Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen
On 30/12/2012 10:55, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:06:51 +, Matt Harrison wrote: All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses Current is 5.7.2 final.. * Starting snmpd ... pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/snmpd' * Failed to start Have you tried to build with USE=-pci ? Thanks for the reply Holger, I hadn't seen that 5.7.2 final was available, it was masked for me on x86 and I'm afraid I was rusty enough to not have checked it. That version does allow the pci USE flag and it works like a charm. Thanks for the pointer in the right direction.
[gentoo-user] net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen
Hi list, I've been away from Gentoo for quite a while but recently a friend asked me to help update an aged linode vps running on Xen. All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses to start as Xen doesn't provide access to PCI info: * Starting snmpd ... pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/snmpd' * Failed to start I know next to nothing about Xen and little more about snmp. We contacted linode to see if they had dealt with this before (the system is running the standard gentoo image, although updated). Unfortunately they stated that they are an unmanaged service and wouldn't provide any further help. I've looked around for several days but have found very little info on this and nothing that helpful. Short of compiling a custom version of net-snmp and hacking out the PCI stuff (which may solve the problem or may just mean snmp doesn't return the needed info) I have run out of ideas. Any help on this would be appreciated Many thanks
[gentoo-user] jabberd2 + muc
Hi list, I know this isn't really in the remit of the list but I'm hoping there is an expert lurking here somewhere. Does anyone have experience setting up Jabber, especially with mu-conference? I'm trying to set it up for some colleagues but I'm running into a lack of documentation, overly complicated configurations and a seemingly dead project with mu-conference. The packages are still alive and well in portage, yet the site and mailing list haven't been touched for some years. Does anyone know of an alternative text chat system with multi-user room facilities? It needs to be separate from mainstream networks such as MSN etc, have good ACL capabilities and must support SSL. Not really sure what to look at next, and after about 6 hours of fighting with jabberd2 and muc, I'm about ready to give up with it. TIA
Re: [gentoo-user] jabberd2 + muc
On 19/09/2012 23:50, Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I know this isn't really in the remit of the list but I'm hoping there is an expert lurking here somewhere. Does anyone have experience setting up Jabber, especially with mu-conference? I'm trying to set it up for some colleagues but I'm running into a lack of documentation, overly complicated configurations and a seemingly dead project with mu-conference. The packages are still alive and well in portage, yet the site and mailing list haven't been touched for some years. Does anyone know of an alternative text chat system with multi-user room facilities? It needs to be separate from mainstream networks such as MSN etc, have good ACL capabilities and must support SSL. Not really sure what to look at next, and after about 6 hours of fighting with jabberd2 and muc, I'm about ready to give up with it. Of all the XMPP daemons, ejabberd has the best reputation. jabberd14, according to recent traffic on the -dev list, may be on its way out due to lack of a maintainer, so I wouldn't invest time into setting that up right now. Thanks for the reply, I did try ejabberd very briefly but it failed to start without giving anything useful in the log. And I did follow the setup at the end of the ebuild :) I think it's just getting late so I'll probably try it again after some rest. By the looks of it though, I'd still need a MU implementation, and that doesn't seem easy to find. thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems
On 26/10/2011 22:19, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 14:45, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 14:05, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 14:03, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 13:31, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 11:36, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/26/11 11:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:23:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: At first I thought that sometime that installed since Oct 12 was causing the segfault, so I tried unmerging the 350+ packages that had installed since then and listing them in package.mask, but that blew up in my face because I don't know a command that forces portage to ignore masked packages and install next-highest stable versions. Mask higher versions in package mask cat/pkg-version.you.want I did, but as I said there where 350+ of them. And every time I tried to emerge anything else, I couldn't because some package I needed was listed in package mask. I got the package list that I added to package.mask from /var/log/portage-logs for files dated from October 12 till 24. It was an epic fail. I couldn't even emerge -e world because of those stupid masked package versions... OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually via a terminal? Maybe something like /etc/my.cnf or one of the Myth config files got messed up in the update. Good luck, Mark Mysql on camille is broken: camille ~ # mysql -u root -p mysql: unknown variable 'expire_logs_days=10' I'll do some googling, but I thinmichael@camille ~ $ sudo mythbackend 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes [27077] www.mythtv.org 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Empty LocalHostName. 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Using localhost value of camille 2011-10-26 13:48:02.176 New DB connection, total: 1 2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0' 2011-10-26 13:48:02.231 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2011-10-26 13:48:02.344 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254 2011-10-26 13:48:02.348 MythBackend: Running as a slave backend. 2011-10-26 13:48:02.384 mythbackend: MythBackend started as a slave backend 2011-10-26 13:48:02.390 New DB connection, total: 2 2011-10-26 13:48:02.401 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2011-10-26 13:48:02.426 New DB connection, total: 3 2011-10-26 13:48:02.462 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified - 127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP 2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension 2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Enabled verbose msgs: important general 2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connecting to master server: 192.168.2.3:6543 2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connected successfully 2011-10-26 13:48:12.673 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread 2011-10-26 13:48:33.781 MythSocket(8219290:23): readStringList: Error, timed out after 3 ms. QMutex::unlock: mutex lock failure: Invalid argument k that sounds like a config file It's been up for about 20 minutes and it hasn't crashed. None of the things I mentioned before work, but at least it's not crashing, right? This is a good step forward... directive. I'll probably do a rebuild of mysql as well... I googled the expire_logs thing and what I found said to comment it out and restart mysql. I did that, and now the output of mythbackend says: I forgot that I was going to post the output of mythbackend to see if any of the changes provide hints to solving any of my other myth problems: michael@camille ~ $ sudo mythbackend 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes [27077] www.mythtv.org 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Empty LocalHostName. 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Using localhost value of camille 2011-10-26 13:48:02.176 New DB connection, total: 1 2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0' 2011-10-26 13:48:02.231 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2011-10-26 13:48:02.344 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254 2011-10-26 13:48:02.348 MythBackend: Running as a slave backend. 2011-10-26 13:48:02.384 mythbackend: MythBackend started as a slave backend
Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie
On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: hello boys [1], i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit). i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to the development of computational technologies were not only paramount, but affect all of us in a very direct way, i think we could somehow compensate for the lack of echo of these news in the media, by dedicating some time to celebrate his memory and express our gratitude. I agree, I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the folks here who were so saddened by Steve Jobs passing. While it is very sad on both counts, I am getting annoyed by the opinion that Richie might have helped popularise C, but SJ invented the iPhone...which is 10x more useful. I swear I'm dealing with a bunch of cretins here :P
Re: [gentoo-user] Dennis Ritchie
On 15/10/2011 13:26, Matt Harrison wrote: On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: hello boys [1], i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit). i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to the development of computational technologies were not only paramount, but affect all of us in a very direct way, i think we could somehow compensate for the lack of echo of these news in the media, by dedicating some time to celebrate his memory and express our gratitude. I agree, I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the folks here who were so saddened by Steve Jobs passing. While it is very sad on both counts, I am getting annoyed by the opinion that Richie might have helped popularise C, but SJ invented the iPhone...which is 10x more useful. I swear I'm dealing with a bunch of cretins here :P I think I might have understated his part in C, sorry. Trying to do too many things at once :(
[gentoo-user] disappearing mail
I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure if this will be delivered until I see it come back through the list. According to my logs, the mails are being accepted without issue by the receiving MX, but that is the last that will be seen of them. It's not happening for every mail, but a lot. Recipients can be on BT Internet, gmail, or other (apparently) unrelated providers. All outgoing mail from this server is DKIM signed, in plaintext only. I've checked and the IP of the server doesn't seem to be on any blacklists. There is correct reverse dns for the server as well. I've owned the IP for around 7-8 years now and there's never been a problem like this. I've been scratching my head over this for a while now but haven't made any progress, in fact it seems to be getting worse. A few days ago I found a free service (unfortunately forgotten the name now) which will recieve an email from you and reply with a complete breakdown of apparent authenticity, signing, spam score etc etc. It was absolutely perfect for my test. Both servers are running the current stable postfix and amavisd/clamav/spamassassin. It looks to my uneducated brain that servers are accepting my mail and then silently dropping it without telling me why. Some of the intended recipients have checked their various spam folders and such but nothing shows up there either. If anyone can shed some light on this I would be incredibly grateful, I'm having to send quotes out through the post at the moment just to be sure they arrive :( Many thanks Matt pgpqsifcxrD0L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure if this will be delivered until I see it come back through the list. According to my logs, the mails are being accepted without issue by the receiving MX, but that is the last that will be seen of them. It's not happening for every mail, but a lot. Recipients can be on BT Internet, gmail, or other (apparently) unrelated providers. All outgoing mail from this server is DKIM signed, in plaintext only. I've checked and the IP of the server doesn't seem to be on any blacklists. There is correct reverse dns for the server as well. I've owned the IP for around 7-8 years now and there's never been a problem like this. I've been scratching my head over this for a while now but haven't made any progress, in fact it seems to be getting worse. A few days ago I found a free service (unfortunately forgotten the name now) which will recieve an email from you and reply with a complete breakdown of apparent authenticity, signing, spam score etc etc. It was absolutely perfect for my test. Both servers are running the current stable postfix and amavisd/clamav/spamassassin. It looks to my uneducated brain that servers are accepting my mail and then silently dropping it without telling me why. Some of the intended recipients have checked their various spam folders and such but nothing shows up there either. If anyone can shed some light on this I would be incredibly grateful, I'm having to send quotes out through the post at the moment just to be sure they arrive :( Well that one got through which is nice, and I just noticed that my servers time was just over an hour off, even though ntp-client was running. Only noticed this thanks to the threading in this list. My every day stuff doesn't get threaded (or posted back to me) so I hadn't seen it before. I've corrected the time and sent a couple of tests to previously not working addresses and I'll see what happens. Just a thought though, if for example, BT Internet was reject mail based on my clock being so wrong, they'd do it for every customer...and they haven't. I don't know, I'm out of ideas and pretty desperate now. Thanks Matt pgpqNA04Xbn3t.