[gentoo-user]

2019-07-01 Thread Maxim Reshetnyak

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv startup times...is this guy waiting for soemthing ?

2017-03-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
Do the files repose on a on a big(terabytes!) outboard drive? This could cause a delay on account of the OS having to read the thing first. On 3/18/17, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > very often I use mpv to watch videos. > > On my old root, the start of that tool > was nearly instantly. > > Wit

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 6.2.0

2016-10-18 Thread Maxim Reshetnyak
Neil, thank you! I compiled it and it works. Maxim.

[gentoo-user] GCC 6.2.0

2016-10-17 Thread Maxim Reshetnyak
igher versions for gcc 6.2.0? If yes, what should be done firstly: gcc or kernel? The computer will be used just for the openmp, mpi and gpu parallel computing experiments (before start the code at the clusters). Maxim.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible > in Unity at the time when Ubuntu 12.04 was released. They really > *forced* their users to accept the new place of the closing window > frame button and have argued that it is more ergonomic. > > There was not any possibility t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found. BUMP

2012-11-07 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > > What does your "dmesg" say when starting Gentoo and Ubuntu? > Can you provide the kernel-config for Gentoo and Ubuntu? > > -- > Joost > > > ubuntu, dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1340272/ gentoo, kernel config: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1340280/ gentoo, dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1340301/

[gentoo-user] Re: no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found. BUMP

2012-11-05 Thread Maxim Wexler
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I > have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel recognizes the mouse > and it appears in lsusb. I carried over the kernel from l

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
well, looks like I have a problem w/grub2 too. Using the 'c' option, the old kernel panics AND so does the new one. TIL set root=(hd1, msdos6). msdos6? No idea where that comes from ;(

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:34:39 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > > after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I > > have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel recognizes the > > mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-27 Thread Maxim Wexler
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:56 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > Did you update xorg-server? - you need to rebuild the drivers (see > ebuild messages) > > BillK > > > didn't help

[gentoo-user] [ot]flashing netbook bios

2012-09-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I want to upgrade an old 900A netbook, but I have to flash the bios first. This has proven difficult despite using all the tips I found on the web. The recommendations call for a small partition on a usb key formatted fat 16. You copy over the bios file, making sure its called 900A.ROM.

Re: [gentoo-user] unstoppable, undeciperable kernel call trace in log

2012-06-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
x27;. Ok, but there's no debug file or dir under /sys/kernel. Do I make one? And will it make a difference since according to grep DEBUG_FS is not set in the kernel config? I'll go and make the new kernel and see what happens. On 6/30/12, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi, >> >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] unstoppable, undeciperable kernel call trace in log

2012-06-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Hi, > > I don't have an answer, but if you google the phrase "rcu_bh detected > stall on CPU" you can find many reports similar to yours and maybe > some information. This might be usefu lhttp://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt "RCU bugs can often be debugged with the help of

[gentoo-user] unstoppable, undeciperable kernel call trace in log

2012-06-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Please take a look at this clip from /var/log/messages: https://paste.lugons.org/show/2679/ Can somebody tell me what it means? It never changes, char by char. It goes on forever, over and over again. At one time I wanted kernel debugging, but I've returned to menuconfig and turned it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
I mostly gentoo, but ubuntu has this marvellous tool 'boot-repair' based on grub2 in the yannbuntu repo. With one click it finds all the bootable partitions on your box, writes and installs the grub.cfg. Next time you boot viola! there's all your OSes ready to be started. On 6/25/12, walt wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-04-06 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > emerge --ask --deep --update world > unmerge =x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1 > revdep-rebuild Done, but before that I ran -a --depclean and, whatdya know, it wanted to delete 1.3.0 and keep 2.0! running emerge -C against 2.0 and then revdep-rebuild seemed to have fixed things. Next world updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-04-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> >> fltk-1.3 will handle what fltk-2.0 handled, unless you have some very >> hard-coded software. >> >> -- >> Walter Dnes > > Thanks Walter for the description of what the real problem is here. > from update -p world console o/p: <...> [ebuild NS] x11-libs/fltk-1.3.0 [2.0_pre6970-r1] US

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Because the other slot satisfies the requirements of world, which > contains an unslotted version. But then --update always tries to > installed the newest suitable version. In other words, his system is > broken. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > Then my system must be broken too. emerge -uND world

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 3/28/12, Todd Goodman wrote: > I've been getting the following "Ping-ponging" of fltk for maybe a > couple weeks now. > > What I mean is that I have x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1:2 installed and > slotted. > > When I emerge -avD --changed-use world it wants to slot install > x11-libs/fltk-1.3.0-

