Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
Yes, try equery f app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools to find all the files involved - its quite extensive. BillK On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 06:54 +0100, Mick wrote: laptop-mode-tools
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
On Friday 17 April 2009 07:48:49 Thomas Chef wrote: A few questions: - When I recompile the kernel and replace an existingly (in lilo) configured kernel, do I have to rerun lilo ? Yes, you must rerun lilo from a working installation. lilo does not understand filesystems, so rerunning lilo tells the boot loader the exact location of the kernel image on disk (in terms of block numbers). This changes with every recompile. grub OTOH, does understand filesystems and you can point it at a kernel image file and it works. grub is the preferred choice for most distros for this reason. Also, you can select the file image and edit options to use at boot time - Neil: How have you configured your frambuffer support in lilo/grub ? The handbook is some what confusing in this matter I think ? Kernel documentation is extremely confusing in this regard :-) It normally involves a vga= element in your boot options Check kernel source/Documentation/fb/* for more info - How much do I earn in speed by optimising and removing unneeded options in the kernel ? Or is it just kernel-size ? You earn absolutely no speed improvements whatsoever. That would be like uninstalling Opera and expecting Firefox to go fast. What you gain is kernel size, compilation speed (can make a big difference on Gentoo) and some sanity in /lib/modules - you don't actually need 1000 modules there when you only use 10. Building everything in a generic kernel is useful for binary distros like Ubuntu, that have to support everything their users might have but the devs cannot know in advance what that is. So they have complex auto-detect systems that run at startup and load the correct drivers. You DO know what you have, so your life is made much easier by simply building only what you will need. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:16 -0500, Dale wrote: I was using gcc 4.3 but switched back to gcc 4.1. I'm not a developer and I don't feel right about filing a bug since I can't really tell them what is broke but something is wrong somewhere. I have not syncd my tree and it was a reinstall of the same version of packages. No config files were updated or listed that needs to be updated either. Basically, the only difference is the compiler. File a bug. It's like going to the doctor, you don't have to know what's wrong, just be able to describe the symptoms. -- Neil Bothwick I don't eat snails. I prefer fast food. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:48:49 +0200, Thomas Chef wrote: - When I recompile the kernel and replace an existingly (in lilo) configured kernel, do I have to rerun lilo ? Yes, and after confusing yourself a couple of times because you forgot to do so, you'll probably switch to GRUB. - Neil: How have you configured your frambuffer support in lilo/grub ? The handbook is some what confusing in this matter I think ? I don't. I actually like to see all those little green oks running upthe screen, a splash screen just hides problems. - How much do I earn in speed by optimising and removing unneeded options in the kernel ? Or is it just kernel-size ? It's really just kernel size, which affects loading time memory usage. -- Neil Bothwick If it was easy, the hardware people would take care of it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
Thomas Chef schrieb: [...] But there is a lot of work left before it's complete: * APCI don't work (powerbutton) Try acpid. It should have a default entry doing a shutdown when you press the power button. [...] * Mouse-support (maybe this comes with the framebuffer, as I can see it detects the mouse) Install gpm and start it (/etc/init.d/gpm start) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
2009/4/17 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au: From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:taken...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and it fails, did not recognize the ethernet and some problems install packages. Its a Studio 1737. I found the old 2.6.19 kerneled Knoppix didnt pick up the hardware properly (eg didnt autoload tg3 for the ethernet, many unknown devices in dmesg), but 2.6.27 i'm using now seems fine so far. So make sure you use the latest kernel you can, and enable the Dell specific kernel options. Most of the problems are related to ACPI. For old kernel, acpi=off or pci=bios kernel boot option may solve them.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults [SOLVED]
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Michael, The second line of the upgrade guide says: X now no longer forces a double hidden build of media-libs/mesa. Mesa now builds the software renderer (swrast) and whatever hardware driver you've chosen with the VIDEO_CARDS variable. Seems to me you're saying the new ebuild didn't build what you needed from mesa so I'd suggest filing a bug report on that one. Unfortunately for me this hasn't solved the problem. After rebuilding mesa I did, 1 time out of 4 tries, manage to watch Live TV, but that event had bad video and as soon as I tried to change the channel X crashed again. From dmesg I see the following video related things. The last two lines are clearly errors. Everytime I try watching Live TV in Myth, after the crash I have two more of these in dmesg: Linux agpgart interface v0.103 agpgart-intel :00:00.0: Intel 865 Chipset agpgart-intel :00:00.0: detected 16252K stolen memory agpgart-intel :00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf000 SNIP SNIP [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 SNIP [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 SNIP [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 One Google thread I read says this is the X driver looking for gem support in my kernel. supposedly it's nothing to worry about but I never had these messages before the xorg-server upgrade. Possibly each two lines like this is just the driver starting back up again after the crash. Don't know... Unfortunately our machine here is still unusable... - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:16 -0500, Dale wrote: I was using gcc 4.3 but switched back to gcc 4.1. I'm not a developer and I don't feel right about filing a bug since I can't really tell them what is broke but something is wrong somewhere. I have not syncd my tree and it was a reinstall of the same version of packages. No config files were updated or listed that needs to be updated either. Basically, the only difference is the compiler. File a bug. It's like going to the doctor, you don't have to know what's wrong, just be able to describe the symptoms. I'm not sure what to even put. I do believe that gcc is causing problems as far as the code it produces but I have no idea what could cause it. I also have not changed my make.conf file. I only change it when they add some new device or something like that. I think the last change I made was to add kdeprefix. I can't see how it could be anything but gcc but have no clue how it could be either. Looks like I wouldn't be the only person to have this issue. I did notice that I can now compile a kernel. I have not had any errors doing that with the old gcc. Maybe, just maybe I can upgrade to 2.6.29 now. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 3200 woes [solved, sort of]
