[gentoo-user] OT - manual builds - ./configure error
This problem has been irking me for some time now. Whenever I try to build packages manually i.e. not emerge. They fail when executing ./configure with the following error: Invalid configuration `i686-pc-linux-': machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub i686-pc-linux- failed several different packages have done this so I believe it is a system setup issue. I can sometimes avoid the problem by passing a --build argument to ./configure. Luckily emerge seems to work fine, its only manual compiles. Any help would be appreciated... -Lucien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer download security problem
I had the same problem recently, I solved it by manually downloading it with wget, just do wget --no-check-certificate URL, then copy over to /usr/portage/distfiles and rerun emerge command. Lucien On 17:29 Tue 15 Nov , James wrote: Hello I've been trying to emerge (install): media-video/realplayer I get this error message: snip Connecting to helixcommunity.org|207.188.25.135|:443... connected. ERROR: Certificate verification error for helixcommunity.org: unable to get local issuer certificate To connect to helixcommunity.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'. Unable to establish SSL connection. snip I've tried the --no-check-certificate as both an emerge option and as a USE flag, to no avail. So what am I missing to get the 'emerge realplayer' to work? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] pcmcia problems (cardmgr can't find device)
phaedrus lu # cardmgr cardmgr[10882]: no device drivers defined cardmgr[10882]: no cards defined cardmgr[10882]: no sockets found! This is my problem, I've been troubleshooting it off and on for a while now with no luck. I'm running 2.6.11 gentoo-sources and version 3.2.8-r2 of pcmcia-cs. Right now pcmcia support is compiled into the kernel, I have previously tried it as a module with the same results. The computer is a Dell inspiron 8200. Below is other relevant info from lspci: :02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00d4 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 255 Memory at 20001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 I/O window 0: -0003 [disabled] I/O window 1: -0003 [disabled] 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 :02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00d4 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 255 Memory at 20002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176 I/O window 0: -0003 [disabled] I/O window 1: -0003 [disabled] 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 phaedrus lu # zgrep CONFIG_PCMCIA /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y # CONFIG_PCMCIA_AHA152X is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_FDOMAIN is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_QLOGIC is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_SYM53C500 is not set phaedrus conf.d # cat pcmcia | grep ^[^#] CARDMGR_OPTS=-f SCHEME=home PCIC=yenta_socket PCIC_OPTS= PCIC_ALT=i82365 PCIC_ALT_OPTS= CORE_OPTS= Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Lucien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia problems (cardmgr can't find device)
As my old high school CS teacher used to say, error due to User Headspace Misalignment. I don't know what led me to enable it without enabling any drivers for it, but that was my problem. Thanks for the help. Lucien On 8/3/05, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:17, Lucien D. wrote: phaedrus lu # zgrep CONFIG_PCMCIA /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y # CONFIG_PCMCIA_AHA152X is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_FDOMAIN is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_QLOGIC is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_SYM53C500 is not set You're missing some important information here. Here's mine: CONFIG_PCCARD=y # CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA=y # CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL is not set CONFIG_CARDBUS=y CONFIG_YENTA=y # CONFIG_PD6729 is not set # CONFIG_I82092 is not set # CONFIG_TCIC is not set CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC=y CONFIG_CARDBUS enables support for 32-bit cards (which you probably want) and you'll also need to enable at least one driver. Looking at your lspci output, the Yenta driver should work fine. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host
On 7/27/05, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I finally bought myself a somewhat low end notebook on which I want to install Gentoo as well. Since this is a low end box and since my main system is not low end :), I'd like to compile as much as possible on the big server and then later copy (or whatever) the compiled packages over to the slower system. Those two systems will be in a LAN. Always. What's the best method to accomplish that? I guess, that there's already documentation about such a setup out there. Thus, I would of course very much appreciate, if you could point me to good documentation. Remember that you can always set up distcc. This way your laptop does its normal compiles and you can distribute lots of the compiling load to the big server. I've had good luck using distcc to speed up my p3 450's builds.. until it fried that is... However, you might be better off doing a hybrid of the two, especially when it comes to compiling big packages, since there are some that explicitly disable using distcc. You might want to build the packages exclusively on your more powerful computer for that one. Whichever you choose there is plenty of documentation for either. -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV - recording (I think) but black on playback
