Holly Bostick wrote:
> but everybody could just read the man page and work it out for
> themselves, of course :) .
Alternatively, one could read Gentoo's GnuPG documentation[1] or the
GnuPG Handbook[2]. :-)
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml
[2] http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documen
Have you tried booting with the 'irqpool' kernel option as suggested
by the error message?
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Peter wrote:
> # emerge "=gtk-1.2*"
Hrm. That should be "gtk+", not "gtk".
# emerge "=gtk+-1.2*"
Sorry about that. :-)
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The GTK+ ebuild is SLOTed, which means that you can install multiple
versions as needed. If you need GTK+ 1.2, you could try something such
as:
# emerge "=gtk-1.2*"
Hope that helps.
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Press / while in make menuconfig and type 'qla' to see the relevant
> options.
/me writes that down.
Nice tip. Thanks, Niel. :-)
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On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 22:25 +, b.n. wrote:
> > Did you enable the ATi Radeon direct rendering manager and any needed
> > AGP support in your kernel configuration?
> >
> > It's under the Device Drivers --> Character Devices option.
>
> Hmmm... my .config says so:
>
> CONFIG_AGP=y
> # CONFIG_A
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:35 +, b.n. wrote:
> [...]
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: op
Richard Fish said:
> Based on what the developers presented at the 2005 OLS, delayed
> allocation, and an extents-based format (ext4?) are coming:
>
> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf
That looks very intriguing. :-D
Thanks for your thorough explanations, Richard!
--Pet
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a
> backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs
> has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'.
> It does defragmentation, and b
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc
> and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed
> in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole. Rectangular frames
> are
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 01:31 +1000, Richard Watson wrote:
> I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if
> anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set
> CFLAGS="-02 -mcpu=pentiu
Peter Gordon said:
> Hope that gelps!
That should be "helps". Sorry about that. Please excuse my apparent
lack of caffeine. :o
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Robert Persson said:
> suggests that these would be cured if I were to build abiword using g++
> instead of gcc. How can I do this in portage? Do I need to emerge
> anything to be able to use g++?
Nope. You should have it by default, since it's part of GCC.
I'm not certain, but try adding 'CC=g
Allan Spagnol Comar said:
> My hole linux box has crashed
> I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world
>
> it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql. today my hole
> system is against me
> I think in reinstall the full system has any one got a better
> idea,
>From my understanding, if you install Gentoo/AMD64, you still can run and
execute 32-bit ('x86') stuff natively, so that shouldn't be too much of an
issue.
I don't own any 64-bit hardware though, so I'm not certain about this.
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Dave Nebinger said:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 01:05 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:44:18 + Michael Kjorling
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> | It should be deleted when you unmerge syslog-ng.
>>
>> No it shouldn't.
>
> Okay, I'll bite, why shouldn't it? If the pac
Zhang Weiwu said:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>What is wrong with acroread on linux?
>>
> Ah, sorry, I wasn't considering Linux product => foss based on Linux,
> which is wrong of course. acroread is fine, gpdf fails.
Have you tried evince? (part of GNOME 2.12) I quite like it. :-)
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Scott Stoddard said:
> Look I'm not at all suggesting that we "dignify LSB" but what the o.p.
> is suggesting is not at all a bad idea.
>
> An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro,
> version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can
> only help maintainers
gentuxx said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> cvs server: cannot open /root/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
> Cannot access /root/CVSROOT
> Permission denied
>
> Here's the perms on the file:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ ls -l /var/lib/cvs/root/CVSROOT/config
> - -rwxrwxr-x 1 cvsd cvsd 4082 Oct 1
gentuxx said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> cvs server: cannot open /root/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
> Cannot access /root/CVSROOT
> Permission denied
>
> Here's the perms on the file:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ ls -l /var/lib/cvs/root/CVSROOT/config
> - -rwxrwxr-x 1 cvsd cvsd 4082 Oct 1
Neil Bothwick said:
> mkdir -p /etc/portage/env.d/app-editors
> echo >>/etc/portage/env.d/app-editors/vim
> 'EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-clipboard"'
>
> You can use this to set variables, or override default settings, for any
> package.
Ooh that's quite nifty. I'll have to write that one down. Thanks, N
> when I try to start mysql. It seems to be an issue with the package
> that runscript.sh is part of ... which is what package? (it has been
> awhile since I lasted worked with Gentoo, so I am not sure the method to
> find out which package a file belongs too).
