Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy: On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:15, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Big thanks Dirk It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't know. That's a pitty. It's a big problem for me when I write data to flash disk and I need to flush data frequently. Hmm, why is this a problem? As long as you always umount before pulling the USB stick your data will be save. You may also try to sync manually. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Oops I forgot the nsplugin. Is this the correct way to prevent nsplugin from being used for blackdown? echo dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask No. /etc/make.profile is a softlink into the portage tree. What ever you change there will be overwritten when you sync the tree next time. The correct file is /etc/portage/package.use and the entry should be dev-java/blackdown-jdk -nsplugin And, this is only needed when you use this package. As long as it's not installed on your system, you don't even need to worry. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? Put tk in your USE line in make.conf and then re-emerge python. [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4 USE=berkdb doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl tk -bootstrap -build -examples -nocxx -nothreads -ucs2 Note, you may have to re-emerge Scribus, not real sure on that one. You could always try it first I guess and if it doesn't work, re-emerge it then. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another package before. Time to fill a bug! Regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd
On Sunday 22 July 2007 15:20, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hmm, why is this a problem? As long as you always umount before pulling the USB stick your data will be save. You may also try to sync manually. In fact it is an advantage, because apparently the sync option causes unnecessary extra writes to the flash which reduces its lifespan. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?
I'm looking for a new notebook (to run Gentoo of course). I don't want the latest nor the best (too expensive), but it needs to have Core 2 Duo. Are there any particular manufacturers/models where it just works in terms of driver support? 2 items that I would like for it to just work with the minimum of fuss are the wlan and the hibernation. So anything I should look out for or avoid, to make installing Gentoo as painless as possible? tia -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?
On Sunday 22 July 2007, Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?': I'm looking for a new notebook (to run Gentoo of course). I don't want the latest nor the best (too expensive), but it needs to have Core 2 Duo. Are there any particular manufacturers/models where it just works in terms of driver support? 2 items that I would like for it to just work with the minimum of fuss are the wlan and the hibernation. So anything I should look out for or avoid, to make installing Gentoo as painless as possible? I've had very good luck with my dellbuntu system. System 76 also goes out of the way to make sure their hardware is linux friendly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
Selon Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? Put tk in your USE line in make.conf and then re-emerge python. Bingo ! that does it. Thanks, -- ~adj~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
Hi guys, A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I tested me theory my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega external hard drive, which was attached to my desktop. I attached the drive to my laptop and I can play and hear my music files just fine. I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then recompile the kernel. Before I get myself in a pickle in an area where I have no experience, I thought I'd ask the list for thoughts/opinions/advice. Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Scribus and plays with it. Some of its scrips need tkinter to execute. Tkinter seems ignored by portage. Quite surprising. Is there a gentoo way to install it ? Put tk in your USE line in make.conf and then re-emerge python. Bingo ! that does it. Thanks, -- ~adj~ Glad to have helped. This is something I have ran into before. From another reply: It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another package before. Time to fill a bug! Regards, Daniel Same here. Do you plan to file this bug? I don't have the error, I suspect you don't either and I would imagine the OP doesn't either now that it is working. It does need to be fixed though. Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another package before. Time to fill a bug! Regards, Daniel Same here. Do you plan to file this bug? I don't have the error, I suspect you don't either and I would imagine the OP doesn't either now that it is working. It does need to be fixed though. Dale :-) :-) :-) This only affects users who don`t have the tk use flag set for python and want to use the scribus font sampler script. As such things should automatically treated by portage, there should be filed a bug. I don't use scribus myself, but i can file the bug. I don`t think it is a big thing to fix, just introduce the tk use flag in the ebuild and and add a check whether python is built with the tk use flag. There are also other things in the ebuild which i think they should be fixed. I will report here when the bug is ready. Regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: It is ignored by portage as the scribus ebuild has no tk use flag which should probably implemented. With this use flag portage will complain about missing tkinter and advises you to reinstall python with tkinter support. I had this kind of problem with another package before. Time to fill a bug! Regards, Daniel Same here. Do you plan to file this bug? I don't have the error, I suspect you don't either and I would imagine the OP doesn't either now that it is working. It does need to be fixed though. Dale :-) :-) :-) This only affects users who don`t have the tk use flag set for python and want to use the scribus font sampler script. As such things should automatically treated by portage, there should be filed a bug. I don't use scribus myself, but i can file the bug. I don`t think it is a big thing to fix, just introduce the tk use flag in the ebuild and and add a check whether python is built with the tk use flag. There are also other things in the ebuild which i think they should be fixed. I will report here when the bug is ready. Regards, Daniel It doesn't matter to me who files the bug. I just think it needs to be filed so that it can be fixed before it causes more trouble and is harder to fix. I just didn't want to search, then file one, us both file it at about the same time and end up with a duplicate bug. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
