[gentoo-user] IOCTL error?
Hi! I wish to ask about something special in my messages log. I found something like that: Jan 25 18:54:13 thea acpid: client connected from 4034[0:0] Jan 25 18:54:13 thea acpid: 1 client rule loaded Jan 25 18:54:14 thea resource map sanity check conflict: 0xd000 0xdfff 0xd000 0xd076 vesafb Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [ cut here ] Jan 25 18:54:14 thea WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:226 __ioremap_caller+0x359/0x3a0() Jan 25 18:54:14 thea Modules linked in: vboxdrv i915 rtl8187 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea Pid: 4034, comm: X Tainted: GW 2.6.28-gentoofbnew #1 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea Call Trace: Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [8023ddb4] warn_on_slowpath+0x64/0xa0 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [803aa97c] xfs_iunlock+0xbc/0xd0 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [802936d2] handle_mm_fault+0x592/0x790 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [80243e3f] iomem_map_sanity_check+0xaf/0xc0 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [802295e9] __ioremap_caller+0x359/0x3a0 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [a001499f] i915_gem_entervt_ioctl+0x3f/0x5b0 [i915] Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [a0014960] i915_gem_entervt_ioctl+0x0/0x5b0 [i915] Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [a001499f] i915_gem_entervt_ioctl+0x3f/0x5b0 [i915] Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [a0014960] i915_gem_entervt_ioctl+0x0/0x5b0 [i915] Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [804bd412] drm_ioctl+0x112/0x340 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [802bd6a5] vfs_ioctl+0x85/0xb0 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [802bd74c] do_vfs_ioctl+0x7c/0x470 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [802bdb89] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x80 Jan 25 18:54:14 thea [8020b80b] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Jan 25 18:54:14 thea ---[ end trace 0b24ec8ab24aa979 ]--- Jan 25 18:54:15 thea uhci_hcd :00:1d.1: reserve dev 2 ep81-INT, period 1, phase 0, 17 us Jan 25 18:54:15 thea uhci_hcd :00:1d.1: release dev 2 ep81-INT, period 1, phase 0, 17 us Jan 25 18:54:15 thea uhci_hcd :00:1d.1: reserve dev 2 ep81-INT, period 1, phase 0, 17 us I'm very curious about that cut here section and VFS and XFS lines. I think that I can destruct data on my drive by some issue with IOCTL (as usual this must be done to My PC - nothing googled). Mateusz M.
[gentoo-user] Is there any KDesktop wallpaper program...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was trying to set Kaffeine with parametres --fullscreen and input file in argc[2] argument for kaffeine to use as software to draw KDE background. In couple words - I try to set movie player as application to draw background in KDE 3.5.10 desktop. But when it stats play, fullscreen brings higher level from desktop than icons do. What to do to run app under icons of KDE desktop? Windows have something called layers to push visualization or movie into specified color. You can set desktop as pink and set pink as layer color to run movie on desktop or use Winamp vis. Is there any way to do it under Linux KDE 3.5.10? I using also Compiz-Fussion for composite manager and i965 GMA IGP. Mateusz M. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkPoP4ACgkQkKEnm1GQ0lcMRACcC+95Vu2vvL5gCWSYGjiNX68J fd8AnjfmQfKO0xT0pPsJVT0caapwA48z =rgx4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
Dan Farrell pisze: On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:32:47 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? No, just questions: 1) what kind of keyboard do you use 2) what kind of keyboard setting do you use at the console 3) What is your keyboard setting in X Can you answer these? I'm using standard laptop keyboard with windows key (some kind like generic-101/102 keys). In console i use standard settings (don't change anything because I don't need Polish keyboard in konsole). My Xorg setting of keyboard: Section InputDevice IdentifierKeyboard1 Driverkbd Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRulesxorg Option XkbModelpc105 Option XkbLayoutpl EndSection -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
Kevin O'Gorman pisze: On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync emerge pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings happend, wrote here. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list renaming .gaim to dot.gaim makes no difference. I did not re-emerge it, but found that it works if I'm the root user. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD You should get pidgin in Your group. Set correct rights to app and libs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical user interface / frontend - as You like ;). I've been using portato for curious, but there's nothing like console experience ;). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
