Re: [gentoo-user] Does a tool that resizes reiser4 partitions exists ?
Maxim Vexler wrote: Since the first public release of resiser4 it came a long way, but yet I haven't seen even one tool that can resize a reiser partition. Have I missed something fundamental ? And If the answer is yes, can I get a livecd with that ? RTFM! Let me show you how: # tar -xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/reiser4progs-1.0.4.tar.gz # less reiser4progs-1.0.4/TODO snip * online/offline resizer/repacker, manual page resizefs. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued
Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 16:04 schrieb ext fire-eyes:
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0
and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as
eth0.
Any more ideas?
In case you're using udev, you can give them whatever name you want, based
on the mac address:
$ grep eth /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
KERNEL=eth*, SYSFS{address}=00:50:8b:90:be:3c, NAME=lan
$ /sbin/ifconfig
lan Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:50:8B:90:BE:3C
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See also: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV
HTH...
Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:33:06 -0500, Kirk Schneider wrote: Orginally I was cleaning ccache since my emerge runs under root and root's home directory is on a small partition. Taking your input I've decided to just set ccache size and not use my script to clean it. Why not set ccache (I think it's CCACHE_DIR) to use a directory on a larger partition. I too have /root on a small partition, but have a large XFS partition that I use for temporary/non-essential files; like ccache, PORT_TMPDIR and ?ISO images. Cleaning all distfiles was a decision I made on having high speed downloads. Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. Adjust the number of days based on your needs. There are scripts that clean out distfiles based on which are not needed by currently install packages. That seems a more appropriate approach to me than deleting everything over a randomly chosen age. -- Neil Bothwick The box said 'needs Win95 or better' so I bought an Amiga. pgpz6KHMU8euh.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT - hardware problems
Hi, Yesterday arround midday i have lost contact with my home server, when i came home i saw that on the front the light (power) was red instead of green. I have rebooted with the power button and all is fine until now. The machine is a old Compaq deskpro AP prof desktop PIII, does anyone know what the red light could be ? Its the first time this happens. TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off
Hi, I had the same problem and I've installed gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r5 and the problem was gone, the old kernel was gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3. Now I'm running on gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6 and it's ok. Best regards Al Bayrouni wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y This doesn't look right. Did you configure the kernel by hand? Or by using genkernel? If so, try it with 'make menuconfig' to get a consistent config. Benno Thank you very much. I configured the kernel like this: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y is now enabled CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=n is now disabled I am now recompiling my kernel. I shall send the result after rebooting my system on the new kernl . Thanks :) Al Bayrouni I had compiled a new kern that support dma, restartd my gentoo, and now the dma is on. Thank you very much for your anwers. Al Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:34:45 +0100 Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyway, what has been bugging me about the vi imposter on gentoo is | this gawdy psychadelic colourisation Try one of these in your vimrc: set background=dark set background=light Or possibly: colorscheme darkblue Or possibly: colorscheme elflord -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgptdeIe6TNxE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:09:43 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Here's a patch you probably *WON'T* acceptg. Warning, some coarse | language... http://dev.gentoo.org/~lewk/img/vim.gif *sigh* what makes that really pathetic is that we already have vimgor, which is an actual implementation of a paperclip for vim but a heck of a lot funnier. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpaQhiawkSgr.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2
Is there anyone using Xorg on an Intel 82865G card and can lend me their Xorg configuration file. I got my card as a part of a Dimension 3000. Thanks -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69717131 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to read dvd (encrypted) with mplayer
Hello all I have one movie dvd that I had get at dvdtheque. I can't read it. which libraries I need? Thank you Bayrouni. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings
try emerge info to see what the end result of all the files. Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. your profile is in /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 but note the parent file in there, this contains a single entry: .. - this means that everything in the directory above is also part of the profile. And guess what, so does the dir above have a parent file. And so on. so the make.defaults files in each of the included directories may add something to the profile. emerge info is a far easier way of seeing the end result! On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 20:23 +, James wrote: Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still have 2004.x in the path names instead of 2005.0 ? I believe the 2005.x standard is to use the /u/p/p/default-linux/use.defaults; the 2004 version(s) were used by those specific profiles. In fact if you look at the listing it would appear that the intention is that the profile-specific use.defaults are extensions to the d-l/use.defaults file, indicating that at some point along the way it was determined that no 2005.x specific additions are necessary. Obviously there are others more qualified than I to answer this one correctly. Thanks, James -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Cleaning all distfiles was a decision I made on having high speed downloads. Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. Adjust the number of days based on your needs. There are scripts that clean out distfiles based on which are not needed by currently install packages. That seems a more appropriate approach to me than deleting everything over a randomly chosen age. This one (not my original work) I liked: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2