for my pvr250 the cable input is tuner-0, so make sure thats what ur using in mythsetup. if u need to search for the input I think that ptune.pl script lets u specify the input. so you can just open up mplayer /dev/v4l/video0 and in another console change inputs with ptune until things happen. Lucien On 4/25/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/24/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just a guess, but it looks like that nuvinfo only looks at the file information, which seem ok, but that nuvexport looks at the sql db for show names and info, and that would lead me to believe that nuvexport isn't working because something is wrong with the db. Do the programs show up properly in mythfrontend? I'm as ignorant as they come when administering mysql, my only suggestion would be to go over the steps in the guide on the gentoo-wiki and make sure everything is as it should be. You may be very right but I don't see how to tell nuvexport anything about mysql. Maybe someone else will pop up and clue me in. The other straing thing I'm finding is the /dev/v4l permissions keep changing to whoever ran mythfrontend last. Shoudl it do that? SNIP I clearly don't understand this yet! This one is new to me, I don't think I have this behavior. I run the backend as root and the frontend usually as a different user, sometimes as root. however, as far as I know only the backend ever touches the v4l device through the symlink in /dev/video0. And the device actually has the permissions of my regular user, so I don't think mythbackend changes them. You're probably right. I think it is just the backend and possibly the driver (ivtv in my case) I did just do a little experimenting, doing mplayer /dev/v4l/video0 as both root and another user, it didn't have any effect on permissions or ownership of the device. Maybe I'll experiment some more tonight or tomorrow. To get around the X-Video issue I've set up MythTV on my laptop. However when I run mythtv-setup I get messages that it cannot conenct to the datbase server: 2005-04-24 15:31:02.788 Unable to connect to database! 2005-04-24 15:31:02.788 Driver error was [1/2003]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.10.55' (111) 2005-04-24 15:31:02.788 Failed to init MythContext, exiting. I look at the netstat data on the server and it's not looking good to me: SNIP the guide on the gentoo-wiki has a section about using mythfrontend on a seperate machine, the key points seem to be giving the mysql user access to connect from remote machines and making sure myth listens on a accessible address (in mythsetup u don't want to use 127.0.0.1 anywhere). OK, this one got solved today. There were two issues: 1) The setup of mysql logically to allow logins from other machines. That's the part that's on the Wiki. 2) There was one line in the my.cnf file that had mysql bound to 127.0.0.1. I changed that line to Dragonfly's IP address, restarted mysql, and now I'm accessing MythTV from a second machine in another room of the house. So some forward progress. One down and who knows how many to go. Still all my video is black so I'm now wondering if I've configured the tuner to the progarm guide correctly. Not sure at all. I guess that's for tomorrow's task list. Also I think my wireless network isn't fast enough to get the video across it. I'll probably have to crawl under the house and drag an Ethernet cable to the living room next. Yuck! Thanks very much for your help. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV - recording (I think) but black on playback
I believe you have to have Load extmod in ur x config. Mine was there automatically after X -config, but I'm pretty sure thats the module u need for xvideo. On 4/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, SHORT FORM: What is 'Xv support' and how do I set it up? xvinfo says 'screen #0 no adaptors present'. Thanks! BACKGROUND INFO: I've done some more testing of the PVR-250 at the command line and using all the /dev devices that seem to make sense. I recorded 1 minute of video using all of the following devices and then watched in mplayer. (if it worked...) Here's the results: Size/dev/XXX results 6.5MB dev_video0.mpg worked 82.5MB dev_v4l_video.mpg 74.3MB dev_v4l_video0.mpgworked 11.4MB dev_v4l_video24.mpg 83.8MB dev_v4l_video32.mpg Of these only /dev/video0 and /dev/v4l/video0 produced mpeg results that were playable by mplayer at the command line. Based on that info I set MythTV to record on /dev/v4l/video0. It recorded a half hour show. At this point I wanted to watch the program but when I play it I get a black screen. In the terminal I see this: 2005-04-23 16:52:46.487 All Programs 2005-04-23 16:52:50.501 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.501 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0x X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0x 2005-04-23 16:52:50.511 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.606 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-04-23 16:52:50.607 Using realtime priority. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.608 Video timing method: RTC 2005-04-23 16:52:52.025 prebuffering pause 2005-04-23 16:52:52.494 prebuffering pause 2005-04-23 16:52:52.961 prebuffering pause *** * Your system is not capable of displaying the * full framerate at 1280x1024 resolution. Frames * will be skipped in order to keep the audio and * video in sync. X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0x X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0x 2005-04-23 16:53:01.395 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-04-23 16:53:01.442 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-04-23 16:53:01.468 Changing from None to None dragonfly ~ # and... dragonfly ~ # xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present dragonfly ~ # I've been wandering around for a while looking for info on this. so for nothing quite makes sense. Is this some part of xorg-x11 that I haven't configured? What do I do to get it working? man xvinfo says xvinfo prints out the capabilities of any video adaptors associated with the display that are accesible through the X-Video extension. so how do I turn X-Video extension on? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV - recording (I think) but black on playback
