[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install - Concern w/ NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
After a lot of research I have decided to go with Gentoo, and I think I have all the install issues ironed out. My main concern is with compatiblity issues and my mobo. I have read a ton of horror stories, and I want to make sure I am prepared for any issues that could arise when I install the OS. I am also concerned mith the onboard raid controller and onboard lan. I plan on setting up RAID 0+1. My mobo is a DFI Lan Party NF4 Ultra-D. Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping
[gentoo-user] kde and network sound
Folks Has anyone figured out how to use the kde network sound feature. I'd like to try it, but not sure how to go about iit. TIA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. Is that just the first time you run a portage command? I see the same on my AMD64, it can take up to 30 seconds to run emerge --info, but only around a second to run it again. It's clearly something to do with loading the various Python libraries, classes or modules, but I haven't been able to pin down why it takes so long. -- Neil Bothwick For Sale: Positronic Brain-Found near S.F.-Needs Work signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and fstab
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:30:08 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: udev handles the creation of the device nodes, mounting is handled by hal. hal normally creates its own mount points in /media, but if the device is listed in /etc/fstab, it will use whatever is in there. How do you know that mounting is handled by hal on his machine? He didn't say so. He could also use the kernel automounter to create /media/whatever. Fair point, but either way, it is not udev doing it and /etc/fstab is not involved. -- Neil Bothwick In an atomic war, all men will be cremated equal. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: 2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format. transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less arcane options and a readable man page make life a lot easier for ffmpeg users :) -- Neil Bothwick Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:20:59 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EXTRA_ECONF=--enable-rootcommit emerge cvs usually works, although not all ebuilds respect $EXTRA_ECONF. Can you make an educated guess about that? I mean is it a pretty high percentage that allow that env flag? No, and it wouldn't matter. Even if 99.9% of ebuilds respected it, yours could be in the other 0.1%. It should be fairly high though. Just run the command, Ctrl-C when the ./configure stage has completed and look in config.log in the work directory. -- Neil Bothwick Windows: just another pane in the glass signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. Is that just the first time you run a portage command? I see the same on my AMD64, it can take up to 30 seconds to run emerge --info, but only around a second to run it again. It's clearly something to do with loading the various Python libraries, classes or modules, but I haven't been able to pin down why it takes so long. Just so you won't feel alone, same here. I mostly do this on #1 below in my sig. Don't get me started on #4. LOL It's slow at everything. :( I think the new portage is supposed to be better. That is what I have read anyway. I dunno for sure. To chicken to keyword it. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] postgresql client problems
Hi, My computer is an amd64 sempron with a fresh Gentoo Linux 2005.1-r1. I'm trying to get pgaccess and postgresql to set up. Both have been successfully emerged. I can create a data base with my user dirk and access it using psql. Upon /etc/init.d/postgres stop/start I do find the following in my logfile: LOG: received fast shutdown request LOG: shutting down LOG: database system is shut down LOG: could not send test message on socket for statistics collector: Operation not permitted LOG: disabling statistics collector for lack of working socket LOG: database system was shut down at 2005-12-15 08:35:49 CET LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/AC5068 LOG: redo record is at 0/AC5068; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE LOG: next transaction ID: 558; next OID: 17231 LOG: database system is ready When trying to access the data base using pgaccess I get the following message: Error trying to connect to database 'test' on host localhost PostgreSQL error message: Connection to database failed couldn't open socket: connection refused With no further messages in the postgres log. After having carefully followed the FAQs and all man pages etc.etc. It refuses to connect. I havn't got a clue as to what is wrong and would appreciate a push in the right direction. I suspect sockets but don't know where to go from here. TIA for reactions Dirk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port
Hi, does anyone know how to specify a port to vncviewer (i used vncviewer under windows) and want to connect to my pc at home but not on port 5900. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Istanbul - missing theoraenc
Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:21:54 up 1 day, 2:58, 5 users, load average: 0.95, 0.44, 0.33 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: dd isos
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've read that dd actually has problems reading from cdroms and isos produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny, preferably with some sort of reference or test. I've never tried with conv=noerror, but dd has worked fine for me on several occasions when extracting ISO images from data CDs and DVDs. I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Merging lvm partitions
On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:27 pm, Peper wrote: Why? If they really are LVM physical volumes, you can create a single (or modify an existing) volume group span both, and create or grow logical volumes without regards to the size of the individual partitions. Just for order. I have 3 LVM partitions only beacause i've cleaned my disk off winshit in stages. I think the only way to do this is to add a second hard-drive to the volume group, move data off the physical volumes of the 3 partitions, use `parted` or `cfdisk` to delete the 3 partitions create a new one, then add it back to the volume group migrate all the data off the new disk but it would be unusual for anyone to bother to do so (if you're not worried about uptime you could prolly just copy the data off back on again). The whole point of LVM is to have the sort of convenience that you've experienced during your removal of Windows from those partitions And maybe one more thing: wouldn't it minimize logical volumes fragmentation? Interesting question. I would think that the abstraction layer of LVM in itself introduces a performance hit, but would guess it's quite small. I think the most people using LVM are prepared to sacrifice a little performance for its convenience. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Merging lvm partitions
On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:27 pm, Peper wrote: Why? If they really are LVM physical volumes, you can create a single (or modify an existing) volume group span both, and create or grow logical volumes without regards to the size of the individual partitions. Just for order. I have 3 LVM partitions only beacause i've cleaned my disk off winshit in stages. I think the only way to do this is to add a second hard-drive to the volume group, move data off the physical volumes of the 3 partitions, use `parted` or `cfdisk` to delete the 3 partitions create a new one, then add it back to the volume group migrate all the data off the new disk but it would be unusual for anyone to bother to do so (if you're not worried about uptime you could prolly just copy the data off back on again). The whole point of LVM is to have the sort of convenience that you've experienced during your removal of Windows from those partitions I forgot the link when I just sent this message before - I think this is the right section of the HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html And maybe one more thing: wouldn't it minimize logical volumes fragmentation? Interesting question. I would think that the abstraction layer of LVM in itself introduces a performance hit, but would guess it's quite small. I think the most people using LVM are prepared to sacrifice a little performance for its convenience. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:55 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format.
transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less
arcane options and a readable man page make life a lot easier for ffmpeg
users :)
$ man ffmpeg
No manual entry for ffmpeg
`ffmpeg` produces some help info, but then
-vcodec codec force video codec ('copy' to copy stream)
doesn't say what the actual codecs are...
I guess I'll google it...
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[gentoo-user] Backups
Good day Gentoo List !!! Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:59:51 -0600, Dale wrote: I think the new portage is supposed to be better. That is what I have read anyway. I dunno for sure. To chicken to keyword it. LOL I run ~arch on everything, so this is still the case with portage 2.0.53. My iBook, running the same version, doesn't have this issue. -- Neil Bothwick We all know what comes after 'X', said Tom, wisely. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less
arcane options and a readable man page make life a lot easier for ffmpeg
users :)
$ man ffmpeg
No manual entry for ffmpeg
`ffmpeg` produces some help info, but then
-vcodec codec force video codec ('copy' to copy stream)
doesn't say what the actual codecs are...
hit plain 'ffmpeg' without any option and you will get full help
or
ffmpeg -formatsshow available formats, codecs, protocols, ...
or online
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html
by the way, hadn't use ffmpeg for long time and just checked and looks like
mine copy is broken, encodes with quality setting in thousands so its now
good tool to fill the free space on storage, and clock speeds up. will
investigate later.
