Re: [gentoo-user] Weird hibernate problem
Hi Timur, we need a lot more information: what kernel version in kernel or ToI hibernation are you using genkernel separate /usr lvm and anything else applicable. Hibernation can be a pig to get going. BillK -Original Message- From: Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Weird hibernate problem Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:06:17 +0300 After corrupting my gentoo root filesystem system during hibernate experiments, I have finally finished the reinstallation. But hibernate still doesn't seem to work correctly. The symptoms are the same as during the experiments leading to the root fs corruption, but this time the root seems to remain intact. Here is what happened during the first experiment. I had an 8G swap partition as /dev/sda5 and a data partition as /dev/sda6. Thinking that pm-hibernate requires a dedicated, separate partition, I backed up /dev/sda6, turned off swap at /dev/sda5, deleted /dev/sda[56] and then created /dev/sda5 (8G), /dev/sda6 (8G) and /dev/sda7 (remaining size) Then I specified /dev/sda6 as the resume partition on the kernel command line. But when I did the pm-hibernate, the system powered off, and after reboot, the system seemed to have restored itself to the state it was at when I ran pm-hibernate. So it seemed to have worked, but the system was strangely unstable. There were many filesystem errors in the root partition and when I did a ps ax, I saw hundreds of kworker kernel threads lingering around. It was as if the hibernate image was slightly corrupted, but not enough to cause a complete lockup, but enough to cause there strange symptoms. I first thought this was related to using the swap partition as the resume destination. But after reinstalling gentoo, I again used a separate partition for hibernate, but I am still seeing the same symtoms. Many kworker kernel threads are sleeping. But this time, the root filesystem didn't have any error. Concerned that a filesystem corruption is imminent, I immediately turned off power. So, what could be causing these strange problems? Based on what I have read so far, the resume partition needs to be an active swap partition. This seems rather strange, because linux is using the swap partition for memory management as well. So shouldn't these be well separated to prevent corrupting each other? Hope someone can help me make sense of all of this...
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge any gcc
ram usage just before failure? - do you have enough, and enough disk space? BillK -Original Message- From: Ezequiel Garcia elezegar...@gmail.com Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge any gcc Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 21:08:21 -0300 Hi, On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:48 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: probably not, you will need some more info as its a bit vague: What does gcc -v say? Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5/work/gcc-4.4.5/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.5 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/include/g++-v4 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --without-ppl --without-cloog --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --disable-multilib --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/python --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --with-arch=i686 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.3, pie-0.4.5' Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.5 (Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.3, pie-0.4.5) and gcc-config -l localhost v4l-dvb # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5 * Can you compile anything, either through emerge or manually (i.e., even a small hello world) Indeed! I can emerge other stuff. Plus right now I'm working and compiling my stuff. Feel free to ask me anything else, Thanks, Ezequiel.
Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing
What he wants is tinker panic 0 - see man ntp.conf Allows a slew below the threshold, and a step at anything over, no matter how great - works well as long as you are not doing sophisticated DB stuff (rollbacks). I am concerned about the rtc error: try ... bunyip ~ # ls -al /dev/rtc* crw--- 1 root root 10, 135 Jan 1 15:54 /dev/rtc bunyip ~ # If no rtc node you need to investigate the kernel options and/or loading of the relevant module - the options are confusing. BillK -Original Message- From: Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:42:07 +0100 On 10-Jan-12 22:18, Florian Philipp wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to get the clock set correctly on bootup with ntpdate, and then have ntpd keep things in line moving forward? Otherwise, every couple hours, you'd have your cron'd ntpddate jumping the clock around. I've had apps get stuck in infinite loops from retrograde clocks, and having it happen at the wrong time during a compile process has its own context-sensitive consequences. It depends on how bad your clock is. If the skew is too large, ntpd cannot keep up, even if you initially set it to the correct time. If your clock is too good and doesn't drift, you can just forget ntpd and save the RAM for something you actually need. step threshold is 0.128s if default settings for ntpd are used. If time difference is less, time is corrected using slewing (depending on kernel settings, in my case +/- 0.5ms per second). If it is more, stepping is used instead. So there is no way ndpd could not keep up. But changing time with stepping might cause problems for some applications (i.e. dovecot in some previous versions just died). If ntpd is configured with tinker step 0, step adjustments never occur. But if clock is off more than 0.5ms/s, time gets never synchronised and deviation will keep increasing... Jarry
Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing
Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so it will silently fail (default config). If ntpd has really crashed (ps aux will confirm), try running the daemon manually from a console - if it segfaults or comes up with a missing library, try ldd /usr/sbin/ntpd to find which lib is needed and fix. BillK -Original Message- From: Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:25:39 -0500 Hi, Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to diagnose a problem with ntpd crashing. My time keeps defaulting to 5 hours earlier than it should. There's nothing in dmesg when I do dmesg | grep time, or dmesg | grep ntp, but /etc/init.d/ntpd status tells me that ntpd has crashed. Jeff
Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth and headset with gentoo...
To extend this thread - because of other apps I am using pulse and the
BT headset (Jabra Halo) generally works fine - my only problem is the
microphone when using sjphone which is an oss app. I can hear audio,
pulse indicates it can hear me speaking but sjphone is silent so it
seems to be the oss mic thats the problem - any hints/ideas on what to
do?
BillK
-Original Message-
From: victor romanchuk r...@persimplex.net
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth and headset with gentoo...
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:34:26 +0400
Tamer Higazi wrote, at 01/06/2012 11:14 AM:
People!
I am not a bluetooth expert how do I configure bluez to make a
permanent connection with the bluez headset???
I did:
pcm.jabra {
type bluetooth
}
[snip]
.asoundrc is an audio part of configuration. bebore that you have to:
* configure the kernel to support audio over bluetooth (these settings are for
3.x kernel, for earlier versions these are slightly deffer from showed):
CONFIG_BT=m
CONFIG_BT_L2CAP=y
CONFIG_BT_SCO=y
* install net-wireless/bluez
* configure and pair your headset with host bluetooth adapter using desktop
applet - net-wireless/blueman in my case, or manually - hcitool etc
* enjoy the result :)
hth
victor
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap
If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Also, why only on Suse? - you can often work around differences with ld-preload and other tricks. BillK -Original Message- From: Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:21:25 +0800 Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my normal Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is regarding /home and swap. 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? What I mean by share is that when I boot up Gentoo can I mount /home and swap and everything is fully accessible and then reboot into SUSE and once again mount them and everything is once again fully accessible? I'm not doing anything snazzy such as LVM or encryption, just bog standard Linux. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap
bunyip ~ # esearch VirtualBox [ Results for search key : VirtualBox ] [ Applications found : 8 ] * app-emulation/virtualbox Latest version available: 4.0.12 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 67,936 kB Homepage:http://www.virtualbox.org/ Description: Family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use License: GPL-2 ... I'd recommend vbox then ... just works. Almost as easy as dual boot and less risk to the base system (i.e., getting the disk order wrong on install and overwriting the existing OS) - by the way sharing your home directory (vs /home as a different user) is fraught - many apps use different configs depending on versions - 'evolution' for instance could really break your email as later versions switch to a database format and subsequent versions fiddle with it. Install it, open vbox-manager from the menu and create a new VM with whatever specs you want, put the CD for suse in and point the Vbox CD to it in setup and go. You might need to read up on kernel options for virtualisation if you have a customised kernel vs genkernel to get the best (almost native) performance. Love vms for dev work - snapshot it regularly so you can wind back the clock when necessary ... BillK -Original Message- From: Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:37:34 +0800 On 28/12/2011 1:30 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote: If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Basically because I've done nothing with these thingies and have no experience with them and therefore didn't think of them.. Might be worth looking into - got a link to a 20 words or less intro? Also, why only on Suse? - you can often work around differences with ld-preload and other tricks. The third party app is under development, I'm tying some stuff into it, and things are a bit fluid at the moment. I think basically taking a couple of hours to set something up once and that's it is quicker than trying to work around library problems that will arise in an ongoing manner. BillK Andrew
[gentoo-user] Sorta OT: cant connect ipad to a courier imap ssl server
I am having a problem connecting an ipad via ssl to a gentoo courier imap ssl server. Its working fine with gentoo/evolution but I get a segfault in the server when the ipad tries to connect: couriertls[12283]: segfault at ec9c78e ip 4c144feb sp bf95557c error 4 in libc-2.12.2.so[4bfff000+183000] Ive rebuilt most of the packages involved and getting nowhere. Can an ipad use a courier imap server over ssl? Theer are a lot of bugs over the years for both courier and apple IOS and the only solution Ive seen thats said to work is turn off ssl. The ipad does work fine without ssl! I am currently travelling and my laptop works fine over ssl and also via an openvpn connection which software is apparently not available for the ipad. Can anyone offer a solution - even some way to set a static route on the ipad to connect to the tunnel running on the laptop would work. I have used RIP from the router to tell the ipad the routes in the past - but I dont have access to the router here to set up RIP :( - and of course I can find any RIP implementation for the ipad to allow it to read the laptops RIP routing updates :( Snookered! BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:50 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: ... So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you don't need wifi. I have WZR-HP-G300NH (running DD-WRT), if you don't plan on using wifi it would be great. The wifi is really unstable and I couldn't recommend this device if you're a heavy wifi user, but the wired portion works great, the device itself is by far the fastest I've ever owned, and it has a USB port so you can attach external storage in case you want to use it as a server, too. If your wifi users are limited to web browsing/email it would probably be okay for that, but if you do anything with persistent open connections (ssh, gaming, streaming movies) then you'll quickly pull your hair out in frustration at the constant wifi stalls and disconnects. The good news about the bad wifi is that the constant negative reviews and dissatisfied customers have forced the price down really low, I got mine for about $50. :) I have this device and am using Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std - its been totally stable since I dumped the buffalo firmware. My son plays windoze online games and I often move large files around as well as stream mythtv across it - no problems at all. Until I started powering the systems down at night (power charges went up :) it would stay up for over a month at a time and it was never a crash as to why it was restarted - usually power, or reconfiguration. BillK
