Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Sunday 10/23/11 03:17:10 CST, Pandu Poluan wrote: I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the link for the Linux version: http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 overlay gentoo-zh offer it. app-antivirus/avast4workstation -- Best Regads du yang oooO: (..): :\.(:::Oooo:: ::\_)::(..):: :::)./::: ::(_/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?
On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need a virus scanner. Yet. There are literally *millions* of Windows viruses. The Wikipedia page just proves Linux has virtually no viruses, and those listed don't even work anymore (exploits have been patched long ago.) Most existing Linux malware targets servers (like PHP software exploits in forums, wikis, etc) and desktop users don't need to worry. Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about, there isn't a good way of getting infected. On Windows, you download random executables from the net. On Gentoo, you install your stuff through portage. It's nearly impossible to get infected. except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts providing malicious ebuilds. Hilarious. Isn't that what happened back in 2003/04? I can't recall exactly but there was some discussion where it was suggested that clients should rsync against two different mirrors and diff the portage contents (or hashes thereof?), before accepting the sync result. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?
When I modifed USE to USE=-X -gnome -kde -gtk , I finally successed in installing mplayer without graphical desktop. But I got another problem. # mplayer christmas\ in\ my\ heart.mp3 It printed some error messages though mplayer could played mp3 file without sound. Error Message: [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory [AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4184:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4663:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default [AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device DVB card number must be between 1 and 4 AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... The sound card driver I have built into kernel . When I used lspci, I can see that hda_intel is the driver for sound card. So what's wrong with it ?
Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?
2011/10/23 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com: [snip] The sound card driver I have built into kernel . When I used lspci, I can see that hda_intel is the driver for sound card. So what's wrong with it ? First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but it walks you through the process of setting up sound pretty well. HTH David [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-869451-start-0.html
Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?
First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but it walks you through the process of setting up sound pretty well. HTH David [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-869451-start-0.html Thanks , I hope I can listen music when I finish reading this article.
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Oct 23, 2011 6:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Cheapest laser you can find at Office Depot tends to be a Brother. I've got two...an HL-2040 and an HL-2140. Both work perfectly with CUPS. +1. Every Brother laser printer I've tried works perfectly. I don't even bother with linuxprinting.org any more. When I wear one laser printer out, I just buy the latest Brother. - Grant I used to work for a computer place and we sold and serviced Brother stuff. They were well made back then. I haven't used one in a long while but it sounds like they still make good stuff. I always liked that they had metal gears and stuff when everyone else had went to plastic. Epsons were good at going with plastic, even on their higher end stuff. They would strip out regular too. Get a good paper jam, you need a set of gears. My fav was the Genicom line printer tho. We had several 4440s and they were blazingly fast. A case of paper was like pouring water out of a jug. o_O Although some metal gears have given way to plastic stuffs, I can still vouch for their reliability. My office had one, and it's generally abused, yet it still chugs along merrily. Truly gave my boss a mid-life crisis: He's a champion of a two-letter brand, and his worldview came crashing to the ground when the Brother proved itself to be more reliable than his preferred brand ;-) Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Oct 23, 2011 2:23 PM, du yang duyang@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 10/23/11 03:17:10 CST, Pandu Poluan wrote: I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the link for the Linux version: http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 overlay gentoo-zh offer it. app-antivirus/avast4workstation Whoa, COOL! Thanks for the info! Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?
