Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:11:59 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > So now I am in the position of not knowing the proper way to start ivtv > on boot. I checked the /etc/init.d for an ivtv script but did not find > one. Should I make one and then use rc-update? Or is there another > way I should do t

Re: [gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook

2005-05-25 Thread Matan Peled
Ian K wrote: > Hi there, > I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, > a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty > with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?). > When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into > the laptop, and do a dmesg, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-25 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
You're right, the device manager was compiled as module, but I thought it was autoloaded at boot and finded no entry in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Now I try to copile directly into the kernel. Thanks Richard Fish wrote: This means that you do not have the device mapper driver compi

[gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-25 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello all, My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie, use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc to list out the options i've used for the different software. Now the problem is that I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackbox .70 & time

2005-05-25 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When Blackbox .70 was unmasked I emerged it with a regular world update. > I have found however that there is an issue with the clock on the bottom > bar. Now that I have upgraded, the clock fails to update to current time

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Christoph Gysin
Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. > This > used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the raid and > start it. Great! > 2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to encrypt my home > directory. Sin

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-25 Thread Matan Peled
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello all, > > My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've > installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie, > use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc to list out the > options i've used for the different softwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-25 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
You were right, now I have compiled the kernel with "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y", but it's the same as before; there are not peculiar errors, but dmraid continues not to create the devices in /dev/mapper. Richard Fish wrote: This means that you do not have the device mapper driver compiled or loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] sylpheed-claws and GTK2+ ?

2005-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:41:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > At this time, the GTK2 version is not useful to me without either a > plugin that is not yet available, or changing my mail system from POP3 > to IMAP, and I hate GTK1 (it's just too ugly for me and I try to keep it > to the bare minimum),

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-25 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 22:14, Matan Peled wrote: > Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've > > installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie, > > use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.3 monolothic to kde 3.4 splitted helper script?

2005-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 May 2005 22:19:56 +0200, Julien Cayzac wrote: > Any chance someone already got a full kde 3.4 running and posted > packages contents on the web? If you want a full KDE 3.4, don't use the split ebuilds. You'll just end up spending three times as long compiling the same programs. -- N

[gentoo-user] add usb adsl have problem

2005-05-25 Thread Kitti Jaisong
Title: add usb adsl have problem I'm use BIPAC-7000 and download driver for standard linux what's the misstake kitti Smita e2 # make gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -DCPU=686 -march=i686  -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX  -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/

[gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Budd, Tracy
Hello all, I have purchased a new MB and processor. I will be transitioning from a regular Athlon to an Athlon64. Since I am not upgrading my hard drives, I plan to upgrade the OS as follows: 1. Boot from the latest Gentoo live CD. 2. chroot 3. emerge --update --deep --newuse world 4. rebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to keep a networkcard into 100mbit full duplex

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Niemeyer
mii-tool is no longer in development, it is therefore a better idea to use ethtool, especially with gigabit cards. I also believe that ethtool has quite a few more functions than mii-tool. Nick Niemeyer On 5/25/05, Michael Steinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: check for available options with 'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning QAM w/ pcHDTV3000

2005-05-25 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/23/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/23/05, Alex Stagg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QAM and 8VSB are two different modulation schemes. 8VSB is used for digital > > off the air (ATSC) signals in the US. QAM is used on Cable systems. That's > > all about this topic but maybe i

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4 visibility support disabled

2005-05-25 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
Dear All, I have just committed a fix to kde.eclass and kde-meta.eclass that disables visibility support in KDE 3.4 (thanks to FlameEyes for the patches). This was a new feature in KDE 3.4 which has caused at least one obvious bug, and possibly others that are less obvious[1]. Anyone still usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have purchased a new MB and processor. I will be > transitioning from a > regular Athlon to an Athlon64. Since I am not > upgrading my hard drives, I > plan to upgrade the OS as follows: > > 1. Boot from the latest Gentoo live CD. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Gysin wrote: >Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > > >>I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. >>This >>used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the raid and >>start it. Great! >>2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to en

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
Emanuele Morozzi wrote: > You were right, now I have compiled the kernel with > "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y", but it's the same as before; there are not > peculiar errors, but dmraid continues not to create the devices in > /dev/mapper. > What does "dmsetup ls" show (after running dmraid)? Did it creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Antonino Sabetta
If you want a 64 bit userland then you should start over with an AMD64 stage. So you mean that whenever the hardware platform changes are so substantial (as in this case), one should install the system from scratch? Please, bear with me, I'm a new Gentoo user, even though I've been using Linux f

