[gentoo-user] Intel GMA500 Poulsbo works with recent kernels.
Many linux users who bought early netbooks with Intel GMA Poulsbo GPUs ended up kicking themselves in the rear. If you got rid of yours, you may end up kicking yourself in the rear even more. According to http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/linux-gma500-poulsbo-driver-moved-out-of-staging/ == Good news for people with an Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) graphics card, support is now in the mainline Linux kernel. In the Linux 3.3-rc1 (mainline) kernel the driver has moved out of staging and re-named. It is now located under Device Drivers - Graphics support - DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) - Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer and is now called gma500_gfx. Once the kernel team with your distribution of choice makes the adjustment, the GMA500 should work out of the box on any Linux Distribution using kernel 3.3 or higher. == Since the latest stable gentoo-sources is 3.2.21, I keyworded 3.3.8 and ran emerge --sync on my brick^H^H^H^H old netbook and built the kernel with the options indicated above. ***IMPORTANT*** I had to emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev as the X11 video driver. I believe that x11-drivers/xf86-video-psb is the old deprecated Poulsbo driver... and I never could get the bleeping thing to build anyways. Initial quick review... 1) It woiks!!! The netbook is now displaying 1366x768. 2) No xorg.conf required. And udev is not sniffing anything out, because the machine is running on mdev. 3) Performance is decent for an early Atom. I used Youtube for quick-n-dirty torture testing... - 480p Youtube videos are OK, even at fullscreen - 720p Youtube videos are OK on the standard player and large player, but stutter slightly at fullscreen - 1080p - fuggedaboutit 4) Getting brightness control, etc, to work is still hit-and-miss. 5) Hibernate (suspend-to-disk) does not work. Reading comments at the blog, that appears to be a known problem with the GPU and the kernel driver. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other associated files. This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have 'world' in there ;) How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use sets for some reason. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 SSD?
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2012, 19:26:27 schrieb Jarry: Hi, I'm building small server for VPS-hosting purpose (not decided yet, probably KVM or ESXi). Althought it is non production, reliability is still issue for me. I'm considering using two small SSD (ie. Intel 313, 24GB, SLC) in hw-raid1 (Adaptec 3805) just for hypervisor, and 2xHDD/raid1 for VPS. I started looking for info on internet but results are not conclusive. Opinions vary from no problem, use SSDraid1 to using SSD in raid is not recommended no matter if it is SW or HW. Mostly missing trim-command is mentioned as reason for not using SSD in any raid. Does anyone have any experience with SSD in raid (SW or HW)? Is it safe to use it on server? Jarry just ask intel support. Really. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list
Claudio Roberto França Pereira writes: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have 'world' in there ;) How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use sets for some reason. Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, but I'm using it just fine for three years now. You have to put this into /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords: sys-apps/portage- ~* Or just enable a specific version, and put that in your local overlay, if you don't trust the updates which happen every few days. Is emerge @preserved-rebuild (with FEATURES=preserve-libs) also a 2.2 feature? I like this most, I no longer need to use revdep-rebuild. I always considered having to use it a bug, fixing broken things after breaking them, instead of preventing breakage. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 SSD?
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building small server for VPS-hosting purpose (not decided yet, probably KVM or ESXi). Althought it is non production, reliability is still issue for me. I'm considering using two small SSD (ie. Intel 313, 24GB, SLC) in hw-raid1 (Adaptec 3805) just for hypervisor, and 2xHDD/raid1 for VPS. I started looking for info on internet but results are not conclusive. Opinions vary from no problem, use SSDraid1 to using SSD in raid is not recommended no matter if it is SW or HW. Mostly missing trim-command is mentioned as reason for not using SSD in any raid. Does anyone have any experience with SSD in raid (SW or HW)? Is it safe to use it on server? Jarry On the surface it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you have two drives mapped against each other in a RAID-1, and then you TRIM part of 1 drive but don't TRIM the same part of the 2nd drive, it seems to me that you're discarding part of your redundancy, aren't you? What would mdadm itself (or anything else) know about remapping that stuff? Granted, mdadm could be informed and probably reconstruct the RAID-1 in a new location, but as you TRIM out different parts of each SSD it's going to get messy I think. If you look up TRIM in Wikipedia there's a little bit of info suggesting some support for some file systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM I can say from reading the mdadm list for the last year that it's a conversation that doesn't come up all that often and mostly goes away pretty fast most of the time there. Check their archives. In my case I'm running a small server here that's currently running 3 VMs which is typical for my work day. I'm considering adding a single SSD to the system to host the VMs but using rsync to back them up to HDD RAID each evening. HTH, Mark
Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list
On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots of references to 'why are you still using 2.1??), why not just stabilize it already? I try really hard not to run anything unstable unless I absolutely have to (for obvious reasons)...
Re: Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list
On 11 July 2012 14:23, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots of references to 'why are you still using 2.1??), why not just stabilize it already? I try really hard not to run anything unstable unless I absolutely have to (for obvious reasons)... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210077 --- This is why it's taking so long, there are still MANY bugs that should really be fixed. Part of why it's taking so long for those bugs to be fixed is because programmatic sets and preserve-libs aren't a priority, but things like supporting new EAPIs and such are a far bigger priority.
Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card
Yes, but that wasn't the problem. I solved it in the last post here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7081620.html#7081620 Christopher Lemire christopher.lem...@gmail.com Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0 Gnu Privacy Guard Key Fingerprint = 3E1A 9103 EF3D 4885 6866 E9DE C69F 18B3 E13B 0909 Web: http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com Jabber: recursivequicks...@jabber.org On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-07-06 9:00 PM, Christopher Lemire christopher.lem...@gmail.com wrote: I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that in log, I corrected it and tried starting X again. Actually, isn't it raDEon, not raEDon? ;)
