Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... Doesn't the Moonlight Firefox add-on work? What I've read is that moonlight doesn't handle the Netflix DRM issues. Does anyone know differently? I'm still using a Window VM to watch Netflix. - Mark I use Firefox and the download manager. I just download the video and watch it with (s)(k)(m)player locally. That also gives me the option of saving them locally and not having to download them again if I want to watch them more than once. I'm sure ATT likes that part. So far, I have not had much trouble with doing it this way. Other than the video being lost when changing tabs. Well, I did have on download that failed and only go the first part of the video. I think my DSL modem did its reset thingy. It does that once a day. Dale :-) :-) Where are you finding links on Netflix pages that allows you to start a movie download? I'm not finding that at all using Firefox. Are you digging into page source or something? - Mark Pretty sure he wasn't referring to netflix. AFAIK no-one has cracked the DRM on silverlight streams yet, and microsoft has no plans to update moonlight. Ironic that the excuse is pirates! -- their restrictive policy has me downloading things I wouldn't bother with otherwise, so I suspect the effect is the opposite of what they intend. Whoever thought, if it's not available they'll just have to do without was truly not very bright. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote Ah ... mine have more. F4 in alsamixer brings up all these Capture devices: Front Mic 6767 Mic6767 Capture8080 Capture8080 Digital6161 Digital Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the front left of the keyboard. Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I like it. My card shows up in lspci -v as... 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at d040 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel alsamixer shows... Card: HDA ATI SB Chip: Realtek ALC272X One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a parameter. Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and I'm an absolute newbie on alsa-driver. alsa-driver is keyworded ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it. Maybe even desparate enough to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS. If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in make menuconfig... Sound card support --- Is that correct? I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it working without disabling audio in the kernel. Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf ? ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
On Sunday 20 February 2011 08:50:48 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote Ah ... mine have more. F4 in alsamixer brings up all these Capture devices: Front Mic 6767 Mic6767 Capture8080 Capture8080 Digital6161 Digital Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the front left of the keyboard. Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I like it. My card shows up in lspci -v as... 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at d040 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel alsamixer shows... Card: HDA ATI SB Chip: Realtek ALC272X One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a parameter. Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and I'm an absolute newbie on alsa-driver. alsa-driver is keyworded ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it. Maybe even desparate enough to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS. If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in make menuconfig... Sound card support --- Is that correct? I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it working without disabling audio in the kernel. Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf ? ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel Around a couple of years ago my alsa stopped working and was getting some errors about not finding the right modules or similar. Until that moment I had it build in the kernel. I remember raising a bug, only to be told that I should rebuild my kernel with alsa drivers as modules, because alsaconf should be able to probe them. Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing: Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as modules. It is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the use of alsaconf which is a boon when you want to configure your card. I've added some options for my alsa modules in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, e.g.: options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] After updating openldap today slapd won't start
Today after updating openldap from 2.4.23 to 2.4.24, slapd will not start.
# /etc/init.d/slapd start
* Starting ldap-server ...
[ !! ]
and I get the following in the log:
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb
20 2011 12:20:51) $
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: slapd stopped.
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: connections_destroy: nothing to
destroy.
If I start it by hand (with debug=1) it looks like this:
# /usr/lib64/openldap/slapd -u ldap -g ldap -d1
@(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb 20 2011 12:20:51) $
@torsson:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.24/work/openldap-2.4.24/servers/slapd
ldap_pvt_gethostbyname_a: host=torsson, r=0
daemon_init: listen on ldap:///
daemon_init: 1 listeners to open...
ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///)
daemon: listener initialized ldap:///
daemon_init: 1 listeners opened
ldap_create
slapd init: initiated server.
bdb_back_initialize: initialize BDB backend
bdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
hdb_back_initialize: initialize HDB backend
hdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
slapd destroy: freeing system resources.
slapd stopped.
connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
Here are slapd.conf (without comments):
include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/authldap.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema
pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid
argsfile/var/run/openldap/slapd.args
allow bind_v2
databasehdb
suffix dc=dmj,dc=nu
checkpoint 32 30
rootdn cn=myroot,dc=dmj,dc=nu
rootpw {SSHA}x
directory /var/lib/openldap-data
index objectClass eq
Any suggestion short of reverting to 2.4.23?