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:59:51 -0600, Dale wrote: I think the new portage is supposed to be better. That is what I have read anyway. I dunno for sure. To chicken to keyword it. LOL I run ~arch on everything, so this is still the case with portage 2.0.53. My iBook, running the same version, doesn't have this issue. I stand corrected. I thought I read that they had made some changes that made things faster. Me confused which is normal. At least I didn't have to put on my feathers to find out. ;) ibook as in a Apple computer? Wonder why it is faster? I seem to recall their drives are fast, usually SCSI but not sure anymore. Any idea why that one is faster? Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
There is a book covering backups that is supposed to be the Bible for backups. Unfortunately, I am not where I can lay hands on it and can't remember the title. From: Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/15 Thu AM 08:03:34 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Backups Good day Gentoo List !!! Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: I have lots of different types of video files - from short funny ads, to 1/2 hr tv episodes, to full movies, in all sorts of formats - wmv, avi, mpeg, etc. yes we all suffer from numerous types of video. Often the differences are trite, just enough to intice cosumers(microsoft victims) to go out and spend money unnecessarily. I want to find a program (hopefully only 1!) that will help convert them to a format playable by the device. I'm happy if thats a command line only program. I will probably copy them 1 by 1 as I want to watch them. yes well that's the dream we all share. Currently, it a work in progress and to be robust, your going to use many different pieces of code. When ffmpeg hits 1.0 your dream might be close Space it not too much of an issue (I'll eventually have about 60Gb on the device) - I'd rather not lessen the quality any more than it is already. Disc space is a relative thing. It always get's filled up. Human nature. You will never have enough disk space for adults is like candy for children, never, ever enough. So, here are my questions: 1. whats the best format to use out of the ones listed, given Well you first have to realize that 'mpeg 4' is like saying I want a car. It has numerous classifications and profiles that allow a vendor to deliver 'mpeg 4' which is a virtual blend of mathematical technologies that are slightly incompatible with other vendor's equipment and software. Take remote video surveillance. 'MPEG 4 ASP', is often referred to as the simple profile. The last time I look Mpeg4 has 18 visual object types and 19 different visual profiles: Nine of the visual profiles are defined my MPeg4 visual version one: simple, simple scalable, main, n-bit, core, Scalable texture, basic animated texture, simple face animation and hybrid It goes on and on and on. In essence when a vendor tells you, it's mpeg4 it may be interoperable mpeg4 based video and it may not be. Enter REVERSE ENGINEERING. Good news. Mpeg4 porfile 10 AVC is the same as ISO's H.264, except for some minor header differences. Currently. H.264 delivers the highest quality for a given level of compression (that's the natural trade off for all video and images, i.e. quality vs size. Human perception of quality does not mimick mathematical measurements of quality, i.e. quality as perceived by humans is subjective, interspersed with some established proven techniques. That's why video is so complicated. The perception of quality is mostly subjective with some mathematical tendencies. H.264 is the best (current consensus of experts) but, it is licensed and owned by nefarious video moguls. Still there are filters in the public domain that allow for conversion (ffmpeg for one) others exist. H.264 which the same as 'mpeg4 part 10 AVC' is still a work in progress as the various mathematical tools available are staggering. Kalman filters is my favorite H.264 is CPU intensive, particularly on the encoding side of compression. However, there are those that believe 'theora' will be dominant or dam close, in the not to distant future. MJpeg makes nice video streams, but for broadcast in uses twice as much bandwidth to an equivalent (remember based on subjective human evaluations) h.264 video stream. This may not be a factor on a LAN, but it dominates WAN considerations. a) Good quality (not much less than, or the same as original) Use H.264 until theora matures. b) Size reasonable - large files ok, but compression is always a bonus) H.264 2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format. Ah, well, being a computer scientist, I dabble in things that are, incomplete. If/when you find a simple package to do robust video manipulations of all sorts, do drop me a line. For now, plan on using a palate of code and packages. All things video are a work in progress. I can run (2) color video streams over a 56 kbps frame relay link, with acceptable quality for a utility. For their needs, nothing is close to H.264, at this time, as we have evaluated dozens of formats. H.264 is also the most efficient in raw video storage. Still I stuggle with a software package that will run on linux; one day. H.264 is largely being ignored by the 'open source' community, for obvious reason, but, it does yeild stunning results. HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:24:32 -0600, Dale wrote: I run ~arch on everything, so this is still the case with portage 2.0.53. My iBook, running the same version, doesn't have this issue. I stand corrected. I thought I read that they had made some changes that made things faster. Me confused which is normal. At least I didn't have to put on my feathers to find out. ;) There have been changes to make the cache handling faster, but this is the initial start up that is the problem. ibook as in a Apple computer? Wonder why it is faster? I seem to recall their drives are fast, usually SCSI but not sure anymore. Any idea why that one is faster? Nothing special about the hardware, a standard 4200rpm IDE laptop drive. The SATA RAID in my amd64 box should cream it, and does for everything else. One day I'll find the time to experiment on the two setups, and my x86 box, to try and find the difference here. -- Neil Bothwick Penis Envy is a total Phallusy. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, and it wouldn't matter. Even if 99.9% of ebuilds respected it, yours could be in the other 0.1%. It should be fairly high though. Just run the command, Ctrl-C when the ./configure stage has completed and look in config.log in the work directory. Good plan and yes it did work in this case... thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Backups
Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good day Gentoo List !!! A major tool for that is rsync and rsnapshot. For general theory about it maybe a google search like: linux backup strategy Well pull up a bunch of likely stuff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Backups
Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? 'emerge -pv amanda' http://www.amanda.org Brought to you by the good folks in College Park, the same folks that use to run the Internet (MAE-EAST) the right waythat is until the politician and lawyers got involved James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install - Concern w/ NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
On 12/15/05, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a lot of research I have decided to go with Gentoo, and I think I have all the install issues ironed out. My main concern is with compatiblity issues and my mobo. I have read a ton of horror stories, and I want to make sure I am prepared for any issues that could arise when I install the OS. I am also concerned mith the onboard raid controller and onboard lan. I plan on setting up RAID 0+1. My mobo is a DFI Lan Party NF4 Ultra-D. Any help would be much appreciated. If you are thinking SATA RAID, think twice. Nvidia doesn't provide the necessary hardware specs to make this work. According to the kernel maintainer for SATA support, nvidia is the _only_ major manufacturer that refuses to release the specs. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20050904_324.html#3 NVidia does provide a proprietary driver on their web site that should enable full support in linux, but I haven't tried it yet. However, there is no problem using the software RAID in Linux for this. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
Hello, qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to survive the machinations of emerge, env-update et. al... /root/.bashrc ? I also would have thought that installing it from an emerge would set the path automatically? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:22:16 + (UTC), James wrote: qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to survive the machinations of emerge, env-update et. al... I just copy it to /usr/local/bin. Since /usr/local/bin/qpkg is not owned by gentoolkit, it won't be touched by portage. An update to gentoolkit will reinstall qpkg in the original location, but it will be the same version as qpkg is deprecated. -- Neil Bothwick C Error #011: First C Program, huh? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. Increasing the block size does make it /almost/ as fast as cat, but then it takes longer to type the command :) -- Neil Bothwick I am Barney of Borg: I love you. You love me. We're a happy Borg. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On 12/15/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? If you can give us some more details about what you are looking for (number of boxes, backup device you want to use, whether you want simple backup or archiving, etc), you can probably get some better answers. My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:22 +, James wrote: qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to survive the machinations of emerge, env-update et. al... /root/.bashrc ? I also would have thought that installing it from an emerge would set the path automatically? It is deprecated, which is why it is no longer in the path. My recomendation is to create a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin (which is in the default path) ln -s /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg /usr/local/bin/qpkg Answering your question about paths, the place to put it would be /root/.bashrc export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] clock problems software clock 20x fast