Hi Bill, Thanks for that. Are you using Xorg or Xfree? Devraj Bill Roberts wrote: On 20:16 Fri 22 Apr , Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Is there anyone using Xorg on an Intel 82865G card and can lend me their Xorg configuration file. I got my card as a part of a Dimension 3000. Devraj I wouldn't hold my xorg.conf up as a exemplar of fine configuration, but it works for me. My hardware, courtesy of lshw: *-pci:0 description: PCI bridge product: 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 1 My xorg.conf: --- Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/lib/X11/rgb FontPath unix/:-1 FontPath/usr/share/fonts/local/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/CID/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/artwiz/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/default/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/freefont/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/terminus/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/ukr/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/unifont/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/util/ ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules ModulePath /usr/X11R6-DRI/lib/modules EndSection Section Module Load record Load extmod Load dbe Load dri Load glx Load GLcore Load xtrap Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModelpc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor DisplaySize 350 255 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName DEL ModelNameDELL D1226H HorizSync30.0 - 95.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver i810 Option DDC false VendorName Intel Corp. BoardName 82865G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device VideoRam127680 BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection -- Best of Luck Bill Roberts -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69717131 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility
Ah thanks, we're in business now, I should have put the DefaultDepth in, that was just stupid. The font is still a little big, but smaller than before. My next step is kde 3.3 - 3.4 so I'm just gonna wait on that. Well thanks for the help, my knowledge of X is slowly improving. Lucien On 4/22/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucien D. wrote: Ok, making progress. I installed 6.8.2-r1, did X -configure and its working, well mostly. Two problems. well first, it seems like its running at a really high resolution, I always ran at 1600 which I thought was the highest this card could do (I vaguely remember it being the highest in windows). And at this resolution the refresh rate is not right, it seems awfully low. if I have a white background I can lines moving on the screen. A few things: My guess is that at a high resolution, the DPI is being calculated at something like 100x100 or 133x133. While the calculation is technically correct, it makes fonts look huge.And font configuration in X right now is still a bit of a messso the only sane choice IMO is to run X at 75x75dpi. So, I have one small edit for your xorg.conf: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Replace 24 above with 16 if you want 16-bit color, I'm assuming you don't. This should give you the right resolution, and probably fix your fonts too. But if the fonts are still huge, add -dpi 75 to the X command line. For kdm (3.3), this will be /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers, or kdm 3.4 this will be /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, I don't know for gdm. If something else seems wrong, post /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and xdpyinfo | grep -A 30 ^screen. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:57:10 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: This one (not my original work) I liked: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips I like that one too. None of the scripts I saw dealt with a shared distfiles directory, they deleted all files not used by the machine running the script. My solution was a script that touched every file required by all installed packages. Run it on every box then use find to delete all distfiles files over a day old. This idea of Jason's should be better, as long as I don't rm the distfiles.old directory until all computers have run it. -- Neil Bothwick Without Time Everything Would Happen At Once! pgpgtAeE3NOj0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Sounds like fun stuff. He needs about 64 channels of analog(audio IO) in the form of high end audio cards with multiple input/output channels. Probably a couple of RME HDSP 9652s sync'ed via word clock would get you pretty close at 52 channels. I use the card and it works very well under Linux with low latency realtime kernels. Yes RME boards seem to have good support under the 2.6 linux kernel. I definately need to research pci audio boards in more detail to decide. I'll look into the board you have suggested. It would be good for me to use boards that another Gentoo audiophile is using Is this just for live work? Not primarily recording? Both, When you produce live music, you have to be able to patch the band into the system, and also run DJ style tunes when the band is taking a break, to keep the natives happy. Also, Most live events get recorded, so the better the quality of the (multi_track) recording you can provide, the happier everyone is. If so I thinkn you could also look into customized delay plugins to ensure that different speak systems are in time with each other. I have not purchased a mixer or other equipment for my 5kw system yet, as I want everything to run from a gentoo portable(maybe a gentoo wireless rig) talking to a gentoo 19 rack mount server, augmented with PCI cards. (equipment suggestions are most welcome). Here's a list of Doc's equipment(he knows he'll have to add more gear): Right now for sound card I'm using a sound blaster audigy. It works better with the speaker measurement software than anything else does. For mixers, I have a Stanton DJ mixer, a Behringer UB802, an old mostly functional biamp 24 channel studio mixing board, and an AH GL2200 24 channel board (almost brand new). I'll get the name of the speaker setup/measurement software he's using, plus any other software that he's using or would like to have. Hve you seen a large mixer board that can be controlled via Gentoo? I'm leaning towards building the mixer functions via internal pci_buss cards, but if an external mixer unit interfaces well with Gentoo, I'd like to read up on those options too. If any of the audio boards, which have a linux driver, have open source on the DSP or other processors it would be of keen interest. That way, we can modify/extend the firmware to get features we like. My wife is one hell of a firmware developer (micro controllers, DSPs and some FPGAs) so an open hardware/firmware approach to getting things right, would really be the way to go If not maybe you are aware of a Development kit with basic audio firmware from somebody like Motorola(freescale) or TI? What I really need is a Master Audiophile who has played with all sorts of audio gear and can provide input as to how to architect the entire audio system for DJing, recording, and live productions. I have an an EE that can design/fabricate anything and a firmware engineer that can code on any type of processor. We want to keep the power/signals betweenthe amps and the speakers all analog, at the present time. Your ideas are most welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2
