Re: [gentoo-user] slideshow on USB stick
All dvd-slideshow and co. do is to resize images (that's a one liner with imagemagick's convert tool) and then join them to compose a video file, muxing it with the chosen audio tracks. You can easily do that with ffmpeg, mencoder or some similar tool of your choice if the menu-driven program doesn't let you bypass the dvd size limit. A video file is the most universal format you can get, unless you want to relly on the tv native player capabilities to do a slideshow, which would also be just fine since any tv that has an usb port can for sure do slideshows as well. 2012/12/19 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com Is it possible to create slide show (pictures) on USB stick and play on a TV? In the past I've used dvd-slideshow but that is a bit of work. I had to re-size the pictures add background music etc. DVD only holds 4GB USB sticks have larger capacity. -- Joseph -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid modules format?!
Use uname -r to check that the kernel version in that path matches the kernel version you are running. Also note that if you changed anything important in your kernel and recompiled it you might need to recompile the external module as well. What important means depends on the module itself, and the pieces of the kernel it uses. Also, always double check that the /usr/src/linux symlink is pointing to the right kernel tree (the one that uname -r says you are running). -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage
It could be anything. Maybe some orphaned process was running in the background and leaking ram, or something. It's futile to speculate now about that. Also, the -recently added- pgo USE flag could have something to do with that. Not sure, since I didn't bother to investigate it's true purpose on firefox. I really don't think that the kernel has changed in a significant way in this regard since the latests 2.6.x releases. But I certainly didn't read *all* the kernel changelogs. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage
http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-08-08-libreoffice-3-6-0.html As someone said, a lot of legacy code is being removed/cleaned/simplyfied. Kernel could be an issue when it comes to swappiness, but not when it comes to the amount of ,memory that a given version of $CC will use to compile a given package, provided that $HARDWARE and $CFLAGS are constant.
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I rewrite all empty sectors with zeros?
You can just fill a file with zeros and let it grow until de device is full. dd if=/dev/zero of=/foo.0 El 22/07/2012 19:26, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com escribió: Hi, I want to backup my whole hard-drive (8 partitions) with: # dd if=/dev/sda | gzip /path/image.gz In order to achieve good compression level I'd like to wipe out all empty space with zeros. How can I do that? Jarry -- __**__**___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive)
So, wpa_supplicant never worked fine. It's been giving me headache since day zero, but I've been -mostly- able to handle it in one or another way. Yesterday I rebooted (I rarely do), and another horror story begun. Now I am getting this messages at init: Código: INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Restoring Mixer Levels ... [ ok ] * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ...[ ok ] * Starting metalog ...[ ok ] * Starting ConsoleKit daemon ... [ ok ] * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * mark_service_inactive: unknown applet * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... ... * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start * Starting cupsd ... [ ok ] * ERROR: cannot start fail2ban as net.wlan0 would not start * ERROR: cannot start netmount as net.wlan0 would not start * ERROR: cannot start samba as net.wlan0 would not start * Starting S.M.A.R.T. monitoring daemon ... [ ok ] * Starting sshd ... [ ok ] * Doing udev cleanups * Starting vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Starting local [ ok ] This is Jesus-PC.O (Linux x86_64 3.4.0) 00:34:56 Jesus-PC login: For the most part, wpa_supplicant seems to start fine though. I can reach the net and everything works... well... maybe 7 times out of 10. Sometimes I have to kill everything related to wpa_supplicant and restart the net.wlan0 service, while I cross my fingers in the hope to reach the internet. But what annoys me the most is the fact that many important services do not start because they depend on net.wlan0, which spits out these errors disrupting the init process. I've been using this for some time now, and I changed the config a lot of times. Always had problems. The last time I set this up I removed everything from /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant, and let it did it's automatic job instead. So far, it's working... some random times. The errors always show though. And they screw up the init. The worst is that it bits sshd, which leaves me without remote access any random day. Ugh. So, any idea where to start looking? :D -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive)
Hi again. This is just a desktop that's on a remote corner. Some months ago I decided to clean a bit and take off some wires, and I am using an usb wifi dongle to connect it to my lan, just because that's what I had at hand at the moment, lying in some drawer. 2012/5/24 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:50:27 +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: I've been using this for some time now, and I changed the config a lot of times. Always had problems. The last time I set this up I removed everything from /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant, and let it did it's automatic job instead. So far, it's working... some random times. The errors always show though. And they screw up the init. The worst is that it bits sshd, which leaves me without remote access any random day. Ugh. So, any idea where to start looking? :D genlop -l --date yesterday is always a good place to start. I knew this wasn't down to wpa_supplicant as I got it this morning on a wirelessless desktop. Genlop showed that openrc was updated yesterday and searching bugzilla for openrc found https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417227 It appears that a fix has been committed. Thank you, it's exactly my problem. Poor wpa_supplicant, it seems it's not guilty after all. :P Well, thank you a ton. I can go from here myself. :) -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume
Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization, in the world of sound edition. It can be done once, as you rip the file or it can be done on the fly when playing it. replaygain is (as the name itself says) an implementation of this that automatically adjusts the gain of each soundtrack. But its just the name of the concrete implementation, not the name of the process. Just like volvo is a brand of cars, but not all cars are branded volvo. I,ll add that if you normalize while ripping you are damaging permanently the audio files, which in addition to a loussy format like mp3, and cheap speakers, can result in a very bad thing, but that really depends on how demanding your ear is... Specially for bands like led zeppelin, I would just use the second method (adjust while playing, rather than while ripping). Someday you will want to hear the whole disk as it was intended, and if you normalized on ripping you won't be able to. --- Jesús Guerrero Botella El 19/05/2012 16:22, ny6...@gmail.com escribió: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 07:54:10PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to change the volume of a mp3/vorbis track? By volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then letting them play. For example, the first track will be quiet, of all ironies my Led Zeppelin tracks are all like this, the next track will be loud, the next track in the middle, in other words it's Goldilocks and the three bears with audio tracks. Is there a way I can either during the ripping process, or subsequently in a post-processing, make the average volume of all my tracks the same? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew don't rip myself, but back in the day, the big ripping programs would usu have some kind of 'leveling' plugin that would equalize the volumes on all the tracks. Terry
Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?