[gentoo-user] still slow login to X
A couple of weeks I posted that I was having slow login/login timeouts on trying to log into X after moving to another network until the network is reconfigured. The recommendation was to add the hostname to hosts.conf but this seems to work in only some cases. To recap, it is a laptop that gets moved across a lot of different networks (wired/wireless plus some with vpns). On hibernating, then connecting to another network the problem manifests itself. If I log into a console and reconfigure the network, the I can log into X normally. The laptop runs bind in caching mode. I did find that the nssswitch.conf file was blank, so I pulled one from another system but no change occurred. Something changed in the last few months as it used to work fine! So where do I look next? BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65
Its worth unmasking the required packages for intel cards - there have been some quite useful improvements in speed and stability - its one case where you are definitely better off on the bleeding edge for the intel driver, xorg-server and the kernel:) Anything less at the moment will leave you as you are now. There are also documents for setting up mode setting via google - setup isnt quite as easy as other cards at the moment. BillK On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:38 -0700, dan blum wrote: Bill, The xorg version is 1.7.6 (no r# to the best of my knowledge). When I do emerge it will re-emerge the 1.7.6 version and not the newer 1.8.2 version. The video card is VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01). I have not tried the mask suggested by other responders yet, but will soon. Thanks for the suggestions. Dan --- On Thu, 8/12/10, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: From: William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:29 PM On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 09:03 +0800, Thomas Yao wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:46 AM, dan blum dan_...@yahoo.com wrote: I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes very frequently. When I used to run xorg 1.65 everything was running fine. Can anyone clue me in on how to emerge an older version of the program. Thanks. Maybe you should have a look at the portage documentation carefully and understand it well before you dive into gentoo, it's really important: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1 Good luck and consider going the other way - I am using 1.8.2 (xorg-server) which is more stable for me than the 1.7 series. However, some idea on what your system is may help - certain combinations (xorg-server-1.7.x, inetl driver and tuxonice hibernate are problematic, others are fine with certain workarounds. Can you provide more info such as video card and what the crash is? The actual xorg version should be something like 7.4-r1 so I presume you quoted xorg-server? BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
[gentoo-user] flash changes
With the objectionable licence change to adobe flash, what alternatives do we have when firefox wants to install on visiting a website? There is libflash but I cant find what versions of flash it supports. Also, ubuntu lists libflash-0.4.13 while gentoo ~x86 is showing only libflash-0.4.10-r1 which makes it seem out of date. So is there anything better for flash when using firefox to browse the web? BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com [10-05-27 04:08]: On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. I add smartd to my default runlevel so the hard drives will test themselves once every month and log the test results in syslog. Hm. I just noticed that smartd isn't actually running, so I need to do some debugging now. But that's the idea, anyway. Hi, yes, I know smart... I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface and reports every bad sector. Smarts is more of statistical kind: It counts events and tries to calculate dooms day from that ;) Not so easy (coming in late on this thread, sorry if its been covered) Modern hard drives insulate the outside from whats actually happening internally. They have a number of spare locations they can swap into use when a bad patch develops. This is invisible except to something like smart reporting. Rule of thumb - when a modern drive starts showing bad sectors to the outside world, its already well past its use by date. So something like SMART is the only way for the average Joe to get the health of a drive. Google has lots on this sort of thing BillK
[gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak
I have set up sound to a jabra halo bluetooth headset and it works using mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth soundfile. This works fine for apps like mplayer which can specify the right output device. However, I want to use espeak (in a console) to play back text files - its a good method to check grammar - but I cant get it working? It works out of the box on a nokia n900, but I cant figure out how to get gentoo (gnome desktop) to do it. espeak doesnt support specifying a sound device that I can see - it uses portaudio which is supposed to work with alsa bluetooth but how? It looks like bluez is continually changing so most of the guides Ive found dont apply - I am using bluez-4.39. alsamixer etc dont list the bluetooth device and I cant see it in /proc/asound, but its obviously there if mplayer can access it! BillK bunyip linux # hciconfig -a hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:02:C7:E5:A1:65 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:199720 acl:43 sco:0 events:28229 errors:0 TX bytes:23638521 acl:82313 sco:0 commands:59 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8b 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'bunyip-0' Class: 0x4a210c Service Classes: Networking, Capturing, Telephony Device Class: Computer, Laptop HCI Ver: 2.0 (0x3) HCI Rev: 0x77b LMP Ver: 2.0 (0x3) LMP Subver: 0x77b Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10) bunyip linux # hciconfig hci0 revision hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:02:C7:E5:A1:65 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 HCI 19.2 Chip version: BlueCore4-External Max key size: 56 bit SCO mapping: HCI
[gentoo-user] spell checking using kile under gnome
I am using kile under gnome to edit latex files. Its ok, but I am having problems with the spell checker - it works and does the job except it cant add to dictionary so once I restart kile, I have to start again with every discrepancy picked up by the spell checker. I suspect its because of using it under gnome there is no way to set a personal dictionary. Ive installed kcontrol which is apparently what you use in KDE to set the dictionaries, but I cant see how to set a personal dictionary. Maybe I need to install/run a full kde to set it? - then will it stay set under gnome? Any help appreciated! BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:50 -0600, Dmitry Makovey wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA ah, the magic word: GMA :) Thanks for the reference I have started ... which intel driver do you use? Mine's 2.8.1 and I wonder if bumping to 2.9.1 that is in testing wouldn't yield better results. bunyip ~ # esearch xf86-video-intel [ Results for search key : xf86-video-intel ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel Latest version available: 2.9.0-r1 Latest version installed: 2.9.0-r1 Size of downloaded files: 773 kB Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards License: MIT bunyip ~ # ... I too found degradation quite surprising since things were working pretty well up until now. I somewhat regret KDE4 switch because of all of this, however I definitely needed some of the features KDE4 apps had to offer. Traded off some of the features dear to my heart: multi-key combinations popping prompt menu, titlebar set correctly in Konsole without affecting tab name, and some others. Filed with bugs.kde.org... let's see what happens next. According to some KDE4 jsut highlighted problems in underlying Xorg, so hopefully now with all of that out in the open things will get fixed. ... I am now 3 days into an emerge -e world (almost 2000 packages) as after the gnome 2.6 upgrade I had a lot of weird gnomey issues (actually had to use a lot of kde apps for awhile!) This morning I rebooted and most issues have gone away. At home, I have no ext monitor and the laptop is set to its native 1366x768. When I got to work I resumed (ToI) and plugged in the ext monitor (1280x768) and ran my script (desktop icon that calls a script that uses xrandr to set both VGA1 and LVDS1 to 1280x1024) - and it worked perfectly. Maybe there are other packages involved that are not obvious? To make it a bit more fuzzy, somewhere in the middle of this I made sure that the kernel framebuffer drivers were not being built (vga etc) and removed the grub argument to set the mode - maybe this interferred with it previously? - though those settings were there forever. Note that the GMA guide reccomends doing this. I find that every couple of years or so, an emerge -e world cleans up a lot of issues that just don't make sense otherwise - ~680 pkgs to go :) BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:48:22 William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened [8] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86 [9] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/desktop [10] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/developer [11] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened [12] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/server rattus ~ # In almost all cases [2] or [4] is a better choice than [1] I wouldnt think so - I have a lot of server apps and desktop apps, even on my laptop and main server at home. I dont have such a thing as a pure server or a pure desktop so I stuck with this. I did change to desktop once on my laptop and didnt like the number of changes I would need to revert so didnt proceed. I my personal opinion is that having developer, server and desktop profiles for gentoo is just stupid. redhat/Mandrake etc have had this for a long time and they just are a way to start customising the system - dont save much at all. I guess the question is where do you start customising from? - a desktop, a server or gentoo 1.1b circa 1999 (if memory serves me correctly) which is where some of my systems (including the one above) started :) BillK
[gentoo-user] GPF in Unison :(
When trying to run unison with the gui Ive suddenly started getting this in syslog - just get Segmentation Fault at the commandline. Unison works in text mode ok. System was recently upgraded to gnome 2.26, and pixman-0.16.2, and I am sure that unison has worked since the upgrades. Rebuilt pixman and a few other things with no luck so far ... Oct 23 13:55:59 bunyip unison[7093]: general protection ip:b6f5086c sp:bf95f7ec error:0 in libpixman-1.so.0.16.2[b6ef5000+5e000] BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel GM965
