How good is Linux support with those? If bad, what other mobos support
1075T and Linux support is awesome?
most probably they will just work.
I've just built a machine based on GA-880-GM-UD2H that I bought a
couple of years ago, and it works well. It supports 1090T and 1100T,
which you should
which is your own fucking fault.
Get your drivers into the kernel. Problem solved.
Does gratuitous obscenity come naturally to you, or do you have to work at
it?
I am naturally grumpy.
Yeah we've noticed ;) I like reading your posts because you know
stuff, and I like the fireworks.
Be careful though, being grumpy is dangerously seductive.
It is? You could have fooled me
Sorry - I meant being grumpy is seductive for the grumpy person. Its
pretty much the opposite for the people they interact with, as you
imply.
no process called X
or anything related to X, if i ssh in from another machine and run
'pgrep -lf X' as root.
When using fglrx;
proxy adam # tail Xorg.0.log
[ 458.503] (II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
[ 458.503] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver
-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000
[ 825.350] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] register handle = 0xd000
adam@proxy ~ $
By the way, you
realise you also need to setup correct kernel modules and disable
conflicting ones when changing from fglrx to radeon, right?
Really - i thought changing the X driver was all that was required. Is
that do with with KMS?
Anyway, i think i'll focus on just using fglrx as its
FYI, this is fixed. I ran 'strace startx startx.strace.out 21' and
this showed;
/usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
GlxInitVisuals2D
Which means that i forget to eselect opengl set 1, though it wasn't
logged to Xorg.0.log (so it was
If the data is important, I'd use ddrescue to create an image of the
drive, then run testdisk over that image to see if it can untangle the
partition table mess. Both are in portage.
By the way, is it possible to use LABELs without and initrd? I'll start
using an initrd before too long, I'll also mess with decorations, but for
now, I'd like to keep my setup simple, no initrd.
AND what bootloaders can use LABEL/UUID? Can grub's device.map use them?
You are right: for grub-legacy you need to use the old hd(x,y) thingy.
Which i assume suffers from the same reassignment risk as the kernel's
/dev/sdX naming that prompted this discussion. Looks I'll be moving to
grub2.
Have you ever wondered why the blooming of obesity has coincided with the
popularity of the low-fat diet?
Correlation implies causation? Perhaps the blooming of obesity caused
people to start looking for new diets to address the issue.
IMO diet is the most important contributor to weight, but
In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle?
Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle?
Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device
But Dynamic Compression of swap pages underneath looks interesting too
(check the help).
Compressed RAM
BTW, I had forgotten to run 'eselect opengl set ati' which I've always
done when configuring X. However, when I do this, it returns
'Unrecognized option: ati'
You all are probably thinking I'm nuts now, but I thought this my solve
the issue as stated about. I've checked an rechecked the
The * is actually included in the output and I was too chicken to try
this. I don't understand why ati or radeon isn't listed 'cause I
followed the Gentoo ATI Guide and X Configuration Guide.
Do you have the opengl USE flag set?
SNIP, fglrx is too much effort.
fglrx is no trouble at all,
there aren't any Linux viruses,
Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need
a virus scanner. Yet.
Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about,
there isn't a good way of getting infected. On Windows, you download
random executables from the net. On Gentoo, you install your stuff
through portage. It's nearly impossible to get infected.
except when someone puts up
USB does use DMA. Check the kernel source doco Documentation/usb/dma.txt
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, co cui...@gmail.com wrote:
I upgrade pad to 1.1.5 ,then openrc can't work,and can't login to system.
libpam.so.0 can't open shared object file.
please help!
I always run revdep-rebuild any time libs are updated, but in this
case the lib name stays the same.
I did one more test: I simply manually configured eth0
no matter there was no such an interface. And suddenly
it is up and running! Problem must be somewhere in
communication with dhcp-server (my router).
at the start were you running ifconfig or ifconfig -a? Without -a it
will only show
And i try to re-emerge pam,but i can't
With the old file and links there I don't understand why your system
doesn't work, but re-emerging pam it definitely worth trying. What
fails when you try to re-emerge?
