Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa SPDIF+analog at same time

2009-11-09 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag 10 November 2009 00:34:44 schrieb Iain Buchanan: On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 17:50 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! I'd like to have an audio signal on both the SPDIF and the analog output. I know that this is possible, since I had such configuration some weeks ago

[gentoo-user] wine DVD/CD -- how to configure?

2009-11-09 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I'm just trying to get an windows-application running, and I fail to configure the dvd drive properly. The problem: In winecfg 's drive-tab there is a setting cdrom, but it demands a path where the dvd/cd is mounted. But this path is dynamic (/media/$NAMEOFDVD). Greetings

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets) [SOLVED]

2009-10-27 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi folks The problem is solved now. Actually, a BIOS upgrade solved the problem. Details: The board is a Asus A3M78-Pro with a AMD 5050e Athlon64 Dual core CPU. Bios version was V0902 with with it was originally shipped. Asus bios notes for that board say that with Version 11xx a bug was fixed

[gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate. When I start ntp, I get frequent time reset messages in the log:

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 16:23:11 schrieb Jil Larner: Hi, Alexander Puchmayr a écrit : I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [AGAIN]

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
With this configuration I consider the problem as solved. I think this was too early ... still had some freezes in the last days :-( Started new thread on this topic with other details Greetings Alex

[gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! This week I've tried to setup a home-server, but the system is highly instable. The first symptoms were lots of page allocation errors, which disappeared after setting the internal memory allocator from SLUB to SLAB and increasing the min_free_kbytes in /proc/sys/vm from 8MB to 20MB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: *sigh* Ok, just for starters - all AMD cpus of the Athlon64 architecture have a builtin agpgart. This agpgart functions also as an iommu. This is a great hack to have a hardware iommu . Intel does not have this, so they rely on software.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: If the problem persists, start testing your hardware. How? I don't have access to special test equipment to test hardware. This is the only AM2(+) board and the only AM2 CPU I have. The RAM is also unique to this machine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Florian Philipp: Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first. I already thought on this, but the results of my tests dont indicate a hardware fault on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error messages, but not yet stable enough (still some freezes) * Increased

[gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-02 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. The system is an amd64 (50...@2600mhz, no overclocking) with 4GB Ram and three 1TB SATA disks bundled to a raid5 (kernel md driver). The kernels I've tried are

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
beacon:0 OK, looks better (At least we have TX-power now), lets try to scan the area ... iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down And now ??? Thanks for suggestions Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2009 schrieb Alejandro: 2009/2/20 Alexander Puchmayr

[gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! Is there a working howto of how to get the wireless connection to work? Its a built-in chipset, intel 4965AG, and it was working with kernel 2.6.24, but I fail with any kernel newer. 2.6.26 had serious problems with rfkill-switch, and the only way for me was to unload the driver

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] cpufreqd - Couldn't set profile

2008-12-16 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: sys-power/cpufreqd-2.1.1 You should try sys-power/cpufreqd-2.2.1. I had similar problems resolved by a cpufreqd upgrade. Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd - Couldn't set profile

2008-12-11 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I just encountered a mysterious phenomenon regarding cpufreqd. After booting, it works properly for a while, including switching policies, without any problem. Then, without any reason and without changing anything in the configuration, cpufreqd fails to enable certain profiles, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-19 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! As my system froze again right now, I've tried to reproduce it, tried to use some of the hints given to me in this thread, and made the following observations: * The system freezes on heavy I/O on my sata-harddisks, especially when copying mpeg-files (2GB) from one disk to another.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-14 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes

[gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Erik Hahn: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). How do I find out what

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the console. It's just hidden behind the X server. Maybe you can reproduce the problem working without X

[gentoo-user] emerging cups: QA: stop using the bindnow-flags function

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I tried to (re-)emerge net-print/cups-1.2.12-r4 and I get the following output: zeus ~ # emerge --oneshot -v cups These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.2.12-r4 USE=X dbus jpeg nls pam png ppds ssl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging cups: QA: stop using the bindnow-flags function

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
is causing this error message? QA: stop using the bindnow-flags function I googled but the only thing I found was some isues back in 2005... Greetings Alex Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 schrieb Dale: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! I tried to (re-)emerge net-print/cups-1.2.12-r4

[gentoo-user] emerging mythtv? permission denied...

2007-12-15 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I just tried to upgrade my mythtv installation, but the ebuild fails in the unpack phase with a permission denied-error when accessing the svn-repository: Emerging (1 of 2) media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14814 to / * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile

[gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions

2007-02-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and permissions? zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb 8 2007 lp0 /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says: [...] # usb devices KERNEL==hiddev*, NAME=usb/%k

[gentoo-user] konqueror openssl undefined symbol: OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms_conf

2006-08-16 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! After upgrading to kde 3.5.2 (with all of its subpackages) I can no longer access to some ssl-protected sites with konqueror. .xsession-errors show kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.7: undefined symbol: PKCS7_content_free kdecore (KLibLoader):

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 17:54 schrieb Ryan Tandy: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you suggested, and still *ALL* other video-drivers are shown

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-19 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 20:20 schrieb Richard Fish: On 7/18/06, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want all the drivers I don't need, nor do I want to recompile all of xorg-x11; Is there any possibility to get around this quite odd behaviour? Um, =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-19 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 06:56 schrieb Ryan Tandy: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Well, I think I got the conecpt behind meta packages. My question was why do I get a different content of the VIDEO_CARDS-variable when I specify -k in emerge or not??? You can't change the USE flags a binary

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-18 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there ! In my /etc/make.conf is a line VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia If I make a emerge -pv xorg-x11, I get the following output ... [ebuild N] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.0.2.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXv-1.0.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? Try /etc/init.d/alsasound start as root and then have a look what dmesg is telling you and whether /proc/asound/cards contains anything different from a empty string. Second, your should configure your kde to use alsa. Go into the

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi David! I assume you made something like a emerge -u world, which replaced your libungif by giflib. Unfortunately, some applications (especially other libraries which depended on libungif) have a reference to /usr/lib/libungif.la in their .la-files. First step: make a revdep-rebuild [-p]

Re: [gentoo-user] S/P diff question - SOLVED

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 04:22 schrieb Zac Slade: On Friday 24 February 2006 09:12, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format ans switches to dts/dolby

[gentoo-user] S/P diff question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format ans switches to dts/dolby mode, and -- much important -- I can hear the movie's sound); But if I try the same with a normal divx-file or try to

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 09:58 schrieb Drew Tomlinson: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 13:51 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Reemerge nvidia - it's one of the modules that when you rebuild the kernel you have to redo them. Doesn't work, sorry. Any other suggestion? Thanks Alex From: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/11

[gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-11 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia listed in

[gentoo-user] Openoffice crashes when opening ANY file

2005-05-04 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! After emerging openoffice-1.1.4-r1, I can't open any .sxw, sxc, etc file. Immediately, a window pops up saying An unrecoverable error has occured With the old version 1.1.4, it works fine, even on the same files that cause 1.1.4-r1 to crash (so bad files can be excluded) The

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice crashes when opening ANY file

2005-05-04 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2005 21:25 schrieb Alexander Kern: On Wednesday, 4. Mai 2005 20:30 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: After emerging openoffice-1.1.4-r1, I can't open any .sxw, sxc, etc file. Immediately, a window pops up saying An unrecoverable error has occured Do you mean that its

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