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 14:51 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 19:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: You also can remove all InputDevice sections as those are controlled by hal. he should let them in, but he can remove all FontPath and modules entries. And yes, 'vesa' has to be changed. Or you could remove xorg.conf altogether and let hal handle all the work. xorg with hal does not work well on many systems - and hal on my laptop (i915) was a disaster. Resolutions I have been using for years disappear and changing screens/projectors (its a laptop used for presentations) seriously confused it, if it even worked at all. And the few times it did, it was not possible to optimise it as the autoconfig kept picking strange, non-optimal resolutions. Instead of trying hal, I'd recommend compiling xorg-server with -hal and using xorg.conf to tell the system what it should do (and probably set UXA acceleration and turn off EDID and DDC in xorg.conf). This is one case where auto-detection isn't working well at all - and it should :( BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel GM965
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:36 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 08:47 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: xorg with hal does not work well on many systems - and hal on my laptop (i915) was a disaster. Well I guess YMMV. I have 3 machines using i915 drivers and all of them work flawless with hal and no xorg.conf. Even the laptop which I'm using now. I get all the resolutions that the laptop's LCD uses and plus I'm able to plug it in into an external monitor and use one or both screens. All three pointers work (touchpad, trackpoint external mouse), GLX works, KMS works... even my i915-based HTPC that connects to my TV through HDMI works (1080p, HDMI audio out) with no xorg.conf. On the contrary, people I usually see that had to use config files with the new xorg were people who used proprietary graphics drivers. -a What happens on the laptop when the external projector/screen wants 1280x1024 that isn't on the laptops internal LCD (my normal operation mode with an external monitor on my desk)? - it tries to force a common screen which is 1024x768 and wont acknowledge that the laptop hardware is quite happy with 1024x768 - the ext LCD looks terrible compared with the LCD native resolution. On one external projector it even went to 800x600 (even though it seemed that 1024x768 was common). What happens when the screen sets a resolution it thinks the external can do, which it does but it either tears (often seems to happen as projectors age, though you can usually select a lower resolution using xrandr) or goes black? - Ive had cases where both the internal LCD and external monitor go black together - though not for awhile :( Many of our projectors seem to advertise high resolutions to the laptop, but are actually a lot lower, using conversion to display it - usually quite poorly. With a 1366x768 screen on the laptop, a few projectors accept that but badly distort in X or Y to fit the 4x3 aspect ratio they use - note that these are institutionally managed displays so I don't get access to the controls - I have to fit in with them :( Then there is Mythtv, as 1366x768 isnt the same as 1360x768 which my 3 digital TV's with PC inputs (not HDMI) want, 1360x768 is unavailable unless I USE=-hal for xorg-server, and then turn off EDID and DDC in xorg.conf. And yes, it works perfectly when I do. And I didnt need to do this before X tried to get too smart for itself. The problem with using hal is not so much that it often does not work well (which it doesn't), but that you cant override it to get the control back. People might be satisfied with it if they don't know better, but I have had a lot of fights over the years to get X to do what I want and when it wont do what I know it can do, its really frustrating, especially as my workflow is set around various resolutions in particular locations. Its a lot easier on a desktop, but even there I dont have a single system that is totally happy with no xorg.conf. Problems range from ignoring the xorg ati driver in favour of vesa (why?), to choosing resolutions that are not optimal so these have partial xorg.conf's to fix just those areas that need overriding. If windows and Macs can do it without arcane manual configuration, why cant X? Maybe in the future it will get sorted, but at the moment they have a long way to go. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:53 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j2 Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output sequentially, running parallel makes makes it worse. Now this is strange: I commented out that MAKEOPTS=-j2 in make.conf and gcc compilled without any complaint. I did not change anything else! Can't believe this. I will check it tomorrow again, with -j2 and without... I can't explain why this happens but I do know that I've seen a number of complex builds (especially gcc/glibc) that just randomly fail when using a parallel make. I see this effect on FreeBSD moreso than Gentoo, but I suspect that's only a question of scale. --Mike Try MAKEOPTS=-j1 - the default is still j2 if you just delete the variable. Ive also seen this a lot recently. Serialising the make process into one thread helps. BillK
[gentoo-user] xorg resolution problem
Since moving from xorg-server 1.5.3 (?) to 1.6, xorg has gone back to an old behaviour of refusing the resolution I need (I switch using xrandr). Video chipset is i915 in a sony vaio with a 1366x768 screen. I am trying to use an external LCD monitor with 1280x1024 native resolution. Problem is xorg see's that 768 is the maximum on the laptop LCD, and wont see the higher resolution(s) on the external monitor, which now looks exceptionally crappy (I am not concerned with what the laptop screen is doing when I am using the external - it used to overscan when on 1280x768) Ive removed the xorg.conf, but had to put back the driver stanza (only) as it kept trying to load the i810 instead of intel driver. w...@bunyip ~/Desktop $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048 VGA connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 640x48059.9 LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1366x768 59.8 + 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0* 832x62474.6 800x60085.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x48085.0 72.8 75.0 59.9 720x40085.0 640x40085.1 640x35085.1 TV disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) w...@bunyip ~/Desktop $ How to get 1280x1024 back? BillK
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] Battery knock out
If using gnome look for gnome-power-manager (it sucks so i usually kill it), otherwise laptopmode may be installed (configurable shutdown levels I think). Can also be a bios setting on some laptops - on my old dell it was independent to the OS. I actually run a perl daemon to do it - seems more reliable :) BillK On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:06 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Making changes to a statically build driver
Set something that will show on the modinfo command? I dont have e1000, but this a coda.ko example bunyip ~ # modinfo coda filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r4/kernel/fs/coda/coda.ko version:6.6 license:GPL alias: char-major-67-* description:Coda Distributed File System VFS interface author: Jan Harkes, Peter J. Braam srcversion: 88DB5609F61269AF835BA05 depends: vermagic: 2.6.27-gentoo-r4 preempt mod_unload modversions PENTIUMM bunyip ~ # Billk On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:17 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: Never made such thing, so just a guess: maybe a log entry on some event, like link up - at that time, probably, the log engine is already up and running. Francisco On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Ezra Taylor ezra.tay...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all: I made some changes to the e1000 kernel driver. I then recompiled the kernel without any issue. How can I tell if the change actually went through? Again, this driver has been statically built into the kernel. Is there a way to test that a change went through without have to setup a test environment? -- Ezra Taylor
Re: [gentoo-user] Making changes to a statically build driver
I missed the bit where you said it was staic in the kernel - that besides, make it print something during load. Billk On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:28 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: Set something that will show on the modinfo command? I dont have e1000, but this a coda.ko example bunyip ~ # modinfo coda filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r4/kernel/fs/coda/coda.ko version:6.6 license:GPL alias: char-major-67-* description:Coda Distributed File System VFS interface author: Jan Harkes, Peter J. Braam srcversion: 88DB5609F61269AF835BA05 depends: vermagic: 2.6.27-gentoo-r4 preempt mod_unload modversions PENTIUMM bunyip ~ # Billk On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:17 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: Never made such thing, so just a guess: maybe a log entry on some event, like link up - at that time, probably, the log engine is already up and running. Francisco On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Ezra Taylor ezra.tay...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all: I made some changes to the e1000 kernel driver. I then recompiled the kernel without any issue. How can I tell if the change actually went through? Again, this driver has been statically built into the kernel. Is there a way to test that a change went through without have to setup a test environment? -- Ezra Taylor
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems
... I have not dived in the Linux developers x Hans Reiser battle, so I don't know which side is right and which side is guilty, but think that either A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, but the battle between Hans Reiser and Linux developers caused people to dislike reiserfs for non-technical reasons. or B) reiserfs is a bad filesystem but for some reason a lot of reiserfs fans appeared in this thread A is the answer. Hans Reiser is by all accounts a brilliant, eccentric but deeply flawed individual. He did not get on at a personal or professional level with the world in general. It almost seems like ext3/4 were developed to spite him and give alternatives so they would not have to deal with him. Unprofessional words and actions were taken on both sides, but the animosity caused by Hans (and others in response) means that this will take forever to blow over, even with Hans out of the picture. There is a huge amount out there on this. There are also may other highly valued developers out there who may also be a little eccentric (to be kind!). In the meantime, my opinion is that reiserfs3 is great, ext3 not quite so good, and ext2/4 and reiserfs4 are for those who live on the edge :) BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via NFS and samba for backups and shared files. OT: the prefix is tera not terra. I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. If that doesn't help, let me know and I'll google it some. Dale :-) :-) I think LVM is only useful on the same system - it doesnt deal with network resources. Most of my systems are using LVM2 at the moment. Billk
Re: [gentoo-user] Dealing with MS Access files (.mdb)
