott for 32-bit -march=nocona for 64-bit. Thanks for the link; it looks like prescott in my case. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in

[gentoo-user] stage3-i686-2008.0_beta2 builds kernel in x86 directory

2008-06-26 Thread waltdnes
Is this a problem, or simply a name change? The filename says i686 and I have 'CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu' in /etc/make.conf, but the kernel ends up as /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage I noticed this when I tried running a couple of scripts that I use to organize my production and

[gentoo-user] rsync problem with local rsync server

2008-07-04 Thread waltdnes
Trying to be kinder and gentler to the Gentoo mirrors, I set up my hot backup machine to emerge --rsync from my main machine. I followed the instructions in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror#Official_Gentoo_Linux_rsync_Mirrors_Policy_and_Guide main machine is d530 192.168.123.250

[gentoo-user] [Solved] rsync problem with local rsync server

2008-07-05 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:20:26AM +0400, Vladimir Rusinov wrote It seems you have rsync://yourhost/ instead of rsync://yourhost/gentoo-portage/ on your make.conf Thank you very much. That was the exact mistake I made. It's working properly now after I corrected it. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop

2008-07-08 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:12:53AM -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab. The university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a question, has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it? I sure it will

[gentoo-user] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530

2008-07-08 Thread waltdnes
I got a Dell last summer, in which I couldn't get the network chip running, so I bought a cheap Via Rhine PCI network card and used that for almost a year. I finally got the built-in chip working today on the older 530. This post is being sent on it. It's a bastardized Intel chip that shows

[gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-01 Thread waltdnes
I apologize if this is a duplicate. I've just done a re-install and I don't think my first attempt got out. I tried Xubuntu on a 1999 Dell with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of ram. The install was excruciatingly slow, and once installed it was only painfully slow. So I went back to Gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-01 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote RTFM didn't find anything useful and I know the rules worked before. Help. For what it's worth, I'm running linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r7 on the Dell. I went and did it the hard way. I started by commenting out almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages [solved]

2007-05-02 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:43:44AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered through the rules... -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote On Friday 04 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition. Surely you meant move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition? Let me rephrase myself... -

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf

2007-05-05 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 05:36:13AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote However it completes OK and seems to work OK other than having to manually create the correct DNS in /etc/resolv.conf. Anyone any ideas. Thanks, Richard A bit heavy-handed... ln -f /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv

[gentoo-user] pppconfig can't find internal modem.

2007-05-13 Thread waltdnes
My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. This is a 1999 Dell PIII that refuses to die. The PCI modem has worked in the past under Redhat and Gentoo. I am aware that I have to allocate more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-03 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:44:42AM +0100, Ian Hastie wrote Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice there is no sse3 support. I got carried away there. It only goes up to sse2. Another goof on my part was referring to the gcc 3.4.4 docs. I think we're still on 3.3.5. Now I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-03 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:28:27PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote Note that 3dnow and mmx are disabled even though I have them enabled in my make.conf file: What about your CFLAGS line? I assume that you're using -march=k8. It's supposed to implicitly include mmx and sse and sse2, but maybe the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-03 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:31:28AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote IceWM (with ROXFiler if you want Desktop icons, etc) lightening fast, easy to configure Blackbox WM here. This goes back to when my 6-year-old Dell, 450 mhz PIII, 128 megs of RAM, was still my main machine. The GNOME and KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-03 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:04:21AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr [...deletia...] I then looked for CPU flags that had an equivalent USE flag and that

[gentoo-user] Network timeout, eth0 stopped

2005-09-04 Thread waltdnes
Approx a week ago, I got a new computer, AMD64 on a K8 Triton Gigabyte Triton Nforce 4 motherboard. Today, ethernet stopped functioning. I couldn't even get it to work with the Gentoo minimal install CD. It was running OK the past week with... * Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-04 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:21:47AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote On Sunday 04 September 2005 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse emm. I would not do this. -mfpmath=sse seems to be slower than

[gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-06 Thread waltdnes
I'm running an AMD64 3000+ with 2 gigs of ram and an ATI Radeon X300. It's dropping frames on internet TV sites where it should easily be able to keep up. I've built mplayer with mmx/mmxext/3dnow/3dnowext/sse/sse2 so I don't see any room for speedup there. I can get -vo sdl and -vo xv to work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-06 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:31:50PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS. Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money on a UPS. Not if all you want is to