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[gentoo-user] net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd
Hi Gentoo-users, I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3 portage tells me You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with: saslpasswd2 cyrus But when I try to do this, I get the following error: Password: [password] Again (for verification): [same password] saslpasswd2: generic failure and the syslog says Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter supplied Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: sql_select option missing Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql What could be wrong? Thanks for any help Johannes -- --//-- //Johannes R. Geiss Zaurus, Pegasos, Amiga and C64 user \\ // PGP at https://pegasos.dnsalias.org/~jgeiss/pgpkey.txt --\X/-
[gentoo-user] irritating cron habit
I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. I also start my Internet connection by hand after logging in: this is to avoid the jam which arises if it is included in the runlevel but for some reason the physical Net connection isn't functioning, when Dhcpcd sits there can't be killed via Control-C. Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection -- it depends on when the start-of-minute falls -- , which results in a file ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted (the sequence of commands is clear from the Syslog file). Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron', while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel. Does anyone have useful suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. It works under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the monitor is OK, but I don't understand what happens when gdm starts. I have Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give the same result. Is my card going or what? Any ideas would be appreciated. Have you followed this? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and are you using KMS? I have not changed the config from working to non-working -- if it will help I can post it. I am not sure what kms is -- I use gnome as the desktop. Have a more considered look at the link I've given. Check the kernel settings proposed there and take note of the disabling of u/vesa drivers. I cannot do what the guide says -- I have no Nouveau in staging drivers or anywhere it seems. Maybe in newer kernels than the one I am using, but I want to get this one back to working first. One thing that I found in my logs which might help is the following: Feb 17 22:29:07 ccs kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 53, CMDre 0080 0005 0005 Feb 17 22:29:49 ccs last message repeated 7 times Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Sunday 20 February 2011 00:25:24 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I guess). I tried of course to remove them all and leave evdev initially, but it all went horribly wrong. Perhaps evdev will catch up eventually, I just hope synaptics and keyboard don't default into being deprecated before then. I think I should at least partly retract some of the above statement - with x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 I have managed to unmerge x11-drivers/xf86-input- keyboard and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and evdev seems to still pick up my mouse and keyboard. I had to comment out the following three entries first in my xorg.conf: # Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 # InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer # InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard # Option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection # and also added appropriate Section InputClass parts for mouse and keyboard in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but commented out similar parts in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf. I am using evdev and synaptics only on a thinkpad t201. Without an xorg.conf, all works including when I connect an usb mouse. However I am trying to configure the touchpad, trackpoint and extended buttons to work as left-hand; that is I would like to have the 3 buttons reversed. I have not been lucky so far. In fact I've read on the web about some new (relative to xorg 1.7) syntax for the xorg.conf file. Does anyone know about a site with humanly friendly information on how to write a modern xorg.conf file? Have you had a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. In addition to the devices I mentioned above I am also trying to setup an external monitor as a hotplug virtual screen. For instance, things like this do not work: Section InputClass Identifier TouchPad Change this line to: Identifier touchpad catchall Or, you can also try: Identifier synaptics touchpad catchall MatchIsTouchpad on Driver synaptics #Option SHMConfig on Option VertTwoFingerScroll on EndSection In the past I used Option ButtonMapping 3 2 1 Do you want this to work for your touchpad with the synaptics driver, or do you want this to work with any physical buttons on the laptop, or even an external (e.g. USB) mouse? If the former, then have a look at the NOTES at the end of the man synaptics page, where it mentions button mapping. For non tap buttons you can try setting this option in an InputClass section in your xorg.conf for an InputClass device mouse: Section InputClass Identifier mouse catchall Driver evdev MatchIsPointer on MatchDevicePath /dev/input/event* Option Protocol auto Option ButtonMapping 3 2 1 EndSection which apparently does not work here. Last but not least, how do I get the good old ctrl-alt-backspace keybinding to kill X? You'll need to define this in the InputClass that deals with the keyboard: Section InputClass Identifier keyboard catchall Driver evdev MatchIsKeyboard on MatchDevicePath /dev/input/event* Option XkbLayout gb Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp EndSection HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. It works under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the monitor is OK, but I don't understand what happens when gdm starts. I have Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give the same result. Is my card going or what? Any ideas would be appreciated. Have you followed this? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and are you using KMS? I have not changed the config from working to non-working -- if it will help I can post it. I am not sure what kms is -- I use gnome as the desktop. Have a more considered look at the link I've given. Check the kernel settings proposed there and take note of the disabling of u/vesa drivers. I cannot do what the guide says -- I have no Nouveau in staging drivers or anywhere it seems. Maybe in newer kernels than the one I am using, but I want to get this one back to working first. One thing that I found in my logs which might help is the following: Feb 17 22:29:07 ccs kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 53, CMDre 0080 0005 0005 Feb 17 22:29:49 ccs last message repeated 7 times Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit
Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb:
I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security.
