Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

this machine and all search > was done using links in text mode). > > Sincerely, on of the best things I've done was getting my NVidia video > card, and NForce chipset is way better than VIA, but that's IMHO, > invest more money and get a better mobo. > > On 2/14/06

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

Thanks Benno! 2006/2/14, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marco Calviani wrote: > > the unichrome driver became open source, but however > > googling around i've seen many people getting into trouble for > > make it working > > Not many. It

[gentoo-user] [OT] find list of files and then copy them

Hi list, i know this is OT for this list, but it deals in general with linux. I need to search and copy a list of files that end with a particular extension and belong to a certain user: i've managed this part with find -name "*.C" -user username now i would like only these files copied to a c

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] find list of files and then copy them

Thanks Sergio, Neil and John. Following your help, i've managed to get through it.. Regards, MC 2006/2/15, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 2/15/06 11:10 AM, "Marco Calviani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > >i

[gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

Hi list, i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added "splash" to the boot runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default runlevel. # rc-status boot .. .. splash .. .. This is the GRUB entries: title=Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

Hi Uwe, > Change the "kernel line" to: > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc > ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 unfortunately with these options i'm

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

Hi list, i would like to share a problem that i'm encountering in dealing with two net interfaces. I've a "normal" ethernet device (eth0) and a wireless ipw2200 one (eth1). 1) i would like to have, at boot, a situation in which first of all eth0 is started; if dhcp signal is found proceed with

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

Hi Heinz, thanks for this hint i will try it. Question number 1) seems ok... Regards, MC 2006/2/17, Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 09:29 +0100 schrieb Marco Calviani: > > Hi list, > >i would like to share a problem that i'

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

Hi Uwe, > It makes sure the splash screen start as early as possible (don't forget the > "quiet" option). On my systems, it starts immediately after the kernel and > the initrd are loaded. > > Kernel panic ... hm ... > > How did you generate your initrd? Maybe, it doesn't contain "linuxrc" which >

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

Hi Uwe, > Try: > genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd > > genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could add > "--menuconfig" if you want to check your kernel options. > > Look up the exact name of the generated initrd in /boot and adjust your gru

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

Hi Uwe, > Yes, it is. You can use genkernel to create your initrd without haven used it > for the kernel itself. i would like to thank you very much for your help. Effectively the system is working now. Thanks again. Since we're here and you're expert in this field, i would like to ask you if, l

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

Thanks Etaoin, this has solved another issue. And another thing is learnt.. > # rm -rf default/ > rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory > # rm -rf default > # > > If you include the trailing slash, rm thinks that you are asking it to > delete a directory, which "default" is not (it

[gentoo-user] wireless dhcp timeout

Hi list, i have a small (indeed not very significant but annoying) problem with my wireless card. The first time i start the dhcp client, even if the dhcp is offering, the client goes in timeout; always the second time it works immediately. What may be the cause of this effect? Regards and tha

[gentoo-user] udev upgrade fails

Hi list, i was trying to upgrade udev from version 070-r1 to 079-r1; however before trying to build the package it says: >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/udev-079-r1 to / >>> md5 files ;-) udev-079-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) udev-081.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) udev-081-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade fails

Hi Mariusz > Compare your file to my one, attached. > Are there any differences? diff sees no differences between the two files. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade fails

It seems that Bugzilla Bug 123249 reports similar problem. 2006/2/18, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, >i was trying to upgrade udev from version 070-r1 to 079-r1; however > before trying to build the package it says: > > >>> emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade fails

As of now, nothings has changed, apart from the fact that also other people have trouble in emerging udev I hope it will be solved soon. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

Hi list, i'm running a laptop with an ethernet card and a wireless one. Currently the ethernet is eth1 and the wireless is eth0. How to reverse this situation, that is to have eth0 ethernet card eth1 wireless Many thanks in advance for the help, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

Hi Alex, > If you compile the drivers as modules and put them in /etc/ > modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, you can set the order by listing the > normal ethernet card's module first. At least I think so :) unfortunately this is not true, since the modules in that files are loaded in order ethernet -

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

Hi Dirk, > If you're using udev, see > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-iface about how > to give any name you want to a network interface. many thanks for your indication. I've used that nice "howto" some time ago for configuring an external drive... but i forgot that n