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:11:44PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my mouse detected? I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote My 'disagreement', if there is one, is that a savings of $300 for a new computer and a $99 Windows upgrade won't convince many people to learn to do it themselves using Linux. It takes a much stronger reason than that, at least in my

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:31:32PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote Here's the items I have from your suggestions: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 6 06:16 /dev/misc crw-rw 1 root root 10, 1 Sep 6 06:16 psaux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 6 06:16 /dev/input crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13,

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:15:51AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote does xine also have a speed problem? If yes: I don't have xine loaded. I've had problems building it in the past. mplayer has been trouble-free. could you please post xorg.conf/Xorg.0.log? Maybe they contain somethin

[gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

2009-10-19 Thread waltdnes
Specifically the 11.6 screen Acer Aspireone AO751h-1505 Netbook at http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProductcmd=pdpid=024766cid=NBK.862.670 I intend to install Gentoo on it. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

[gentoo-user] Wine users backup libjpeg.so.62.0.0

2009-10-19 Thread waltdnes
MAKE SURE TO BACKUP libjpeg.so.62.0.0 and libjpeg.so.62 (a symlink to libjpeg.so.62.0.0) My older machine was getting flakey so I migrated to my newer machine. I updated the new machine to the latest everything, and got a message that I could delete libjpeg.so.62 (a symlink to

[gentoo-user] distcc for upgrading software on netbooks

2009-10-19 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:59:07PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- , then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ? See

[gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-20 Thread waltdnes
I've enabled suspend-to-disk in the kernel. When I issue the command echo disk /sys/power/state, it suspends but *IMMEDIATELY* reboots and comes back up again. The session restores properly from the swap drive, so at least that part works. What can I do to keep it sleeping until I power up

[gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-20 Thread waltdnes
Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip to X for

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-20 Thread waltdnes
think you're referring to kernel mode switching. I have looked all over make menuconfig and can't find it. What is the reference I should be looking for? I'm running the latest stable kernel as near as I can tell... [d531][waltdnes][~] uname -sr Linux 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 -- Walter Dnes waltd

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:54:02PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A better way is to use pm-hibernate --quirks (pm-hibernate is from the pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, quirks that are known

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, I'll have to go into my backups and dig up a working xorg.conf. And save a text copy of the xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV. Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate Production and Experimental

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-22 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59:12PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote KMS drivers and framebuffer console drivers are different and AFAIK mutually exclusive. The boot parameter to disable KMS would be, e.g., i915.modeset=0 I don't want to disable KMS, I want to disable framebuffer, and I simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-23 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 02:02:16AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote My question concerns an apparent new requirement for mysql. Your asides about xorg-1.6, libxcb, dbus/hal do not seem to be relevant in any way. Any (helpful) takers out there? It looks like yes, MySql is compulsory now. See...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-28 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:10:33AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote That's a correct assumption. The assumption about which options you don't need may not have been so correct. It's safer to start with a bloated but working kernel and whittle it down gradually. And keep backup copies of each

[gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread waltdnes
What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure? The stuff I've found on Google and the Gentoo wiki references obsolete versions of Gentoo, and I don't know if it would work. I've got an Acer Aspire One, with no CD/DVD. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:44:47AM -0500, Dale wrote For future reference, after you switch gcc, you should run env-update and source /etc/profile. Then you don't have to log out and back in again. One could argue that one is easier than the other tho. ;-) I knew I had to do a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:54:07PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal sys-libs/pam I could simply try, yes ;-) Try it, you'll like

[gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was the availability of true console text

[gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant sit0

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
Another little glitch on my new machine. I have hibernate enabled for my regular user account via /etc/sudoers. The command fails due to an error in NetworkStop. Switching to root, and running hibernate with the verbose -v3 option, I see the following... hibernate: [60] Executing NetworkStop

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant sit0

2010-06-27 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, Mick wrote Check again using 'iconfig -a'. You should see a IPv6-in-IPv4 interface there. Normally, this would not be up unless you have set up some fancy tunnel with your ISP who would be terminating your IPv6 link. My ISP offers this but have

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-28 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:26:25AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote Also, have you tried just using larger fonts on the console? If you emerge sys-apps/kbd, there should be some fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts. You can use setfont name to test which one you want to use (some of them are bigger

[gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-28 Thread waltdnes
I have a 4-core Intel i3 (/proc/cpuinfo dump below) running 64 bit Gentoo. I want to try hosting 32-bit Gentoo and also OS/2 Warp 4 on it. What are people's experiences with different VM environments? Google searching turns up a lot of out-of-date blogs/wikis. My CPU... processor : 3

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-28 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:26:13PM +0200, mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it takes a moment. Is this for

Re: [gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:56:45PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote I installed OS/2 Warp 4 with KVM and it just worked (TM)! It is also incredibly fast (on a Core2 Duo). Thanks for that report. I'll try it out. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:04:59PM -0700, walt wrote When companies that rich and powerful push web-only services as the answer to their revenue prayers, I suspect they may be able to win. The answer to that is Gnumeric/Abiword, unless MS/Google get them outlawed. OpenOffice (Bleagh) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:20:08PM -0700, walt wrote But my real reason for replying is to ask you why you're interested in OS/2. I thought IBM lost interest in it ages ago. Am I wrong? I have Galactic Civilizations V2.5, an OS/2-only game, on a 400 mhz PII running Warp 4. I still love it

[gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-06-30 Thread waltdnes
I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still haven't been able to modify a CD boot image get Gentoo to boot from a USB stick. For my

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm setup questions

2010-07-01 Thread waltdnes
qemu-kvm apparently expects a couple of options in /etc/make.conf, namely QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS and QEMU_USER_TARGETS. The documentation that I could find in Google is underwhelming, to say the least. I could guess from the names alone that they define targets...dohhh. It could use an example.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-02 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:56:31PM -0300, Cr??stian Viana wrote use UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sf.net) to create a bootable USB stick. According to http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other The Linux version is compiled using g++, while the Windows version is cross-compiled using mingw32.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to get rid of kernel modules?

2011-11-14 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:50:29AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote On 11/11/2011 08:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 11, 2011 11:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: Isn't there a selection in make menuconfig asynchronous scsi scan (or something like

Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-14 Thread waltdnes
installed when I installed app-xemacs/emerge accidently? Here's what you may have done ***WITHOUT*** the - waltdnes@d531 ~ $ emerge -p emerge vim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.13 [ebuild N

[gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-14 Thread waltdnes
After a recent thread, about udev developers wanting /usr on the same partition as / (or else requiring initramfs), it was pretty obvious that 90%+ of the users here strongly disliked the idea. I went around asking on various lists if it was possible to run Gentoo without udev. After some

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer). So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give any benefits? I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely static

Re: CRTs and EDID (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-16 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:53:47AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote Just an FYI, EDID blocks have been part of CRT tech since the mid to late 90s; it's the basis of plug play monitors. IIRC, the EDID block is transported via DDC, which is essentially I2C implemented on top of your VGA cable. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-18 Thread waltdnes
there, and bump the version number slightly. No need to bump the version number, overlays take priority over the standard tree when there are equal version numbers. I knew I forgot something so simple . Thanks! Hmmm... so, @waltdnes, you should modify the procedure a bit

[gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo?

2011-11-19 Thread waltdnes
Specifically, -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1, is loaded from that file. Here's what lead me to ask... - I installed xfreecell on a fresh system - I couldn't get it to start, it complained about not being able to open a font, but didn't specify which one (thanks

[gentoo-user] Help; ISO8859-1 fonts not being installed

2011-11-20 Thread waltdnes
At least I know what the problem is, so I'm changing the subject to more appropriate title. Thanks to Peter K for confirming that the font I wanted should have been installed by font-misc-misc. Just to confirm my problem... The only uncommented entry in /etc/locale.gen is en_US ISO-8859-1

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Help; ISO8859-1 fonts not being installed

2011-11-21 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 03:57:02PM -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote When I emerge font-misc-misc, ISO8859-1 fonts do not get built. See attached build.log.gz. Note... checking whether to build ISO8859-1 fonts... no ### What ?!?!?! checking whether to build ISO8859-2 fonts... no

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-21 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 09:53:50PM -0600, Dale wrote Question: Is this going to be added to the shiney new Gentoo wiki at some point? The wiki needs some more content for sure. ;-) I didn't know if ya'll had thought of this before or not. Actually, I was hoping to convince the devs to

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 2

2011-11-21 Thread waltdnes
Based on feedback, I've changed step 6, to get a modified ebuild for virtual/dev-manager to properly check for busybox with the mdev USE flag. Steps 1-through-5 are unchanged. The usual warnings apply... * this is a beta * use a spare test machine * if you don't follow the instructions

[gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.