Am 23.10.2011 09:49, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need a virus scanner. Yet. There are literally *millions* of Windows viruses. The Wikipedia page just proves Linux has virtually no viruses, and those listed don't even work anymore (exploits have been patched long ago.) Most existing Linux malware targets servers (like PHP software exploits in forums, wikis, etc) and desktop users don't need to worry. Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about, there isn't a good way of getting infected. On Windows, you download random executables from the net. On Gentoo, you install your stuff through portage. It's nearly impossible to get infected. except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts providing malicious ebuilds. Hilarious. Isn't that what happened back in 2003/04? I can't recall exactly but there was some discussion where it was suggested that clients should rsync against two different mirrors and diff the portage contents (or hashes thereof?), before accepting the sync result. That still doesn't protect you against man-in-the-middle attacks or an attack against the CVS tree (like the recent kernel.org disaster). Signing the manifest files is really the only reasonable solution. Good thing there seems to be some progress in that direction: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360363 Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 19:46:59 schrieb Mick: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. Dale Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? looks like - but I just run the bitdefender script to extract, than used dpkg --force-all to install. Works well so far. You can get a free personal use licence on their web site. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:38:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:21:50PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote This came up recently with a different subject. Your device does not have a partition table, instead the filesystem occupies the whole device (sometimes referred to as a superfloppy format). There's nothing wrong with this, I have a couple of USB sticks like it, and my Nexus S is the same. Your automounter should still pick it up. I don't use an automounter. I like to be in control of what gets mounted when. Then use an intelligent automounter, that only mounts things you want it to and lets you make choices about the rest :) Thanks for the explanation. With it in mind I've finally come up with a plan that works. In /etc/sudoers.d/001 I've included... waltdnesi3 = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdc And there's an entry for a vfat device in /etc/fstab for directory /mnt/extc. The command /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdc seems to read in the partition table into the system and things work from there on in. fdisk only works as root, hence the sudo command. Here's a sample session... === waltdnes@i3 ~ $ mount /mnt/extc mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist waltdnes@i3 ~ $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 16.0 GB, 16012804096 bytes 256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1939 cylinders, total 31275008 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 *20483127500715636480c W95 FAT32 (LBA) waltdnes@i3 ~ $ mount /mnt/extc waltdnes@i3 ~ $ === In that case, you have a different situation since there is clearly a partition on the disk. The partition table may be slightly faulty, hence the need for fdisk. Recreating the partition table with fdisk should fix that permanently. -- Neil Bothwick Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] TCP Advanced Congestion Control -- any difference?
Am 20.10.2011 18:11, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 20.10.2011 15:10, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Like the subject said: I am wondering if using a non-default TCP Advanced Congestion Control makes any difference. (The default is cubic, but there are alternatives such as htcp, hybla, and yeah) Any experiences? I tested it on the only situation I had where it was even remotely worth the effort to try it: NFS over TCP via an old and overutilized router: No measurable effect. I guess a web or mail server (read: something that is not primarily bandwidth constrained and where latency matters) might benefit more. But then again, how do you measure that reliably? You also have to consider where the client might be. A long distance, high bandwidth connection will benefit from different congestion control mechanisms than a local low bandwidth connection. Regards, Florian Philipp This paper and its references could be interesting. http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/37486.pdf signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] TCP Advanced Congestion Control -- any difference?
On Oct 23, 2011 7:07 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 20.10.2011 18:11, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 20.10.2011 15:10, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Like the subject said: I am wondering if using a non-default TCP Advanced Congestion Control makes any difference. (The default is cubic, but there are alternatives such as htcp, hybla, and yeah) Any experiences? I tested it on the only situation I had where it was even remotely worth the effort to try it: NFS over TCP via an old and overutilized router: No measurable effect. I guess a web or mail server (read: something that is not primarily bandwidth constrained and where latency matters) might benefit more. But then again, how do you measure that reliably? You also have to consider where the client might be. A long distance, high bandwidth connection will benefit from different congestion control mechanisms than a local low bandwidth connection. Regards, Florian Philipp This paper and its references could be interesting. http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/37486.pdf Thanks! I'll sure to study them tomorrow. Productive time at the office ;-) Rgds,
[gentoo-user] Heads up: gtk-doc-1.18 build failure...
Hi, If anyone encounters issues with building gtk-doc-1.18 (needed for gimp doc USE flag, amongst others) you need to have the python flag enabled for the libxml2 package in order to build gtk-doc (the gtk-doc fails to build due to not finding libxml2 module [which I assume is a python one]). I guess this is related to the python USE flag removal in the profiles... Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: gtk-doc-1.18 build failure...