Thanks for the various emails Bill. I managed to get your Xorg configuration on my system. When I run X -config /root/xorg.conf.bill I get the following messages and my screen is blank Any suggestions directions are welcome. I am using a Diemsnion 3000 by Dell. Thanks X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux linux-dt 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Thu Apr 21 23:12:14 EST 2005 i686 Build Date: 22 April 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Apr 23 08:06:05 2005 (++) Using config file: /root/xorg.conf.bill Using vt 7 (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory) Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/util/, removing from list! Devraj I started out with Xfree, migrated to Xorg. As I recall, the only change required in configuration was the keyboard driver, I don't remember the name of the old, Xfree, one. You can Google or check http://forums.gentoo.org for the particulars. -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69717131 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2
On 4/22/05, Devraj Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone using Xorg on an Intel 82865G card and can lend me their Xorg configuration file. I got my card as a part of a Dimension 3000. Thanks -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69717131 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ Here's another one for you. Shared memory design I think. It's an eMachines box I got my wife a few months ago: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: 82865G Integrated Graphics Device vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 2 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:02.0 version: 02 size: 128MB clock: 33MHz capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list resources: iomemory:f000-f7ff iomemory:fa00-fa07 io port:b000-b007 irq:5 dragonfly ~ # emerge -p xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 dragonfly ~ # Cheers, Mark xorg.conf Description: Binary data
[gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: emerge info Hey, that's pretty cool. Must of missed/forgot this command... to see what the end result of all the files. Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. your profile is in /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 you mean: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 default.linux thru me for a few seconds until a search show default-linux... but note the parent file in there, this contains a single entry: .. - this means that everything in the directory above is also part of the profile. And guess what, so does the dir above have a parent file. And so on. so the make.defaults files in each of the included directories may add something to the profile. emerge info is a far easier way of seeing the end result! Yep, 'emerge info' is what I was missing. Thanks for the explaination on the .. mechanisms. That's what's so cool about Gentoo, it's all there and folks like yourself take the time to illuminate details of how things actually work. Thanks again Nick! James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - hardware problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Marquetecken schrieb: Hi, Yesterday arround midday i have lost contact with my home server, when i came home i saw that on the front the light (power) was red instead of green. I have rebooted with the power button and all is fine until now. The machine is a old Compaq deskpro AP prof desktop PIII, does anyone know what the red light could be ? Its the first time this happens. TIA Patrick Maybe Suspend is on in the BIOS? Should be in the Power Saving Section. no, it up and running for months now without funny lights, its must be a hardware problem/warning but i can't find out what. Patrick - -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.KarstenRBecker.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCaL9iZ7JZitcquM0RAkQWAJ9ENa7CQ+PC0K+5EEXyTEGYKgbYdQCgnKZh ZHqpTezt9SEN/QIcMuTsbbM= =So+Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- a -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Automatic process restarter
Hi, I need to monitor some processes on a server and if they die, they must be restarted. Before reinventing the wheel again (create my ons script) i search the internet and the most intresting soft i found was: procautostart http://www.yolinux.com/HOWTO/Process-Monitor-HOWTO.html Are some of you using other programs that are in the portage ? Patrick -- I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic process restarter
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I need to monitor some processes on a server and if they die, they must be restarted. Before reinventing the wheel again (create my ons script) i search the internet and the most intresting soft i found was: procautostart http://www.yolinux.com/HOWTO/Process-Monitor-HOWTO.html Are some of you using other programs that are in the portage ? Patrick sure sys-process/daemontools -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds
I have installed a 1000Mbps NIC in my system. This is the system some of you read about me where I was trying to swap the names of eth0 and eth1 so maybe that has something to do with my problem. The light on the NIC shows 1000Mbps link, as does the switch it is connected to. Kernel messages show the link as autonegotiated, and 1000Mbps. The only odd one out is mii-tool which claims eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok I also tried using ethtool to set it at 1000Mbps anyway via ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 , and the kernel again spits out messages about a 1000Mbps link being up just fine. mii-tool still says the same as above, however. The problem is that I get speeds just as if it were a 100Mbps link, starting at about 9MB/s then dropping to about 8. As noted above I had two NIC's. One was an onboard 100Mbps, and the second an add on 64-bit 1000Mbps. I had to do some tweaking with nameif to get the 1000Mbps as eth0, and the 100Mbps as eth1. The reasons why I wanted this really don't matter. Making things more confusing, last night when I first applied the nameif changes, I DID see 1000Mbps speed transfers. I saw exactly this behavior in the past, what was happening was the traffic was going right back out the 100Mbps and thus we had 100Mbps speeds. However this time I've disabled the 100Mbps, even unplugged it. There are no unusual routing entries. I am not using iptables. I'm stumped here, any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility
Lucien D. wrote: Ah thanks, we're in business now, I should have put the DefaultDepth in, that was just stupid. The font is still a little big, but smaller than before. My next step is kde 3.3 - 3.4 so I'm just gonna wait on that. Well thanks for the help, my knowledge of X is slowly improving. Lucien Glad I could help. My hope is that eventually when someone posts a problem with configuring X, we will be able to respond with delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf, because the autoconfiguration in x.org will become that good. It works now for generating a good starting point, but as you found out, we still *need* that config file, and it still requires some edits to get things exactly right. Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!
Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B.T.W., LG may send their best units (unit-lots) to Sony /or other Brand Names, and sell the 'shaky' stuff under their own name -- this is a known operating plan used by *lots* of manufacturers for many years. So it is strange that my LG DVD burner can handle DVD-RAM, but none of the 'brand' name drives (that I have seen) mention DVD-RAM capability? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?
James, I don't have the answers that you are looking for myself, but I have a couple of thoughts about 'proceedurals' that you *might* not have thought of; please forgive my presumption if you *have* already thought of 'em... Have you put together a good precis of all the info from these messages posted that on LinuxQuestions.Org? There are also a number of sound engineer and musician sites out there, and it wouldn't hurt to ask those too. Some of the answes from these _will_ be for WhinedoZZZe /or the Mac (not to mention older systems like the Yamaha the Amiga, which were both VERY popular in the musician/sound area), but where there are answers for other systems there might also be answers for Linux maybe even Gentoo, including from the software-producers themselves... And remember that Gentoo _can_ import programs for other Linii. Just a thought Just In Case you hadn't already had it! (And I am a (more-or-less) fellow embedded programmer to your wife, so now you can tell her a fellow Gentoo'er also works with tiny stuff (8/16-bit) and said 'hi!'; she might get a kick or a grin or something out of that... ;) ) Good Luck, and please keep us informed of how you solve this -- some of us have been lurking with baited breath to learn from this too! :), rgh. James wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Sounds like fun stuff. He needs about 64 channels of analog(audio IO) in the form of high end audio cards with multiple input/output channels. Probably a couple of RME HDSP 9652s sync'ed via word clock would get you pretty close at 52 channels. I use the card and it works very well under Linux with low latency realtime kernels. Yes RME boards seem to have good support under the 2.6 linux kernel. I definately need to research pci audio boards in more detail to decide. I'll look into the board you have suggested. It would be good for me to use boards that another Gentoo audiophile is using Is this just for live work? Not primarily recording? Both, When you produce live music, you have to be able to patch the band into the system, and also run DJ style tunes when the band is taking a break, to keep the natives happy. Also, Most live events get recorded, so the better the quality of the (multi_track) recording you can provide, the happier everyone is. If so I thinkn you could also look into customized delay plugins to ensure that different speak systems are in time with each other. I have not purchased a mixer or other equipment for my 5kw system yet, as I want everything to run from a gentoo portable(maybe a gentoo wireless rig) talking to a gentoo 19 rack mount server, augmented with PCI cards. (equipment suggestions are most welcome). Here's a list of Doc's equipment(he knows he'll have to add more gear): Right now for sound card I'm using a sound blaster audigy. It works better with the speaker measurement software than anything else does. For mixers, I have a Stanton DJ mixer, a Behringer UB802, an old mostly functional biamp 24 channel studio mixing board, and an AH GL2200 24 channel board (almost brand new). I'll get the name of the speaker setup/measurement software he's using, plus any other software that he's using or would like to have. Hve you seen a large mixer board that can be controlled via Gentoo? I'm leaning towards building the mixer functions via internal pci_buss cards, but if an external mixer unit interfaces well with Gentoo, I'd like to read up on those options too. If any of the audio boards, which have a linux driver, have open source on the DSP or other processors it would be of keen interest. That way, we can modify/extend the firmware to get features we like. My wife is one hell of a firmware developer (micro controllers, DSPs and some FPGAs) so an open hardware/firmware approach to getting things right, would really be the way to go If not maybe you are aware of a Development kit with basic audio firmware from somebody like Motorola(freescale) or TI? What I really need is a Master Audiophile who has played with all sorts of audio gear and can provide input as to how to architect the entire audio system for DJing, recording, and live productions. I have an an EE that can design/fabricate anything and a firmware engineer that can code on any type of processor. We want to keep the power/signals betweenthe amps and the speakers all analog, at the present time. Your ideas are most welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!