Also, what about
# ldd /sbin/rc
I have an HP PSC 950, hplip installed and printing works. hplip online
docs show that scanning is supported and that Scan supported means
that PC initiated scan using a SANE compatible software application is
supported over parallel, USB, or network (depending on I/O
connection).
I would like to ask about the kernel 3.0.6. I can't load
the ti_usb_3410_5052.ko. I mean, when I select it in the kernel menu, it
makes fine, but when I type make modules_install, I get an error:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/firmware/./', needed by
`/lib/firmware/ti_3410.fw'.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I will try it.
I used:
make make modules_install make install
Doesn't the modules get made in the make part?
Yes, you're right. I only use make modules if I'm adding a module to
an existing setup.
All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and reset
the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can still keep
as many kernels as you want in /boot, but you can always boot the last two
without modifying GRUB's config.
Can you please ls -l /boot so i can
Performance is one issue, another one is energy/noise ... the phenom
1090t seems to pull in a lot and need good (and maybe noisy) fans.
I've just bought a 965 (a 1100T wouldn't boot despite being supported
by the latest bios). The CPU fan is very quiet when the system is
idling, but spins up
Hi All,
I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the
first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d- fails if
the filename has an extra dash. How do i do this?
sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/'
You know, that looks familiar... are you trying to get a package name from
the list of eix-installed? :-)
No - its non-gentoo. In this case it hasn't worked
$ echo net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.cp843034001.i386.rpm | sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/'
net-snmp-5.3.2.2
I'd use sed and the regex -[0-9] to delimit the field
foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e s/-[0-9].*//`
echo $foo
123--bad
Helpful?
Perfect - thanks!
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by
/lib64/libcrypt.so.1)
There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I
rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are there any other
packages I should rebuild before encountering a problem? Or some
What video card do you have? Did you build the drivers for it?
Hi All. I'm looking for some suggestions. Setup is Gentoo host running
VMWare workstation 8 with two guests which are loosely based on RHEL.
I'm checking to see if patch installation order in the guests has any
effect. Not all the patches are rpm based, so I want to check to see
if there are any
On two different machines I've had fs mount failures, even though
earlier mounts of the same filesystems on those kernels worked. 3.1.0
seems ok, and it mounted the fs that 3.1.3 couldn't.
I've looked at the kernel code that causes the error message. It
verifies that this is most likely a dead disk:
It would be worth running smartctl from smartmontools to see what it
knows of the disks status.
Yeah, I was wrong :) libglx and libdri are part of xorg-server.
libglx can also be provided by driver packages. You can select the
xorg one or others via eselect;
proxy adam # eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] ati *
[2] xorg-x11
Also, I imagine those kernel
System is mostly amd64, but gcc and squid are ~amd64.
The error appears to be at;
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DDEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE=\/etc/squid/squid.conf\
-DDEFAULT_SQUID_DATA_DIR=\/usr/share/squid\
-DDEFAULT_SQUID_CONFIG_DIR=\/etc/squid\ -I.. -I../include -I../src
-I../include
http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-dev@squid-cache.org/msg16870.html
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3440
looks like the problem was already found and fixed. Fix seems to be a
simple one-liner, so if you raise a bug we can discuss it there.
Thanks Holger - i'll raise a gentoo bug
FYI its https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396163 in case you
want to follow
. Is there anything in my
current Gentoo /home and swap that locks them to the Gentoo install or can
I share them between the two installs?
No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in
Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very likely. When you're booted
into SUSE, run
In other news...So 3.1.6 just went stable for amd64. I wonder what's special
about that one that wasn't met by 3.0.{13|14} or 3.1.[0-5].
FWIW iwlagn is still broken in 3.1.6 (it broke in 3.1.5).
