John J. Foster wrote:
Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails
is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to
follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem
to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going
Helge Kaltenbach wrote:
just wanted to check if anyone knows if there is a linux driver out for
that gigabit lan chip...didnt find a lot with google.
its on my msi k9n neo f mainboard..
Pretty sure it is supported by forcedeth.
Daniel
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Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
I'd appreciate if anyone tell me what kernel options are needed to
make my usb drive to work. Thanks, Alex
Probably CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_USBAT.
But you'll have to use something brand new such as 2.6.18-rc2, I broke
HP8200 for most users for a few releases. Sorry about
Peter Kelly wrote:
/var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild:
line 10: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild:
line 12: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Not too surprising
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
What happens when a newer version of A requires some newer
version of B than currently installed ? Is B updated automatically ?
Yes.
Daniel
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Trenton Adams wrote:
There appeared to be a version bump around 1.12, according to gentoo
change logs. This bumped it to 2.0. Does that mean that 1.12 is very
similar to 2.0, and that the version bump was really the only change?
The ChangeLog is for the ebuild, when we say "version bump" we m
Daniel Drake wrote:
However, there is a new security bug in the wild, with similar
implications. Keep an eye open for new kernel releases over the next few
hours.
No patch yet, suitable workaround is:
# mount -o remount,noexec /proc
Daniel
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.
2.6.16-r12 is protected from this bug. From the ChangeLog:
*gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12 (06 Jul 2006)
06 Jul 2006; Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12.ebuild:
Update to Linux 2.6.16.24 for coredump privilege escalation security fix
However, there is a new security
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Requested 'gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.14.2' but version of gnome-vfs is 2.12.2
This is now fixed in the portage tree.
Daniel
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Fernando Meira wrote:
I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.
The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys
WPC54G.
I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I
think the problem is not from that. I did use
Richard Fish wrote:
You can also file a bug that the nsplugin dependancy should be
satisfied by mozilla-firefox-bin as well. I'm not sure that
mozilla-firefox-bin is actually sufficient to configure vlc with
--enable-mozilla=firefox, but that should be easy enough to determine.
I doubt it. moz
� wrote:
So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the
cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time
- during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for
any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops
pla
Hi,
A quick note for those who have not heard about it already:
We are hosting a users-and-developers conference in Central London on
July 8th. Anyone interested in Gentoo is welcome to attend.
The day will consist of presentations and sessions run by Gentoo
developers, plus one or two from
Justin R Findlay wrote:
I finally figured out why linux wouldn't build its modules. Although I
learned a lot about make it was because I had set
GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always"
Using "--color=auto" would have circumvented this problem and still
given you pretty colours when you run grep from t
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fPIC -Wl,-O1
-ldl-Wl,-O1) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot create executables.
Th
Richard Fish wrote:
One problem with this. Udev will apply all matching rules until it
finds one with a NAME entry. So you probably want MODE:="0666" to
prevent any later rules from overwriting your mode.
This isn't entirely true, udev doesn't stop at NAME any more. It stops
at the end of th
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that,
so do not expect to gain too much.
/usr/portage/distfiles will be taking up much of that 1.5GB. It's safe
to clean that.
Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can
do
Mick wrote:
Reading another posters comments (you learn all sort of interesing stuff
here ;-) I checked my internet connection using the SpeedGuide.net TCP/IP
Analyzer and discovered that my TCP Receive Window is somewhat smaller than
anticipated, or than what a M$Windoze box which is running on
David Meyer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:41:23AM -0800, David Meyer wrote:
Has anyone gotten this to work? What I find is that the
kernel fails in trying to load snd_pcm_oss and
snd_mixer_oss (they have bunches of unknown symbols).
Works for me.
Fron dme
Michael George wrote:
I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot
time.
I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create
the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages.
However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did
exi
Justin Krejci wrote:
Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be
fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick.
The initial slowdown is due to portage having to scan over the entire tree of
installed packages, calculating virtuals. Chan
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on
getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice
right away fail to work until I do:
# udevstart
/dev/dsp is created with correct permissions and I'm good to go. The qu
Yoandy Rodriguez wrote:
Hello,
After moving to 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 inotify device got lost.
I have CONFIG_INOTIFY set to yes and /proc/filesystems shows a inotifyfs
(never heard of it). any hint about what might be happening??
Inotify is now system-call based, so no device node is created.