On Friday 22 April 2005 18:05, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hello, Thanks for all the input guys (and gals, if any). Finally, I've decided to go for LG as it's saving me money and can't really see a big gain from buying Sony. Anyways, now I'm wondering about the media... +R or -R? I have absolutely no knowledge about DVDs... Thanks once again, Mrugesh go to LG's hp and look for media-information (NEC users find this on the same site as the firmwares), and have a look for the recommended media, or try to get a test in a 'good' magazine, and look which medias caused the less trouble for LG. One golden rule: blank media that is cool with burner A, will give desastrous results with burner B ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. OK, with the firmware properly extracted and in place and then with ivtv loaded I now get /dev/v4l entries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -a /dev/v4l/* /dev/v4l/radio0 /dev/v4l/video /dev/v4l/video24 /dev/v4l/vbi0/dev/v4l/video0 /dev/v4l/video32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Thanks to you and Lucian for your help. Likely I'll be back before it's over (uh - the lirc stuff isn't right yet) but I am moving forward and that feels good! cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Nick, you and Lucian seem to be on the same tack but I do not have a /dev/v4l directory: dragonfly ~ # ls -la /dev/v4* ls: /dev/v4*: No such file or directory dragonfly ~ # Video4Linux is compiled and I've got some device drivers loaded, but no v4l devices. One that has an interesting name anyway is /dev/vttuner, but no v4l. I've been poking around for information but so far nothing makes much sense in terms of how to fix this. Are you using udev or devfs (or static devices) ? Christoph hehe!! Remember who you're talking to here Christoph. I'm a guitar player, not an IT guy! ;-) Default stage 3 Gentoo install from the Universal Install CD - 2005.0 profile. The install was done about a week ago. I think it's udev but I'm not even sure how I tell you that for sure. Remember who you're talking to here! ;-) ;-) thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Dave Nebinger wrote: Reboots only come in if I build a new kernel. And it is often times easier to manually restart the services that have been updated rather than rebooting the box. I also suggest rebooting after major library updates to make sure that all executables and daemons are referencing the current version. Good point, Eric. Your point being that unless you stop and restart all running daemons or other executables, you can't be sure that an updated library is really being used. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error
On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H.J. Jung wrote: When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Why can't it find gcc?It finds your gcc, but your gcc version is not supported by mplayer. gentoo adds a patch to work around this patch. After unpacking thesource, can you see thoe following line?* Applying mplayer-gcc_detection.patch ...[ ok ]Christoph--echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listit's solved now thx
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But wait, theres more... Re-reading your original post, you refer to the PVR-250 card and to the bttv driver BUT! the bttv driver does not drive the PVR-250. You need the ivtv driver. (I am assuming you are referring to the Hauppauge PVR-250) OK - I bypassed portage and built ivtv from source. It's now installed: dragonfly ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by msp340027832 0 saa711512440 0 tuner 20516 0 tveeprom 11444 0 ivtv 816996 0 i2c_algo_bit9096 1 ivtv i2c_core 18704 5 msp3400,saa7115,tuner,tveeprom,i2c_algo_bit videodev7680 1 ivtv ndiswrapper 109844 0 snd_pcm_oss49184 0 Still no /dev/v4l directory though. In fact, unless you also have a bt/conexant based card as well as the pvr-250, I cannot figure why bttv is loaded at all. Well, it loaded because I told it to although if it's not the right driver I would have thought it wouldn't have loaded at all! There is certainly a lot more info in dmesg now that ivtv is loaded: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:02.0[A] - GSI 3 (level, low) - IRQ 3 ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32062, rev = C182, serial# = 7913638 tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPC H791F (idx = 82, type = 39) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3445 (type = 12) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 39, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x008d1612, Revision 0x ivtv: NTSC tuner detected ivtv: Radio detected tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 saa7115: writing init values ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok] saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0 msp34xx: ivtv version msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3445G-B8, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Apr 22 2005 16:22:28 ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3445G-B8,ok] Unable to open '/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin'. ivtv: failed loading encoder firmware ivtv: Error loading firmware -3! ivtv: Error -3 initializing firmware. ivtv: Error -12 on initialization ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of :01:02.0 failed with error -12 ivtv: END INIT IVTV dragonfly ~ # Seems the firmware part is the issue with this part of the bring up. I know the Wiki said something about downloading a windows driver and extracting the firmware so I'll go work on that next. I hope someone can figure out where /dev/v4l is! ;-) Thanks much, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