It doesn't matter to me who files the bug. I just think it needs to be filed so that it can be fixed before it causes more trouble and is harder to fix. I just didn't want to search, then file one, us both file it at about the same time and end up with a duplicate bug. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-) I have reported it already! Take a look here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186255 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
zd1211rw(Was:Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle giovedì 12 luglio 2007, Sergey A. Kobzar ha scritto: Hi Luigi, I had problem with 2.6.21 kernel on VMware Virtual Machine. I does not detect virtual controller appropriately. Downgrading to 2.6.20 helped me. Maybe it will help you too? ;) -- Sergey Ok, after some trials I booted with a new working 2.6.18 kernel. I update now to a 2.6.22 kernel but, since my upgrade I have a no stable wireless connection. I explain better. The main goal of a new kernel was to update the Zydas USB Wireless drivers. This card used the zd1211b module now rewrote into kernel since 2.6.18 with the new zd1211rw module. Now I have some problems... First the connection is a 22 Mbits vs. 54 Mbits from card. Second, if I start to download a file (like a new kernel) the connection works for few seconds and after it failed. The only message by dmesg sometime before is: SoftMAC: wx_set_mlme: we should know the net here... SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:15:0c:24:bd:22 SoftMAC: wx_set_mlme: we should know the net here... SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:15:0c:24:bd:22 zd1211rw 5-5:1.0: zd_chip_control_leds error -110 zd1211rw 5-5:1.0: zd_chip_control_leds error -110 but the connection works until until a ftp connection. How can I solve it? I should use this computer has Samba server... I need a stable connection. Thanks in advance, Luigi - -- Public key GPG(0xC5CB65CD) on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGo6jb5ZpKrsXLZc0RAgXmAJ9dna1h1bd/1779MjZA0DVNrZilXQCgoePb LWO0a21WJzlzRUi6wqmNQhI= =NoN0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server
I have not been lucky! I still can not get to command-line-mode stooping X-server. lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI-X Root Port 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/ Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/ Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/ Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/ Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] (Secondary) 02:00.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03) 02:01.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) xorg.conf Section Device Identifier aticonfig-Device[0] Driver fglrx BusID PCI:01:00:0 Screen 0 EndSection /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name glesx.so (WW) fglrx(0): Option VendorName is not used (WW) fglrx(0): Option ModelName is not used fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X700 PRO OpenGL version string: 2.0.6474 (8.38.6) lshw *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0 module=fglrx Under Device section in your xorg.conf add the BusID number for your video device as shown in e.g. I am using the radeon driver and radeon frame buffer so I get: dmesg: radeonfb (:01:00.0): ATI Radeon LY lspci -v: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) lshw: bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01:00.0 and in my xorg.conf I have: BusID PCI:1:0:0 I think xdm logging is switched on by default. No, I could not find, and I do not where to switch it on Also check under your /var/log for any fglrx logs - haven't used this driver for years and don't know what it does these days. Well, it seems their is no other driver for my Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE). Regards, Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?
On Sunday 22 July 2007 22:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've had very good luck with my dellbuntu system. Which model is this? Presumably it is a standard model but with Ubuntu pre-installed instead some wannabe OS. According to this: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx machines with Linux are only available in the US at the moment. Searching my local Dell site for linux only gives me the above link. System 76 also goes out of the way to make sure their hardware is linux friendly. Sorry I should've mentioned, as I'm not based in the US, only internationally available manufacturers/models would be useful :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tkinter, where ?
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: It doesn't matter to me who files the bug. I just think it needs to be filed so that it can be fixed before it causes more trouble and is harder to fix. I just didn't want to search, then file one, us both file it at about the same time and end up with a duplicate bug. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-) I have reported it already! Take a look here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186255 Thanks much. Looks like something else got fixed too. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
1)if you mean that you have no experince with kernel configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;) 2)generally,you should enable dma for dvd/cd drives and hard disks...you can check the howto at gentoo-wiki...and especially the section about dma: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance#DMA_mode_-d 3)can you give the url of the blog? hope that i helped... O/H Colleen Beamer έγραψε: Hi guys, A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I tested me theory my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega external hard drive, which was attached to my desktop. I attached the drive to my laptop and I can play and hear my music files just fine. I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then recompile the kernel. Before I get myself in a pickle in an area where I have no experience, I thought I'd ask the list for thoughts/opinions/advice. Regards, Colleen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:16:53 +0300, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't know. That's a pitty. It's a big problem for me when I write data to flash disk and I need to flush data frequently. Which will destroy your flash device in as little as a couple of months (voice of experience here), and it probably the reason the option was removed. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as the Death Star exploded around him. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?