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd error

Hi list, i'm experiencing some errors with dhcpcd-2.0.0. When i try to run net.eth1 to start the a wireless device, dhcpcd stops with errors. In /var/log/dhcpcd.log i can see: dhcpStart: interface eth1 is not Ethernet or 802.2 Token Ring What does it means? Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd error

Hi, >i'm experiencing some errors with dhcpcd-2.0.0. When i try to run > net.eth1 to start the a wireless device, dhcpcd stops with errors. In > /var/log/dhcpcd.log i can see: > > dhcpStart: interface eth1 is not Ethernet or 802.2 Token Ring > it seems all related to the fact that when runnin

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd error

Hi, > eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr > 00-C0-9F-00-00-1C-A1-53-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 t

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd error and pmu + other error

Hi list, seeing my /var/log/errors file, i've discovered two entries that i'm not understanding at all: syslog-ng[10359]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/tty12 cpufreqd: pmu_init : /proc/pmu/info: No such file or directory in my cpufreqd.conf i didn't have any refere

[gentoo-user] [OT] file recovery

Hi list, i've accidentally deleted some important files from my home directory. Are there some opensource program that can be used to recovery these data? Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] file recovery

2006/2/26, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, > i've accidentally deleted some important files from my home > directory. Are there some opensource program that can be used to > recovery these data? > > Regards, > MC PS: i'm running on an ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] file recovery

thanks, however no recovery is possible for ext3... regards, mc 2006/2/26, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marco Calviani wrote: > > 2006/2/26, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi list, > >> i've accidentally deleted some impo

[gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

Hi list, i need to search for a particular string inside a list of text files: i've thought of this very simple one: cat *.C | grep GetChi it works but however if the string is found it does not say in which of the file it has been found. Is there a simple way to do it? Thanks in advance

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

Hi Boris, > try grep GetChi *.C poor me, this was very easy. It was my fault because man grep says it all. Many thanks for your help Boris, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

Hi list, using this page of the gentoo wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Console_Prompt i'm trying to use the /etc/issue file. After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with Banner /etc/issue file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. However

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

Hi Richard, > Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program, > which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the > color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But > the substitution stuff is getty specific, and will not work with ssh.

[gentoo-user] [OT] compile a program locally and then move to another machine

Hi list, i would like to ask a question regarding the "portability" of an application (i don't know if this term apply in this case): i would like to compile locally an application (for example kile-1.8.1) and then export it to another machine, with another linux distro, not having to recompile a

[gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

Hi list, i would like to know which program can be suited to create buttons and graphic text to be used, for example, in web pages. Many thanks, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

Hi Jeff, 2006/3/1, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://gimp.org/ thanks for this. In fact i've used it and it is very nice. However i'm searching for something easier and quicker to use. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

Hi list, i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to perform this task. Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo

[gentoo-user] emerge -e system problem.... kernel error

Hi list, i'm having big trouble in running emerge -e system after a gcc upgrade (from gcc-3.4.4 to gcc-3.4.5. This is coming from dmesg: [ cut here ] kernel BUG at f (i < 5) printk(":"); } printk(".\n"); } static void __ioc3_set_m

[gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? Regards, and thanks, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, > > Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of > > switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to > > particular bugs in the packages? > > > No. Gentoo's "stable" and "testing" refers to the /ebuilds/, not

[gentoo-user] problem with helvetica font

Hi list, i'm trying to build the ROOT object-oriented framework (root.cern.ch) from scratch. Everything goes well but when i try to load the program, before the program prompt, i'm observing the following warning: Couldn't find font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1", tryin

[gentoo-user] problem during su

Hi list, after becoming root in a normal user console i've got these errors: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) c

[gentoo-user] Re: problem during su

> configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) > configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) > con

[gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program

Hi list, i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program installed on the system, as a backup of everything. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program

Hi Richard, > > Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? > > They go into your PKGDIR directory (normally /usr/portage/packages). > > To use them later, specify the --usepkg/--usepkgonly options to > emerge. For example, I currently have portage-2.1_pre3-r1 through > portag

[gentoo-user] font problem

Hi list, i have problems when running programs as gv, ggv and other postscript viewer (but also with xterm); everytime i start the application this message appears: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert s

[gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

Hi list, i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a card and xorg (6.8.2)? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: font problem

t; to type FontStruct Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Regards, MC 2006/3/15, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, > i have problems when running programs as gv, ggv and other > postscript viewer

[gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

Hi lists, i've followed the gentoo prelink-howto (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml) and everything went well during setup. I've also set KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 in /etc/env.d/99kde-env to inform KDE about the prelinking (and not KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true"). This should (following the howto

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

Hi Richard, > Did you remember to run env-update? > > Even with this, KDE still loads some things through kdeinit or > klauncher. For those, try setting KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1. > > http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/userguide/environment-variables.html > > -Richard yes, i run etc-update. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

Hi Richard, > No, not 'etc-update', 'env-update'. That is the command that takes > all of the /etc/env.d/* settings and rolls them into /etc/profile. yeah, of course i mispelled in the mail. i've actually made the env-update.. > When you run 'env', do you see the KDE_IS_PRELINKED and >

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

> AFAICT, this is the expected result. Without KDE_IS_PRELINKED or > KDE_FORK_SLAVES you will see many more kdeinit processes. yes of course, this is true a lot of more kdeinit processes... > The real question is "is it faster?" well, this is a good question. Actually i'm not seeing any

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

> well, this is a good question. Actually i'm not seeing any > "incredible" boost in performance, excluding a reduced need of RAM > memory. > I would like to add that these "extra" RAM saving is really very useful in increase the responsiveness of all the system and thus apparent "extra" speed

[gentoo-user] fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

Hi all, i'm in the position of needing the fortran 90 compiler, that is not present in the current gcc implementation i'm running (that is gcc-3.4.5) # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/specs Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.4.5-r1/work/gcc-3.4.5/configure --

[gentoo-user] Re: fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

I've found some gcc 4 binary package, that contains the following files: cpp, gcc, gccbug, gcov, gfortran, i386-linux-gcc, i386-linux-gcc-4.2.0 and i386-linux-gfortran but the program's configure file needs g95, ifc, ifort, pgf90, pfg95, f90 and f95. How can i do? Regards, MC 2006/

Re: [gentoo-user] fortran 90 compiler and gentoo

Hi, unfortunately this is not useful since it does not build the gfortran compiler that include fortran 90 and 95. Regards, MC 2006/5/9, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi all, > i'm in the position of needing the fortran 90 compiler, that is not

[gentoo-user] [OT] gfortran libraries

Hi all, i've built gcc-4.0.3 from source including the gfortran compiler. When i'm going to use the newly installed compiler with an external configure program i'm getting the following error: checking for gfortran libraries... configure: error: could not determine how to set LDFLAGS for gfortra

[gentoo-user] [OT] use shfs

Hi list, i have a question regarding shfs. I'm use to connect a remote computer (let's call it C) from a linux machine (A) via ssh passing through a *nix gateway (B). I would like to be able to transfer data from C to A as easy as possible. Since B works only as a gateway i'm not able to save any

[gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

Hi list, i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible? Thanks in advance, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo via ssh

On 5/22/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Calviani wrote: > >Hi list, > > i would like to know if anyone have had experiences in installing > >gentoo on a remote machine using ssh. Is it possible? >

[gentoo-user] distrowatch and gentoo......

Hi list, i've recently read this short article on distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060626#news What about these problems? Someone that's more inside the Gentoo decision process, can explain better what's (if it is true) happening? Best regards, Marco -- gentoo-user@gento

Re: [gentoo-user] distrowatch and gentoo......

Hi, thank you for posting me your thoughts. I think it too that this community is very active and producing a very productive distro. Thanks guys, Marco On 6/30/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/30/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, >

[gentoo-user] Wireless problem (ipw2200)

Hi, i'm having problems with my since now working wireless. I'm running on a 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 kernel with ipw2200-1.1.2-r1 and wpa_supplicant. In particular when i start the net.eth1 service, it tells me: Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ ok ] * Start

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem (ipw2200)

Hi Jean, the result of $ dhcpcd -v LOG_DEBUG -d 2 eth1 is Error, dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device even if iwconfig shows: eth1 unassociated ESSID:"home" Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:2C:F9:08:3B:6D Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem (ipw2200)

ote: Le 10 septembre à 12:23:07 "Marco Calviani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | Hi Jean, > | the result of | $ dhcpcd -v LOG_DEBUG -d 2 eth1 | is | Error, dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device > | even if iwconfig shows: > | eth1 unassociated

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