Daniel
Frank Schafer wrote:
Why the hick are there so much versions of autoconf (in system)? Well,
somewhere in the [Nasty bug..] thread someone (again) mentioned, that
different packaged depend on different versions of autoconf. That's NOT
the truth for building a package.
Autoconf and automake provid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file,
the "BLK_DEV_IDECD=y" is just there.
Are you really really sure? What do you have in /sys/bus/ide/drivers ?
Daniel
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Hi Cadaver,
Cadaver wrote:
udevd doesn't create's device file, but when i manualy copy it from static dev
tree my cdrom works fine, and sometimes udevd even creates symlinks on it
(i.e. cdrom and cdrw), but this is not restore's after reboot. What's going
wrong with it? I'm running 2.6.12 kern
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
Actually the problem is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 has been the cdrom since this
machine got Gentoo, now all the sudden it is listed in dmesg as /dev/hdc.
dmesg has listed it like that for a long time. Chances are in your previous
configuration (whatever that was) you had b
Tobias wrote:
Please help!
It would help if you started by explaining what you are trying to do, what you
have tried, what problems you have faced, etc.
Daniel
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Hi,
Mark Knecht wrote:
I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only
on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept
Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more
likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area.
I don't
Ben Munat wrote:
PS: I also found the following stuff in my logs starting at the time
when I lost control
of the keyboard and mouse; there's this MTRR stuff and then hundreds of
lines with the
call trace stuff:
Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found
Aug 16 22:46:31 venus
Antoine wrote:
Using mplayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mplayer dvd://1
Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
/dev/dvd is there - but I am not sure if this is right.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
Alex A. Smith MCP wrote:
Ok so cause he was getting spammed its ok to spam us all?
Does any one around here (Gentoo team or such) have access to remove him?
I contacted Gentoo Infrastructure and he has now been unsubscribed.
Daniel
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Catalin Trifu wrote:
Thanks for the answer. I tried to hack the ebuild too and same
result. I guess
I would have to emerge mozilla too, but I don't like the idea at all.
Perhaps the maintainers will find a solution to get rid of mozilla.
Hopefully they will split out the SDK into its o
James wrote:
I've got a very weird problem. When I go to build either a 2.6.12-gentoo-r4
or 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel on a paticular AMD athlon, I cannot change
the I2C selection:
device driver -> I2C support
option.
It is a dash. Manually deleting the .config file does not help.
I use 'make o
Hi,
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
That sounds perfectly normal. The kernel usually secures 10-20mb RAM for
itself, which isn't available to
Mark Knecht wrote:
What's throwing me is that the libraw1394 emerge makes this limited complaint:
Required /dev/raw1394 device file not found.
Run 'make dev' to create it.
This is more suited for the old-
Hi,
Mark Knecht wrote:
which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't
created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this
really be created for a udev system? A rule somewhere in some
udev.conf file?
Its a kernel "bug" which is fixed in 2.6.12. If you upgrad
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is
> available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa)
> and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What
> problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding th
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> I switched last night from devfs to udev and had the same kde problem.
> I solved it by running udevstart as root. Oh, and I checked the permissions
> file in /etc/udev
If running 'udevstart' fixes your ownership/permissions problem, try logging
in again and see if t
Jim Hatfield wrote:
> BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the
> kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have
> an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to
> build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not
> clear as to the p
Sean Higgins wrote:
> Did you recently update your kernel? There is a problem with
> gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4. There is a bug in iptables that causes problems
> with KDE logins. If you stop iptables, your login will work.
Just to clarify, this is a problem with all 2.6.12 releases (not just
Dave Nebinger wrote:
> My sync occurred last night at 12:10 am EST but I didn't get a chance to
> emerge -uD world until around 11am EST this morning. I searched through
> 10-15 ftp mirrors manually looking for the file and it hadn't been released
> anywhere that I could see.
Just checked a few m
Dave Nebinger wrote:
> The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released before
> the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... Wouldn't
> the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild?
I always wait until the patches appear on the mother mirror b
Colin wrote:
> It's not being detected under the LiveCD. I booted with doscsi, but I
> don't see /dev/sda. In addition, lspci tells me this:
>
> :00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: American Megatrends Inc.
> MegaRAID 428 Ultra RAID Controller (rev 04)
>
> What do I do?
We should be s
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I wanted to try a fix to lirc that's only in CVS. Is this a proper
> way for me to do this? Is there a better way?
Best to create a patch which includes this fix, then apply it to the last
released version in a revision-bumped ebuild in your overlay.
(have I confused
luis jure wrote:
> thanks neil, mark and daniel for your comments, the different alternatives
> are much more clear to me now.