2011-11-24 Thread waltdnes
I just ran a sync and update on my laptop. The builds for... gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.21 x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0-r1 gnome-base/librsvg-2.34.1-r1 www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1 app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.04-r4 app-office/abiword-2.8.6-r1 ...all came up with the same warning in

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need intense graphics, as they seem to be able to handle most things well and even some light gaming. How do AMD's and Intel's open source video drivers compare? --

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working

2013-05-15 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:06:02AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, something has gone wrong. The log file is at http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help. I am running gentoo testing with the 3.8

[gentoo-user] Font problems on new install

2013-05-15 Thread waltdnes
A new install 64-bit Dell. I noted all the font files in my old machine's /var/lib/world file and installed them on the new machine. Notwithstanding that I had mysterious problems. One of the icons on my ICEWM toolbar launches the command... xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 80x58 -fn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Font problems on new install

2013-05-16 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:27:13PM -0700, walt wrote On 05/15/2013 04:09 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: A new install 64-bit Dell. I noted all the font files in my old machine's /var/lib/world file and installed them on the new machine. Notwithstanding that I had mysterious problems.

[gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch

2013-05-17 Thread waltdnes
The last 4 lines from dmesg... [4.299946] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) [4.312766] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: link down [4.312784] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: link down [6.019910] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: link up It works. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > X was already installed before I installed media-fonts/terminus-font. I couldn't get

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-03 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:20:57PM +0100, lee wrote > Then how do you solve the problem of being unable to even resolve the > names of hosts on the LAN when the connection goes down? Do the machines on the LAN have static IP addresses? If so, try hosts files on the LAN machines (No, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going > the whole hog.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?

2015-12-09 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 11:03:23PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote > Am 2015-12-09 um 22:49 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > Sounds like you're all set to use that i7 to it's fullest :-) > > most of my work is terminal stuff ... and email > > the i7-2600 does that as well, if we are honest! > >

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] What package provides gstreamer-app?

2015-12-11 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 02:20:43AM -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote > I've successfully manually compiled Pale Moon (a Firefox fork), but it > doesn't play h264 files. Apparently, I have to enable gstreamer for > that. OK, I did it. This time the build fails with... > > configure:20206:

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking facebook

2015-12-11 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 08:03:14PM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote > Does anybody have an idea how to block facebook? > > I'm using dd-wrt. The "access restriction" can block http but not https > and I'm not good in iptables :-/ > In addition users are using VirtualBox on the network as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What package provides gstreamer-app?

2015-12-13 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 06:32:48PM -0500, Jonathan Callen wrote > > I unmerged the version 1.X gstreamer and plugins, masked out >= > > 0.11 versions and emerged gst-plugins-base, which also pulled in > > gstreamer. The Pale Moon build is churning along now, and I'll find > > out in a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?

2015-12-10 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 07:46:51AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote > Am 10.12.2015 um 05:50 schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables > > -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" > > > > That's what I use, except for

[gentoo-user] What package provides gstreamer-app?

2015-12-10 Thread waltdnes
I've successfully manually compiled Pale Moon (a Firefox fork), but it doesn't play h264 files. Apparently, I have to enable gstreamer for that. OK, I did it. This time the build fails with... configure:20206: checking for gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.25 gstreamer-app-0.10

Re: [gentoo-user] What package provides gstreamer-app?

2015-12-11 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:02:53AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:20:43 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > I built libgstreamer and the base plugins package. It still fails. > > I can't find which package provides gstreamer-app. > > % locate gstreamer-app >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

2016-01-04 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:20:57AM -0600, »Q« wrote > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a > patch. See and > the following comment. As

[gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question.

