as the other guy already said you should use some custom firmware as tomatoe or what they are called these days... my open router was the page afaik ... http://myopenrouter.com/ http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato you need to check waht you have and check out which firmware can be used ... the links ...

Answers in order (bear in mind that this is with the link enabled via my little shell script; I can't copy+paste output otherwise 8) ):

ifconfig -a:


corran ~ # ifconfig -a
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host ...

Really lame subject, I know.

This is my first attempt at using wireless on Linux, albeit not my first Gentoo Rodeo 8)

I have a Sager NP8265-S, with an ath9k-based adaptor:


corran ~ # lspci |grep -i ath
06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)


On ...

No doubt everyone here already has their problems solved, but as I ran into this thread looking for answers, I figured I'd document what happened to me when I updated portage and re-emerged the system 2 days ago.

Configuration:

~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes ...

The new ebuild works. I just ran one of my pet image conversion scripts and created a number of thumbnail images. If you want to give it a test, create a directory, put some files in it, and do the following:


#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Basename;
use File::Find;
use File::Slurp;
use Image::Magick ...

As I found out last night when I went to recompile things . According to the bugzilla thread on the subject, a new patch is supposed to go in today.

Thank you for the information. I tried searching the gentoo bugzilla site with no luck; I'm glad your bugzilla-foo is better than mine

It's good to know that make -j1 should work as a temporary fix. I just hope they get the patch into the codebase soon.

I'm running the latest gentoo updates. Perl is 5.8.8.

eix reports the following:


[I] media-gfx/imagemagick
Available versions: 6.2.9.5 ~6.2.9.5-r1 6.3.0.5
Installed: 6.3.0.5(10:50:21 AM 02/28/2007)(X -bzip2 -doc -fpx -graphviz -gs -jbig jpeg -jpeg2k -lcms mpeg -nocxx perl png -tiff truetype ...

I have a dual-Xeon 2GHz that had CHOST=i386. I updated to i686, with gcc updates from 3.x to 4.1.1.

When I got to the emerge -e world step in the guide, emerge died on gmp. When I looked at the log, it said it couldn't find a c++ compiler. The config log showed that it had the right g++, and g ...

Looks good. I can provide system specific info for my box if you need another platform for the bug report.

Eh...my extensive list of sources was mostly google search, on the topics linked above. Other than that, I don't have a list, so this topic is probably sufficient.

Oh, I'm just using the pseudo-transparency of Eterms. Nothing fancy like true transparency (which I like but don't have the inclination to fool with). I've had X running on a single head since my previous post where I mentioned Synergy.

So...mga_vid bug time?

Fully functioning as in merged mode across two screens rather than cloned mode? If so, tell me how. And what is this "compositor" you speak of?

OK, I've given up on dual-heading for the moment. I've hooked the second head to another box and set up Synergy to tie the two together.

I'm still willing to debug the mga video device error though.

No problemo. You might post a note as to what you did for future searchers

Also, you should probably mark this thread's title as "RESOLVED" so that other would-be helpers don't have to sort through it

Making any progress with your dual-head? I managed to get X back to where it runs my monitors in cloned mode.

Looking at the Matrox forums, I found the following items:


Matrox Linux forum
Matrox forum; someone rebuilt the binary drivers to do dual-head support


I'm still digesting the ...

Well...maybe you can avoid the mistakes I made. Friend of mine found a post on this forum page (post by slopop27). He suggests adding MGASDRAM and XINERAMA to the xorg.conf. Take a look at his xorg.conf.

Hopefully it helps

DON'T UPDATE TO MODULAR X!

My X installation is broken right now because I did.

I followed the Gentoo Modular X howto exactly and discovered that my X environment went from merged display to cloned display. X -configure did not produce a usable config file (well, unless by usuable you include ...

Absolutely.

Right now I'm in the midst of updating to modular Xorg along with the rest of the regularly scheduled portage updates, so it may be a day or two depending on how successful I am

Will post back here when I have Xorg running. Suggestions on how to procede at that point?

I guess I can't see anything wrong with your logic, and a friend of mine tells me it works out of the box (as it were) for him on Debian. Hope you find a solution

WTH?

You want /boot, a regular partition, to mount off /, an lvm partition? *shakes head in mock confusion*

How do you expect to be able to shut down the vgs and still have dev, proc, and shm operational if / is an lv?

Nice response :D

I guess the way I look at it is....technically, / exists for mounting everything; not necessarily for containing everythng. So, a minimal / on a regular partition serves as a bare mount point for the stuff you need to have expandable (lvm) and for virtual filesystems (dev, shm ...

I use startx from the command line.

However, googling for .xinitrc xdm found me the following interesting url: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/changeman.html . Quoting from it on the relevant information:


< xdm and .xsession >

If you have a graphical login and have xdm as your display manager ...

Have you tried autostarting the programs from .xinitrc? My .xinitrc autoloads things like an Eterm, gkrellm2, and Xscreensaver:


#!/bin/sh
# Execute enlightenment. ALWAYS make sure this is at the end of this
# startup file - and ALWAYS run things before it with an & at the end.
# For example ...

I'm curious...is there a particularly compelling reason to have / on lvm? The recommendations I saw on the gentoo lvm setup guide basically said to allocate a small amount of space for a non-lvm / partition (in my case I did 512 Mb) and then place other partitions you want on the lvs (for example ...