app-office/mdbtools BillK On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file which may or may not have useful info in it (I am trying to translate US/Canada NPANXX phone numbers into latitude/longitude or at least city without buying a commercial db). I know almost nothing of Access otehr than it being some kind of bastardized database. I guess it runs some form of SQL but I don't even know that. Does anyone know of a program to convert this .mdb file into something useful, other than access to Access on a Windows machine? If it truly is an SQL database, I suppose it would be some kind of dump complete with table creation , foreign keys, etc. But I can write a script to deal with that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:31 +1000, Beau Henderson wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? I haven't had a single issue with it myself. Is it possible you may have an addon or other config option causing issues ? Have you tried loading a new profile ? -- Beau Henderson Seems to randomly die, dont really see it as faster than FF2, objectionable behaviour (jumping desktops when its called from another app), ugly icons, ... It will get better, ... I hope. BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's
Some (and only some) multimedia audio broke in the last few of updates on two of my systems with cmi chipsets - I had to select IEC958 Monitor before I got sound back. Might be the same thing. and no, I am not using digital output. If this doesnt help you, might help someone else as it was a pita to find the cause as I am not using the digital outputs from the card. BillK On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 23:21 +0300, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and various programs manage to gather useful information about the audio CD's tracks, but I hear nothing. I checked all controls in alsamixer to be unmuted and at reasonable volume, but it's not it. I can't rip the CD's neither. Any ideas what might be wrong? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashing when PC wake up from suspend-to-ram
Try tuxonice instead of the in-kernel suspend - never been able to get in-kernel to work on any of my systems. Other than ToI and gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r5, the software versions are the same You are using sabayon? - tried their mailing lists? BillK On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 22:57 +0200, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Wael Nasreddine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:48:29PM +0200: Hey guys, When my PC wakes up from suspend-to-ram, X crashes, my video card is an intel 945GM. In ubuntu it works, I tried using Ubuntu's hal-info folder and I patched my Intel driver with all ubuntu patches but the problem still here, I can't figure out what is going on... I need a little help please... Xorg.0.log attached... /etc/X11/xorg.conf attached... Kernel-2.6.25-sabayon-r1 (config Attached) x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.2 x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.3.2 sys-power/pm-utils-1.1.2.1 Regards, Come on guys a little help please!! I either have to keep my Laptop always turned on or shutdown/boot everytime I'm not using it... please I need some help!! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] openoffice dictionaries
Is there are way to use the proper openoffice dictionaries in OO? 'eselect' does not offer any alternatives to the myspell dictionaries and there is no relevant USE flag. As well as forcing OO to use myspell only (the OO built in dictionary wizard is removed), there are some other problems with this kludge. The myspell ones do not seem to work as well as the OO ones (for en_AU) and you cannot select a user dictionary and have it stay selected. As I open and close documents all day long, its it is very annoying to have to continually open the user dictionary every time. I presume this is a consequence of the myspell change as it worked properly before then. I'll raise some bugs on this but thought I might have missed an easy fix, so am asking here first. I must have opened documents 20 time so far today and its been so annoying I am looking at fixing it :( BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pseudo-serial port called /dev/ttyUSB0
I am not at my home machine - but I think they appear in /dev/usb/ Check the udev rules file, thats where they live. I cant get at the machine I use to sync to check exactly where. BillK On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 00:13 -0600, Joseph wrote: I did plug the device IN and it was recognized. Well, in my case /dev/ttyUSB* does not appear at all. There are 325 tty* devices but non of them that starts as: ttyUSB -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cant accept licence
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:14 -0400, Andrey Falko wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:03 PM, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install an older version of java (1_5_0_12) using an ebuild from the attic and am getting a problem accepting the licence. After displaying the licence, More ... is printed at the bottom of the screen as expected. Pressing any and every key does move the cursor around the screen, but whatever is displaying the licence wont react so I cant accept it. The downloaded java bin pkg does work as expected when I run it manually, so the problem must be portage I think. Is there a way to accept the licence? Try setting ACCEPT_LICENSE=-* during install of java (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367). no luck. That bug imples that ACCEPT_LICENCES isnt part of the current portage in any case. My problem is that I cant accept the licence when emerging :( BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cant accept licence
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 08:05 -0400, Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:49 AM, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:14 -0400, Andrey Falko wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:03 PM, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install an older version of java (1_5_0_12) using an ebuild from the attic and am getting a problem accepting the licence. After displaying the licence, More ... is printed at the bottom of the screen as expected. Pressing any and every key does move the cursor around the screen, but whatever is displaying the licence wont react so I cant accept it. The downloaded java bin pkg does work as expected when I run it manually, so the problem must be portage I think. Is there a way to accept the licence? Try setting ACCEPT_LICENSE=-* during install of java (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367). no luck. That bug imples that ACCEPT_LICENCES isnt part of the current portage in any case. My problem is that I cant accept the licence when emerging :( Sorry about that I thought it was :(. Anyway, I'd edit the ebuild: LICENSE=dlj-1.1, change the license to something else. Hopefully this is the only thing you need to change. BillK ah, I see what your getting at. Wont work, the sun binaries have an internal licence viewer/acceptance mechanism which gentoo uses. For some reason the version I am trying to install doesnt work through gentoo, but 1.6 does. However, I cheated and manually installed it and configured the plugin - suns java test page tells me I have the right version so tomorrow I'll have another go at accessing the brain dead oracle forms stuff at work ... Thanks, BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pseudo-serial port called /dev/ttyUSB0
If its like the palm syncing over usb - they only appear when the device is plugged in/active. Yes its a pain ... BillK On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 23:49 -0600, Joseph wrote: I've compiled Garmin USB support into kernel but after rebooting it did not create pseudo-serial port called /dev/ttyUSB0 How to troubleshoot it? -- #Joseph GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cant accept licence
I am trying to install an older version of java (1_5_0_12) using an ebuild from the attic and am getting a problem accepting the licence. After displaying the licence, More ... is printed at the bottom of the screen as expected. Pressing any and every key does move the cursor around the screen, but whatever is displaying the licence wont react so I cant accept it. The downloaded java bin pkg does work as expected when I run it manually, so the problem must be portage I think. Is there a way to accept the licence? BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:42 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. been there, done that ... and gave up. Write your own scripts and shortcut the frustration. Keep a directory with a subdirectory for each site. Have all config files needed properly configured and stored there. Lastly, a simple script just copies in the required files over the top of the last lot and restarts the services. I have a desktop icon and a GUI (using gtkdialog) so I can easily select the correct site. Ive tried a few like network manager, and also tried to get gentoo's networking to do it semi-automaticly to help, but all I ended up with was a frustratingly fragile mess. At least now it works reliably, and saves me lots of time as well. BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memory upgrade
bunyip ~ # esearch lshw [ Results for search key : lshw ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/lshw Latest version available: 02.11.01b Latest version installed: 02.11.01b Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter Description: Hardware Lister License: GPL-2 On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 23:02 -0700, Dani Crisan wrote: Hello, I want to buy additional memory for my computer. I would like to know how do I find the vendor/frequency etc of my currently installed ram module. lshal gives a lot of output. What should I look for? Is there another way? Thank you in advance. __ OMG, Sweet deal for Yahoo! users/friends: Get A Month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. W00t -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memory upgrade
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 01:53 -0500, Dale wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: bunyip ~ # esearch lshw [ Results for search key : lshw ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/lshw Latest version available: 02.11.01b Latest version installed: 02.11.01b Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter Description: Hardware Lister License: GPL-2 I tried that on mine to but didn't post it because it may not help much. This is the only thing that I see that may help with the frequency of the memory: *-cpu description: CPU product: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 4 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] version: 6.10.0 slot: Socket A size: 1833MHz capacity: 3GHz width: 32 bits *clock: 166MHz* capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow ts Since it says the clock is 166MHz then the memory should be the same. Only thing is, my memory has to be 333MHz not 166Mhz. Basically, depending on a few things, that info may not help much unless he has a idea what it takes. My advice, find out the model of the computer if it is factory built or the model of the mobo if it is custom built, then go to crucial.com or something and look it up that way. Once you get the info, you can look it up at whatever site you choose. Also, if you have windoze on the rig, some memory sites can look it up for you too. I'm not sure how they do that tho. I guess they can scan something on the mobo. I dunno. No windoze here. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) :-) Thats the cpu - try looking at the existing memory which is what he wants to know. BillK *-bank:1 description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 400 MHz (2.5 ns) product: PartNum1 vendor: Manufacturer1 physical id: 1 serial: SerNum1 slot: DIMM1 size: 1GB width: 64 bits clock: 400MHz (2.5ns) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
I have been following this thread intermittantly and have not seen a comment on the following: I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is that the FAT/inode table or the like is where the most wear will occur - perhaps concentrate there? (i.e., do a journelled FS like reiserfs with a fast update? Do any USB keys do some kind of write minimisation in the controller? - no change in the data/no write? - seems a logical way to extend the life? BillK On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:03 +0100, Jan Seeger wrote: As a followup, I have actually written said script (in perl), and would welcome -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.