I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of it. This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: LOG: preinst /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required key Name not found -- required key Type not found Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] einit?
Anyone here using einit? I've a small problem. I can set a static ip address, no problems. But how and where do you establish the route to a gateway? I've googled to the wee hours and still haven't figured it out. I'm running einit from the layman overlay. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!
Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs all over the place. Does anyone know why the serial port would be interpreted as a mouse input? How do I correct this? Any hints, pointers greatly appreciated. TNX -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!
Ted Ozolins ha scritto: Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs all over the place. Does anyone know why the serial port would be interpreted as a mouse input? How do I correct this? Any hints, pointers greatly appreciated. Once upon a time, serial mice were quite common. Why is your GPS automagically recognized as a mouse, it's another story... m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of it. This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: LOG: preinst /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required key Name not found -- required key Type not found Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? FDO .desktop files should have Type and Name keys, e.g: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=Xephyr -screen 1024x768 -query flea -once :2 Name[en_US]=flea Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png Name=flea Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png So looks like whatever is installing/manipulating the .desktop file is not seeing those keys. Why is it allowed to occur? I suppose it's not allowed and that's why the program is complaining. What are you expected to do? Likely you'd search/create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. Could either be a problem with the .ebuild or ustream. I'm guessing the latter. How would you know that? Not sure what that is. Users aren't expected to know everything (neither are developers in fact). When in doubt, do as you did and ask. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:43:57 am Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of it. This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: LOG: preinst /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required key Name not found -- required key Type not found Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? FDO .desktop files should have Type and Name keys, e.g: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=Xephyr -screen 1024x768 -query flea -once :2 Name[en_US]=flea Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png Name=flea Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png So looks like whatever is installing/manipulating the .desktop file is not seeing those keys. Why is it allowed to occur? I suppose it's not allowed and that's why the program is complaining. What are you expected to do? Likely you'd search/create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. Could either be a problem with the .ebuild or ustream. I'm guessing the latter. How would you know that? Not sure what that is. Users aren't expected to know everything (neither are developers in fact). When in doubt, do as you did and ask. As a quick fix, here is what a healthy panel_appearance.desktop file looks like: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Hidden=true Name=panel_appearance Type=Application Run 'desktop-file-validate /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop', after editing and saving to check that it is now valid. Cheers, Rick PS Have only just yesterday subscribed to this mailing list (only taken me 4 years), so HI! to all you Gentoo-ites :D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!
On 22 Jul 2007, at 22:42, Ted Ozolins wrote: Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs all over the place. Does anyone know why the serial port would be interpreted as a mouse input? How do I correct this? Any hints, pointers greatly appreciated. I assume you're using X11 KDE or Gnome or something like this. What does your xorg.conf say, please? I'm thinking specifically of the mouse section, but you might as well post the lot to be sure. Also, is anything written to /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog when you plug the GPS in? Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: 1)if you mean that you have no experince with kernel configuration/complation,i suggest tha you try it...it's very useful to know how to properly conifgure your kernel ;) I've built the kernel many times using 'genkernel --menuconfig all'. I meant that the blog I read said to go in and edit the kernel header file and place a certain line of text into it related to DMA 2)generally,you should enable dma for dvd/cd drives and hard disks...you can check the howto at gentoo-wiki...and especially the section about dma: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance#DMA_mode_-da I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled into it. It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or without DMA compiled into the kernel, there is still no sound when trying to play an audio CD. 3)can you give the url of the blog? As requested, the blog address is: http://krosswindz.blogspot.com/2005/10/gentoo-linux-on-dell-inspiron-9300.html Regards, Colleen hope that i helped... O/H Colleen Beamer έγραψε: Hi guys, A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I tested me theory my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega external hard drive, which was attached to my desktop. I attached the drive to my laptop and I can play and hear my music files just fine. I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then recompile the kernel. Before I get myself in a pickle in an area where I have no experience, I thought I'd ask the list for thoughts/opinions/advice. Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:56 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled into it. It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or without DMA compiled into the kernel, there is still no sound when trying to play an audio CD. Are you sure that the CD track is unmuted (look in alsamixer or similar)? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:11:18 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then recompile the kernel. I would first the obvious: your laptop might not have an audio cable attached to the audio output of your drive, or the drive might not have such output at all, or maybe your mother board has not an audiocd/aux audio input port. Try any audio program that can do digital audio extraction. Xmms can do that, I can't think of any other, maybe kscd has it, but you might need to enable it manually on its config. I don't really know. If that works, we found the problem. DMA problems are usually related to the performance of the drive, and the amount of cpu cycles the bus sucks to do any job (with DMA mastering the bus can work unattended, making your cpu happy and your battery even happier), but, unless the performance is so so so bad, this is not usually a problem to play an audiocd (they can be player in 1x drives, I swear cause I had one years ago, and there were no UDMA by that time). -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!
