Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Geiss
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:48 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/10/09, Johannes Geiss wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The > > file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I > > see all other packages which have been installed auto

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once >> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. > > man ebuild Just in case another intellectually challenged gentoo user happens to

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once >> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. > > man ebuild > > HTH :) Doesn't any manual patching have to be done in an overlay?

[gentoo-user] Re: PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/11/2009 06:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I recommend putting "-python" in your make.conf followed by "emerge -auDN world" and then a depclean along with revdev-rebuild. You might have to enable python in a few packages after that though and disable it in others. In my case: echo "

[gentoo-user] Re: PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2009 10:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. To decide what to mask and what to leave, I need to di

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Jason Carson
> Jason Carson schrieb: >>> Jason Carson schrieb: >>> Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:24:50 KH wrote: >> Alan McKinnon schrieb: >>> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? >>> As much as you need. >>> >>> There's only one person who can determine tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. nl80211 driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 22:49:39 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > >> my /var is 36gb in size. >> > > Mine has only 2. > > Bye... > > Dirk > Mine is about 300MBs right now. It has been 1GB before tho. This is a desktop rig so no server stuff here. Dale :

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? I haven't followed this thread in detail, but has anyone suggested LVM ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, P

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? This depends on your usage, of course, and for what purpose you expect to use /var. If you run a server with lots of logs, like a high-traffic web server, you may want to ensure /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Jason Carson
> Jason Carson schrieb: >>> Jason Carson schrieb: >>> Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hosta

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:24:50 KH wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > >> But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? > > > > As much as you need. > > > > There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: >> But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? > > As much as you need. > > There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. > > > Hi, I am sorry but I think if someone asks ab

Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:57:38 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:38:25 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnon > > > > wrote: > >> > Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pyk

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 22:49:39 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > my /var is 36gb in size. Mine has only 2. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0FIXED

2009-06-10 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/10/09, Boris Fersing wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 22:44, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> Hi group, >> > Hi, > >> I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but >> now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. >> >> I'm following the quick-install guide and got to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Harry Putnam writes: > Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the bug > did... also manually. Just do a less on /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail/procmail-3.22-r10.ebuild and you'll see a good example. Cheers. -- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:44:51 Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but > now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. > > I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. > Portage goes through t

Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:38:25 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 >> > (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Harry Putnam writes: > galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes: > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 >> >> HTH > > Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once > had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. > > Or dink around with

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0

2009-06-10 Thread Boris Fersing
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 22:44, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > Hi, > I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but > now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. > > I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. > Portage goes through

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? > > As much as you need. > > There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. my /var is 36gb in size. But I a

[gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0

2009-06-10 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. Portage goes through the mirror addresses but can't resolve any; as if there were no conn

Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:22:09 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=389 > > especially the bug linked to. Thanks. I read that blog a bit earlier but there isn't enough info for me to reach a decision about what to dump and what to keep. I've since installed blo

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > >> Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: >> >> >>> I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did >>> not respond well when network connection was lost. My >>> /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: >

Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 > (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but > meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. > > To decide what to mask and what to leave, I n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once > had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. man ebuild HTH :)

Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:38:25 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 > > (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but > > meanwhile I need to get emerge world

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error

[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 > > HTH Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the b

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 21:56:21 schrieb KH: > Well something creating that much messages is just buggi! The cpu will > be on havy duty no diffrence where /var is mounted. This is a bug which > should not happen. But if it happens, it only fills /var! Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: > >> I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did >> not respond well when network connection was lost. My >> /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread KH
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: > >> I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did >> not respond well when network connection was lost. My >> /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message >> repeated t

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: > > >> I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did >> not respond well when network connection was lost. My >> /var/log/messages grew over

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Harry Putnam writes: > setup: > kernel-2.6.29-r2 > gcc-4.3.2-r3 > procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no > trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like > as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline. > > The only useflags that come up

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: > I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did > not respond well when network connection was lost. My > /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message > repeated tens of millions of times. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible > and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need > to get emerge world to run and complete. I had to add these 4 packages to my /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Paul Hartman написав(ла): > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alexander > Pilipovsky wrote: > >> 2009/6/10 Justin >> >>> Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: >>> >>> >>> You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. >>> >>> Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Dale написав(ла): > Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > >> > > If you unmount /home, does any file show up under /home then? Keep in > mind, if you have files in for example /home then mount a new partition > on /home, the old files are still on the root partition. It just mount > /home on to

[gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers

2009-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. To decide what to mask and what to leave, I need to discover what these packages actually do and w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Jun 2009, at 15:56, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I also wonder, does BIOS recognize this KVM, can you access it? How would I access it? My KVM is slightly clever, in that (not only can I access it with a web-browser) it allows keyboard shortcut combinations to be mapped. I have one tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > > > 2009/6/10 Justin >> >> Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: >> >> >> You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. >> >> Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. >> > > Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/10/09, Dale wrote: > >> P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the >> same thing? And a different tool for each one. >> > > No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. > Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > I cannot understand whats doing... :( > All day smbd loaded my CPU and now GNOME said me, that I have not free > space on /! Really, > sh-3.2# df -h > Файлова система Розм Вик Дост Вик% змонтований на > /dev/sda2 28G 28G 0 100% / > udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
2009/6/10 Justin > Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: > > > You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. > > Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. > > Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had 11 GB and was not opened by any editor. -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engrave

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Jason Carson
> Jason Carson schrieb: >> Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) >> >> ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer >> booted >> up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am >> having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Justin
Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: > I cannot understand whats doing... :( > All day smbd loaded my CPU and now GNOME said me, that I have not free > space on /! Really, > sh-3.2# df -h > Файлова система Розм Вик Дост Вик% змонтований на > /dev/sda2 28G 28G 0 100% / > udev

[gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
I cannot understand whats doing... :( All day smbd loaded my CPU and now GNOME said me, that I have not free space on /! Really, sh-3.2# df -h Файлова система Розм Вик Дост Вик% змонтований на /dev/sda2 28G 28G 0 100% / udev 10M 192K 9,9M 2% /dev /de

[gentoo-user] emerging procmail failure

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
setup: kernel-2.6.29-r2 gcc-4.3.2-r3 procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline. The only useflags that come up are one I set `mbox' and one other

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has >> > genlop installed, you can get a list with >> > >> > genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log >> >> Yeah thanks... I knew that...

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/10/09, Dale wrote: > P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the > same thing? And a different tool for each one. No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a box with a "lazy" or a "first time inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:02 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Kazantsev writes: > > > Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be > > too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically > > in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 08:44 -0500, Dale wrote: > KH wrote: > > Johannes Geiss schrieb: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The > >> file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I > >> see all other packages which have been inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:56:15 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Kazantsev writes: > > > I also wonder, does BIOS recognize this KVM, can you access it? > > How would I access it? Usually via DEL or F2 keys on boot, as soon as monitor lights up. Look out for message on the bottom of splash or t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has > > genlop installed, you can get a list with > > > > genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log > > Yeah thanks... I knew that... what I meant by `difficult to li

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. >> >> It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the >> highlights are: > > You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if th

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: > Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be > too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically > in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for > rc_logger line or something similar with older baselayout. [

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > If you can't access the BIOS using the KVM then the problem is > hardware, not with Linux software. You mean if my keyboard through kvm can't get to bios... yea I see your point. I'll try that shortly... currently compiling an older gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> So if I could identify what it is in the kernel that allowes it to >> work at the point where the kernel takes over (login prompt), then >> maybe I could enable that aspect somehow inside an initramfs, and be >> able to have the KVM recognized at the

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Jun 2009, at 00:03, Harry Putnam wrote: ... My keyboard (through kvm) is not recognized until bootup gets to the login prompt. Once there... no problems with keyboard. If I want to do anything early in boot process, like at grub prompt, I must keep a keyboard plugged in direct to machine

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale escreveu: > KH wrote: >> Johannes Geiss schrieb: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The >>> file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I >>> see all other packages which have be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Hi, > > what laptop do you have? Did you search http://www.linux-laptop.net/ (it > was helpful for me) and (in German) http://tuxmobil.de/mylaptops_de.html ? > > Also it might be helpful to post the output of lspci | grep VGA so > someone might just know what to use instead of being for

