Re: [gentoo-user] unknown symbol request_module
On Monday 01 September 2008 15:45:56 Xav' wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0200, Roland Puntaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the following problem: After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the For a first start, OSS is now deprecated, so you have to use ALSA instead in the kernel. The kernel oss is now deprecated kernel configuration, I followed the gentoo alsa guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml But got a lot of unknown symbol entries at boot (viewed afterwards via dmesg). The first seems to be the reason for the others: unknown symbol request_module. request_module is defined in vmlinux (via nm vmlinux | grep request_module) but not linked in soundcore.o (nm soundcore.o | grep request_module says U(ndefined)) Since request_module is needed to load kernel modules, no kernel modules can be loaded, and therefore symbols from such modules are not there. This leads to the other unknown symbol messages. So the question is, why request_module does not get linked properly. What I already tried: I saved the .config and did make mrproper and restored .config. Then make make modules_install But that did not help. Did somebody experience anything similar? Could somebody give me a hint how to solve this problem? I think your .config file will help us more than you expect, and also the output of your dmesg :) Thanks in advance. Cheers. Roland Regards. Xavier Parizet For laptops you could eyeball the wiki for they have there a complete setup for most of the laptops. Also on the wiki you'll find a nice oss4 tutorial. The first advantage of oss4 it's that is s much easier to setup. Also for further help you might try to be more specific: what laptop model? what sound card because maybe by chance some of us already did setup the same model with success.
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 05:57:47 Jarry wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/null 957169664 bytes (957 MB) copied, 17.5531 s, 54.5 MB/s dd if=/dev/sda12 of=/dev/null 820854784 bytes (821 MB) copied, 21.4136 s, 38.3 MB/s What do you conclude from this? I'd say that /dev/sda2 is near beginning of disk (outer side, more sectors per cylinder, higher transfer speed), and /dev/sda12 is near end of disk (inner side, less sectors per cylinder, lower transfer speed). Ah, I see my troll caught one already. You seem to be under the common delusion that the structure reported by fdisk actually means something about the physical disk :-) These days the entire concept of a cylinder is a mere abstraction to make tools like fdisk work in a sane manner. But yes, it does seem that in this case sda2 is probably near the outer edge of the platter where the head speed relative to the disk is higher. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` removing old version of Python
On 31 Aug 2008, at 09:04, Mick wrote: ... When I tried I got: $ eix -Iu --only-names app-arch/lzma-utils dev-libs/libsigc++ media-plugins/gst-plugins-x media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo sys-apps/hdparm sys-kernel/gentoo-sources virtual/perl-Test-Harness However, when I run emerge -upDv --with-deps y world I get just one package: ... [ebuild U ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.6 [4.32.5] USE=-nocxx% 468 kB This was approximately the same ratio of packages that each command produced for me... except many times more in actual numbers. I think `eix -Iu` found over a hundred outdated packages on my system when I ran it. And updating one of them - obviously I have no idea which! - fixed my expat problem. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Safe to remove old version of Python?
Hi there,
No comment on this on my previous post when I also asked about `eix -
uI`:
$ eix -I python$
[U] dev-lang/python
Available versions:
(2.4) 2.4.4-r5 2.4.4-r6 2.4.4-r14
(2.5) 2.5.2-r6 ~2.5.2-r7
{+cxx +threads berkdb bootstrap build doc elibc_uclibc
examples gdbm ipv6 ncurses nocxx nothreads readline sqlite ssl tk
ucs2 wininst}
Installed versions: 2.4.4-r9(2.4)(20:32:42 05/04/08)(berkdb
examples gdbm ncurses readline ssl -bootstrap -build -doc -
elibc_uclibc -ipv6 -nocxx -nothreads -tk -ucs2)
2.5.2-r6(2.5)(03:46:36 08/30/08)(berkdb
doc examples gdbm ncurses readline ssl threads -bootstrap -build -
elibc_uclibc -ipv6 -sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst)
Homepage:http://www.python.org/
Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive,
object-oriented programming language.
$ sudo python-updater
Password:
* Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 :
* No packages needs to be remerged.
$
So second question is, can python-2.4.4-r9 be safely removed from the
system?
$ ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 30 03:47 /usr/bin/python - python2.5
$ python -V
Python 2.5.2
$ equery d =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r9
[ Searching for packages depending on =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r9... ]
app-admin/webapp-config-1.50.16-r1 (virtual/python)
app-doc/doxygen-1.5.4 (dev-lang/python)
app-editors/vim-7.2 (python? dev-lang/python)
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (=dev-lang/python-2.0)
app-portage/layman-1.1.1 (virtual/python)
dev-db/postgresql-8.0.15 (python? =dev-lang/python-2.2)
dev-java/java-config-1.3.7 (virtual/python)
dev-java/java-config-2.1.6 (dev-lang/python)
(virtual/python)
dev-lang/swig-1.3.36 (python? virtual/python)
dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.32 (python? dev-lang/python)
dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24-r1 (python? dev-lang/python)
dev-python/docutils-0.4-r3 (virtual/python)
(=dev-lang/python-2.4)
dev-python/egenix-mx-base-2.0.5 (virtual/python)
dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 (virtual/python)
dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 (dev-lang/python)
dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1 (virtual/python)
(=dev-lang/python-2.4)
dev-util/subversion-1.4.6 (python? =dev-lang/python-2.0)
net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.27 (python? dev-lang/python)
net-fs/samba-3.0.28a-r1 (python? dev-lang/python)
net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1 (python? dev-lang/python)
sys-apps/file-4.23 (virtual/python)
sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 (=dev-lang/python-2.4)
sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.12 (python? dev-lang/python)
sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r11 (python? =virtual/python-2.2.1)
$
I don't tend to keep up with best practices in Gentoo, so any
criticism or advice would be much appreciated.
Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs
On Wednesday 3 September 2008, 04:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks, I've created a Google Group, and added these links to a page in it. Check out http://groups.google.com/group/compilerSamples I see that you are looking for the dragon book specs, here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools http://dragonbook.stanford.edu/ http://www.pearsonhighered.com/academic/product/0,3110,0321486811,00.html It is universally regarded as the book about compilers.
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs
On 2 Sep 2008, at 17:56, Mick wrote:
...
WARN: postinst
Broken symlink for a certificate at //etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006-
cacert.pem
...
$ ls -l /etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006-cacert.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 Aug 30 03:37 /etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006-
cacert.pem - /usr/share/ca-certificates/spi-inc.org/SPI_CA_2006-
cacert.crt
$
I assume that the above links are shown as red (or whatever)
indicating that
the links are borked?
Yes, indeed.
I believe that it is left as an exercise for the reader to manually
remove
such broken lists as your WARN message tells you:
WARN: postinst
Broken symlink for a certificate at //etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006-
cacert.pem
Broken symlink for a certificate at
[snip...]
You MUST remove the above broken symlinks
I kinda feel this is a poor error message for Portage / an ebuild.
I have now already deleted the links manually, but I rather think
it'd've been nearer to say You should now run `find /etc/ssl/certs/ -
type broken-symlinks -exec rm \{} \;` as root.
The reason I posted was because I felt slightly unclear.
Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to remove old version of Python?
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:50:41 +0100, Stroller wrote: So second question is, can python-2.4.4-r9 be safely removed from the system? Yes. -- Neil Bothwick ... I just forgot to increment the counter, Tom said, nonplussed. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown symbol request_module
Hi cuciferus, Thanks for pointing me to the gentoo wiki hardware list. It's impressive. Still it does not have the Gericom Supersonic 1000 which I am setting up. I did find a .config on the net for the 2.4.18 kernel http://techinfo.system33.de/LinuxOnGericom/index.html http://www.tutorials.de/forum/linux-tutorials/144865-linux-bericht-debian-auf-gericom-notebook.html (no .config posted) but the 2.6 kernel config file is quite different, it seems. Anyway, it would be interesting for me to find out the reason for the described problem. I have found a similar mail from someone else not for sound, but without solution/reason. How can a kernel module not not know about the request_module symbol from vmlinux? Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.09.2008 08:17:00: On Monday 01 September 2008 15:45:56 Xav' wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0200, Roland Puntaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the following problem: After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the For a first start, OSS is now deprecated, so you have to use ALSA instead in the kernel. The kernel oss is now deprecated kernel configuration, I followed the gentoo alsa guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml But got a lot of unknown symbol entries at boot (viewed afterwards via dmesg). The first seems to be the reason for the others: unknown symbol request_module. request_module is defined in vmlinux (via nm vmlinux | grep request_module) but not linked in soundcore.o (nm soundcore.o | grep request_module says U(ndefined)) Since request_module is needed to load kernel modules, no kernel modules can be loaded, and therefore symbols from such modules are not there. This leads to the other unknown symbol messages. So the question is, why request_module does not get linked properly. What I already tried: I saved the .config and did make mrproper and restored .config. Then make make modules_install But that did not help. Did somebody experience anything similar? Could somebody give me a hint how to solve this problem? I think your .config file will help us more than you expect, and also the output of your dmesg :) Thanks in advance. Cheers. Roland Regards. Xavier Parizet For laptops you could eyeball the wiki for they have there a complete setup for most of the laptops. Also on the wiki you'll find a nice oss4 tutorial. The first advantage of oss4 it's that is s much easier to setup. Also for further help you might try to be more specific: what laptop model? what sound card because maybe by chance some of us already did setupthe same model with success.