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? [...] a) the drivers you tried are acient All newer ones did not compile. I think. I tried so many combinations of kernels and drivers now, I do not remember everything. I think they did not compile, but that was due to a linking error with libGL. I found a bug-report stating that remerging mesa would help, and it did. Still no better results when running those drivers. With newer kernels, I got other compile errors at higher versions of the drivers. b) the drivers have nothing to do with input. c) emerge input drivers and set up xorg.conf accordingly I don't understand. I have INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse in /etc/make.conf, and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse were emerged automatically. About xorg.conf: I did this a lot of times in my life, either by creating it by hand, or adapting the xorg.conf.example, or via startx -configure. It worked most of the times. Now, I also used ati-config --initial, I copied over a working xorg.conf from Knoppix 5.3, and, after using evdev, I tried completely without it. Nothing worked. Sometimes X just did not start, but most of the times it did, but did not respond to mouse movement or Ctrl-Alt-Fn keyboard input. d) if you want help, post information like Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf, versions of packages used, etc. Some of the logs are here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/radeonlogs/ I tried about every ati-driver not hard-masked with tuxonice kernels 2.6.24-r9, 2.6.28-r3 and 2.6.29, and some with vanilla 2.6.27.12. I rmmoded the fglrx driver between the emerges, so the updated one would be loaded. I also tried radeon, radeonhd and vesa. Especially vesa should not make any trouble, I think, so I guess it's not a problem related to the ati-drivers, but to input drivers or something. But I finally got it to work, by downgrading xorg-server to 1.3. It took me a while, messing a lot in the /etc/portage/ directory, because I got slot conflicts if not when trying to update @world. When this was done, I could remove most of the changes I made. Now I only need this in package.mask: =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552 =x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4 And this in package.unmask: =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.471.3 I have a working X now, at least with 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 - with linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 I could not compile ati-drivers-8.471.3, and all never versions of ati-drivers want xorg-server-1.5. Which is bad, because 8.471.3 will be removed soon from portage due to spring cleaning. Anyway, I will deal with this later. I'm eager to try KDE 4 for the first time now... let's see what will happen. (Apart from KDM not starting, but that was due to dbus not running.) Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?
Daniel Troeder writes: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems to lots of people - why not tell that directly after the --sync? Unfortunate timing here - within 24 hours the X11 upgrade included exactly this feature by way of eselect news! Oh yes - that's great :) Indeed! I think it was triggered when I ran emerge -pvuND world after --sync. Unfortunately I had other things on my mind at that time, so I can't remember well. * Is there a way to reproduce the event? * Where can I find old news? With eselect news read all I get nothing. Did I maybe purge it?... that brings me back to my first question :) eselect news list shows all news, including a section with already read news. eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 then displays it. Wonko
[gentoo-user] how to stop the mailing list?
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop the mailing list?
Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 19:23:30 schrieb Norman Hakim: i would like to unsubscribe from mailing list. how to unsubscribe? Unsubscribe address is in the headers of each mail you get. HTH... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] how to stop the mailing list?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
Am Freitag, 17. April 2009 08:42:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: grub OTOH, does understand filesystems and you can point it at a kernel image file and it works. grub is the preferred choice for most distros for this reason. Also, you can select the file image and edit options to use at boot time Don't forget to mentioned that it's not needed to run grub every time the kernel is updated, as is the case with lilo. Bye... Dirk
[gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution
Hi, Sorry for being a bit off topic here but it's for a good causee. Thanks in advance, I manage a Gentoo machine for my dad who is in his 80's now. He's not the least bit Linux literate but likes Gnome and has used Gentoo as a user only for about 5-6 years now. 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. 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. Is this a good idea and more importantly is this possible? What sort of issues will I have managing this for him. Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Hello, I followed all the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I have to use 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I would ask before trying the directions again. Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution
This is actually pretty easy since gmail accepts both IMAP and POP3 access. Just set up an account for him, go into the settings and enable pop or imap then configure evolution. For more information just google gmail imap/pop. You can also use ssmtp to send email through your or his gmail account so you could have his desktop send you his log files to keep track of security and any errors. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for being a bit off topic here but it's for a good causee. Thanks in advance, I manage a Gentoo machine for my dad who is in his 80's now. He's not the least bit Linux literate but likes Gnome and has used Gentoo as a user only for about 5-6 years now. 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. 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. Is this a good idea and more importantly is this possible? What sort of issues will I have managing this for him. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution
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. It could also be Verizon blocking you from connecting to other SMTP servers, to prevent spam. You very well may be able to sent RR email through Verizon's server. You also may be able to connect on non-standard ports, or have Verizon lift the blocking for your account (if in fact they are blocking it). I've never dealt with either of those companies, but I know Southwestern Bell (later named SBC, later named ATT) DSL used to block SMTP and it was fairly painless to call them and have the block removed. 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. I learned the hard way when my ISP went out of business overnight, try changing your e-mail address on sites when you don't have access to the old address anymore to confirm that change. It's almost impossible. Plus, people are afraid to change ISPs if they are going to lose the address that all of their family, friends, colleagues know them by. So I think the gmail idea sounds like a good one (and you can set it to fetch his roadrunner/verizon mail, too). 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.