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:16:08PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 11:48 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure if this will be delivered until I see it come back through the list. According to my logs, the mails are being accepted without issue by the receiving MX, but that is the last that will be seen of them. It's not happening for every mail, but a lot. Recipients can be on BT Internet, gmail, or other (apparently) unrelated providers. Once the recipient server gives you the 250 OK response, the message is its responsibility. There's nothing you can do after that point, and the only person who can tell you what happened to the message is that server's admin. Thats what I was afraid of. The thought of dealing with BT technical support is depressing :( All outgoing mail from this server is DKIM signed, in plaintext only. I've checked and the IP of the server doesn't seem to be on any blacklists. There is correct reverse dns for the server as well. I've owned the IP for around 7-8 years now and there's never been a problem like this. It looks OK here, coming from the list. Can you send a message directly to me? I'll check the logs to see if anything looks funny. On it's way in a second. Many thanks Matt pgp3DrAAO8UJA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:33:47PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 02:21 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:16:08PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 11:48 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've got an odd problem and I really can't work out what is causing it. I have two gentoo mailservers under my control, one is working fine (it seems) but the other is just not getting mail out. I'm not even sure if this will be delivered until I see it come back through the list. According to my logs, the mails are being accepted without issue by the receiving MX, but that is the last that will be seen of them. It's not happening for every mail, but a lot. Recipients can be on BT Internet, gmail, or other (apparently) unrelated providers. Once the recipient server gives you the 250 OK response, the message is its responsibility. There's nothing you can do after that point, and the only person who can tell you what happened to the message is that server's admin. Thats what I was afraid of. The thought of dealing with BT technical support is depressing :( I got the test message; everything looks perfect, sorry =) Well thanks for trying Michael. Tomorrow I will call up one of the providers and ask them to check through logs and see whats going on. I'm hoping they'll oblige. Many thanks Matt pgpfd4E6i9UUh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] disappearing mail
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:45:18PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/05/2011 02:38 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: I got the test message; everything looks perfect, sorry =) Well thanks for trying Michael. Tomorrow I will call up one of the providers and ask them to check through logs and see whats going on. I'm hoping they'll oblige. Many thanks Matt Sure thing. For BT, I was able to find this: http://business.forums.bt.com/t5/Email/Missing-emails-no-reply-from-support/td-p/27893 You'll probably need to have the recipient contact them, but at least it looks like they *can* figure out what happened to a message if you call them between hours 24 and 72 after it disappeared. Thanks again. Because BT Internet seem to have outsourced email to Yahoo, I was busy following all the yahoo related email disappearances. I'll certainly give this a try though. Thanks Matt pgp5eq5hHlm8r.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts
Hi list, I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's one problem that I just can't fix or find relevant discussion about. My /etc/conf.d/keymaps defines my keyboard layout as uk and this works fine in the console. Unfortunately, in gnome the keyboard is resolutely stuck on US. I can add the English UK layout in the keyboard preferences, and it looks fine when I first select it. However they layout doesn't change and when I Show the English UK layout, it shows a standard US layout. No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X stuff that well), I cannot get a decent keyboard layout in gnome. Any tips would be appreciated before I rip all the keys off and get the super glue out. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:00:47PM +0100, David W Noon wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote about [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts: [snip] No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X stuff that well), I cannot get a decent keyboard layout in gnome. If you're using the evdev driver for keyboard and mouse (you should be!) then something like this in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf might help. # Configuration for evdev-controlled input devices. Section InputClass Identifier keyboard Driver evdev Option XkbLayout gb Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp MatchIsKeyboard on EndSection Section InputClass Identifier pointer Driver evdev MatchIsPointer on EndSection The bit about XkbLayout gb should do the trick. [Just be aware that there is a national language code uk, but it is for Ukrainian.] Thanks David, I wasn't using an xorg.conf before but just threw those sections in and it seems perfect. I was just in the middle of digging out a USB dvd drive to try James' suggestion but now I can save my energy. Thanks guys
[gentoo-user] OT: future moderation
Hi list, An odd post here but I'm sitting up after midnight with a few beers and I wanted to get an advanced word on this. I don't know if anyone is subscribed to the ruby-talk mailing list at the moment (or used to be on the comp.lang.lisp group a while ago). There is an odd character there who is harming the community by either being insane (not my words -- those of ruby guru Ryan Davis) or with extremely well crafted trolling. I see the trouble that ruby-talk is having with him and I wondered firstly, if we would have similar trouble moderating his crap (he alternates between email, usenet and forums. Apparently they can't moderate him) and secondly, if/when he turns up here can we please shoot him down the instant he arrives. Ok, as I'm writing this it does seem that I'm going a little crazy, but I consider this list my home. I love this list and the people on it..I don't post that much these days but I have learned a lot. When I do post, I get very helpful replies and I know you're good people. I would just hate for this guy to come on here and wreck the joint. Take this as you will, drunken ramblings or well-meant concern :) Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl
On 07/06/2011 23:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/08/2011 12:17 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: [...] Well I eventually managed to get the vmwgfx gallium driver to compile, but I get an undefined symbol when trying to load it with xorg. I'll give up with it now unless anyone else has an idea. It was a nice thought that I might get to see the power of vmware opengl :P Well, they announced that they plan to work on this though: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTQ5MA Thanks Nikos, that sounds promising. We'll have to see what the results are like. Matt
[gentoo-user] vmware opengl
Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. glxinfo gives me: name of display: :0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig I'm not sure if it's even possible to get opengl working here...but I assume it is as a mythbuntu vm works perfectly displaying live tv etc. Anyway, any tips on this subject appreciated. It's hard to find anything on google related to this. Many thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl
On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. glxinfo gives me: name of display: :0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig I'm not sure if it's even possible to get opengl working here...but I assume it is as a mythbuntu vm works perfectly displaying live tv etc. Anyway, any tips on this subject appreciated. It's hard to find anything on google related to this. You need to use the vmware DRM kernel driver and vmwgfx Gallium driver. Only then can you have accelerated 3D in Linux guests. The DRM driver is easily enabled in the kernel configuration (it's in the staging drivers section). Not sure about the vmwgfx gallium driver though. Thanks both of you, I'll take that as a no, but I'll keep playing and see if I can get anywhere :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl
On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. glxinfo gives me: name of display: :0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig I'm not sure if it's even possible to get opengl working here...but I assume it is as a mythbuntu vm works perfectly displaying live tv etc. Anyway, any tips on this subject appreciated. It's hard to find anything on google related to this. You need to use the vmware DRM kernel driver and vmwgfx Gallium driver. Only then can you have accelerated 3D in Linux guests. The DRM driver is easily enabled in the kernel configuration (it's in the staging drivers section). Not sure about the vmwgfx gallium driver though. The DRM driver compiles and loads, the next step is to build the vmwgfx module from mesa. There is a post on the vmware forums with a user who talks about tweaking the ebuild for mesa to get the module built. Unfortunately that's all the info he gives. Plus, the rest of the post ends with people pretty much giving up on the whole project. It sounds like vmware aren't really interested in continuing development for it...shame.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl
On 07/06/2011 21:40, Matt Harrison wrote: On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. glxinfo gives me: name of display: :0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig I'm not sure if it's even possible to get opengl working here...but I assume it is as a mythbuntu vm works perfectly displaying live tv etc. Anyway, any tips on this subject appreciated. It's hard to find anything on google related to this. You need to use the vmware DRM kernel driver and vmwgfx Gallium driver. Only then can you have accelerated 3D in Linux guests. The DRM driver is easily enabled in the kernel configuration (it's in the staging drivers section). Not sure about the vmwgfx gallium driver though. The DRM driver compiles and loads, the next step is to build the vmwgfx module from mesa. There is a post on the vmware forums with a user who talks about tweaking the ebuild for mesa to get the module built. Unfortunately that's all the info he gives. Plus, the rest of the post ends with people pretty much giving up on the whole project. It sounds like vmware aren't really interested in continuing development for it...shame. Well I eventually managed to get the vmwgfx gallium driver to compile, but I get an undefined symbol when trying to load it with xorg. I'll give up with it now unless anyone else has an idea. It was a nice thought that I might get to see the power of vmware opengl :P
[gentoo-user] installing ffi gem
I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck installing the ffi gem for ruby. According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo devs do not support installing gems via the gem command and directed the user to use the dev-ruby/ffi package. Unfortnately, that package is absolutely ancient and unusable. Anyway, I've got the ffi library install from portage, but when I try to `gem install ffi`, I get the output seen in the attachement. The same gem installs just fine on an ubuntu box, but...well it's ubuntu and I don't want to use that (besides it's just a VM). I'd really like to get this fixed so I can get started on a new project. Grateful for any help Matt ERROR: Error installing ffi: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby18 extconf.rb checking for ffi_call() in -lffi... yes checking for ffi_prep_closure()... yes checking for ffi_raw_call()... yes checking for ffi_prep_raw_closure()... yes checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... no checking for ruby_thread_has_gvl_p()... no checking for ruby_native_thread_p()... no checking for rb_thread_call_with_gvl()... no creating extconf.h creating Makefile make i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c DynamicLibrary.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c Buffer.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c MemoryPointer.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c StructByReference.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c StructByValue.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c StructLayout.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c Thread.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c DataConverter.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c Types.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c AbstractMemory.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c Platform.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c ArrayType.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c ffi.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\extconf.h\ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include -Wno-declaration-after-statement -c LastError.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I.