I'm not at my Gentoo box, so I can
Try setting the "pam_console" USE flag and re-emerging pam:
# echo "sys-libs/pam pam_console" >> /etc/portage/package.use
# emerge sys-libs/pam
Although, it's rather odd that you are unable to login. I do not have
pam_console either but I can still login through gdm just fine (with a
similar warn
Are you sure that you're currently running kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4? Is
your /usr/src/linux symlink correct?
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It's in portage, so a simple `emerge bacula` as root should build and
install it on your machine (including any needed dependencies). If you
want the client only, you can add "client-only" to your USE flags. It
has a few other USE flags to do various things (MySQL and PostgreSQL
support, for exampl
Thanks, Chris. :-)
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On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 20:09 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
Sorry about that. Evolution quotes the original message and I forgot to
delete that from my reply.
(Note to self: Get some caffeine. :O ...)
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On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
I'm not a KDE person; but if I'm not mistaken, that tells Portage to use
binary diffs (xdeltas) against the source tarballs themselves. So, for
example, you could have a source tarball for version 3.4.1 of a KDE
program and installing version 3.
Do you have "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" (CONFIG_TUN)
enabled in your kernel configuration? It should be a network device in
your kernel configuration:
Device Drivers -->
Networking support -->
Network device support -->
<*> Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
You can
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:59 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Whereas 2.6.12 is made by Linus Torbalds, the followup 2.6.12.1 and 2.6.12.2
I think you mean Linus *Torvalds*. :-P
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Did you remember to add ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" to your /etc/make.conf and
emerge alsa-driver? (You'll need to make sure that your /usr/src/linux
symlink is correct.)
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On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 16:14 +0200, Peter Kotrcka wrote:
> unsubscribe
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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 11:43 +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> I use JFS on my laptop (it's an IBM ThinkPad, so why not use an
> IBM-made file system?).
I like that reasoning! :D
For what it's worth, I use Ext3 for everything (8 different partitions
on two disks). I'm a huge Ext3 fanboy...
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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> I also have "no templates installed" in my menu, but choosing Go
> To=>Templates takes me to /home/username/Templates (which is empty),
> rather than any templates:/// virtual directory. Do you have such a folder?
Well I've got a "Templates"
Hi all.
When I attempt to create a new file in Nautilus it gives me an inactive
"No templates installed" and a usable "Empty file" option underneath.
How would I go about creating a template that I could use here? I've
looked through the Nautilus help files and did a quick Google search and
could
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 10:28 -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2 (x86
> architecture)? I just can't seem to remember the name of the site.
Gentoo is a source-based distribution. I believe your favorite download
mirror should have package CD
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:50 -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> Spamassassin in portage is old. I know that there's an ebuild for 3.0.4,
> but it's marked unstable still..
>
> Just an FYI.
>
> [ebuild R ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1
I've been using 3.0.4 for a few days now (full ~x86 sys
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 07:39 +, askar ... wrote:
> gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc"
> make: *** [xditview.o] Error 1
>
> In my make.conf file I have CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu".
>
> I see this is one of the often occured promblems, when system
> reference to i386 in
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 06:26 +, askar ... wrote:
> Is there way to know or to see if distcc works or not?
> There is distccmon-gnome application, but it doesn't show anything graphical.
If it is working, you should see something like the following in the
output of `emerge --info`:
distcc 2.18.3
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 22:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> There is a file that keeps mysteriously appearing in my home folder
> called music.raw. I have no idea where it's coming from. I'm not doing
> anything with my computer that I don't normally do. This has just
> started since the recent
You might want to look into using the epatch function from
the eutils eclass.
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Ian K wrote:
Great! It worked thanks so much for your help, Peter. Turns out I typed it
with the wrong syntax. Thanks Again
Nice. Glad it all worked out. =)
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Ive been waiting a while for a reply, so I am putting a reply to it.
Please suggest some ideas.
I'm sorry I've been very busy at work and with school stuff this morning
and most of yesterday, Have you tried running fix_libtool_files.sh?
# fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4
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There's a whole lot more one can do with hdparm. What the kernel _can_
do is enable dma only. hdparm is used to set other performance enhancing
options. My '/etc/conf.d/hdparm' contains 'hda_args="-d1A1m16u1a64"'
which means:
-d1 - enables dma for this drive (to ensure dma
Mark Knecht wrote:
If using Firefox (compiled) as a browser should I still be using the
mozilla USE flag? This flag is still hanging about from when I used
Mozilla. Removing it seems to effect other things like Blackdown Java
which is probably used on this system by Firefox so I'm not sure of
the b
Ian K wrote:
grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such
file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or
directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la'
is not a valid libtool arc
Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Actually, is hdparm supposed to be used when specific IDE support is
not included in the kernel? It sounds like the kernel optimally
configures your device if that support is included. hdparm sounds
like it does the same thing.