>
> re kernel 2.6.12, what's its current status? visiting www.kernel.org i found
> 2.6.12 (17-Jun-2005) and 2.6.12.1 (22-Jun-2005). i really don't get this 4
> numbers th
Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Daniel,
>What sort of ATI support do we get inder 2.6.12 at this time? I've
> noticed other threads talking about acceleration problems, or possibly
> no TV out, etc. Both of these matter to me.
I have no idea. Try it and find out :)
Daniel
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luis jure wrote:
> searching the web, all sources i found say that udev does not manage
> ieee1394 devices, and that you must create the nodes manually with something
> like this:
I suggest you upgrade to Linux 2.6.12. It will then be created and managed
automatically.
Daniel
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James wrote:
> Curiously the last part ' gentoo.org>'
> does not show up in my mozilla.?
You have to log in first.
> Is this an actual huminoid/cyborg, or a solicitation for somebody
> to maintain the package?
Hah. It has to be a person :)
> OK, I see his name at the bottom, but, if he's to
James wrote:
> emerge -s jffnms
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : jffnms ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * net-analyzer/jffnms [ Masked ]
> Latest version available: 0.8.2
> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
>
James wrote:
> In may I requested network management package be added to portage,
> jffnms. It was entered into bugzilla (92501). Since then it has
> progressed to a masked package in portage.
I don't see it in portage.
> I just (today) got email that is rather cryptic to me. Help understanding
Mark Knecht wrote:
> My question is how do the devices get created if TARBALL="no"? Is it
> only the 50-udev.rules file that's responsible?
The whole tarball thing is strongly against the ideas behind udev. udev reads
information about your hardware from /sys (and listens for and creates nodes
ba
Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> I do use gnome and alsa for my sound. Everytime that I boot I've to set
> up mixer properties and volumes, because it doesn't save them as
> default. I don't know how to do it, but I don't like to set up it
> everytime that I boot.
The ALSA guide can probably help y
Holly Bostick wrote:
> Rob, I regret to inform you that your syntax seems to be all wrong, and
> this stands a good chance of being your problem.
>
> I don't myself use cdrecord directly all that often, but I did manage to
> remember
>
>cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
Last time I checked (2.
Govind Chandra wrote:
> cdrecord -scanbus says there are issues with kernel 2.5 and newer.
>
> Is there any way of writing CDs in Gentoo 2005.0?
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -scanbus
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Holly Bostick wrote:
> The "vanilla" sources are the same sources you would get on kernel.org.
> No extra patches (as you would find in gentoo-dev-sources) or
> optimizations/patches (as you would find in ck-sources) and no "bleeding
> edge" patches (as you would find in mm-sources).
>
> The kerne
Marcin Balcerzak wrote:
> THE THIRD PROBLEM concearns KDE.
> I've installed "everything" (according to emerge...) and it doesn't work.
> The only result of startkde is writing on STDERR:
Judging by this post, it looks like you haven't read the documentation at all.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/in
Marcin Balcerzak wrote:
> When loading, just after:
> Calculating module dependencies...
> I've got 3 or 4 lines like:
> error calling: "unlink" in 'GLOBAL'
> and the last is ended with [OK].
> After some non-suspicious lines and
> Setting user font [OK]
> I've got:
> action_compat: error unlinki
cfk wrote:
> After adding 3c59x to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, the partition
> boots
> fine with networking enabled.
>
> To answer the original question on modules, I just ran "genkernel" and took
> all the defaults as I am new to Gentoo.
Strange.. genkernel is supposed to autoload i
cfk wrote:
> I can do a "modprobe 3c95x" and lsmod shows it is loaded. I can then do an
> "ifconfig eth0 up" and the interface is up (ping www.yahoo.com works).
>
> The file /etc/conf.d/net has two uncommented lines:
> iface_eth0="dhcp"
> gateway="eth0/10.10.10.1"
>
> I am suspecting that the ne
Cornelia Menzel wrote:
> When I try to mount the device with:
> paul # mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
> the system gives back:
> mount: only root can do that!
Try just:
mount /mnt/cdrom
That way, it will look at the settings you have put in fstab.
Daniel
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Ed Jabbour wrote:
> I am running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. As announced, gentoo-dev-sources
> has disappeared from sys/kernel leaving gentoo-sources. However, the Online
> Database lists 2.4.28-r8 as the latest stable build. I just ran emerge uDvp
> world and I am offered "NS ] sys-ker
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