2016-01-01 Thread waltdnes
First, basic definitions. distcc ==> compile on machine A for machine B. No mention of whether the processors are different architectures. cross-compile ==> compile under architecture A for architecture B I'm trying to run a distccserver in a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host,

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:56:58PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote > For 32-bit distcc on 64-bit host there is no need to chroot or > create VM (hey, they're hellishly slow!). Just add -m32 to your > *FLAGS to force 32-bit arch. (In some rare cases ebuild ignores > {C,CXX,F,FC}FLAGS, while this is

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 12:55:56PM -0600, Jc García wrote > Then why the recently introuced multilib method of bulding 32bit > libraries for packages that need it on 64 bit works? I don't think the > devs would have bothered to introudce the variable ABI_X86 and a > mulitib eclass just to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

2016-01-05 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 06:36:06AM -0600, »Q« wrote > I couldn't follow everything in the bug linked from c12; I've been > using Firefox latest with gstreamer-1.0 for a while without problems, > but maybe that's because I don't use libav. > > This probably won't affect Pale Moon at all, but

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2015-12-29 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:00:10AM -0700, Skippy wrote > Greetings all; > > I've been googling to no avail on this one. > > When using Midnight Commander, I'll select a file and hit "enter" thus > opening that file with it's associated program. > > Let's say a mp3 file with VLC as that's one I

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] QEMU/distcc combination question.

2016-01-09 Thread waltdnes
The problem was not the bolt behind the case; it was the nut behind the keyboard . In my defense, I will say that I did RTFM, and "man distccd" states... > distccd does not have a configuration file; it's behaviour is con- > trolled only by command-line options and requests from clients.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

2015-12-20 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:47:35AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > I'm now at the configuring-the-kernel stage of the Gentoo guest > > install. I had originally expected to pull in the .config from the > > host machine, make a few tweaks, and get going.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 02:06:25PM +, James wrote > From what I read/understand openrc is in the process of removal from > @system, for all profiles? In Lennart's dreams... and many peoples' nightmares. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run

Re: [gentoo-user] [Sort of solved] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

2015-12-22 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:59:47PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > These options are depending on CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM, CONFIG_DRM and > CONFIG_PCI. You must activate all of these options too. All set in the guest kernel. > > > I think that you also need

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? I didn't bother enabling alsa except for packages that actually need it. I've enabled it for libsdl, but not for sdl2, because I didn't realize libsdl2 even existed. According to

[gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread waltdnes
Any ideas? The error message is... sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem sdl: Reason: No available audio device audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver I get this both with a Gentoo guest... #!/bin/bash qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \ -cpu host -display gtk \ -drive

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-25 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 04:10:40AM +, Ian Bloss wrote > I was saying the libsdl packages have a USE flag "sound" which builds the > sound module for sdl. So if qemu makes any calls to the sound module not > pure alsa calls, that might be causing your issue. > > Wabes USE flag output shows

[gentoo-user] Make QEMU guest visible to other machines on LAN

2015-12-19 Thread waltdnes
Apologies if this is a duplicate/triplicate. I don't think the first attempts got through. Going through my backup provider (dialup) this time. I have QEMU installed on a 64-bit Gentoo machine. I'm now installing a 32-bit Gentoo guest. The "cdrom" (actually the minimal install ISO file)

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

2015-12-19 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:47:35AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > I'm now at the configuring-the-kernel stage of the Gentoo guest > > install. I had originally expected to pull in the .config from the > > host machine, make a few tweaks, and get going.

Re: [gentoo-user] Make QEMU guest visible to other machines on LAN

2015-12-19 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:31:35PM +0100, Simon Thelen wrote > On 15-12-19 at 14:21, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > Apologies if this is a duplicate/triplicate. I don't think the first > > attempts got through. Going through my backup provider (dialup) this > > time. > [..] > > For various

[gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

2015-12-19 Thread waltdnes
I'm now at the configuring-the-kernel stage of the Gentoo guest install. I had originally expected to pull in the .config from the host machine, make a few tweaks, and get going. However, it appears that multiple video and sound and network cards are supported, none of which match those on the

[gentoo-user] Syntax to exclude entire folders from emerge --sync?

2015-12-28 Thread waltdnes
I have an ancient Atom netbook. I use distcc to do builds for it, but "emerge --sync" is done locally. It's painfull. Anything to reduce the amount of unneeded stuff would help. I want to confirm that I have the syntax right. In /etc/portage.make.conf I put...

[gentoo-user] [Sort of solved] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

2015-12-21 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:26:18PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote My Google search turned up https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7456850.html which suggested VIDEO_CARDS="cirrus modesetting vesa", emerging world, and setting and running CIRRUS in the guest. I did that. With "-vga cirrus" I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Sort of solved] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

2015-12-21 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:43:17AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > Have you installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting on the guest? Cannot be done on my machines. On 2 physical machines, and on the Gentoo guest, I get... > emerge -pv xf86-video-modesetting > > These are the packages

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