RE: [gentoo-user] USB headset...
I use ALSA for sound. The program alsamixer takes an argument '-c' and then a number, indicating which of those devices which are available to ALSA you want to adjust volume levels for. Richard On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:20 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/28/2008 9:51 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB headset... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now mixer shows the onboard sound as the sound device. How do I switch it to the head set? Thanks, -Tracy Which mixer, what environment, what hardware and what drivers are in use?
[gentoo-user] Unstable wireless
Hi there. I'm at schools wireless right now, and it's very unstable. It's fine for awhile, but it won't take long until it just dies. It is unstable for the others aswell, but we can't figure out the reason. So, i lean over to you guys, i hope you can help me, thus us, out, with this. Please see the attachments, it's logs. wpa_supplicant in debugmode and dmesg. Thanks. Daniel. Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'wext' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A' Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' - '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' fast_reauth=1 Line: 34 - start of a new network block ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=3): 4e 54 49 NTI PSK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED] Priority group 0 id=0 ssid='NTI' Initializing interface (2) 'wlan0' EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0 EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0 SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5 Own MAC address: 00:1f:3c:6e:0f:ca wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted Setting scan request: 0 sec 10 usec Added interface wlan0 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1002 () Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=12 Ignore event for foreign ifindex 3 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added State: DISCONNECTED - SCANNING Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) Trying to get current scan results first without requesting a new scan to speed up initial association Scan results: -1 Failed to get scan results Failed to get scan results - try scanning again Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID) Scan requested (ret=0) - scan timeout 5 seconds RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) Wireless event: cmd=0x8b19 len=16 Received 2479 bytes of scan results (9 BSSes) Scan results: 9 Selecting BSS from priority group 0 Try to find WPA-enabled AP 0: 00:1e:e5:fa:78:b6 ssid='NTI' wpa_ie_len=24 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11 selected based on WPA IE selected WPA AP 00:1e:e5:fa:78:b6 ssid='NTI' Try to find non-WPA AP Trying to associate with 00:1e:e5:fa:78:b6 (SSID='NTI' freq=2432 MHz) Cancelling scan request WPA: clearing own WPA/RSN IE Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1 WPA: using IEEE 802.11i/D3.0 WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 16 pairwise 16 key_mgmt 2 proto 1 WPA: set AP WPA IE - hexdump(len=24): dd 16 00 50 f2 01 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 02 WPA: clearing AP RSN IE WPA: using GTK CCMP WPA: using PTK CCMP WPA: using KEY_MGMT WPA-PSK WPA: Set own WPA IE default - hexdump(len=24): dd 16 00 50 f2 01 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 02 No keys have been configured - skip key clearing wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted State: SCANNING - ASSOCIATING wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0-0 (DORMANT) WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5 wpa_driver_wext_associate Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0 EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0 EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=12 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) Wireless event: cmd=0x8b04 len=16 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=19 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP]) Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=235 WEXT: Custom wireless event: 'ASSOCINFO(ReqIEs=00034e5449010802040b160c12182432043048606cdd160050f2010150f2040150f2040150f202dd070050f202000100 RespIEs=010482848b9632088c129824b048606cdd180050f2020101800083a4a7a4c2435e00e2322f00)' Association info event req_ies - hexdump(len=54): 00 03 4e 54 49 01 08 02 04 0b 16 0c 12 18 24 32 04 30 48 60 6c dd 16 00 50 f2 01 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 02 dd 07 00 50 f2 02 00 01 00 resp_ies - hexdump(len=42): 01 04 82 84 8b 96 32 08 8c 12 98 24 b0 48 60 6c dd 18 00 50 f2 02 01 01 80 00 83 a4 00 00 a7 a4 00 00 c2 43 5e 00 e2 32 2f 00 WPA: set own WPA/RSN IE - hexdump(len=24): dd 16 00 50 f2 01 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 04 01 00 00 50 f2 02 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP]) Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=24 Wireless event: new AP: 00:1e:e5:fa:78:b6 State:
Re: [gentoo-user] Unstable wireless
Wow, my mutt configuration is'nt as good as i hoped. /me goes back to the drawing desk. I hope it's still readable though. :-) Daniel.
