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    Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
    12:23 pm
    [smitty1e]
    Keepin' that Gentoo love-hate alive
     Did a DirectFb update yesterday, with a highly keyworded/unmasked system, and it turned out that anything involved with gtk+ was tits-up because the libdirectfb-0.9.2.so was gone.
    So I had the fun of repeatedly trying startx (a total of three times) and putting symlinks in /usr/lib to forward to the new version.
    Everything is easy when you know how to do it, but that seems like a fairly avoidable PITA. If I was a greener FNG, I'd have been stymied.
    So I gripe aloud: is there a cleaner way of knowing when a new library version is going to punk me, or is this just cost-of-doing-business?
    That is all.
    Monday, November 24th, 2008
    4:22 pm
    [linux0]
    RUSSIAN HDL LINUX COMUNNITY: http://community.livejournal.com/ru_hdl_linux/
    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
    11:46 am
    [mattcaron]
    Changes in Gentoo over the past 4 years...
     Hey folks,

    About 4 years ago, I ran Gentoo for about a year (initial install was 2004.0). I ended up moving away from it because:

    (1) Compiling things from source takes forever
    (2) Every week or so (or when I saw a security notice come out), I would run emerge -uDv world, and would spend 4 hours merging config files.

    Eventually, I moved away from Gentoo because of this maintenance burden. However, some friends of mine have recently been poking it and have said that this has gotten a lot better.

    Now, (1) I can see getting better, since laptops are now more powerful than desktops of 4 years ago, but have they really fixed (2)? If so, how? The simple solution is to include an unmaintained file which handles local config, but not all applications support this.

    Thanks in advance.
    Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
    3:45 pm
    [lavandergirl]
    I have a SE m600i, and can't seem to charge it via USB. I havn't evern tried
    to sync it yet, or access the memory card. dmesg shows that it can see
    something being plugged/unplugged, but its not providing power or even
    trying to see what it is. USB mass storage, SCSI disk etc support are all
    in I just dont get why its being so annoying.
    Any Ideas?

    --EDIT:
    Actually I was totally wrong, dmesg was showing me unplugging the mouse *blush*. The phone isnt recognised at all

    --EDIT2:
    I figured it out, and its a weird one!
    If I plug the cable into the PC, then the phone ... No worky
    If I plug the cable into the phone, then the pc ... Worky
    Thursday, September 6th, 2007
    11:56 pm
    [lordchaos]
    Tri Monitor Setup
     I've been at this for a few days and for the life of me I can not get it to work. I want to set up three monitors. The hardware I have is:

    1 GeForce 6800 PCI-E (VGA+DVI)
    1 GeForce MX440 PCI (VGA)

    I've searched google and found mostly Dual-Config setups. I thought that by adding another card would be as easy as adding a secreen, monitor, and device section then modifying the ServerLayout section. The only thing that works is the dual display for my 6800. I can also get one of the heads to display on my 6800 and the mx440. But I can't get all the heads to display at once.


    Here is the output from when I start X:

    ( XOrg output )

    From what I see is that X doesn't seem to be able to associate PCI:1:6:0 to the mx440 card.

    Here is the lspci output:

    ( lspci )

    Finally here is my xorg.conf file:

    ( xorg.conf )

    From what little I've seen posted, in theory, this config file SHOULD work, but still the monitor that is connected to the mx440 card is still blank.

    What could I be missing?
    Thursday, July 5th, 2007
    1:55 am
    [vap0rtranz]
    Feed the Penguin
     Wake up!  :)  I don't really have a Gentoo specific question but I hope to find a geeky solution and this community shouldn't fall asleep.

    What I'm trying to do is setup Google's Reader to feed from all my LJ friends.  This was very simple to do for Facebook friends -- syndicate link; *poof* it works -- but it seems LJ barfs at the idea.  From what I've read on the FAQ's, I have to pay for a membership here OR subscribe to each and every friend's feed manually!  UGH. 

