Linux problems and solutions by a noob for noobs!

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:26:47 GMT

You are going to marry Brad Pitt. He is always
friendly to anybody he ever meets and he is
very talented as an actor. He is also very
sincere and friendly. He will respect you until
the day he dies. Congrats!!

Which male celebrity are you going to marry? (14 choices now!!)
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Kenan is the coolest!

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:28:37 GMT

Yo Kenan!

lala

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:12:56 GMT

Its been a long time since ive written anything now.
TG is aproaching and I can hardly wait! We leave on the evening of April the 6th.

Side note: do not compile gvim (gtk-vim) with -funroll-all-loops cflag. It will break.

Opera

Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:15:21 GMT

Yay!

Ive been having problems with Opera for a while. Whenever I would load a new page or zoom an existing page, basicaly render a page, Opera would hang my system for a few seconds. I tried everything, carious versions of Opera, recompiling QT with various options and versions, clearing and resizing various caches. To no avail. Then somone told me to try not loading the freetype module when I started X. I commented the Load "freetype" line and voila! Opera works fine! :D

USA

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:34:30 GMT

Hvordan i helvete kan værden sitte og se på at USA holder over 600 mennesker fanget uten dom? De bryter jo et av de mest grunnleggende pronsipper for vår sivilisasjon! :(

...

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:11:40 GMT

12:45

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:05:33 GMT

Not much to write about latley.

Beaten

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:34:52 GMT

Endelig...

Jeg ble slått på hjemmebane!

Jeg ble ydmyket....

Jeg er glad!

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:31:17 GMT

emech linkport 45553

Hehe

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:15:44 GMT

Which OS are You?

Debian again.

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:12:11 GMT

Lots of problems.

Decided to go back to Debian after using 29 hours to compile OpenOffice just to have it chrash when I started it.

But omg. Debian proved WERY unwilling to work on my machine. Things that had worked perfectly in the past suddenly refused to work. After much toiling I managed to push it, kicking and screaming, onto my HD and boot okish. I still get some appraently random lockups and my onboard soundcar, wich worked perfectly in Debian before and also in Gentoo, just doesnt want to work, bad sound out put no matter how or with what I compile the alsa module. Now using my other Creative pci soundcard with the ens1371 module and trying to find a solution to the lockup problem.

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:04:18 GMT

Oh, Espen. Jeg er syk! Influensa, feber etc :(

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:49:50 GMT

Going to take a backup of some important config files and place on various webservers.

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:04:29 GMT

create /usr/sbin/sndperm

Code:

#!/bin/bash
chown root:audio /dev/dsp
chown root:audio /dev/mixer
chown root:audio /dev/audio
chown root:audio /dev/midi00
chown root:audio /dev/dmmidi

then add this line to /etc/init.d/alsasound

Code:

#
# insert all sound modules
#

ebegin "Initialising ALSA."

drivers="`/sbin/modprobe -c | \
grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" | \
awk '{print $3}'`"
for i in $drivers; do
if [ "$i" != off ]; then
einfon "Starting sound driver: $i "
/sbin/modprobe $i
#------Add this line below------
/usr/sbin/sndperm
#-----------------------------
eend 0
fi
done

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:16:07 GMT

OMG! SO FUCKING HUNGRY!!!!

Anyway.

Nvidia graphic drivers require MTRR (memory type range register or something) support enabeled in the kernel to install properly and for the glx module to load.

The ebuild for the Industrial gtk theme is called ximian-artworks

The console colordepth and resolution problem has been looked at. I found that I will leave it as it is for now.

Another to do list

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 03:14:34 GMT

Ok! Statusreport!

Gentoo is working and im getting a hand of it!

Now, here is yet another to do list!

1. Bash promt needs tuning. I got the syntax right, but the colors are to bright.

2. That console resolution and colordepth.

3. CUPS

4. Locate and install the "industrial" gtk/gtk2 theme.

5. Mozilla-thunderbird

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 02:39:17 GMT

Ohhh! Thats right! I also removed the gtk and gnome USE flags....