My understanding is that the kerne
Grant wrote:
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
Does the kernel you built for those have support for the appropriate IDE
controller chipset? You can get this information with
`lspci | grep IDE'. (lspci is part of the sys-apps/pciutils package.)
For example on my system I have a VIA 82CXXX
Mark Knecht wrote:
Gentoo doesn't ask you what to install anything on. you install Gentoo
on the partition of your choice. You can, in practice, install Gentoo
on any partition type supported by the installation kernel and run it
from any partition type supported by your custom kernel.
A minor corr
Michael Haan wrote:
or51132: Unknown symbol release_firmware
or51132: Unknown symbol request_firmware
Do you have Hotplug Firmware Loading support (CONFIG_FW_LOADER) in your
kernel? It's under Devices Drivers --> Generic Driver Options in your
kernel configuration menu.
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I think the reason that they block each other is that they both create
a /usr/bin/vi executable (with vim it's merely a symlink to run in vi-
compatibility mode). It's likely part of your system profile because it
satisfies the editor/virtual. Therefore it shouldn't do damage to your
system to unme
Walter Dnes wrote:
1) First I'll have to rebuild my kernel with IPV6 support and reboot?
Yes. You'll also need to enable the appropriate IPv6 netfilter options
in your kernel.
2) I don't see the ip6tables binary anywhere on my system. Do I
simply set +ipv6 in USE in /etc/make.conf and then run
I've not tried it myself, but I've read reports that you can do
something like this with the sox tool. :-/
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That's why you keep backups. ;-)
Anyways, Thanks for the warning, Renat. I've added it to my package.mask
just to be safe. (I'm running a full ~x86 setup on my desktop box.)
Is -r1 safe to use?
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If youput 'distlocks' in your FEATURES in /etc/make.conf, then Portage
will use lockfiles to prevent different instances of Portage running
from clobbering each other's file. If I'm not mistaken, this is on by
default for most profiles. `man make.conf` for more information. :-)
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I don't know of any F/OSS way to do it, but I've heard success stories
of people running IE6 through Wine. :-/ Perhaps that an help you.
There're some guides on the forums I believe.
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some
| journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1
| (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap).
If you care about your data, use
Ext3 has yet to give me a single problem in the 2+ years that I've been using
it
(since my first GNU/Linux adventures on RH9). ReiserFS, on the other hand, was
continually misbehaving (segfaults, floating point exceptions, journal replay
errors, etc.) both times I tried to use it for a Stage1 Gent
Odd. Does your user have read/write priveleges to /dev/dri/card0 (and any other
cardN devices that may be there)? Try running `chmod a+rw /dev/dri/*` as root
and see if glxinfo reports that you're using direct rendering. If this works
you'll need to add yourself to the video group:
# gpasswd -a v
I wrote:
[...lots of stuff...]
I went off-topic from the original post and then went even further off-topic
from the topic which I deviated to. Sorry about that all. I did that on the
Developer Shed forums too a lot recently. :-/
Maybe I just need more caffeine. Again, sorry for the disruption all.
Isn't that what the "-march=pentium-m" and "-mtune=pentium-m" flags are for in
GCC 3.4?
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Jerry McBride wrote:
Because I KNOW it works on AMD mobile chips, first hand. I've never even
looked at Intel mobile processors Probably never will...
Don't disregard the Pentium M so quickly. The Pentium4 is a _horrible_
architecture: Intel wanted a CPU that could be clocked _very_ fast (I th
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
dir_index
Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories.
Can you explain to me this feature? It's the first I've heard of it.
I'm not an expert or guru, but I'll sure try. From what I understand, the
filesystem normally stores the block and inode information
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Peter, since I point out things that are bad, I should also point out
what I consider good and I consider your document wonderful. It's
clear, compelling, and extremely useful. The next time I build a
system, I will try your suggestions.
[...]
> thank you for taking t
S. Bergeron wrote:
YMMV, but I haven't had any problems with ext3 (other than speed issues)
This is going-off topic, but speed issues? Are you sure you're using
directory
indexing? (This feature keeps the filesystem structure in a hashed binary tree
rather than series of linked-lists, which improv
W.Kenworthy wrote:
2. move to reiserfs to minimise it happening again (I got sick of losing
data to ext3) - YMMV
Woah. My experience has been the opposite. Ext3 has never given me problems
since I started using it with RedHat 9/Fedora Core 1 almost two years ago. On
the other hand, trying to instal
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