    Anyone know of another solution?  The most specific FAQ  about this was written Dec. '06 so I'm hoping someone found a work-around during the past six months ...
    Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
    1:09 pm
    [lavandergirl]
    According to wikipedia, dvd=ram works more or less the same as a hard drive, and linux supports the drives rather well. So if the dvd-ram can be written to and read from in the same manor as a normal hard disk, whats stopping me from having a bootable dvd-ram to run linix from without farting about with dual booting and/or memory sticks or shared partitions for the normal live-cd's?

    I get that its alot slower, but surely for light use, ie. not playing WoW in cedega whilst rendering that 1440x900 image of a 32k poly stargate you made, dvd-ram would be alright?
    Friday, May 4th, 2007
    2:08 pm
    [philthpig]
    raid0 root partition setup? (mdadm not making nodes)
     so i recently picked up some new drives and thought i'd try going amd64 and running the OS from a software raid0 partition. i stuck with a very simple partition scheme, 1G /boot - raid1, 1G swap, the rest dedicated to / (318G) raid0. i used the latest amd64 livecd and created the partitions (type 0xFD), chrooted and set things up. to be on the safe side, i made two kernels - one my config the other a genkernel with everything in it. in both i compiled in support for the chipsets, raid and raid1 & raid0. i added mdadm to the default level, setup mdadm.conf as per instructions - in my case a very simple two line entry for /dev/md1 & /dev/md3.

    i installed grub, setup both mbrs, added support for the genkernel initramfs image to the genkernel entry, had root=/dev/ram0 & real_root=/dev/md3 (it's the third partition on both drives) while the other kernel simply had the kernel name and root=/dev/md3.

    when i attempt to boot either kernel i'm told that /dev/md3 is not a valid mount point. as far as i can tell, mdadm is not creating the device nodes (they aren't there when i use the livecd and chroot the system anyway) however i see output from mdadm as it boots and see nothing alarming in it - however no remarks concerning the partitions it should set up. i've chrooted a couple times now and do the same mknod'ing as is suggested in the various docs i've read. inside the chroot it all seems to work fine, but when i try to boot - no dice.

    any ideas?
    Sunday, May 6th, 2007
    7:55 am
    [jerauld]
    Modular X
     I've been neglecting updating my gentoo system for some time now, only upgrading packages as necessary. At some point something called "modular X" came onto the scene and now I can't update a bunch of packages (e.g., firefox) because of a bunch of package blocks. What's the deal with this (no I haven't googled, I'm curious what you all think)? Is modular X better? I don't suppose there is any way to get around it? It's not a big deal, as I can't tinker with my system until I finish my dissertation. I'm just curious.

    Update: If anyone is interested, below is what portage outputs when I try to emerge --pretend firefox.

    ( Yikes! )
    Friday, March 30th, 2007
    5:56 am
    [smitty1e]
    Kernel config and SATA woes
     When I boot from the LiveCD 2006.1, I see that it loads modules libata, ata_piix, and sata_mv.
    I can certainly mount my desired / partition and chroot to it at will.
    However, I cannot use genkernel to create a bootable system. I'm getting errors that suggest I haven't got the right hardware drivers to mount /.
    My basic question: is there any place that shows clearly a mapping between all kernel modules and the kernel configuration parameters? One could become passionate about the easter-egg hunt here...
    Thursday, February 15th, 2007
    3:59 pm
    [antarcticphoenx]
    This is my first Gentoo install, so there's a good chance I've done something wrong at any step along the way...

    Every time I try to emerge some things, it spits out a huge circular dependencies error, most everything depending on xorg-server. The full error is here, from when I tried to install xorg-x11: http://nwatson.org/stuff/emerge-xorg-x11

    emerge --info at http://nwatson.org/stuff/emerge-info

    Any ideas?
    Thursday, January 11th, 2007
    2:18 pm
    [benjifus]
    new laptops?
     I'm looking to buy a new laptop. Since I'll only be using it for Gentoo, I don't really want to shell out $$$ for Windows and other pre-installed crud. Does anyone know of a good source for high-quality empty laptops?