Damn! I should have sticked with my old routine! Never, NEVER change more than one variable at a time when errorseeking!

YAY!

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 02:36:43 GMT

OK! HAPPY!
Got QT working!
After reading some fposts from other people having trouble with QT I did the following: "emerge opengl" (Recompiled X. This took a wery long time), "emerge autoconf" (This apparently just reinstalled the same version of autoconf as I already had installed on my system) "emerge unmerge qt" (removed the nonworking qt) and then finnaly I did "emerge qt" to reinstall QT. Then it worked. I dont know wich or how any of these things fixed it, but to be frank, I dont care! Its working now! :D

Now for my next project. Gtk themes.

OMG!!!!

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:41:23 GMT

GRRRRR!!!!! OMG!!!!! ¤#&"¤&U%&UJ%%&H#¤RFG%&B/(

Been trying all day to get QT to work on Gentoo! I run "emerge qt" and it downloades, compiles and installs the libs ok. All paths in all conf files are correct but I can still not install any programs that requires QT!!! Recompiled 1 milion times! googled for hours! Browsed various forums for ages!!!

"!#!"¤"#%#¤

Gentoo

Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:13:11 GMT

Ok! Found the source of my compilation errors! But not untill after I decided to reinstall Debian to see if that fixed the problem. After batteling with that wreched Debian Installer for the better part of 24 hours (Was made extra hard by tha fact that the installer did not contain a module to power the nForce nic) I decided to give Gentoo another shot. I managed to get past my the point where I gave up the last time and startet compiling the bootstrap system.

After about 20 minutes the compiler exited with the same horrific errors as I got in Debian!! I was starting to get desperate because I started to belive this was a hardware error and I really couldnt afford any more expensive hardware this month.

But then I remembered that these problems started when I overclocked my ram! DUH! Silly me! Of course it was the ram! Segmentation Fault FFS!! So I turned the ram back to its origianl settings and started over again. This time it went smooth!

So now Im running Gentoo Linux 1.4 on Reiserfs and so far it looks good! Acutaly it looks wery good! I am still considering if using all that time compiling everything (X took about an hour and QT takes two hours) is worth the increased speed, but I hope that as the system evolves there will be less and less dependencies to compile, thus reducing the compile time for each application.

This portage things i really quite intereseting. As far as I can understand it its just a collection of source packages wrapped in files wich contains info about dependencies and scripts on how to configure and build each package! Simple and briliant!

Maybe il return to Debian some day, but now, by the look of things, il be staying with Gentoo.

A few problems remains to be solved in Gentoo:

1. GTK themes (Yes, again)
2. QT (emergeing it didnt work, compiling it from source downloaded from trolltech.com wich some extra configuring options as I write)
3. Direct frambuffer. I want a higher resolution and color depth on bootscren and console.
4. Im not sure modules behave in the same way as they did in Debian. Il have to look into it.

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:05:15 GMT

%¤Y%"&GG%¤Y!GYTH%"%/%&(#!/

ERROR AGAIN!!! :((((

ok!

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:58:31 GMT

Ok! Gonna try to compile a kernel now!!

Pray for me...

Bugs

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:46:01 GMT

Tried compiling 2.6.2-mm1 on my server while I was sleeping. It looks as if it worked fine, but I havent tried compiling a kernel yet :(

I also removed gcc, g++ and make before I booted into the new kernel and reinstalled them. I sincerly do hope this helps :/

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:41:27 GMT

Grrrr! Been getting errors when compiling a kernel ever since I started messing with the mm patches for 2.6.1! The compiler will exit with a segmentation fault complaining about a gcc bug. Ive tried lots of solutions, including having a kernel compiled on a different machine, non of them worked. I can still compile kernels as its just to start the compiler again at all goes well, but I WANT THIS FIXED!!! :( :(

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:17:07 GMT

update-rc.d -f xdm remove