There's no way to know the files for a non-installed package. Ebuilds are NOT packages. The files are generated at build time, and vary dependind on the package, version, config options, arch, deps, and a large etc, including missalignment of the planets and othes essoteric variables. --- Jesús Guerrero Botella El 19/05/2012 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com escribió: Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2012, 17:11:20 schrieb Matthias Hanft: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all? At least, equery uses package *does* work with uninstalled packages. because you just need to look at the useflags and ?DEPEND to figure that out. (However, equery files package does not.) obviously. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe
flashrom can write to a growing number of BIOSes, did you try it already? It's in portage so you can just emerge it. Look at the use flag list, since you might need to enable support for something in there so it can see your chip(s). The exe file might be usable directly with it, or you might have some luck trying to uncompress it with 7z or xz. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
If you need some more features, you might want to consider using a terminal multiplexer like tmux or gnu screen, which have their own scrollback buffer. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf
2012/1/28 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:03:42 Philip Webb wrote: ... another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of saving a file once opened without having to redownload it with the browser. I'd look into /tmp, it'll probably be there. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Searching for a solution to a logical problem...
If I am understanding the problem, maybe what you should do is to choose a window manager that can disable a given binding when the focus is at a given window (blender, in this case). I think fvwm can do this, but it takes some learning to use it with proficiency. In any case, there will always be shortcomings to this. While you are working at blender you will surely sometimes activate that key combo hoping for the blender functionality, but sometimes you will forget you are working with it and hence you will expect that combo to take you to another desktop. The only real solution is mind-reading, which computer will handle someday, but not quite yet. In the while, what I suggest you is to use saner bindings. In a pc the mod4/win key does nothing useful, if you become accustomed to use it for all your WM bindings there will not be conflicts with most applications, probably. That's what I do. Learning some WMs can be time consuming, but configuring the keybindings is usually quick enough. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
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
Re: [gentoo-user] My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
Does this happen on other WMs as well? To me, this sounds like a driver issue. Some drivers (the binary nvidia one, namely) do have some options to control the aspect of the pointer. I never played with them so I don't know if this is one of the available options. If you are using effects, try to disable them and see what happens. Also, did you update the driver (whatever it is) recently? -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de: Hi, Jesús. On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Does this happen on other WMs as well? Yes, it happens on xfce, too. That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X thing, in any case. Also, did you update the driver (whatever it is) recently? Ah. I synched yesterday, and a massive number of packages were updated, among them xorg-drivers. That'll be it, I suppose. That package is kind of a wrapper around the driver packages, which are many. You install xorg-drivers as a dependency of xorg-server, and depending on your VIDEO_CARDS settings in make.conf the relevant driver packages are also pushed as dependencies into your system. Presumably I can configure these drivers somewhere, perhaps in ~/.xinitrc? Is there any documentation for this? Let us know what your driver is so we can give more concrete details. But video drivers, just like any other thing that's part of X, can be configured at /etc/X11/xorg.conf or, more recently, in separate files under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. Some drivers (like, again, the nvidia binary one) do ship tools that can help you configure the driver by writing to these files via a GUI frontend. The concrete options that you can put into this files depend on the concrete driver. For example, the man page for my driver (xf86-video-ati) can be seen by using # man radeon There I can see all the available options. If you let us know what driver are you using, then maybe someone who's familiar with your driver can provide you with more accurate help. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
2011/10/16 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de:
On 10/16/2011 04:41 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/10/16 Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de:
Hi, Jesús.
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
wrote:
Does this happen on other WMs as well?
Yes, it happens on xfce, too.
That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X
thing, in any case.
Er, the used mouse pointer can be configured by almost any DE. You don't
need to mess with X config files. And I'm pretty sure it's not just KDE
that offers a GUI config dialog for this.
I assumed that the problem of the OP is not that s/he's not able to
set a pointer theme. Maybe I was wrong in that assumption. If that's
the case then this can be easily sorted out by opening the gnome
control center as you said, and setting the mouse theme. There are
many themes in the portage tree as well.
It can be set manually in ~/.Xdefaults as well. OR just by putting the
theme in /usr/share/icons/default/ or ~/.icons/default/, if my memory
serves correctly. You can pick any mouse pointer theme from
{gnome,kde}-look as well and install it as described.
I have no idea if the default X pointer theme has changed lately.
--
Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!