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:43:56 PM, Valmor wrote: Hello, I followed all the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I have to use 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I would ask before trying the directions again. Thanks, I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. -- Sergey
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso. Will give it a try later. BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd iso) and got: Missing operating system Operating system not found Thanks, -- Valmor
[gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD recording? Can standard DVD play HD mpeg4 files? I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; is there a way to burn them into standard DVD on Linux. I'm familiar with standard MPEG2 format and burning but not HD MPEG4.. -- Joseph
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Friday, April 17, 2009, 10:21:04 PM, Valmor wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso. Will give it a try later. BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd iso) and got: Missing operating system Operating system not found This means: 1. You didn't copy MBR or boot loader to USB stick. 2. You boot from other device :) Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? Thanks, -- Valmor -- Sergey
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD recording? Can standard DVD play HD mpeg4 files? I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; is there a way to burn them into standard DVD on Linux. I'm familiar with standard MPEG2 format and burning but not HD MPEG4.. I confused when you say DVD if you mean DVD physical media or DVD format video. If you want to convert to a normal DVD format there are plenty of tools for that. My favorite is tovid. f you want to burn Blu-Ray data files into DVD media, I guess just build the Blu-Ray image and burn it. Same way you can burn DVD images to CD if they are small enough. I have no idea if that'll work, but that's what I would try. (I've never seen a Blu-Ray disc before so i have no idea...)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:57:37 -0400 ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Morais wrote: I want these two flags (--as-needed and --hash-style=gnu) to be active before I adopt GCC 4.3 and recompile world. Just as an FYI, you do not need to rebuild the world when you upgrade GCC - the only time this was needed was around the GCC 3.3 to 3.4 transition, because of a one-time ABI breakage. By the way, binaries linked with --as-needed are compatible with binaries linked without it, yes? The --as-needed flag simply tells the linker to be more selective about which libraries to link against -- it does not change anything about the format, etc. of the library itself (to be precise, using --as-needed will cause only the NEEDED entries that are actually needed to be emitted to the final binary). So, to answer your question, yes, they are perfectly compatible with each other. From http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml#doc_chap2 Note: While applying patches to libraries to fix --as-needed support, it is usually not the case to apply a revision bump: those who don't want to use the flag don't need to rebuild the library. For this reason, those who want to use --as-needed are invited to run an emerge -e world so that libraries are rebuilt. This suggests that, to be safe, I should activate --as-needed only *after* the next world compilation. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/17/09 15:03, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD recording? Can standard DVD play HD mpeg4 files? I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; is there a way to burn them into standard DVD on Linux. I'm familiar with standard MPEG2 format and burning but not HD MPEG4.. I confused when you say DVD if you mean DVD physical media or DVD format video. If you want to convert to a normal DVD format there are plenty of tools for that. My favorite is tovid. f you want to burn Blu-Ray data files into DVD media, I guess just build the Blu-Ray image and burn it. Same way you can burn DVD images to CD if they are small enough. I have no idea if that'll work, but that's what I would try. (I've never seen a Blu-Ray disc before so i have no idea...) I had in mind DVD physical media. I want to retain the HD format quality. Do you mean burning standard .mpg4 file into DVD? That is what I wanted to try but I doubt standard DVD will play it, and if it will what resolution will it be in? Thanks for the link I'll check it out. -- Joseph
[gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Hi, 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. I've also tried upgrading xorg-x11 to version 7.4. No changes. m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5. (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 () Serial number of failed request: 1814 Current serial number in output stream: 1815 m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ Note that this isn't even trying to play the file, it's just trying to start the user interface. I see segfault and error/warning messages in dmesg: mtrr: no MTRR for f000,800 found [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 X[22596]: segfault at 0 ip sp bf91df1c error 4 in Xorg[8048000+179000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 X[22764]: segfault at 2d8 ip b7f266c4 sp bfd56a80 error 4 in libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0[b7f25000+7000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 The MTRR warnings have been around forever on this machine. I think the drm:i915 warning is benign in that it's supposedly saying the kernel doesn't have gem support, but I could be very wrong about that. The kernel is recent but not the most up to date. Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 15:03, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD recording? Can standard DVD play HD mpeg4 files? I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; is there a way to burn them into standard DVD on Linux. I'm familiar with standard MPEG2 format and burning but not HD MPEG4.. I confused when you say DVD if you mean DVD physical media or DVD format video. If you want to convert to a normal DVD format there are plenty of tools for that. My favorite is tovid. f you want to burn Blu-Ray data files into DVD media, I guess just build the Blu-Ray image and burn it. Same way you can burn DVD images to CD if they are small enough. I have no idea if that'll work, but that's what I would try. (I've never seen a Blu-Ray disc before so i have no idea...) I had in mind DVD physical media. I want to retain the HD format quality. Do you mean burning standard .mpg4 file into DVD? That is what I wanted to try but I doubt standard DVD will play it, and if it will what resolution will it be in? Thanks for the link I'll check it out. Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play it). It's just a data disc. If you want to watch it on an actual Blu-Ray player then it'll need to be authored and mastered in the apporpriate way. I think they are *.EVO files in some special directory structure (similar to DVD video). Also, they use UDF 2.5 for the filesystem. Blu-Ray has lots of DRM and commercial licensing requirements to make a player, so legality is questionable :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Freitag 17 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, 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. I've also tried upgrading xorg-x11 to version 7.4. No changes. m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5. (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 () Serial number of failed request: 1814 Current serial number in output stream: 1815 m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ Note that this isn't even trying to play the file, it's just trying to start the user interface. I see segfault and error/warning messages in dmesg: mtrr: no MTRR for f000,800 found [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 X[22596]: segfault at 0 ip sp bf91df1c error 4 in Xorg[8048000+179000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 X[22764]: segfault at 2d8 ip b7f266c4 sp bfd56a80 error 4 in libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0[b7f25000+7000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 The MTRR warnings have been around forever on this machine. I think the drm:i915 warning is benign in that it's supposedly saying the kernel doesn't have gem support, but I could be very wrong about that. The kernel is recent but not the most up to date. Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark have you rebuilt libxv? what happens if you don't use xv but xshm as output plugin?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed
On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: 090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? emerge -C plasma emerge --depclean Is it a good idea to tell people to run emerge -C? emerge --depc atom is dependency-aware. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed
On Friday 17 April 2009 23:21:19 Jorge Morais wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: 090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? emerge -C plasma emerge --depclean Is it a good idea to tell people to run emerge -C? emerge --depc atom is dependency-aware. The OP downgraded from kde-4 back to kde-3 He should not have had plasma at all anymore, but it got left behind in error and something was starting it. So he needed to get rid of it, and emerge -C followed by --depclean really is the ideal method, -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
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. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 17 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, 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. I've also tried upgrading xorg-x11 to version 7.4. No changes. m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5. (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 () Serial number of failed request: 1814 Current serial number in output stream: 1815 m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ Note that this isn't even trying to play the file, it's just trying to start the user interface. I see segfault and error/warning messages in dmesg: mtrr: no MTRR for f000,800 found [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 X[22596]: segfault at 0 ip sp bf91df1c error 4 in Xorg[8048000+179000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 X[22764]: segfault at 2d8 ip b7f266c4 sp bfd56a80 error 4 in libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0[b7f25000+7000] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 The MTRR warnings have been around forever on this machine. I think the drm:i915 warning is benign in that it's supposedly saying the kernel doesn't have gem support, but I could be very wrong about that. The kernel is recent but not the most up to date. Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark have you rebuilt libxv? what happens if you don't use xv but xshm as output plugin? Hi Volker, The machine is clean emerge -DuN world, revdep-rebuild. As a test I just rebuilt libXv and libXvMC but it still crashes. dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv1 libXv libXvMC These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXv-1.0.4 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.4 USE=-debug 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # Other mplayer formats do not crash. I've tried x11, gl gl2. They all work fine. Only mplayer File.avi or mplayer -vo xv FILE.avi crash X so it seems to be an xv thing. This all used to work before the upgrade. I'm going to move on to Paul's suggestion about using an xorg.conf file and see if that helps. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale :-) :-) Installed versions: 4.3.3-r2(4.3)!s(01:52:54 29.03.2009)(fortran mudflap multilib nls openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -gcj -gtk - hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi -multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc - objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) are you sure its gcc and not the kernel you are using?
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale Dale, I have sort of been following that thread and it has been on my mind. I currently do seem to be using 4.3.2 and I've wondered if that requires a complete rebuild of the machine. I don't mind doing that but I don't want to start down that path until I've exhausted all other possibilities as it takes so much time. I'm pretty sure my current kernel was compiled with 4.3.2 and X certainly was as I built it this morning. Thanks! - Mark dragonfly ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.3 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * dragonfly ~ # dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv gcc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3 USE=fortran gcj gtk mudflap nls openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) (-hardened) -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ #
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:43:35 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn HD video MPEG4 to DVD? I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD recording? Can standard DVD play HD mpeg4 files? I don't know, but I highly doubt that a DVD player can play a 1920x1080 file. The best way to be sure is to read the device manual. I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; is there a way to burn them into standard DVD on Linux. I'm familiar with standard MPEG2 format and burning but not HD MPEG4.. Please provide more information. I *assume* that you have a dvd-recorder driver in your computer and a Blu-Ray player on top of your TV. If that is the case, 1) I would try some blu-ray authoring tool; presumably, such a tool would generate a .iso file intended to be recorded to a Blu-Ray media. I would record that .iso to a DVD media. I guess it would work. But to be sure it would work, I would 2) Read the device manual. If you don't have a Blu-Ray player, but only a normal DVD player, I think it is very unlikely you will be able to play a 1920x1080 file with it. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale :-) :-) Installed versions: 4.3.3-r2(4.3)!s(01:52:54 29.03.2009)(fortran mudflap multilib nls openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -gcj -gtk - hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi -multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc - objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) are you sure its gcc and not the kernel you are using? Yep, as soon as I switched back and recompiled things, they started working again. So far, things are getting back to normal and I am about half way though my emerge -ev world. I am booting the same kernel that I have been using for over a year. One reason I have not upgraded my kernel is the fact that gcc wouldn't compile a stable kernel. It would either error during the compile or things would not work even tho it should. Most of the time it would not finish a compile. This may not be your problem but given what I have been through, I thought it worth a mention. If you run out of other ideas, switch back to a older gcc then emerge -ev mythtv or whatever you need to do to test this theory. If that fixes it, then we know that gcc 4.3 has a issue somewhere. I hope you get it fixed either way. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/17/09 16:04, Paul Hartman wrote: [snip] Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play it). It's just a data disc. I want to play it on larger screen TV (it supports all latest formats). I don't have (yet) Blu-Ray player and I don't think it is possible to play HD mp4 files on any DVD player, is it? If you want to watch it on an actual Blu-Ray player then it'll need to be authored and mastered in the apporpriate way. I think they are *.EVO files in some special directory structure (similar to DVD video). Also, they use UDF 2.5 for the filesystem. Blu-Ray has lots of DRM and commercial licensing requirements to make a player, so legality is questionable :) That is why I can barely find anything on how to encode the HD mpeg4 files onto a disk. I can make UDF file system on a standard re-writetable DVD-RW (have done it many times) my only question is the encoding format/structure. I think I need Blu-Ray burner, don't I? -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale Dale, I have sort of been following that thread and it has been on my mind. I currently do seem to be using 4.3.2 and I've wondered if that requires a complete rebuild of the machine. I don't mind doing that but I don't want to start down that path until I've exhausted all other possibilities as it takes so much time. I'm pretty sure my current kernel was compiled with 4.3.2 and X certainly was as I built it this morning. Thanks! - Mark dragonfly ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.3 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * dragonfly ~ # dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv gcc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3 USE=fortran gcj gtk mudflap nls openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) (-hardened) -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # I can't say with 100% certainty that this is gcc but I'm 99% sure it is in my case. I switched to gcc 4.3 and things just got weird. Kernels wouldn't compile, my sound quit working, my USB ports went belly up and things started crashing. Seamonkey was one of them. That started out on a specific site but then just started crashing even when I was doing nothing at all. I would come back and it would be gone. Then Kmix, alsamixer wouldn't open any more and a few other weird things. I'm half way though my emerge -ev world and I can tell you things are a lot better. I have not changed any configs, changed kernels or anything else, just switched back to the old gcc and started a emerge -e world. I would exhaust everything else but you may want to keep this in the back of your mind just in case. My gcc info: r...@smoker / # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 r...@smoker / # Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale :-) :-) Installed versions: 4.3.3-r2(4.3)!s(01:52:54 29.03.2009)(fortran mudflap multilib nls openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -gcj -gtk - hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi -multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc - objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) are you sure its gcc and not the kernel you are using? Yep, as soon as I switched back and recompiled things, they started working again. So far, things are getting back to normal and I am about half way though my emerge -ev world. I am booting the same kernel that I have been using for over a year. One reason I have not upgraded my kernel is the fact that gcc wouldn't compile a stable kernel. It would either error during the compile or things would not work even tho it should. Most of the time it would not finish a compile. This may not be your problem but given what I have been through, I thought it worth a mention. If you run out of other ideas, switch back to a older gcc then emerge -ev mythtv or whatever you need to do to test this theory. If that fixes it, then we know that gcc 4.3 has a issue somewhere. I hope you get it fixed either way. Dale :-) :-) I don't have problems. In fact, gcc4.3 worked very fine for me - but I also do not use acient kernels or software from the stone ages of programing (aka 2008 ;) )
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale :-) :-) Installed versions: 4.3.3-r2(4.3)!s(01:52:54 29.03.2009)(fortran mudflap multilib nls openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -gcj -gtk - hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi -multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc - objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) are you sure its gcc and not the kernel you are using? Yep, as soon as I switched back and recompiled things, they started working again. So far, things are getting back to normal and I am about half way though my emerge -ev world. I am booting the same kernel that I have been using for over a year. One reason I have not upgraded my kernel is the fact that gcc wouldn't compile a stable kernel. It would either error during the compile or things would not work even tho it should. Most of the time it would not finish a compile. This may not be your problem but given what I have been through, I thought it worth a mention. If you run out of other ideas, switch back to a older gcc then emerge -ev mythtv or whatever you need to do to test this theory. If that fixes it, then we know that gcc 4.3 has a issue somewhere. I hope you get it fixed either way. Dale :-) :-) I don't have problems. In fact, gcc4.3 worked very fine for me - but I also do not use acient kernels or software from the stone ages of programing (aka 2008 ;) ) Well, the kernel that would not compile is a gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1, I also tried gentoo-sources-2.6.29, gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r2 and gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r7. I don't think those are that old. I run mostly stable with only a few exceptions. I wouldn't call that the stone age. After all, 2008 was only a few months ago. If it works for you, great. Point of my reply was that it is not working here for me. I'm not dreaming, I am as sure of that as anything else on this machine. I even tested it with a CD to make sure my hardware was good. It is, gcc 4.3 appears not to be. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 16:04, Paul Hartman wrote: [snip] Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play it). It's just a data disc. I want to play it on larger screen TV (it supports all latest formats). I don't have (yet) Blu-Ray player and I don't think it is possible to play HD mp4 files on any DVD player, is it? No, a DVD video player can only play DVDs (and sometimes VCDs which are even worse quality than DVD). If they could play HD then Blu-Ray would have no reason to exist :) While some DVD players can output a 720p/1080i/1080p picture, it is simple scaling the lower-resolution 720 × 576 (or whatever the DVD is) image to that size and applying some filters to make it look better (in theory). The only way to play the HD content on your TV is to hook a computer up to it or get a media player capable of playing HD content. Or figure out how to author and master Blu-Ray discs and get a Blu-Ray player. If you want to watch it on an actual Blu-Ray player then it'll need to be authored and mastered in the apporpriate way. I think they are *.EVO files in some special directory structure (similar to DVD video). Also, they use UDF 2.5 for the filesystem. Blu-Ray has lots of DRM and commercial licensing requirements to make a player, so legality is questionable :) That is why I can barely find anything on how to encode the HD mpeg4 files onto a disk. I can make UDF file system on a standard re-writetable DVD-RW (have done it many times) my only question is the encoding format/structure. I think I need Blu-Ray burner, don't I? I think generally the answer is You have to use windows to author Blu-Ray movies... because of the licensing etc. but I haven't ever tried so I could be wrong.
