Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a is AAC. So for transcode I would be sure you have aac and x264 USE flags set. If not, maybe that's why it is failing.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: If it still crashes after the upgrade today, I'm going to unmask Seamonkey2 and see what it looks like. One caveat. Your profile will be automatically migrated and you should be able to use SM2 or SM1. But for emails, if you fetch them with one SM they are no longer available for the other, unless [x] Leave messages on server Hartmut Well, I figured out what my problem was after all. It wasn't the profile, it was gcc. This is in another thread but I switched back to gcc 4.1 and it recently finished recompiling Seamonkey and the website loads up just fine now. I can log in and view my cell phone account and everything. This is a rather weird ending. Who would have thunk it? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:35 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. mythfrontend is segfaulting for me also, but my problem has spread to pretty much any application that tries to display video - mplayer, xine and Myth all crash with similar errors. Only xine doesn't crash X completely and leaves behind anything in terms of clues. It looks like maybe a problem with xv overlays. You can try using a different output driver than xv. Also, try adding AccelMethod to your device section in xorg.conf if you don't have it: Option AccelMethod XAA If that doesn't help, maybe try EXA instead of XAA. Also, if you're using anything like compiz of KDE4 desktop effects, try turning it off. Right now I don't have an xorg.conf file as the new xorg upgrade guide encourages you to dump it. I'm not overly comfortable with that and will likely try creating a new xorg or using my old one later. I'll try your idea as soon as I get to that. I'm not sure if video device options such as AccelMethod can be set via FDI... I think they may still belong in xorg.conf, just not input devices. I have nothing but the video device options in my xorg.conf :) Also as someone suggested in a similar thread recently, maybe give driconf a try as well. No, driconf isnt helping me - vmware also does for me, and sometimes after a tuxonice suspend to ram. Almost seems to be anything creating a heavy load and while accessing video on the i915. In some cases I am left with a X mouse cursor and that can move in xy, but not click. Trying to ssh in and restart x doesnt work, and when rebooting the last screen stays displayed (the original x window at the time of crash) stays up until the warm start point is reached. ive found 2.6.28 is more stable than 2.6.29, but not by a lot ... BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). Or into the /usr/local hierarchy to keep the stuff separated - who knows what this would overwrite. I would even consider using xstow for this: emerge xstow rpm2targz packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm mkdir -p /usr/local/stow/packageXXX tar -C /usr/local/stow/packageXXX -xf packageXXX.tgz cd /usr/local/stow xstow packageXXX xtow creates symlinks, so /usr/local/stow/packageXXX/bin/foo will also be found in /usr/local/bin/foo, and so on. To uninstall, just call xstow -D packageXXX from /usr/lcoal/stow, and remove the packageXXX diretory. Wonko
[gentoo-user] kernel build messages
Hi All, I updated my kernel and this is what I got when I built it: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable initial_code to the function .init.text:i386_start_kernel() The variable __cpuinitdata initial_code references a function __init i386_start_kernel(). If i386_start_kernel is only used by initial_code then annotate i386_start_kernel with a matching annotation. I had to build it with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y after it suggested that I do so to find where a subsection mismatch existed. I am probably confusing myself unnecessarily, but is there anything I should do about this message? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Friday 17 April 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: Yes, try equery f app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools to find all the files involved - its quite extensive. Ha! I remember ... I had to uninstall this package because it kept spinning my hard drive down. mplayer will pause momentarily (very annoying) and the life of the hard drive would probably be reduced considerably. Given that this is a rather old laptop I decided not to risk it. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution
On Friday 17 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: He has just started switching from Time-Warner's Roadrunner cable modem service to Verizon's FIOS. His new link is up and his speed is very nice. (20Mb/S downlaod, 5Mb/S upload using Speakeasy.net to test.) The issue he is running into is that Roadrunner's SMTP server is not allowing him to send email, presumably because he's not on one of their IP address. Does RR offer SMTP authentication to allow legit senders to login before they can send messages? They may also require that you use a different port when you are trying to connect to their mailserver from an IP address that does not belong to them (e.g. port 587, instead of the vanilla SMTP port 25). It could also be Verizon blocking you from connecting to other SMTP servers, to prevent spam. I know that some US ISPs are blocking port 25 just for this reason (there's many pwned machines spewing spam out there) even from IP addresses that belong to them. Some, like comcast, will only block port 25 if they see unreasonably high traffic over short periods of time. Others block it right from the word go. You very well may be able to sent RR email through Verizon's server. I think that this is what ISPs want, to control the flow of emails and so hopefully minimise spam from their block of IP addresses. If your father has a Verizon account then you should be able to set your SMART_HOST and appropriate port to send (relay) emails via Verizon's mailservers if you're using Sendmail, or configure your father's mail client accordingly. Anyway, he's thinking I need to convert him over to a Verizon email address but I was thinking that if he could continue using Evolution but send and receive through GMail it would be a better long term solution. I think it is good advice to everyone to avoid using ISP e-mail accounts. +1 Is this a good idea and more importantly is this possible? What sort of issues will I have managing this for him. Assuming he doesn't have any exotic e-mail scripts or folder structure going on, I would use Gmail with IMAP, then he'll be able to access his email at home and have the ability to check it via the web in case he's ever out and about and needs access. I suggest you use POP3 unless your father has reasons (as mentioned above) for using IMAP4. The latter is not as efficient (data wise) as POP3, but adds functional flexibility and acts as an online mailbox back up, just in case your father's PC/disk packs up. Once you set gmail as you want it and enable POP3/IMAP4 access for him on the gmail GUI, their system is essentially maintenance free. It is also more likely to outdo your ISP performance in terms of uptime (although there have been a couple of instances lately with gmail servers becoming unavailable). -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error
김무성 writes: For installing vmware My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source files’ version no match. I have to kernel upgrade. I entered “genkernel all” And vi /boot/grub/grub.conf [...] And reboot. But can’t boot. There is an error. Determining root device... !! Could not find the root block device in . I think you will have to re-configure your kernel. The SATA drivers have moved into another section, have a look at the Device Drivers - Serial ATA section. If kernel configuration is new to you, you can also boot from a knoppix live cd, and get the kernel config from /proc/config.gz. Or install an older kernel, 2.6.24-r8 is still in portage. It is outdated, but at least your old .config (assuming you still have it, either on your hard desk or in /proc/config.gz) would probably work. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up. Yes I have an nsf mount, but it seems to be unmounting. The problem is definitely that console-kit-daemon does not die and thus has open files in usr so it can't be unmounted. (I am using LVM2) thanks for you help, allan I'm running LVM as well and I have nfs but I didn't know until I just looked. Lately it's been working ok so next time it happens I'll check if that daemon is running. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution
A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the list? She doesn't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as the upgrade guide recommended getting rid of it. Several sites on the 'Net suggested using the xf86Config file, but she doesn't seem to have one.
[gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? I also could never get the 64bit flash to work wiith konqueror-3.5, and nspluginwrapper simply never ever worked at all for me. I had to use firefox to view flash. Latest adobe-flash is 64 bit and works well in konqueror-4.2. Top reports around 10% cpu usage when idle, but that's probably more due to a stupid blocking IO strategy by Adobe than anything else. So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? I also could never get the 64bit flash to work wiith konqueror-3.5, and nspluginwrapper simply never ever worked at all for me. I had to use firefox to view flash. Latest adobe-flash is 64 bit and works well in konqueror-4.2. Top reports around 10% cpu usage when idle, but that's probably more due to a stupid blocking IO strategy by Adobe than anything else. So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a is AAC. So for transcode I would be sure you have aac and x264 USE flags set. If not, maybe that's why it is failing. I just compiled new transcode-1.1.2 with acc and x264 transcode-1.1.2 USE=X a52 aac alsa dv dvd iconv jpeg mmx mp3 ogg quicktime sdl sse sse2 truetype vorbis x264 xml xvid -3dnow (-altivec) -imagemagick -lzo -mjpeg -nuv -oss -postproc -theora -v4l2 but transcode still fails: transcode -i sany0002_1.mp4 -M1 -y ffmpeg --export_prof dvd-ntsc --export_asr 2 -o movie -D0 -m movie.ac3 -J modfps=clonetype=4 --export_fps 29.97 transcode v1.1.2 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2009 Transcode Team [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [transcode] V: auto-probing | sany0002_1.mp4 (OK) [transcode] V: import format| (null) in QuickTime (module=mov) [transcode] A: auto-probing | sany0002_1.mp4 (OK) [transcode] A: import format| PCM in QuickTime (module=mov) [transcode] V: AV demux/sync| (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence [transcode] V: import frame | 1920x1080 1.78:1 encoded @ 16:9 [transcode] V: pre clip frame | 1920x1440 (-180,0,-180,0) [transcode] V: zoom | 720x480 2.00:1 (Lanczos3) [transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.087 (low) [transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 59.940,7 [transcode] V: video format | YUV420 (4:2:0) aka I420 [transcode] A: import format| 0x1 PCM [48000,16,2] [transcode] A: export format| 0x55MPEG ES Layer 3 [48000,16,2] 128 kbps [transcode] V: export format| unknown (module dependant) [transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 29.970,4 [transcode] A: bytes per frame | 6408 (6406.40) [transcode] A: adjustment | -1...