2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de: Your doubts come to an end. radeonhd is dead, completely, unless some necromancy has happened secretly in the last months. You should by all means be using radeon, not radeonhd. But don't take my word for it, just read their home page: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd Not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean my VIDEO_CARDS? Other than that, I've got two binary blobs in my kernel, radeon/R600_rlc.bin and radeon/R700_rlc.bin. (Again, I'm not sure which is the correct one.) That's firmware, other than having it installed, you don't need to worry about that. Your driver will be picked by X if you don't have an Xorg.conf file. I am not sure what the order of precedence is when looking for drivers, but I'd expect radeon to take over radeonhd. Your log file (usually at /var/log/Xorg.0.log) should clear everything up. But before continuing this way, please, read the other mail I just sent as response to Nikos above. Maybe all you need is to find how to set the mouse pointer theme. Did you try changing it? Since I didn't see your problem myself I have no idea if there's something unusual in the way that X is displaying your pointer or if it's just that you don't like the look of it. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils
Yes, it's a different binary, and it's perfectly usual to find it in a Linux system. But note that, at least in bash, you rarely will be using /usr/bin/[ unless you reference it using the full path (either in a relative or absolute way). This is because bash has a builtin that takes over that binary file. You can check that (or any other command) by using the type instruction (again, this is for bash). # LC_ALL=C type [ [ is a shell builtin The same goes for 'test'. Those binaries are probably there just in case that some init or system script written for a standard bourne shell (like the busybox one) needs it. But don't take my word for it. I am not sure right now. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal
Check that the consolekit service is also on at bootup. Besides that, the udisks, upower, consolekit, policykit and udev flags apply here. Check they are on, particularly for kde-base/kdelibs (emerge -pv kdelibs). What kdelibs (and kde, in general) version(s) are you using? Hal hasn't been needed for disk mounting nor anything else for a long time. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?
It all comes down to what do you want to prioritize here. If you want minimal downtimes in case that there's a power source failure of any kind, then you probably want ext4 which will give you the fastest fsck times. Or, you might want to check into sqashfs on a flash drive for your rootfs and use whatever else for writable parts (/tmp,/var/log/, etc.), and update only when strictly necessary (GLSAs can probably help you there). After all, as someone else said above, this machine just needs to do one thing, and do it well. If you plan to make stage4/5/6 or whatever the trend is nowadays to name it, you don't even need portage or a toolchain in that box, and having it will only be a security risk since some rootkits comes in the form of a kernel module that needs to be compiled for your specific kernel and architecture (eliminating the kernel sources and the compiler you sort that out from the very root). In any case, the cpu won't be a limiting factor or a bottleneck, whatever your definitive choice shall be. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?
JFS is very soft on cpu usage, and ext4 does a very good job overall. fsck times for ext4 makes it probably the best choice for a server, plus it has more eyes watching over it. In any case, I wanted to call your attention that this might not be the best choice anyway. If you truly want portage to have the minimum possible impact on the performance of your machine(s) you should probably be using other machine(s) to build binary packages, then use these package in the target system(s) (i.e. with emerge -K). -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] tango-icon-theme can't be merged
2011/8/28 Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com: Can't locate XML/Simple.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl Do you have dev-perl/XML-Simple installed? $ emerge -pv XML-Simple I can't check it right now, but if you don't have it installed then the tango-icon-theme ebuild is probably missing a dependence and you should report a bug about that. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the introspection USE flag for glib being removed by emerge?
See the [1] at the end of this line you posted: [ebuild R *] dev-libs/glib- USE=static-libs -debug -doc -fam (-introspection) (-selinux) -test -xattr 0 kB [1] That means this ebuilds come from an overlay, so it's your responsibility to look over it. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium
2011/8/5 Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's not a small app to build). Why is its code so, should I say prone to bugs, compared to other browsers? Firefox isn't perfect either https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Ffirefoxlist_id=337885 I think you hit the nail on the head by saying that it's not a small app to build. The more code that's written increases the the chances a security holes will be introduced into the application. I don't think so. It's not the raw number of source code lines which makes it more prone to bugs. I think that a closer and more realistic number would be the number of lines divided by the number of full-time developers, and don't forget to put in the middle of that formula how skilled they are. Having that into account, chromium has a good base since few teams in the planet will have the quantity and quality of man power that Google has to devote to this project. And as an internet browser, they're also susceptible to many more vectors of attack than most other packages. For chromium specifically, I haven't looked at the CVEs but I suspect many are for webkit and not just Chromium. Just my 2c. The webkit branch into chromium is not the same that you can find in any other webkit-based project. They just have a common origin, but they are maintained separately and it is my understanding that they have diverged enough to be considered as separate things. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel=YES ?
2011/7/19 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: Spelunking in /etc/rc.conf, I found the rc_parallel setting, accompanied with a quite significant WARNING. Have anyone experienced any trouble setting rc_parallel to YES? Obviously, the answer to this is YES. If no one had a problem with this, first, there wouldn't be a warning; and second, it would be enabled by default. Sure that some people use it without much problem, but if you enable it, be sure to keep it in your mind that you enabled it, and disable it if you have problems before opening any bug report having to do with system services and/or the init process. In any case, placebo effects aside as always, all you'll gain from this will be a couple of seconds. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel=YES ?