There were a few kernels that broke iwlagn. Iirc it was 3.1.5 and 3.1.6. So
i'd suggest you stick to troubleshooting on a kernel you know has
previously worked, or a very recent one.
In all of those cases above, if you allowed the connection it would
still be SSL encrypted. You'd be protected against packet sniffers but
not against man-in-the-middle attack.
And the reason someone will man-in-the-middle you, is so they can
sniff your traffic and get passwords or other
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:13:07AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote
The speed gains of building for specific submodels of CPUs might
be there, but they're minimal. Benchmarks have shown (can't find
the article, it was on
I've just upgraded to 2.4 and am using mod_access_compat, so I can use
the existing auth config in the short term. I've fixed a few things
and now the daemon loads cleanly, however, when i try to get the
anonymously available front page, it returns a 500 and error.log
shows;
[Tue Apr 03
Possibly related?
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52950
Yep saw that, but i didnt help.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410607
I already put in all the fixes mentioned in there to get the clean start.
#expanded form of -march=native. Nothing special here. Noting this
here because people keep freaking out when they see it in-line.
SYS_CFLAGS_MARCH_NATIVE_EXP=-march=amdfam10 -mcx16 -msahf -mpopcnt
--param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param
l2-cache-size=512
This issue seems to have come up with the latest update to 3.5.2.2. I
cut rows from one doc then want to paste them into another and use
paste special to shift rows down. Howerver, paste special doesn't
appear in the context menu (it used to in the previous version), and
if i choose it from the
Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice?
...
always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then
move it back if thats not the problem.
mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice-orig didnt help. Any other ideas?
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM, LiangYun Gong kit...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I have a problem with scp bash script. I was trying to automate scp command
to copy files in and out, and I was trying to avoid key in the password
myself.
So I attempt to use the here string feature of bash, it
Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for
electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially
for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after
several years it goes back up again.
That concept is much more general than just
. You can find out if swap is being at all using
with vmstat; so= swap out, si=swap in.
For example, watch the following when you view the video
adam@proxy ~ $ vmstat -S M 3
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu
r b swpd free buff cache si so
There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related
to
Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor,
which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't
make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s).
The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are
Hi,
as far as I can tell it works mostly. There are some packages which
seem to break:
- - firefox and thunderbird, if I remember correctly
looks like that's fixed, from the firefox ChangeLog
28 May 2012; anar...@gentoo.org firefox-12.0-r1.ebuild:
Finish adding support for gcc-4.7, bug
Thanks Bryan, DokuWiki looks great. Do you remember any setup or
maintenance hassles?
Can anyone else vouch for or against DokuWiki?
I've been using it for a few years without issue.
I recently upgraded to firefox 13.
In the preferenced I had set When firefox starts to about:blank
and Home Page to about:blank. This had worked for several
versions.
Now -- after visiting a site -- a thumbnail of that site is shown
on the blank page now.
Its a new feature of v13. When
12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series,
so if you're using them you probably want to;
# echo x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4 /etc/portage/package.mask
And if you're not concerned about 3D or power saving, maybe think
about using the radeon driver from xf86-video-ati.
One thing you might be able to do is pay $5/mo or so for a Linux VM at
some VPS provider, install and configure Squid, and bounce your own
traffic off of it. Squid will pull down the file faster than you, and
won't impose a connection time limit on you. (Unless you configure it
to do so...)
I tried to emerge Spamassassin bit it failes due to
missing dependencies, which I would exspect to be
resolved by emerge itsself.
I wanted, I will post the referenced logfiles
also.
How can I fix this?
Try a deep dependency check; emerge -aD spamassassin
I've installed grub2 on a single disk system, using
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 as a guide. However, when i start
the system it drops straight to the grub2 command prompt. The system
has /boot is ext2 on sda1, and / is ext4 on sda3. The grub.cfg seems
ok to me assuming the --set=root is
Does it not display any errors?
No - no errors, straight to the grub2 command line.