ok its fixed its a bug with ati / nvidia chipsets making the clock 2x+ fast disable_timer_pin_1 fixes the clock ^^ On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:04 pm, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/14/05, Noah J Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 02:03 am, Richard Fish wrote: I think if you were getting messages about lost ticks or got extra ticks or something like that, these might be helpful, or if your system seemed either to slow or too unresponsive. Of course, if your clock is defaulting to TSC (which would be bad, BTW), then I guess these could have a big impact. i have gotton lost tick messages and apic errors mostly Hmm, didn't you mention that somewhere alreadyoh yeah, your orignal message! (bangs head on desk). Plus, you also said noapic fixes the problem, so forget everything I said, and try these options. Take a look at dmesg or /var/log/messages for the following lines: Using TSC for gettimeofday Using HPET for gettimeofday Using .* for high-res timesource Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Looks good...pmtmr is what I get on my pentium-m laptop, and is the default, and should be fairly reliable... Did you try any other clock= options? Any better results? should an amd64 use HPET ? i do not have this enabled in kernel config (note running in 32 bit mode ) Not sure about this one...just got my first AMD64 system this past weekend, and I am still trying to get things setup...maybe someone else can answer. One other boot option that might help: no_timer_check It is a x86_64 specific option (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt). I don't think this has anything to do with 32/64 bit code though...so maybe you have this already (does your kernel build as x86_64/arch/boot/bzImage?) other thing i noticed in dmesg do i need to enable smp support in the kernel ? this is a single processor system that i know of . does amd do any type of hyperthreading ? Nope, no hyperthreading in AMD. And I think AMD is expected to release their first dual-core mobile chips sometime next year. Unfortunately Intel is going to beat them to market and my wallet. -Richard -- life is linux linux is life -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:53 +0200, Matan Peled wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorities to them, as explained at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... I've used that HOWTO (and contributed bits to it), and its great. But why can't you just limit your P2P application's upload speed? I mean, the program should have some controls that let you do that, right? I know every sane bittorrent app has this. Well, i use azureus - and of course i know that upload-speed can be limited - which is maybe in fact the best solution to my problem. However, what i have in mind is somehow similar to cpu-resources and process-priority. If i start at process with nice level 15, it will get all available cpu-resources without slowing down the other apps. As far as i understand, this is not the same as limiting the process to, say 80% of cpu power. Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. Because i want this setup just for my homenetwork, it would perfectly suffice if packages get their priorities by examining port-numbers. And because i want to at least partially understand what i'm doing i would prefer a simple and clean setup. I know that in principle the neccessairy steps to do what i wannt can be found in the 'Packet Shaping HOWTO'. But i wanted to hear experiences and opinions of others first before starting messing around with my router. By the way, there are many different packet shedulers in the kernel - and the HOWTO only explains the HTP-scheduler. What about the other schedulers - can they be usefull for my purposes too - and if yes, how can they be configured and used ? Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install - Concern w/ NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
I just installed the amd64 Gentoo build on nforce 4. No issues whatsoever (except when I was using a 2004.3 cd... once I got the right one it was all working).As Richard said, using a hardware raid is not going to be easy, however an lvm or software raid shouldn't cause you any problems. On 12/15/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/15/05, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a lot of research I have decided to go with Gentoo, and I think I have all the install issues ironed out. My main concern is with compatiblity issues and my mobo. I have read a ton of horror stories, and I want to make sure I am prepared for any issues that could arise when I install the OS. I am also concerned mith the onboard raid controller and onboard lan.I plan on setting up RAID 0+1. My mobo is a DFI Lan Party NF4 Ultra-D.Any help would be much appreciated.If you are thinking SATA RAID, think twice.Nvidia doesn't providethe necessary hardware specs to make this work.According to the kernel maintainer for SATA support, nvidia is the _only_ majormanufacturer that refuses to release the specs.http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20050904_324.html#3NVidia does provide a proprietary driver on their web site that should enable full support in linux, but I haven't tried it yet.However, there is no problem using the software RAID in Linux for this.-Richard--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Steven Susbauer
Re: [gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port
I think if you connect to computer:4967 or whatever, it will use that instead of 5900 (which is where it will go if you type :0).If you're connecting through windows, putty makes it very easy to use vnc through an ssh tunnel, which would allow you to use 5900 without a problem. On 12/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi,does anyone know how to specify a port to vncviewer (i used vncviewer under windows) and want to connect to my pc at home but not on port5900.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Steven Susbauer
[gentoo-user] Re: Istanbul - missing theoraenc
Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. libtheora may contain the theora encoder you are looking for: This page may help: Rip DVDs to Theora on Linux http://www.parrishtech.com/content/view/16/2/ otherwise, all I found was code, no ready to install package. HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
James wrote: Hello, qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to survive the machinations of emerge, env-update et. al... /root/.bashrc ? I also would have thought that installing it from an emerge would set the path automatically? why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? #q --help Usage: q applet [arguments]... Currently defined applets: q applet args : virtual applet qcheck pkgname : verify mtimes/digests qdepends pkgname : show dependency info qfile filename : list all pkgs owning files qgrep misc args : grep in ebuilds qlist pkgname : list files owned by pkgname qlop pkgname : emerge log analyzer qpkg misc args : manipulate Gentoo binpkgs qsearch regex : search pkgname/desc qsize pkgname : calculate size usage qtbz2 misc args : manipulate tbz2 packages quse useflag : find pkgs using useflags qxpak misc args : manipulate xpak archives Options: -[irvQChV] -i, --install * Install symlinks for applets -r, --reinitialize * Reinitialize ebuild cache -v, --verbose * Make a lot of noise -Q, --quiet* Suppress warnings and errors -C, --nocolor * Don't output color -h, --help * Print this help and exit -V, --version * Print version and exit cheers, Francesco R: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
On 15 December 2005 17:02, James wrote: [ snip - lots of good stuff ] All things video are a work in progress. I can run (2) color video streams over a 56 kbps frame relay link, with acceptable quality for a utility. For their needs, nothing is close to H.264, at this time, as we have evaluated dozens of formats. H.264 is also the most efficient in raw video storage. Still I stuggle with a software package that will run on linux; one day. H.264 is largely being ignored by the 'open source' community, for obvious reason, but, it does yeild stunning results. I can only agree on each single point. We managed to encode a 1h45m movie in full TV quality (which isn't all that much quality) using H.264 with a resulting file of about 500MB!! It took 5 hours on a dual G5 (yes, a mac). So encoding is rather expensive. Decoding can be done on the fly. Especially interesting for me is that I can stream it using just about 100Kb/s per stream. My target is a LAN with hundreds of simultaneous streams, and H.264 let me get away with Gb technology for the backbone. All that said, I *can* watch H.264 on linux by now. No audio yet, though. That's not the fault of ffmpeg; it's just that the encoding software on the mac uses some audio codec I can not get my hands on for linux - yet. Encoding H.264 on linux is a different bowl of fish. Last time I tried it, the result was - how should I put it? - bizarre. But then, it is, like James said, a work in progress. I had a ffmpeg snapshot from August, and it couldn't display it at all. Got a snapshot from November, and it did it beautifully - except for the audio. For now, I use macs for a commercial product. The moment things get right on linux, I'll drop macs and use linux boxes in newer deployments. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. ditto - very easy, very efficient John pgpdB8qaDSaQE.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: I can only agree on each single point. So encoding is rather expensive. Well, I have a solution for this. openmosix: http://openmosix.snarc.org/ http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ I'm just a little timid to jump in now, as I'm drowning with current obligations, promises, and a general lack of deliverables Encoding H.264 on linux is a different bowl of fish. Last time I tried it, the result was - how should I put it? - bizarre. But then, it is, like James said, a work in progress. I had a ffmpeg snapshot from August, and it couldn't display it at all. Got a snapshot from November, and it did it beautifully - except for the audio. For now, I use macs for a commercial product. The moment things get right on linux, I'll drop macs and use linux boxes in newer deployments. Amen bro! I owe you some code. I have not forgotten. I did just get my elphel 333 so it has captured my imagination and spare cpu_cycles at the moment. I use DSPs both commercial and homespun_dev_hardware to encode h.264. FPGA are on the near horizon. Andrey has built one hell of a camera, and I'd encourage anyone serious about video to purchase one of these *bad_boys*. He's my latest hero when it comes to video! He has open sourced the hardware and software, so I'll be noodling around with verilog(VHDL) now, as if I did not have enough things to eat away my time. http://www.elphel.com http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT335064.html James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg I just copy it to /usr/local/bin. Since /usr/local/bin/qpkg is not owned by gentoolkit, it won't be touched by portage. An update to gentoolkit will reinstall qpkg in the original location, but it will be the same version as qpkg is deprecated. ah! deprecated, and so young.. thx, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg
Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg ln -s /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg /usr/local/bin/qpkg Yes, I rather like this symlink approach. Answering your question about paths, the place to put it would be /root/.bashrc export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin Very kind of you to remind me via syntax on exporting the path. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] vacation, suspend emails
Does the mailing list have any feature like vacation or suspend for a shot period of time? While we are at it, is there a any feature in Evolution email like auto-reply to a certain group of people? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg
Francesco Riosa BastianBalthazarBux at pnpitalia.it writes: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Dude, (are old_farts allowed to use terms like dude?) with Gentoo, I do a lot of jumping. Granted, I have things working better than ever on computers, but, I 'jump' all day long just to keep my gentoo_boxen running smoothly. You do know that all computers are inherently asynchronous (female), don't you? It's a good thing I still play basketball with the kids, cause Gentoo has me jumping all over the place. Some days I jump so much, I end up exactly where I started from. Jumping can also be hazardous as one who has lots of electrical devices about thanks for the tip. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:56:30 -0600, Paul Varner wrote: My recomendation is to create a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin (which is in the default path) That doesn't work with gentoolkit-0.2.1*, because qpkg is now in /usr/share/doc/$PF/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg, so an upgrade of gentoolkit would break the link. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 005: Multitasking attempted - System confused signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:04 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in a particular category qpkg -I -g kde-base -- Neil Bothwick If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. I use rdiff-backup, which is ideal for backing up automatically to a hard drive. I run it from cron, hourly on critical directories, daily on the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. -- Neil Bothwick A day without sunshine is like night. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
Matthias Langer schreef: Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually not with Azureus, but with Java (that's what's slowing down, and further what is likely to be slowing down Firefox as well if it's running. Certainly I find that running both Firefox and Azureus together is the fast road to The System of Molasses). You might consider aliasing Java to run at a good niceness (in ~/.bashrc) alias java=nice -n 15 java so that when Azureus starts the (many, many) Java processes that it uses, they will be niced to something you can live with. What effect this will have on Firefox, I cannot say, however. Just an idea, hope it helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:12 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:04 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in a particular category qpkg -I -g kde-base Actually it does: qlist -I kde-base Will show all installed packages in kde-base Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthias Langer schreef: Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually not with Azureus, but with Java (that's what's slowing down, and further what is likely to be slowing down Firefox as well if it's running. Certainly I find that running both Firefox and Azureus together is the fast road to The System of Molasses). Hmm, i can't confirm this, bacause as long as azureus is not down/uploading heavily browsing is not really affected. But this may differ from java-vm to vm. I use sun-jdk-1.5.05 because i do same java programming stuff ... You might consider aliasing Java to run at a good niceness (in ~/.bashrc) alias java=nice -n 15 java so that when Azureus starts the (many, many) Java processes that it uses, they will be niced to something you can live with. What effect this will have on Firefox, I cannot say, however. Just an idea, hope it helps, Holly But thanks for your answer nevertheless, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: vacation, suspend emails
Joseph syscon at interbaun.com writes: Does the mailing list have any feature like vacation or suspend for a shot period of time? Take a look at Gmane, as it may be even better dealing with the numerous postings as a front end that straight email tools http://www.gmane.com/ James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg
Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: Actually it does: OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing Does this mean no (ebuild) contains theoraenc ? qpkg -i theoraencreturns emptytoo How do I know somenthing I'm looking for (like theoraenc) actually is or is not part of an ebuild or a family of ebuilds like 'media-video' ? suggestions? syntax using portage-utils? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Conflageration-Resolved
I successfully installed the kde base system and everything seems to be working ok. Now I think I should start over and do the whole thing again from scratch so I can learn more about the installation procedure. Thanks Will -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Thanks all for the answers until now; What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation. I have a storage working with samba, so my bakups will go to this samba server. I would like to make some diff bakups to save storage space :) thanks again all of you got interested on backups on large USB disks too ... On 12/15/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict
I installed kde3.5 which is great, but to do soI had to unmask some packages, including hal. So I have version 0.5.5.1 installed. Unfortunately I also have gnome-light installed, which requires hal-0.4 for gnome-vfs. Any ideas on how I might solve this conflict. I dont really need gnome, but it has been drawn in by OOffice and has several other dependencies that I use such as firefox. In addition this is despite having -gnome in my use flags. Help! TIA -- Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It leaves me only fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. -- A.E. Housman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vacation, suspend emails
Simply unsubscribe and then re-subscribe when you get back. On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:26:48 -0700 Joseph wrote: Does the mailing list have any feature like vacation or suspend for a shot period of time? While we are at it, is there a any feature in Evolution email like auto-reply to a certain group of people? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg
James wrote: Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: Actually it does: OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing qgrep theora is actually similar to grep theora $PORTDIR/*-*/*/*.ebuild I think what you are looking for is #qsearch theora media-libs/libtheora The Theora Video Compression Codec media-video/ffmpeg2theora A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files. also the * is expanded by bash to the list of the packages of the current directory (if not surrounded writen like * or prefixed like this \* ) so with grep theora * the result is to grep the ebuilds for theora and the content of the directory you are in ;) others will tell how to use qpkg I forgot it ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerging Net-SSLeay-1.25 for Webmin
I am trying to emerge Net-SSLeay-1.25 as a dependency for Webmin and it is failing. I tried searching for a solution with no success, and I can't make sense of where the error is coming from. Any ideas would be helpful. Here it is: emerge (1 of 3) dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25 to / md5 files ;-) Net-SSLeay-1.25.ebuild md5 files ;-) Net-SSLeay-1.23.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-Net-SSLeay-1.25 md5 files ;-) files/digest-Net-SSLeay-1.23 md5 src_uri ;-) Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/Net-SSLeay-1.25/work Source unpacked. * Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6j or 0.9.7b or newer... You have OpenSSL-0.9.7e installed in /usr *** Could not figure out which C compiler was used to compile /usr/bin/openssl. It is essentiall that OpenSSL, perl, and Net::SSLeay are compiled with the same compiler and flags. Mixing and matching compilers is not supported. at Makefile.PL line 140. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Net::SSLeay::Handle Writing Makefile for Net::SSLeay cp ptrtstrun.pl blib/lib/Net/ptrtstrun.pl cp SSLeay.pm blib/lib/Net/SSLeay.pm AutoSplitting blib/lib/Net/SSLeay.pm (blib/lib/auto/Net/SSLeay) blib/lib/Net/SSLeay.pm: some names are not unique when truncated to 8 characters: directory blib/lib/auto/Net/SSLeay: do_https3.al, do_https2.al, do_https4.al, do_https.al truncate to do_https do_httpx3.al, do_httpx2.al, do_httpx4.al truncate to do_httpx get_https.al, get_https3.al, get_https4.al, get_http.al, get_http3.al, get_http4.al, get_httpx.al, get_httpx3.al, get_httpx4.al truncate to get_http head_https.al, head_https3.al, head_https4.al, head_http.al, head_http3.al, head_http4.al, head_httpx.al, head_httpx3.al, head_httpx4.al truncate to head_htt post_https.al, post_https3.al, post_https4.al, post_http.al, post_http3.al, post_http4.al, post_httpx.al, post_httpx3.al, post_httpx4.al truncate to post_htt put_https.al, put_https3.al, put_https4.al, put_http.al, put_http3.al, put_http4.al, put_httpx.al, put_httpx3.al, put_httpx4.al truncate to put_http ssl_read_all.al, ssl_read_until.al, ssl_read_CRLF.al truncate to ssl_read ssl_write_all.al, ssl_write_CRLF.al truncate to ssl_writ tcp_read_all.al, tcp_read_until.al, tcp_read_CRLF.al truncate to tcp_read tcp_write_all.al, tcp_write_CRLF.al truncate to tcp_writ make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/Net-SSLeay-1.25/work/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25/Net-SSLeay-Handle-0.50' cp Handle.pm ../blib/lib/Net/SSLeay/Handle.pm Manifying ../blib/man3/Net::SSLeay::Handle.3pm make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/Net-SSLeay-1.25/work/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25/Net-SSLeay-Handle-0.50' /usr/bin/perl5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap SSLeay.xs SSLeay.xsc mv SSLeay.xsc SSLeay.c i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I/usr/include -I/usr/inc32 -I/usr/kerberos/include -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O -DVERSION=\1.25\ -DXS_VERSION=\1.25\ -fPIC -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux/CORE -DPERL5 -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 SSLeay.c cc1: /usr/local/include: Not a directory make: *** [SSLeay.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25 failed. !!! Function perl-module_src_compile, Line 120, Exitcode 2 !!! compilation failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict
On 12/15/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed kde3.5 which is great, but to do soI had to unmask some packages, including hal. So I have version 0.5.5.1 installed. Unfortunately I also have gnome-light installed, which requires hal-0.4 for gnome-vfs. Any ideas on how I might solve this conflict. I dont really need gnome, but it has been drawn in by OOffice and has several other dependencies that I use such as firefox. In addition this is despite having -gnome in my use flags. Help! Since you do not use gnome, you probably don't care whether gnome-vfs supports hal or not: echo gnome-base/gnome-vfs -hal /etc/portage/package.use -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] very strange nsswitch.ldap problem
I have been fighting with a system for a couple hours now to get it to work again and I finally did it. But I don't know why what was wrong keeps it from booting right. Here's what I have: I'm testing using Samba and LDAP as a PDC server. So I have a system that I configured with Samba, LDAP, pam_ldap, and nsswitch_ldap. I had it all configured and it was fine. However, after an update of the system, including upgrading to gcc-3.4, the system didn't boot right (if at all). It would sit forever, apparently trying to build /dev with udev. I found that eventually it would continue the boot sequence, but /dev was broken. Immediately I could see that /boot was not able to be mounted and the swap was not made active: the system couldn't access /dev/sdaX, there was no valid device there. Root was on sda3 and it was mounted, but I think grub set that up directly w/o the use of /dev. I traced the problem to the nsswitch.ldap that I put into place as nsswitch.conf. If I have: hosts: files dns the system boots just fine. If I have: hosts: files dns ldap the system cannot deal with the udev devices correctly. I have confirmed this by repeatedly making this change and unmaking it and the system was wonky when ldap was included and worked fine when ldap wasn't included. Is there a logical reason why this would be happening? I'll be happy to post any relevant info to my system if that would help in explaining the situation, but I'm not sure if any other settings come into play... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:26:47 -0600, Paul Varner wrote: Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in a particular category qpkg -I -g kde-base Actually it does: qlist -I kde-base Will show all installed packages in kde-base So it does, neat. That will teach me to only believe the man page, it makes no mention of this, only that it lists the contents of a package :( -- Neil Bothwick IRQs? We don't need no stinking IRQs! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:04:38 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... A fair point, although it does make keeping spare, off-site backups rather expensive :( rdiff-backup should be excellent with a USB hard disk, I may give it a go. -- Neil Bothwick Jimi Hendrix's modem was a Purple Hayes. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict [SOLVED]
On Friday 16 December 2005 10:24, Richard Fish wrote: Since you do not use gnome, you probably don't care whether gnome-vfs supports hal or not: echo gnome-base/gnome-vfs -hal /etc/portage/package.use -Richard Of course! :) Simple elegant fix. Thanks for your insight. -- [Lois' sister is in labor] Peter Griffin: It looks like Carol's blowing a bubble. Lois Griffin: That's the head. Carol, push. Push. Peter Griffin: I am. It won't go back in. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:08 +, James wrote:
OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc'
I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits,
I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing
Does this mean no (ebuild) contains theoraenc ?
qpkg -i theoraencreturns emptytoo
How do I know somenthing I'm looking for (like theoraenc)
actually is or is not part of an ebuild
or a family of ebuilds like 'media-video' ?
suggestions?
syntax using portage-utils?
There are no tools for searching for uninstalled files. Here is what I
did
1. emerge --search theora (if you don't like the slowness, then install and use
either esearch or eix)
Searching...
[ Results for search key : theora ]
[ Applications found : 3 ]
* media-libs/libtheora
Latest version available: 1.0_alpha3
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 851 kB
Homepage:http://www.theora.org/
Description: The Theora Video Compression Codec
License: xiph
* media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora
Latest version available: 0.8.10
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 2,341 kB
Homepage:http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins.html
Description: plugin for gstreamer
License: GPL-2
* media-video/ffmpeg2theora [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.15
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 194 kB
Homepage:http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
Description: A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files.
License: GPL-2
2. Based upon descriptions, it looks like libtheora is what I need
3. emerge -pv libtheora
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N] media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha3 851 kB
4. Looks okay, so run emerge -v libtheora
snip
Merging media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha5 to /
--- /usr/
--- /usr/lib/
/usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.2.0
/usr/lib/libtheora.so.0 - libtheora.so.0.2.0
/usr/lib/libtheora.so - libtheora.so.0.2.0
/usr/lib/libtheora.la
/usr/lib/libtheora.a
--- /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/theora.pc
--- /usr/include/
/usr/include/theora/
/usr/include/theora/theora.h
--- /usr/share/
--- /usr/share/doc/
/usr/share/doc/libtheora-1.0_alpha5/
/usr/share/doc/libtheora-1.0_alpha5/vp3-format.txt
/usr/share/doc/libtheora-1.0_alpha5/color.html
/usr/share/doc/libtheora-1.0_alpha5/doxygen-build.stamp
/usr/share/doc/libtheora-1.0_alpha5/README.gz
Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha5 merged.
Hmm, nothing installed into /usr/bin, just libraries
5. Goto http://www.theora.org/ listed as the homepage
6. Click on FAQ, followed by How can I encode videos to Theora?
7. Get the following answer:
Have a look at ogg-theora-microhowto and transcode quicktime mov files
to Theora files under Linux. You can use libogg, to wrap theora video
with vorbis audio in Ogg file.
A user-friendly way to convert .dv and .avi format video into Ogg Theora
format is with ffmpeg2theora. It can be found at:
http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
A way to both stream and encode theora format video is with videolan
(VLC).
Example for streaming the video4linux device in ogg theora/vorbis:
vlc v4l:/dev/video:input=3:norm=pal:size=384x288 --sout \
'#transcode{vcodec=theora,vb=300,acodec=vorb,ab=96}:std{access=http,mux=ogg,url=server.example.org:8000}'
Or, replace v4l:/dev/video:input=3:norm=pal:size=384x288 with a
filename if you want to transcode.
For more on the vlc syntax, see:
http://videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch09.html
9. So in order to encode theora files, I need to install ffmpeg2theora
and/or vlc. I saw ffmpeg2theora listed in the previous emerge --search,
but it was masked. Let's look at vlc
10. emerge --search vlc
Searching...
[ Results for search key : vlc ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-video/vlc
Latest version available: 0.8.1-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 4,765 kB
Homepage:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Description: VLC media player - Video player and streamer
License: GPL-2
11. emerge -pv vlc
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N] media-libs/gd-2.0.32 +X -fontconfig +jpeg +png -truetype 573 kB
[ebuild N] media-gfx/graphviz-1.16-r1 -tcltk 4,284 kB
[ebuild N] app-doc/doxygen-1.4.4 -doc -qt -tetex 2,787 kB
[ebuild N] media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.3 187 kB
[ebuild N] media-video/vlc-0.8.1-r1 -3dfx +X -a52 -aac -aalib +alsa
(-altivec) +arts -bidi -cdda -cddb -cdio -debug -dts -dvb -dvd +esd -fbcon
-ffmpeg -flac -freetype -ggi -gnutls +gtk2 -httpd -joystick -libcaca -lirc
-live -mad -matroska -mpeg -nls -ogg -opengl -oss -sdl +ssl -stream -svg -svga
-theora -unicode -v4l -vcd -vlm +vorbis -wxwindows -xosd -xv 4,765 kB
12. It's not
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes.Aside from speeding things up, what effect does increasing the block size have (does it in any way alter the resulting ISO?)? Just wondering... -Hani-- If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic.
[gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0 and 1, but I am more interested in raid 0+1 and 1+0. Thanks Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
On Thursday 15 December 2005 21:55, Doug Brown wrote: My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0 and 1, but I am more interested in raid 0+1 and 1+0. If the linux kernel supports it, gentoo supports it. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
Doug Brown wrote: My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0 and 1, but I am more interested in raid 0+1 and 1+0. Linux software raid is capable of doing all the usual stuff as well as RAID 0+1 or 1+0. I'd want a RAID 0 stripe of mirrored RAID 1 sets rather than mirroring two RAID 0 sets, but my requirements may not be yours. Assuming this is a small home system I'd go with RAID 5 with maybe a hot spare if I have more than four drives in a normal server setting where reads happen more often than writes. That's more space with comparable performance for anything you're likely to be doing. If you really need the performance spend the money on a real RAID card with local cache. The difference is night and day. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password?
