Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

[john]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:41:57 +
Mick  wrote:

> On Monday 28 Dec 2015 09:11:10 john wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have installed Gentoo on to another partition in order to use
> > radeon drivers for desktop instead of fglrx.
> > 
> > When I start my resolution is very small (1280x600) and only uses
> > half the screen. My max resolution is 1920*1080 so I have a big
> > black border around my screen. I can startx which works but cannot
> > change the resolution to anything bigger. GRUB splash uses full
> > screen but when the kernel loads it switches to small resolution.
> > 
> > The only thing I can think of which is causing this issue is UEFI.
> > In my other set (fglrx) up I have simple framebuffer enabled which
> > works when I set up resolution in grub default.
> > 
> > Strangely enough when I start system rescue cd in UEFI mode I get
> > the same problem with small resolution but not if I do not boot in
> > UEFI mode.
> 
> Hmm ... I don't get such problems here on 3 PCs running different
> amd/radeon cards and all with radeon drivers.
> 
> You haven't said which card you're running.  If it is a very recent
> model the radeon drivers may not have caught up with it yet?
> 
> If you need to compare kernel settings let me know, although there
> are wiki pages that are quite detailed on this topic.
> 
> 
> > Anyone come across this or got this to work properly with
> > radeon/UEFI?
> > 
> > Moral, don't use UEFI I guess but that's the future???!!
> > 
> > John
> 
> On PC boots in UEFI (directly boots the efi binary, no boot managers)
> and it has no such problems on 2 x 1920*1080 monitors.
> 

Hmm,
thanks, I have now tried an old monitor and its screen
resolution was good (ie 1920x1080) so I think it's the monitor.
I have a R9 280 radeon card which is pretty new but the monitor is very
new (display port only, acer xb240h model) so I guess it's something do
do with that, perhaps EDID but not really sure. The whole graphics
stack is pretty bemusing and I would love to make sense of it all.

It's good to know you got it running on other monitors which gave me
the idea to try it on an older monitor. I will continue to tweak but

Thanks

John

 

[gentoo-user] Syntax to exclude entire folders from emerge --sync?

[waltdnes]

  I have an ancient Atom netbook.  I use distcc to do builds for it, but
"emerge --sync" is done locally.  It's painfull.  Anything to reduce
the amount of unneeded stuff would help.  I want to confirm that I have
the syntax right.  In /etc/portage.make.conf I put...

PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"

...and in /etc/portage/rsync_excludes I put stuff like...

app-leechcraft/
app-pda/
app-xemacs/
dev-dotnet/
dev-embedded/
dev-java/
dev-ruby/
mate-extra/
www-apache/
www-servers/
xfce-base/
xfce-extra/
metadata/md5-cache/app-leechcraft/
metadata/md5-cache/app-pda/
metadata/md5-cache/app-xemacs/
metadata/md5-cache/dev-dotnet/
metadata/md5-cache/dev-embedded/
metadata/md5-cache/dev-java/
metadata/md5-cache/dev-ruby/
metadata/md5-cache/mate-extra/
metadata/md5-cache/www-apache/
metadata/md5-cache/www-servers/
metadata/md5-cache/xfce-base/
metadata/md5-cache/xfce-extra/

  Is this correct?

-- 
Walter Dnes 
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

[wabenbau]

Mick  wrote:

> On Monday 28 Dec 2015 21:05:56 john wrote:
> 
> > Hmm,
> > thanks, I have now tried an old monitor and its screen
> > resolution was good (ie 1920x1080) so I think it's the monitor.
> > I have a R9 280 radeon card which is pretty new but the monitor is
> > very new (display port only, acer xb240h model) so I guess it's
> > something do do with that, perhaps EDID but not really sure. The
> > whole graphics stack is pretty bemusing and I would love to make
> > sense of it all.
> 
> Have a look here for setting up your card:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu
> 
> 
> and here for setting up the driver
> 'x11-drivers/xf86-video-displaylink' to get your DP going:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/DisplayLink

I don't think that this is necessary. The Acer XB240H doesn't have a
DisplayLink connector. It has a DisplyPort connector and for this you
don't need a special driver. 

IIRC you also don't need a special kernel option to use DisplayPort.

