Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: >   If you want loopback devices to "just work", they should be > compiled into the kernel, like so... > > make menuconfig > Device Drivers  ---> > Block devices  ---> > <*> Loopback device support > >   My guess is that somewhere along the line, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: > I turned off Preempt Big Kernel Lock earlier today, and haven't had a > deadlock/crash since. > Apparently that solved it.. thanks for the help/support I have an AMD Athlon 64X2 4200+ and Have the "Preempt Big Kernel Lock" turned on in my 2.6.19 kernel and have experience

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and virtual/glibc problems

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/20/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 03:47:05 Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks for responding. I didn't know about that option or the > difference between how it's used for --depclean. Thanks. > > I solved the lm_sensors one before your response came

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed

2007-02-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:43:08 Konstantin Budylov wrote: > This error appears in my Xorg.0.log at boot time: > >(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed > >(/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: > > No such file ordirectory) > >(EE) A

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and virtual/glibc problems

2007-02-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 03:47:05 Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks for responding. I didn't know about that option or the > difference between how it's used for --depclean. Thanks. > >    I solved the lm_sensors one before your response came back. > Unfortunately --with-bdeps=y doesn't seem to iden

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and virtual/glibc problems

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/20/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 02:04:12 Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm facing a few last problems as I clean this machine up. The > machine is completely sync'ed and emerged. revdep-rebuild tells me > things are cool but then --depclean complains

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:37:44AM +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote > Well, yes, it may be faster a bit, like 1%, maybe 10%??? But if one distro > would be unbearable slow, gentoo would be too. It won't just be faster > 10 times, and yes, that 10% are nice, but not usually worth switching > your

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and virtual/glibc problems

2007-02-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 02:04:12 Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm facing a few last problems as I clean this machine up. The > machine is completely sync'ed and emerged. revdep-rebuild tells me > things are cool but then --depclean complains about needing > virtual/glibc and using emerge depends sugg

Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:35:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Hi all, > > Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo > > My various /dev/loop/* devices used to always JustWork, until a recent > update. Unfortunately I can't tell when the breakage happened. > > Right now what happens is I don't get these devices au

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build

2007-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:13:36AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Rconfigure and recompile the kernel: > > make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct > Rendering Manager > > make it a module. Or, you can just deselect it as the ati drivers > provide their own drm implementa

[gentoo-user] --depclean and virtual/glibc problems

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm facing a few last problems as I clean this machine up. The machine is completely sync'ed and emerged. revdep-rebuild tells me things are cool but then --depclean complains about needing virtual/glibc and using emerge depends suggests it really is needed but eix glibc doesn't show anythin

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Hans-Stefan Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo': > Hallo, > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: > > On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47, Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: > >> storm1 hsbauer # /etc/init.d/gfs start > >> * Starting gfs clus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: given that it's list aimed at providing help to all users. Sorry - should read: given that it's *a* list aimed at providing help to all users. (I'm hoping for a grammar checker in Thunderbird) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
James wrote: Besides, Gentoo's greatest strength is the help the community provides to one another. +1 I think the friendly, helpful attitude of the list is exactly as it should be - given that it's list aimed at providing help to all users. It would be ok to be a bit rougher on a 'gento

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Zac Slade
On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47:03 Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: >  * Loading lock_dlm kernel module ... > FATAL: Error inserting lock_dlm (/fs/gfs_locking/lock_dlm/lock_dlm.ko): > Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) >  * Failed to load lock_dlm kernel > module                  

Re: [gentoo-user] No more ASCII progress bar for Suspend2 hibernate

2007-02-20 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:44:21PM -0500, Henk Boom wrote: > Hi, I have just done an emerge -uDNav world, and when I hibernate > (suspend2) with the 'hibernate' script, it no longer displays the > progress bar showing how long it will take to finish. I am using > suspend2-sources-2.6.17-r6,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:46 +, James wrote: > Dear Pompous Jerks: [...] > Does anyone believe in civility any more? My apologies. And thanks for setting a standard that we all may follow. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] No more ASCII progress bar for Suspend2 hibernate

2007-02-20 Thread Henk Boom
Hi, I have just done an emerge -uDNav world, and when I hibernate (suspend2) with the 'hibernate' script, it no longer displays the progress bar showing how long it will take to finish. I am using suspend2-sources-2.6.17-r6, and I have not re-compiled my kernel since the emerge. Its sources are st

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
James, On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:46, James wrote: > Peter Lewis letterboxes.org> writes: > > No, I didn't mean it as a criticism anyway. I just find that it helps to > > assume the best on mailing lists. It all helps for a happy community. > > Dear Pompous Jerks: Are you including me in tha

[gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-20, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neither the ati-drivers version nor kernel has changed. Bzzt, wrong! The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5. Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again. The lock up occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1

[gentoo-user] XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
After an update a coule days ago, any attempt to use the XV extension (xine, mplayer, etc.) locks up the X server hard (100% CPU usage). Until the update a couple days ago XV had worked with no problems for about 14 months on this machine. I've rolled xorg-server back to 1.1.1-r1, but that didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:33:32 +0100 Hans-Stefan Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Merging sys-cluster/dlm-kernel-1.03.00 to / --- /cluster/ >>> /cluster/dlm.ko Hm. What does "uname -r" say on your system? What's /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/sour

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread James
Peter Lewis letterboxes.org> writes: > No, I didn't mean it as a criticism anyway. I just find that it helps to > assume the best on mailing lists. It all helps for a happy community. Dear Pompous Jerks: The arrogance of these responses is astounding. Does anyone believe in civility any more?