I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go to the URL, it prompts for a user/password. What exactly is this user/pw it's looking for? The one stored in mysql.users? My actual account? Both in this case have no password set. I've used this program for years, and I've just installed it from their source tarballs. The ebuild seems to add this htaccess style protection (yet I see no .htaccess file) I have a VMWare that I use for webdev. I have no pw on root. (spare me the warnings please, this isn't a mission critical box, it's just a quick VM to get LAMP/Rails stuff coded in without a lot of fuss). I've tried from links2 on localhost (this VM has no X-windows/GUI). I also have tried via web browser on the host. I put 'root' and '' but it doesn't accept it. This is all stock phpmyadmin/mysql install thus far. Strangely however, I have installed this ebuild on the host machine (ie. My notebook) and that same user/pw combo does work (and yes, I have a pw on root's account, but not the mysql root one) -- but that was installed with an older phpmyadmin and upgraded over time. You had me at EHLO --E.Webb (10.04.05) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front
Just when I was thinking I might finally be getting a handle on using keywords and USE variable to control my install, I discover it really isn't as nifty as one might think. Here is my case: I grew tired of all the ins and outs of kde installation although I had a working one. I decided to scrap it all and start with just 3.5 stuff. Well you might think all that would be necessary is to keyword either: kde-base/kdebase ~x86 kde-base/kde-meta ~x86 kde-base/kde ~x86 Which you would think would allow a full install of kde-3.5 in one of those areas. But it will not. What happens is emerge runs into a whole long list of other kde packages that themselves must also be keyworded. but it only shows them one at a time. Telling user one package is masked and to read the manpages to proceed. Having keyworded that one trying to preceed finds another and another. etc. I'm not sure how many ... I gave up after just a few thinking it was really a tedious way to find what needs keywording. This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided to follow the suggestions, and not do it. So either you must cycle thru enough `emerge -v kde' to find all packages needing unmasking and do it in /etc/portage/package.keywords or maybe in /etc/make.conf with `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86'. The make.conf route also seems it might have far reaching implicaitons. And I suspect it would have some repercussions unthought of to just remove it after emerging kde. Like maybe any deps brought in would suddenly need to be replaced by the masked packages. So is there a more elegant solution than doggedly running emerge -v kde until all packages needing unmasking have been revealed and entered into /etc/portage/package.keywords? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
Success! Partially at least (skip to the bottom if you want to know how!) On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:02 +, James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: Space it not too much of an issue Disc space is a relative thing. It always get's filled up. Human nature. You will never have enough disk space for adults is like candy for children, never, ever enough. good point - same with memory, processor speed, etc. As soon as you have more, something more intensive comes out to use it... So, here are my questions: 1. whats the best format to use out of the ones listed, given Well you first have to realize that 'mpeg 4' is like saying I want a car. [snip] wow. After reading your post, I realise it's much more complicated that I first thought... Use H.264 until theora matures. Unfortunately, with the comments from you and Uwe, I don't think H.264 will be suitable. Firstly, I doubt my little low powered video device will decode it, secondly I doubt I can encode it properly on linux, as good as it sounds. I think I will be happy with something simpler, even though it may be a lower quality (that's the human subjective perception of the quality of course :) I guess it's like when people ask me for a recommendation on purchasing computers. They want to buy the cheap sub-$1000 all in one deals, and I say stay away, you're better off in the long run going for something more expensive, with a better quality, longer life, etc. However, sometimes they purchase their sub-$1000 PC's and they're perfectly happy, because they don't use it like I do, and they haven't had the experience with higher quality. HTH, absolutely! --- So, this is what I've come up with so far (for those following the thread). Simply: ffmpeg -i test.wmv -b 4000 -s 640x480 -an test.mp4 (It's the filename .mp4 that did it! note the -an produces no audio) $ file test.mp4 test.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 1 however: $ ls -alh test* -rw-r--r-- 1 iain users 8.5M 2005-12-16 09:18 test.mp4 -rw--- 1 iain users 1.8M 2005-12-15 21:51 test.wmv as you can see, thats ~4x the size of the original... and thats without sound. That's not so good... Well, I still have a bit to go, but at least I know I can put _something_ on the device! If anyone is interested, I can keep posting back here with my results. PS, can someone give me an example of how to encode divx with mencoder or ffmpeg? Or any program on linux for that matter? thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Mater artium necessitas. [Necessity is the mother of invention]. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration
I need help setting up my network's DNS configuration. I tried to
subscribe myself to the bind-user mailing list (using the address at the
bottom of the bind docs README file, but I saw this in the log:
Dec 15 17:51:15 bullet sm-mta[29432]: jBFNpCvf029430:
to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(1000/100), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=120297,
relay=mx.sth1.isc.org. [192.228.89.21], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for
180 seconds (see http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help)
I went to the website and the only useful information I could glean from
it was that my mail server might not be set up correctly. This
information doesn't help me as I'd be lying if I said I understood how
my mail server works. Intra/Extra-network mail comes in,
intra/extra-mail goes out; I can block spam with my /etc/mail/access
file; I don't mess with it (I'd probably mess it up.) Anyway, I set up
my BIND configuration using DNS and BIND, 4th Edition from O'Reilly.
I was following the examples in Chapter 4, substituting my domain for
the example one. However, when I use my new DNS server the only thing
that works correctly is digging 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. Every other query
gets me either NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL. Here's the /etc/hosts file I want
my DNS config based off of:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.4 catherine.espersunited.com catherine
192.168.1.3 camille.espersunited.com camille
192.168.1.2 bullet.espersunited.com bullet
Here's /etc/bind/named.conf:
options {
directory /etc/bind;
pid-file /var/run/named/named.pid;
};
zone espersunited.com in {
type master;
file db.espersunited.com;
};
zone 2.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. in {
type master;
file db.2.1.168.192;
};
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. in {
type master;
file db.127.0.0;
};
zone . in {
type hint;
file db.cache;
};
Here's /etc/bind/db.espersunited.com:
$TTL 3h
espersunited.com. IN SOA bullet.espersunited.com.
michael.bullet.espersunited.com. (
1;Serial
3h ;Refresh after 3 hours
1h ;Retry after one hour
1w ;Expire after one week
1h ) ;Negative caching TTL of 1 hour
;Name server(s)
espersunited.com. IN NS bullet.espersunited.com.
;Host addresses
localhost.espersunited.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
bullet.espersunited.com.IN A 192.168.1.2
camille.espersunited.com. IN A 192.168.1.3
catherine.espersunited.com. IN A 192.168.1.4
;Aliases
bullet.espersunited.com.IN CNAME bullet.espersunited.com.
camille.espersunited.com. IN CNAME camille.espersunited.com.
catherine.espersunited.com. IN CNAME catherine.espersunited.com.
Here's db.127.0.0:
$TTL 3h
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA bullet.espersunited.com.
michael.bullet.espersunited.com. (
1;Serial
3h ;Refresh after 3 hours
1h ;Retry after one hour
1w ;Expire after one week
1h ) ;Negative caching TTL of 1 hour
;Name servers
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS bullet.espersunited.com.
;Host addresses
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.
Here's db.db.2.1.168.192:
$TTL 3h
2.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA bullet.espersunited.com.
michael.bullet.espersunited.com. (
1;Serial
3h ;Refresh after 3 hours
1h ;Retry after one hour
1w ;Expire after one week
1h ) ;Negative caching TTL of 1 hour
;Name servers
2.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS bullet.espersunited.com.
;Host addresses
2.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR bullet.espersunited.com.
3.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR camille.espersunited.com.
4.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR catherine.espersunited.com.
;Aliases
bullet.espersunited.com.IN CNAME bullet.espersunited.com.
camille.espersunited.com. IN CNAME camille.espersunited.com.
catherine.espersunited.com. IN CNAME catherine.espersunited.com.