I also start my Internet connection by hand after logging in:
this is to avoid the jam which arises if it is included in the runlevel
but for some reason the physical Net connection isn't functioning,
when Dhcpcd sits there can't be killed via Control-C.
Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs
before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection
-- it depends on when the start-of-minute falls -- ,
which results in a file ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted
(the sequence of commands is clear from the Syslog file).
Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script
which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron',
while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel.
Does anyone have useful suggestions ?
When dhcpcd runs, there should be the following files:
/var/run/dhcpcd.pid
/var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid
Just change your cron job to look like
test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid fetchmail
You can also do something like parsing the output of `/sbin/ifconfig
eth0` with grep -q to see whether it has an ip address so that your cron
job also works when you configure your address statically.
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep -q '\inet' fetchmail ...
should do the trick.
Or even more general:
gawk 'BEGIN{found=1} {if(found == 1 $2 ~ /^0+$/ $7 ~ /^0+$/)
found=0} END{exit found}' /proc/net/route fetchmail
This looks at the routing table and returns 0 when there is a default
route (destination and mask ) no matter over which interface. No
clue whether this works with IPv6.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Re: [gentoo-user] After updating openldap today slapd won't start
On Sunday 20 February 2011 13.25:31 Dan Johansson wrote:
Today after updating openldap from 2.4.23 to 2.4.24, slapd will not start.
# /etc/init.d/slapd start
* Starting ldap-server ...
[ !! ]
and I get the following in the log:
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24
(Feb 20 2011 12:20:51) $
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: slapd stopped.
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: connections_destroy: nothing to
destroy.
If I start it by hand (with debug=1) it looks like this:
# /usr/lib64/openldap/slapd -u ldap -g ldap -d1
@(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb 20 2011 12:20:51) $
@torsson:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.24/work/openldap-2.4.24/servers/slapd
ldap_pvt_gethostbyname_a: host=torsson, r=0
daemon_init: listen on ldap:///
daemon_init: 1 listeners to open...
ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///)
daemon: listener initialized ldap:///
daemon_init: 1 listeners opened
ldap_create
slapd init: initiated server.
bdb_back_initialize: initialize BDB backend
bdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
hdb_back_initialize: initialize HDB backend
hdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
slapd destroy: freeing system resources.
slapd stopped.
connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
Here are slapd.conf (without comments):
include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/authldap.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema
pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid
argsfile/var/run/openldap/slapd.args
allow bind_v2
databasehdb
suffix dc=dmj,dc=nu
checkpoint 32 30
rootdn cn=myroot,dc=dmj,dc=nu
rootpw {SSHA}x
directory /var/lib/openldap-data
index objectClass eq
Any suggestion short of reverting to 2.4.23?
Don't bother... I found it my self. slaptest reported an error in one of the
schemas, efter correcting this slapd starts perfectly.
Sorry for the noise,
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[gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but df didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,
RUN+=/bin/mount -a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).
Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
recognition?
Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
what's happening would also be helpful.
