Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?
On Monday 11 May 2009 10:21:56 pm James wrote: Not a bad idea, Jerome. I imagine you create a new DVD every year or so so that you don't have to wait forever when updating all packages on your system? -j Hi James, Actally, I update the dvd pretty regularly. I'm a real bug about staying current with the kernel, glibc and gcc. Have a good one -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 18:42:11 up 11 days, 10 min, 3 users, load average: 2.18, 0.61, 0.21 *
Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?
On Monday 11 May 2009 08:14:07 pm Adam Carter wrote: I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems regularly. The hardware (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so cloning (via ESX or dd) is not an option. Different hardware shouldn't preclude this approach. Just make sure all the relevant modules are built and the OS should load what it needs. I keep a master copy of a generic gentoo install on a dvd. It's configured and compiled as x86, i686 for both the applications and kernel. I build all the kernel drivers I would ever need and update it as needed with each new round of hardware purchases or driver updates. Then when I need to put another gentoo box online, I simply copy the contents of the dvd to the new harddrive, run grub and install the boot loader onto the new drive and I'm done the hard part. Once done, I pop the new drive into the new computer and boot it up. At the commandline I finish tailoring the install by tweaking USE in make.conf and recompiling, but only as necessary. Add in whatever drivers is needs and I'm done... It's worked everytime I've done this... YMMV. :') Saves tons of time building a box from scratch via the stages... -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 21:13:43 up 10 days, 2:41, 4 users, load average: 2.04, 1.96, 1.92 *
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:15:21 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:25 +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: I like the -march=native and -mtune=native options. As long as you don't use distcc with differing hardware. I did that by accident once and trust me, it's a unforgettable lesson. Jerry. -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 17:27:39 up 3 days, 22:12, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 *
Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? It's not a mouse, it's a Tasmanian Devil which isn't a rodent but the worlds only surviving predatory marsupial. The animal population is under threat from the only cancer known to science to be transmitted via biting. It affects the devils around the mouth and jaw (where they routinely bite each other) and is fatal in every known case within 3 to 9 months. The most recent Linux Dev Conference was in Australia and included a drive to raise awareness and funds to help protect this endangered animal. Our devil has a name - Tuz. OK. :-) But I must say, I was a bit shocked, when I first saw it,...I thought...hey, has my system been compromised ? :-) I feel sorry for the animal... but I have to have my penguin back... I changed it myself... -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 20:21:44 up 99 days, 1:31, 5 users, load average: 1.16, 1.03, 1.01 *
[gentoo-user] ibiblio dumps Gentoo distfiles to save space
Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with ibibilo resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a few emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was looking for... the truth... Jerry, We are no longer rsyncing the distfiles due to space constraints on our distributions volume. Gentoo's own instructions for setting up a mirror recommend excluding the distfiles directory: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml If you need these files, you could try the other mirrors listed on this page: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml Best, Matt I promptly emailed back an offer of two new 1,000 gig drives if they would put the gentoo distfiles back up and... no answer Guess they really don't care. -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 17:17:08 up 57 days, 23:24, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.02 *
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 05:52:16 am Norberto Bensa wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jerry McBride mcbrid...@comcast.net wrote: If you need more info, feel free to email me direct. why? off-list communications should only be done with off-topic conversations. If you have a solution for him, you should share it with the list so others can find solutions to similar problems. regards Well.. you just answered your own message. I DON'T have an answer, but I'm willing to answer any questions he may have off line... That was the purpose of my OP... What's the mystery? -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 06:50:28 up 49 days, 12:56, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.14, 0.05 *