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd [SOLVED-sorta]

2012-03-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> >>> with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the >>> nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if >>> peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in >>> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf This is at the top of /etc/resolv.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 can't find any commands

2012-03-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
Here's a marvelous program crying out for an ebuild; https://launchpad.net/boot-repair It's part of my Ubuntu setup. With one click it goes out and finds all the boot partitions on your hd(s) and automatically writes the proper grub2 configuration for them. It even pastebins a copy of grub.cfg fo

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
oh wait...it's set in /etc/ppp/peers/ On 3/21/12, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as > I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be. > > > > > On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be. On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > >> > Since route and other thing

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly > in /etc/resolv.conf I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console and ran pon without touching anything else, and b

[gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. So I'll have to make do with pastebin. http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ Is a chronicle of the commands entered. First having booted and not changing anything, I do #ifconifg, then I do #route -n, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Why show us what it was when it worked? What does route -n show from > your broken Gentoo now? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick Good question. Heading over there now. So if I can't get it working there's gonna have to be some awkward shuttling back and forth.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > cat files-to-fetch.lst | cut -d " " -f1 | wget -c -i - > I know how to generate a fetch list and wget the files. The problem is syncing portage on another machine, my netbook, ubuntu-based. Or maybe, I could boot sysresc on the netbook. It's gentoo based IIRC and do a re-sync back home as per

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Hi Maxim, what changed when the modem stopped working? Dunno > > Also can you supply the output of the "route -n" and ifconfig commands > to give us a chance of seeing if anything has gone adrift there. Also > if you are using (and have tested that its n

[gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
I like gentoo; there's a steep learning curve but after you pass that it just clicks. As difficult as it ever became there was always an answer to be found, on a blog, irc, documentaiton... But I might have to give up on gentoo if I can't find a way to fix this latest difficulty. I live in the hin

Re: [gentoo-user] What has Sabayon to do with Gentoo?

2011-05-31 Thread Maxim Vorontsov
t; pretty > > good job. > > > > In fact I believe you can use layman to add the sabayon overlay, > emerge entropy (Sabayon's binary package manager) and start using it. > (I'm sure it's not entirely that straightforward, but that's the > executive summary) > > -- brgds Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-27 Thread Maxim Vorontsov
Maybe deleting config files in ~/.kde can help? Dont forget backup it:-) -- Maxim Vorontsov 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster написал(а): > Maxim Vorontsov writes: > >> No, for me all works fine. > > Probably another problem that only I have. > BTW, German languag

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid10 howto

2011-05-27 Thread Maxim Vorontsov
Yes, it help. Thank you and thank to John. -- Maxim Vorontsov 27.05.2011, в 21:08, Florian Philipp написал(а): > Am 27.05.2011 18:54, schrieb Maxim Vorontsov: >> Hello. >> >> I look how to create a RAID10. I understood correctly I must first >> create two RAID0

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-27 Thread Maxim Vorontsov
Hi. No, for me all works fine. -- Maxim Vorontsov 27.05.2011, в 20:19, Alex Schuster написал(а): > Hi there! > > Since the upgrade to 4.6.3, most KDE applications show up in English. Even > stuff that has not been upgraded, like kmymoney. The only KDE4 application I > kno

[gentoo-user] Raid10 howto

2011-05-27 Thread Maxim Vorontsov
Hello. I look how to create a RAID10. I understood correctly I must first create two RAID0 device for one RAID1? Or is simple command for creation RAID10 on 4 disks? I dont find answer for this on gentoo.org or raid.wiki.kernel.org. -- Brgds Maxim Vorontsov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "hotplugging" usb devices no longer working

2010-08-31 Thread Maxim Wexler
Had this problem too. Not sure if this suits your case. Have you tried using UUID in place of /dev/sdx? Use blkid to get the UUID for the device and replace /dev/sdx in fstab. On 8/31/10, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Allan Gottlieb writes: > >> I have a sansa MP3 player and a Flip Video. Each plugs

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
should be /var/git/openrc# git pull --rebase On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > so tell me how come none of you quarter-brights have responded to the > email where I say this problem has been fixed? > > you want to help? answer me this: why did # /var/git/openrc/git pull > --re

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
09, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> We just want to help you -- that's what the police say before they tase >> your ass >> >> On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> meh, you got nothing >>> >>> On

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
We just want to help you -- that's what the police say before they tase your ass On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > meh, you got nothing > > On 12/1/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 22:19:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:57

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
meh, you got nothing On 12/1/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 22:19:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:57:58 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > Fine, then read what I say and, until you know better, believe it. >> >> OK, you'r

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
And, for the record, while people might be arguing with you, it's not > malicious. We are only trying to help. Fine, then read what I say and, until you know better, believe it.