@1000 [transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse3 sse2 sse 3dnowext 3dnow mmxext mmx cmove asm [transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 1920x1080 [0x2] [transcode] A: audio buffer | 10 @ 48000x2x16 [import_mov.so] v0.1.3 (2005-12-04) (video) * | (audio) * [filter_modfps.so] v0.10 (2003-08-18) plugin to modify framerate [filter_modfps.so] converting from 59.9401fps to 29.9700fps [export_ffmpeg.so] v0.3.18 (2008-11-29) (video) Lavc52.11.0 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [import_mov.so] codec=mp4a, rate=48000 Hz, bits=16, channels=2, samples=912384 [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [import_mov.so] VIDEO: codec=avc1, fps=59.940, width=1920, height=1080, frames=1140 [import_mov.so] warning: quicktime codec 'avc1' not supported for RGB! [transcode] critical: video import module error: OPEN failed [transcode] critical: failed to open input source tovid fails as well. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote: So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your system. What console errors or log messages do you have? Anything in elog alerts that might provide a clue? You could also try swfdec or gnash if you know you don't need the latest and greatest flash features. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? TIA -Robin Hi, with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with USE Flag -32bit ? kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote: So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your system. What console errors or log messages do you have? Anything in elog alerts that might provide a clue? You could also try swfdec or gnash if you know you don't need the latest and greatest flash features. You're right, firefox works with the latest 64 bit version of flash. I will use that when necessary. Thanks! -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a is AAC. So for transcode I would be sure you have aac and x264 USE flags set. If not, maybe that's why it is failing. I just compiled new transcode-1.1.2 with acc and x264 transcode-1.1.2 USE=X a52 aac alsa dv dvd iconv jpeg mmx mp3 ogg quicktime sdl sse sse2 truetype vorbis x264 xml xvid -3dnow (-altivec) -imagemagick -lzo -mjpeg -nuv -oss -postproc -theora -v4l2 but transcode still fails: transcode -i sany0002_1.mp4 -M1 -y ffmpeg --export_prof dvd-ntsc --export_asr 2 -o movie -D0 -m movie.ac3 -J modfps=clonetype=4 --export_fps 29.97 transcode v1.1.2 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2009 Transcode Team [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [transcode] V: auto-probing | sany0002_1.mp4 (OK) [transcode] V: import format| (null) in QuickTime (module=mov) [transcode] A: auto-probing | sany0002_1.mp4 (OK) [transcode] A: import format| PCM in QuickTime (module=mov) [transcode] V: AV demux/sync| (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence [transcode] V: import frame | 1920x1080 1.78:1 encoded @ 16:9 [transcode] V: pre clip frame | 1920x1440 (-180,0,-180,0) [transcode] V: zoom | 720x480 2.00:1 (Lanczos3) [transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.087 (low) [transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 59.940,7 [transcode] V: video format | YUV420 (4:2:0) aka I420 [transcode] A: import format| 0x1 PCM [48000,16,2] [transcode] A: export format| 0x55MPEG ES Layer 3 [48000,16,2] 128 kbps [transcode] V: export format| unknown (module dependant) [transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 29.970,4 [transcode] A: bytes per frame | 6408 (6406.40) [transcode] A: adjustment | -1...@1000 [transcode] V: IA32/AMD64 accel | sse3 sse2 sse 3dnowext 3dnow mmxext mmx cmove asm [transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 1920x1080 [0x2] [transcode] A: audio buffer | 10 @ 48000x2x16 [import_mov.so] v0.1.3 (2005-12-04) (video) * | (audio) * [filter_modfps.so] v0.10 (2003-08-18) plugin to modify framerate [filter_modfps.so] converting from 59.9401fps to 29.9700fps [export_ffmpeg.so] v0.3.18 (2008-11-29) (video) Lavc52.11.0 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [import_mov.so] codec=mp4a, rate=48000 Hz, bits=16, channels=2, samples=912384 [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called [import_mov.so] VIDEO: codec=avc1, fps=59.940, width=1920, height=1080, frames=1140 [import_mov.so] warning: quicktime codec 'avc1' not supported for RGB! [transcode] critical: video import module error: OPEN failed [transcode] critical: failed to open input source tovid fails as well. Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine?