Re: [gentoo-user] installing ffi gem
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:33:05PM -0700, kashani wrote: On 4/21/2011 4:57 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck installing the ffi gem for ruby. According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo devs do not support installing gems via the gem command and directed the user to use the dev-ruby/ffi package. Unfortnately, that package is absolutely ancient and unusable. Anyway, I've got the ffi library install from portage, but when I try to `gem install ffi`, I get the output seen in the attachement. The same gem installs just fine on an ubuntu box, but...well it's ubuntu and I don't want to use that (besides it's just a VM). I'd really like to get this fixed so I can get started on a new project. Grateful for any help Matt Install RVM, make it part of your shell, then install the ruby and gems of your choice. That way you leave the system Ruby alone and can develop with the versions you want. You can even do multiple versions of ruby and various gems for working on many different projects at once. https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/ It really is the simplest way to build a dev environment and maintain it for Ruby. kashani Thanks Alan and kashani, I'll take a look at both, if I can't find anything on his blog I'll give RVM a go :) Thanks guys pgpCgGlsLJ4Rk.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: SEO
Hi list, I really don't know where to go to find out this information so I am hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction. I worry that most information out there on this subject is somewhat...suspicious in nature and I'm looking for a reliable source to answer some questions. I have hosted, developed or designed many websites over the years but this is the first time I have had to market it myself. I have a few questions about listing it with search engines (well...the search engine I guess). Grateful if someone could suggest a resource for this. Many thanks Matt pgpXvVlyrtrzz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Am 25.03.2011 19:51, schrieb James: It's been a while since I set up a mail server, but, if that (postfix) is what I need to do, then just tell how (overview) the packages you'd use, or is this part of postfix? Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the client-side only. The mail server doesn't see the encryption, encrypted mails contain only text, just like every other mail. The only encryption that comes in mind on the server side is transport encryption, aka SSL or TLS. But for that you don't need enigmail or gpg. If may answer has nothing to do with your problem, please give me more information what you have in mind. Greetings Sebastian Be?ler amavis-new supports signing all outgoing mails with a gpg signature, not that I think it's very relevant to the OP's question. I just wanted to chime in as I haven't posted here in a while :) Matt pgpMuJ0nKRXB7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:26:24PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Am 25.03.2011 22:13, schrieb Matt Harrison: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the client-side only. The mail server doesn't see the encryption, encrypted mails contain only text, just like every other mail. amavis-new supports signing all outgoing mails with a gpg signature, not that I think it's very relevant to the OP's question. I just wanted to chime in asI haven't posted here in a while :) As I said, as far as I know. I haven't used amavis in years so that I was not aware of this. But mail signing and mail encrypting are two absolutly differend pair of shoes. Greetings Sebastian Be?ler PS: The key you use for signing is expired. I believe it can encrypt as well, as long as they keys are supplied previously for the recipients. And thanks for pointing out my expired key, strangely mutt nor gpg complained about using it for quite a while now. Even stranger, you're the first person who has noticed or told me :o Matt pgp3pdMAINofL.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset. I've made tiny bits of progress here and there which (reading many many MANY forum posts) should mean it is working, but no. Is there anyone here who has managed this? someone who would be willing to go through some things with me and get this working. The HDMI output shows up fine in aplay -l and aplay -L, I can use speaker-test or aplay on the card/device with no errors. I've tried muting/unmuting everything in alsamixer (several analog related channels plus 3 s/pdifs). Analog audio works without problems but no matter what I try I cannot get HDMI working. I would be so grateful if someone could help, I'm literally about to throw it all out of the window thanks to all these smug ubuntu people saying how easy it was to get working :P Many thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 12:55, Matt Harrison wrote: I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset. I've made tiny bits of progress here and there which (reading many many MANY forum posts) should mean it is working, but no. Is there anyone here who has managed this? someone who would be willing to go through some things with me and get this working. The HDMI output shows up fine in aplay -l and aplay -L, I can use speaker-test or aplay on the card/device with no errors. I've tried muting/unmuting everything in alsamixer (several analog related channels plus 3 s/pdifs). Analog audio works without problems but no matter what I try I cannot get HDMI working. I would be so grateful if someone could help, I'm literally about to throw it all out of the window thanks to all these smug ubuntu people saying how easy it was to get working :P Many thanks Matt Just burned and booted the mythbuntu livecd. It detects everything but the results are exactly the same as gentoo, no sound even though everything looks fine. I'm not sure if I should be thinking about RMAing this board. I guess I should try windows on it first but I don't have any discs handy :/ Grateful for any other ideas. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 15:10, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-03-09, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: I've googled for days, tried upteen different settings and nearly gone bald and I still cannot get audio over hdmi working on this nVidia ION chipset. My only suggestion would be to search/ask on mythtv forums/lists. The people that know the most about audio over HDMI are probably the roll-your-own DVR crowd. thanks Grant I was just about to head over there next. Got an XBMC live cd downloading too. Don't know much about it but it's anothe thing to report on a possible RMA. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 15:25, Vizo Allman wrote:
This is what I have to get hdmi audio out on my zotac ion board
in the .asoundrc of the acoount I am playing audio from I put
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm hdmi
}
without that I get no sound from hdmi
Hi Vizo,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I have tried that one and I still
don't get any sound :( I have tried many things in my asound.conf and
I'm still not there yet.
Just out of interest, Mythbuntu LiveCD, exactly the same as gentoo,
looks good but silent. However I've also tried an XBMC livecd and the
HDMI audio works with 30 seconds of config.
So the hardware is ok, but there is something critial I am missing. I've
asked on the mythtv-users list too but no replies yet.
Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 18:15, Vizo Allman wrote: well I have CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_ELD=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y I think IntelHDMI is the one thats needed tho I also have CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m but couldnt tell you why. but it cant hurt can it? Vizo Nothing can hurt right now :) I'll get those compiled and see what happens. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 18:15, Vizo Allman wrote: well I have CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_NVHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_ELD=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y I think IntelHDMI is the one thats needed tho I also have CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m but couldnt tell you why. but it cant hurt can it? Unfortuantely no change. When I saw that I hadn't compiled Intel HDMI codec I thought that might have cracked it, but still silence :/ Thanks though, it was worth a try. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 18:42, Vizo Allman wrote: did you do the nvhdmi also? Yes that was the only one I already had (oh except for the realktek which gets the analog working). I'm 95% sure the kernel/modules are ok. The various different pieces of information on the mixer setup for example just get confusing after a while. I've got the usual analog channels, plus the 3 S/PDIFs (the third of which I understand to be the HDMI) and I'm really not sure if I've got that set up right. I tried using the .asoundrc from the XBMC LiveCD to see what change that might make. It did tidy some things up a bit (the device names/aliases/whatever alsa calls them) but still no sound. As I say I'm fairly sure what I have done is right, but obviously something is incorrect and I don't know which part :D Thanks for your help Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 18:46, Vizo Allman wrote: also when you run alsamixer what card do you see The only card available to alsamixer is HDA NVidia with the chip: NVidia MCP79/7A HDMI. As I said previously, there's not explicit HDMI channel, but 3 S/PDIFs which are something to do with it. Thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 18:52, Vizo Allman wrote: Here is the what I get back when I do a aplay -l also I had to make sure everything is turned on in alsamixer and make sure you are putting .asoundrc in the home directory you are working with. when I first tried I put the .asoundrc in root but I was trying to get sound as the user mythtv. localhost ~ # aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 [Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 [Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Yes I've got the .asoundrc in mythtv's home directory. I know its being picked up, but I don't think thats the problem as I don't get sound even when I specify like hw0,3. Of course I could be wrong. I think our sound devices are very similar: flipflop ~ # aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 I've had some replies on the mythtv mailing list however they are mainly ubuntu focussed. I would try installing mythbuntu on there so I can try some of the ideas out, but it took a long time to install gentoo et al and I'd like to exhaust this before I re-install :) Many thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 19:45, Vizo Allman wrote: I was just testing on my box everything work on xbmc and mythtv but I scant get speaker-test to give my sound what are you trying use? Well I was testing with speaker-test and aplay, but I noticed that they didn't produce any sound on XBMC LiveCD either. So I tried to use MythTV and still nothing. I've not had much experience with setting up the audio on myth though, so I'm just going to go check it over and make sure I haven't done something really silly. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 19:49, Matt Harrison wrote: On 09/03/2011 19:45, Vizo Allman wrote: I was just testing on my box everything work on xbmc and mythtv but I scant get speaker-test to give my sound what are you trying use? Well I was testing with speaker-test and aplay, but I noticed that they didn't produce any sound on XBMC LiveCD either. So I tried to use MythTV and still nothing. I've not had much experience with setting up the audio on myth though, so I'm just going to go check it over and make sure I haven't done something really silly. Matt Ok..I was testing with speaker-test. aplay gives the error Channels count non available for everything except plughw0,3. Speaker-test doesn't give any error. I have my .asoundrc set up to pipe out to both HDMI and analog. Setting mythtv to use that pipe, I can hear the TV via headphones on the analog, but nothing through the TV.
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi
On 09/03/2011 20:23, Vizo Allman wrote:
whats your .asoundrc look like.
I can try it on mine
Thanks, attached is the one I stole from XBMC. I've tried so many other
ones too but they all have the same silence.
Matt
pcm.both {
type route
slave {
pcm multi
channels 6
}
ttable.0.0 1.0
ttable.1.1 1.0
ttable.0.2 1.0
ttable.1.3 1.0
ttable.0.4 1.0
ttable.1.5 1.0
}
pcm.multi {
type multi
slaves.a {
pcm hdmi_hw
channels 2
}
slaves.b {
pcm digital_hw
channels 2
}
slaves.c {
pcm analog_hw
channels 2
}
bindings.0.slave a
bindings.0.channel 0
bindings.1.slave a
bindings.1.channel 1
bindings.2.slave b
bindings.2.channel 0
bindings.3.slave b
bindings.3.channel 1
bindings.4.slave c
bindings.4.channel 0
bindings.5.slave c
bindings.5.channel 1
}
pcm.hdmi_hw {
type hw
card 0
device 3
channels 2
}
pcm.hdmi_formatted {
type plug
slave {
pcm hdmi_hw
rate 48000
channels 2
}
}
pcm.hdmi_complete {
type softvol
slave.pcm hdmi_formatted
control.name hdmi_volume
control.card 0
}
pcm.digital_hw {
type hw
card 0
device 1
channels 2
}
pcm.analog_hw {
type hw
card 0
device 0
channels 2
}
Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?