[gentoo-user] git openrc skips init service

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
etc/init.d -- except for net.lo. Now net.lo and the symlink net.eth0 can't be found, fail to start etc. I used /var/git/openrc/git pull --rebase to do the deed. Is there a way to focus the command on just the one service? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!FIXED -- almost

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 12/1/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:54:45 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> you guys are killing me -- the problem goes away when the ac cord is >> plugged in. I open files watch videos surf the web and so on -- no >> problems. I'm no expert, b

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
e, empires totter ... On 11/30/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:09:07 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work. >> Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs >> v

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
> out why your system is exhibiting incorrect behaviour. What the hell do you think I'm doing? > Do you disagree with my logic as stated above? logic? all I'm aware of is someone who insists on having the last word at all costs. Help me, my eye!

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work. Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs vs not booting at all, dammit! On 11/30/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2009 05:40:31 Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > Right.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
boolean thing I can put in /etc/conf.d/fsck to over-ride it, but apparently not. On 11/29/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Right. > > wrong > >> Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll >> want to get them solved, but it's either a L

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Right. wrong > Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll > want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable > fsck at boot. There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2 and requires being checked at every boot. Before that it wouldn't boo

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > You say "Chaos ensues" ... in what way? Further errors, failure to > boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted > in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on > battery, but rather that you have some more pressing problem that > should be addres

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
e/5ipnsva3xkdyzzfy /etc/init.d, conf.d/lvm closest equivalent. Nothing there about ac cord Thanks for you interest. Maxim

[gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
u look for gentoo bug 291654 you get to a page that's difficult to read, something wonky with the xml, but it describes this problem and adds that it's fixed "upstream". I'm using ext2 with the journal option, openrc and baselayout-2. My latest world update was two days ago. maxim

[gentoo-user] prune gentoo-sources vs rm gentoo-sources

2009-11-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, according to the docs the approved method of removing old gentoo-sources is emerge --prune. But I've already used rm -rf on them. Have I set myself up for a problem later? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
the browser and migrate away from the page on account of my tiny bandwidth. But it works, very kewl :) On 11/23/09, Dale wrote: > Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab >>> those videos really easy. It works on

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
a button on Youtube itself, once the 'downloiad helper' is installed that lets you download from the actual Youtube site? I've looked through Tools->Download Helper->Preferences without seeing any option for it. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
> That doesn't answer the question. If support is built as a module, > is it loaded? go away, if it was a module it wouldn't work. been there, done it.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either -- FIXED

2009-11-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> IIRC in a thread from a few months ago there was a tip about putting > the 'pause ' command into a certain config file, which I can't > recall. Or was it 'delay ' or 'time ' ? This was meant for > the hardware to catch its breath so to speak and allow the system to > find the SD card. This was ab

[gentoo-user] debugging SD card

2009-11-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, My netbook uses an SD card for additional storage. I suspect it of being buggy so I compiled the kernel with 'CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG=y'. Questions are: how do I use it to check the SD card? Is this the correct method? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Is sdb an SD device? Is the module loaded? from the OP: "I've had this problem before which I traced to the lack of support for SD cards in the kernel. This time it's something else." mw

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> There's your problem right there. Your device-mapper can't work > with baselayout-1. So, your options: > > Upgrade to baselayout-2 and openrc. Done, following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml No joy. After '*Autoloaded 24 module(s)' in the boot console there's the bit '*lvm u

[gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
I don't have it. And if I try to emerge it, the new version is blocked by the version I'm supposed ot have?! In an earlier post 'device-mapper', somebody suggested installing lvm2 and not using device-mapper but this doesn't work for me -- assuming my problem has anything to do with device-mapper. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg? --RESOLVED

2009-11-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/19/09, Crístian Viana wrote: > I think --noreplace should do it, but if it didn't, try adding this ebuild > name to /var/lib/portage/world: > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 Yes, that did it. Thanks. using --noreplace or --deselect has the effect of focusing on the one package but o

[gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

2009-11-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, emerge -av --depclean wants to remove sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a world update. How do I prevent this? I've tried the --deselect and --noreplace switches but that has the opposite effect I'm looking for. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help-D'UH!