This menu entry looks good to me
(only difference here is kernel version, UUIDs and root partition).
Sounds like it may not be installed correctly... just to confirm here
are the few things you should have
CPU : AMD Bulldozer X4 FX-4170 4-Core 4,2 GHz 8 MB: 149.99 (CAD)
I don't know your use case, but the only thing that is CPU intensive
for me is software compilation, and since that uses more cores nicely,
i'd go an 8150 to get 8 cores.
Case : Canada Computer NA-680 ATX Tower 450 W
I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read
somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back
again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think
if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to get
anything
To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved
standards of wipe methods/patterns.
Or shred, which comes with coreutils.
dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late!
To explain, modern drives have a store of locations they can use to
transparently
I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern
features like reiser4 or xfs
Unfortunately btrfs is still generally slower than ext4 for example.
Checkout http://openbenchmarking.org/, eg
http://openbenchmarking.org/s/ext4%20btrfs
The OS will use any spare RAM for disk caching,
I've just checked out the man page for hdparm. There I noticed the
new -J switch. It reads:
Get/set the Western Digital (WD) Green Drive's idle3 timeout
value. This timeout controls how often the drive parks its heads and
enters a low power consumption state. The factory default is
Does OP have /var on / or is it a separate mount point?
I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work
directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference
in compile times is just not there.
Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway.
Would it still be useful to use tmpfs if you wanted to
You were lucky, it's like forgetting to look when you cross the road.
Getting away with it once doesn't mean it is safe.
Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd
got away with it before.
I must have hot plugged serial connections on Sun, Cisco and Intel
boxes
I'd better
hurry up and get on with it, I read that decent quality valves are
becoming scarce and are generally only available from (what used to be)
the USSR.
There's a huge market for valves for guitar amps. I think supply is safe enough.
I would turn on kernel option: CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS and make sure you also
have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV on. Then you want INPUT_DEVICES=evdev in
/etc/make.conf and if you will probably need to emerge xf86-input-evdev as
well.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
man sysctl
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 14:15:39 Thanasis wrote:
on 11/18/2012 04:13 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
on 11/18/2012 02:37 PM Mick wrote the following:
I would like to check the difference between the power
Sorry scratch that The parameters available are those listed under
/proc/sys/.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
man sysctl
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 14:15:39 Thanasis wrote
It looks like i have hit this gcc 4.7 build bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53113
Theres a patch attached to the bug i'd like to apply. Unfortunately the gcc
4.7.2 ebuild doesnt have epatch_user, so i need to take the other
approach listed in the handbook. It suggests i use a
Can you show us the link from the handbook?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3chap=6
Create /etc/portage/env/sys-devel/gcc-4.7.2 containing
post_src_unpack() {
cd ${S}
epatch_user
}
to run epatch_user after the source has been unpacked. If you need to run
epatch_user after the other patches have been applied, change the function
name to post_src_prepare.
I have added rc_net_wlan0_provide=net to /etc/rc.conf, but scripts like
sshd still wont start, and when executed report WARNING: sshd is scheduled
to start when net.eth0 has started.
Why does sshd appear to be specifically requiring net.eth0? (or is the
message misleading?)
How do i get
I don't see how, so that probably means i'm ignorant of something i need to
know. Can you please elaborate?
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com
wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:02:18PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote:
I have added rc_net_wlan0_provide=net
of your systems have both? It
also has a bunch of vmnet interfaces.
sphinx adam # rc-status | egrep '(net|sshd)'
netmount [
started ]
net.eth0 [
inactive ]
net.wlan0
What do you have for the strict setting in rc.conf? I can't remember the
exact name, nowhere near a Gentoo box.
--
I thought i had that set, but I must have backed it out during a previous
try. With that set it now works. Thanks!
So I'm sure I understand, if I want to keep the IP address which accesses
the web content the same, this means setting up a vhost for a port other
than 80 and 443 which the other vhosts are already set up on?