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! I think I'll redo the RAID as soon as I find time. For now it'll do the way it is. As long as it works... I really can't mess with it right now since I really need the machine. Maybe this weekend... Thanks guys! Ben On Wednesday 25 May 2005 19:50, Richard Fish wrote: > Christoph Gysin wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you boot from the livecd, chroot and emerge the system using the new config (AMD64), recompile your kernel to the new processor and configure the boot loader, you're able to get your new system to work with the old configuration and the new architeture. Of course, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Antonino Sabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want a 64 bit userland then you should > start > > over with an AMD64 stage. > > So you mean that whenever the hardware platform > changes are > so substantial (as in this case), one should install > the system > from scratch? > Please, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
Top posting to keep flow... Sorry Benjamin, I think I missed something really obvious here. I didn't read your original message carefully enough, and thought you were having a problem with the kernel autodetection of your RAID. The part I missed is the "(skipped)" message you get... Looking thr

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-25 Thread James Hiscock
> I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means > I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up > something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) > and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? There's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
By "new config (AMD64)" do you mean change CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ? Sounds like a bad idea. --- Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you boot from the > livecd, chroot and > emerge the system using the new config (AMD64), > re

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-25 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you. I'll look at it. > > From: James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/25 Wed PM 03:27:09 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS > > > I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means > > I'll need a dynamic DNS.

Re: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-05-25 Thread Kyle England
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If someone has a more reliable way to find the answer, that > would be great. try: # equery belongs /usr/bin/uuencode I haven't messed with equery much, but that seems to do the trick. equery is in the gentoolkit package. -- Kyle England Gentoo Infrastructure GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Emmanuel Durin
Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits instructions. But you can't use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or contrary), and this will append while recompiling your system (when a library used by emerge or gcc will be recompiled), so it should fail at any time. I think it can be done, resp

RE: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Budd, Tracy
Hmm. While admittedly extreme, shouldn't setting the new architecture work, if you recompile the entire system? Is this one of those should-work-in-theory-but- don't-try-this-at-home kind of things? I know there are some packages, like openoffice, that won't compile under the 64-bit arch, but I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 21.31, Zac Medico wrote: > By "new config (AMD64)" do you mean change > CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ? > Sounds like a bad idea. Yes, sounds indeed like a bad idea. Just back up your /home, /etc and other config files etc. Format old system and ma

[gentoo-user] PHP4+Apache2+pdflib b0rken again?

2005-05-25 Thread Stoian Ivanov
Hi all, I'm geting tired of my php support being broken by emerge world! This time it is a libpdf or whatever. Reemerging php does not work again! I had to add -libpfd in USE flags to get my system up and running. Thank god this is not a production server! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-25 Thread Scott Storck
Emanuele Morozzi schrieb: You were right, now I have compiled the kernel with "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y", but it's the same as before; there are not peculiar errors, but dmraid continues not to create the devices in /dev/mapper. Richard Fish wrote: This means that you do not have the device mapp

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-25 Thread Steven Susbauer
This is not what dyndns is for. dyndns is for when your external IP changes because of your internet provider, internal network DNS will always have to be done by yourself. On 5/25/05, James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which

[gentoo-user] grub prblems...

2005-05-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
After recent update of the system my GRUB became partially broken. Namely: "default saved"/"savedefault" statements stopped working. Is it me or it's a common problem and how do I fix it. I attach my grub.conf for those who might be interested... -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator At

RE: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. > > While admittedly extreme, shouldn't setting the new > architecture work, if > you recompile the entire system? Is this one of > those > should-work-in-theory-but- > don't-try-this-at-home kind of things? I know there > are some packages, li

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/25/2005 4:16 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:11:59 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So now I am in the position of not knowing the proper way to start ivtv on boot. I checked the /etc/init.d for an ivtv script but did not find one. Should I make one and then use rc-update

[gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, On a fresh install using 2005.0 universal-install CD. Boot hangs with Grub loading Stage1.5 Grub loading please wait. There's lots of advice on the web but nothing works so far. So far changed the boot order in the BIOS. grub-installed to every available partition. Toggled the

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and unencrypted APs

2005-05-25 Thread Grant
> I'm not using wpa_supplicant yet, but from googling it looks like you > should be able to do something like this in your wpa_supplicant.conf file: > > # Plaintext connection (no WPA, no IEEE 802.1X) > network={ > ssid="plaintext-test" > key_mgmt=NONE > } > > I'm guessing you'll have to

Re: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 24 May 2005 22:13:03 -0700 karly wrote: > > Back in February David Corbin posted a question about which ebuild > uuencode is in, and how he could find out in general which ebuild > a particular binary might be located in. > > I was loking for uuencode myself, which is how I found his >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >Hello everybody, > >On a fresh install using 2005.0 universal-install CD. > >Boot hangs with > >Grub loading Stage1.5 >Grub loading please wait. > >There's lots of advice on the web but nothing works so >far. > >So far changed the boot order in the BIOS. >grub-installed to eve

[gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Jerry McBride
Everytime I go to the portage tree, I find myself CONSTANTLY finding new gems and thing-a-ma-bobs that make my linux time a fun time. Thank you. Jerry McBride -- ** Registered Linux User Nu

[gentoo-user] portage skipfailed ebuild

2005-05-25 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Is there an option to let portage skip a failed ebuild and continue on, like --resume --skipfirst on unattende? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.c

