Gentoo Install - make.conf

Mpemba Effect · 14 Nov 2002 at 14:49

Nice to see you got it working mate

[RB] · 14 Nov 2002 at 14:51

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Nice to see you got it working mate

Not without a bit of a hiccup!

Forgot to compile my NIC module into the kernel

. Recompiled and sorted now

!

[RB]

[RB] · 14 Nov 2002 at 15:32

And another thing, what's this sendmail thing? It keeps popping up now and then saying 'Can't open the smtp port (25) on mail' Is it something of great importance or does it need disabling?

Thanks

[RB]

Nozzer · 14 Nov 2002 at 16:06

It's a mailserver, controlled through xinetd I think.

Try looking in /etc/xinetd.d/sendmail for a disable = no line, change it to yes and then killall -HUP xinetd

Then again, Gentoo probably doesn't install xinetd for you by default does it... *mutters*

Mpemba Effect · 14 Nov 2002 at 16:19

Then again Gentoo doesn't install sendmail as default

... it uses ssmtp.

Shak · 14 Nov 2002 at 16:39

This must be a bug with the new install, the sendmail error seems to be there on any machine, except mine, must be a stage3 error

Shak

Mpemba Effect · 14 Nov 2002 at 16:47

Check Nozzers suggestions of xinetd. If not check if sendmail is in the default run level /etc/runlevels/default/ if it there you can remove it by:
rc-update del sendmail default.

[RB] · 14 Nov 2002 at 17:06

There's no /etc/xinetd.d directory and rc-update del sendmail default doesn't work.

I'll poke around on the gentoo forums and the web for a solution! (If there is one!)

Thanks

[RB]

Warfish · 14 Nov 2002 at 22:28

I'm gunna reinstall Gentoo and do all the stages (last time i got all the way to the end and messed it up and had to start again so i used a stage 3 image)

Just wondering what optermisations would be recomended for an amd athalon thunderbird.

Shak · 14 Nov 2002 at 22:32

Code:

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4"

Nice and fast

Shak

Warfish · 14 Nov 2002 at 22:53

I had
CFLAGS='-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe'

Do i not need the "-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" part?

Mpemba Effect · 14 Nov 2002 at 23:24

You'll need:

Code:

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"

You don't need the mcpu part, thats already implied when you set -march=athlon-tbird

Warfish · 14 Nov 2002 at 23:26

-03 or -02?

Mpemba Effect · 14 Nov 2002 at 23:30

I use -O3

Shak · 14 Nov 2002 at 23:47

-O3 is liable to slow things down, use -O2

Shak

[RB] · 16 Nov 2002 at 12:12

Am I missing something here?

I thought it was a simple case of 'emerge fluxbox' and everything would be ok? I think X is setup right, got my mouse working, seems ok. Type startx and I get the dirty, great big xterm window. What things do I have to do to get fluxbox working?

I type fluxbox at the promt and:

Code:

 Warning: Failed to open catalog, using default messages.
BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed.

Have I missed some vital step?

Thanks

[RB]

Mpemba Effect · 16 Nov 2002 at 13:46

Create a file in your home directory called .xinitrc and in it add the line:

Code:

exec fluxbox

[RB] · 16 Nov 2002 at 14:00

Code:
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Create a file in your home directory called .xinitrc and in it add the line:

Code:

exec fluxbox

Yay! Thankyou s'ah!

A few minor niggles left now though. It seems as if the actual desktop is bigger than the resolution. I can move to the far reaches of the desktop by moving the mouse to the edges of the screen. Is this something I've setup wrong in XF86?

Also I've created a user called rob. When I try to 'startx' logged in as rob it doesn't work is there something I have to configure to get it up and running as users other than root?

Thanks

[RB]

Shak · 16 Nov 2002 at 14:25

You need to amke sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is set for the normal users PATH in /etc/profile

Shak