2011/7/19 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel=YES ? From: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com Date: 2011-07-19 15:02 2011/7/19 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: Spelunking in /etc/rc.conf, I found the rc_parallel setting, accompanied with a quite significant WARNING. Have anyone experienced any trouble setting rc_parallel to YES? Obviously, the answer to this is YES. If no one had a problem with this, first, there wouldn't be a warning; and second, it would be enabled by default. Sure that some people use it without much problem, but if you enable it, be sure to keep it in your mind that you enabled it, and disable it if you have problems before opening any bug report having to do with system services and/or the init process. You indeed are pedantically correct :-) If I may rephrase my question, I'd write: Have anyone in this list experienced any trouble setting rc_parallel to 'yes' ;-) My answer would still be yes, though I can't remember the details, I have had issues with this in several occasions, maybe five or six (all the times I've tried this feature since I started using Gentoo, like a decade ago). So, it's a feature that has always been broken, in all the stable and experimental init systems that Gentoo has had since it was born. I hope that can give you a better overview on what I meant above. In any case, placebo effects aside as always, all you'll gain from this will be a couple of seconds. In my case, I have to start eth0 to eth5 (yes, 6 eth's), and the speedup is quite significant :-) In that case, maybe systemd or a custom init script (even something simple in local.start) could greatly improve your boot time without breaking it. I don't mean you shouldn't use that feature though, I just mean that you should be vigilant if you use it. It might just work for your particular configuration, but it might also break at any random moment tomorrow so you'll need to keep an eye on it and remind to turn it off if some paranormal activity is detected in your machine or something happens to your kittens. :) -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
2011/7/11 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Dale wrote: Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: DAle, Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my 6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed one restart where I got a window, any attempt to configure it killed FF. This is on gnome, not KDE so while symptoms differ, it may still be the same root cause - some of the underlying packages needed rebuilding - it was (maybe) nss and dev-lang/spidermonkey. Sorry, had a lot going on so cant be more specific - it was strace that tipped me off (how I cant remember). BillK I'm going to try a clean directory for it here in a minute. I'm going to back up my whole home directory for good measure. I'm not holding my breath but I'll cross my fingers just in case. Dale :-) :-) OK. This is better. It seems to work. Can someone explain how a bad config file in Firefox can cause a kernel panic? I thought things like this was not possible? This sounds so windowish. o_O We already explained you above in the other thread. That shouldn't be possible in a sane system. You haven't found the root of the problem, just the way to avoid it. The problem is in either the kernel (or one of its modules) or the hardware. Firefox (or any other userland program) has not the power to do this if the kernel doesn't allow it or a hardware failure doesn't screw up something. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
2011/7/6 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or high cpu loads. Openldap itself can't hard lock up anything if the kernel doesn't give it permissions to do so (kernel bug) or if the hardware is not faulty. Same goes for tray apps. OK. I tested this and it doesn't help any. I tried three different kernels, all of which I have used in the past with no problems, and get the same thing. I have tried reinstalling nvidia-drivers and a different versions of nvidia-drivers, same thing. So, either previously working kernels are now broke, nvidia which was working fine just a few days ago with no recent updates here just broke or just maybe it is something else we have yet to figure out yet. I also ran memtest for HOURS with not one problem reported. Given I have tried the above, do you still think it is kernel, nvidia or hardware? I'm about to run tests on the drive now. I suspect it is going to show no problems as well. I can't know what it is, but all the kernels you list are .38, and all of them are affected by the bug I described, so you haven't discarded anything yet. Try 2.6.39.2 if you want to discard that. All the drivers you've tried are also the same nvidia-drivers, so that's a poor attempt as well. Try vesa, as said. All I say is that user land applications CAN'T hard lock the whole OS unless the kernel let's them do so. And that can only happens because of three reasons: a) kernel bug b) drivers c) hardware Unless it's not truly a hard-lock, in which case the title of the thread is misleading. I did try .39 but it had issues. I got rid of those. Right, but .38 suffers the bug we are telling you. So you'll have to fix these issues, or you'll never discard the possibility that's the USB bug from .38 bitting you. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
2011/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/7/4 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast enough. I think the contacts may need some cleaning. My UPS does some odd things at times. I need a new one but they are pricey. I had forgot about the power failure issue. That has lead me down a different path now. You don't need much time. The default shortcut to disable compositing in kde is shift+alt+f12 You can try the vesa driver, or any alternative that will work with your card, as well. I also had the usb issue that others said above, with previous kernel versions. I haven't seen it lately though, with 2.6.39.x. I may try that if this re-emerge doesn't help any. It doesn't like much. I just hope all the thunder I keep hearing will not force me to shutdown my rig. I think Mother Nature is hungry since the tummy is growling a lot. :/ Hmmm, I use Nvidia for my drivers. I don't even know if vesa is on here or not. I might add that Fluxbox has been working. It even plays videos fine. I'm not sure this is a video driver problem, not yet anyway. There's one very important difference and it relates to all the post I've written in this thread: compositing. Fluxbox doesn't use that. You will need to start trying something sooner or later, if you discard problems like that without any further looking you might not find the problem ever. I been using 2.6.38 for a while. I seem to have missed the USB bug. I don't have much that uses it except for my printer and my camera. I don't even have my printer hooked up most of them time. Maybe I do have some good luck after all. o_O A lot of people were hit by a nasty bug that hard locked the pc when plugging in usb storage devices. Your camera would fit that category. I remember a thread in the forum where most users affected by this had a similar motherboard and chipset. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882390-highlight-.html There's been some noise about this in many places, not just that thread. So you might want to take a look at it if you can't solve your problem recompiling the tray app. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the thing (whatever it is) is not bount to intensive I/O operations and/or high cpu loads. Openldap itself can't hard lock up anything if the kernel doesn't give it permissions to do so (kernel bug) or if the hardware is not faulty. Same goes for tray apps. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
Just to discard some basic things, you could run a SMART check in your disks and memtest86+ in your RAM. The fact that a memory intensive desktop locks the computer that flux didn't might mean a thing there (or not). -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?