2009-11-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/17/09, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:46 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Any one see a way past this impasse? I'm using ext2 with the journal >> option. > > Why didn't you mount/fsck all the filesystems from outside the chroot? >

[gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-17 Thread Maxim Wexler
? I'm using ext2 with the journal option. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-16 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > CONFIG_FB=y > CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y > CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y > CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=256 Identical to mine. > I have no settings for scrollback on the kernel comm

Re: [gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-14 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/14/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:12:26 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Yes, use vesa. It's slow at high res, but works. > > The nvidia framebuffer does not work with nvidia-drivers Yeah, I found that out just after mailing the above. But now that I&#

[gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-14 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I'm using the nvidia framebuffer(CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y) but I can't get scrollback to work for more than a few lines. I've added 'fbcon=scrollback:128' to my kernel line in grub.conf but scrollback is still disabled. Is there some nvidia specific way to do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] making a file-list at (a) for fetching at (b)

2009-11-14 Thread Maxim Wexler
> redirect to a file, bash it into suitable shape with your Unix text tools of > course, use said file as input to wget. > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > Here http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users I found this gem: emerge -fpu world | sort | uniq | sed '/\

Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD

2009-11-14 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/14/09, Neil Walker wrote: > Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Anybody guess what's happening here? >> > > Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it > sounds like either a problem with the video driver or > a hardware problem. :( > hmm, ran #emerg

[gentoo-user] return of SOD

2009-11-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
I did #tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log immediately from a spare console but there was no sign of trouble. I can get back to the start console, ctl-c and run startx again but the desktop remains black. To get back the desktop I have to reboot. Anybody guess what's happening here? Maxim

[gentoo-user] making a file-list at (a) for fetching at (b)

2009-11-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Can someone explain to me how to generate a list of files to be fetched, eg -fuDN world, on a slow desktop that can be downloaded onto a netbook later? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4--DONE & DONE

2009-11-12 Thread Maxim Wexler
oops, put the a typo in the address bar the first time On 11/12/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> If you run depclean without any package name, it will remove all >> orphaned packages on your system, which I think is what you wanted to >> do. (Since you removed the meta package, al

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

2009-11-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/11/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You unmerged the meta package but not its DEPENDs > > Emerge -av --depclean OK, I re-emerged xfce4-meta, and ran emerge -av --depclean xfce4-meta(You *did* mean to add the pkg name, I presume). The wheels churned: Calculating dependencies ... done!...>>>Unmer

Re: [gentoo-user] Font recommendations for netbook?

2009-11-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/10/09, Walter Dnes wrote: > Fluxbox is blowing up on my new machine because it can't find any > fixed fonts. I just realized that merely building xorg-server doesn't > download any fonts. Looking at /usr/portage/media-fonts I see a whole > bunch of options. Any experiences good/bad with

[gentoo-user] can't unmerge xfce4

2009-11-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
nmerge...No packages selected for removal by unmerge. xfce4-meta has been removed from the world file but no where else I can see. How do I get rid of it? Maxim

[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver-RESOLVED

2009-11-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
> (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or > 'vmmouse' will be disabled. > (WW) Disabling Mouse1 > (WW) Disabling Keyboard1 LOL! It wasn't a "crash". It just seemed like it because the mouse and kbd were disabled. Apparently, the above is the default!?!? The line 'Opti

Re: [gentoo-user] was Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver now X crash on eee w/intel driver

2009-11-05 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Will see how it works. Not very well. About an hour after emerging the 2.9.1 drivers the screen went black and I had to reboot to get back to the desktop. I notice it only seems to happen while scrolling a window in firefox. I've left the unit on overnight with no problem. When I get back to c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-05 Thread Maxim Wexler
> There are definitely bugs in the intel video driver, as posted to the > freedesktop.xorg mailing list: > > Release 2.9.1 (2009-10-26) Thanks. Just did an eix-sync followed by ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -v xf86-video-intel and the package cae down. Will see how it works. BTW how come packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-05 Thread Maxim Wexler
In plenty of time for 2012 ;) On 11/5/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:24:44 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Didn't they kill hal 2001 before that movie was over? > > Just put it to sleep, so they could wake it up in 2010. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Of course it's not your day, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-05 Thread Maxim Wexler
> nvidia 0x10de 0x 0x 0x 0x0003 > 0x 0x0 > nvidia 0x10de 0x 0x 0x 0x00030200 > 0x 0x0 The lines in my modules.pcimap are identical. FWIW, I mentioned previously that startx precipitated a tota