--
Regards
wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

[wabenbau]

john  wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:41:57 +
> Mick  wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 28 Dec 2015 09:11:10 john wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have installed Gentoo on to another partition in order to use
> > > radeon drivers for desktop instead of fglrx.
> > > 
> > > When I start my resolution is very small (1280x600) and only uses
> > > half the screen. My max resolution is 1920*1080 so I have a big
> > > black border around my screen. I can startx which works but cannot
> > > change the resolution to anything bigger. GRUB splash uses full
> > > screen but when the kernel loads it switches to small resolution.
> > > 
> > > The only thing I can think of which is causing this issue is UEFI.
> > > In my other set (fglrx) up I have simple framebuffer enabled which
> > > works when I set up resolution in grub default.
> > > 
> > > Strangely enough when I start system rescue cd in UEFI mode I get
> > > the same problem with small resolution but not if I do not boot in
> > > UEFI mode.
> > 
> > Hmm ... I don't get such problems here on 3 PCs running different
> > amd/radeon cards and all with radeon drivers.
> > 
> > You haven't said which card you're running.  If it is a very recent
> > model the radeon drivers may not have caught up with it yet?
> > 
> > If you need to compare kernel settings let me know, although there
> > are wiki pages that are quite detailed on this topic.
> > 
> > 
> > > Anyone come across this or got this to work properly with
> > > radeon/UEFI?
> > > 
> > > Moral, don't use UEFI I guess but that's the future???!!
> > > 
> > > John
> > 
> > On PC boots in UEFI (directly boots the efi binary, no boot
> > managers) and it has no such problems on 2 x 1920*1080 monitors.
> > 
> 
> Hmm,
> thanks, I have now tried an old monitor and its screen
> resolution was good (ie 1920x1080) so I think it's the monitor.
> I have a R9 280 radeon card which is pretty new but the monitor is
> very new (display port only, acer xb240h model) so I guess it's
> something do do with that, perhaps EDID but not really sure. The
> whole graphics stack is pretty bemusing and I would love to make
> sense of it all.

Several months ago I was thinking about buying a LG monitor with 
Cinema4k (4096x2160) resolution. The monitor that I received had some
firmware bugs. One bug was that the monitor shows a broken (somewhat
incomplete) EDID block. So it was not possible to use the full 
resolution with the radeon driver but only UHD resolution (3840x2160).

I read somewhere that this monitor maybe would run fine with the fglrx 
driver. But because I don't like proprietary software and because the 
monitor also had some other bugs and IMHO also a poor picture quality, 
I decided to sent it back. 

There is a kernel option DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE. It allows you to 
specify an EDID data set instead of probing for it. If your problem
is caused by broken EDID data, this option maybe will help you to run
the monitor at its full resolution.

--
Regards
wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 12/28/2015 08:02 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> 
>  * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly.
> !!! Failed to copy extended attributes. In order to avoid this error,
> !!! set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf.
> 

Your filesystem doesn't have xattr support, but portage is trying to set
extended attributes on a file. You might want to enable extended
attributes on the filesystem in question, or if you have a good reason
for disabling them, setting FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf will make the
warnings go away.

> Why is it asking for it?

Only a guess: those packages try to do funny stuff at runtime and need
special exceptions on hardened systems. The exceptions get stored as
extended attributes when PAX_MARKINGS="XT" (this may be/become default).

[gentoo-user] major problem after samba update

[covici]

Hi.  I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of my shares,
I can not access any subfolders of that share.  It usually gives me some
kind of windows permission error, or just location not available.
Windows tells me I can't even display the advanced security settings for
any folder.  Anyone know what they did and how to fix?  There is a hard
blocker to downgrading, so maybe something is up.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-- 
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: Gcc 5.3

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:40:48 -0800 walt wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:18:27 -0500
> Alan Grimes  wrote:
> 
> > Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3...
> > 
> > Unfortunately, it fails to bootstrap on my machine. I am getting
> > differences between the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers and it's
> > dying... =(
> 
> I'm waiting for 5.3.1 before I even try to install it on my main
> desktop machine.

There will be no 5.3.1 likely. Numeration scheme is changed from 5.x
series: what was middle version is now major, what was minor is now
middle. So 5.3 is a patch version of 5.0 the same as 4.9.3 is a
patch version of 4.9.0.

[offtopic]
I really dislike this version race started mostly by chrome and
systemd, but more and more software strives now for a high
increment rate of major version. I wonder what they will do when
large numbers like 1000 or 1 will be reached.
[/offtopic]

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko


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[gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

[john]

Hello,

I have installed Gentoo on to another partition in order to use radeon
drivers for desktop instead of fglrx.

When I start my resolution is very small (1280x600) and only uses half
the screen. My max resolution is 1920*1080 so I have a big black border
around my screen. I can startx which works but cannot change the
resolution to anything bigger. GRUB splash uses full screen but when the
kernel loads it switches to small resolution.