And finally, here's db.cache:
; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to
; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers
; (e.g. reference this file in the cache . file
; configuration file of BIND domain name servers).
;
; This file is made available by InterNIC
; under anonymous FTP as
; file/domain/named.root
; on server FTP.INTERNIC.NET
; -OR-RS.INTERNIC.NET
;
; last update:Jan 29, 2004
; related version of root zone: 2004012900
;
;
; formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET
;
.360 IN NSA.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 360 A 198.41.0.4
;
; formerly NS1.ISI.EDU
;
.360 NSB.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 360 A 192.228.79.201
;
; formerly C.PSI.NET
;
.360 NSC.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 360
Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password?
On Thursday 15 December 2005 05:24 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go to the URL, it prompts for a user/password. What exactly is this user/pw it's looking for? The one stored in mysql.users? My actual account? Both in this case have no password set. It's asking for the Mysql username/password root user. Recall that phpmyadmin is used to administer/administrate Mysql -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration
Michael Sullivan wrote: I need help setting up my network's DNS configuration. I tried to subscribe myself to the bind-user mailing list (using the address at the bottom of the bind docs README file, but I saw this in the log: Dec 15 17:51:15 bullet sm-mta[29432]: jBFNpCvf029430: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1000/100), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=120297, relay=mx.sth1.isc.org. [192.228.89.21], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 180 seconds (see http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help) This hasn't bounced, it's merely greylisted. It'll probably go through in the next 10 minutes or so. Once again I'll engage in some self promotion and point you to a very nice guide explaining exactly how to setup Bind on Gentoo. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_BIND However I'd guess that 2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. should be 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa in your zone. And put that serial in a normal format. And don't use that lame ass db.domain format. And you don't need to put the in-addr stuff in the reverse zone... Personally I'd wipe it and follow my guide, but it might be quicker to get up and running if you look at your logs which are going to be in /var/log/messages and not in nicely split up log files like my config. I'd also run a named-checkconf and see if it says anything interesting. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mone on the KEYWORD USE front
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but
after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided
to follow the suggestions, and not do it.
So either you must cycle thru enough `emerge -v kde' to find all
packages needing unmasking and do it in /etc/portage/package.keywords
or maybe in /etc/make.conf with `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86'.
What about
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p kde-meta
and then copy the whole list to /etc/portage/package.keywords?
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p kde-meta |
gawk '/\[ebuild/ {sub(/[^]]+\] /,);sub(/-[0-9].+$/, ~x86);print}'
Michael
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front
On 12/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you might think all that would be necessary is to keyword either: kde-base/kdebase ~x86 kde-base/kde-meta ~x86 kde-base/kde ~x86 Nope, you have to keyword-accept the dependancies also... What happens is emerge runs into a whole long list of other kde packages that themselves must also be keyworded. but it only shows them one at a time. Telling user one package is masked and to read the manpages to proceed. Having keyworded that one trying to preceed finds another and another. etc. Try: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv kde-meta The above should tell you all dependant packages that you will need to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords. This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided to follow the suggestions, and not do it. You don't want to use it without the --pretend option. There is no problem at all with specifying environment variables on the command line just to investigate their effects though. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? [solved]
Hmm. Well I thought I had done this, but issuing this command again seemed to have fixed it: mysql -u root -p /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/2.7.0_p1/sqlscripts/mysql/2.7.0_p1_create.sql The problem now is that all the images are broken and no CSS is being applied if I try to connect from a remote IP. I fixed that by setting config.default.php to: #$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://localhost//phpmyadmin'; $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; Not quite sure why that is set by default when it works better without it... You had me at EHLO --E.Webb (10.04.05) -Original Message- From: Qv6 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? On Thursday 15 December 2005 05:24 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go to the URL, it prompts for a user/password. What exactly is this user/pw it's looking for? The one stored in mysql.users? My actual account? Both in this case have no password set. It's asking for the Mysql username/password root user. Recall that phpmyadmin is used to administer/administrate Mysql -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recommended MySQL frontends
Thank y'all. Tried phpMyAdmin and it worked like a charm! Back to rails... Thanks again, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
kashani wrote: Doug Brown wrote: My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0 and 1, but I am more interested in raid 0+1 and 1+0. Linux software raid is capable of doing all the usual stuff as well as RAID 0+1 or 1+0. I'd want a RAID 0 stripe of mirrored RAID 1 sets rather than mirroring two RAID 0 sets, but my requirements may not be yours. Assuming this is a small home system I'd go with RAID 5 with maybe a hot spare if I have more than four drives in a normal server setting where reads happen more often than writes. That's more space with comparable performance for anything you're likely to be doing. If you really need the performance spend the money on a real RAID card with local cache. The difference is night and day. kashani RAID 5 support in Linux is good. I have been using RAID-5 for my home fileserver (4x40GB IDE disks) and it has worked flawlessly, and has been a lifesaver when one of my drives failed. I have a page devoted to setting up RAID on linux quickly (gentoo and debian) , you can find it at http://ziva-vatra.dnsalias.com/~ognen/ under Software RAID5 Project. And if you want more info look at the RAID Overview Section. Linux kernel 2.6 has added support for new RAID levels (including RAID6) but some people are saying that other RAID Implementations (such as RAID-5) have better performance on the 2.4 kernels. I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I have to say it does do the job well, and I have no issues using it both in my home server and in Commercial implementations (have used RAID-5 and RAID-1 software with 5 SCSI drives on a dual PIII Gentoo LTSP server, it worked well, but there were issues regarding the SCSI hardware (like no hotplug support for the disks) ). Google about, and look at the gentoo-wiki site. Essentially it depends on what you are looking from your RAID setup. For me it was re-using componets I already had and price (it cost me a total of £8 to build my RAID Setup). Performance was not an issue because my two 10mbit networks (one wireless @ 11mbit) were unlikely to push the RAID performance to its limits. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
On 12/15/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming this is a small home system I'd go with RAID 5 with maybe a hot spare if I have more than four drives in a normal server setting where reads happen more often than writes. That's more space with comparable performance for anything you're likely to be doing. I would say the choice between RAID 5 and RAID 0+1 would be based upon what you are doing. Assuming a 4-disk array, RAID5 will require 2 reads and 2 writes for writing a single block of data, while the RAID0+1 array would only require 2 writes. Read performance with RAID5 should be at least 75% of the RAID0+1 setup, possibly equal depending upon the bandwidth of the PCIe bus. So if you are doing something like video streaming, RAID0+1 would be a better choice. Web browsing, email, compiling, and typical desktop use would be well suited to RAID5. Also, consider that you can mix-and-match RAID levels with different partitions. You can create a 4-partition RAID0 array for swap, a 4-partition RAID0+1 array for filesystems that experience a lot of writes (/var, /tmp, and maybe /usr/src, for example), and a 4-partition RAID5 setup for /root, /home, et al. If a disk fails, your system would likely crash (due to the swap device), but would reboot in a degraded mode (no swap, slow performance, etc). I wouldn't overdo the complexity here, but the above becomes quite a bit easier to manage if you combine RAID with LVM or EVMS to manage your filesystems. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking hardware here, we mean real hardware RAID...made by companies like 3-ware. The 'hardware' RAID in the NForce4 chipset (like just about all MB chips, and a lot of the cheap add-in cards) is just a BIOS helper...all of the actual RAID functions are expected to be implemented by the driver running on the CPU. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front
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[gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools
How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? How can I keep my own http traffic private? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Istanbul - missing theoraenc
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:57 +, James wrote: Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. libtheora may contain the theora encoder you are looking for: Already tried that. No dice either otherwise, all I found was code, no ready to install package. Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:12:32 up 1 day, 18:49, 5 users, load average: 1.05, 1.29, 1.54 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5