I think he wants emerge -pf -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Hi, What mine does: It sort of varies but usually when I login, it may last a couple minutes, usually less, then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED's blink. The Num Lock key is off if that means anything. I tried the SysReq keys but it doesn't do anything at all. According to the messages at the next boot, it doesn't sync or umount either. The mouse pointer no longer moves either. At this point, I hit the reset button which causes steam to come out my ears. I HATE using that button. I'm fairly sure this is not hardware. You can never be sure about that. Right now, I am in Fluxbox and it works fine. I also booted to single user and compiled a bunch of stuff and also tried a different kernel too. I think if it was hardware, it would have had some kind of hick-up during the compile. I did check temps and all is nice and cool, very cool since my A/C is on full blast. I think the oven is outside on full blast instead of in the kitchen. lol It's HOT here, steamy hot. You can try turning off the compositing system altogether. You can do that by disabling the desktop effects in systemsettings. If lockups stop then it's probably something to do with your graphics driver and if that's the case you might have better luck with an alternative driver. I checked messages and the only thing I saw was about a bad option for hp-systray. Surely that wouldn't cause a crash? I'm going to unmerge and test it tho, just to be sure. I don't think so. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast enough. I think the contacts may need some cleaning. My UPS does some odd things at times. I need a new one but they are pricey. I had forgot about the power failure issue. That has lead me down a different path now. You don't need much time. The default shortcut to disable compositing in kde is shift+alt+f12 You can try the vesa driver, or any alternative that will work with your card, as well. I also had the usb issue that others said above, with previous kernel versions. I haven't seen it lately though, with 2.6.39.x. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] portage for chef-0.10.0
2011/6/28 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:00:46 +0400, Alexey Melezhik wrote: Current chef-client portage is only for version 0.9.12 (according to http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-admin/chef), while version 0.10.0 of chef was released at May, 02. When portage for chef-client, version 0.10.0 will be ready? Bugzilla is the place to ask this, in this case at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369391 Sometimes the problem is that there's not enough dev power, or that there's no developer interested in maintaining that concrete package. In any case, submitting an updated ebuild to bugzilla sometimes can help to speed up the process. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything
I don't have spare time for philosophical stuff (and it's not amongst my insterests anyway). But, you can always use some extension to block flash contents. Then you click only in the flashes you want to see. That will probably help to narrow down the scope of the problem. So, try adblock and flashblock. The extra ram they will suck probably worths the trouble. It's obvious that if you can live without flash you should live without flash. But it is also obvious that if you need to visit a flash based site then you need to visit it, and there's no working alternative to the crap Adobe gifted all of us with. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5
2011/5/26 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: PS. I'm not sure that Linus is using Gnome. I recall him bitching that the Gnome design approach (which unfortunately KDE imitated) was not the right direction to evolve linux in. Offtopic, but... He ditched gnome, then, a couple of years ago, he ditched kde4. He will for sure ditch gnome3 in about a couple of months. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/012209-open-source-identity-linux-founder.html?page=1 He also said some time ago that, for years to come, there wouldn't be a 2.8 or 3.x for the linux kernel, but yesterday he said the opposite. That's not good or bad, it's just Linus speaking ;) -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] FVWM Desktop scrolling not working with KDE open dialog box
2011/5/26 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com: I'm having a weird issue I'm hoping someone here can help with. I've asked on the FVWM mailing list, but they can't reproduce with my config, so I'm hoping someone here with experience with the KDE/QT side of things might be able to offer a suggestion. I saw your question in the fvwm mailing list. If Thomas Adam couldn't help there I don't think anyone here will be able to. But stay tuned, just in case... I, like him, couldn't reproduce this. I've occasionally used lots of kde applications with fvwm without this problem. It seems to only be limited to QT/KDE, but I have no idea if it's a bug in FVWM, or a feature in KDE that needs disabling. Hope this description makes sense. Does anyone have any ideas? Well, in my book, a kde app is an application that links against the kde foundations (kdelibs), a qt-only app is an application that links against any or many of the qt parts, but not against kdelibs. smplayer seems to fall into the later category. It could help if you were able to reproduce this with a minimal single config file and try some more qt and kde programs. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] FVWM Desktop scrolling not working with KDE open dialog box
2011/5/26 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com: On 05/27/11 00:22, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/5/26 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com: I'm having a weird issue I'm hoping someone here can help with. I've asked on the FVWM mailing list, but they can't reproduce with my config, so I'm hoping someone here with experience with the KDE/QT side of things might be able to offer a suggestion. I saw your question in the fvwm mailing list. If Thomas Adam couldn't help there I don't think anyone here will be able to. But stay tuned, just in case... I, like him, couldn't reproduce this. I've occasionally used lots of kde applications with fvwm without this problem. It seems to only be limited to QT/KDE, but I have no idea if it's a bug in FVWM, or a feature in KDE that needs disabling. Hope this description makes sense. Does anyone have any ideas? Well, in my book, a kde app is an application that links against the kde foundations (kdelibs), a qt-only app is an application that links against any or many of the qt parts, but not against kdelibs. smplayer seems to fall into the later category. It could help if you were able to reproduce this with a minimal single config file and try some more qt and kde programs. I've tried it with SMplayer, Kdevelop, Kate, KMyMoney, and KolourPaint and they all exhibit the same behaviour. Gnome and other X apps don't exhibit the same behaviour, it seems limited to KDE apps. I'll try to strip down a config and see if I can't find what option does it. I think I might also move my .kde4 folder temporarily and see if it still happens. One quick thing you could try is to create a new user and try there, if you don't want to mess up your kde config. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] win key takes me from X to VT