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Hi, If anyone encounters issues with building gtk-doc-1.18 (needed for gimp doc USE flag, amongst others) you need to have the python flag enabled for the libxml2 package in order to build gtk-doc (the gtk-doc fails to build due to not finding libxml2 module [which I assume is a python one]). I guess this is related to the python USE flag removal in the profiles... File a bug report; it sounds like gtk-doc's ebuild isn't declaring a dependency on libxml2 having the 'python' USE flag. emerge should have told you, hey, the following USE flag changes are needed... -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: gtk-doc-1.18 build failure...
On 10/23/2011 10:28 AM, pk wrote: Hi, If anyone encounters issues with building gtk-doc-1.18 (needed for gimp doc USE flag, amongst others) you need to have the python flag enabled for the libxml2 package in order to build gtk-doc (the gtk-doc fails to build due to not finding libxml2 module [which I assume is a python one]). I guess this is related to the python USE flag removal in the profiles... You should probably file a bug and post the build failure, your emerge --info, emerge -pv gtk-doc, etc. I tried to reproduce it here but couldn't. If gtk-doc does need libxml2 compiled with python support under some circumstances, it could be added as a use-flag dependency.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to install music player without graphic ?
You really need to find out what you need/want. If you want a nice GUI media player then you either need X or some kind of solution that works on framebuffer (they exist, but they are not straightforward to get working). Some web based players exist as well. Secondly, mplayer does work on command line. You don't need to do anything special for that. However, its capabilities come limited by the graphics capabilities of your environment. If you ware in framebuffer and you have correctly set up it using kms, uvesafb or something like that, then you can probably play videos and show graphics in your ttys, if not, then you'll need X for that. In any case, don't expect a great performance when playing high resolution videos in a framebuffer device. As for music, there are some very good players for command line, some of them are strictly command-based, others (like moc) offer a nice ncurses-based interface where you can navigate your collections and playlists. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
[gentoo-user] Amarok segfault
Dear All, I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me what is needed more? By the way, these reports should be send for the Amarok developers not gentoo guys, shouldn't they? Thanks any advice in advance! András -- - - -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry! - Cromwell
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does work from boot. After logging in I need to get an IP address manually. What happens if you try to connect from the Wicd client after booting? -- Neil Bothwick Q-Tip: When an omnipotent alien gives you advice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 15:09, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me what is needed more? By the way, these reports should be send for the Amarok developers not gentoo guys, shouldn't they? Backtrace! Backtrace, backtrace, backtrace, backtrace, backtrace! Also, core file, if possible.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does work from boot. After logging in I need to get an IP address manually. What happens if you try to connect from the Wicd client after booting? I tried - wicd-cli --wired No operation peformed. So no luck there. As soon as I do a manual dhcpcd eth0 I get an IP address and all work. I don't have wireless working yet; need to check on the driver (wireless is also broadcom). So wicd-client -n finds no wireless network. Thanks, -- Valmor
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Mother Board : ASUS M2A-MX Graphics Card: ATI 4350 Sound card: using on board audio Help needed On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: I am new to gentoo. Installed kde in gentoo. But i am unable to enable effects like. blur, woobly etc.. why ? We need to know what graphics card you have and what sound card. You might also want to tell us what your computer's mainboard is (exact brand and model). We can help you from there to configure your kernel and install the correct graphics drivers.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 21:01:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does work from boot. After logging in I need to get an IP address manually. What happens if you try to connect from the Wicd client after booting? I tried - wicd-cli --wired No operation peformed. So no luck there. As soon as I do a manual dhcpcd eth0 I get an IP address and all work. I assume you have no ifplugd installed - but from what I undestand wicd works in a similar fashion (i.e. it runs dhcpcd) - so I can't really explain this. What do you get in /var/log/messages when you run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start. It should start dhcpcd by default (even without a /etc/conf.d/net). I don't have wireless working yet; need to check on the driver (wireless is also broadcom). So wicd-client -n finds no wireless network. You'll probably need to install b43-fwcutter and follow the instructions here (depending on your wireless NIC): http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed the steps found at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, but I'm still getting errors. When I plug the TV card into the USB slot in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says: michael@carter /lib/firmware $ dmesg | grep pvrusb2 pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing. pvrusb2: Device being rendered inoperable pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing. I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no change. How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card? -Michael Sullivan-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