TIA,
David
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 25
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=154b,
idProduct=0016
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: Product: USB 2.0 FD
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: Manufacturer: PNY
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: SerialNumber: 6E821D1300DE
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: scsi26 : usb-storage 1-4.1:1.0
Feb 20 10:18:23 osage kernel: scsi 26:0:0:0: Direct-Access PNY USB 2.0
FD PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Feb 20 10:18:23 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] 15663104 512-byte logical
blocks: (8.01 GB/7.46 GiB)
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write
through
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write
through
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sdc: sdc1
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write
through
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Feb 20 10:18:38 osage usb_id[16872]: unable to access
'/devices/pci:00/:00:13.5/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1:1.0/host25/target25:0:0/25:0:0:0/block/sdc'
Feb 20 10:20:01 osage cron[17659]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons
/usr/sbin/run-crons )
Feb 20 10:20:01 osage cron[17660]: (health) CMD
(/home/health/bin/system_health.py --log --graph /dev/null 21)
Feb 20 10:25:01 osage cron[18431]: (health) CMD
(/home/health/bin/system_health.py --log --graph /dev/null 21)
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
Mick writes: On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I fear this will lead to trouble eventually. I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when X just worked. Wonko
[gentoo-user] Re: net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd
On 02/20/2011 05:22 AM, Johannes Geiss wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3 portage tells me You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with: saslpasswd2 cyrus But when I try to do this, I get the following error: Password: [password] Again (for verification): [same password] saslpasswd2: generic failure and the syslog says Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter supplied Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: sql_select option missing I'm wondering about that last sql error message. I notice that the cyrus-sasl package has USE flags for berkdb, mysql, postgres, and sqlite. Do you have at least one of those flags enabled?
[gentoo-user] Re: flash drive mounting is very slow
On 02/20/2011 07:33 AM, David Relson wrote:
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but df didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY, RUN+=/bin/mount
-a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).
Looks like udev is creating the device immediately, as it should. I'm
pretty fuzzy on how the automounting actually gets done, though.
I've noticed this puzzling situation on my own machines (which auto-mount
correctly, BTW):
1929 ?Sl 0:04 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
1930 ?S 0:01 \_ udisks-daemon: polling /dev/sdc /dev/sr0 /dev/sdd
And this as well:
1647 ?S 0:02 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every
2 sec)
1648 ?S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (every
2 sec)
1650 ?S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdc (every
2 sec)
So I have hal and udisks polling the same three removable drives at the same
time, but they don't seem to interfere with each other.
I'm using gnome with automounting enabled, so I'm pretty sure it's gnome that
automounts those three removable drives, possibly with gdu-notification-daemon,
which is part of the gnome-disk-utility package. A whole lotta guessing going
on here :)
[gentoo-user] Spammassassin: bd path?
Hi, I want to use berkdb for bayes learning. how can I tell spamd/spamassassin where to look for the bayes database? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
David Relson wrote:
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but df didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY, RUN+=/bin/mount
-a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).
Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
recognition?
Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
what's happening would also be helpful.
TIA,
David
Just out of curiosity, have you tried it with no entry in fstab? I
don't have a entry for any of those in my fstab and it mounts in just a
few seconds.
Just a thought.
Dale
:-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,
RUN+=/bin/mount -a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
Either way, you should run the command with because udev blocks while
running commands.
--
Neil Bothwick
And what else floats.?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for you when X is unavailable. If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot. -- Neil Bothwick I distinctly remember forgetting that. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] no emerge of emacs-vcs
I haven't been able to emerge emacs-vcs for a while now. I know there
was some trouble with renaming of the repo more than once but this
problem today looks different.
Looks like some other kind of change on the repo end.
Is anyone else noticing a problem building emacs-vcs?
Oh, and in the meantime, untill I get this straightened out, I've
forgotten how to tell gentoo that I will supply emacs-vcs. It used to
be done is one or another `pakage*' file. Anyway, how would I tell
the OS that I will supply any emacs-vcs?