The only thing I can think of which is causing this issue is UEFI. In
my other set (fglrx) up I have simple framebuffer enabled which works
when I set up resolution in grub default.

Strangely enough when I start system rescue cd in UEFI mode I get the
same problem with small resolution but not if I do not boot in UEFI
mode.

Anyone come across this or got this to work properly with radeon/UEFI?

Moral, don't use UEFI I guess but that's the future???!!

John

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update

[covici]

lee  wrote:

> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
> 
> > Hi.  I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of my shares,
> > I can not access any subfolders of that share.  It usually gives me some
> > kind of windows permission error, or just location not available.
> > Windows tells me I can't even display the advanced security settings for
> > any folder.  Anyone know what they did and how to fix?  There is a hard
> > blocker to downgrading, so maybe something is up.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> Do they have a changelog which you looked at?  Can you mount these
> shares from a Linux client?

These are on a Linux server, so there is no problem there.  Changelog
doesn't say  anything but the version number.


-- 
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] radeon screen resolution

[Mick]

On Monday 28 Dec 2015 09:11:10 john wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed Gentoo on to another partition in order to use radeon
> drivers for desktop instead of fglrx.
> 
> When I start my resolution is very small (1280x600) and only uses half
> the screen. My max resolution is 1920*1080 so I have a big black border
> around my screen. I can startx which works but cannot change the
> resolution to anything bigger. GRUB splash uses full screen but when the
> kernel loads it switches to small resolution.
> 
> The only thing I can think of which is causing this issue is UEFI. In
> my other set (fglrx) up I have simple framebuffer enabled which works
> when I set up resolution in grub default.
> 
> Strangely enough when I start system rescue cd in UEFI mode I get the
> same problem with small resolution but not if I do not boot in UEFI
> mode.

Hmm ... I don't get such problems here on 3 PCs running different amd/radeon 
cards and all with radeon drivers.

You haven't said which card you're running.  If it is a very recent model the 
radeon drivers may not have caught up with it yet?

If you need to compare kernel settings let me know, although there are wiki 
pages that are quite detailed on this topic.


> Anyone come across this or got this to work properly with radeon/UEFI?
> 
> Moral, don't use UEFI I guess but that's the future???!!
> 
> John

On PC boots in UEFI (directly boots the efi binary, no boot managers) and it 
has no such problems on 2 x 1920*1080 monitors.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update

[lee]

cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:

> Hi.  I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of my shares,
> I can not access any subfolders of that share.  It usually gives me some
> kind of windows permission error, or just location not available.
> Windows tells me I can't even display the advanced security settings for
> any folder.  Anyone know what they did and how to fix?  There is a hard
> blocker to downgrading, so maybe something is up.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Do they have a changelog which you looked at?  Can you mount these
shares from a Linux client?

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

[Mick]

On Monday 28 Dec 2015 21:05:56 john wrote:

> Hmm,
> thanks, I have now tried an old monitor and its screen
> resolution was good (ie 1920x1080) so I think it's the monitor.
> I have a R9 280 radeon card which is pretty new but the monitor is very
> new (display port only, acer xb240h model) so I guess it's something do
> do with that, perhaps EDID but not really sure. The whole graphics
> stack is pretty bemusing and I would love to make sense of it all.

Have a look here for setting up your card:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu


and here for setting up the driver 'x11-drivers/xf86-video-displaylink' to get 
your DP going:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/DisplayLink

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf

[Ian Bloss]

It's telling you to add -xattr to FEATURES in your make.conf to get around
the issue.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 20:03   wrote:

> I'm upgrading one of my boxes (last one) and get an error message on the
> following packages.
>
> grub-0.97-r16
> python-2.7.10-r1
> icedtea-bin-7.2.6.3
> firefox-bin-38.4.0
> virtualbox-bin-4.3.32.103443
>
>  * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly.
> !!! Failed to copy extended attributes. In order to avoid this error,
> !!! set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf.
>
> Why is it asking for it?
>
> None of my other boxes have setting:
> FEATURES="-xattr
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>

[gentoo-user] set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf

[thelma]

I'm upgrading one of my boxes (last one) and get an error message on the
following packages.

grub-0.97-r16
python-2.7.10-r1
icedtea-bin-7.2.6.3
firefox-bin-38.4.0
virtualbox-bin-4.3.32.103443

 * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly.
!!! Failed to copy extended attributes. In order to avoid this error,
!!! set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf.

Why is it asking for it?

None of my other boxes have setting:
FEATURES="-xattr

-- 
Thelma