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:33:32 +0100 Hans-Stefan Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Merging sys-cluster/dlm-kernel-1.03.00 to / > --- /cluster/ > >>> /cluster/dlm.ko Hm. What does "uname -r" say on your system? What's /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source linked to? Valid kernel location? -hw

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge dazuko 2.3.x with kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
Peter Ruskin wrote: > No, it doesn't look familiar - I had no problems at all I wonder... Could you please check your kernel configuration? /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo # grep CONFIG_SECURITY .config CONFIG_SECURITY=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y CONFIG_SECU

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge numpy 1.0.1-r1 failing: can't find cblas

2007-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-20, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2007 19:36:35 Grant Edwards wrote: >> * You need to set cblas to atlas or reference. Do: >> *eselect cblas set >> * where is atlas, threaded-atlas or reference >> >>!!! ERROR: dev-python/nump

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47, Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: storm1 hsbauer # /etc/init.d/gfs start * Starting gfs cluster: * Loading lock_dlm kernel module ... FATAL: Error inserting lock_dlm (/fs/gfs_locking/lock_dlm/lock_dlm.ko): Unknown symbol in mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?

2007-02-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Feb 2007, at 23:15, Mick wrote: ... You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you that they do a "set" (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are OSS & you can get them with `emerge rt2500`.

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

2007-02-20 Thread Jürgen Geuter
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 22:09 +1100, Ric de France wrote: Hossa. > It's just that I'm having a hard time from figuring out which USE > flags (if any) to remove to get rid of evolution... > > Any suggestions? You could use gnome-base/gnome-light, which is basically (quote from the ebuild): "# Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:27:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Hm. It sounded like he was lazy to do a research work. I have to > > confess it didn't even cross my head that OP just wanted a > > recommendation on available router distros. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and Portage issues

2007-02-20 Thread Gyuszk
Bo Ørsted Andresen írta: > On Monday 19 February 2007 22:40:32 Gyuszk wrote: > >> As this email is clear text, I cannot mark, but from the USE flags, it >> is obvious that Portage now considers all my USE flag demands, although >> emerge -pvN world don't. That is what I don't understand. >>

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge numpy 1.0.1-r1 failing: can't find cblas

2007-02-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 February 2007 19:36:35 Grant Edwards wrote: > * You need to set cblas to atlas or reference. Do: > *eselect cblas set > * where is atlas, threaded-atlas or reference > >!!! ERROR: dev-python/numpy-1.0.1-r1 failed. >Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1614: Ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

2007-02-20 Thread Grant
> I changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to: > > KEYMAP="es" > > and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have > changed. The keymap where? The keymap on the console should be es after the above change. To change it in X too, use Option "XkbLayout" "es" in xorg.conf, or set it with 'setxkbmap

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 03:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > That I can understand. I sometimes want someone to tell me something > good to use so I can get a unbiased opinion. Yeah except a) opinions *are* biased and b) one's opinion was never asked and c) I've observed that asking a bunch of strangers for

[gentoo-user] AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed

2007-02-20 Thread Konstantin Budylov
Hi ;) This error appears in my Xorg.0.log at boot time: >(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed >(/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: > No such file ordirectory) >(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering And It seems that 3D ren

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

2007-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Sean wrote: > Sven Köhler wrote: > >> Any suggestions? > > > > I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. > > > > Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor > > it's not installed installed automatically. > > > > Unfortunatly, you sti

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

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

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:27:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hm. It sounded like he was lazy to do a research work. I have to > confess it didn't even cross my head that OP just wanted a > recommendation on available router distros. In that case, I feel very > sorry. Don't be too hard on yourself,

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

2007-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Ric de France wrote: > Hi list(s), > > I was looking through the dynamic USE flag page ( > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml ), and noticed there were > some flags that brought in evolution support... but after realising I > don't used evolution (as I am happy wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Peter Lewis wrote: > Or maybe they actually wanted a recommendation from someone rather than > just picking something off the shelf based on how good its website was. Hm. It sounded like he was lazy to do a research work. I have to confess it didn't even cross my head that OP just wanted a recomm

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

2007-02-20 Thread Ric de France
Hi list(s), I was looking through the dynamic USE flag page ( http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml ), and noticed there were some flags that brought in evolution support... but after realising I don't used evolution (as I am happy with thunderbird), I was wondering how to remove evolution from

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

2007-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:42:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 1. It's an orphan, left over from an unmerge that wasn't fully > successful. if you don't need them, delete them. > 2. A package was installed, and it created it's own binaries for it's > own use. Portage didn't put them there so doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Dale
Peter Lewis wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:48, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:46 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: >> >>> Mikie wrote: >>> Anyone out there know where I could DL an iso file with a simple >>> route >>> >>> only l

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-20 Thread Dale
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a >> *LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and >> Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especia

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

2007-02-20 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Grant wrote: My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen. I changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to: KEYMAP="es" and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed. Does anyone know how to fix this? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-20 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:05:26AM -0600, Dale wrote: > I have to disagree with this. I used to use Mandrake and Gentoo is a > *LOT* faster than Mandrake. I turned off a lot of unused services and > Mandrake was still pretty slow. This is especially true if you > customize all the flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:48, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:46 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Mikie wrote: > > > Anyone out there know where I could DL an iso file with a simple > > > > route > > > > > only linux? > > > > Is _really_ that hard to use Google? > > Maybe they

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Dale wrote: > > Use the Live CD if you want to get a working machine quickly. If > > watching gcc output scroll off the screen turns you on (it does for > > most of us around here) then use the minimal by all means. > >   > > This is true.  Gentoo updates pretty fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Sorry, but that's never a good reason for using Gentoo. If a binary > distro compiles every option under the sun then the software will still > work, but the binaries might be a bit big. Compiling on your machine > gives no discernable performance benefit for the avera