Emerge failure below:
From emerge -v emacs-vcs:
Emerging (1 of 1) app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1
* Package:app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1
* Repository: gentoo
* Maintainer: em...@gentoo.org
* USE:X Xaw3d dbus elibc_glibc gif gpm gtk gzip-el jpeg kernel_linux
motif png svg tiff toolkit-scroll-bars userland_GNU x86 xpm
* FEATURES: sandbox
cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Checksum index is up-to-date ...
* bzr.eclass uses branches instead of checkouts now.
* Therefore, you may remove the old bzr checkout:
* rm -rf /anex/portage/distfiles/bzr-src/emacs-trunk
Unpacking source...
* bzr pull start --
*repository: bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch:
/anex/portage/distfiles/bzr-src/emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/.
* ERROR: app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1 failed:
* bzr.eclass: can't pull from bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_unpack
* environment, line 3784: Called bzr_src_unpack
* environment, line 794: Called bzr_fetch
* environment, line 768: Called bzr_update
'bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk'
'/anex/portage/distfiles/bzr-src/emacs/trunk'
* environment, line 811: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${EBZR_UPDATE_CMD} ${EBZR_OPTIONS} ${repo_uri} || die ${EBZR}:
can't pull from ${repo_uri};
[...]
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,
RUN+=/bin/mount -a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
Either way, you should run the command with because udev blocks while
running commands.
To state the obvious ... have you tried it on a different USB port, a
different PC and finally a different OS?
I've had a USB stick failing recently and there was a mechanical (contact)
problem. So a process of elimination would at least do away with physical
level problems and indirectly confirm if there is something wrong with your
system.
--
Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit
110220 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb: I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection which results in a file ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron', while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel. When dhcpcd runs, there should be the following files: /var/run/dhcpcd.pid -- not this one /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid -- yes Just change your cron job to look like 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid fetchmail' That's by far the simplest it still fetches the mail, so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs. Thanks for all the suggestions, which I will add to my Linux notes. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mick writes: On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I fear this will lead to trouble eventually. I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when X just worked. Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to get out. Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure. I have in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel. X stuff is sure quirky. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mick writes: On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I fear this will lead to trouble eventually. I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when X just worked. Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to get out. Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure. I have in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel. X stuff is sure quirky. Yes, especially between versions! ;-) To get your keyboard/mouse back with version 1.7 you may need to set up those pesky .fdi files and of course you will need to make sure that hal is running. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] ipv6 privacy random addresses
Have activated the privacy extensions on a dual stack (native) ipv6 configuration. A random local address is generated for each boot (for eth0). I'd like to be able to change it within a session. ip -6 address flush dev eth0; followed by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart; will generate a new random address (global temporary dynamic) - but one time only. So the question becomes, how could I do this repeatedly within a session? (ISTM there is a variable somewhere that limits the number of regenerations allowed - perhaps that could be tweaked? Alternatively, perhaps I could configure the /etc/conf.d/net script to assign a local ipv6 net address using random numbers generated within the net script? I'm a newbie, and would appreciate any corrections, flames and especially examples) TIA
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
On Friday 18 February 2011 05:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. It works under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the monitor is OK, but I don't understand what happens when gdm starts. I have Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give the same result. Is my card going or what? Any ideas would be appreciated. Xorg.0.log would be very helpfull.
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
usb verbose debug in the kernel? - check dmesg. Mine are always slow
to mount if this is on.
BillK
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:33 -0500, David Relson wrote:
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but df didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,
RUN+=/bin/mount -a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).
Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
recognition?
Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
what's happening would also be helpful.
TIA,
David
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Home in Perth!
[gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86- video-whatever, synaptics, etc. This is not obvious, so it's a very common problem.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts
walt wrote: On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86- video-whatever, synaptics, etc. This is not obvious, so it's a very common problem. I saved this when someone posted it. I think it was in one of the news thingys too. rebuild input drivers after xorg upgrade emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) That may help. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing: Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as modules. It is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the use of alsaconf which is a boon when you want to configure your card. I've added some options for my alsa modules in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, e.g.: options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 This is exasperating. After re-building alsa sound support as kernel modules, rather than built into the kernel, I see some improvement. When I blow into the internal mic I hear it from the laptop speakers. With mic-boost turned up, I can hear myself echoing when I talk into the internal mic or into an external mic. Turn up the boost high enough, and the external mic generates a mean high-ptched feedback squeal, unless I also plug in headphones. So the hardware is working now, *BUT I STILL CAN'T RECORD THE BLEEPING THING*. When I try ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp audio.wav it thinks it's recording, but the output file is only hiss. Ditto for the command ffmpeg -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 audio.wav. I notice that I have a file named /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf but no alsa-base.conf file. Should I rename it? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for you when X is unavailable. If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot. Indeed, wicd-curses does the job. Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] Have you had a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. This was helpful. [snip] In the past I used Option ButtonMapping 3 2 1 Do you want this to work for your touchpad with the synaptics driver, or do you want this to work with any physical buttons on the laptop, or even an external (e.g. USB) mouse? The latter. If the former, then have a look at the NOTES at the end of the man synaptics page, where it mentions button mapping. man pages (evdev and xorg.conf) were really helpful. For non tap buttons you can try setting this option in an InputClass section in your xorg.conf for an InputClass device mouse: Section InputClass Identifier mouse catchall Driver evdev MatchIsPointer on MatchDevicePath /dev/input/event* Option Protocol auto Option ButtonMapping 3 2 1 EndSection I tried the above for the Identifier evdev pointer catchall in the xorg.conf file and both the usb mouse and trackpoint get their buttons inverted as desired. However the touchpad buttons do not get inverted. I am using xorg.conf.d/ with the synaptics file: 10-synaptics.conf Section InputClass Identifier synaptics touchpad catchall Driver synaptics Option Protocol auto-dev Option HorizEdgeScroll true Option VertEdgeScroll true Option AutoServerLayout on EndSection which apparently needs to be read before the keyboard conf: 30-keyboard.conf Section InputClass Identifier evdev keyboard catchall MatchIsKeyboard on MatchDevicePath /dev/input/event* Driver evdev Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp Option AutoSeverLayout on EndSection otherwise my keyboard keybindings do not work. I have also tried the pointer InputClass outside the xorg.conf file, that is, inside the xorg.conf.d/ directory. As long as the 10-synaptics.conf file is read first, the keyboard config works so do the usb mouse and trackpoint (with inverted buttons). However so far I have not been able to get the touchpad buttons to be inverted. This is a minor thing I can deal with later. Thanks, -- Valmor which apparently does not work here. Last but not least, how do I get the good old ctrl-alt-backspace keybinding to kill X? You'll need to define this in the InputClass that deals with the keyboard: Section InputClass Identifier keyboard catchall Driver evdev MatchIsKeyboard on MatchDevicePath /dev/input/event* Option XkbLayout gb Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp EndSection HTH.
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:03:24 +
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
is: KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,
RUN+=/bin/mount -a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
Either way, you should run the command with because udev blocks
while running commands.
To state the obvious ... have you tried it on a different USB port, a
different PC and finally a different OS?
I've had a USB stick failing recently and there was a mechanical
(contact) problem. So a process of elimination would at least do
away with physical level problems and indirectly confirm if there is
something wrong with your system.
--
Regards,
Mick
The PNY stick mentioned runs very nicely on a machine at work. The
environment there is Ubuntu (as guest OS) running in VMWare on
WinXP (as host OS). Automounting works very nicely.
The slowness is true of several USB sticks.