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
Hi Alan, on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:57:42AM +0200, you wrote: These days the entire concept of a cylinder is a mere abstraction to make tools like fdisk work in a sane manner. Of course not. The disk is physically organized in cylinders, that's the structure dictated by the mechanical design. That a disk controller is theoretically free to map cylinders and sectors to whereever it pleases doesn't mean that there wasn't a direct relationship between cylinder number and physical location on the platter in the vast majority of non-broken (i.e. cylinder-remapped) disks. With many HD tests in magazines you get a cylinder-vs.-transfer-rate plot and it still mostly matches the old rule. I suppose not even firmware hackers are really eager to make things more complicated than absolutely necessary :) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpPX11oU6Z07.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Trendnet TEW-424UB not working
Hi there,
this thing is a wireless-usb-key and it apparently comes in 3 versions; the
1st and the 3rd have linux drivers (3rd is RTL8187) while the 2nd requires
ndiswrapper.
Well, I have tried pretty much everything here and the best results I get are
with ndiswrapper (I just get a little more info). When I just do a ndiswrapper
-l, it gives:
net8187b : driver installed
Which is good, if I plug the device and try that again, I get:
net8187b : driver installed
device (0BDA:8189) present
And /var/log/messages shows only those two lines:
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
sb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
After which, in ifconfig -a, I still only have my two eth{0,1} and lo.
My goal is to get the interface, after that, I'll be good to go, but this here
is really bugging me. I'm including attachments containing my dmesg, lsusb -v,
and lspci -v (just in case).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Simon
Linux version 2.6.24 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2
p1.1)) #7 SMP Fri Aug 29 10:32:22 EDT 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fff (usable)
BIOS-e820: 1fff - 1fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 1fff3000 - 2000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 131056) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 - 4096
Normal 4096 - 131056
HighMem131056 - 131056
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0:0 - 131056
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 991 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 125969 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.1 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F71A0, 0014 (r0 FIC )
ACPI: RSDT 1FFF3000, 0028 (r1 FICKA6110 30302E31 AWRD0)
ACPI: FACP 1FFF3040, 0074 (r1 FICKA6110 30302E31 AWRD0)
ACPI: DSDT 1FFF30C0, 2216 (r1 FICKA6110 1000 MSFT 109)
ACPI: FACS 1FFF, 0040
ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2001), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
Allocating PCI resources starting at 3000 (gap: 2000:dfff)
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130033
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb1 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with lapic
mapped APIC to b000 (0140c000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 451.049 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 512928k/524224k available (3413k kernel code, 10788k reserved, 1747k
data, 284k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffe15000 - 0xf000 (1960 kB)
pkmap : 0xff80 - 0xffc0 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xe080 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB)
lowmem : 0xc000 - 0xdfff ( 511 MB)
.init : 0xc0613000 - 0xc065a000 ( 284 kB)
.data : 0xc045556e - 0xc060a334 (1747 kB)
.text : 0xc010 - 0xc045556e (3413 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 903.30 BogoMIPS (lpj=1806616)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387f9ff
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 0040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to e000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 18k freed
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
net_namespace: 64 bytes
xor: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 924.000 MB/sec
xor: using function: pIII_sse (924.000 MB/sec)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3e0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
Hi Alan, on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:17:07PM +0200, you wrote: However, it does make the most sense to keep fdisk's cylinders in some sort of sequential order, so low numbered cylinders will in all probability end up near one edge and high numbered cylinders at the other edge. I strongly suspect that you know this also, and we actually do have the same understanding of how it works :-) Yes, now I'm pretty sure we do ;) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpsxKnBADWl8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