On 10/23/2011 05:19 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 21:01:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does work from boot. After logging in I need to get an IP address manually. What happens if you try to connect from the Wicd client after booting? I tried - wicd-cli --wired No operation peformed. So no luck there. As soon as I do a manual dhcpcd eth0 I get an IP address and all work. I assume you have no ifplugd installed - but from what I undestand wicd works in a similar fashion (i.e. it runs dhcpcd) - so I can't really explain this. Correct. I don't have ifplugd. What do you get in /var/log/messages when you run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start. It should start dhcpcd by default (even without a /etc/conf.d/net). I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. Don't seem to find the difference between what I have working and this MacBook Pro I put Gentoo on wherein wicd will not work out of the box. I don't have wireless working yet; need to check on the driver (wireless is also broadcom). So wicd-client -n finds no wireless network. You'll probably need to install b43-fwcutter and follow the instructions here (depending on your wireless NIC): http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed the steps found at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, but I'm still getting errors. When I plug the TV card into the USB slot in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says: [...] I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no change. How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card? -Michael Sullivan- Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me. And also media-tv/ivtv-utils. BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help to suspend and wake the system to get it working. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault
András Csányi writes: I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me what is needed more? No, I think the debug USE flag has another purpose. You need to add '-gddb' to you CFLAGS in make.conf, and make sure that 'nostrip' or better 'splitdebug' is in your FEATURES list (the debug code added by -gddb would be stripped away if not). This will get you a useful backtrace in DrKonqui, if you are using KDE. By the way, these reports should be send for the Amarok developers not gentoo guys, shouldn't they? I would say so, but I'm not entirely sure. It's easier this way, but there's a slight chance that the problem is Gentoo-specific. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed the steps found at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, but I'm still getting errors. When I plug the TV card into the USB slot in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says: [...] I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no change. How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card? -Michael Sullivan- Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me. And also media-tv/ivtv-utils. BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help to suspend and wake the system to get it working. I suspended the system, but now I can't wake it up again! I hit the power button, and I heard a sound through the speakers similar to an error sound. I would say a barb sound, but I doubt any of you would be able to make sense of it. The only visual output of that computer is a video output component going to the TV set. I work on that computer through ssh from another one in another room. Should I just restart it manually? If not, how do I wake it up?
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed the steps found at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, but I'm still getting errors. When I plug the TV card into the USB slot in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says: [...] I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no change. How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card? -Michael Sullivan- Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me. And also media-tv/ivtv-utils. BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help to suspend and wake the system to get it working. OK. I restarted the computer. (I have never suspended that computer before and was unsure of what would happen, but I did not realize at the time that my the game running on my wife's computer was using a samba share that would be disrupted.) I had no luck with ivtv-firmware, so I have reinstalled linuxtv-dvb-firmware-2009.09.19. Now the output of dmesg has changed somewhat: michael@carter ~ $ dmesg | grep -i pvr pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing. Does this help?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:45 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. Don't seem to find the difference between what I have working and this MacBook Pro I put Gentoo on wherein wicd will not work out of the box. Have you tried diffing /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf from the working and non-working systems. Is eth0 actually present at this time? -- Neil Bothwick I get enough exercise just pushing my luck. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
Mick wrote:
Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender?
I found these:
root@fireball / # eix avast
* app-antivirus/avast4workstation
Available versions: ~1.3.0-r2!m[1] ~1.3.0-r2!m[2]
Homepage:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html
Description: avast! Linux Home Edition
[1] gentoo-china layman/gentoo-china
[2] gentoo-zh layman/gentoo-zh
root@fireball / # eix avg
* media-libs/shivavg
Available versions: [M]~0.2.1
Homepage:http://shivavg.sourceforge.net
Description: open-source implementation of the Khronos'
OpenVG specification
* www-apache/mod_loadavg
Available versions: ~0.0.1
Homepage:http://defunced.de/
Description: Apache module executing CGI-Requests
depending on the load of the server
Found 2 matches.