2011/4/20 YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:27:03AM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: El día 18 de abril de 2011 00:01, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com escribió: Try to reset all shortcuts with: setxkbmap -option It doesn't change anything. The problem starts in kdm, before loging in, so it's nothing specific to a given user account. Oh, I forgot, it is nothing specific to kdm either. What I meant above is that it happens since I enter X. Or rather, since this is the default behavior in the console, we could more correctly say that it *continues* happening when I enter X, where it should not happen. I tested the lxde login manager and it has the same problem. It seems like X didn't switch the keyboard to raw mode or something like this... The win key on linux console swithes to a previou vt (don't know if it is intentional, or just a side effect of the kernel not correctly handling it) Sometimes, when an app freezes the whole X (usually when it grabs the keyboard and freezes) I have to use the magic sysrq keys to unraw the keyboard, which means I can that use alt-fX to swtich to text VTs, kill the app and return to X... however from that moment on until I restart X, the keyboard is not in raw mode and alt-fX and also the winkey switch consoles (like you describe) This must be the key, but I still haven't found how to start digging into this. In any case, if I manage to fix this I'll let everyone know here. There must be a cause for this since I seem to be the only one suffering this problem. Thank you for all the pointers though, they might prove helpful sooner or later. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean
gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't know if you need it, then you don't need it. You will be happy as long as portage doesn't want to remove gtk+ 2.x which is what most programs use. I don't even know if there's anything in portage at all that will require 3.x. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] win key takes me from X to VT
2011/4/20 Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com: What X drivers you have in your make.conf? Kfir I only use the radeon driver for display and the evdev one for input. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] screen, screen+byobu, or tmux?
2011/4/17 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: So, anyone got any experience using screen and screen+byobu and tmux? What's your opinion in general of the three alternatives? tmux seems to be much more actively developed these days. That's my perception at least. A fact is that its codebase is lighter and simpler, and it has been able to do vertical splits for a long time. I don't know if that feature finally merged (in an usable status, I mean) in screen. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] win key takes me from X to VT
El día 18 de abril de 2011 00:01, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com escribió: Try to reset all shortcuts with: setxkbmap -option It doesn't change anything. The problem starts in kdm, before loging in, so it's nothing specific to a given user account. Oh, I forgot, it is nothing specific to kdm either. What I meant above is that it happens since I enter X. Or rather, since this is the default behavior in the console, we could more correctly say that it *continues* happening when I enter X, where it should not happen. I tested the lxde login manager and it has the same problem. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
[gentoo-user] win key takes me from X to VT
Hello. I am having this issue since a couple of days ago. When I press the win key (alone) I am taken back to VT, which is quite annoying since I've used win+[123456] to go to the respective virtual desktops for years. I've tried downgrading xorg-server and it didn't work. I've also tried to change mingetty (which I've been using for years as well) by agetty, no change either. If I restart the xdm service (I use kdm) then everything works as expected and I can use the windows key for my bindings. Any idea on where to start looking or how to diagnose this? Thanks everyone. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
As someone said above, a possible cause is that /usr/src was a mount point, maybe with -obind, or even a symlink. Many people do this to handle kernels manually on their own $HOME directory (I do it this way myself). Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of Gentoo. On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your box was hacked. But, otherwise, you removed it, maybe without noticing. --depclean would never remove this, even if it was buggy enough to remove all your kernels (which it isn't) it wouldn't remove all the files that do not belong to the package, and there are thousands of these in any kernel tree that's been configured and/or compiled. Hence, the non-empty directories would never be removed either. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion
You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for recursive search. Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf after the one you posted above. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion
2011/2/26 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for recursive search. Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf after the one you posted above. Thanks, I checked for duplicate entries in make.conf (there aren't any) and nothing is shown under /etc/portage ... what now? Can you post emerge --info? -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash versions
2011/1/26 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com: My seamonkey says it has Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102. Her computer claims Shockwave Flash 6.0 r81. We each have the same version of adobe-flash installed, with the exact same USE flags. We both use the same version of seamonkey. So why is my flash plugin version higher, and how can I get hers as high? If you both have the same version of the adobe-flash package, then it's crystal clear that there must be some other version of the plugin that's interfering. Probably something that one of you installed by hand, either globally or locally (on her home folder). This is one of the reasons why I would advice against the advice someone gave you above. Installing things by hand is not a good thing if you plan to forget about them as the time passes by. What I'd do. First make sure you don't have installed some other flash plugin via portage, check that swfdec, lightspark and/or gnash are not installed. If they are, uninstall them. After that, use this command to see where your plugin lives and if there's some other in some alternative place: $ locate libflashplayer.so Ask here if you are not sure about the output. Also, note that there can be plugins installed locally under ~/, so if after the above you can't still find the 6.x plugin that's causing the mess it might be a good idea to run something like $ find $HOME -name libflashplayer.so And see what happens. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent hal