Iain Buchanan wrote: Success! Partially at least (skip to the bottom if you want to know how!) On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:02 +, James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: Space it not too much of an issue Disc space is a relative thing. It always get's filled up. Human nature. You will never have enough disk space for adults is like candy for children, never, ever enough. good point - same with memory, processor speed, etc. As soon as you have more, something more intensive comes out to use it... So, here are my questions: 1. whats the best format to use out of the ones listed, given Well you first have to realize that 'mpeg 4' is like saying I want a car. [snip] wow. After reading your post, I realise it's much more complicated that I first thought... Use H.264 until theora matures. Unfortunately, with the comments from you and Uwe, I don't think H.264 will be suitable. Firstly, I doubt my little low powered video device will decode it, secondly I doubt I can encode it properly on linux, as good as it sounds. I think I will be happy with something simpler, even though it may be a lower quality (that's the human subjective perception of the quality of course :) I guess it's like when people ask me for a recommendation on purchasing computers. They want to buy the cheap sub-$1000 all in one deals, and I say stay away, you're better off in the long run going for something more expensive, with a better quality, longer life, etc. However, sometimes they purchase their sub-$1000 PC's and they're perfectly happy, because they don't use it like I do, and they haven't had the experience with higher quality. HTH, absolutely! --- So, this is what I've come up with so far (for those following the thread). Simply: ffmpeg -i test.wmv -b 4000 -s 640x480 -an test.mp4 (It's the filename .mp4 that did it! note the -an produces no audio) $ file test.mp4 test.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 1 however: $ ls -alh test* -rw-r--r-- 1 iain users 8.5M 2005-12-16 09:18 test.mp4 -rw--- 1 iain users 1.8M 2005-12-15 21:51 test.wmv as you can see, thats ~4x the size of the original... and thats without sound. That's not so good... Well, I still have a bit to go, but at least I know I can put _something_ on the device! If anyone is interested, I can keep posting back here with my results. PS, can someone give me an example of how to encode divx with mencoder or ffmpeg? Or any program on linux for that matter? thanks! On My site I wrote about DVD 2-Pass encoding to xvid (hope its close enough to divx for you, you can do divx as well, but I am not sure how) , Basically this command provides xvid encoding: /mencoder dvd://1 -sws 2 -nosound -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=580 -o ./video.avi I presume you probably will need to state the input file rather then dvd://1 / -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking hardware here, we mean real hardware RAID...made by companies like 3-ware. The 'hardware' RAID in the NForce4 chipset (like just about all MB chips, and a lot of the cheap add-in cards) is just a BIOS helper...all of the actual RAID functions are expected to be implemented by the driver running on the CPU. Don't you hate how the hardware and mobo manufacturers have muddied the hardware RAID waters by marketing this sort of thing has hardware RAID (or at least implying it) ? Another thing to check out, seeing that he has a mobo with built in ghetto-RAID (TM), is dmraid. This is a device mapper implementation of RAID which makes use of various fake hardware RAID metadata to support them under Linux. Someone's also done up a Gentoo LiveCD with dmraid support on it too (who knows, perhaps the latest liveCDs have it also). The only advantage of using this I can see is the ability to to make use of the BIOS RAID helpers to create and manage your arrays, and deal with the inherent boot time issues. I'm not sure about the stability or reliability of this though, as I havn't used it, and the readme doesn't really give me courage :-). Anyone using this successfuly ? It seems interesting. I just put together a little home server which uses both Linux RAID (md) and LVM2 on an old Abit KG7-RAID motherboard. Even though it has a built in Highpoint HPT37X "RAID chip" (a ghetto-RAID BIOS helper), I decided to go with good old "md". I've tested it by pulling power on drives, and it even boots up when the 'primary' drive doesn't exist (boot blocks on both mirrored drives of course). Seems to work very well. I have /boot mirrored (md0), and root and swap on LVM2 partitions which live on another mirrored partition (md1). For any wanting to do similar, you just need to set up GRUB on both drives, and make sure your have initramfs support for starting up md and LVM2. Generkernel will produce a kernel with this if you compile the md drivers into the kernel, and include --lvm2 in the genkernel flags. Make sure you include "dovlm2" and lvmraid=/dev/mdX lines for each of of your RAID devices on the boot line, which tells the linuxrc scripts to start up your RAID devices in the initramfs so it can mount your LVM2 root partition. - Jim -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thursday 15 December 2005 03:49 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. Is that just the first time you run a portage command? I see the same on my AMD64, it can take up to 30 seconds to run emerge --info, but only around a second to run it again. It's clearly something to do with loading the various Python libraries, classes or modules, but I haven't been able to pin down why it takes so long. Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump How can I keep my own http traffic private? Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the server, unless there's some hub between you can them. You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've never used it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:45 am, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/14/05, Justin Krejci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. What I mean by that is for example You can try something like: strace -tt -f -o /tmp/strace.out emerge -s tcpdump Then look at /tmp/strace.out and see what kind of system call is being made that is taking so long to complete. -Richard Well I ran it once then ran it again to a different output file and the two files are the same length and doing a cursory glance thru the files they both seem fairly similar. When I have some time, ill check the files more closesly in particular the timestamps. Thanks for the idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would dd of the /boot partition transfer the whole thing?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:40:31 up 1 day, 20:17, 5 users, load average: 0.28, 0.36, 0.45 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to specify a port to vncviewer (i used vncviewer under windows) and want to connect to my pc at home but not on port 5900. vncviewer will automatically add 5900 to your port number, for example (replace myserver.com with your server address) $ vncviewer myserver.com:0 will connect on port 5900 $ vncviewer myserver.com:1 will connect on port 5901 if you want to explicitly specify the port number try this $ vncviewer myserver.com::5900 notice there are two colon characters :: in this example -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:17 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. How can I keep my own http traffic private? Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the server, unless there's some hub between you can them. You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've never used it. You can only use https on servers that support it. The question is too vague to answer without specifying from who do you want to keep the data private? Just people on your local network? Your ISP? Your boss? The http servers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools
How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. The network is just run from a router. No server on which I can run that stuff. Is there anything I can use from my workstation which is connected to the network? How can I keep my own http traffic private? Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the server, unless there's some hub between you can them. You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've never used it. You can only use https on servers that support it. The question is too vague to answer without specifying from who do you want to keep the data private? Just people on your local network? Your ISP? Your boss? The http servers? I'm only trying to keep the data private from the other people on the local network. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would dd of the /boot partition transfer the whole thing?? The boot process for a CD is very very different than from a hard drive. Basically the BIOS has to pretend that the CD drive is actually a floppy, or a hard drive, for implementing the BIOS calls used by the boot loader. Doing a dd of a boot partition and writing that to a CD would not work. There are several different software packages that can make bootable CDs, including GRUB. Ok, it isn't really GRUB that makes the CD bootable, but mkisofs. To use GRUB, you have to make a /boot/grub directory in your CD tree, and copy the stage2_eltorito file into that directory along with grub.conf/menu.lst. Then when you run mkisofs, you add the options: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Someone who uses a GUI for CD burning will have to comment on how to do this without the command line! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Thanks. Wonderful info. /me just bought a DVD writer. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:11:02 up 1 day, 22:47, 6 users, load average: 0.09, 0.17, 0.35 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On 12/15/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bootable, but mkisofs. To use GRUB, you have to make a /boot/grub directory in your CD tree, and copy the stage2_eltorito file into that directory along with grub.conf/menu.lst. Oh, I forgot one thing. Instead of (hdX,X) in grub.conf, you use (cd). For example: title 2.6 kernel (cd)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 root=/dev/hdc Of course, your kernel must have support for your CD-ROM drive and the iso9660 filesystem built in... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Two boots?
My dual opteron box runs gentoo nicely. However, it ALWAYS takes two boot cycles to boot up. Is there some issue I might need to know about? Is this one boot per cpu? Thanks for any ideas, Alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? [solved]
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:00:02PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: Hmm. Well I thought I had done this, but issuing this command again seemed to have fixed it: mysql -u root -p /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/2.7.0_p1/sqlscripts/mysql/2.7.0_p1_create.sql The problem now is that all the images are broken and no CSS is being applied if I try to connect from a remote IP. I fixed that by setting config.default.php to: #$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://localhost//phpmyadmin'; $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; Not quite sure why that is set by default when it works better without it... I believe the correct setting would be something like $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://YOUR_IP_OR_HOSTNAME/phpmyadmin'; David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos
On 15 December 2005 23:56, Hani Duwaik wrote: On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. Aside from speeding things up, what effect does increasing the block size have (does it in any way alter the resulting ISO?)? Nope. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