Yea, xvideo is definitely effected by graphics drivers and what not. I know on my laptop I couldn't use xvideo on an external monitor until this latest version of xorg. I do use nuvexport. I just started using it a month or so ago. I remember having some issues installing, but I can't remember if it was due to my own stupidity or what. When you say wouuldn't run what do u mean? On 4/24/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, OK, that I have loaded on both my machine that supports X-Video as well as the machine that says it doesn't so I think that's not it. Thanks for the idea though. One fellow from another list said that X-Video support is a function of the actually graphics adapter chip a machine has. That makes sense to me. However the machine I'm having trouble with is using an onboard (I think) Intel 82865G graphics chip. I'm not sure that I'm usign the right driver for it, or possibly there are some other things that have to be loaded to make it work. Anyway, as always, thanks for your help. BTW - have you tried nuvexport? I built it this morning. nuvinfo gives reasonable data but numexport wouldn't run for me. I wanted to convert the Myth recorded files to mpeg to see how they work. Take care, Mark On 4/24/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a kernel module, its a X windows module. for example, this is the section from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection Loadtype1 Loadfreetype EndSection On 4/24/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lucien, thanks. I don't seem to have that module right now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ slocate extmod | grep modules /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ slocate extmod | grep lib /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Do you happen to know where it might be in make menuconfig? Or is it by chance coming from a package I need to emerge? Thanks, Mark On 4/24/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you have to have Load extmod in ur x config. Mine was there automatically after X -config, but I'm pretty sure thats the module u need for xvideo. On 4/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, SHORT FORM: What is 'Xv support' and how do I set it up? xvinfo says 'screen #0 no adaptors present'. Thanks! BACKGROUND INFO: I've done some more testing of the PVR-250 at the command line and using all the /dev devices that seem to make sense. I recorded 1 minute of video using all of the following devices and then watched in mplayer. (if it worked...) Here's the results: Size/dev/XXX results 6.5MB dev_video0.mpg worked 82.5MB dev_v4l_video.mpg 74.3MB dev_v4l_video0.mpgworked 11.4MB dev_v4l_video24.mpg 83.8MB dev_v4l_video32.mpg Of these only /dev/video0 and /dev/v4l/video0 produced mpeg results that were playable by mplayer at the command line. Based on that info I set MythTV to record on /dev/v4l/video0. It recorded a half hour show. At this point I wanted to watch the program but when I play it I get a black screen. In the terminal I see this: 2005-04-23 16:52:46.487 All Programs 2005-04-23 16:52:50.501 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.501 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0x X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0x 2005-04-23 16:52:50.511 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.606 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-04-23 16:52:50.607 Using realtime priority. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.608 Video timing method: RTC 2005-04-23 16:52:52.025 prebuffering pause 2005-04-23 16:52:52.494 prebuffering pause 2005-04-23 16:52:52.961 prebuffering pause *** * Your system is not capable of displaying the * full framerate at 1280x1024 resolution. Frames * will be skipped in order to keep the audio and * video in sync. X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0x X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV - recording (I think) but black on playback
[ ] STREAM CONNECTED 371638 31921/mythbackend dragonfly ~ # Should those IP addresses be all 0's - Mark the guide on the gentoo-wiki has a section about using mythfrontend on a seperate machine, the key points seem to be giving the mysql user access to connect from remote machines and making sure myth listens on a accessible address (in mythsetup u don't want to use 127.0.0.1 anywhere). Lucien On 4/24/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, xvideo is definitely effected by graphics drivers and what not. I know on my laptop I couldn't use xvideo on an external monitor until this latest version of xorg. I do use nuvexport. I just started using it a month or so ago. I remember having some issues installing, but I can't remember if it was due to my own stupidity or what. When you say wouuldn't run what do u mean? On 4/24/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, OK, that I have loaded on both my machine that supports X-Video as well as the machine that says it doesn't so I think that's not it. Thanks for the idea though. One fellow from another list said that X-Video support is a function of the actually graphics adapter chip a machine has. That makes sense to me. However the machine I'm having trouble