    Thanks,
    Benj
    Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
    11:47 am
    [simoncion]
    Possible LVM issue or hardware failure.
     Hi all. I had an oops last night while running a pvmove from an old harddrive to a newer one.
    ( Some of the gory details )

    Current Mood: curious
    Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
    11:29 pm
    [nowinter]
    a compiling environment q
     It can take forever waiting for an answer on the forum.. and this seems to be rather newbish question, pretty misterious though, as they always are.

    Now, my system is quite weird when it comes to xFLAGS, and sometimes I just want to ease'em a bit; or two;) I even have a bunch of aliases for different CFLAGS/LDFLAGS combinations )))) like "easy", "safe", "safest" etc. :))

    I'm experiencing some troubles with Superkaramba apps complaining I don't have PyQt. Whereas I do, of course. Some forum browsing put me into an attempt to recompile PyQt while omitting -fvisibility-inlines-hidden and -fvisibility=hidden from CXXFLAGS. BUT. ( Read more... )
    Monday, December 18th, 2006
    11:52 am
    [jerauld]
    gtkhtml
     I'm trying to emerge gnucash and its associated dependencies, but it fails when it comes to gtkhtml-3.10.2 with the following error:


    i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I. -I/usr/include -DOR
    BIT2=1 -pthread -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/usr/include/libgnom
    eui-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0 -I/usr/inc
    lude/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/lib
    bonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/
    orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/g
    nome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1
    .0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/u
    sr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr
    /include/libgnomeprintui-2.2 -I/usr/include/libgnomeprint-2.2 -I/usr/include/lib
    glade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-
    2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DGNOME_EXPLICIT_TRANSLATION_DOMAIN=\"gtkhtml-3.
    8\" -DBONOBO_EXPLICIT_TRANSLATION_DOMAIN=\"gtkhtml-3.8\" -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"gtkhtm
    l\" -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1 -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1 -DGNOME_DISABLE_DEPRECAT
    ED=1 -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/share\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share\" -DSYSCON
    FDIR=\"/etc\" -DICONDIR=\"/usr/share/gtkhtml-3.8/icons\" -DGTKHTML_DATADIR=\"/us
    r/share/gtkhtml-3.8\" -DGLADE_DATADIR=\"/usr/share/gtkhtml-3.8\" -DGNOMELOCALEDI
    R=\"/usr/share/locale\" -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer
    -mno-align-stringops -fforce-addr -mfpmath=387 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -MT h
    tmlrule.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/htmlrule.Tpo -c htmlrule.c -o htmlrule.o >/dev/null
    2>&1
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtkhtml-3.10.2/work/gtkhtml-3.10.2/src'
    make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtkhtml-3.10.2/work/gtkhtml-3.10.2'
    make: *** [all] Error 2

    !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.10.2 failed.
    Call stack:
    ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile
    ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile
    ebuild.sh, line 1255: Called gnome2_src_compile
    gnome2.eclass, line 68: Called die

    !!! compile failure
    !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

    I've tried searching the forums and have only come across this error once. The solution provided (recompile libsoup) didn't help in my case. I've also noticed that I already have multiple versions of gtkhtml installed (3.0.10 and 2.6.0). Any suggestions?

    EDIT: I've posted more of the output. Also, I found the following outputs further up, if that helps at all.