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because > the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. > > Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting? kyzyl ~ # modprobe -nv nvidia insmod /lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): >> No such device >> >> ???lspci begs to differ > > I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of > errors :o( > > Are you sure the nvidia module that was actually merged is the same > version you thought you w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
> You can compile one from an older source package and see if it helps. Just > use the same kernel config you have now and do make oldconfig to remove > any new config items. Using linux-2.6.29. Changed symlink, re-emerged nvidia-drivers, ran #modprobe nvidia: FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> Black screen, instant total system crash. > > Well, that suggests a kernel panic, I think. What happens if you use an > older kernel? > There is no older kernel. I knew there was something I forgot to save. But I saved xorg.conf and it's identical. The sysrecusecd finds the card and X starts f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 11/1/09, walt wrote: > On 11/01/2009 09:13 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi group >> >> Having installed the Geforce FX5500 drivers, >> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.18-pkg1.run, and ran startx the desktop >> appears but the system crashes... > > Do you mean

[gentoo-user] X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
dule does not exist, 0) Notes: "dri" was commented out in xorg.conf but uncommenting made no difference. $ls /usr/share/fonts default encodings ttf-bitstream-vera and nothing in those dirs like those mentioned in (WW) yes, ran "eselect opengl set nvidia" after drivers were emerged. #nvidia-settings -V ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run 'nvidia-settings --help' Is there an option I can pass to nvidia-settings to solve this, or should I look elsewhere? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignores /etcportage/package.mask-RESOLVED

2009-10-31 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Do you have a space in front of the line or something else that may > interfere with package.mask ? > > You sure you have the file as package.mask ? You know, spelled right > and all? I mention because it sounds like something I would do. lol > > Dale I guess I shouldn't feel so embarrassed t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignores /etcportage/package.mask

2009-10-31 Thread Maxim Wexler
> check that you don't have the ebuild listed in package.unmask > package.unmask is empty, haven't needed it yet. Only just started stocking a fresh install.

[gentoo-user] emerge ignores /etcportage/package.mask

2009-10-31 Thread Maxim Wexler
ions of the driver which are incompatible with your card from being installed." But emerge ignores package.mask and insists on installing the newer pkg. Searching reveals an old bug marked 'resolved' but nothing to say what the resolution is. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 update meets kernel update and crashes-FIXED

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 10/29/09, Kyle Adams wrote: > Ah, this issue. > I ran into a similar issue before when I was doing the 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 > change. > Make sure that you have emerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev > For some odd reason, I found that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 10/30/09, walt wrote: > On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> ... >>> Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was >>> persuaded to use it by reading the forums and now it's a lot simpler

Re: [gentoo-user] EeePC network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
I sort of just did a networkless install on my desktop. I only have very slow dialup at home, but access to wifi once mobile. My netbook is fairly up-to-date so I used it to download the latest install-iso, stage3, portage-latest. These I installed on the desktop then copied over all the distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot. > Perhaps you can post the exact error message? I'm pretty sure it wasn't > fragmentation. What it *might* be saying (but again we can't verify > without an error message) is that your filesystem contains errors that > cannot be

[gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog

2009-10-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
;s '-i -o', but there's no such options. Maybe it wasn't e2fsck at all. I can't remember. I don't think it was '-f''(force). Anybody know what I'm talking about? Maxim

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

2009-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > And keep backup copies of each working .config file as you go merrily > whittling away, so you can fall back to something other than back to > square 1. > I keep all my spares in /boot/safe. mw

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

2009-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 10/26/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:52:26 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> > Could be over-zealous whittling. Why not use the Live DVD .config >> > unchanged? >> OK, done. Crashed. Almost identical to the first post in this thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

2009-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Not sure this is related with the OP's problem, I have noticed that on my > system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a command, > e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I cannot scroll > up on the log messages on VT12. Is there something that I nee

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

2009-10-27 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> So, since in the digital world, things don't "just happen", can >> someone enlighten me, or anyone else who's interested, in the >> connection between the scrollback buffer and usb-storage, if any? > > > There isn't a connection. Why do you think there is one? Because, before the scrollback buf

[gentoo-user] xfce4 update meets kernel update and crashes

2009-10-27 Thread Maxim Wexler
en that causes it to crash. The last line of Xlog says '(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 X 150' which seems rather small. vga, acpi, kbd, fb and mouse options are identical in both kernels, 29 & 30. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

2009-10-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
Ok, this is too weird. While mucking around in the kernel I noticed that the scroll back buffer wasn't set. So I configured it and gave it 128 bytes to play with. Sez I, well at least I'll be able to scroll back to the start of all that verbiage. That's the only change I've made since turning USB_S

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