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Mark I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no longer found. To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other ideas. Dale :-) :-) Installed versions: 4.3.3-r2(4.3)!s(01:52:54 29.03.2009)(fortran mudflap multilib nls openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -gcj -gtk - hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi -multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc - objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) are you sure its gcc and not the kernel you are using? Yep, as soon as I switched back and recompiled things, they started working again. So far, things are getting back to normal and I am about half way though my emerge -ev world. I am booting the same kernel that I have been using for over a year. One reason I have not upgraded my kernel is the fact that gcc wouldn't compile a stable kernel. It would either error during the compile or things would not work even tho it should. Most of the time it would not finish a compile. This may not be your problem but given what I have been through, I thought it worth a mention. If you run out of other ideas, switch back to a older gcc then emerge -ev mythtv or whatever you need to do to test this theory. If that fixes it, then we know that gcc 4.3 has a issue somewhere. I hope you get it fixed either way. Dale :-) :-) I don't have problems. In fact, gcc4.3 worked very fine for me - but I also do not use acient kernels or software from the stone ages of programing (aka 2008 ;) ) Well, the kernel that would not compile is a gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1, I also tried gentoo-sources-2.6.29, gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r2 and gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r7. I don't think those are that old. I run mostly stable with only a few exceptions. I wouldn't call that the stone age. After all, 2008 was only a few months ago. If it works for you, great. Point of my reply was that it is not working here for me. I'm not dreaming, I am as sure of that as anything else on this machine. I even tested it with a CD to make sure my hardware was good. It is, gcc 4.3 appears not to be. Dale :-) :-) and have you ever tried a kernel without stupid patches - aka vanilla sources?
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
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. OK, I tried XAA and EXA. I see evidence in Xorg.0.log that they are each recognized but both ways I'm still crashing X. This is very disappointing, but at least I can run mplayer on this machine if I remember to set the decoder type. Our emails are crossing in the ether. I'm building driconf now and will see what I can do with that. I'm not sure what to try. driconf doesn't seem very happy. It cannot find glxinfo, and I just found out that glxgears is no longer on the system. Did that change with xorg-7.4 or do I need to re-emerge something? I cannot remember. Anyway, I'll keep plugging away at this. Thanks for the idea on driconf. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I don't have problems. In fact, gcc4.3 worked very fine for me - but I also do not use acient kernels or software from the stone ages of programing (aka 2008 ;) ) Well, the kernel that would not compile is a gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1, I also tried gentoo-sources-2.6.29, gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r2 and gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r7. I don't think those are that old. I run mostly stable with only a few exceptions. I wouldn't call that the stone age. After all, 2008 was only a few months ago. If it works for you, great. Point of my reply was that it is not working here for me. I'm not dreaming, I am as sure of that as anything else on this machine. I even tested it with a CD to make sure my hardware was good. It is, gcc 4.3 appears not to be. Dale :-) :-) and have you ever tried a kernel without stupid patches - aka vanilla sources? Nope, never had a reason to. Thing is, they compile just fine with gcc 4.1 so why should I try that? It doesn't compile or work with gcc 4.3 but does compile and work with gcc 4.1. That along with everything else tells me that at least on this rig, gcc 4.3 has a problem. NOTHING changed except for the compiler. No configs, not my make.conf, not anything. Not even the version of software changed. I switched to gcc 4.1 and things are getting back to normal. This isn't just a kernel problem. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:17 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. OK, I tried XAA and EXA. I see evidence in Xorg.0.log that they are each recognized but both ways I'm still crashing X. This is very disappointing, but at least I can run mplayer on this machine if I remember to set the decoder type. Our emails are crossing in the ether. I'm building driconf now and will see what I can do with that. I'm not sure what to try. driconf doesn't seem very happy. It cannot find glxinfo, and I just found out that glxgears is no longer on the system. Did that change with xorg-7.4 or do I need to re-emerge something? I cannot remember. Anyway, I'll keep plugging away at this. Thanks for the idea on driconf. Could it be you don't have mesa-progs installed? (Or perhaps even mesa itself?)
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/17/09 18:01, Paul Hartman wrote: [snip] No, a DVD video player can only play DVDs (and sometimes VCDs which are even worse quality than DVD). If they could play HD then Blu-Ray would have no reason to exist :) While some DVD players can output a 720p/1080i/1080p picture, it is simple scaling the lower-resolution 720 ? 576 (or whatever the DVD is) image to that size and applying some filters to make it look better (in theory). The only way to play the HD content on your TV is to hook a computer up to it or get a media player capable of playing HD content. Or figure out how to author and master Blu-Ray discs and get a Blu-Ray player. I don't think hooking up computer would help. When I try to play HD MP4 (file that I recorded) in Xine it complains that CPU is not fast enough - it keeps complaining that amount of frames is too high (60-fields/s) and that is on my: Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz Though, Xine only plays utilizing single CPU, it can not utilize all four cpu's [snip I think generally the answer is You have to use windows to author Blu-Ray movies... because of the licensing etc. but I haven't ever tried so I could be wrong. I have to find a way to author Blu-Ray onto blu-ray disk but will take some time (if not years) as there aren't many blu-ray disk recorders for computers not to mention Linux :-/ And by the time it happens my camera will be obsolete. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?