On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking at MiniITX machines with the nVidia ION chipset that support 720/1080 HD playback and HDMI outputs. My questions are concerning the digital output and remote controls. I've only ever used HDMI/digital output on windows and it confuses me then. Is there some added complexity to getting the HDMI output working (including audio) with a TV? Is there anything to look out for as far as compatibiliy goes? And remote controls, the USB DVB-T unit comes with its own remote and pretty much works out of the box even on linux. At least it works for the basic up/down/left/right/enter, I really don't know enough to get any more out of it. The MiniITX bundle I'm looking at comes with a remote designed for media centres and looks to be a million times nicer than the one from the receiver, but is there going to be a lot of trouble getting it working with Lirc? I only know a teeny tiny bit about Lirc, I don't know what driver this remote will use so I don't know if there's likely to be any compatibility issue. As you can tell I'm not very hot on this stuff, so any tips/help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd especially appreciate if anyone could point to some known-good hardware for this purpose. Thanks Matt For the remote i suggest the ps3 bd controller. It uses bluetooth so, it's omnidirectional and works with mythtv: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote Hamilton That looks interesting, thanks for the reply. I guess I'll have to find a bluetooth receiver to go with it, maybe i can find one onboard something. Thanks
[gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?
Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking at MiniITX machines with the nVidia ION chipset that support 720/1080 HD playback and HDMI outputs. My questions are concerning the digital output and remote controls. I've only ever used HDMI/digital output on windows and it confuses me then. Is there some added complexity to getting the HDMI output working (including audio) with a TV? Is there anything to look out for as far as compatibiliy goes? And remote controls, the USB DVB-T unit comes with its own remote and pretty much works out of the box even on linux. At least it works for the basic up/down/left/right/enter, I really don't know enough to get any more out of it. The MiniITX bundle I'm looking at comes with a remote designed for media centres and looks to be a million times nicer than the one from the receiver, but is there going to be a lot of trouble getting it working with Lirc? I only know a teeny tiny bit about Lirc, I don't know what driver this remote will use so I don't know if there's likely to be any compatibility issue. As you can tell I'm not very hot on this stuff, so any tips/help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd especially appreciate if anyone could point to some known-good hardware for this purpose. Thanks Matt
[gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails
Hi guys, I know this isnt really a gentoo question but you always seem to come with an amazing answer in the end ;) I've got a friend who uses dreamhost for mail, and he's trying to move away from it to something a little more customisable. The problem is that he has around 2.5Gb of mail in various IMAP folders on this server. I'm trying to find some way of downloading all this mail but keeping in its current folder structure. I was hoping fetchmail could do it but it doesn't appear (after a quick read) to support arbitrary folders. I am almost thinking of contacting dreamhost support and asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me access to them via FTP or something. I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a copy of all his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it onto another machine. Grateful for any help, Matt Harrison pgp9M9hinzpc3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:46:56PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 20.01.2011 15:23, schrieb Matt Harrison: I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a copy of all his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it onto another machine. imapsync that stuff to another IMAP-server in your LAN? After that backup that stuff to tape or whatever Thanks for the replies everyone. I will take a look at imapsync, it sounds like the tool I need :) And yes, I know 2GB of mail sounds a bit mad...I've tried to convince him to use a slightly different backup policy but he's adamant this is the way he wants. I'll give all your suggestions a try. Thanks Matt Harrison pgpIey071PYRy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/2010 08:17, Stroller wrote: On 2 Aug 2010, at 00:11, Matt Harrison wrote: ... On 01/08/2010 18:19, Stroller wrote: Have you considered Dovecot? I haven't, no. Not for any reason other than I hit upon courier first and I has always worked pretty well until now. Is there a large advantage to using dovecot for imap over nfs? Or were you implying that it would be easier to setup on solaris? It might be easier to set up Dovecot on Gentoo than Courier on Solaris. I have been using courier for years, but when I needed to deploy at a site, authenticating via Samba, I used Dovecot. I think this was necessary because Dovecot supported PAM modules in a way that Courier did not. At one point a problem I asked for help with on the Dovecot mailing-list proved to be a bug and was fixed by the developer within 36 hours of me experiencing it. I have the impression that Dovecot is lightweight, fast and secure. It will be my first choice of IMAP server in the future, and I'll be replacing my Courier installation here with Dovecot just as soon as I get time. Stroller. Well I've switched that server over to dovecot and so far everything is working well :) There's a few deep nested folders that aren't subscribable normally, but are after a manual tweak of the subscriptions file but I'll work that out later. Thanks for the input, dovecot does seem to be faster and more lightweight which is perfect for this installation. Thanks Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxXA7sACgkQdG+qMRd5kKrH7gCgpu/t614mZ7zcK5+7B/jqiSNg s4wAn3PUxEQ/DzyyeGCy7iXnUcNmMFxF =buLS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports invalid credentials. Remove the NFS home directory and it works again. Any help would be appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to install courier-imap on solaris, and I really don't feel like that :P Thanks Matt pgpYsw2lMcDLh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, thanks for the replies guys On 01/08/2010 18:17, kashani wrote: On 8/1/2010 8:06 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports invalid credentials. Remove the NFS home directory and it works again. Any help would be appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to install courier-imap on solaris, and I really don't feel like that :P I'd suspect UID/GID mismatches somewhere. Make sure the machine delivering the email, the home dirs, and the machine running courier-imap all see .maildir as the same user account. You may want to put Courier-imap into verbose or debug mode as well. I'd also look at your NFS config to see if you're doing any squashes into other UIDs. And just for the hell of it, never use mbox over NFS. The locking will kill you on a busy system. kashani Ok, the machine that is serving the home directories never gets accessed directly by the users, the UIDs/GIDs are set on creation at the client end. The users have no problems at all using the home directory via a shell on any client machine, so I believe permissions are ok. Also, I was a bit misleading when I spoke about mailboxes, we are using Maildir. I just said mailboxes as a term to encompass the mail folders serverd by imap for each account :) I've tried to put courier-imap into debug mode (level 1) and I get what appears to be a successful authentication from pam, but the mail clients still don't like it: authdaemond: received auth request, service=imap, authtype=login authdaemond: authpam: trying this module authdaemond: authpam: sysusername=matt, sysuserid=null, sysgroupid=100, homedir=/home/matt, address=matt, fullname=, maildir=null, quota=null, options=null genesis authdaemond: pam_service=imap, pam_username=matt genesis authdaemond: dopam successful genesis authdaemond: Authenticated: sysusername=matt, sysuserid=null, sysgroupid=100, homedir=/home/matt address=matt, fullname=, maildir=null, quota=null, options=null The only difference in the logs is that an NFS user ends with the above snippet, whereas a normal user goes on to log the imap connection: imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=matt, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], port=[3276], protocol=IMAP On 01/08/2010 18:19, Stroller wrote: Have you considered dovecot? Stroller. I haven't, no. Not for any reason other than I hit upon courier first and I has always worked pretty well until now. Is there a large advantage to using dovecot for imap over nfs? Or were you implying that it would be easier to setup on solaris? On 01/08/2010 19:10, Alex Schuster wrote: Are your users in more than 16 groups? NFS only manages up to 16, which once gave me weird side effects. Wonko No we're not using that many groups, and just to be sure I created a test user in only one group and it still have me the problem :( Grateful for the input guys, and for any more light you can shed on this :) thanks Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxV/yAACgkQdG+qMRd5kKpSEACaAlXaCNCD8wizWJ2Nb0Rvtd+u NTgAoLHObEBfdk3Mbvt7EkXcAG4jSu8W =TeFA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:45:57PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Actually I've just found the paperwork, it's an LMLBT44 from Linux Media Labs. Their website isn't much help, it did point me to the module arguments to use, so it's now no longer detected as a generic unknown card. Unfortunately I'm still seeing the same issues. Thanks just for the archives, I've sorted it out thanks to the manufacturers. Their documentations says to specify the following options to the bttv module: options bttv cart=118,118,118,118 That got the card detected but didn't let me get a good picture. I contacted the company and a guy responded very quickly. He said to try this: options bttv card=118,118,118,118 pll=1,1,1,1 I was skeptical as always, but I tried it and voila :) Now everything is working perfectly. Hope this might help someone else one day. pgprowsDEqLTR.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?
Hi List, I got a capture card (4 port composite) ages ago, and I remember I had it working perfectly. I've just reinstalled it into a fresh gentoo box and connected one of the cameras, and all I'm getting is noise. I know its a real image as when I put my hand over the camera lens, the image goes black, still distorted but black. From what I've been able to tell from a bit of poking around, it seems that the Hsync of the camera or card isn't set right and is causing this distortion. I can't give you the exact card model as I've lost all the paperwork, but it does come up as a bt878 generic card. Originally I was having timeouts but solved that with a pci slot change. I've got almost no real knowledge of v4l so I'm pretty lost as to what I should be looking at next. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?