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 12:53:22 am Dirk Uys wrote: Hi I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 ebuild fails: Scanning dependencies of target kdeinit_kxkb [ 23%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kdeinit_kxkb_automoc.o [ 24%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/rules.o Linking CXX shared module ../../lib/kcm_keyboard_layout.so CMakeFiles/kcm_keyboard_layout.dir/x11helper.o: In function `X11Helper::registerForNewDeviceEvent(_XDisplay*)': x11helper.cpp:(.text+0x21): undefined reference to `_XiGetDevicePresenceNotifyEvent(_XDisplay*)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [lib/kcm_keyboard_layout.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kcm_keyboard_layout.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs [ 24%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kxkbconfig.o [ 24%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/extension.o [ 25%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/x11helper.o [ 25%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/pixmap.o [ 26%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/xklavier_adaptor.o [ 26%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kxkbcore.o [ 27%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/layoutmap.o [ 27%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kxkbapp.o [ 27%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kxkbwidget.o [ 28%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kxkb_adaptor.o [ 28%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kxkb_part.o /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0/work/systemsettings-4.2.0/kc ontrol/kxkb/kxkb_part.cpp:37: warning: unused parameter 'args' Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_kxkb.so CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/x11helper.o: In function `X11Helper::registerForNewDeviceEvent(_XDisplay*)': x11helper.cpp:(.text+0x21): undefined reference to `_XiGetDevicePresenceNotifyEvent(_XDisplay*)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [lib/libkdeinit4_kxkb.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 I have the latest version of libXi (1.2.0). I tried searching the net, but the only answer I got was that some guy on the kde forums had the same problem and resolved it by installing the latest version of libXi from the repository. Have anyone else successfully built kde4.2? Regards Dirk It compiled with zero errors on a 32bit x86 with the necessary ebuilds autounmasked. If you need more info, feel free to email me direct. -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 06:37:10 up 48 days, 12:43, 5 users, load average: 2.87, 1.30, 0.49 *
[gentoo-user] Gcc-4.3.3
Anyone else noticing problems with the new compiler? An example, sysklogd no longer builds with 4.3.3, but did with 4.3.2-r3, etc. etc. New (~x86) version of sysklogd fails too So far, I'm not able to get the sources cleaned up enough to get it to compile cleanly... I'm going back to 4.3.2-r3 until 4.3.3-r1 comes out... :') -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 16:41:14 up 45 days, 22:47, 5 users, load average: 3.41, 2.52, 2.34 *
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-4.3.3
On Saturday 31 January 2009 05:54:27 pm Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: I couldn't even install gcc4.3.3 on my amd64 machine. The build failed each time and I essentially decided to just wait for the next revision. Working fine here. glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1 with linux-headers-2.6.28-r1. On three x86 boxs (32bit), gcc 4.3.3 was not able to compile sysklogd or even glibc. -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 18:09:59 up 46 days, 16 min, 5 users, load average: 1.50, 2.08, 2.53 *
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell
On Saturday 27 December 2008 10:48:19 am Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: [...] Well, my bit of wisdom here: Don't use modules. Do a make menuconfig, disable everything you don't need, and compile everything you need in-kernel instead of as a module. I'd say the disable everything you don't need part is what Harry's mail is all about. Well, finding out what every installed module does isn't going to help anyway. I'd start with only the modules currently used after a fresh boot (lsmod). If you compile those in-kernel, it will boot. Everything else can be tweaked later. Yeah, I talked about that in OP. But the only kernel I've got working at the moment is a genkernel and it installs 80+ modules. rmmoding my way through those is what lead to my post. Some indicate they are in use but I can see they aren't related to things I actually need. Digging that bit of info up is what I've been talking about. Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: What could help you here is a make xconfig. It's similar to make menuconfig but has a nice QT user interface. I would recommend to browse through it once and look at the help texts which are shown in the lower right pane for each option you klick. Based on this information, you can then decide wether or not to enable that option or even compile it as module. I have looked at that before but didn't think it was any better than `menuconfig' and the '/' help tool. Many times the help provided doesn't really explain what a given setting does. In fact in most cases it does not. What is really aggravating is that it doesn't even really tell you what exact thing in .config is being set with the various hundreds of options. I mean when you do set something, you don't really get to see what is being set inside of .config. I don't have X running currently so its a mute point, but is the help provided in xconfig and different than that available in `menuconfig'? Details: I'm at a point where any pared down kernel config I've built and tried has some terrible thing wrong with it. Usually involving udev and openrc someway or other... things not getting started or mounted etc etc. With udev, those things usually work automatically. However, you must make sure that everything needed for accessing the root filesystem must be compiled into the kernel. That usually includes the driver for the chipset that operates your harddisks, harddisk support and the filesystem used for /. I'd think there would be some kind of cross reference somewhere that would connect module names to what they do, and what .config options are associated. I don't know of any. But in most cases, the module name is listed in the help text. Another path is to find the *.ko names in /lib/modules and use the absolute name to track them down in the kernel sources where there is usually a README of some sort in the tree leading to the *.ko. Somtimes, you can also simply guess by module name, for example: joydev.ko - Joy(stick)Dev(ice). But my god what a slow and painful way to find out what these modules do. Yes, that's true. The browsing method may give you a rough overview within an hour or two. Just rmmod is another way but again a very slow and painful way. Maybe a module is used only occasionally and rmmodding may not show what it was for right away. What ever fails may not happen immediately. Or try modprobe + dmesg instead. Usually a driver module tells wether it has found some pice of supported hardware or not. Now that is a good piece of advice there... I did notice that rmmoding and modprobing can give you more info than you expect if you hit something that the module latches onto. I'm finding somewhat rough sledding in dmesg too. I find the ethernet stuff with no problem and, by now, know what I need there. My hardware is pretty common stuff, not even any sata discs, all ata. and I'm still not sure which driver is needed there. On the last attempted kernel, I just went menuconfig on a copy of the genkernel .config and turned off a number of things I was pretty sure didn't apply to me (all wireless for example) or anything but ethernet under the network section. All firmware turned off. Stuff I've never needed before. Every thing mounted but still no network was started or any of the stuff listed in `rc-update show'. I was dumped out into a root shell where I was able to modprobe and '/etc/init.d/bla start' my way into a fully running system. So the stuff was there but something (I suspect udev) blocked it starting up like it should. At the same time a genkernel built kernel just boots as expected so clearly something was turned off that shouldn't have been. Right now my dmesg is clogged up with stuff since bootup so I'm going to reboot the genkernel built kernel and have a close look at dmesg
Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
On Saturday 15 November 2008 02:45:04 pm Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? What's wrong with gentoo-wiki.info? As for backup yes tar is good, but how about rsync? -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 15:28:45 up 20 days, 4:03, 2 users, load average: 1.18, 1.05, 1.03 *
Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:08:42 pm Mick wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has works so far. Thought about doing a cron job but that complicates things. :/ Thank you all for the suggestions and for the link to the wiki! I've got some reading to do. ;-) Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD. This was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed while I was tar'ing them. Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real time? I was gravitating towards using LVM snapshot and then tar'ing that to an external USB drive. If you need to guarantee a backup without the data being changed during the process... you gotta take the server down. The easiest way is to init 1 to single user mode , make your backup, then init x back to what ever runlevel you were in... -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 21:54:45 up 5:40, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 *
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple: dd if=/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso of=/dev/flash drive not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal install CD, but I don't remember. I tried that recently, but it failed. What I ended up doing was copying over the needed files from the hard drive to the flash drive, then ran grub-install to rewrite the grub files... Bingo... it boots now. incidentally, this is a ext2 formatted flash drive... -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 17:49:43 up 9 days, 22:07, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.03, 0.01 *
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!