Rumen Yotov pisze: On (01/02/08 23:44) Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Total: 246 packages (201 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 38 new, 6 in new slots), Size of downloads: 1,047,420 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] PS: Gentoo is only known by me distro that survives this operation ;) (emerge -uvaD World) without issues. Congratulation great job! Keep it up! Keep Your fingers for me ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Hi, Good luck, try to get the fetch-restricted package first. Put it in /usr/portage/distfiles and run for 'world'. Don't forget: etc-update, revdep-rebuild tools. HTH. Rumen Nothing like Gentoo ;). Good update, god! ;). Everything is OK ;) as usual ;). Great work 4 all'ya! THX for best distro ;). PS: portage wrote message to fetch java from SUN page - only java SDK (because of NetBeans installed). If anyone can read then anyone can do update ;). Three nights and system up and running ;). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? And when I turn of Keyboard Layouts and press magic combo CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC, run again KDE by startx then everything is OK, but until I choice PL Keyboard Layout and press Apply. After that My keyboard is going insane. :/ Any bug? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync, there is a later version of portage in the tree that bash does not block [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) You cannot use these together. libdca-0.0.5 will not emerge if any version of libdts is present. The descriptions indicate they do the same thing so figure out which you don't need [blocks B ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5) device-mapper wants to be installed before udev is updated. emerge udev first, then device-mapper [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) ksync is a meta kde ebuild, kdelibs is monolithic. These two cannot be used together. See the KDE howto [blocks B ] dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2) Don't know what portato is... [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) mktemp is now in coreutils. emerge -C mktemp [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) update gst-plugin-ugly first to 0.10.6-r1 [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) update baselayout first. if this doesn't work, unmerge makedev, update baselayout then put makedev back. DO NOT unmerge baselayout. [blocks B ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util- linux-2.13.1) Dunno :-) [blocks B ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) Dunno :-) Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync emerge pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings happend, wrote here. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
Total: 246 packages (201 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 38 new, 6 in new slots), Size of downloads: 1,047,420 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] PS: Gentoo is only known by me distro that survives this operation ;) (emerge -uvaD World) without issues. Congratulation great job! Keep it up! Keep Your fingers for me ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow
dell core2duo pisze: Hi, I have latest nvidia drivers installed. I have 2GB memory card. Am i missing some specific settings ? [I] media-video/nvidia-settings [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers [I] media-libs/mesa [I] x11-apps/mesa-progs thanks. --flukebox On Jan 30, 2008 7:30 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have compiz-fusion on my Intel X3100 - it run smoothly and very fast. This is not compiz problem, try to re-emerge mesa and install oryginal drivers from www.nvidia.com http://www.nvidia.com. I have using some time ago compiz-fusion on nVidia 5500FX and this works normal only on drivers from nvidia webpage. If You use - such as I EM64T on amd64 distro (x86_64) then drivers are also available. If after instalation of driver this You will still have this problem please let me know on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], we find whats about... Mateusz M. dell core2duo pisze: Hi, I am running compiz-fusion. but it seems to run very slow. Although Cpu/memory usage are normal. But even when i resize a terminal it takes few seconds to do so. while there is no such problem in doing same without running compiz-fusion. I have nvidia-8600-GT graphics card. I would like to know how to make my compiz-fusion run smoother. --flukebox -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list You should first emerge mesa then install nvidia drivers against mesa - nv have own GL drivers. Also check Your kernel for enabled NV Framebuffer - you should disable this feature. If this will not help, than I don't know how to help You. Maybe nVidia have support for drivers and config? Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow
Hi! I have compiz-fusion on my Intel X3100 - it run smoothly and very fast. This is not compiz problem, try to re-emerge mesa and install oryginal drivers from www.nvidia.com. I have using some time ago compiz-fusion on nVidia 5500FX and this works normal only on drivers from nvidia webpage. If You use - such as I EM64T on amd64 distro (x86_64) then drivers are also available. If after instalation of driver this You will still have this problem please let me know on: [EMAIL PROTECTED], we find whats about... Mateusz M. dell core2duo pisze: Hi, I am running compiz-fusion. but it seems to run very slow. Although Cpu/memory usage are normal. But even when i resize a terminal it takes few seconds to do so. while there is no such problem in doing same without running compiz-fusion. I have nvidia-8600-GT graphics card. I would like to know how to make my compiz-fusion run smoother. --flukebox -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing
Jerry McBride pisze: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: Hi all, may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird. Regards emilio You have a good trail to follow for your problem in the other messages... For my problem, with regards to anti-aliasing... I have one computer running kde that I can't turn on sub-pixel hinting. The option is under the Fonts tab in control settings, but it's greyed out... I'm not able to tell why... Any hints? (pun intended) To use anti-aliasing You must have card with driver that allows to use RGBA colorspace in hardware mode. Currently new cards using that colorspace, but some older use only YUV* color spaces. Some cards on PCI slot with 2 MB memory and first cards on AGP slot using only YUV* color spaces. If you have such card, you can only emulate subpixel hinting, but not all drivers allowing to do this. If you can't use subpixel hinting, that will be problem of the driver or older card. Try to verify /etc/X11/xorg.conf for driver - is it realy driver for Your card, or just replace G.C. with some newer... Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev/sdaX on boot does not work
Joseph pisze: On 01/30/08 12:40, Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i have external hard drive connected through usb. i put the following line into /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3 user,auto,exec 0 0 shouldn't that be: users instead of user Plug the exter. HD into USB and post the last several line of dmesg What does it say? You should verify is Your instalation (grub or lilo) configured to boot from SD* device (if you run natively from bios that allows boot from usb drive) or You must compile in your kernel drivers to USB Storage. If You use GenKernel, that drivers are in INITRD! It cannot be loaded as module - must be compiled into kernel. If You have such configuration, try to check your filesystem and MBR (Master Boot Record) for read errors. Some USB devices also cannot boot from USB, but i think that is a problem of Pendrives only. PS: I have gentoo on external drive, that boot correctly from bios. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev/sdaX on boot does not work
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Joseph wrote: On 01/30/08 12:40, Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i have external hard drive connected through usb. i put the following line into /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3 user,auto,exec 0 0 shouldn't that be: users instead of user Maybe, maybe not, both are valid. user means that any non-root user can mount the device and the same user (or root) may umount it. users means that any non-root user can mount the device and any other user (or root) may umount it. Plug the exter. HD into USB and post the last several line of dmesg What does it say? It'll probably say that the device is /dev/sdb1 or some such. The real problem is likely what another poster mentioned - suitable drivers not loaded yet when init comes to use /etc/fstab. One could try listing these drivers in /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 but the easiest is probably to compile them into the kernel You have right. Standard unix kernel was designed to have all inside. I don't know why some people still prefer modules than monolith kernel. If you have modules, you must recompile all of them when new ABI comes out. On monolithic kernel its all there. Also i don't know if modules are not slower than monolith Kernel because of User space to Kernel space connection. Compiled in modules makes kernel run faster, and if it's server, then even 0.1 sec makes the different on functions execution and internal core communication. Partly beyond of that problem is IPC module communication. But if there are benefits then also are problems with error code execution or beta drivers installed. Also if You have Molnar's Real Time Preemption Model on Your kernel, You should choose monolithic kernel. PS: some drivers are don't work as modules like they should. You see Windows - there are drivers like Linux modules - what it makes? Blue screens of death ;), but this is another story... ;) Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev/sdaX on boot does not work
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Alan McKinnon pisze: One could try listing these drivers in /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 but the easiest is probably to compile them into the kernel You have right. Standard unix kernel was designed to have all inside. I don't know why some people still prefer modules than monolith kernel. If you have modules, you must recompile all of them when new ABI comes out. On monolithic kernel its all there. Also i don't know if modules are not slower than monolith Kernel because of User space to Kernel space connection. Compiled in modules makes kernel run faster, and if it's server, then even 0.1 sec makes the different on functions execution and internal core communication. Partly beyond of that problem is IPC module communication. But if there are benefits then also are problems with error code execution or beta drivers installed. Also if You have Molnar's Real Time Preemption Model on Your kernel, You should choose monolithic kernel. PS: some drivers are don't work as modules like they should. You see Windows - there are drivers like Linux modules - what it makes? Blue screens of death ;), but this is another story... ;) That's an easy answer :-) Standard Unix was designed for systems where you know exactly what hardware you have up front and there are no nasty surprises. Take for example an SGI box. How many PCI chipsets could it possibly have? Exactly one. So you know exactly which driver