~amd64 (which is k3b-2.0.1-r1) still depends on HAL. The last time I checked this, work was on-going to solve that. But, as of now, HAL is the only way k3b has to find devices, in gentoo at least. I remember that in the past there was a configurator where you could manually configure the devices from k3b. I don't know if that code is still there. Maybe the it is and the problem is that Gentoo removes it. The message at the end of the ebuild is suspicious in this regard. echo elog We don't install k3bsetup anymore because Gentoo doesn't need it. elog If you get warnings on start-up, uncheck the \Check system elog configuration\ option in the \Misc\ settings window. echo It might be possible to disable hal via some flag and then remove the -DK3B_BUILD_K3BSETUP=OFF above you be able to manually configure k3b without needing HAL. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent hal
2010/12/22 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: As far as I can remember I think k3bsetup was more related to changing permissions on cdrecord device nodes, not about detecting devices. I really can't remember. But there had to be a way to select your writer before HAL got into scene. As said, I don't know if that code is still there. Much more taking into account that in the middle there has been the port to kde4. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent hal
2010/12/22 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/12/22 Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: As far as I can remember I think k3bsetup was more related to changing permissions on cdrecord device nodes, not about detecting devices. I really can't remember. But there had to be a way to select your writer before HAL got into scene. As said, I don't know if that code is still there. Much more taking into account that in the middle there has been the port to kde4. I noticed the other day that some KDE stuff pulled in policykit. I checked and noticed this: [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-2.0.1-r1 [2.0.0] USE=dvd encode flac mad vorbis wav (-aqua) -debug -emovix -ffmpeg (-kdeenablefinal) -lame -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib -vcd LINGUAS=-ast -be -bg -ca -...@valencia -cs -csb -da -de -el -en_GB -eo -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hne -hr -hu -is -it -ja -km -ko -ku -lt -mai -nb -nds -nl -nn -oc -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sk -sl -sv -th -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW 11,982 kB I don't see any mention of hal there. That is the unstable k3b on amd64. No mention of hal on cdrtools either. Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel. ;-) No. There's no qt use flag for kde apps either. That doesn't mean qt is not required. USE flags are for optional features. HAL is not optional, but mandatory for k3b at this stage. The dependency is in the ebuild if you look inside. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?
2010/12/21 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself. The local Walmart shows an interesting 17 Acer laptop at... http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook Reading the specs, it does not seem to be cutting corners, low price notwithstanding. As usual, my main concern is the video chip, and Gentoo support (or lack thereof?). If it can be made to work under Gentoo without trouble, I'm very interested. Anyone hear one way or the other about linux, especially Gentoo, compatability? My chip is integrated, but it's close to that one. It's a 4200hd card. It works perfectly with the open source (radeon) driver. Compositing works ok as well. I don't do gaming, though. So can't comment on that. The open source drivers is all I would ever recommend for ATi cards. If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?
2010/12/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine with the lastest kernel (2.6.36) and the latest xorg-server (1.9.2.902) If you have been an fglrx user for a long time you should know that's not the usual case (unless things have changed drastically in the last few months). This driver **usually** doesn't work with latest X and/or kernel. Punctually, it might, but usually you have to keep your system downgraded intentionally to keep these drivers working. I am not advertising any other brand here (and I have mentioned no brand name). Merely describing my experience with fglrx, for several years and until a few months ago. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?
2010/12/21 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com: On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine with the lastest kernel (2.6.36) and the latest xorg-server (1.9.2.902) If you have been an fglrx user for a long time you should know that's not the usual case (unless things have changed drastically in the last few months). Yes, I do think it has changed recently. There is even a a more recent version 10.12 but not in the tree, yet. I've been using fglrx for 18 months without problem on amd64 (which is currently using xorg 1.7.7). I would assume that ~amd64/~x86 would be more troublesome as the driver will take some time to catch up with the latest developments. Admittedly, I never used stable arch, in either x86 or x86_64. Admittedly -as well- it's been long since I used any proprietary driver. I suggest using the open driver unless you need the extra power for gaming. Depending on your requisites the open driver might be ok for you even if you are a gamer. Such chip is very well supported nowadays when using the radeon free driver, even for 3d. It's just easier and you don't have to recompile anything each time you install a new kernel and/or xorg bumps its version number. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't move Chromium windows between screens
2010/12/17 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de: Am 17.12.2010 15:16, schrieb Pau Peris: No one knows what could be? Maybe you should ask on a kde4, xorg or chromium specific mailinglist or forum. A window without titlebar in the way as chromium uses it is a nasty hack and absolutly not supported from Xorg. Problems of any type have to be expected. As you say, if you override the WM and use your own (like chromium does when configured that way) then your application is the responsible for doing all the movement. So, whatever the problem is, it is a problem with chromium. If previous versions worked then there was a regression. The original poster should look into the chromium bug tracker and see if anyone is having that problem. Else, report it him or herself. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo with ZIMBRA