On Monday 06 October 2008 04:07:27 pm b.n. wrote:
Roy Wright ha scritto:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote:
Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for
the laziest of us? :)
emerge autounmask
autounmask kde-meta
On my ~x86, I had to add:
~app-misc/strigi-0.5.11
to etc/portage/package.unmask/autounmask-kde-meta to resolve a blocking
issue between strigi-0.5.10 and strigi-0.5.11
app-misc/strigi:0
('installed', '/', 'app-misc/strigi-0.5.11', 'nomerge') pulled in by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/libplasma-4.1.2', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'app-misc/strigi-0.5.10', 'merge') pulled in by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-4.1.2', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/nepomuk-4.1.2', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-4.1.2',
'merge') (and 4 more)
BTW, I also changed all of the '=' to '~' to catch any future revs...
A bit of a stupid question but I want to be double-sure:
-KDE 4 and KDE 3 can happily live together, isn't it?
-Do I need to backup config files/use KDE 4 as another user if I want to
switch between KDE 4 and KDE 3?
-Anything else to worry about?
Thanks!
m.
I have both kde-3.5.10 and kde-4.1.2 and there are a couple of small
incompatibilities... and that's why they are still masked. If I recall
right... I had to upgrade to the latest ~x86 portage and then I had to iron
out kopete for both versions of kde... No show stoppers, but there are a few
issues you'll have to iron out.
Sorry, I made no notes... but in my MOST HUMBLE opinion... there's no reason
to not to try kde-4.1.2.
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[gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!
Well, I took notice that kde 4.1.2 is in portage... I quickly removed kde-svn and layman and began the unmasking and keywording of 4.1.2. I let it all install over night and... This morning, with a little trepidation, I booted into KDE-4.1.2... no problems! This is the first of the recent kde4.x releases that I've been able to take full advantage of. Success at last... Cheers. -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 12:05:43 up 7 days, 16:23, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.06, 0.04 *
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run
On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:26:06 pm Adam Carter wrote: rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [ ok ] rix adam # The socket is not in use and log dir perms are ok, and; rix adam # apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf rix adam # pgrep -lf apach 17740 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf 17741 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf 17744 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf 17772 apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf rix adam # So, how do I troubleshoot this? I just did a google search on the error (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down and it turned up so much that I just don't even feel like reading it for you... What I suspect and what's mentioned in the pages that google turned up, something else is bound to port 80. Do a ps -A | grep apache and see if a stray daemon is running around... i not then go to /etc/apache2/vhosts.d and make sure both config files are pointing to the same host that apache is running on... That's where I would start. -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 21:56:02 up 1 day, 2:13, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.07, 0.02 *
Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage
On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:26:15 pm Mike wrote: Mike wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only one). To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire kde-4.1 SLOT has been removed. Can someone confirm? Am I actually dreaming? Anyone know why a perfectly reasonable set of ebuilds were removed? I have a similar problem when I 'emerge --sync' it deletes my overlays I added with layman. Mike My problem was I symlinked /usr/local to /usr so layman was installing the overlays to /usr/portage instead of /usr/local/portage and they were getting deleted on 'emerge --sync'. I changed the layman installation directory in /etc/layman/layman.cfg and solved that problem. Mike Hmmm maybe you guys would know I've gone the same route as you. However, I've emerge 4.1.65. It compiles fine, installs, no problems. However... I normally start my gentoobox as rc 3. When I run startx, kde loads and looks quite wonderful, but just as the desktop grabs the mouse... it locks up. The lockup is so complete, I can't switch to a console and have to reboot... Does anyone have a suggestion? Kde 4,0 actually worked ok. kde4.05 and greater have been a wash for me. No luck what so ever. Total and complete lockup. Things I've done: tried 4.1, tried 4.1.66, made sure evdev is loaded... the logs show that X dies immediately... no output... just bang... Now running 3.5.10 with no problems. But I'd really, really like to get a current kde up and running. Jerry
[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...
In case you've missed it... the latest of the 3.5 version KDE is now in portage. It's still keyworded and masked, but still usable. Compiling it now. Cheers... If only 4.1.1 was there... :') Cheers again... -- I was once told that adding ice to Makers Mark was alcohol abuse... Thank God! I thought I had a drinking problem... From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 06:00:57 pm b.n. wrote: This thread is getting depressing. I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3 beta on its flagship release. What's wrong? m. If I may chime in here... Running Gentoo x86 and firefox 3.0... no problems. Perhaps there's a hardware component to the problem? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion display error?