you will need. Apple are still lucky in this regard, as the only hardware that goes in them is Apple's hardware and kernel configurationis then quite easy. But we use the worst possible design that demented designers could ever come up with - PCs. The range of stuff available is staggering. The amount of dodgy hardware that claims to conform to spec but doesn't is even more staggering. So now exactly which modules are you going to compile in monolithically? What about hotpluggable hardware? As a vendor you have no way of knowing which funky hardware the user will ever plug into a notebook, and you simply cannot compile everything in (never mind the driver conflicts you will have). Gentoo expects their users to compile their own kernels so to a large extent we can make stuff monolithic, apart from the hot-pluggable devices. Binary distros cannot do this. To conserve memory they must load only the drivers for hardware that is actually present, and to do that one needs modules. I don;t know of a binary commercial distro that will gladly still support users who compile their own kernels - they usually stuff it all up gloriously. It's a no-brainer really. I don't buy the speedup argument either and have never seena benchmark that proves modules are slower. The Linux kernel module loader is essentially self-modifying code and inserts modules into kernel space as if they had been there monolithically (within reason of course). Some drivers do behave differently between being modular and monolithic, but this is a function of a crappy coder and not a function of modularity :-) If a piece of kernel code causes a BSOD, then it will probably do it either way it is loadable as the code is probably crappy. A Real Time kernel is not suitable for a PC either - I can't think of any RT application where a PC would be a *GOOD* choice. For that I would be using the embedded arches with a board where as designer I know exactly what is present and what isn't. Monolithic makes more sense in that case. I can imagine why Ingo made that choice - with RT he has to supply certain guarantees and probbaly can't do that with modules coming and going all the time. Basically. modern Linux is essentially unusable without kernel modules. Talking about modularize kernel i think this is an gentoo mailing list so every user know's his hardware - if not there is always GOOGLE, Gentoo HowTo and Hardware Manual. Most drivers in kernel are universal for one vendor family what makes more suitable to different types of chipsets (revisions A, B etc...). There is also true that maybee kernel modules are good for people with binary distro's but Gentoo is source based distribution - thank god - and every user should compile kernel for his hardware - modules not needed. Cheap code modules are also bad rule of cheap programmers, which don't know system and kernel structures. Afterwords thats how making usage of NDISWRAPPER is fundamental on Windows drivers hardware. If we speak about realtime preemption model i think that You are mistaken saying that PC and realtime kernels (software) is not good choice. My licentiate work on University of Silesia (Poland, Katowice) is about usage of realtime services in computer LAN/WAN networks. I digging some materials about RTOS and realtime preemption model, realtime schedule algorithm and realtime applications critical points programming. I don't know
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow
Naiani Rosa de Barros pisze: On Jan 30, 2008 4:56 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, is it normal to have problems to watch movies or DVDs when compiz-fusion is on? Because every time I try to watch a movie, VLC and Gxine close, saying there are not enough resources. I haven't had any major problems since I figured out I had to turn off something related to the screen refresh rate on ccsm. What should I do? I'm running Xfce on an Acer laptop Core Duo 2GHz, with 1GB ram, and Intel GMA 950. Try to set xine Video Output to OpenGL (if Xv or other selected) - it works for me. If it fails, try to change settings Play movies in Compiz-fusion settings manager. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow
Canek Peláez Valdés pisze: On Jan 30, 2008 7:35 AM, dell core2duo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running compiz-fusion. but it seems to run very slow. Although Cpu/memory usage are normal. But even when i resize a terminal it takes few seconds to do so. while there is no such problem in doing same without running compiz-fusion. I have nvidia-8600-GT graphics card. I would like to know how to make my compiz-fusion run smoother. I've the exact same problem. I've tried everything I could think of, but it hasn't worked. Try this; grab a corner of a gnome-terminal with the mouse, and try to make circular movements; it's *painfully* slow. I have a NVidia 6800GS. In my laptop with a crappy Intel i950, compiz fusion it's much more smooth. If you can find a solution, please let me know. I think thats because function Texture-from-pixmap. When You resize Your window, it must be repainted by normal and also polygon of OpenGL must be re-scaled and binded by texture. Normally this should be done in graphic card GPU - by hardware. But - if I get wrong, tell me - nVidia GS series is integrated card with poor performance, much less than FX/GT cards. Also some vendors of board which hosts NV GPU to reduce costs makes it from cheap materials and sometimes much of hardware are miss (like DVI output or Composite output, some resistors etc.). Also memory of card is very important - speed and error correction (something like ECC) if available. I don't know if GT series have pixel shader 2.0. Try google for more info's, more I can't help You. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev/sdaX on boot does not work