root@fireball / # eix bitdefend
* app-antivirus/bitdefender-scanner
Available versions: ~7.6.4-r1!f[1] ~7.6.4-r1!f[2]
{bash-completion examples gtk}
Homepage:
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en--BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html
Description: Antivirus and antispyware scanner for both
UNIX-based and Windows-based partitions
[1] gentoo-china layman/gentoo-china
[2] gentoo-zh layman/gentoo-zh
root@fireball / #
So, avast is in gentoo-zh overlay, no AVG, and bitdefender-scanner is
in, drum roll please, gentoo-zh overlay. The guy keeping up with
gentoo-zh is busy on virus tools. lol
Oh, how did I get that you ask? This little command is neat.
eix-remote update
Note that gets cleared the next time you sync. At least it did here.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? -- Neil Bothwick UNILINGUAL: American. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
On 10/23/11 17:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? Nope: michael@carter ~ $ ls /lib/firmware 3com cpia2 ess mts_gsm.fw ti_3410.fwvicam acenic cxgb3 kaweth ositech ti_5052.fw whiteheat.fw adaptec dabusbkeyspan_pda qlogic tigon whiteheat_loader.fw advansys e100 korg r128tr_smctr.bin yamaha atmsar11.fw edgeport matrox radeon ttusb-budget bnx2 emi26 mts_cdma.fw sun v4l-cx25840.fw cis emi62 mts_edge.fw tehuti v4l-cx25840.fw.1 How do I get that file?
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? Nope: It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything else. How do I get that file? Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first link. -- Neil Bothwick Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2
On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? Nope: It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything else. How do I get that file? Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first link. OK I've got the file: michael@carter /lib/firmware $ ls v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw It's still giving me the same errors though: michael@carter /lib/firmware $ dmesg | grep pvrusb pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing. pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper location? pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1 pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful. pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be missing.
[gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed
Greetings, emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck. --- i5 hafi # emerge --sync Performing Global Updates: (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2011.. /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011.. ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2' Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 43, in module retval = emerge_main() File /usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py, line 1531, in emerge_main _global_updates(trees, mtimedb[updates], quiet=(--quiet in myopts)): File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py, line 160, in _global_updates moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd, repo_match=repo_match) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py, line 300, in move_ent origmatches = self.match(origcp, use_cache=0) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py, line 474, in match origdep, mydb=self, use_cache=use_cache, settings=self.settings) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/dep_expand.py, line 33, in dep_expand mydep = Atom(mydep, allow_repo=True) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dep/__init__.py, line 1097, in __init__ raise InvalidAtom(self) InvalidAtom: dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 --- Now what? :) Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 01:40 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: Greetings, emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck. --- i5 hafi # emerge --sync Performing Global Updates: (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2011.. /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011.. ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2' Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 43, in module retval = emerge_main() File /usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py, line 1531, in emerge_main _global_updates(trees, mtimedb[updates], quiet=(--quiet in myopts)): File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py, line 160, in _global_updates moves = vardb.move_ent(update_cmd, repo_match=repo_match) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py, line 300, in move_ent origmatches = self.match(origcp, use_cache=0) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py, line 474, in match origdep, mydb=self, use_cache=use_cache, settings=self.settings) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/dep_expand.py, line 33, in dep_expand mydep = Atom(mydep, allow_repo=True) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dep/__init__.py, line 1097, in __init__ raise InvalidAtom(self) InvalidAtom: dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 --- I'm seeing this chatter now. It looks like someone made a typo. And some mirrors are still picking it up. You should be able to delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011 (or edit the file and fix it... it's pretty straighforward) and continue from there. -a
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed
Albert W. Hopkins: You should be able to delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011 (or edit the file and fix it... it's pretty straighforward) and continue from there. Done the edit. Works. Thanks. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2 [SOLVED]
On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? Nope: It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything else. How do I get that file? Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first link. I downloaded that file and rebooted and dmesg griped about another file and I found it and downloaded it and rebooted and now my output looks like this, which I'm happy with: michael@carter ~ $ dmesg | grep -i pvrusb2 pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2 pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f) pvrusb2: Binding ir_rx_z8f0811_haup to i2c address 0x71. pvrusb2: Binding ir_tx_z8f0811_haup to i2c address 0x70. cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (pvrusb2_a) pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver cx25840 pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver tuner pvrusb2: Supported video standard(s) reported available in hardware: PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB pvrusb2: Mapping standards mask=0x300b700 (PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB) pvrusb2: Setting up 6 unique standard(s) pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=0 name=PAL-M pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=1 name=PAL-N pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=2 name=PAL-Nc pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=3 name=NTSC-M pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=4 name=NTSC-Mj pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=5 name=NTSC-Mk pvrusb2: Initial video standard (determined by device type): NTSC-M pvrusb2: Device initialization completed successfully. pvrusb2: registered device video0 [mpeg] DVB: registering new adapter (pvrusb2-dvb) Speaking of which, isn't there an easier way to reload modules than rebooting? When I started using Gentoo in 2004, there was an /etc/init.d/hotplug, which was replaced by /etc/init.d/coldplug, but neither one seems to be present anymore on the system. What service loads modules on bootup now?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?
