I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop.
I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded disk.
It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no compositing, no
beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow.
I'm looking to upgrade and while I'm aware of the vendors specia
Ugh what a mess. I'm posting what happened and why in case anyone else
stumbles into this.
I sync'd portage on Saturday. Then on yesterday I tweaked a kernel
config setting and grub.conf. When I tried to 'make install' I got an
error that update-grub was not found and would I like to make a boot
Check that you have CONFIG_UNIX=y in your .config. The udev daemon
(udevd) listens on a unix domain socket. When udevd doesn't run your
hda3 device is not created in /dev which explains the later messages.
I'm not sure why udevstart would crash your system though. Do you get
a kernel oops or does
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:24:57 -0600, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 06:34 -0600, Roberto Martinez wrote:
> this sort of thing is often due to inconsistent/missing libraries
>
> 1. run revdep-rebuild
> 2.
On 1/3/07, Strong Cypher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you try to mount device with "sync" option ?
It's strange, your lspci show you have uhci usb controller
and lspci -v said you have ohci controller ...
They're from 2 different machines. The lspci was from the freezing
laptop, but the
In this case, TLS stands for Thread Local Storage. Not to be confused with
Transport Layer Security
Welcome to the joy of overloaded acronyms :-P
Using "int errno;" will not work in any multithreaded executable.
You need to use errno via errno.h because errno isn't a simple int, but a
dereferen
try grepping for need in /etc/runlevels/boot/* and /etc/runlevels/offline/* to see if any of your boot or offline services has a dependency on networking..If there is something that requires net, see if setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" in /etc/conf.d/rc will do the trick. If that doesn;t work, t
If you don't mond ~x86, you may also want to take a look at app-emulation/vmware-server it's not a trial version and it will let you create images.dcmOn 11/10/06,
Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel Iliev wrote:> I apologize for the offtopic, but I think my question and especially its>
Sorry, that should have read:> unichrome (TwisterK) video chipset.not>Ultrachrome (TwisterK) video chipset.On 10/21/06, Devon Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm running kdm as my display manager on an HP pavilion laptop with a VIA Ultrachrom (TwisterK) video chipset.On
I'm running kdm as my display manager on an HP pavilion laptop with a VIA Ultrachrom (TwisterK) video chipset.On that I'm running monolithic kde 3.5.2 on xorg-x11 7.1On the initial startup everything comes up fine. I see these messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) SAVAGE(0): [drm] bpp: 16 depth: 16(
You both seem to be arguing about what constitutes stable. And there are 2 different definitions: stable as defined by the upstream source and stable as defined in portage.In this case, the "upstream stable" is
0.9.3 and the "portage stable" os 0.8.Not appreciating the distinction, Maxim was askin
I logged out today and Xorg crashed with this trace:Backtrace:0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c33c1]1: [0xe420]2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so(xf86SetCursor+0x109) [0xaf98f6e9]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so [0xaf98ed46]4: /usr/bin/X(miPointerUpdate+0x165) [0x8110e15]5: /us
Thanks! That was it. I now have another gig of /dev/sdb1 goodness.dcmOn 10/3/06, Steve McGrath <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:41 -0400, Devon Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Sansa e260 to work under Gentoo.>> I can mount the flash via /dev/sda1,
I'm trying to get my Sansa e260 to work under Gentoo.I can mount the flash via /dev/sda1, but I can't find the microSD card under linux.I expected it would show up as /dev/sdb or something like that, but no dice.
lsusb gives me:Bus 001 Device 014: ID 0781:7421 SanDisk Corp.When it's plugged in, t
emerge app-admin/sudo
Edit /etc/sudoers and add:
username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0
Where username is his login. To run it:
sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
dcmOn 10/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, We have a machine here, my son's, which runs Gentoo and uses (Ith
The % means the USE flag is new sine you installed dvdrip. The parenthesis mean the flag he either been subsequently deleted, or is masked by your profile. In this case, the three flags shown (cdr, gnome, minimal, and rar) are not supported by
dvdrip-0.98.1.dcmOn 9/3/06, Rafael Fernández López <[E
In reverse order...The % means it's a new use flag added to the ebuild. It did not exist when the package was originally emerged.dDo not remove the old gcc (3.3.4) until you've got everything rebuilt with 3.4.6
.Here's everything you need to know on upgrading the compiler version:http://www.gentoo.
I had something like this a while back, it turned out it was the dsl modem was picking up RF interference from a dimmer switch.If the light was full on or full off it was fine, but anywhere in between and it dropped packets like crazy. I added a choke on the lamp's power line and it's been fine sin
> >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14)The trick here is to unmerge pam-login, then merge shadow with USE="pam".The functionality of pam-login has been folded into shadow, so using pam-login is deprecated.
dcmOn 7/6/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/6/06
On 7/9/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WouldPORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailserver:port"
work? For clarification:user=
user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]pass=pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailserver=mailserver
An option for ports that don't need to be open constantly (like 80 & 443) is to use net-misc/knockd.Portknocking allows a port to be opened on demand in response to a series of attempted port opens.There's a wiki page on it here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking.Note, if he is on the sam
#1 USE=pam emerge shadow#2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line: session optional pam_xauth.sodcmOn 6/20/06,
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michaelaccount, root can't use GUI apps. It used to b
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You need USE="-gcj"On 6/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> write> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>> using revdep-rebuild it finds:> Hi,> Bug-125728, *or* disable "java" USE flag for GCC.> Rumen
Thanks... and I'm probably mis-understanding something here bu
Emerge shadow with USE=pam, then in /etc/pam.d/su add the line:session optional pam_xauth.soYes, it really is that easy. Of course it took me a couple of days to find it the first time.dcm
On 6/15/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,I'd like to authenticate an user
It's mode 2. When appB stops reading, appA will continue writing until
the pipe is full (about 4k I believe) at which time appA will block in
a write.
dcm
On 6/14/06, 张�|武 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being
unlucky not able to find a
KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image
generation.