Make sure the card is recognized in lspci, heres the output from mine 000:00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 I know there are some issues with different versions of the card, but u'd have to google for them. On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be udev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep udev root 4698 0.0 0.0 1428 436 ?Ss 13:34 0:00 udevd mark 16051 0.0 0.0 1476 464 pts/0R+ 14:47 0:00 grep udev [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But wait, theres more... Re-reading your original post, you refer to the PVR-250 card and to the bttv driver BUT! the bttv driver does not drive the PVR-250. You need the ivtv driver. (I am assuming you are referring to the Hauppauge PVR-250) In fact, unless you also have a bt/conexant based card as well as the pvr-250, I cannot figure why bttv is loaded at all. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Nick, you and Lucian seem to be on the same tack but I do not have a /dev/v4l directory: dragonfly ~ # ls -la /dev/v4* ls: /dev/v4*: No such file or directory dragonfly ~ # Video4Linux is compiled and I've got some device drivers loaded, but no v4l devices. One that has an interesting name anyway is /dev/vttuner, but no v4l. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error
H.J. Jung wrote: When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Why can't it find gcc? It finds your gcc, but your gcc version is not supported by mplayer. gentoo adds a patch to work around this patch. After unpacking the source, can you see thoe following line? * Applying mplayer-gcc_detection.patch ... [ ok ] Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be udev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep udev root 4698 0.0 0.0 1428 436 ?Ss 13:34 0:00 udevd mark 16051 0.0 0.0 1476 464 pts/0R+ 14:47 0:00 grep udev [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But wait, theres more... Re-reading your original post, you refer to the PVR-250 card and to the bttv driver BUT! the bttv driver does not drive the PVR-250. You need the ivtv driver. (I am assuming you are referring to the Hauppauge PVR-250) In fact, unless you also have a bt/conexant based card as well as the pvr-250, I cannot figure why bttv is loaded at all. But isn't bttv required? MAybe I've misread somewhere. As for ivtv yes, I've been trying to emerge ivtv all day long. Something's wrong with the ebuild or the source code serverI guess. I filed a quick bug report a couple of hours ago. Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? Anyway, I'll continue to try to get that installed. Maybe I can drop back to some older version. There's nothing unmasked and ~x86 doesn't download. Addressing Lucian's question here's my lspci info: :01:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23 416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3 Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: available only to root Thanks much, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
no problem, its nice to be able to answer questions occasionally instead of just asking them. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. OK, with the firmware properly extracted and in place and then with ivtv loaded I now get /dev/v4l entries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -a /dev/v4l/* /dev/v4l/radio0 /dev/v4l/video /dev/v4l/video24 /dev/v4l/vbi0/dev/v4l/video0 /dev/v4l/video32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Thanks to you and Lucian for your help. Likely I'll be back before it's over (uh - the lirc stuff isn't right yet) but I am moving forward and that feels good! cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] memory used
I started using Linux again a couple of months ago. After I installed Mandrake /noticed that if my computer sat idle over night the memory usage went up from 100 megs to 2-300 megs ( I have 1 gig of ram, so no biggie). I switched to Gentoo and have noticed the samething. After watching this since then I have noticed that when my system is under a load, ie large updates and such the lost memory is reclaimed. Normal memory usage runs around 320 megs or so, after a large update 7 packages or more the memory used dropped down to 155 megs. My question is: is this typical? It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot out of me why this is happening. Thanks. / -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] tray open ?
I tried burning 2 cd's but I keep getting this error when trying to copy the distfiles from the cd to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles hdb: tray open end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 478884 buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 119722 Now I know it cant be the hardware as I can install off my old 2004 cd and it copies the 1st 2 files fine before repeating the above error would anyone have any advice? thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems with vchkpw
I'm trying to setup a new mailserver with qmail and vpopmail. I've installed both, and have setup user accounts. I'm running into problems when trying to test the setup to make sure things are working. Running this command: printf [EMAIL PROTECTED] | vchkpw `which id` 30 yields this result: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),2 0(dialout),26(tape),27(video) I run the same command on a working server and get this: uid=89(vpopmail) gid=89(vpopmail) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),2 0(dialout),26(tape),27(video),35(games) I can't authenticate any users on the new server. My best guess is that the discrepancy between the two is the source of the problem. Some extra information: Both servers are running Gentoo Linux. The server with the problem is running kernel 2.6.10. The working server is running kernel 2.4.26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation automation scripts
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
if I haven't forgotten something...
famous last words... I forgot a few things. but this version puts you
much closer to having a working system in 90 minutes or less. All you
need to do is:
boot off of life CD
mkdir /mnt/flash
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash #(don't forget -t vfat if necessary)
edit /mnt/flash/gentoo/config #(to meet your requirements)
bash /mnt/flash/gentoo/phase1.sh #( to start everything off)
when it comes time, menuconfig will come up and let you configure the
kernel.
current problems are getting modules to automatically load and
automatically setting the password. I may just used to make the root
password go away at login so you can get in without first putting single
user mode but I'm not really comfortable with that for obvious reasons.
on the module loading problem, I'm coming to the opinion that if you
need a module at boot time, it should just be built into the kernel. YKMV.