[gentoo-user] Radeon HD 4350 benchmark
Ok, so I have this card in pretty much equal AMD64 systems: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]. One system is running ATI drivers and the video game I use to test performance is bzflag; it runs just fine. The second system had an ATI X1900 card but was replace with an identical card as the system above (HD 4350). I followed the gentoo guides on this migration from ATI to Radeon driver, but could have muck things up. BZflag runs so slow it get's about every frame. glxgears has a score of 80 with the radeon driver and a kms kernel. When booting (drm RV710) microcode takes about a full minute to load. Strangely long, but it boots and kde is fine. I turned off nepomuk services. Both systems use hal, if that makes any difference... eselect mesa list 64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) 64bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) 64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) [1] classic * [2] gallium 64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen) [1] classic * [2] gallium 64bit sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * 32bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) [1] classic * [2] gallium 32bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) [1] classic * [2] gallium 32bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) [1] classic [2] gallium * 32bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen) [1] classic * [2] gallium 32bit sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * There is not xorg.conf file being used, so maybe I need a minimal xorg.conf to get 3D acceleration working? Any benchmarks that run under both drivers that the sytems both have 2G or ram on dual processor; one is 2.4GHz the other is 2.2GHz otherwise identical. I think I munge up the /lib/radeon part of setting up the kernel (kms) for loading the microcode, but, I cannot seem to fine a url or thread where instructions are for that (even though I did find it over a week ago in another thread). In the kernel, under the Generic section, I have: CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=radeon CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware Correct? Ideas? James
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:44:58 +
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
KERNEL==sd*1, ATTRS{manufacturer}==PNY, SYMLINK+=PNY,
RUN+=/bin/mount -a
and in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
Either way, you should run the command with because udev blocks
while running commands.
You're suggesting that the RUN clause be
RUN+=pmount /dev/PNY
right?
[gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried: CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=radeon CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware Ok so dmeg says that drm failed. I edited the .config file, using vi, to: CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=R700_rlc.bin CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware/radeon Rebuilt the kernel (make make modules_install) and rebooted the latest kernel. Now I get this error message in dmesg: [drm] Loading RV710 Microcode r600_cp: Failed to load firmware radeon/R700_rlc.bin [drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! radeon :01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration so it's definitely a firmware loading malfunction. Any guidance is appreciated.
[gentoo-user] ramdisk for lm_sensors and gimps
Does the current minimal install cd have a ramdisk driver so that i can extract the stage3 tarball to it and emerge lm_sensors and gimps onto it? I want to make sure my OCed system won't cause bad compiles so I'm going to gimps aka prime95 it for 48h :) DDR1066's timings are a bit high at 200;1:2.66, so I'm going 960 MHz to have both higher speed and less lag. Sadly, POST starts to have issues at FSB=250MHz, so I've toned it down to 230 MHz. It's still above 200 MHz, so I want to be sure that both CPU and RAM are safe. Also, if k10temp isn' t included on the cd, to which kernel version should I compile it as a module*, or need I remaster with modified kernel? * and insert into the iso as /misc/k10temp.ko and insmod it as needed -- 001100 Andrey m05hbear Vul 010010 00 andrey at moshbear dot net 11 andrey dot vul at gmail 101101 4163039923 110011
Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved
110220 Philip Webb wrote: 110220 Florian Philipp wrote: Just change your cron job to look like 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid fetchmail' That's by far the simplest it still fetches the mail, so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs. Indeed it does: I tried delaying starting the I/net connection there is no 'dead.letter' file. Thanks again. PS the file is /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid , not as above. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
On Monday 21 February 2011 01:33:22 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing: Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as modules. It is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the use of alsaconf which is a boon when you want to configure your card. I've added some options for my alsa modules in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, e.g.: options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 This is exasperating. After re-building alsa sound support as kernel modules, rather than built into the kernel, I see some improvement. When I blow into the internal mic I hear it from the laptop speakers. With mic-boost turned up, I can hear myself echoing when I talk into the internal mic or into an external mic. Turn up the boost high enough, and the external mic generates a mean high-ptched feedback squeal, unless I also plug in headphones. So the hardware is working now, *BUT I STILL CAN'T RECORD THE BLEEPING THING*. When I try ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp audio.wav it thinks it's recording, but the output file is only hiss. Ditto for the command ffmpeg -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 audio.wav. I notice that I have a file named /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf but no alsa-base.conf file. Should I rename it? No, just create your alsa-base.conf and add the desired options in there. From what you're saying the microphone works now - not sure why it won't record ... I'm not the best man to advise on recording because I have never tried it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