Alan McKinnon wrote: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/null 957169664 bytes (957 MB) copied, 17.5531 s, 54.5 MB/s dd if=/dev/sda12 of=/dev/null 820854784 bytes (821 MB) copied, 21.4136 s, 38.3 MB/s What do you conclude from this? I'd say that /dev/sda2 is near beginning of disk (outer side, more sectors per cylinder, higher transfer speed), and /dev/sda12 is near end of disk (inner side, less sectors per cylinder, lower transfer speed). Ah, I see my troll caught one already. You seem to be under the common delusion that the structure reported by fdisk actually means something about the physical disk :-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not remember saying anything like that. And frankly, I can not image how you came to that conclusion. I just said /dev/sda2 is probably on the outer side, and /dev/sda12 on inner side, based on that difference in transfer speeds... These days the entire concept of a cylinder is a mere abstraction to make tools like fdisk work in a sane manner. Partially correct. True is, C/H/S numbers in fdisk does not have any practical meaning these days. But there are still cylinders, heads and sectors on disk. And total number of sectors reported by fdisk is the same, as real total number of sectors on disk. These sectors are numbered starting first with the most outer tracks on disk on all physical cylinders, continuing towards the inner most track. This holds true for nearly all sata/pata-disks. Maybe scsi/sas have different sector numbering scheme... But yes, it does seem that in this case sda2 is probably near the outer edge of the platter where the head speed relative to the disk is higher. Well, I'd say head speed does not anything to do with it. What makes transfer rate on the outer tracks of disk faster is higher number of sectors per cylinder, because nowadays disks have about constant bit-density (only about constant, because number of sectors per cylinder is a discrete number)... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
[gentoo-user] make menuconfig
Hi people :)
can anyone help me setting the kernel with only the strictly needed modules for
the my
laptop's hardware? Here is my 'lspci' print and a generic description of the
laptop:
laptop: IBM Thinkpad R60
Intel Centrino duo T2300 1,66 Ghz
512 Mb ram
80 Gb sata HD
Wireless network card: Intel 3945 a/b/g
Ethernet network card: Broadcom Gigabit BCM5751M
Not interested in having firewire,PCMCIA or bluetooth support.
lspci-- see attached .txt file
thanks in advance
Giacomo
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Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs
At Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:34 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 3 September 2008, 04:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks, I've created a Google Group, and added these links to a page in it. Check out http://groups.google.com/group/compilerSamples I see that you are looking for the dragon book specs, here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools http://dragonbook.stanford.edu/ http://www.pearsonhighered.com/academic/product/0,3110,0321486811,00.html It is universally regarded as the book about compilers. I have extensive lecture notes based on the first 8 chapters. They are available off my home page http://cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb allan
[gentoo-user] Re: YouTube
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube gives a We're sorry, this video is no longer available. error. Can someone confirm? Here's a high-res video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZd3WU5l38fmt=18 Confirmed: Installed versions: 10_beta20080811!m(02:12:45 08/28/08) with seamonkey Installed versions: 1.1.11(17:45:15 08/09/08) It seems that all videos related to vendor offerings and H.264 are problematic, to some extent, sporadically. Not due to the wonderful (mathematically rigorous) nature of h.264 but the old habits of vendors. I suspect. Maybe the issue if being discussed by the devs over at ffmpeg or such technically astute groups of video hacks.. imho, James
[gentoo-user] Re: make menuconfig
vetrocemento at gmail.com writes: Hi people :) can anyone help me setting the kernel with only the strictly needed modules for the my laptop's hardware? Well, Here is a very basic url to help you get started: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Detailed_Kernel_Configuration There is another method using 'genkernel' but, I would not recommend that (many others will disagree)... I brought up the subject, recently, about this very issue, but it seems no many believe folks need a wiki (which is maintained) related to kernel building that does not involve genkernel. From Gmane.org you can find this tread: From: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com Subject: make oldconfig Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Date: 2008-08-04 21:04:44 GMT (4 weeks, 1 day, 20 hours and 59 minutes ago) It seems your posting validates my previous concerns. (ouch, now that's going to leave a mark) imho, James
[gentoo-user] VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel
Someone know what is making this warning in dmesg ? VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel signature.asc Description: Questa è una parte del messaggio firmata digitalmente
Re: [gentoo-user] VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel
Le Wednesday 03 September 2008 20:14:44 Michele Schiavo, vous avez écrit : Someone know what is making this warning in dmesg ? VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel h without any more information (kernel version, config, etc...), i'm afraid we cannot help you... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel
Le Wednesday 03 September 2008 20:29:10 Xav', vous avez écrit : Le Wednesday 03 September 2008 20:14:44 Michele Schiavo, vous avez écrit : Someone know what is making this warning in dmesg ? VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel h without any more information (kernel version, config, etc...), i'm afraid we cannot help you... So, after little googling, maybe this is because /dev is mounted with noexec option... I give you some pointer where to start your search : http://communities.vmware.com/thread/96035 ;) HTH. Xav' signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 18:18:26 Jarry wrote: Ah, I see my troll caught one already. You seem to be under the common delusion that the structure reported by fdisk actually means something about the physical disk :-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not remember saying anything like that. And frankly, I can not image how you came to that conclusion. I just said /dev/sda2 is probably on the outer side, and /dev/sda12 on inner side, based on that difference in transfer speeds... Well, I did say seem and I could be mistaken. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel
is not noexec. it's a lot of months i see this on dmesg, but i don't have any problem. i just like to know what are generating this warning... mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=1048576k) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=1024k,mode=755) cachedir on /lib64/splash/cache type tmpfs (rw,size=4096k,mode=644) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda3 on /home type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime) /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/dati type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime) none on /var/tmp/portage type tmpfs (rw,size=5G,uid=250,gid=250) /mnt/dati on /export/dati type none (rw,bind) /home on /export/home type none (rw,bind) /usr/portage/distfiles on /export/distfiles type none (rw,bind) /usr/local/scripts on /export/scripts type none (rw,bind) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) none on /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint type vmblock (rw) Il giorno mer, 03/09/2008 alle 20.43 +0200, Xav' ha scritto: Le Wednesday 03 September 2008 20:29:10 Xav', vous avez écrit : Le Wednesday 03 September 2008 20:14:44 Michele Schiavo, vous avez écrit : Someone know what is making this warning in dmesg ? VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel h without any more information (kernel version, config, etc...), i'm afraid we cannot help you... So, after little googling, maybe this is because /dev is mounted with noexec option... I give you some pointer where to start your search : http://communities.vmware.com/thread/96035 ;) HTH. Xav' signature.asc Description: Questa è una parte del messaggio firmata digitalmente
[gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that. Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to deal with that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 04.09.2008 00:41: I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that. Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to deal with that. app-office/mdbtools http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ ?? Regards, Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:45:24AM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: app-office/mdbtools http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ ?? Interesting ... I will have a look tonight. Thanks! -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:34 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 3 September 2008, 04:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks, I've created a Google Group, and added these links to a page in it. Check out http://groups.google.com/group/compilerSamples I see that you are looking for the dragon book specs, here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools http://dragonbook.stanford.edu/ http://www.pearsonhighered.com/academic/product/0,3110,0321486811,00.html It is universally regarded as the book about compilers. I have extensive lecture notes based on the first 8 chapters. They are available off my home page http://cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb allan Thanks. I'll have a peek. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] Re: make menuconfig
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: vetrocemento at gmail.com writes: in private email to me, which I choose to post here: thanks for precious link to the wiki. though, I was lookin for advices to maintain kernel size as small as possible (and have a fast boot up), not simply to configure it, but the wiki is pretty exhaustive, so I'll use it to make some .configs and test them. again, thanks G Well, you are welcome. We that use gentoo are very proud of our distro, event tho we argue amongst ourselves, it's to make gentoo better for everyone to use. Using gentoo is not easy, as you have 100% control over your hardware and OS. That said, I posted what I posted to make a point, that we (imho) need documentation other than genkernel for folks to use to address issues such as you have articulated. I'm not saying it would be easy, but, that questions on kernel building come up time and time again. If you have specific questions, please ask them on this list. Despite the fact that 'old hacks' take pot-shots at one another, your questions are our concern; so don't be shy about asking for help on this group. After all, most folks on this list have learned to ignore my musings, unless it merits additional verbiage. Now, how to make a small kernel. Well for starters you can add -Os such as what I have done for this 586 machine this line to your make.conf file: CFLAGS=-Os -march=i586 the -Os is to build a small kernel, here is some links that will help: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Module-HOWTO/#AEN73 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags there is some urls that further discuss the -Os option for building small, but I cannot find them. Maybe someone else will add these links to this thread, or you can google them directly As far as make menuconfig, just use loadable modules to keep the kernel size small, and eliminate as much as you can. Eliminate a few items, rebuild a kernel and test frequently. Continue (repeat) until you get a small, fast kernel that runs on your limited resources as you like. As far as fast booting, check into the parallel booting (whatever) that is fairly new. I have not explored it yet, but, others on this list know about speeding up the boot process. hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
app-office/mdbtools BillK On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that. Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to deal with that.
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