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Thursday 31 January 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Talking about modularize kernel i think this is an gentoo mailing list so every user know's his hardware - if not there is always GOOGLE, Gentoo HowTo and Hardware Manual. Most drivers in kernel are universal for one vendor family what makes more suitable to different types of chipsets (revisions A, B etc...). There is also true that maybee kernel modules are good for people with binary distro's but Gentoo is source based distribution - thank god - and every user should compile kernel for his hardware - modules not needed. Rubbish. Let's say tomorrow I plug in a USB sound card, joystick and HSDPA modem. Today I do not have this hardware. Should I rebuild my kernel just to use a hotplug device that I borrowed for a few hours? No, thanks, I'm going to use modrobe. To get my sound card to work, I need a parameter dell=m42. How should I easily pass this argument without modules? Should I have a webcam driver permanently loaded in kernel space just for the odd case where I decide to use it? 1995 called, they say they want their hardware back. Cheap code modules are also bad rule of cheap programmers, which don't know system and kernel structures. Afterwords thats how making usage of NDISWRAPPER is fundamental on Windows drivers hardware. sigh If a crap programmer writes a module, it will be crap and do $BAD_STUFF. How does this change if the crap programmer is forced to not write modules? Does he suddenly get enlightened and know what KR have been telling him for years? CRAP PROGRAMMERS WRITE CRAP CODE. MODULES ARE COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO THIS. If we speak about realtime preemption model i think that You are mistaken saying that PC and realtime kernels (software) is not good choice. My licentiate work on University of Silesia (Poland, Katowice) is about usage of realtime services in computer LAN/WAN networks. I digging some materials about RTOS and realtime preemption model, realtime schedule algorithm and realtime applications critical points programming. I don't know if PC + Realtime preemption model is something wrong. When You need critical services for network such as multiplexed SDH traffic control and violation prevention You must have great power computer with RTOS, that can monitor min. 166MB/s traffic full duplex. Now-days computers have enough power to stand with RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) machines - thats why Sun Solaris has arrived on PC's. Another big step is RTLinux with dual core - realtime core and Linux kernel working together. That type of usage is not my area of expertise, but I can tell that it's a niche market. If monolithicality is the correct design paradigm there, then the designer has the option of building a monolithic kernel. If you can coerce it to work on Intel cpus, well that's fine and dandy and attests to the power and adaptibility of Linux. But how does this support your assertion that modules are a bad idea? You have the choice to do it a better way in those circumstances. Meanwhile, the vast majority of server nd desktop deployments out there that truly do need kernel modules (including Gentoo) cna and should continue to use them. You have right with that borrowed hardware or even buy it. But if You have some like IDE controller on motherboard, why use all modules in kernel? Maybee to turn of DMA or something. Why Realtime without modules? I don't know how modules works under RTOS, if I don't know so better for the world is not touch it. maybe sometimes, but now servers only on monolitic kernel. Send me email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], we can talk privacy... ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Postfix problem
Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Every time I write address different then local server (postfix) returns info 5.7.1 (some address): Relay access denied. What should I do? I don't know is it forwarding or relaying. What is wrong? Greet's, Mateusz Mierzwinski -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root
Mick pisze: On Sunday 27 January 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, on with my ati-drivers 8.452.1 woes! This time, glxgears fgl_glxgears will segfault as root. FPS is bad for GL stuff. When I run glxgears in sudo, it works! I've checked groups and permissions on /dev/dri/card0 and whatever I can think of, but nothing jumps out at me. Google is not much help either. any hints? thanks! I had to unmask the x11-base/x11-drm-20070314 to get dri to work on my system (but I have an old ATI laptop card). The stable version would not even compile. You may have to try them all out in case there is a version that works. If You still having that problem try to uncomment last 3 lines in Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I think that is a problem with DRM/DRI rights to other users. If You cannot compile stable release try to make: emerge --sync emerge -u system and then try to compile stable release. Also put Your USE flags and CFLAGS into answer to this email. You should also try to recompile (by emerge) MESA, because glxgears may not work as some mesa issues. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