Re: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:50:59 -0500 Kyle England wrote: > try: > # equery belongs /usr/bin/uuencode > > I haven't messed with equery much, but that seems to do the trick. > equery is in the gentoolkit package. not much good if you are trying to install uuencode but can't work out which package i

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 25 May 2005 18:56:06 -0400 Jerry McBride wrote: > > Everytime I go to the portage tree, I find myself CONSTANTLY finding new gems > and thing-a-ma-bobs that make my linux time a fun time. > > Thank you. > > > Jerry McBride Is there an easy way to find out what new packages have

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-25 Thread Zac Medico
--- Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits > instructions. But you can't > use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or > contrary), and this > will append while recompiling your system (when a > library used by > emerge or gcc will be recompiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Barry Marler
On 5/25/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 May 2005 18:56:06 -0400 > Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > > Everytime I go to the portage tree, I find myself CONSTANTLY finding new > > gems > > and thing-a-ma-bobs that make my linux time a fun time. > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Je

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 11:12:46 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Is there an easy way to find out what new packages have been added > after a sync? (other than backing up a package list and then diffing > it?) You can use esync instead of emerge sync. esync comes with esearch. You can look at http://packa

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/24/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/2005 6:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > All I hope for now is that they don't suddenly disappear! And they didn't. The machine works fine now. I still, however, have absolutely no idea how and why v4l devices get created. I guess i

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 26 May 2005 00:39:14 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 11:12:46 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to find out what new packages have been added > > after a sync? (other than backing up a package list and then diffing > > it?) > > You can use esync instead

Re: [gentoo-user] grub prblems...

2005-05-25 Thread James Hiscock
> After recent update of the system my GRUB became partially broken. > Namely: "default saved"/"savedefault" statements stopped working. Is > it me or it's a common problem and how do I fix it. I attach my > grub.conf for those who might be interested... Once you've managed to boot your system, ru

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-25 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
I just finished installing grub on hda and after one typo in my grub.conf everything is now working great. Thanks for the help guys A.J. On 5/24/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > > >>What ever drive the BIOS reports as the bootable drive may be considered > >>

[gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread James
Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used xconfig (make xconfig) in lieu of make menuconfig, b

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had > selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? > Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? > > Also I perviously u

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
oldconfig usually works for minor version changes - just don't use it to go from say a 2.4 to 2.6. xconfig needs qt installed - I get an error about qt when I try to run it. * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and th

[gentoo-user] FE_GET_INFO failing

2005-05-25 Thread Michael Haan
Trying to get myth to recognize my pchdtv3000 and I believe I'm getting an error with FE_GET_INFO. I'm running gentoo, vanilla sources 2.6.12-rc4, trying to use the the dvb drivers. I can capture off the card, so the only thing holding me back is getting myth to see it. Does anyone know how to f

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
make help and i thinks its oldconfig, not oldmenuconfig ? On Thu, 26 May 2005 01:16:20 + (UTC) James wrote: > Hello, > > Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had > selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? > Isn't 'make oldmenuc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge x.org

2005-05-25 Thread Robert G. Hays
P.S.: I was just told of one fail-to-fix; not certain of the cpu involved, but I figured the fail needed to be noted here, for completeness. rgh Robert G. Hays wrote: [digest mode reply] PREVIOUSLY Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge x.org From: Hendré Claassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Ma

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > make help > > and i thinks its oldconfig, not oldmenuconfig ? yep now I know it's past my bedtime Any cool tools for building kernels? menuconfig seems quite arcane.. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Dependency problems with Stage 1 install

2005-05-25 Thread Ezequiel Tolnay
Hi, I'm trying to do a stage 1 installation. I've followed all the instructions on the handbook, having performed (aparently) the bootstrap successfuly. But while emerging system, it failed during one of the packages stating that autoconf was not installed. Emerging autoconf --nodeps failed beca

[gentoo-user] gpgme and s/mime

2005-05-25 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I was using s/mime with gpgme on another distro and then, when I tried to use it on Gentoo I've found out KMail claimed s/mime was not supported, I did the re-scan and it says gpgme is compiled without s/mime support, so, a fast grep showed me this: /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook

2005-05-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:48 +, Ian K wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 18:49 +, Ian K wrote: > > > > > >>Hi there, > >>I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, > >>a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty > >>with sound use, but more

Re: [gentoo-user] gpgme and s/mime

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
Pupeno wrote: >Hello, >I was using s/mime with gpgme on another distro and then, when I tried to use >it on Gentoo I've found out KMail claimed s/mime was not supported, I did the >re-scan and it says gpgme is compiled without s/mime support, so, a fast grep >showed me this: >/usr/portage/profi

Re: [gentoo-user] gpgme and s/mime

2005-05-25 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pupeno wrote: > Hello, > I was using s/mime with gpgme on another distro and then, when I tried to use > it on Gentoo I've found out KMail claimed s/mime was not supported, I did the > re-scan and it says gpgme is compiled without s/mime support, so,