El día 7 de diciembre de 2010 10:26, Mag. Ing. Emilio Del Campo Z. emilio.delca...@gmail.com escribió: Hi Everyone.. Hola todos, quiza alguno que entienda español? deseo probar gentoo con zimbra o con algun metodo, mail server, antivirus, antispam y webmail que pudieran recomendar, las gracias de antemano y perdon por el español. Por favor, subscríbete a la lista gentoo-user-es y pregunta allí. Es el mejor lugar para obtener ayuda de hispanohablantes. Alternativamente, puedes usar el subforo español: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-30.html Aquí tienes una lista con todas las listas de correo disponibles en Gentoo, incluyendo las de habla no inglesa: http://www.gentoo.org/main/es/lists.xml Saludos. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen
These days tmux seems somewhat more actively developed, this might be a subjective appreciation, though. But at least the tmux mailing list seems more active. I am subscribed to both of them. The feature that made me switch from screen to tmux back in the days was vertical splitting, which just worked and worked well (not at turtle pace, not blowing my cpu like in screen). It happens that nowadays I no longer use that feature, but I kept tmux because I find it simpler to handle, because it's lighter in my RAM, and because a few problems with screen (besides splitting) that I no longer remember. I switched long ago. I have no idea if my concerns about screen still hold true. Not do I care, since for now I have no need to change back. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems while migrating to 64bit
2010/9/15 meino.cra...@gmx.de: thank you for your reply and explanations, Jesus! :) You are welcome. :) The problems are nearly gone in the meanwhile: The HAL-flag was missing for the xorg-sevrer (1.7), after that mouse was recognized and the keyboard was fully functional (with pipes) again. Yes. 1.7 needs USE=hal to be able to use .fdi based configs. Bear in mind what I said in the other mail though: in the future hal will be gone, so save that bookmark for the next time your mouse and keyboard stop working. Fonts: I simply missed to install a couple of fonts. But why they was not in my old world file...dont know. Maybe you installed them manually, that's not uncommon when it comes to fonts. Installing fonts for a given user is a matter of copying them into ~/.fonts/, some desktops like kde might have GUIs to do the same task. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems while migrating to 64bit
2010/9/13 meino.cra...@gmx.de: 1.) The fonts of mrxvt are microscopic tiny...my home and .mrxvt remained the same. Are fonts not reported to world when emerged? What are the basic fonts I need before buying new glasses? Maybe you forgot some use flag or something. To use truetype fonts in mrxvt you need to turn that flag on. I also have no idea about mrxvt, but most terminal emulators read their configs from ~/.Xdefaults, check the mrxvt man page and/or docs. 2.) Mouse does not work. Hald is up, fdi-rules are copied from my old system, /dev/input/mice is there, gpm (started for a test) sees the mouse, xf86-input-mouse is recompiled, dbus is running. What's wrong? X.org.log reports no device defined for mouse... my xorg.conf does not define such...but it is the same xorg.conf, which works under 32bit env. So So, latest Xorg doesn't use hal. I can't be sure since you are not telling us what xorg version you are using. Since 1.8 X uses udev instead. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml 3.) Keyboard behaves somehow strange. German Umlauts works, but | does not...it performs something like a crazy backspace or so. And a UNIX without a working pipe is not really making me happy... If it happens only under X, then it's the same issue that you have with your mouse. Configure it using the new method. 4.) As someone already reports to the list: k3b does not find any burner, cdrom, dvd-drive. /dev/sr0 exist and is linked to dvd. Probably a k3b and/or udev issue. I can't help with this one. But I think I've seen something about k3b lately in the forums. Might worth a check. I even can boot from dvd... That's nothing to do with linux, but your BIOS. A different land. Regards. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers
2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have currently: hda Actual hard drive OS on this hdb Actual hard drive Not in use hdc Actual hard drive home partition hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner. sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff. So, hda has the Gentoo OS on it and hdc is my /hone directory. I have videos, mp3's and various other data on sda. Currently hdb is not being used, since for those who keep up with my threads would know, it is the one that is terribly slow. Something along the lines of 10Mbs/sec or something of that nature. It's just hard to get out of the case right now and I can't get to it with a hammer either. :/ You can at least disconnect it then. Right now all it does and eat power, heat the case and make noise :-/ My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde. Would that be a logical expectation? I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth. This entirely depends on the way your BIOS orders your drivers, as far as I know. It could be either way. But, we all know how flexible grub is. You can just use TAB to autocomplete and try. All you need to boot is your root fs, after that fdisk -l will reveal all the info you need. fstab is another story, that might cost you an extra reboot into a livecd to fix it. But, using labels as said will fix all the problems (beforehand) for you, as said. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers
2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have currently: hda Actual hard drive OS on this hdb Actual hard drive Not in use hdc Actual hard drive home partition hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner. sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff. The advice by the other posters to label your disks is a good one. I'm using labels too. Not sure why I didn't think to mention it :P Applying labels to your filesystems is trivial. Simply use the e2label utility (it's in the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package and installed by default, so there's nothing new to emerge). For example, if your hda1 is your root partition and your hda2 your swap, you can label them like this: e2label /dev/hda1 GentooRoot e2label /dev/hda2 GentooSwap Note: hda1, not just hda. You are labeling the filesystem on a partition, not the whole drive. After you label all your filesystems, you simply modify your /etc/fstab like this: Before: /dev/hda1 / ext4 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 After: /dev/disk/by-label/GentooRoot / ext4 noatime 0 1 /dev/disk/by-label/GentooSwap none swap sw 0 0 That is, you simply change /dev/blah to /dev/disk/by-label/DriveLabel and that's it. Or you can do it by uuid, all the info you need can be picked from this output: $ ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -l Then just add lines to fstab like this: UUID=6ea2b219-0bcc-4c90-9960-82a9659e6d0e / ext4 noatime 0 1 -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform
2010/8/16 Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? There's a multilib overlay that will allow you to build 32 bits software on a 64 bits OS. But it's completely unsupported, don't expect it to work flawlessly. It's been long since the last time I tried it so I don't know what the current status of things is. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