Actually I've just found the paperwork, it's an LMLBT44 from Linux Media Labs. Their website isn't much help, it did point me to the module arguments to use, so it's now no longer detected as a generic unknown card. Unfortunately I'm still seeing the same issues. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:42:09PM +0200, KH wrote: Hi List, I just ran in a problem: net-fs/mount-cifs (net-fs/mount-cifs is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6) Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is client to a server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More specific (don't want to hear moo): Will I be able to mount a samba partition without setting the samba use flag and after unmerging samba? Regards kh I just enable cifs in the kernel and install the mount-cifs script. That lets me mount remote shares with no trouble at all. HTH Matt pgpqcohV21EdH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
On 15/04/2010 09:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. I don't mind hearing this :) I only use vixie-cron as that is what I started with (I think from the old install documents), I'm not tied to it at all. I has worked perfectly on several installs until this problem appeared. I've switched to fcron on that machine and it seems to be ok so far, only time will tell. From now on I'll use fcron by default to avoid this problem happening again. Thanks
[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt
[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: amavis and DKIM verification
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:09:07PM +0100, Xavier Parizet wrote: Le 10/01/2010 22:26, Matt Harrison a ??crit : I say OT because it's my understanding of DKIM that lets me down here, not Gentoo. I'm just not sure who to ask or even if it could be something Gentoo related. I've recently updated my postfix home mail server to use amavis-new for virus and spam filtering rather than procmail/spamassassin. It seems to be working well and I've also enabled some other goodies like DKIM signing and verification. I haven't confirmed signing is working yet, so maybe a side effect of this email is that someone can confirm this for me ;) Your mail is not DKIM-Signed, check your setup. Ok, thanks for checking, it appears that outbound messages weren't being passed to amavis, I think I've rectified that now. I can see the message being scanned in the logs, but not necessarily being signed though. Inbound messages generate warnings such as: dkim: not signing, no applicable private key for domains ruby-forum.com. but my outbound messages just scan clean. I've tried without sender maps and with limiting them to my domain. The main query I have is that a lot of the mail I get, in this case from various mailing lists, appears to failed DKIM verification. For example, several of the posters on this list are DKIM signing their mail either as part of gmail policy (or another big provider) or personal intent. Something in the region of 50% of signed mail on this list contains headers such as: Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); dkim=softfail (fail, message has been altered) header...@gmail.com Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=softfail (fail, message has been altered) header.from=xxx...@gmail.com Whereas the rest looks like this: Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass header...@gmail.com Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=pass header.from=xxx...@gmail.com Now I find it unreasonable to assume that 50% of the mail I receive is being actively tampered with, so it must be something getting twisted out of shape. All I'm trying to discover is whether it's something at my end that I need to fiddle with. I followed a few different guides to piece my setup together so it's quite possible I've overlooked or misconfigured something. 90% chance the emails failing DKIM verification had their email subject modified to add [gentoo-user] in it by the mlmmj program that manage the mailing-list, which mainly concerns topic starts (ie first mails about one topic). That would make a lot of sense, I'm not sure if it's just the first messages that are doing it, but I have a feeling that others in a thread are also failing. Thanks for your input Xavier, I think I need to get over to the amavis or postfix guys, like Stroller said, to really figure out what is happening. pgpVyPTHMgb8k.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: amavis and DKIM verification
I say OT because it's my understanding of DKIM that lets me down here, not Gentoo. I'm just not sure who to ask or even if it could be something Gentoo related. I've recently updated my postfix home mail server to use amavis-new for virus and spam filtering rather than procmail/spamassassin. It seems to be working well and I've also enabled some other goodies like DKIM signing and verification. I haven't confirmed signing is working yet, so maybe a side effect of this email is that someone can confirm this for me ;) The main query I have is that a lot of the mail I get, in this case from various mailing lists, appears to failed DKIM verification. For example, several of the posters on this list are DKIM signing their mail either as part of gmail policy (or another big provider) or personal intent. Something in the region of 50% of signed mail on this list contains headers such as: Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); dkim=softfail (fail, message has been altered) header...@gmail.com Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=softfail (fail, message has been altered) header.from=xxx...@gmail.com Whereas the rest looks like this: Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass header...@gmail.com Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=pass header.from=xxx...@gmail.com Now I find it unreasonable to assume that 50% of the mail I receive is being actively tampered with, so it must be something getting twisted out of shape. All I'm trying to discover is whether it's something at my end that I need to fiddle with. I followed a few different guides to piece my setup together so it's quite possible I've overlooked or misconfigured something. If anyone knows about DKIM and might be able to shed a light on this, I'd love to hear. It's not a big problem, just a puzzle I'm interested in. Thanks Matt Harrison pgp46Pqij6XrY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass
Dale wrote: So, another question. Is there a tool that is local and would do something like this? I am using Seamonkey 2.0 nowadays. It seems to have some tools available to it that the old Seamonkey doesn't. Dale :-) :-) There is a tool I've used in the past called PasswordMaker. It uses a master password and a flexible set of parameters to generate passwords and if necessary, enter them on a site. It has a plugin for firefox and I believe seamonkey too. I can't check this second because their site appears to be down (bandwidth exceeded). It doesn't store the passwords anywhere and will only store the master password on your machine if you specifically ask for it. Once you enter the master password and select the appropriate settings (length, character set, hashing algorithm etc etc), the password will be generated. You can also use the current website as a salt, so using the same settings will yield a different password for different sites. Sounds like I'm advocating this very heavily, in fact I don't have much experience with it. It sounds reasonable to me, but I'll let you guys discuss it :) Matt
[gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo (and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. Kopete should work, too. It even does video. I will also add that you can use the web-based version of yahoo messenger and avoid software: http://webmessenger.yahoo.com Thanks for the reply, Thats very interesting, I wasn't aware of the web based messenger and I will investigate it. I would try out kopete, but I really don't want to have to build kdelibs on this machine and I don't have a build host available right now. I'll also try the latest pidgin, as I'm not currently running ~arch. Thanks for the tips. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?
Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external one? Has anyone found dial-up to be a useful method of connection while travelling? - Grant This is going back a few years, I haven't had any experience recently. A lot of modems used to be referred to as Softmodems, those that depended hugely on the operating system (very often Windows). Those modems were a bitch to get working under linux. We used to have to make sure we were buying hardware modems. A lot of internal modems were Softmodems and were pretty useless for linux. As I say, this may be totally out of date now, but it's possible you won't get an internal modem working under linux. If this is the case, you will have to buy a proper hardware one. Hope this gives a little bit of info. ~Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The drivers get loaded but I get a black screen. No error message in the X log file. I haven't messed with X at this level before. What's the minimum test of X that would display a terminal or something very basic? Have you tried startx /usr/bin/xterm Yes. Same black screen. Nothing else going on. The processes show up in ps aux, X as root, xterm as me. I've found before that if everything seems to be running (can list X processes and logs look fine) but you still don't see anything, it's possible it is your monitor. I used to use a really old 15 CRT for a server but it just wouldn't run X at anything over 640x480. Modern monitors will at least tell you if the resolution/refresh is out of limits, but older ones don't often. Try with a different monitor if that one is old or suspect. ~Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!
James Ausmus wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com mailto:bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet. There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum but it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or? Hi Maixm- I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) gotten my wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I have a full install with kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* smooth and fast compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet, Firefox, Openoffice, NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all in a 2.7GB disk footprint, and without doing any compiling on the eeePC itself (I used my Core2Duo ~amd64 Gentoo box to do all the heavy lifting, then made a bootable 4GB SD card with the resulting FS - will move over to internal 4GB SSD once I've put the final touches on it). I have full eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue I've found with the rfkill (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW (PHY) refuses to power back up once it's turned off. I believe it was working in the original Xandros, so I'll probably be doing some kernel hacking to get it working). If you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write up how I went about doing it and post it - interested? -James I for one would be interested in a writeup like this. I've been getting gentoo onto my eee, and its going well. I'm just missing the finer details like hotkeys, suspend on lid closing and tweaking the intel drivers. Thanks ~Matt
[gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story
I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the wired or wireless network devices so I'm unable to grab the stage3 and portage tarballs. I was going to put them on a CD then work on the network stuff later with a more recent kernel, then I realised that the SSDs in use won't really like compilations being done (apart from it being achingly slow on this processor). So what are my options? Ideally I want to have the network going so I can compile the packages on my desktop, then have them installed over the network. I've read several wiki articles etc which talk about patching older kernels, or that the 2.6.28-* series having support for the network, but both of those methods would involve me making my own bootable media, something I've done before and remember it took me a fair amount of work. Any advice from you guys would be great, as I'm about to just stick XP on it ;) ~Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story
Florian Philipp wrote: How about a good old sneakernet? [1] Grab a memory stick and use it to transfer data between your eee and a decent machine. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net Hey thanks for the reply, Ok so assuming I can get the stage3 and portage snapshot plus some distfiles onto the machine, I could install grub, compile a (hopefully working) kernel and then use the network after that. I just didn't want to be compiling the kernel on that machine, but I think doing it any other way will just be too complicated. Thanks, I'll give it a go :) ~Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the wired or wireless network devices so I'm unable to grab the stage3 and portage tarballs. That CD is too old, either use one of the snapshots or something like eexubuntu to install Gentoo. Ah ok, I had totally forgotten there are the snapshots. I'm getting a new image that's less than a month old now. Hopefully it will have a more recent kernel. I was going to put them on a CD then work on the network stuff later with a more recent kernel, then I realised that the SSDs in use won't really like compilations being done (apart from it being achingly slow on this processor). SSDs use wear levelling, so they aren't subject to the same write restrictions as more basic flash devices. But if you're still nervous about this, point PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a USB or SD device. I've been running Gentoo on my Eee for a year,running ~x86 so plenty of compiling, and no noticeable problems with the SD card I use for PORTAGE_TMPDIR. As for compilation times, I was pleasantly surprised. It's not fast, but a lot faster than I expected. You've just about swayed me. I'll use an old usb stick for the PORTAGE_TMPDIR and maybe use distcc if it seems to help. The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there that I need to use the athk(?) driver for wireless, and there is such thing as the eeepc_laptop module, but I have no idea about configuring a kernel for them. Much appreciated. ~M
Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there that I need to use the athk(?) driver for wireless, and there is such thing as the eeepc_laptop module, but I have no idea about configuring a kernel for them. You need ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired. EEE_LAPTOP is useful too. I've attached my tuxonice-sources-2.6.29-r1 config as a guide of something that works, although it's still got some redundant options enabled. Thats great, will help me a long way :) Thanks ~M
Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there that I need to use the athk(?) driver for wireless, and there is such thing as the eeepc_laptop module, but I have no idea about configuring a kernel for them. You need ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired. EEE_LAPTOP is useful too. I've attached my tuxonice-sources-2.6.29-r1 config as a guide of something that works, although it's still got some redundant options enabled. Ok, using your .config I'm almost there, but not quite. It's panic'ing like so: List of all partitions: 08003940272 sda driver: sd 0801136521 sda1 0802506047 sda2 0803 3293325 sda3 0810 15761088 sdb driver: sd 0811 3906472 sdb1 0812 11854584 sdb2 No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 vfat msdos iso9660 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8-3) Now, seeing as it's showing the correct paritions and sizes, I'm not sure why this is. All my partitions are ext2 at the moment as I heard that was better to use on the SSDs. I see that ext2 isn't in the list of tried FSs, but I'm almost certain that you should be able to boot an ext2 root (unless that's been deprecated or something). I've got rootwait and rootdelay=10 in my kernel options, and it does seem to be detecting everything fine, just not mounting. Any pointers welcomed. Thanks ~M
Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story
Matt Harrison wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there that I need to use the athk(?) driver for wireless, and there is such thing as the eeepc_laptop module, but I have no idea about configuring a kernel for them. You need ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired. EEE_LAPTOP is useful too. I've attached my tuxonice-sources-2.6.29-r1 config as a guide of something that works, although it's still got some redundant options enabled. Ok, using your .config I'm almost there, but not quite. It's panic'ing like so: List of all partitions: 08003940272 sda driver: sd 0801 136521 sda1 0802 506047 sda2 0803 3293325 sda3 0810 15761088 sdb driver: sd 0811 3906472 sdb1 081211854584 sdb2 No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 vfat msdos iso9660 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8-3) Now, seeing as it's showing the correct paritions and sizes, I'm not sure why this is. All my partitions are ext2 at the moment as I heard that was better to use on the SSDs. I see that ext2 isn't in the list of tried FSs, but I'm almost certain that you should be able to boot an ext2 root (unless that's been deprecated or something). I've got rootwait and rootdelay=10 in my kernel options, and it does seem to be detecting everything fine, just not mounting. Any pointers welcomed. Of course it does help when you have ext2 compiled in...god knows why it wasn't, some strange defaults going on there. I seem to be booting fine now. Onto checking out the rest of it. Thanks for the help. ~M
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
Thomas Chef wrote: Aha I understand. But what if my cd installation names my disk hda, but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it should be sda instead ? I guess when you boot the new kernel, it will error looking for the root block device, and ask you what it should do. You can then tell it that it should be looking for sda, not hda. Then once the system is booted, you can update the bootloader config. That should let you migrate and you shouldn't have to do it again unless you go back to the old hda names. HTH Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com wrote: G'day, I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb and sd and sr drivers in the kernel ). I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something quick fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an issue when I had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. Also, its not an issue when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ). I've tried different cpufreq governors ( default is ondemand ) and that doesn't appear to be an issue. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. I've never known what those numbers represent (I know it is load average, but what it means, and what is the range, I have no idea)... Anyway, it seems mine are always around 1+. It's not perfectly idle but not running seti or anything intensive either. I remember trying to google the meaning of those numbers once. It was VERY hard to find out what they were. It's something like, average number of processes in the running or ready to run states for the last 1, 5 15 minutes. Shawn googling load average brings me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing) which explains it somewhat. HTH Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as a production server - insecure?
james wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs at online.de writes: would you please be so kind and avoid hijacking other threads next time. Um, you must not have read the response. I did specifically address and provide remedy if indeed having gcc installed on a machine is a security threat. Sure I expounded on the whole concept of security, because one of the most important aspect of any or all security is a measure of reasonableness and sufficiency. There are many instances, imho, that overkill for security is applied and often does not work, such as removing gcc from a system. A good hacker (security interloper) can patch a system without ever compiling anything on that system Your opinion that I hijacked a thread is, well, your opinion, at best. Ignore what you do not like, or give a more singularly focused response, if you deem that necessary, but avoid pissing into a fan and telling the rest of us how cool and relevant you are. After all, you did not even respond with any relevance to what the poster was look for, did you ? (your just another pompous a.) hth, James Actually Dirk wasn't talking to you at all, he was talking to the person that did indeed hijack the thread (titled Mailing Lists) by replying to it with an unrelated email (titled Gentoo as a production server - insecure?). This was a valid point, as it was thread hijacking and it does make threads very difficult to manage. It does not however make it so difficult to manage that you cannot see Dirk replied to the original hijacking email, and not to you. Now lets all kiss and make up :) Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?
Grant wrote: I'd like to buy a Sipix A6 portable printer for printing boarding passes on the go since they can be had for around $20. It is said to work in Linux: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6 but that page only mentions the serial connection and doesn't mention the infrared connection. If it's working via serial, should it also work via infrared? If not necessarily, should it definitely work via a serial-USB adapter that works in Linux? - Grant Don't quote me on this, but in the past when I have used infrared, it used a pseudo serial connection. This should mean that once the infrared connection is established, you should be able to print as if it was a physical serial connection. Of course, getting the IR connection established might be easier said than done. HTH -- Matt Harrison
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven't looked back. Gentoo is still my main OS but I think you just can't beat ZFS for a filer. Matt, I'm interested in quizzing you further on this so will ask the main question here. But, if you don't mind I'd like to talk to you off list at more length. Maybe a few pointer getting Opensolaris setup with the ZFS or the like. Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing on a domain via cifs. I've got backups running from linux and windows boxes onto it. Your list email address looks like it might be a phony (I didn't try it) but mine isn't so if you don't mind the personal contact please let me know and I'll write direct. Well I didn't realise my address looked fake :P It is real and I'd be happy to try and answer your questions to the best of my ability. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing on a domain via cifs. I've got backups running from linux and windows boxes onto it. Ahh sounds like what I'd be doing. Although I'm not really sure what you mean by `via ISCSI' (a scsi transport?) iSCSI is kinda like ATA over ethernet, it allows you to attach a disk to a system, over the network, but have it appear like a local disk. For example, I have a windows 2003 domain controller that doesn't have much space for storing roaming profiles etc. So I attached a disk to it via iSCSI (in fact it is only a ZFS dataset, not a whole disk), windows sees it as a local SCSI disk and lets me format it with NTFS and use it for local storage. try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI Your list email address looks like it might be a phony (I didn't try it) but mine isn't so if you don't mind the personal contact please let me know and I'll write direct. Well I didn't realise my address looked fake :P It is real and I'd be happy to try and answer your questions to the best of my ability. Hehe... no slam intended... some people do obfuscate there email on lists such as this, and yours is somewhat unusual looking. I've had people say the same thing about mine... `newsguy' sounds kind of made up. (True story =) It used to be `zippo.com' some yrs ago but they were sued by the famous `Zippo' lighter people and had to change the name. They picked the silly name `newsguy'. No offense taken, i was just surprised :) Feel free to email me off-list if you want to talk ZFS etc, I'll be happy to answer what I can or point you to the people that know all ;) Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup
Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high end pricetags and even the midranges for a factory made setup. Makes me wonder what if anything I'd be missing, functionality wise, if I were to build it up myself. I see these storebought things are mostly running a small embedded linux os. The lowend stuff like WD `mybook 1tb world Edition II' advertises gigabit throughput but I see many reviews that report way less in practice. In fact it started to look like that particular one is way below its advertised capability. I ran across many complaints about dreadfully low write speads. Also apparently has some sorry thing called Mionet for (secure) remote access. I'm thinking of doing something like a semi-minimal regular (not embedded) install on a P4 I have with asus P4C800 mobo and some 2 gigs ram. Maybe add an extra sata controller (the mobo has one) so I can put up to 6 or so sata disks on it along with one small IDE disk for the OS (just to head of any problems related to installing on sata) Maybe start with 2 500 sata disks and build up as I need it. Or more likely `if I need it'... I kind of doubt I'd need more than 4 anytime soon so maybe wait on the controller part too. I guess I'd connect to it mostly thru samba/cifs for windows XP machines that have lots of biggish graphics and video type stuff to backup/store. And nfs for my main gentoo desktop. I wondered what the downsides are compared to a medium range storebought rig? A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself, or missing compared to storebought. Maybe maintenance considerations.. or whatever, wodld be welcome. I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven't looked back. Gentoo is still my main OS but I think you just can't beat ZFS for a filer. Just check it out and see what you think. -- Matt Harrison A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop rotate)
Grant wrote: ... I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only allows my user and the user running gmpc is different). The obvious thing that springs to mind is to export the folder (containing the music / images) on the HDTV system via NFS or Samba mount it on the laptop. Sounds like a good idea. Would one be better than the other? I think there's a fuse implementation which allows you to virtually mount over sftp. But really you need to tell us more before we're able to help. What else would you like to know? - Grant Are the changes the same for each image or are they something you have to judge for yourself? If they are the same then you could write a script that performs the changes using imagemagick tools, without the need to copy them around the network. Of course, if it's something you need to judge by eye, that isn't an option. -- Matt Harrison
Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2009 20:12:06 Grant wrote: This requires only that the computer in question has a static IP or a permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of the web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, deny everything else to destination port 80. That sounds good, but I won't be able to fetch all updates that portage might want, right? There's always a wrinkle isn't there? I find in real terms that my machines get all their updates from gentoo.org or from the gentoo mirror on the ftp server at work. That works for me, if those two mirrors both fail, I have problems that a change of GENTOO_MIRRORS will not solve. Perhaps the same is true of your environment. Failing that, I think you need to haul out the big guns, along with the big administration burden, and run an http proxy I setup my squid proxy probably 5 years ago, I moved the config over when I switched to gentoo a couple of years ago, and it still works. I would say I spend around 10 minutes a year performing admin tasks on my (home) squid server. I just wanted to let it be said that squid doesn't have to be a big burden. Matt
[gentoo-user] motherboard died?
Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from the data cables to see if that was a cause of interference. Well I did manage to reduce the noise by moving cables around but a couple of minutes later the machine bombed out with a big oops that I can't produce now. I didn't think it was a big problem, I thought I had just pulled an hdd cable a bit too hard or something. Now however, the machine won't post or even power up. It is an Asus Crosshair SKT AM2 nForce 590 SLI DDR2 which has a debug display on the back panel. As soon as you turn on the power to the motherboard, it displays CPU INIT which is the very first stage. Now trying to turn on the machine yields absolutely nothing, it just doesn't do a thing. I have removed all additional devices, just leaving 1 hdd. I've also reseated the CPU, RAM and all cables. I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. If anyone has any ideas I'd be so grateful, I really don't want to have to return parts, I should be working on stuff right now :( Thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:32:15 +, Matt Harrison wrote: I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. Did you touch a grounded object before putting your hand inside the case. A static discharge could kill the motherboard. Thanks for the reply, Ashamed to say no I didn't consciously do that, however the only thing I touched inside the case was insulated cables. If i had zapped it, would it even get as far as it does? I know zapping it can be unpredictable, but up to a point, it works perfectly if you see what I mean. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?
Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from the data cables to see if that was a cause of interference. Well I did manage to reduce the noise by moving cables around but a couple of minutes later the machine bombed out with a big oops that I can't produce now. I didn't think it was a big problem, I thought I had just pulled an hdd cable a bit too hard or something. Now however, the machine won't post or even power up. It is an Asus Crosshair SKT AM2 nForce 590 SLI DDR2 which has a debug display on the back panel. As soon as you turn on the power to the motherboard, it displays CPU INIT which is the very first stage. Now trying to turn on the machine yields absolutely nothing, it just doesn't do a thing. I have removed all additional devices, just leaving 1 hdd. I've also reseated the CPU, RAM and all cables. I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. If anyone has any ideas I'd be so grateful, I really don't want to have to return parts, I should be working on stuff right now :( Thanks Matt Is it possible that a wire come a loose when you moved it? Maybe a power wire or something? Also, I don't think this could be it but could it be that the CPU fan isn't turning? It doesn't sound like it gets that far so that may not matter. Dale :-) :-) I think I have reseated all the cables but I am happy to try again for luck :P
Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?
Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from the data cables to see if that was a cause of interference. Well I did manage to reduce the noise by moving cables around but a couple of minutes later the machine bombed out with a big oops that I can't produce now. I didn't think it was a big problem, I thought I had just pulled an hdd cable a bit too hard or something. Now however, the machine won't post or even power up. It is an Asus Crosshair SKT AM2 nForce 590 SLI DDR2 which has a debug display on the back panel. As soon as you turn on the power to the motherboard, it displays CPU INIT which is the very first stage. Now trying to turn on the machine yields absolutely nothing, it just doesn't do a thing. I have removed all additional devices, just leaving 1 hdd. I've also reseated the CPU, RAM and all cables. I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. If anyone has any ideas I'd be so grateful, I really don't want to have to return parts, I should be working on stuff right now :( Thanks Matt Is it possible that a wire come a loose when you moved it? Maybe a power wire or something? Also, I don't think this could be it but could it be that the CPU fan isn't turning? It doesn't sound like it gets that far so that may not matter. Dale :-) :-) I think I have reseated all the cables but I am happy to try again for luck :P I was thinking maybe a wire came loose inside the connector itself. Reseating the cables may not work. Maybe unplug them and look inside to see if they have come loose. I ran into this a while back with my central heater. It came loose where it was crimped inside the connector and I had to solder it back on. May be a long shot tho. Dale :-) :-) Ah I see what you're saying. Yea it will be hard to spot so it'll take a while. I guess that's something to keep me busy. I've contacted Asus as well, so at least I've got some history if I really do have to RMA it. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?
Dan Cowsill wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from the data cables to see if that was a cause of interference. Well I did manage to reduce the noise by moving cables around but a couple of minutes later the machine bombed out with a big oops that I can't produce now. I didn't think it was a big problem, I thought I had just pulled an hdd cable a bit too hard or something. Now however, the machine won't post or even power up. It is an Asus Crosshair SKT AM2 nForce 590 SLI DDR2 which has a debug display on the back panel. As soon as you turn on the power to the motherboard, it displays CPU INIT which is the very first stage. Now trying to turn on the machine yields absolutely nothing, it just doesn't do a thing. I have removed all additional devices, just leaving 1 hdd. I've also reseated the CPU, RAM and all cables. I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. If anyone has any ideas I'd be so grateful, I really don't want to have to return parts, I should be working on stuff right now :( Thanks Matt Hi Matt, My first guess would be that the audio interference would be a symptom of a bigger problem with the hardware. It is possible that static discharge or a loose connection could manifest these symptoms as well. I would start by verifying that everything is properly and securely plugged into the motherboard. After that, make a complete visual inspection of the board looking for capacitors that are bubbling or distorting outwards on the top (capacitors are the cylindrical components on the board, usually with two leads anchoring it to the PCB). From there, you should find some way of testing your power supply. Either find another machine into which you can plug the PSU to see if it posts the board, or take it to your local computer repair shop, as they should have a device to test it. If your power supply tests alright, begin removing components from the board to see if you can get it to post. Remove PCI cards, sticks of RAM, IDE/SATA connectors, front panel and USB connectors. Everything. If you reach the end of this diagnostic process without a single post, chances are your board is FUBAR and you should replace it. Cheers, D Thanks for the detailed information. I have some news, but it requires me to put on my embarrassed face. The machine wouldn't turn on because...wait for itI'd pulled out the front panel connector block :P It was difficult to notice until I removed the graphics card because it completely hides it. I know I should have thought to check it. Now, on the subject of the audio problem, I am talking with Asus staff who believe it's (wouldn't you believe it) interference. They're smart cookies. Anyway, thanks for all the tips, I will be examining the board closely to find the source, but at least I can get my uni assignments in now :) Cheers Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?
Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. - Grant I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in C, which is doubtful. The only other language you might find webmail written in is Perl/CGI and that is definitely not faster in my experience. PHP is about as good as you will get IMHO. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are any applications still around that haven't moved to ssh. Exposing the root user to an already unsafe transmission is asking for trouble IMHO. Unfortunately I can't help with the configuration but I thought a brief warning should accompany any discussion on RSH. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/01/09 Mick said: I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev't will undoubtedly decline with time. Maybe the recent 2.6.27 kernel problems that I have experienced are an early warning that my PIII Coppermine is approaching the end of its useful life ... I just stopped using a P-III myself. I was running 2.6.9 under CentOS-4 for ages. Mike I've got a dual PII-350 machine that does nicely for firewall/router, if a little slow to compile stuff. It's using the latest stable kernel :) Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called enthusiasts, I'll drop the question here ;) In KDE (3), when enabling the fade effect for menus, clicking on a menu results in a faint, high-pitched tone coming from somewhere inside the PC case. The tone lasts for the duration of the fade effect (should about 0.2 seconds). This is happening on more than one machines. You have to listen carefully to make out the sound, but it's there. So the question is simple: where does the sound come from and why? I get something very similar when using any 3d application. I was thinking it is interference from the graphics device seeping into the sound card. Do you have sound card and speakers connected, if so, does it come out of the speakers or is it internal to the case? Not being an electronics engineer, i don't want to start taking my hardware to pieces and re-shield it all. It seems like I'm going to have to replace my old SB Audigy that's served me so well for years. I know it's not a definitive answer but it might point to the right direction. BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2008, 15:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It's coming from the case, not the speakers. BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me. Same here. The sound is loudest when running the Mother Nature test of 3DMark 03. Happening with every card I ever tried (an old Radeon 9800, an X1950XT and my current HD4870). Could be the graphics cards then. But it would be interesting to know why this is happening. Google for coil whine or coil noise and see if it applies to your case. I had one Abit motherboard replaced because the noise it did was really unbearable, although hearing it change pitch depending on what you were doing was kind of cool. I will investigate now I know what I can search for, and yes the pitch change was interesting. I once played a game for an hour before I notice d the sound was interference and not dark, moody music :D Thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel
Simon wrote: Hi there, long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had added the line sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24 (without quotes) to the file /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i recently moved my make.profile to point to 2008 instead of 2007... Now, I'm trying to do a simple `emerge -uDN world` and for some reason, the nvidia-drivers keep trying to pull a gentoo-sources. Here's the output of `emerge -vpt nvidia-drivers`: [ebuild U ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09 [96.43.07] USE=gtk -acpi -custom-cflags% (-multilib) 7,067 kB [ebuild N] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r7 USE=-build -symlink 0 kB The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I can't install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it). Besides, I would really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel alone, completely. NeddySeagon and Miravlix tried to help on #gentoo, i tried modifying the .provided line to virtual/linux-sources, didn't help. Tried putting a version that corresponds to a valid ebuild (2.6.24 doesn't exist in portage) like sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24.7 but that didn't help either. I've been able to hack my way around this problem for now (by masking the pkgs that were being updated that were pulling the kernel), but that is a dirty solution. I would really want to make portage leave my kernel(s) alone, if anyone can help... Thanks, Simon How about specified sys-kernel/gentoo-sources instead of vanilla in package.provided. If the nvidia ebuild depends on gentoo-sources and not vanilla-sources...then naturally it will pull in gentoo no matter how many vanilla kernels you have. I haven't tested any of that but it seems logical to me and might be worth a go :) HTH Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly
Dale wrote: I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ Dale :-) :-) Hey, I've been following this thread with some interest. I just wanted to note that you guys might like to subscribe to Sun's ZFS-discuss list and possibly Storage-discuss. The guys on there really are hard-disk gurus and some of the things they talk about are miles over my head. It's just interesting as ZFS is supposedly (and I believe it) THE filesystem when it comes to combating fragmentation. Maybe reading over what those guys chat about would be interesting to some folks from this thread. In fact, the guys over at Sun are so hot on fighting fragmentation, they're already looking at some really advanced things like low level algorithms for deduplication and some other things that scare me and make me want to take a hot shower :P Happy holidays Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly
Dale wrote: But if we learned to much, we may be dangerous or something. Sometimes to much knowledge can be bad. lol I !think! I tried XFS once. If it was XFS, you need to have a UPS for sure. Every time the system crashed I had to re-install. I never got it to recover even once. I have heard the same thing about its defrag efficiency tho. Just don't trust it to much with my data. Dale :-) :-) Not sure if you're talking about something else but I was talking about ZFS[1], not XFS. ZFS is the latest filesystem from Sun which ships with the later versions of Solaris/OpenSolaris. I don't want to be seen to advertise it loads here, but it really is good. I recently moved my fileserver to a solaris/ZFS box instead of raid on gentoo. Since then my data hasn't been inaccessible once, and I haven't had the scary problems like when gentoo decides to reboot and not bring my arrays back online :) [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS Matt
[gentoo-user] QoS and tc
Hi list, I'm trying to set up some sort of QoS for my small network. I've got a pretty slow 512kb/256kb ADSL line and I'd like to have it managed better. All the examples I have found[1] talk a lot about outbound..or inbound, but not both. The problem is that my upstream bandwidth is half that of my downstream. Can anyone point me to some guides or anything for setting up tc QoS on one interface but in two different directions (and with two different rulesets). Appreciate any help Thanks Matt [1]http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.fullnat.intro.html
[gentoo-user] squid with active directory
Hi all, I have a gentoo box that acts as a firewall, router and squid proxy. I've been following a guide[1] to integrate squid authentication with our active directory domain. The guide is a little bit out of date and it doesn't seem to work for me. Authentication is refused to non-authenticated users without prompting for credentials (i want to be prompted) but it is also refused for users logged into the domain. Has anyone successfully got this to work? If so can you supply any tips for my squid.conf? Many thanks Matt [1]http://cryptoresync.com/2006/05/18/installing-squid-with-active-directory-authentication/
Re: [gentoo-user] squid with active directory
Let me clarify a little bit: Before attempting this integration, I had an acl line like this: acl internal src 10.194.217.0/24 And i'm allowing that like so: http_access allow internal I'm just not sure how to change this to allow access to authenticated users while prompting for those not authenticated. As far as the guide I have mentioned goes, my kerberos and ldap are working perfectly and samba is joined to the domain. winbind is running and using the ntlm helper tests from the guide it appears that authentication for users against the AD is working. The problem is that squid.conf is a very large config file and I've only ever played with a few options (1 acl, nothing more complex). Any ideas appreciated Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] OT joomla, defacement and remote shell
Michele Schiavo wrote: How can i prevent the execution of this file ? Please don't spread an infected file to the whole list, just give a description of your problem and people might be able to help. Right now it just looks like you're trying infect list members with something. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GPG: pub sec keys required to decrypt?
It looks like I've imported a pub/sec keypair now. Should I remove the public key for security? Maybe I misunderstood from the beginning and having both keys on the same system isn't a security issue? - Grant It is still a security issue, but only as much as any other data on your machine. Physical access to the box, or being remotely hacked will always be a security risk. And yes, if someone does break in and copy your pub/sec keypair, they will have full ability to masquerade as you in signed and encrypted emails. You have to weigh it up for yourself really. Many, many keep pub/sec keypairs for their email on more than one machine. Of course it would be a lot of work for someone to compromise your system for your gpg keys, so your email would have to be of value to them. Just my $0.02 Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates
Joshua D Doll wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package. Then a lazy admin could go through them, take whatever action necessary, and then just kill the pop-up. Do you mean like the elog system that can write this information to a separate log file, email it to you, pass it to a command or any combination of these? There are also elog viewers in portage, although I have no experience of these, I use my mailer to read these messages. I concur elog is great. I have it e-mail me a single file after I've run updates or installed anything. It's stupid simple to setup too. Sounds like a really useful tool, but I can't see where to get it. According to eix, the only elog tools are direct viewers. I'd really like one that can email me, where can I find it? Thanks Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even can write to | it over a network/the internet (mbuffer+tar). It would be perfect if the more high-end backup devices weren't so pricey. My guess would that the tape size of a (cheap) DLT or LTO would be so small that it would take days to backup with close to 1Tb. avg size of a cheap DLT from ebay 20/40, so thats ~20Gb if you're talking mp3s. 1024Gb / 20Gb = 52 tapes. I wouldn't spend 5 days changing tapes only to start the backup again next week :D plus the price of even those old tapes would be a worry at that number. I know this wasn't my thread, but I'm always interested in backup solutions that don't cost a packet, so I thought I'd chime in :) Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkid3LEACgkQrAy5raVjCCtjAwCbBxsbuwjAdHTvEQa+OA13mh6m cHkAn28pYYIbMpiXQyTy5fW0c5Dx57eN =Jbha -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] [slightly OT] recommendations for streaming audio solutions
Hi all, This is a tiny bit OT but not totally. I used to have a streaming audio server setup using tunez (http://tunez.sourceforge.net/) but that is no longer in development (since 2004). Is there something in portage that I can use to stream audio over icecast, both mp3 and ogg and control it from a web frontend (maybe using mysql backend)? Grateful for any suggestions anyone has on this topic. thanks Matt No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.8/1582 - Release Date: 30/07/2008 18:37
Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)
Alan E. Davis wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had lots of cooling problems. That fall the power supply fried itself and the mobo. To make a long story short, the Tyan was nice, but not right for me. My present Athlon 64 X2 is doing very nicely now... The Tyan Thunder I am running at work is also a power hungry dog, but would that not be mainly because of the CPUs? Wouldn't newer Opterons be more efficient? That's what I'm hoping for. Yes, I like the Athlon 64 XP2. The point being that the Tyan was a cadillac of a motherboard---and priced out of my range. Alan I have an old Tyan Tiger 100 with dual PII 350's that runs my firewall and development webserver. Its a rock solid board and it's been doing it's job well since I bought it waaay back. As you say the power draw is more than I'd expect but that could just be due to using 2 very old and inefficient processors. I dream of the day when I can afford one of their dual opteron boards with dual addon daughterboard for 4-way quad cores :) Sorry if this is a little OT but I love that old board so much I had to chime in with my $0.02. Matt No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1575 - Release Date: 26/07/2008 16:18
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: | Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? | | I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It | supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both | types terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using | the USB option and didn't have to do anything, it just worked. I do | have USB HID support compiled into the kernel, though. Do you? | | No. I did not. I guess I haven't had need of it until now. | However compiling that in desn't seem to have helped (see below) | | Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch | | Summary: | Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not | recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru | the the KVM switch. | Make sure you have USB Hid support compiled into the kernel (along | with any other relevant options you see like USB Keyboard/Mouse | support. | | That was not compiled in no, but I have now done so but seemingly it | has not helped. | | Current .config shows: | | grep HID /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-r6/.config | | CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT=y | CONFIG_HID=y | CONFIG_HID_DEBUG=y | CONFIG_HIDRAW=y | CONFIG_USB_HID=y | # CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK is not set | CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y | # CONFIG_USB_PHIDGET is not set | | After make modules_install and moving the new kernel to /boot; upon | reboot I see no difference. Once I get the console prompt I have no | mouse or keyboard If you have only done make modules_install and not make and/or make modules you will see no effect i think. It looks like you've configured USB support to be compiled in directly so compiling modules won't do you any good. HTH -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkiCo/UACgkQxNZfa+YAUWF1XwCcDL23ETSt5bmlo7Fj+OMd8Z/K sg4AoMAzlNm6yBa5J5cNOXTOsfuFdBuL =SXrX -END PGP SIGNATURE- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.2/1561 - Release Date: 18/07/2008 18:35
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dhk wrote: | So what is the solution to making grub visible again? I remember when | it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't | know the fix. | | Running emerge --config grub doesn't work. | | Is it as simple as changing the path of the splash image to | /usr/share/grub/ and running grub-install? I changed grub.conf so it points to the splashimage on my /usr partition like so: splashimage=(hd0,5)/share/grub/splash.xpm.gz Just make sure you get the partition number right, remembering that grub counts paritions from 0, not 1. This fixed it perfectly for me. HTH Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkiAlkkACgkQxNZfa+YAUWEBcwCfYTdG36hTwCGn1GX9D9nmVTWg UDAAoKlJFt0pM/OSsU52n5Krr9RL1tkY =FCbQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.1/1559 - Release Date: 17/07/2008 18:08 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] eee pc query
I've got one of these Asus EEEPc's and I'm thinking about installing gentoo on it as the (xubuntu) distro isn't really up to par with gentoo IMHO. I'm not worried about messing things up as I can just re-image it with the supplied discs if something goes wrong but I do have a couple of questions. I've seen people writing about using USB sticks etc to install, I was just wondering, is there anything stopping me from just scp'ing across the stage3 and portage tarballs, extracting them somewhere and chrooting in. Then I should be able to complete the install from the chroot (although using distcc to speed up compilation times). Does anyone know why this might not be a good idea? Thanks Matt -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
I just updated grub as part of my regular updates and it gave me the message that I should re-install grub to my MBR otherwise stage1 and stage2 would mismatch. I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the bootloader without problems. However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems. I'm just wondering what might've happened to cause grub to become invisible. My splash image, grub.conf and everything looks fine and worked perfectly before the update. Any ideas welcome. Thanks Matt -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