emerge gnome-panel and gnome-applets BillK On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 07:12 +0100, Hans de Graaff wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:15:22 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've seen this issue a few times and found that the esound daemon was to blame. Killing just that got things back in a workeable state again. Kind regards, Hans -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 08:19 -0800, Grant wrote: Thanks a lot for everyone's help. Here is a more to-the-point list of what I'd like to accomplish: 1. encrypt CUPS printouts between remote server and local print server 2. add an additional layer of security around SSH and CUPS on local firewall/print server 3. add an additional layer of security around SSH, IMAP, and non-standard port HTTPS on remote server 4. enable access to SMTP on remote server for me which is blocked by my local ISP It sounds like I have 3 choices: 1. VPN 2. SSH tunneling 3. Zebedee tunneling Simplyfy - send cups and smtp send only by zebedee SSH and HTTPS are already highly regarded as safe. Convert your email reading to to the secure imaps. Experience over the years has me sitting on the side of using as few layers as possible - anything you add is going to increase complexity (management time) and reduce reliability. I do run openvpn and zebedee (in the past) using iptables to restrict access, and the services themselves are killed/restarted at appropriate times via cron to minimise exposure. Zebedee handles it very well (except when in server mode on a doze box!!) - openvpn can be a bit .. ah ... fussy ... I find it will sometimes get in a loop of out of sync connection attempts requiring manually logging into both ends to fix, and complex routing is always fun. It is more designed to be always up and available rather than on/off. Zebedee however can handle most scenarios quite well, including a server behind a firewall where it can call out to the client. BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup
I do this with my work printer - the printer is locked down to a local network - I can print from locked out offices/labs anywhere (and even from home, picking up the printouts when I arrive - convenient!) I also transfer sometimes large files (using scp) and run ssh sessions and imap/smtp mail all through the same tunnel(s) - I actually use two in series with a convenient host in between to get around some local routing issues. All can be transparent and just work. scp can sometimes be a pain with slow speeds but its dependent on network conditions external to the tunnel - i.e., some external conditions cause interactions that affect packet sizes/latency within the tunnel - doesnt happen often though. Routing is often an issue (particularly to networks a few hops away on the inside) - ospf (quagga) was the solution, though RIP is probably easier/better for this The downside - gentoos openvpn and networking design is ok for simple setups, but has to be overidden when getting complex. Can be fragile when design changes are taking place - breaks when you least expect it like when they introduced the bind flag into the init.d script (gr) Note that you need sympathetic or pliable IT staff if its a workplace - helps to have them onside if you are going to bypass their security policies for your own benefit! BillK On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 19:44 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:49 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can print from your laptop to your printer at home while overseas, for example. Sounds very convenient ; ) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500
Thanks for the hint. I had deleted my user gnome directories but not the oo ones so I did not consider that to be the problem. Clicking on the custom icons (i.e., using them) was enough to fix the it. Thanks, BillK On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:32 +, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, W.Kenworthy wrote: I use openoffice on two systems and one has developed a dialog box that says /home/$[user]/slot:5500 is unavailable. Cancelling causes the requested document to open normally. This happened back a few weeks ago after some updates (but by the time I noticed it, it was too late tell which ones). OO wasnt one of the updates and its otherwise fine. I just upgraded to 2.3.1.2 and its still there. anyone have any clues where to look? Not sure if relevant, but slot:5500 defines a parameter of the OOo toolbar, probably something to do with an image on the toolbar? Have you perhaps customised your OOo toolbar, then done away with the ~/.ooo-2.0 directory or files therein and it now complains about it? HTH. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500
I use openoffice on two systems and one has developed a dialog box that says /home/$[user]/slot:5500 is unavailable. Cancelling causes the requested document to open normally. This happened back a few weeks ago after some updates (but by the time I noticed it, it was too late tell which ones). OO wasnt one of the updates and its otherwise fine. I just upgraded to 2.3.1.2 and its still there. anyone have any clues where to look? BillK -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers slowly working through issues
One possibility is a stray library: root and users by default have different paths and path orders? Have you tried running the apps from a console to see if there are any errors? Try running ldd against one of the smaller applications, and then again against each of the libraries listed. Its tedious, hence the suggestion to use a small test. look for missing libraries (they show as not found) and wrong gcc versions if shown. BillK On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] However, I still can't find any solution for my GL issues. As per a previous thread, glxgears, fgl_glxgears, and screensavers segfault when I run them. and so does open office. All these run as root. anybody? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au WHERE CAN THE MATTER BE Oh, dear, where can the matter be When it's converted to energy? There is a slight loss of parity. Johnny's so long at the fair. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building all packages except gcc
emerge world -ep buildfile edit buildfile and do some search and replaces on each line. [ebuild R ] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r5 [ebuild R ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r1 becomes emerge =sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r5 \ emerge =sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r1 \ and so on Make sure there are no spaces after the \ Run the file using sh buildfile. If an emereg stops, just edit the file deleting or comment the completed builds and restartinmg it. BillK On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 21:20 -0500, Sean wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:14:47AM +0100, Miernik wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/lib/world has a (partial) list of installed packages. You could do something like: cat /var/lib/world | grep -v /gcc$ | xargs emerge ??? przehyba ~ # cat /var/lib/world cat: /var/lib/world: No such file or directory przehyba ~ # uname -a Linux przehyba 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP Fri Nov 9 22:38:35 CET 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux przehyba ~ # /var/lib/portage/world -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell
I came to this late and missed most of the thread so apologies if this has been covered. Did you mount /proc into /mnt/gentoo before chroot'ing? (see install docs) This allows grub to correctly sense the drive map for writing the boot sectors. Some early MB's changed the drive map depending on what disk/media (i.e., cdrom) you booted from so grub wrote a correct map at the time, then the MB changed the mapping on the HD boot. Fix was to intelligently guess the correct drive and write it manually using grub. A later bios update allowed some control at the bios level which made it easier. Billk On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:36 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Grub can perfectly from a floppy disk. See info grub (the full grub documentation, the man page is crap) in order to learn how to create a grub floppy disk (or CD/R(W)). You will then be able to set the BIOS boot order to default and see what a freshly booted Arrgh! Now I learn this box won't boot from a floppy! It bipasses the floppy completely unless I disable ALL the drives except the floppy and then I get: Invalid boot diskette: insert BOOT disk in A:\ Huh? Maybe it's because this is a Dell PIII and requires a proprietary DOS boot disk. There seems to be two methods from what I can find on the Web: copying menu.lst to /mnt/floppy/boot/grub and copying /boot/grub/stage1 and /boot/grub/stage2 to a floppy I tried them both without success. Of course I can still boot the gentoo-install CD but then I have to chroot to run grub which puts me back in the hole. Now, I don't have a burner on the PIII, but I have one on another box. Can someone suggest a method to burn a grub-boot CD that won't leave me with a coaster -- got plenty of those :( -mw Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 07:34 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work? How have you setup the passwordless ssh? If your using keys with the ssh keyagent, then when the command is run in cron it wouldn't know where to find your ssh-agent... Yes, I think that is the problem. I'm going to try the technique described here: http://arctic.org/~dean/rdiff-backup/unattended.html Will report back. Cheers, Roger Keep in mind that cron runs with a very limited environment for safety reasons. You have to manually set most env variables and the like. BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] which binutils?
Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update is in (not listed below) bunyip ~ # binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 * [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.17 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.18 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.18.50.0.1 On a mixed stable/unstable x86, which binutils should one generally use? latest coupled to a particular gcc/glibc version (where is the list?) oldest Anyone? BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 03:24 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:56:06 W.Kenworthy wrote: Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update is in (not listed below) bunyip ~ # binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 * [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.17 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.18 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.18.50.0.1 On a mixed stable/unstable x86, which binutils should one generally use? So why do you use multislot at all? On a previous job (long ago now) I was switching gcc's and needed multislot. Now I dont. I presume if I remove the flag, and 'emerge world -NuDv' it will clean up after itself properly - or is it better to leave as is (critical machine :( Billk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OO save error with 2.3
On up grading to openoffice 2.3 (src), I have problems saving passworded odt documents. error dialog contents are: Error saving the document doc_name, Error writing file. I can save it two or three times then the error message pops up. And I have heaps of disk space so thats not the problem. Am I the only on seeing this? Is it a: gentoo, openoffice, or my problem ? BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OO save error with 2.3
Thanks - its starting to look like its me. I did have a similar problem (not as bad) a year or two ago, and it went away on the next update so I assumed it was OO then. How to fault find it though ... BillK On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 19:36 +0100, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Pongracz Istvan wrote: For me, ooffice 2.3 (bin) cannot detect java environment. I setup system-vm and user-vm too. What if, java is required with save with password, but you also have no java? I have no Java on my machine and can save/open documents and spreadsheets with passwd protection. However, I am using the OOo binary in this box. Unless someone else with no Java and the source package installation can repeat this, I'll try from another box of mine that also has no Java, but is using the source package (I'm planning to update OOo source to 2.3 this weekend). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:25 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you looked at 'lsusb' output yet? That usually gives data relevant to the chipset (for example, what it is and who made it ;) ) Also take the : hex number (see 413c:3010 below) that lsusb spits out, and google that if lsusb itself gives unknown. It basically specifies the manufacturer and chipset/model. lsbusb -v is also helpful. i.e., lsusb ... Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. ... Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with cable-select enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive (which are prone to error). Maybe my memory is getting out of date (old age!) - but I thought you were supposed to avoid csel as it often didnt work correctly in a multidrive situation? So I have always manually set master/slave by jumper (almost all my systems are multi drive BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall
No problems on multiple systems built using oldconfig and not rebuilding iptables. In the kernel I turn everything on by default and build it modular - this might be the cause for you? Billk On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 08:09 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norman Rieß wrote: Jorge Almeida schrieb: Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources 2.6.22-r5? I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up
Also, try running prelink on the system - I found a number of old, orphaned binaries on a ~5yr plus gentoo yesterday that had broken years ago when I ran prelink this time! - it complains about missing dependencies. Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, gnuplot, glade, ...) that revdep-rebuild didnt pick up - a bit of a worry ... Is there a script that uses the equery check functionality and lists both broken packages and orphans in the system directories not accounted for? - this seems like a good start. Billk On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 10:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Noud Aldenhoven, I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove packages which aren't important anymore. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware
lshw, along with lspci, lsusb and probably others. Dont forget the verbose arguments to lspci and lsusb - they greatly expand the detail. Dont know why lshw isnt on the live cd's, its so useful! BillK On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 20:11 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi,guys! I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. Do you ever use everest or cpu-z do in Windows? which can provide almost all details you need of most hardware,including CPU,RAM,motherboard,video card,network ... I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as everest or cpu-z do.For example,the FSB,and the socket of the CPU and so on. Thanks in advanced! -- wcw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VIDEO_CARDS= Intel Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller ?