I think this will be the last posting of this code, eventually I will
put up Web accessible page or two on these pieces and I will post a
notice at that point.
---eric
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# config variables
HOST_NAME=rufus
DOMAIN_NAME=harvee.org
DRIVE=/dev/hda
# CPUTYPE=i686
CPUTYPE=pentium3
MKFS2=mke2fs
MKFS3=mke2fs -j
MKFSR=mkreiserfs -q
MKSWP=mkswap
PART_ROOT=3
DRIVE_ROOT=/dev/hda
# format of the filesystem list is:
# partition number:filesystem command
# create the entries in the order in which they will be created and
# mounted.
PART_ORDER=(1 2 3)
# order of the elements in each entry:
# partition number: mount point: file system format command
PART_LIST[1]=3:/mnt/gentoo:${MKFSR}
PART_LIST[2]=1:/mnt/gentoo/boot:${MKFS3}
PART_LIST[3]=2::${MKSWP}
# proxy configurations to say to wear and tear gentoo servers
# replicated below in constructing make.conf
SYNC=rsync://192.168.25.11/gentoo-portage
http_proxy=http://192.168.25.11:8080
RESUMECOMMAND= /usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O
\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}
# if ethernet module is not detected automatically, list module here
ETHERMODULE=
# DHCP usually requires nothing but if module is manually loaded.
# activate command here
DHCPCD_CMD=dhcpcd
#otherwise enter static IP information. Note, DHCP takes priority
#over static information
# static IP address
IP_ADDR=192.168.25.11
BROADCAST=192.168.25.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.25.254
NAMESERVER=192.168.25.1
# PCMCIA?? Y to turn on to turn off
PCMCIA=y
# bail if config only
if [ -z $1 ] ; then
# partitions
# describe your partitions here in sfdisk format
PARTITIONS=`mktemp `|| exit 1
cat $PARTITIONS EOF
0,200,L
,1000,S
,,L
;
EOF
# your default make.conf
MAKE_CONF=`mktemp `|| exit 1
cat $MAKE_CONF EOF
MAKEOPTS=-j3
AUTOCLEAN=yes
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
USE=mmx sse alsa oss aim emacs fastcgi gphoto2 imap maildir mozilla pcmcia
python usb gdbm pam png berkdb apache2 perl qt readline gif gtk gtk2 ldap mbox
mcal ncurses ssl wxwindows zlib
SYNC=rsync://xeno/gentoo-portage
http_proxy=http://xeno:8080
RESUMECOMMAND= /usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \${DISTDIR}/\${FILE
}
EOF
# stage grub.conf and any other needed data
GRUB_CONF=`mktemp `|| exit 1
cat $GRUB_CONF EOF
PCMCIA=${PCMCIA}
DRIVE_ROOT=${DRIVE_ROOT}
PART_ROOT=${PART_ROOT}
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf PHASE2
# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted.