    In file included from /usr/include/libgnome-2.0/libgnome/libgnome.h:30,
    from /usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0/gnome.h:5,
    from htmlprinter.c:26:
    /usr/include/libgnome-2.0/libgnome/gnome-i18n.h:36:1: warning: "BONOBO_EXPLICIT_
    TRANSLATION_DOMAIN" redefined
    :8:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
    htmlprinter.c:29:45: libgnomeprint/gnome-print-pango.h: No such file or director
    y

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    htmlprinter.c: In function `draw_glyphs':
    htmlprinter.c:639: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnome_print_pango_
    glyph_string'
    htmlprinter.c: In function `html_printer_new':
    htmlprinter.c:791: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnome_print_pango_
    get_default_font_map'
    htmlprinter.c:791: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
    htmlprinter.c:792: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnome_print_pango_
    create_context'
    htmlprinter.c:792: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
    Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
    12:37 am
    [palseich]
    ddccontrol
     I've attempted to set to work ddccontrol 0.4.1 from Gentoo 2006.1 portage
    (2.6.18-r2, amd64) for the bundle SAMSUNG SyncMaster 970p + Sapphire ATI
    Radeon X1600 XT (PCI-E)    . ( Read more... )
    Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
    8:47 pm
    [sampiano]
    2 Problems
     I'm having a couple of problems regarding Gentoo, which I'm hoping that somebody could help me with.

    1. Regards the new version of openSSH (and probably openSSL) (specifically, openssh-4.4_p1-r6 and openssl-0.9.8d). When I updated my system, I was no longer able to ssh. I would type ssh me@system, it would ask me for my password (and would seemingly log in), and then hang before I could get a prompt. Intersetingly enough, scp worked fine. I unmerged openssh and merged ssh, and that fixed the problem - I'm now able to ssh into the system I want to. However, using thunderbird to connect to the system using SSL also won't work (it used to before I did the update). Is there a known problem with SSL (or SSH), or is there some config options I don't know about?

    2. Has anybody here used v4l2 devices? I was trying to set up a USB webcam (Microdix Sweex 0c45:6005) which uses the sn9c102 driver. I have the driver built into the kernel (Linux samlaptop 2.6.18-gentoo-r2) and when I plug in the camera, running dmesg correctly identifies it. Running xawtv -hwscan also recognizes the device, but as soon as I try to capture from it, I get a stream of errors (and certainly no picture).

    Thanks for your help.
    Monday, November 13th, 2006
    1:38 pm
    [sergejru]
    php не интерпретируется
     Настраиваю сервер Apache под Gentoo Linux. Поставил вручную php (emerge не сработало). На сервере команды типа php [file] выполняются, а вот в браузере нет.
    Пытался прописывать AddType и Action, тогда говорит, что
    The requested URL /usr/local/bin/php/index.php was not found on this server.

    Интерпретатор здесь /usr/local/bin/php
    Saturday, November 11th, 2006
    9:43 pm
    [kharkharkhar]
    ZD-1211 problems
     Hey community, this is a problem I've been having on and off for the last month or 2 concerning the zd1211 driver.

    Basically it's flooding dmesg and causing my whole system to hang. It hangs at such weird intervals that it could happen in the middle of a keydown/keyup...causing my computer to think the key is still down until the zd1211 driver gives control back, it seems. I don't really know how the kernel works, so that's my best guess. I would really like to be able to type long sentences again without it hanging. Happeningly, it hasn't happened once while typing this, but happens a lot while I'm using quanta/anything KDE-based. It does happen in non-kde though, before anybody jumps on the "it's kde's fault" bandwagen.

    ( partial dmesg output )

    I've googled and googled for what the hell it means, and the best I can come up with is that BCN means beacon :P

    I'm running the dongle in Master mode to provide my apartment with sweet, sweet wireless, but if this can't be resolved I'll have to get a stupid router or something.

    Can anybody help me to make this go away?

    Thanks in advance

    (x-posted to gentoolinux)
    Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
    7:55 am
    [dmitrvlad]
    Unstable audio in flash.
     HI!
    Does anybody know how to fix problem with audio in firefox/flash ?
    Sound in flash appears very seldom. I suppose that this is because
    the libflashplayer.so uses OSS to operate with sound, and OSS works
    with sound device in exclusive manner. So, if any other process uses
    sound device - flash cann't play sound. Am I right? Is it possible
    to cope with this?
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