On 14/04/09 Dale said: Do you have any of the following running on your system? consolekit cupsd hald Nope. I'm going to try logging out, shutting dbus down and logging back in and see if something starts it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpB2LX4n5em2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 17 Apr 2009, at 20:43, Joseph wrote: ... I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; Assuming videos of your dog / cat / children you're probably best storing the original video files on hard-disk, burning as a DVD at standard definitions (720x480 or 720x576) and enjoying the movies like that for the meantime. I would revisit hi-def video disks in 5 years time, when more tools are available, when you have a living-room player that will cope with 1920x1080 and when hi-def disks are cheap. You _may_ be able to record blu-ray format onto DVD, but since you couldn't playback such a disk yourself, why bother? Many viewers are unable to distinguish between DVD blu-ray. Watch out for framerate issues - you should probably be capturing at the correct framerate for your output format, as conversion between framerates is problematic (lossy). Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?
On 14/04/09 Alan McKinnon said: Do you have hal or dbus in world by mistake? Nope. You have USE=-dbus -hal in make.conf, but what about /etc/portage/package.use/? No, not there. Perhaps it was dragged in early on when I built xfce. I'm not sure I had -dbus in there then. Still, an emerge with -newuse shows no changes. We'll see soon if it's really required. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpTr6KUXECoL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?
On 14/04/09 ABCD said: What is the output of `/etc/init.d/dbus needsme` and `/etc/init.d/dbus usesme`, and are any of the listed services started? Cool, I didn't know that one. Nothing listed though. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp4dt2GKh12o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 18 Apr 2009, at 01:40, Joseph wrote: ... I don't think hooking up computer would help. When I try to play HD MP4 (file that I recorded) in Xine it complains that CPU is not fast enough - it keeps complaining that amount of frames is too high (60-fields/s) and that is on my: Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz Though, Xine only plays utilizing single CPU, it can not utilize all four cpu's Try mplayer - depending on file format it should be capable of playing back 1080p. If not, it should be able to convert to a less demanding container/codec which it will handle realtime. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 14/04/09 ABCD said: What is the output of `/etc/init.d/dbus needsme` and `/etc/init.d/dbus usesme`, and are any of the listed services started? Cool, I didn't know that one. Nothing listed though. Mike To see which package(s) pulled in dbus in your setup you can use depclean, like on mine I get this: $ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv Calculating dependencies ... done! sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1 pulled in by: app-misc/strigi-0.6.4 dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.80 dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 dev-util/monodevelop-2.0 dev-util/subversion-1.6.1 gnome-base/gconf-2.24.0 gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.22.3-r1 gnome-base/libbonobo-2.24.1 kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-4.2.2 kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.2-r1 media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.4 media-video/vlc-0.9.9a net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 net-ftp/filezilla-3.2.3.1 net-im/pidgin-2.5.5 net-misc/networkmanager-0.7.0 net-print/cups-1.3.10 net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.9 sys-apps/hwinfo-14.19 x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.0 x11-misc/google-gadgets-0.10.5 xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.0 so all of those packages explicitly depend on dbus and very likely will want it to be running :)
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 14/04/09 Dale said: Do you have any of the following running on your system? consolekit cupsd hald Nope. I'm going to try logging out, shutting dbus down and logging back in and see if something starts it. Mike Logging out and back in shouldn't start any services that I know of. That is done during the boot up process. Maybe try posting the output of these: /etc/init.d/consolekit status /etc/init.d/cupsd status /etc/init.d/hald status If one or more of those say they are started, they should be starting dbus since they need dbus to work correctly, if you have dbus enabled in your USE flag. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/18/09 01:50, Stroller wrote:
On 18 Apr 2009, at 01:40, Joseph wrote:
...
I don't think hooking up computer would help.
When I try to play HD MP4 (file that I recorded) in Xine it complains that
CPU is not fast enough - it keeps complaining that amount of frames is too
high (60-fields/s) and that is on my: Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz Though,
Xine only plays utilizing single CPU, it can not utilize all four cpu's
Try mplayer - depending on file format it should be capable of playing back
1080p. If not, it should be able to convert to a less demanding
container/codec which it will handle realtime.
Stroller.
mplayer - is not much better :-/
[h264 @ 0xb5c400]AVC: Consumed only 45657 bytes instead of 45660
[h264 @ 0xb5c400]AVC: Consumed only 25265 bytes instead of 252687 0 52%
[h264 @ 0xb5c400]AVC: Consumed only 45152 bytes instead of 451569 0 52%
Your system is too SLOW to play this!
Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
--
Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/18/09 01:47, Stroller wrote: On 17 Apr 2009, at 20:43, Joseph wrote: ... I have new camera that records HD (1920x1080) mpeg4 movies, most files are below 3GB; Assuming videos of your dog / cat / children you're probably best storing the original video files on hard-disk, burning as a DVD at standard definitions (720x480 or 720x576) and enjoying the movies like that for the meantime. I would revisit hi-def video disks in 5 years time, when more tools are available, when you have a living-room player that will cope with 1920x1080 and when hi-def disks are cheap. You _may_ be able to record blu-ray format onto DVD, but since you couldn't playback such a disk yourself, why bother? Many viewers are unable to distinguish between DVD blu-ray. Watch out for framerate issues - you should probably be capturing at the correct framerate for your output format, as conversion between framerates is problematic (lossy). Stroller. I think that the most sensible advice :-) I can convert current HD mp4's for storage a DVD: mkisofs -o foobar.iso foobar.mpg4 cdrecord -v dev=/dev/dvd foobar.iso though, I'll not be able to play them on any DVD. For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file dvdauthor -T -o foobar -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file dvdauthor -T -o foobar Well: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg is not working wery well, a lot of errors: [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 38533 bytes instead of 38540 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 36229 bytes instead of 36236 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 25207 bytes instead of 25212 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 25061 bytes instead of 25068 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 25166 bytes instead of 25172 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 42910 bytes instead of 42916 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 25608 bytes instead of 25612 [h264 @ 0x62b1a0]AVC: Consumed only 25871 bytes instead of 25876 Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 it converted the file but there is no voice. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?
On 17/04/09 Paul Hartman said: To see which package(s) pulled in dbus in your setup you can use depclean, like on mine I get this: $ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv msoul...@anton:~$ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv Password: Calculating dependencies... done! sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1 pulled in by: dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.76 Repeating... msoul...@anton:~$ sudo emerge --depclean dev-libs/dbus-glib -pv Calculating dependencies... done! dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.76 pulled in by: media-gfx/ristretto-0.0.21 media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.5.1-r3 media-sound/audacious-1.5.1-r1 xfce-base/thunar-0.9.3 xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.4.3 Still odd since I have -dbus in my make.conf. Mike pgpuxiQXlc26S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?
On 17/04/09 Dale said:
Logging out and back in shouldn't start any services that I know of.
Well, dbus was running as me, not root, so it wasn't started at boot. I
suspect XFCE4 is starting it.
That is done during the boot up process. Maybe try posting the output
of these:
/etc/init.d/consolekit status
/etc/init.d/cupsd status
/etc/init.d/hald status
msoul...@anton:~$ ls /etc/init.d/{consolekit,cupsd,hald}
ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/consolekit: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/cupsd: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/hald: No such file or directory
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein
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Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:17 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. OK, I tried XAA and EXA. I see evidence in Xorg.0.log that they are each recognized but both ways I'm still crashing X. This is very disappointing, but at least I can run mplayer on this machine if I remember to set the decoder type. Our emails are crossing in the ether. I'm building driconf now and will see what I can do with that. I'm not sure what to try. driconf doesn't seem very happy. It cannot find glxinfo, and I just found out that glxgears is no longer on the system. Did that change with xorg-7.4 or do I need to re-emerge something? I cannot remember. Anyway, I'll keep plugging away at this. Thanks for the idea on driconf. Could it be you don't have mesa-progs installed? (Or perhaps even mesa itself?) Yeah, it seems mesa-progs isn't installed which explains the lack of glxgears. I guess that was jsut included by default with the old server. I do note that while I have xorg-x11-7.4 installed, I only have mesa-7.3-r1, not 7.4. Are those intended to match up 1 for 1? Probably doesn't matter... Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 17/04/09 Paul Hartman said: To see which package(s) pulled in dbus in your setup you can use depclean, like on mine I get this: $ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv msoul...@anton:~$ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv Password: Calculating dependencies... done! sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1 pulled in by: dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.76 Repeating... msoul...@anton:~$ sudo emerge --depclean dev-libs/dbus-glib -pv Calculating dependencies... done! dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.76 pulled in by: media-gfx/ristretto-0.0.21 media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.5.1-r3 media-sound/audacious-1.5.1-r1 xfce-base/thunar-0.9.3 xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.4.3 Still odd since I have -dbus in my make.conf. That only disabled dbus when it is optional. Since you have packages that /require/ dbus (with no option to disable it), I guess that's where it is coming from. Specifically it looks like XFCE.
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file dvdauthor -T -o foobar Well: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg is not working wery well, a lot of errors: I highly recommend checking out tovid, it will convert to proper dvd mpeg format and maintain aspect ratios and all that... I've used it for a long time without any issues.
Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd
On 04/17/09 22:43, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file dvdauthor -T -o foobar Well: ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg is not working wery well, a lot of errors: I highly recommend checking out tovid, it will convert to proper dvd mpeg format and maintain aspect ratios and all that... I've used it for a long time without any issues. with tovid I got errors as well: Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 size= 0kB time=100.00 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s video:0kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead nan% [tovid]: Encode stopped, killing all sub processes [tovid]: Keeping temporary files used during encoding in /home/joseph/foo_encoded.1 [tovid]: tovid encountered an error during encoding: [tovid]: There was a problem with encoding the audio to ac3 format. I think one of the package is missing codecs: mp4a avc1 but I can not figure out which one; as with transcode I get errors as well: 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 v1.0.7 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg, 2004-2008 Transcode Team [codecs] Warning: Could not find audio Decoder for fourcc mp4a [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_audio_stub called [codecs] Warning: Could not find video Decoder for fourcc avc1 [codecs] Warning: quicktime_decode_video_stub called Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?
On 17/04/09 Paul Hartman said: That only disabled dbus when it is optional. Since you have packages that /require/ dbus (with no option to disable it), I guess that's where it is coming from. Specifically it looks like XFCE. That would follow with it running as me instead of root. It's being started when I login. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp35UVNnp0yO.pgp Description: PGP signature