timeout 30
# Nice, fat splash-image to spice things up :)
# Comment out if you don't have a graphics card installed
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo \${KERNEL_VERSION}
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd0,0)
kernel /\${KERNEL_VERSION} root=${DRIVE_ROOT}${PART_ROOT}
PHASE2
EOF
FSTAB=`mktemp `|| exit 1
cat $FSTAB EOF
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13
20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# fs mountpointtype opts
dump/pass
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda3 / reiserfsnoatime
0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3noatime
1 1
/dev/hda2 noneswapsw
0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro
0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Re: [gentoo-user] memory used
Maybe someone else knows, but my guess, from the numbers I see at the top of the screen when running :: top suggest that this is cached stuff, maybe from cron et al, or files or screensaver. Somebody please enlighten us both! rgh. George Roberts wrote: I started using Linux again a couple of months ago. After I installed Mandrake /noticed that if my computer sat idle over night the memory usage went up from 100 megs to 2-300 megs ( I have 1 gig of ram, so no biggie). I switched to Gentoo and have noticed the samething. After watching this since then I have noticed that when my system is under a load, ie large updates and such the lost memory is reclaimed. Normal memory usage runs around 320 megs or so, after a large update 7 packages or more the memory used dropped down to 155 megs. My question is: is this typical? It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot out of me why this is happening. Thanks. / -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Advice sought on M9000 epia myth-box setup
I have a recently acquired M9000 epia box. I want to make a gentoo mythtv box. I have set up myth before, but not on an epia box. This machine has a Ezra C3 processor and castlerock graphics (lspci and /proc/cpuinfo below). This page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags tells me I should use CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=i586 -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer The gentoo install instructions also tell me that if I do a stage three install I cannot change CHOST, so am I right in saying that I have a choice of either doing a stage 1 install and getting i586 from scratch, or else I do an i386 stage 2 or 3 and then I am stuck with i386? And anyway what is the practical difference between i386 and i586 in terms of performance? I haven't done a stage one install before, but I will if there is going to be an appreciable difference in performance. Secondly, I am aware of this Howto http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto However I am not sure how up to date it is, and seek advice as to whether there is anything more up to date, particularly as I am aware of VIA recently opening at least some of their sources. Naturally I am keen to get hardware mpeg-2 decoding working, as well as tv-out. I intend to get a hauppauge pvr-250 or maybe a pvr-150 card for the tuner, these cards have hardware mpeg-2 encoding, and with the onboard mpeg-2 decoding I should be able to squeeze suffcient performance out of it to do some basic hard disk recording, as well as play dvd's. Any comments or hints are appreciated. livecd root # lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] :00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] :00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) :00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) :00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) :00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) :00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) :00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge :00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) :00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03 livecd root # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 933.098 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips: 1839.10 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memory used
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:34, George Roberts wrote: It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot out of me why this is happening. Thanks. Perhaps these will help enlighten you. # Memory and swap information cat /proc/meminfo free An article, Tips for Optimizing Linux Memory: http://www.home.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2770 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error
H.J. Jung wrote: HI, all When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Detected operating system: Linux Detected host architecture: i386 Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Checking for gcc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Checking for gcc-3.4 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.3 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.2 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.1 version ... not found Checking for gcc3 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.0 version ... not found Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad *** Please downgrade/upgrade C compiler to version gcc-2.95.x or gcc-3.x! *** You are not using a supported compiler. We do not have the time to make sure everything works with compilers other than the ones we use. Use either the same compiler as we do, or use --disable-gcc-checking but DO *NOT* REPORT BUGS unless you can reproduce them after recompiling with a 2.95.x or 3.x version! Note for gcc 2.96 users: Some versions of this compiler are known to miscompile mplayer and lame (which is used for mencoder). If you get compile errors, first upgrade to the latest 2.96 release (minimum 2.96-85) and try again. If the problem still exists, try with gcc 3.x (or 2.95.x) *BEFORE* reporting bugs! GCC 2.96 IS NOT AND WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED BY US ! *** For details please read DOCS/HTML/en/users-vs-dev.html *** Error: Bad gcc version Check configure.log if you do not understand why it failed. Why can't it find gcc? run gcc-conf ig -l to see which gcc you are using. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tweaking hdparm settings
On Friday 22 April 2005 22:06, James wrote: Hello, I've been noodling around with hdparm settings, and would like some input from persons with experience: After building a new (2.6.11-r6) gentoo sources kernel, I rebooted and issued 'hdparm /dev/hda' on my portable: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 60011642880, start = 0 some things did not look right, like the unmaskirq and readahead and keepsettings. So I issued 'hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda' I cobbled this command string from the Gentoo Handbook mostly. and got this output: /dev/hda: setting fs readahead to 64 setting multcount to 16 setting unmaskirq to 1 (on) setting using_dma to 1 (on) setting drive read-lookahead to 1 (on) multcount= 16 (on) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) readahead= 64 (on) Which does not exact list the same params as 'hdparm /dev/hda'. Furthermore, maybe my HD can handle 256 on the readahead settings? AFAIK, the readahead setting is a kernel-default thingie - nothing to fiddle with. And nothing that is dependent on harddisk hardware (instead of multicount). Instead, you should have used -c1 to activatte 32 bit io. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:30 +, James wrote: /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 you mean: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 default.linux thru me for a few seconds until a search show default-linux... err yeah sorry bout that! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding support for Microsoft fonts in Open Office
If the fonts used are from a standard font defintion they will suffice. But if they are Microsoft centric fonts then you might have a problem. Devraj Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi, Every time I download a Microsoft Powerpoint file off the web and open it in OpenOffice Impress the fonts in the presentation's are awry. How do I make OpenOffice use Microsoft fonts to fix this problem? Would emerging the media-fonts/corefonts package suffice? Or would I additionally need to change some configuration files? Thanks, Hareesh -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69717131 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem with gentoo 2005 bootstrapping
Hi all: this problem will appeare every time when bootstrapping. who can help me? thank you ! Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed .. mounting loacl filesystem... mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist some local filesystem failed to mount this problem causecron and usbcan not work moonspollo Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!