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Johannes Geiss schrieb: > >> Hi there, >> >> how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The >> file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I >> see all other packages which have been installed automatically? >> >> Thanks for any help >> Johannes >>

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread KH
Johannes Geiss schrieb: > Hi there, > > how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The > file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I > see all other packages which have been installed automatically? > > Thanks for any help > Johannes emerge -pev world

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/10/09, Johannes Geiss wrote: > Hi there, > > how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The > file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I > see all other packages which have been installed automatically? qlist And I often use it with -CISL, but your needs

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Justin
Johannes Geiss schrieb: > Hi there, > > how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The > file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I > see all other packages which have been installed automatically? > > Thanks for any help > Johannes eix -I signature.asc Des

[gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Geiss
Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes -- --//--

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:10:27 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > echo 'VIDEO_CARDS="i810 intel"' >> /etc/make.conf > > > > (i810 is for older ebuilds only) > > > > Then just re-emerge X, I presume? > > no, mesa. And install the intel drivers. Or emerge -uavDN world and let portage decide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread KH
James Homuth schrieb: > > Then you must be on a laptop but you didn't say so ;) > > > Well, I am. But I also can't see, as in can't see. So that wouldn't really > be relevant anyway. > > Hi, what laptop do you have? Did you search http://www.linux-laptop.net/ (it was helpful for me) and (in

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth Setup

2009-06-10 Thread dhk
I'm on an amd64 machine. Ever since I emerged some bluetooth programs (from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml) to set up a bluetooth dongle my /var/log/kern.log gets filled up with messages like the following. Jun 10 06:26:51 host2 hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknow

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, James Homuth wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Mike Kazantsev [mailto:mk.frag...@gmail.com] > Sent: June 10, 2009 3:41 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:5

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-10 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [10.06.09 11:49]: > This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that. > Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the > eye-candy... Same with me, but this helped me to a nicer XDM: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/XDM/C

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-10 Thread Laurent Lejeune
Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very >> basic needs very well, except from those two things: >> >> * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:53:52 -0500 Dale wrote: > > That's not quite correct: .py[co] are generated by emerge right after > > package installaton and these won't come back unless you use these libs > > as root, since python won't have write access to these paths and will > > be byte-compiling each

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Mike Kazantsev [mailto:mk.frag...@gmail.com] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:41 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:58 -0400 "James Homuth" wrote: > Lspci worked. Now to

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: June 10, 2009 4:05 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have? On 06/10/2009 10:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: > On 06/10/2009 09:5

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2009 10:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500 > Dale wrote: > > >>> Also, be careful when you parse the output of the command. Most of the >>> .pyc and .pyo files in the python2.5 directories are byte-compiled >>> version that python generated dynamically the first time they are >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Dale
James Homuth wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Adam Carter [mailto:adam.car...@optus.com.au] > Sent: June 10, 2009 3:18 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? > > lspci | grep VGA > > Or if that doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:58 -0400 "James Homuth" wrote: > Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel > integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= > option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. > This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:50:24 -0400 "James Homuth" wrote: > I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely > sure which video card I have. These days X is clever enough to choose appropriate driver for you. I'd suggest to build X with following video drivers: "intel radeon nv nvidia sis

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Adam Carter [mailto:adam.car...@optus.com.au] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:18 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display Lspci worked. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:19:11 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > With your own ebuilds there's no point in them trying to contact the > > mirrors, so put RESTRICT="nomirror" in the ebuild. > > Thanks. That's pretty much what I was looking for. That's what I thought, which is why I posted it w

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. > > It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the > highlights are: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop instal

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: June 10, 2009 2:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have? On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: > > Hello all, > Fir

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2009 10:11 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:36:04 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Understandable, but my problem lies in "ebuild digest" of my own ebuilds and ebuilds of third-party overlays. Along the URLs tried by portage is one that seems to need over a minute to rep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Yes, just the first few `blah [ok]' lines... maybe 3. > > > Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the > > chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can > > find > > a hint. > > > > I

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:36:04 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Understandable, but my problem lies in "ebuild digest" of my own > ebuilds and ebuilds of third-party overlays. Along the URLs tried by > portage is one that seems to need over a minute to reply with "401 not > found". This is highly