The current i810 driver doesnt behave very well for me - blank screens, not being able to run an external monitor correctly and the like. The last one that did is x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-1.7.4 (a good reason for the modular xorg builds!) Also make sure you are using resolutions that are covered by both your monitor(s) and the card bios - they all have to agree or it falls apart (fiddling them with i915-resolution didnt work), despite trying to ignore EDID and DDC. The highest common resolution I have is 1024x768. For my Sony: Section Device Identifier i915 Driver i810 VideoRam32768 Option DPMS On Option DDC Off Option IgnoreEDIDtrue Option MonitorLayout CRT,LFP Option Clone true Option CloneRefresh 60 #Option NoAccel BusID PCI:0:2:0 #Option ForceBIOS 1366x768=1280x1024 Screen 0 EndSection On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 04:18 +, James wrote: Sascha Hlusiak saschahlusiak at arcor.de writes: Anyone know what I should use for the make.conf VIDEO_CARDS setting? i810 Anyone know of an example xorg.conf example I can use for the laptop video and LCD screen sections? Just use a section with the i810 driver and you should be good. Nothing fancy. Hmmm, not working for me eix xorg-server shows: video_cards_i810 (even though my chipset is a 965GM which is not specifically listed in the chipsets covered by the i810 driver(flag). I also emerged sys-apps/915resolution-0.5.3-r1 and tried to follow this url for xorg.conf http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/xorg_conf.html but I get a very similar error as with my hacked version of xorg.conf (here are the relevant portions: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 DisplaySize 385 240 HorizSync30-82 VertRefresh 58-75 ModelName[EMAIL PROTECTED] Option DPMS VendorName -- LCD UseModes Modes[0] Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver i810 VendorName Intel BoardName Intel 965GM Screen 0 Option Rotate off BusID PCI:0:2:0 BusID PCI:0:2:1 EndSection Section Modes Identifier Modes[0] Modeline 1280x800 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultColorDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 32 Modes 1280x800 EndSubSection EndSection Note I tried with a single and dual entries for BusID as suggested by this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Sony_Vaio_VGN-SZ23GP I always get a similar error to this: (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:0) found (EE) No devices detected. lspci shows: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) lshw shows: *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:02.0 version: 0c width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 *-display:1 UNCLAIMED description: Display controller product: Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2.1 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:02.1 version: 0c width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 Any ideas or help is appreciated. James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MAJOR udev problem, PLEASE help
This is giving me some problems on a laptop - I have a 70-persistent-net rules file which attempts to pin eth0 to the ethernet interface, and eth1 to the wireless interface. This works fine on a cold boot or hibernate to disk (sus2) - without it the allocation wanders between the interfaces at will (this also occurs on a number of multi-interface servers I have - a real pain!) Recently however, if I attempt to echo mem /sys/power/state (aka instant stop/start!!) it resumes with one of the interfaces having a name of ethx_renam and of course no network. Is it possible to: a. fix so it worked as previously - i.e., resumed on the same interface in working condition or b. able to rename the interface so I can script a fix to run after resume. and is it a bug (so I will bugzilla it) or is it a feature :( BillK On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 17:20 -0600, Trenton Adams wrote: Yes, everything worked just fine. It indeed switched my ethernet to a different interface (eth1). Not a problem. On 6/11/07, Redouane Boumghar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Trenton, Ok it's been a month since this thread but... I found myself too oftenly in front of unsolved archived threads. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
Watch this one! I ended up with a seriously broken system after running localepurge - make sure you have your locale sorted out first! But it can save quite a lot of space - pity the system was dead in the water ... reiserfs is more space efficient than other filesystems like ext2/3 (depending on a lot of things ... YMMV) -O3 - saves peanuts overall rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other good version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll back ... :) rm -rfv /usr/portage/distfiles - after thinking about if you need to keep these versions, consider if redownloading them wont be a problem (or write them out to DVD/CD etc. There are also a couple of distfile cleaner programs - see the forums. If you have another machine, look into http-replicator - highly recommended. rm -rfv /var/tmp/portage - this can all go - often cruft like crashed OO builds end up here - can be huge. run `du /|sort -rn|less` and see where your biggest files/directories are and see if they can go. In real tight situations, NFS can help by putting /usr/portage/distfiles, /var/tmp/portage, etc on other machines with more diskspace. I have found this to be very flakey at times depending on kernel versions, system loads, etc. Huge builds like OO rarely finished without a crash or two in the build process :) Use the -doc useflag and rebuild - this can save over a GB on a large systems there have been a number of threads over the years on saving space - search the forums. BillK BillK On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:38 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:07 +0100, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 07:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:19:47 Graham Murray wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer ... Not really. Just use --color=y if you want colors through a pipe. Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y to either tells me things like: == There is no color=y option (less --help for help) == ... What I would like to know is why less in a console does give colour syntax highlighting, but does NOT do so in any of the X terminals Ive tried ... I did bring this up on the list some time back and I think its a bug, but lost track of the thread due to lack of time. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron
Thanks - I searched before this was raised. At least I dont feel so lonely now :) BillK On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:01 +0930, Trevor Forbes wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: Cant believe I am the only one who has this - 3 systems I have checked so far are all the same - root cant access its crontab. Ive tried rebuilding one without pam (fcron only), but no change. [Bug 171998] sys-process/fcron-3.0.2-r1 - root can't list/edit cronjobs. Trevor -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Trevor Forbes wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: ... [Bug 171998] sys-process/fcron-3.0.2-r1 - root can't list/edit cronjobs. Getting a little OT here, but I find that a very interesting bug report. It seems sensible that adding root to the fcron group would fix the problem, but this raises an interesting question: ... didnt work for me - root was added, cron stopped an restarted. Logged in as root at another console - no change. Havnt rebooted though. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 14:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: Havnt rebooted though Most unlikely to make any difference whatsoever. You'll probably sit with exactly the same situation after the reboot as before, this ain't windows alan ah knows - what can a user do that root cant. I tried it without PAM compiled in - whats left? weird! BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 15:26 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 2. April 2007 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: The OP has an interesting problem here, as root can cd into any directory even if all permissions are removed. root can, but user fcron can't: well spotted - I missed that. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fcron
Looks like fcron has changed its user group from cron to fcron. Once I realised this I have been able to add users to fcron and it works - for users. However I have quite a number of system level root jobs that I cant list or edit using crontab -e or -l on multiple systems moriah ~ # crontab -e 22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission denied moriah ~ # BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron
Cant believe I am the only one who has this - 3 systems I have checked so far are all the same - root cant access its crontab. Ive tried rebuilding one without pam (fcron only), but no change. bunyip ~ # esearch fcron [ Results for search key : fcron ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-process/fcron Latest version available: 3.0.2-r1 Latest version installed: 3.0.2-r1 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://fcron.free.fr/ Description: A command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron License: GPL-2 bunyip ~ # ls -al /var/spool/cron/ total 0 drwxr-x--- 5 root cron 176 Dec 10 00:01 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 240 Jun 8 2006 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Dec 10 00:01 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 drwxr-x--- 2 root cron 72 Feb 18 2005 crontabs drwsrws--- 2 fcron fcron 200 Apr 3 06:46 fcrontabs drwxr-x--- 2 root root 224 Apr 2 22:26 lastrun bunyip ~ # bunyip ~ # ls -al /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs/ total 16 drwsrws--- 2 fcron fcron 200 Apr 3 06:46 . drwxr-x--- 5 root cron 176 Dec 10 00:01 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root fcron0 Apr 3 06:46 .keep_sys-process_fcron-0 -rw--- 1 root root 1681 Apr 3 06:21 root -rw-r- 1 fcron fcron 1132 Feb 17 14:24 root.orig -rw--- 1 root root 184 Apr 3 06:21 wdk -rw-r- 1 fcron fcron 173 Nov 22 14:14 wdk.orig bunyip ~ # On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 17:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 02 April 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 2 April 2007 16:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: moriah ~ # crontab -e 22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission denied moriah ~ # BillK You HAVE to do that as root The # character in the prompt usually indicates a root shell...so I guess the OP was already issuing those commands as root. doh! /me whacks self on head with a clue by 4 The OP has an interesting problem here, as root can cd into any directory even if all permissions are removed. Bill, a bit of a shot in the dark here, but what's the output from 'ls -al /var/spool/cron/'? And are you running a hardened profile using selinux? alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Management
equery check gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager BillK On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:27 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: try running gconf-editor and go to: /apps/gnome-power-manager/battery_percentage_low and setting it to something other than 0. It sounds like it's set to the wrong value, and somethings getting confused... Well that's exactly the weird thing. I already played with gconf-editor, and used its search function to find battery_percentage_low, and it doesn't exist. Actually apps/gnome-power-manager isn't even there. Perhaps that is the problem... Gnome power manager is certainly installed, however, so something isn't quite right. Any ideas on why it's not in my gconf-editor? Should I take this to a gnome mailing list, or is it more likely a problem with the ebuild? Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Jesuit priests are DATING CAREER DIPLOMATS!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:58 +0100, Jakob wrote: On 12/19/06, Jakob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/19/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:48, Jakob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... for now I will stick with 32bit, I think I will Install 64bit to another partition in some weeks Is it still the case thats its impossible to upgrade a 32bit gentoo on athlon64 to 64 bit - requires a full reinstall? Billk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo wirelesss access point
Can someone point me to a document so I can set up a gentoo laptop with a built in ipw2200 wireless as an access point using wpa ??? I need to use it for a demo of some wireless 802.11 phones. Looking at the conf.d/net file doesnt show what I need to fill out to get a working access point. Or is this best done manually (iwconfig and wpa_supplicant) BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC over SSH (VNC session is non-local to SSH)
Check out zebedee - unlike ssh, its designed specifically for this type of thing (esp VNC) and as a consequence is more flexible. Also works with doze etc. Billk On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:46 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: I have a gentoo box setup as a router with 3 servers behind it (all 4 servers are running gentoo). Right now I simply have port 5901 to forward from the router to my vnc server so I can access it remotely. I've looked on the gentoo forums and online but haven't been able to find any solid information on how to tunnel 5901 through ssh through the router to the vnc server. Basically, client - router - vnc server port 5901, but over ssh. Any ideas? -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?
Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly? I currently connect to multiple networks using a laptop with an ipw2200 wireless and a built in NIC consisting of: NIC, fixed IP NIC, DHCP NIC, DHCP and openvpn NIC, DHCP and CiscoVPN wireless with wpa/tkip wireless with wpa/tkip and openvpn wireless plain with openvpn wireless plain with CiscoVPN. all configs have common services like a caching bind server, zebedee and apache and various other services not normally seen on a laptop. These usually need restarting in order for the new config to take. and obviously more than one network of each type in some cases. It is wireless or NIC, not both at once. Currently I arrive at a site and run a script that copies in the config files for the needed configuration, and then restarts the needed services. This broke with the last baselayout changes - wierd things happen like zebedee running ok when the initscript is run from the commandline, but not from a script. So I reverted, but I am thinking I need to redesign the system or start making bug reports in order to use the latest changes. Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions? Its not a good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to connect to the local network, which seems par for the course for gentoo! BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?
If I set the NIC to DHCP as you advise, you are implying that gentoo will handle the various fixed IP's, subnets, gateways and differing vpn schemes automaticly? How can it do that? Only some of the networks (only three in fact) use DHCP. ifplugd looks interesting - possibly the best I can do will be to use ifplugd to trigger if-up and if-up will have to contain the various add ons like the vpns and service restarting with functions to detect which to run where. No relief from the nightmare I am afraid ... BillK On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 01:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:58:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Also, is there an integrated way to plug in a network cable and have a config RELIABLY recognised and trigger the necessary actions? Its not a good look to arrive at lecture in front of 30-50 people and struggle to connect to the local network, which seems par for the course for gentoo! emerge ifplugd, but don't try to configure it, Gentoo's networking scripts handle that automatically. Set your wired interface to use DHCP and it should set itself up automatically. If you want something else done when connecting or disconnecting the cable, such as shutting down wireless or restarting services, look at the preup/postup/predown/postdown functions in /etc/conf.d/net.example. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems
I use the sourceforge ipw2200 stuff - never could get the kernel stuff to work, even on simple networks. bunyip ~ # esearch ipw2200 [ Results for search key : ipw2200 ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * net-wireless/ipw2200 Latest version available: 1.1.3 Latest version installed: 1.1.3 Size of downloaded files: 399 kB Homepage:http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters License: GPL-2 * net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware Latest version available: 3.0 Latest version installed: 3.0 Size of downloaded files: 791 kB Homepage:http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters License: ipw2200-fw The above works! It might also be a good idea to bypass as much as possible of gentoos networking scripts (from experience, esp /etc/conf.d/net), at least until you get a working setup, then you can roll the changes back in and test as you go. They just do not work well when you have a dozen or more networks using vpn's, wireless. wired, wep, plain and wpa - mainly I think because of the way its documented means that while they tell you how to do many things, they dont tell you how or why, so its too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. I suspect they are trying to be all things to every possible combination, and fail dismally with wireless and laptops! And until I found a udev workaround, multiple network cards in a server :( BillK On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:53 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I'll throw two chickens in one pot. I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How do you know whats linked against firefox?
I have just completed the latest update to firefox and saw a warning to compile all applications linked against it. How do you know whats linked against firefox? BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] viewing oracle forms on firefox with blackdown java
I am having problems viewing oracle forms on firefox with blackdown java. I have followed various font and X guides with no improvement. Both screen and printed data looks like: http://wdk.dyndns.org/oracle_forms.png; I need this to be readable, as its a crucial part of my work to be able to access the forms :( I am a forms user, and have no access/input to the server at all (and being a gentoo user in a rabid doze environment I am both on my own, and need to keep a low profile!) BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and the mozilla blocking seamonkey
Yep, thats it. A sync this morning and its available - must have missed it by only a short time with the previous sync! I have been waiting for this to appear, and seeing someone ask that it had been stable, I assumed that it had been out awhile and I was missing out on the good stuff :) BillK On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 16:06 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg
Part of the process for upgrading to the new java system, and using modular X (before it became stable) requires keywording via /etc/portage/package.keywords. What happens when the keywording is no longer necessary? It appears that you slowly collect an ~x86 system as the keywords grow! - along with the breakages that implies (I was recently caught, which is why I am asking) Over time, my two stable(!) systems are now 153 and 421 ~x86 packages respectively in *THAT* file. The larger system required modular X because of the i810 driver (now at 7.1), but now stable 7.0 is released, I assume I am going to have a terminally broken system if I just delete the keywords? Is there a way to easily stop the system upgrading until the stable packages catch up? - without breakages? BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problems with revdep-rebuild after the modular X upgrade
If anyone is having problems with revdep-rebuild after the modular X upgrade, check out bug #137313 (I have one of 3 systems so far with this problem) Billk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had an unusable system. I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X. BillK On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:24 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there is something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 which overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmerges xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to upgrade again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files but portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So when he emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged... That's a definite possibility. But I don't _think_ everyone encountering this problem has hit it, although I could be wrong. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mythtv and 64bit - does it work/is it worth it?
Ive just been reading up on 64/32 bit and gentoo. Does 64bit (athlon64 3200) offer any advantages for a mythtv system? Its a (now that I have good HW on it!) stable working system, but it looks like I will have to reinstall (no mean feat considering the setup time this took in the first place!) if I go 64bit. My only reason is to do it is probably better to leap now rather than in a years time when it might be more difficult! (and its probably a good learning experience :) BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mysql database getting too big
The mysql database used only by mythtv has grown to 1.3Gbytes - a bit over the top! mythconverg itself is only 34Mbytes, but /var/lib/mysql is full of files named (myth1 is the hostname): myth1-bin.01 myth1-bin.02 myth1-bin.03 ... basicly one for each day operations occur on the database. Can they be safely deleted/compressed or reduced in size somehow? I have run optimise table and the database itself is fine. I suspect that some of the larger files are to do with hardware related lockups requiring a database repair after recovery. The machine is mostly standard gentoo and mysql 4.1.20 BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql database getting too big
Thank you, just what I needed. I thought I had turned binary logging off, and didnt expect to find the files there in any case. BillK On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:50 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: PURGE MASTER LOGS TO 'myth1-bin. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] libjs for gentoo?
What package provides libjs for gentoo? ubuntu has libjavascript-perl and FC has libjs and libjs-devel None of which shows up in gentoo BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd
You might want to check out the following ntp.conf options depending on your network link - in particular the panic 0 option or the commandline version '-g' tinker panic 0 huffpuff 7200 The huffpuff value seems to help on a loaded broadband connection, and I found it a must on a modem. The panic value stops ntp from dropping out when too great a difference occurs between network and local time (your original problem I think) - it will step, whereas without it it will run, but refuse to update the time, or in some cases die. BillK On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:16 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:39:52AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: ... Well, it's been running fine all day long. I think I'll kill the commandline ntpd and restart /etc/init.d/ntpd. And watch it for a week or so. Thanks again, festus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Are there any known glitches in using the nvidia drivers with an athlon64?