with is using an onboard (I think) Intel 82865G graphics chip. I'm not sure that I'm usign the right driver for it, or possibly there are some other things that have to be loaded to make it work. Anyway, as always, thanks for your help. BTW - have you tried nuvexport? I built it this morning. nuvinfo gives reasonable data but numexport wouldn't run for me. I wanted to convert the Myth recorded files to mpeg to see how they work. Take care, Mark On 4/24/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a kernel module, its a X windows module. for example, this is the section from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection Loadtype1 Loadfreetype EndSection On 4/24/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lucien, thanks. I don't seem to have that module right now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ slocate extmod | grep modules /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ slocate extmod | grep lib /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Do you happen to know where it might be in make menuconfig? Or is it by chance coming from a package I need to emerge? Thanks, Mark On 4/24/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you have to have Load extmod in ur x config. Mine was there automatically after X -config, but I'm pretty sure thats the module u need for xvideo. On 4/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, SHORT FORM: What is 'Xv support' and how do I set it up? xvinfo says 'screen #0 no adaptors present'. Thanks! BACKGROUND INFO: I've done some more testing of the PVR-250 at the command line and using all the /dev devices that seem to make sense. I recorded 1 minute of video using all of the following devices and then watched in mplayer. (if it worked...) Here's the results: Size/dev/XXX results 6.5MB dev_video0.mpg worked 82.5MB dev_v4l_video.mpg 74.3MB dev_v4l_video0.mpgworked 11.4MB dev_v4l_video24.mpg 83.8MB dev_v4l_video32.mpg Of these only /dev/video0 and /dev/v4l/video0 produced mpeg results that were playable by mplayer at the command line. Based on that info I set MythTV to record on /dev/v4l/video0. It recorded a half hour show. At this point I wanted to watch the program but when I play it I get a black screen. In the terminal I see this: 2005-04-23 16:52:46.487 All Programs 2005-04-23 16:52:50.501 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 16:52:50.501 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0x X Error: XvBadPort 145 Major opcode: 139 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0x 2005-04-23 16:52:50.511 Couldn't get the color key color, and we
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
I believe ivtv comes with a perl script that lets u change channels. its called ptune.pl and its in the utils dir of the source.. If u compile from source u'll have to install the perl modules it relies on which I believe are all in portage. Video::Frequencies, Video::ivtv, Config::IniFiles, and Getopt::Long On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanksagain. I'll probably stuggle along for another day or two getting MythTV configured I suppose but from the command line I've already been able to record a local TV station over the cable. The audio and video look good. I cannot figure out yet how to tune channels from the command line so hopefully Myth will get that job done for me tomorrow. Take care and thanks, Mark On 4/22/05, Lucien D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no problem, its nice to be able to answer questions occasionally instead of just asking them. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. OK, with the firmware properly extracted and in place and then with ivtv loaded I now get /dev/v4l entries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -a /dev/v4l/* /dev/v4l/radio0 /dev/v4l/video /dev/v4l/video24 /dev/v4l/vbi0/dev/v4l/video0 /dev/v4l/video32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Thanks to you and Lucian for your help. Likely I'll be back before it's over (uh - the lirc stuff isn't right yet) but I am moving forward and that feels good! cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility
Ah thanks, we're in business now, I should have put the DefaultDepth in, that was just stupid. The font is still a little big, but smaller than before. My next step is kde 3.3 - 3.4 so I'm just gonna wait on that. Well thanks for the help, my knowledge of X is slowly improving. Lucien On 4/22/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucien D. wrote: Ok, making progress. I installed 6.8.2-r1, did X -configure and its working, well mostly. Two problems. well first, it seems like its running at a really high resolution, I always ran at 1600 which I thought was the highest this card could do (I vaguely remember it being the highest in windows). And at this resolution the refresh rate is not right, it seems awfully low. if I have a white background I can lines moving on the screen. A few things: My guess is that at a high resolution, the DPI is being calculated at something like 100x100 or 133x133. While the calculation is technically correct, it makes fonts look huge.And font configuration in X right now is still a bit of a messso the only sane choice IMO is to run X at 75x75dpi. So, I have one small edit for your xorg.conf: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Replace 24 above with 16 if you want 16-bit color, I'm assuming you don't. This should give you the right resolution, and probably fix your fonts too. But if the fonts are still huge, add -dpi 75 to the X command line. For kdm (3.3), this will be /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers, or kdm 3.4 this will be /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, I don't know for gdm. If something else seems wrong, post /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and xdpyinfo | grep -A 30 ^screen. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