Stroller wrote: I assume you're using X11 KDE or Gnome or something like this. What does your xorg.conf say, please? I'm thinking specifically of the mouse section, but you might as well post the lot to be sure. Also, is anything written to /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog when you plug the GPS in? Stroller. Thanks Stroller, xorg.conf was the culprit. There was a section for serial mouse, removing that solved the prob. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] ufed and USE flags
I used ufed to edit USE flags with the result:
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # cat /etc/make.conf
## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE MAKE.CONF ON THE LIVECD ##
## PLEASE EDIT /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf INSTEAD ##
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
#CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe
CFLAGS=-march=i686 -O2 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
# This should not be changed unless you know exactly what you are doing. You
# should probably be using a different stage, instead.
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=
MAKEOPTS=
USE=7zip msn
FEATURES=
CONFIG_PROTECT=-*
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # date
Mon Jul 23 02:54:56 UTC 2007
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #
I decided to try ufed per http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_USE_Flags,
however was mystified that neither /etc/portage/package.use nor
/etc/portage/package.keywords were changed.
Shouldn't changes be made to files in /etc/portagae, preferably?
thanks,
Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag
At Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:27:09 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: echo dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask No. /etc/make.profile is a softlink into the portage tree. What ever you change there will be overwritten when you sync the tree next time. The correct file is /etc/portage/package.use and the entry should be dev-java/blackdown-jdk -nsplugin And, this is only needed when you use this package. As long as it's not installed on your system, you don't even need to worry. Thank you. I was fooled by man portage, but I should have know better. That is, I knew full well, but forgot, that /usr/profile is temporary and that user changes should be make in /etc/portage. Should I file a bug with proposed extra words for the beginning of the portage man page? thanks again, allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Need to add gd and mysql to PHP.
Hi all, I'm needing to update php to include both the gd and mysql extensions. I believe I have both packages installed. I emerged php with both extensions in my USE flag. === emerge -upDe --verbose php [ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-4.4.7 USE=apache2 berkdb cli crypt gd gdbm iconv imap ipv6 mysql ncurses nls pcre posix postgres readline session snmp sqlite ssl unicode xml zlib -adabas -bcmath -birdstep -bzip2 -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype -curl -db2 -dbase -dbmaker -dbx -debug -discard-path -doc -empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -expat -fastbuild -fdftk -filepro -firebird -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -ftp -gd-external -gmp -hyperwave-api -informix -inifile -interbase -iodbc -java-external -java-internal -kerberos -ldap -libedit -mcal -mcve -memlimit -mhash -ming -mnogosearch -msql -mssql -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -oracle7 -overload -pcntl -pfpro -pic -recode -sapdb -sharedext -sharedmem -sockets -solid -spell -suhosin -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc -threads -tokenizer -truetype -wddx -xmlrpc -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip 0 kB === How do I get these to be recognized by php applications? TIA, -- Mike Diehl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:11:18 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then recompile the kernel. I would first the obvious: your laptop might not have an audio cable attached to the audio output of your drive, or the drive might not have such output at all, or maybe your mother board has not an audiocd/aux audio input port. Try any audio program that can do digital audio extraction. Xmms can do that, I can't think of any other, maybe kscd has it, but you might need to enable it manually on its config. I don't really know. If that works, we found the problem. Well, in response to this, I ripped a track from a CD using kaudiocreator. The track ripped, encoded and played fine from the hard drive. I'm sure there isn't a problem with the audio cable not being connected. The laptop is a Dell and it is pretested before leaving the factory. The thing is, the laptop came with Windows Vista on it. Windows Vista got booted the first time that I turned the laptop on to the point where I got the setup screen that you get the first time. This was only because I wasn't quick enough hitting the F2 button to get into the BIOS. I never set Vista up, I installed Gentoo and the laptop does not dual boot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