This was exactly it - though not strictly 'mis-configured. Its a mythtv box setup to run on a TV, and I had plugged a monitor in to use it. A bit red faced as I should have twigged much earlier than just an hour ago! BillK On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 08:08 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote: I have two AMD 64's one at work and one at home both run nvidia drivers and while there werre times when I had problems initially - they were cured when I went to the latest nvidia drivers (~amd64) and I have never had a problem with either system in over 6 months. It could be a misconfigured xorg.conf file so try re-doing that and recompiling nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. Pete On 6/11/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: Are there any known glitches in using the nvidia drivers with an athlon64? They work together for me. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Pete Pardoe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver
Thanks, this is what I will do. BillK On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:46 -0400, JimD wrote: ... unmerge x11-misc/xscreensaver. If you use Gnome emerge: gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updated to evolution 2.6.1 and the copy and move buttons are missing off the toolbar
I was afraid that would be the answer. I hope one day they will add a user configurable toolbar. Its times like this when I wish there was a viable alternative to evolution :( BillK On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 09:32 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 18:02 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Just updated to evolution 2.6.1 and the copy and move buttons have gone missing off the toolbar. Is there an easy way to get them back? You must have upgraded from a while ago - I don't remember those buttons for a long time... yes they've gone, and no they won't come back! Evolution devs make a few changes over every minor revision. They've been trying to remove some of the clutter in menu's and toolbars. Some people like it, some don't. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au interest, n.: What borrowers pay, lenders receive, stockholders own, and burned out employees must feign. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 21:10 +0200, Jure Varlec wrote: On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:42, W.Kenworthy wrote: ... The modes which xorg null's out are the ones your hardware cannot support. Only now did I notice that your laptop's native resolution is 1366x768. That is 768 pixels vertical. You physically cannot have 1024 pixels. Yet you write that you managed to force it once. Are you sure that was it? Anyway, I don't think you can use such a mode on your laptop. Your projector should work fine of course, but without clone mode. Another possibility would be having 1280x1024 workspace, which should display properly on the projector, but using a lower resolution on the laptop, which should behave like zooming because the workspace is bigger. I don't know how to do this off the top of my head, but it should be in the man pages. Regards, Jure The chipset is capable of it, as is the external monitor. The external monitor is an LCD which runs at 1280x1024 - its the internal laptop LCD which appears to be the problem. When I did have both screens running in their proper modes, it was in two completely different desktops which doesnt work when you are trying to give a presentation! What I want is the same desktop on both screens - looks like this is not possible. I will investigate the viewport option, but I dont think that will help. Billk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)
The modes are there but xorgs log shows them as filled out with zeros (see the bit for Mode 38 below - quite a number of modes are like this). 915resolution reports that the modes I want to use are present) If I start it up with the ext monitor connected I get a weird display on both screens - unusable. Ive done all the standard things and am thinking Ive run up into an xorg bug with this driver. It will be a few weeks before I get the time to fiddle with this again - its at least usable as long as I dont boot it with an ext monitor plugged in, if non-optimal in the way I am currently using it. BillK Mode: 38 (0x0) ModeAttributes: 0x0 WinAAttributes: 0x0 WinBAttributes: 0x0 WinGranularity: 0 WinSize: 0 WinASegment: 0x0 WinBSegment: 0x0 WinFuncPtr: 0x0 BytesPerScanline: 0 XResolution: 0 YResolution: 0 XCharSize: 0 YCharSize: 0 NumberOfPlanes: 0 BitsPerPixel: 0 NumberOfBanks: 0 MemoryModel: 0 BankSize: 0 NumberOfImages: 0 RedMaskSize: 0 RedFieldPosition: 0 GreenMaskSize: 0 GreenFieldPosition: 0 BlueMaskSize: 0 BlueFieldPosition: 0 RsvdMaskSize: 0 RsvdFieldPosition: 0 DirectColorModeInfo: 0 PhysBasePtr: 0x0 LinBytesPerScanLine: 0 BnkNumberOfImagePages: 0 LinNumberOfImagePages: 0 LinRedMaskSize: 0 LinRedFieldPosition: 0 LinGreenMaskSize: 0 LinGreenFieldPosition: 0 LinBlueMaskSize: 0 LinBlueFieldPosition: 0 LinRsvdMaskSize: 0 LinRsvdFieldPosition: 0 MaxPixelClock: 0 On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:26 +0200, Jure Varlec wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 08:12, W.Kenworthy wrote: First, make sure you have proper modes in your VBIOS with 915resolution, and that you have those resolution in your Screen section in xorg.conf. Then make sure xorg knows which pipe has which display (e.g., I have Option MonitorLayout CRT,LFP in my xorg.conf; check the driver's man page). After that, using clone mode should work with all those resolutions. However, there are two things you must be aware of. Firstly, it seems you need to restart xorg /after/ you connect the other monitor in order for it to enable clone mode (although I think there is an option for the driver to enable polling). Secondly, xorg fails to negotiate the proper resolution with certain displays, e.g. I had a problem with a projector once. In that case, you must set the correct resolution in your Screen section and delete the others. Good luck. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)
I have a new Sony Vaio laptop with a 1366x768 screen using the intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller which can be driven by the xorg i810 driver. Works fine on the laptop in this resolution. The problem I have is that many of the possible modes for this chipset return blank when xorg starts as in the example below from the xorg log - the mode I want to use is 1280x1024 for an external projector. I have (once!) been able to get 1280x1024 using 915resolution to force the mode, and two screens but I need to use clone mode so this wasnt practical (I want clone mode with the same desktop on both screens) Can someone point me towards a solution please. It seems to me that xorg is not reading the chipset correctly. Note that ddc on or off doesnt help (and if I have an external monitor attached when xorg starts, it really stuffs things up, also ddc on or off!) My requirement is to use 1360x768 when standalone, or 1280x1024 on either an LCD desk monitor, or same resolution on a projector in clone mode. When doing the external thing, the laptop screen doesnt have to be 'perfect'. Currently I can do this, but only in 1024x768, which looks terrible on the ext LCD due to aliasing. BillK ... Mode: 5c (0x0) ModeAttributes: 0x0 WinAAttributes: 0x0 WinBAttributes: 0x0 WinGranularity: 0 WinSize: 0 WinASegment: 0x0 WinBSegment: 0x0 WinFuncPtr: 0x0 BytesPerScanline: 0 XResolution: 0 YResolution: 0 XCharSize: 0 YCharSize: 0 NumberOfPlanes: 0 BitsPerPixel: 0 NumberOfBanks: 0 MemoryModel: 0 BankSize: 0 NumberOfImages: 0 RedMaskSize: 0 RedFieldPosition: 0 GreenMaskSize: 0 GreenFieldPosition: 0 BlueMaskSize: 0 BlueFieldPosition: 0 RsvdMaskSize: 0 RsvdFieldPosition: 0 DirectColorModeInfo: 0 PhysBasePtr: 0x0 LinBytesPerScanLine: 0 BnkNumberOfImagePages: 0 LinNumberOfImagePages: 0 LinRedMaskSize: 0 LinRedFieldPosition: 0 LinGreenMaskSize: 0 LinGreenFieldPosition: 0 LinBlueMaskSize: 0 LinBlueFieldPosition: 0 LinRsvdMaskSize: 0 LinRsvdFieldPosition: 0 MaxPixelClock: 0 ... (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50-100.00 kHz (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 40.00-110.00 Hz (II) I810(0): Not using mode 1280x1024 (no mode of this name) (II) I810(0): Not using mode 1152x864 (no mode of this name) (II) I810(0): Not using mode 832x624 (no mode of this name) (II) I810(0): Not using mode 720x400 (no mode of this name) (II) I810(0): Correcting stride (1368 - 2752) (II) I810(0): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (1376 - 2048). (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1368x768 (pitch 2048) (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 1360x768 (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 1024x768 (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 800x600 (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 640x480 (**) I810(0): Built-in mode 1360x768 (**) I810(0): Built-in mode 1064x600 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs? Squashfs, cloop and zisofs are readonly, I have looked at encfs (looks nice), but it doesnt seem to compress, just encrypt and I dont want the overhead, or need it. e2compr looks a bit like abandonware - what else is available? BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
Fixed. Something between the #150 and ~#180 packages of an ~250 package emerge system -ep was the problem. BillK On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:12 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
No, ocaml hasnt been touched since Nov last year. If dnd errors off on the -ep, I'll try tree and see if that shows anything. Thanks, BillK On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:12:27 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
Nope, installed it and rebuilt again unison as well The font wanted to pull in dnd and xemacs packages - dnd failed to build and I dont want xemacs (I already have one operating system :) so I did it -nodeps. Same error :) BillK On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:49 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 11:18:07 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. emerge media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc-1.0.0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ I had a few glitches on the upgrade so want to check its not me before I post a bug. In the meantime, it does work with the text ui! BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
Thanks, looks like its emerge world -ep time - was trying to put it off, but as I dont know what else is broken I had better get it over with! revdep-rebuild seems almost useless these days so there is little alternative! BillK On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:54 +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Tuesday, May 9 2006 12:48, W.Kenworthy wrote: Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? ... Although I usually only use the cli interface, a quick check has the X interface for unison working perfectly fine on x86 and amd64 machines with modular X. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