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? On my system, when I did etc-update it automagically renamed netscape-flash to adobe-flash in my /etc/portage/package* files. Emerge flash with -32bit use flag and it should work without need for nspluginwrapper. That includes in Konqueror.
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, KH wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? TIA -Robin Hi, with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with USE Flag -32bit ? No, but re-emerging it with -32bit makes no difference with konqueror, it still segfaults. Firefox works fine, however. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution
Michael Sullivan a gentiment tapote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the list? She doesn't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as the upgrade guide recommended getting rid of it. Several sites on the 'Net suggested using the xf86Config file, but she doesn't seem to have one. I upgraded to xorg-server-1.5 but i kept my xorg.conf with the Section Monitor, the ATI Section Device and Section Screen. In the Subsection Display, i put the good screen mode for my monitor (1600x1200 ). Xfce works fine with the good resolution. You could try with 1024x768 resolution. Cheers, -- Jacques
Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...
Mike Kazantsev пишет:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:40:17 +0400
Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions:
1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc.
3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is.
I use following simple script for flac-mp3 conversion:
=
#!/bin/bash
lame_opts=--vbr-new -V 2 -B 256
for FLAC in $@; do
MP3=`basename ${FLAC%.flac}.mp3`
TAGS=TITLE TRACKNUMBER GENRE DATE COMMENT ARTIST ALBUM\
Title Tracknumber Genre Date Comment Artist Album
for VAR in $TAGS; do eval $VAR=''; done
eval $(metaflac --export-tags-to=- $FLAC | sed 's/=\(.*\)/=\1/')
[ -z $TITLE ] TITLE=$Title
[ -z $TRACKNUMBER ] TRACKNUMBER=$Tracknumber
[ -z $GENRE ] GENRE=$Genre
[ -z $DATE ] DATE=$Date
[ -z $COMMENT ] COMMENT=$Comment
[ -z $ARTIST ] ARTIST=$Artist
[ -z $ALBUM ] ALBUM=$Album
echo Converting $FLAC to mp3: $MP3
flac -c -d $FLAC | lame $lame_opts - $MP3
id3tag \
--artist=$ARTIST \
--album=$ALBUM \
--song=$TITLE \
--track=$TRACKNUMBER \
--genre=$GENRE \
--year=$DATE \
--comment=$COMMENT \
$MP3
done
=
Script actually depends on following packages (main tree):
media-libs/flac
media-libs/id3lib
media-sound/lame
I'm sorry for posting following on the list, since it's non-english.
Just disregard the rest of the message, please :)
Concerning ape, there were some suggestions in (quite recent) ape 2
wav (flac) thread on gentoo-user-ru mailing list:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user-ru/msg_060cfe116536e31d0b823d7d5117e999.xml
Also, check out this link (if you haven't stumbled upon it already):
http://engraver.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/monkeys-audio-ape-cue-%D0%B2-gentoo/
Thanks. That's good. But can you suggest programm to convert wav to mp3?
Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on- gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? never heard of the product, but: # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This file does not exist. I Googled in an attempt to find which port contains this library but was unsuccessful. However this bug report suggests this is a cosmetic error only. http://bugs.gentoo.org/217094 Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: This is interesting: # find / -iname libcanberra-gtk-module.so find: ftsfind.c:475: consider_visiting: Assertion `state.type != 0' failed. Aborted # find / -iname libcanberra-gtk-module.so find: ftsfind.c:475: consider_visiting: Assertion `state.type != 0' failed. Aborted But I did find it here: /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I/O warning : failed to load external entity /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or It's obviously complaining about missing libraries. Do these files exist anywhere on your machine? You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. What might I need to add? I looked in the directory and found lots of files. Thus I suspect I need to create a file and add the proper line. Would it be some sort of LD_PATH= line? Looks like a classic case of Adobe *nix-cluelessness Combined with my classic *nix-cluelessness regarding libraries and paths... :) Thanks for your help! Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
On Saturday 18 April 2009 18:43:17 Drew Tomlinson wrote: You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. What might I need to add? I looked in the directory and found lots of files. Thus I suspect I need to create a file and add the proper line. Would it be some sort of LD_PATH= line? Yes, that's how you do it. env-update goes through all files it finds in /etc/env.d/ and adds all the LDPATH statements together to create one large environment variable. The order of these paths are important as they are searched in the order they appear in the environment variable. So the files in /etc/env.d/ have two digits in front of the name so you can order them the way you want. Files starting with 00 are done first, 99 last Looks like a classic case of Adobe *nix-cluelessness Combined with my classic *nix-cluelessness regarding libraries and paths... :) LDPATH works the same way as PATH, it just applies to finding libraries. PATH applies to finding programs. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution
Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the list? She doesn't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as the upgrade guide recommended getting rid of it. Several sites on the 'Net suggested using the xf86Config file, but she doesn't seem to have one. Is there an entry, default, at the top of the list? What resolution is it using for that? I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that default was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? On my system, when I did etc-update it automagically renamed netscape-flash to adobe-flash in my /etc/portage/package* files. Emerge flash with -32bit use flag and it should work without need for nspluginwrapper. That includes in Konqueror. I unmerged nspluginwrapper but flash still segfaults with konqueror. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Samstag 18 April 2009, KH wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? TIA -Robin Hi, with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with USE Flag -32bit ? well, it still has the advantage that flash can crash as much as it wants with the wrapper without affecting konqueror. That said nspluginwrapper-1.2.2 sucks.
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution
Robert Bridge a gentiment tapote: Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the list? She doesn't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as the upgrade guide recommended getting rid of it. Several sites on the 'Net suggested using the xf86Config file, but she doesn't seem to have one. Is there an entry, default, at the top of the list? What resolution is it using for that? I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that default was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB I think that the default setting in Xfce depends on the first Mode in the Subsection Display of xorg.conf. But i may be wrong... -- Jacques
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find where I wrote those key sequences down so I couldn't try that. When you find them, put them right to your note about the softlevel=single stuff. There are some strange mnemonics involving elephants, that are harder to remember than the key sequence. The easy way to remember the full sequence is BUSIER backwards. Actually, for me Raising Elefants Is So Utterly Boring is somehow easier to remember than to invert a word in my mind :) Alt+SysRq+R-E-I-S-U-B After Alt+SysRq+R, the keyboard became working again for me and I could switch back to the consoles with Ctrl+Alt+Fn. I used this A LOT of times the last days. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution
Jacques Montier wrote: I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that default was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB I think that the default setting in Xfce depends on the first Mode in the Subsection Display of xorg.conf. But i may be wrong... I didn't have any modes in xorg.conf, the driver was generating them automagically from the EDID. RobbieAB.