On 10/23/2011 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:45 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. Don't seem to find the difference between what I have working and this MacBook Pro I put Gentoo on wherein wicd will not work out of the box. Have you tried diffing /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf from the working and non-working systems. Is eth0 actually present at this time? On my wired machine that works out of the box I have: [wired-default] afterscript = None use_static_dns = False dhcphostname = lpt1 dns3 = None postdisconnectscript = None dns1 = None search_domain = None dns_domain = None lastused = True broadcast = None default = 1 netmask = None dns2 = None beforescript = None profilename = wired-default predisconnectscript = None ip = None gateway = None use_global_dns = False On the machine I have to issue a manual dhcpcd eth0 I have: [wired-default] ip broadcast netmask gateway search_domain dns_domain dns1 dns2 dns3 beforescript afterscript predisconnectscript postdisconnectscript default = True dhcphostname = mac1 Don't know whether the missing values make a difference. As far as eth0, at the moment after dhcpcd eth0 is issued, it is: mac1 wicd # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx inet addr:192.168.10.7 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4565 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5285197 (5.0 MiB) TX bytes:420643 (410.7 KiB) Interrupt:16 Before dhcpcd eth0 is issued eth0 is there, I think, but it does not have an inet addr: assigned to it. I will need to reboot to confirm it. Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't enable effects in kde
Mother Board : ASUS M2A-MX Graphics Card: ATI 4350 Sound card: using on board audio Help needed On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: I am new to gentoo. Installed kde in gentoo. But i am unable to enable effects like. blur, woobly etc.. why ? We need to know what graphics card you have and what sound card. You might also want to tell us what your computer's mainboard is (exact brand and model). We can help you from there to configure your kernel and install the correct graphics drivers.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 00:06:21 Alex Schuster wrote:
András Csányi writes:
I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I
decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile
Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me
what is needed more?
No, I think the debug USE flag has another purpose.
You need to add '-gddb' to you CFLAGS in make.conf, and make sure that
'nostrip' or better 'splitdebug' is in your FEATURES list (the debug
code added by -gddb would be stripped away if not). This will get you a
useful backtrace in DrKonqui, if you are using KDE.
By the way, these reports should be send for the
Amarok developers not gentoo guys, shouldn't they?
I would say so, but I'm not entirely sure. It's easier this way, but
there's a slight chance that the problem is Gentoo-specific.
Wonko
Also if you dont want to do thos globbaly for all your packages you can make
use of /etc/portage/env/.
For example this is what i have for amarok in
/etc/portage/env/media-sound/amarok
CFLAGS=-march=core2 -O1 -g
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
FEATURES=splitdebug
also note when doing it this way, you will also have to do this for a few
dependencies that amarok uses. The way i did it was, When dr konqi pops up
after amarok crashes, it displays a list of files needed for a more usefull
backtrace (in the developer information tab).Use equery to find out which
packages those files belong to and add an entry in /etc/portage/env for them.
After thats done rebuild those pacakges.
--
- Yohan Pereira
A man can do as he will, but not will as he will - Schopenhauer