Make sure the card is recognized in lspci, heres the output from mine 000:00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 I know there are some issues with different versions of the card, but u'd have to google for them. On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be udev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep udev root 4698 0.0 0.0 1428 436 ?Ss 13:34 0:00 udevd mark 16051 0.0 0.0 1476 464 pts/0R+ 14:47 0:00 grep udev [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But wait, theres more... Re-reading your original post, you refer to the PVR-250 card and to the bttv driver BUT! the bttv driver does not drive the PVR-250. You need the ivtv driver. (I am assuming you are referring to the Hauppauge PVR-250) In fact, unless you also have a bt/conexant based card as well as the pvr-250, I cannot figure why bttv is loaded at all. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Nick, you and Lucian seem to be on the same tack but I do not have a /dev/v4l directory: dragonfly ~ # ls -la /dev/v4* ls: /dev/v4*: No such file or directory dragonfly ~ # Video4Linux is compiled and I've got some device drivers loaded, but no v4l devices. One that has an interesting name anyway is /dev/vttuner, but no v4l. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)
no problem, its nice to be able to answer questions occasionally instead of just asking them. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. OK, with the firmware properly extracted and in place and then with ivtv loaded I now get /dev/v4l entries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -a /dev/v4l/* /dev/v4l/radio0 /dev/v4l/video /dev/v4l/video24 /dev/v4l/vbi0/dev/v4l/video0 /dev/v4l/video32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Thanks to you and Lucian for your help. Likely I'll be back before it's over (uh - the lirc stuff isn't right yet) but I am moving forward and that feels good! cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility
ah, thanks. As to what Richard said about hsync, he's probably right those values may be bad, I'll get rid of them. Though I don't even know if X is abiding by them, when I look at the on screen menu for the monitor its showing hsync of 106 and vsync of 85. On 4/21/05, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucien D. wrote: Section ServerFlags Option off time 4 EndSection I have nothing in ServerFlags. Whats this setting for? monitor off, or backlight, or what? From man:xorg.conf: Option N'34'OffTimeN'34' N'34'timeN'34' sets the inactivity timeout for the off phase of DPMS mode. time is in minutes, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1x). Default: 40 minutes. This is only suitable for VESA DPMS compatible monitors, and may not be supported by all video drivers. It is only enabled for screens that have the N'34'DPMSN'34' option set (see the MONITOR section below). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility
I have a inspiron 8200 with a radeon mobility 9000. I currently have xorg 6.7.0-r3 installed. Last night I tried to upgrade to 6.8. Because of blocking issues I had to unmerge xorg and remerge it. Thank god for quickpkg. Once 6.8 was emerged I started x and things were ugly. All sorts of corruption and it would only run in what I think was 800x600. I didn't try running config with the new version, looking back I probably should have. I use xorg's radeon drivers and my xorg is pretty straight forward, though I can't include here because I'm at work. Anybody else having this problem or have any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility
I have a inspiron 8600 with a radeon mobility 9600 and use xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 without corruption. It runs at 1920x1200. But there is no 3D graphic. Here are the relevant parts of my xorg.conf: Section Module # kdm does not start without this, even if empty SubSection extmod # recommended in manual page of xorg.conf EndSubSection Load type1 Load freetype # this gives better fonts in openoffice EndSection Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection Loadtype1 Loadspeedo Load glx Load dri Load freetype EndSection Section ServerFlags Option off time 4 EndSection I have nothing in ServerFlags. Whats this setting for? monitor off, or backlight, or what? Section Monitor Identifier LCD DisplaySize 330 210 # 330 is changed to 332 (observed in kinfocenter) Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier MultiSync HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50-70 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter Driver radeon EndSection Section Device Identifier RADEON Driver radeon Option VideoOverlay on EndSection Section Screen Identifier LCDScreen Device ATI Graphics Adapter Monitor LCD DefaultDepth 24 # will be 16 if this is omitted (observed in kinfocenter) EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device RADEON Monitor MultiSync DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 800x600 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 800x600 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 800x600 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier MobileLayout Screen LCDScreen EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Simple Layout Screen Screen 1 InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard EndSection So there are the corresponding sections from my config. I'm the first to admit my ignorance when dealing with X, I know this works with my current version, though I doubt its the ideal config. Any1 see anything suspect? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