It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then
set it as the background.
dcm
On 6/14/06, 张 �|武 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying
Umm, yeah, that should have been an M, not a G.
On 6/8/06, Ralph Thaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
wtf?
512 GB ram? ^^
2006/6/8, Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
OpenOffice is the one package I have decided I can do without building.
I don't know what the build does
OpenOffice is the one package I have decided I can do without building.
I don't know what the build does (honestly, I didn't bother too look),
but after 18 hours and 3GB of disk it still wasn't finished. This is
on an Athlon XP 1500 with 512GB Ram.
I haven't build Gnome in a while, but building
I'm looking for an ebuild for xf86-video-unichrome
(http://unichrome.sf.net) for modular-x.
Can anyone help me out?
dcm
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On 5/10/06, Paul B. Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless it has changed recently, the system I just installed last monthactually looks for it in /usr/src/linux, not /boot. It still complainsduring boot even though I actually have one there, presumably it is looking
before filesystems are mounte
This message is being issued by /sbin/module-update. It is called from /etc/init.d/modules to update /etc/modules.conf. It's complaining because /boot has not been mounted yet. As far as I can tell, /boot is treated no differently than any other non-root filesystem.
Ultimately, I think, the fault l
Setting the system JVM is different from setting the user JVM. The system JVM defines what emerge will use to compile *.java source files. As such, the system vm must be a JDK, not a JRE.You really don't want to set
1.5 as your system JVM unless you're trying to fix ebuilds to work with 1.5. Jave
Are you sure it's not a dependency? Try "emerge -pD libXext" to get a list of everything that is needed to build and install that library.dcmOn 4/4/06,
go moko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi, all
I've no internet connexion on my Gentoo machine, so Idownload first all the files and put them in/usr/po
It's not enough to just have the libraries, the program that you're using to play the file must know about the file type.Eg: for mplayer you need the "vorbis" use flag.dcm
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everybody.I think gentoo is driving me crazy.Since I found out the
Just to throw my 2 cents in...I always setCONFIG_IKCONFIG=yCONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=yunless I'm building for a memory constrained system. This stores the config file in the kernel image and makes it available as /proc/config.gz. That way, when I get it working, I know what I did.
I'm currently running
Just taking a shot in the dark here...Are you sure the CD is actually blank? I know I have made the mistake of replacing a burned disk on my spindle of blanks. Programs vary in their ability to handle an already-written writable disk.
On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear frien
Hi,It is possible today. When testing a new application, I will often install it in my own account. What you're looking for is the "--prefix" argument to "./configure". For example, "./configure --prefix=$HOME" will install the app in question into ~/bin, ~/lib, ~/share, etc.
dcmOn 2/18/06, Rafae
Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP & UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcmOn 1/9/06,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been struggling with ntp for some time now. I've followed thegentoo wiki HOWTO for ntp:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWT
I ran into this a few days ago. Ah ha, I thought, I just need to update openmotif.Nope, openmotif depended on openmotif-config which was blocked by openmotif.I tried unmasking one, the other, then both all to noavail.
Finally, in frustation I did emerge unmerge openmotif, emerge openmotifand it jus
rren kirby
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
quoth the Devon Miller:> If only it were so...>> Anyone have an idea as to what I've hosed up here?> (I'm running 2.6.14-suspend2-r7)>> dcm>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0> vendor_id
If only it were so...
Anyone have an idea as to what I've hosed up here?(I'm running 2.6.14-suspend2-r7)
dcm[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6model : 8
model name : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+stepping
Do you have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ defined in your kernel config?I have an HP laptop where I have seen similar behavior. After dealing with it for some time, I tracked it down to a problem with changing the cpu's frequency. For a very small period after the clock is changed, the thermal sensor reads back
On 11/28/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that managesconnection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage.I wonder if it would work?
Rob.
That would be ifplugd. It listens for
I just did an 'emerge sync' and now 'emerge -pDuv world' wants to
install busybox. I've only seen busybox used in small/embedded systems,
of which this machine is neither. Nothing installed depends on it. So,
why does portage insist I need it?
dcm
Brix has been maintaining a suspend2_sources ebuild that handles the patching.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/overlay/sys-kernel/suspend2-sources/
dcm
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-17 04:40]:
- is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2patch? Or will it only a
All of these are built on the same set of libraries and each one downloads and builds its own copy.
Is anyone investigating making the common code into a mozilla-core package?
I'd really like a way to cut down the time spent building these apps.
dcm
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