No, vhosts can use http host headers, so you just need a second dns entry
pointing
mount them and see whats there?
Also, check the partition table to see which one is swap, and what other
partitions exist.
2) Does a -j LOG return to the chain it was called from, or does it do
an implicit DROP?
It returns to spot where it was called from.
Yep, so you could create a new chain to drop and log;
/sbin/iptables -N logdrop
/sbin/iptables -A logdrop -j LOG --log-prefix 'DROP '
/sbin/iptables -A
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.netwrote:
**
I have a very severe problem after a recent disk replacement. After a few
days running, all new processes just hang. The kernel reports:
My guess is disk failing or kernel bug. Install smartmontools and see if
17 compiled with pgo but in the emerge output for 18 it shows as (-pgo).
pgo is selected in make.conf, and in the ebuild;
DEPEND=${RDEPEND}
dev-python/pysqlite
virtual/pkgconfig
pgo? (
=dev-lang/python-2*[sqlite]
=sys-devel/gcc-4.5 )
I had noticed it a while ago, it appears to be hardmasked:
# Jory A. Pratt anar...@gentoo.org (15 Dec 2012)
# PGO is known to be busted with most configurations
www-client/firefox pgo
I never had a single problem with it, so I'm going to unmask it and
see if anything breaks.
I just
shred and dd available, but not srm etc
I want to remove the user account info before the device is returned, but
dont want to cripple the device. Filesystem is ext3 with default mount
options, which implies its mounted with the default data=ordered, and
according to the docs In both the
The first CFLAGS (or CXXFLAGS) line below appears to be taken from the
environment setting, and the second is from the packagename was built
with the following section of the emerge --info output.
Squid looks as it should (the -flto is added to that package only) but for
firefox it appears that
# Set optimization level
if [[ ${ARCH} == hppa ]]; then
mozconfig_annotate more than -O0 causes a segfault on
hppa --enable-optimize=-O0
elif [[ ${ARCH} == x86 ]]; then
mozconfig_annotate less then -O2 causes a segfault on
x86
I didn't merge anything while I was playing with overclocking.
custom-cflags is enabled.
Disable custom-cflags and try again. You shouldn't expect things to work
when that's on. You may get lucky at times, but youre not getting lucky now.
You could install to one of the Athlons, then copy it to the other two
Athlons and one of the FX machines. Then, reconfigure the FX install
for more CPUs and native -march, recompile world and copy it to the
other two FX machines.
Even that might not be worth it. Unless you're using
There are several things you can do to improve the state of things.
The first and foremost is to add caching in front of the server, using
an accelerator proxy. (i.e. squid running in accelerator mode.) In
this way, you have a program which receives the user's request, checks
to see if it's a
Sure, so long as Apache doesn't have any additional modules loaded. If
it's got something like mod_php loaded (extraordinarily common),
mod_perl or mod_python (less common, now) then the init time of
mod_php gets added to the init time for every request handler.
Interesting, so if you have
That might even depend on the compiler version anyway. But, I agree.
Building with -march=athlon (I think it's athlon?) on one FX machine and
copying to the rest would be fastest.
Good call, I missed that. Of course it makes much more sense to build on a
fast FX box with -j8, but have
Can't; mod_php isn't compatible with mpm_worker. You have to use a
single-threaded mpm like prefork or itk.
Anyway, you're starting to get the idea why you want a caching proxy in
front of apache.
Indeed. Thanks for your comments.
How can that be
only captures STDOUT, not STDERR. So the file.txt should be a subset of
what's displayed on the console.
This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from
outside the local LAN.
Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to be
sure.
Does this mean my harddrive is dying?
Yes - copy everything important off to another drive asap.
I'm doing some disk changes and would like to know;
1. Is there anything static in /proc? (does the kernel create all the
entries in proc?)
2. What are the non-udev entries in /dev. IIRC its console and zero.
Cheers
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