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/18/09 11:19, Paul Hartman wrote: Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine? Paul, I've sent you a link to that video if you want to check it out. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find where I wrote those key sequences down so I couldn't try that. When you find them, put them right to your note about the softlevel=single stuff. There are some strange mnemonics involving elephants, that are harder to remember than the key sequence. The easy way to remember the full sequence is BUSIER backwards. Actually, for me Raising Elefants Is So Utterly Boring is somehow easier to remember than to invert a word in my mind :) Alt+SysRq+R-E-I-S-U-B After Alt+SysRq+R, the keyboard became working again for me and I could switch back to the consoles with Ctrl+Alt+Fn. I used this A LOT of times the last days. Wonko Well, I just printed this email out on paper. I'll stick it on my wall by my puter and maybe that will help. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/18/09 14:20, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I can confirm that tovid failed for me as well. However, this mencoder commandline seems to have created a working DVD-compatible mpg file (PAL): mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 25 -o sany0002_1.mpg sany0002_1.mp4 (googled and stolen from linux.com) From there you should be able to use one of the many GUI dvd-creation tools to make it into a proper DVD ISO image that you can burn. Or you can do it manually by following the rest of the tutorial: http://www.linux.com/articles/53702 Yes, menucode works, but I get a lot of: ... [h264 @ 0x14d63f0]AVC: Consumed only 38409 bytes instead of 38412 [5051:192] [h264 @ 0x14d63f0]AVC: Consumed only 38936 bytes instead of 38940 [5051:192] [h264 @ 0x14d63f0]AVC: Consumed only 19301 bytes instead of 19308 [5050:192] ... Have to investigate what is it? Thanks for your help. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the list? She doesn't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, as the upgrade guide recommended getting rid of it. Several sites on the 'Net suggested using the xf86Config file, but she doesn't seem to have one. Is there an entry, default, at the top of the list? What resolution is it using for that? I don't know what resolution default is.It doesn't say. How do I find out? I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that default was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB
Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:36:52AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote On 13/04/09 Peter Ruskin said: Any reason to use -hal? I don't like hal. I prefer the traditional linux way of mounting stuff when I want to. On my workstation, so do I, but xorg 1.5 works fine if you follow the instructions and rebuild the relevant input drivers. msoul...@anton:~$ equery list | grep x11-drivers/ x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 ELVISThank you, thank you, thank you verrry verrry much/ELVIS Reading your message saved me uploading a big bunch of diagnostics because X had stopped working, i.e. it crashed on launch from startx. I now have X working again. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer
Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to another. To work around, I'm currently using Thunar in Icon view with max zoom-in, but I'd still prefer a less hack-ish solution. If you know of any, please post it here. Best, Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is. There are: media-sound/soundconverter media-sound/audacity Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer
090418 Liviu Andronic wrote: Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? Kpdf gives previews in its side index panel : I find it very useful. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] CUPS setup with Lexmark e322
The printer is old and seemingly unsupported in most areas as I could not find a Windows or Mac OSX driver, and none of the linux drivers have worked. I've tried ghostscript's ljet4, the various Postscript PCLs; actually, I've tried every one of them. I've established a proper connection, and that it is indeed using ipp. It's connected to the router, so the URI is just ipp://10.0.1.1:9100, it's very straight forward. However, it's just been spitting out printed information with each connection, so I've had to stop CUPS after a couple minutes, just to make it stop printing random garbage. Now, the printer is unusable from the Mac and Linux machines in the house, where it was at one time working from the Mac. Suggestions for a proper setup and driver?
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to another. To work around, I'm currently using Thunar in Icon view with max zoom-in, but I'd still prefer a less hack-ish solution. If you know of any, please post it here. Best, Liviu You can use convert from imagemagick to resize to thumbnail size and save as a different file format.
[gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities
Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol, and it works fine - but what I'm wondering is how I can tell portage to STOP once it unpacks Rasmol in the temporary work directory - so I can tweak some things in the source code - and then resume the build, using what's already in the work directory. Looking at a manpage for emerge, I didn't immediately get any creative ideas, but might someone offer some advice for how to accomplish this? Many thanks, Denis
Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol, and it works fine - but what I'm wondering is how I can tell portage to STOP once it unpacks Rasmol in the temporary work directory - so I can tweak some things in the source code - and then resume the build, using what's already in the work directory. Looking at a manpage for emerge, I didn't immediately get any creative ideas, but might someone offer some advice for how to accomplish this? Hi Denis, Use the ebuild command to execute the steps of emerging separately... read the manpage for the available options, but for example you can do something like: ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild unpack ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild prepare ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild configure ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild compile ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild preinst ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild install ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild postinst and in-between those steps you can change to your portage tmpdir and edit the unpacked source files and do whatever you need to do to them.
Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol, and it works fine - but what I'm wondering is how I can tell portage to STOP once it unpacks Rasmol in the temporary work directory - so I can tweak some things in the source code - and then resume the build, using what's already in the work directory. Looking at a manpage for emerge, I didn't immediately get any creative ideas, but might someone offer some advice for how to accomplish this? That's what 'ebuild' command is for. Try this: cd /usr/portage/some/package ebuild package-ver.ebuild help That command allows you to execute all the ebuild steps separately. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol, and it works fine - but what I'm wondering is how I can tell portage to STOP once it unpacks Rasmol in the temporary work directory - so I can tweak some things in the source code - and then resume the build, using what's already in the work directory. Looking at a manpage for emerge, I didn't immediately get any creative ideas, but might someone offer some advice for how to accomplish this? man ebuild. I assume you are talking of sci-chemistry/rasmol. Then you can accomplish your hack with ebuild /usr/portage/sci-chemistry/rasmol/rasmol-2.7.2.1.1-r1.ebuild unpack tweak ebuild /usr/portage/sci-chemistry/rasmol/rasmol-2.7.2.1.1-r1.ebuild install But I am not sure this is a clean way to achieve your goal. The standard way would be to write a patch, and modify the ebuild to apply your patch. Alternatively, you can apply the patch to the distfile, and modify the ebuild to use the new distfile. Do you know how to write a patch? Note: if you are going to modify your ebuild, it is a good idea to put it in an overlay It would be something like this mkdir --parents /usr/local/denisoverlay/sci-chemistry/rasmol cp -rv /usr/portage/sci-chemistry/rasmol/* /usr/local/denisoverlay/sci-chemistry/rasmol/ tweak files in /usr/portage/sci-chemistry/rasmol to your heart's content. Add /usr/local/denisoverlay to the variable PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf For example: PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/denisoverlay -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:23:24 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild unpack ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild prepare ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild configure ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild compile ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild preinst ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild install ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild postinst One doesn't need to perform these steps explicitly; when one performs a command like merge, ebuild also performs all commands that normally precede merge. So I think that if he wants to tweak the source code before compiling, the easier way would be to issue a unpack command, tweak the source, then issue a merge command. But I think it would be much better to write a patch, or simply modify the distfile and create a new ebuild that uses the modified distfile. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
[gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates
1) After the latest batch of updates X crashed on startup. I read through the list, and followed someone's suggestion to re-emerge all drivers listed by the command... equery list | grep x11-drivers/ Thank you sir. That was easy, and I now have X operational again. 2) I go through /var/log/portage/elog after updates, and check for warnings. I got the following with xinit-1.0.8-r4 WARN: postinst If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm, you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the login session. You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire system, or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other shells). Here's an example of setting it for the whole system: echo XSESSION=Gnome /etc/env.d/90xsession env-update source /etc/profile Could someone please explain in plain English what this means? I.e. what are the plus and minus sides of doing the above? Should I bother? 3) I notice that gcc-4.3.2-r3 has been installed. I understand that the commands to upgrade are... gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 env-update source /etc/profile Have there been any problems encountered with 4.3.2? Do I need to re-emerge sytem and world? Actually, I might decide to clean up CFLAGS in my /etc/make.conf from the current... CFLAGS=-O2 -march=prescott -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe to a simpler... CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe and rebuild with that. 4) Speaking of /etc/make.conf, there was some news about Radeon HD cards being moved to a separate driver group and requiring a change in /etc/make.conf. I'm using a card from an older computer, which lspci shows as... ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) Since X is working, I assume that my card is not a member of the Radeon HD family. My /etc/make.conf includes the lines... INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse VIDEO_CARDS=intel vga and things appear to be working. The intel is in case I ever switch back to the onboard built-in video chip. After ipv6 was snuck into the defaults, I started off my USE with -*, so I still don't have dbus and hal. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance
Jorge Morais wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. Where have you got that from? I have not heard of that. I don't use hal either, and I have -hal in /etc/make.conf I started in Linux about 12 years ago and the best environment for my needs at that time (audio recording, 32 channels of live audio, real-time kernels, Ardour, etc.) was fluxbox. Low overhead. Easily customizable. Every time I get fed up with Gnome I go back to fluxbox. Takes a few minutes to build, not hours like Gnome or days like KDE. Not a great environment for my wife and kids, so they get Gnome. I have used Xfce at version 4.4.2 (or 4.4.3, I don't remember) and I think it has a lot of user-friendliness. And it is even similar to GNOME, so GNOME users will feel at home. I think Xubuntu is a good example of a well put together Xfce desktop. I don't agree with every Xubuntu choice for default apps, but it is a great start if you want to build a user-friendly, lightweight, customizable desktop with Xfce plus the right applications. So if you like simplicity and lightweight, but think your wife won't like fluxbox, give Xfce a try. Maybe even fluxbox could be configured and combined with the right applications to be easy to use, but starting with Xfce would probably be much easier (I say probably because I have never performed either of these tasks). On the other hand, maybe you should continue giving GNOME to your wife simply because GNOME is much more common than Xfce and, by knowing GNOME, she is more likely to know how to use another GNU/Linux computer, and if she needs technical support from, say, the ISP, the technicians are more likely to know GNOME and Xfce. For the record, I have moved from Xfce to LXDE because I am a speed freak and also a simplicity freak. More on simplicity below. I hope the future of Linux desktops doesn't look anything like Windows. Sometimes it seems to me we're moving too far that direction too fast. I get that feeling too. When I use Ubuntu and something fails, sometimes I feel it is hard to diagnose and fix the problem. Maybe this is the cost of things being automagic: when it works, great, but when it doesn't work, you've got to be a wizard to fix it. Car analogy: A person with mediocre knowledge of car mechanics can understand how a classical car works, and doesn't complain that the transmission is manual. He can even fix simple problems. A person with good knowledge of car mechanics can even fix more serious problems, because the car is simple, and many of its parts can be serviced by an interested man. But a modern car... With all of its automatic transmission and everything, one does not even need mediocre knowledge to drive it; but to understand how it works is hard. To fix simple problems is harder. To fix serious problems, one needs complex tools and specific knowledge that is almost beyond the reach of the common man. So I think that automagic things often tend to be harder to understand and much harder to fix. But so far, Ubuntu is actually *more* automagic than Windows but more open, easier to understand and easier to fix (Windows is a badly documented black box). And a Gentoo desktop is easier to understand and fix than Ubuntu. Specially if the user selected simple software such as Xfce or, even simpler, LXDE. Of course, you can theorize that at least part of this impression of mine is caused by me being used to my simple no-hal no-nothing LXDE Gentoo desktop and me being unfamiliar with Ubuntu. Regards, Jorge Heh. Your overall attitude, as suggested by the above, rang a sympathetic sound with me. So, I figured that even though LXDE couldn't be faster than my beloved fluxbox, I'd at least give it a try. WOW! It (seems) *significantly* faster than flux both in initial loading, and in the operation of windowed applications. Certain window activity (e.g. lightning alarms on TBird) now display as intended (something that I couldn't get working in FB). Only downside ...may... be the documentation; but everything is pretty intuitive so far. It stays. Ditto everything you said. Thanks!!!
[gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2
Doing PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world on my amd64 machine elicits a response that ends as follows: Install ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/image/ category x11-drivers * Installing fglrx module * ati tree 'lib' - 'lib32' on system * ati tree 'lib64' - 'lib64' on system Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/image/ * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found: * /usr/lib32/dri/fglrx_dri.so * /usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2 * /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so * /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/glesx.so * /usr/lib64/libAMDXvBA.so.1.0 * /usr/lib64/libXvBAW.so.1.0 * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2 strip: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded -R .comment lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp/video/fglrx.ko opt/bin/fglrxinfo opt/bin/aticonfig opt/bin/atiode opt/bin/amdcccle opt/bin/atiodcli opt/sbin/atieventsd usr/bin/fglrx_xgamma usr/bin/fgl_glxgears usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so usr/lib64/libatiadlxx.so usr/lib64/libfglrx_tvout.so.1.0 usr/lib64/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so usr/lib64/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 usr/lib64/libfglrx_dm.so.1.0 usr/lib64/xorg/modules/esut.a usr/lib64/libfglrx_tvout.a usr/lib64/libfglrx_dm.a usr/lib64/libfglrx_pp.a ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/man * QA Notice: The following files contain executable stacks * Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!) * on some architectures/operating systems. A bug should be filed * at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed. * For more information, see http://hardened.gentoo.org/gnu-stack.xml * Please include the following list of files in your report: * --- --- RWX usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2 * QA Notice: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME * /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/image/usr/lib64/libatiadlxx.so making executable: usr/lib64/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 Installing x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 * checking 133 files for package collisions * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / filename` to identify the installed package that owns a * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so * * Package 'x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2, Log file: '/var/log/portage/x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.552-r2:20090419-022352.log' * Messages for package x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2: * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / filename` to identify the installed package that owns a * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 *