I upgraded my KDE 3.5.9 laptop to use compiz-fusion. It works! But i have a display problem... My laptop lcd is 1280x800 native. KDE, without compiz, uses theentire display, no problems... However, once I start up compiz, I loose the right third of the screen. That is, the display get chopped off to something close to 800X800... It really sucks. Although I loose some screen display realestate, the compiz additions all work. Anyone have a tip to get this sorted out? I'd appreciate any help offered. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 04:53:24 pm Grant wrote: I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it work well. I've noticed the connection will be perfect for a short time, but then disappear. When watching iwconfig during this process, it looks like the connection is good when on a low rate, but when it goes to 54 Mbps it falls apart. Should limiting the rate solve this problem? If so, how can I do that? I'm using hostapd on the AP and wpa_supplicant on the client. - Grant Grant, Yes, lowering the rate to a slower speed will help greatly. The lower rates use less compression and modulation... less complex wave forms better connects over long hauls. The antennas look very good, but what's driving them? I use and whole heartedly endorse SENAO products and have had very good luck with these models: ECB-3220 (400 mw) or 2611CB3 PLUS (200 mw) at: http://www.wlansolution.com. Either unit with the high gain antennas you have, will penetrate what you stated and probably go pretty high on the speed scale doing it too. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:21:50 pm Grant wrote: I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it work well. I've noticed the connection will be perfect for a short time, but then disappear. When watching iwconfig during this process, it looks like the connection is good when on a low rate, but when it goes to 54 Mbps it falls apart. Should limiting the rate solve this problem? If so, how can I do that? I'm using hostapd on the AP and wpa_supplicant on the client. - Grant Grant, Yes, lowering the rate to a slower speed will help greatly. The lower rates use less compression and modulation... less complex wave forms better connects over long hauls. The antennas look very good, but what's driving them? I use and whole heartedly endorse SENAO products and have had very good luck with these models: ECB-3220 (400 mw) or 2611CB3 PLUS (200 mw) at: http://www.wlansolution.com. Either unit with the high gain antennas you have, will penetrate what you stated and probably go pretty high on the speed scale doing it too. I'm using a Netgear PCI adapter on the AP and an Edimax USB adapter on the client. Do you know how I can limit the rate? Should it be done on the Gentoo AP or the client? - Grant I use wireless-tools from portage. In it is iwconfig. A simple man iwconfig will show you what you need. Other thing you could do is configure the Wireless AP for a fixed rate... works for me. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 08:08:22 am Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? Hi Gavin, What would you do with a neural net? You've got me interested. For a long time now, I've been wanting to write a smart piece of software that would take in answers to a bunch of questions and generate some sort of diagnosis. It would be used to aid repair tech's in diagnosis hardware failure. Something to refer to, perhaps to get some training from it also. Is that what you've got in mind? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:52:09 am Daniel Beecham wrote: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list I too think this is a good idea. I'll be happy to help out on this one. Btw, this is my first mail to this mailinglist - hi! Welcome Daniel! The BrainStorm idea is a good one, but it closely resembles the gentoo forums and perhaps a bit like the gentoo wiki too... Heck... if you squint a bit and don't look real close, brainstorm looks a bit like the gentoo bugs site too. Probably a good place for this to land is in the wiki... Call it my wish list (sorry) or something else though. Also, if the gentoo version closely copies the Ubunt BrainStorm, it desperately needs a better indexing method, other than offering pages and pages of unknown topics that you must page through to find something useful... Cheers All! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected
In case you guys missed it [ Quote ] | New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected. The foundation | takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and | money. It ensures that nobody violates our copyrights and trademarks, serves | as a place to hold money, and decides where to devote that money in the best | interests of Gentoo. ` http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080302-foundation-election.xml -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, or if I;m lucky enough I get to do an umount before everything falls. Is there any way to prevent this? Also since this is a lan is there a null encryption algorithm I could use to speed things up a bit? Or lower the CPU usage? Thanks! Dude... time for a new switch... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:58:32 pm ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:59 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, or if I;m lucky enough I get to do an umount before everything falls. Is there any way to prevent this? Also since this is a lan is there a null encryption algorithm I could use to speed things up a bit? Or lower the CPU usage? Thanks! Dude... time for a new switch... Yeah well it's a campus *(1) switch, the campus's *(2) lan, the campus's *(3) gatewayso on so forth till the A class IP so I can do nothing about it Note *(1) to *(2) are ugly words and shouldn't be used around children Hmmm no help How about this? http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/SshfsFaq Has a section concerning locking up... Also... how about reporting a bug to the developer? Send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just glossed over the documentation and saw no mention of a null encryption engine. If you are willing to use no encryption... maybe you should try another transport protocol... NFS works well. Also sshfs runs via the FUSE architecture Not well know for performance, more for as a means to an end and it runs slow too. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more
On Friday 15 February 2008 03:05:13 pm Wael Nasreddine wrote: Hey guys, Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to /, /usr, /var, /home, /usr/portage, /mnt/storage the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around 12000) and movies... I was thinking of having the below filesystem schema: / : ext3 (-j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good mkfs options ??) /usr: xfs (I never used it so please suggest mkfs.xfs options) /var: // /home : ext3 (-m 0 -j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good mkfs options ??) /usr/portage: ReiserFS (3? 4? options??) /mnt/storage: ext3 (-m 0 -j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good mkfs options ??) This is from a very humbled ex-ext3 user... I finally decided to play around with reiserfs a while back and I have to tell you... I'll never go back to ext3 unless I really, really have to. The difference is easy to measure and pleasure once you make the move I've been setting up machines like this... /boot ext2 / reiserfs /home reiserfs /var reiserfs The difference in disk I/O is... nice!! and the reliability is the same as ext3. Untill the cold shoulder for reiser4 is thawed and it gets into the kernel source tree, I'd stay away from it for now however. Cheers. Could you please comment/complete/change the schema above ?? I really would like to speed up my system a little bit, My system is entirely built on LVM array, and LVM is on DM-CRYPT so as you can see it's a quite slow due to the encryption... Oh one last thing, What do you suggest for a server? I have a Gentoo server and uptime can be over 5/6 months, everytime I reboot the server I have to manually scan the filesystem due to errors everywhere, any suggestions?? Thanks... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller
On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:08:23 pm Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 Be lucky, Neil I'm confused... what is the diff between pi-x pci-e and pci? The card that Neil pointed to is a PCI card. Is that what he wanted? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo
On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. Jeff Works here. Running Gentoo, firefox and the realplayer plugin. When you click on a video, in the next box click on stand-alone player and use realplayer. Takes a while for the stream to start, but once it does it's ok... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo
On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. Jeff It's a flash based player mplayer wont work I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to launch an embeded version of kmplayer. Saludos Matt That makes sense as it's the kde frontend for mplayer. I had some real problems with kmplayer and mplayer not playing nice. Kmplayer was sending commandline parameters that the latest versions of mplayer didn't understand. Try the realplayer plugin ans see if it works. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend
On Friday 08 February 2008 09:40:04 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge information: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14972 USE=alsa dvb dvd ivtv jack joystick lirc mmx opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -autostart -backendonly -crciprec -dbox2 -debug -directv -dts -freebox -frontendonly -hdhomerun -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc VIDEO_CARDS=i810 via -nvidia 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB I think it might have something to do with OSS, but I don't know what to do about that because it's gone from my gnome volume control. Sound in audacious and pidgin still works though. What should I do? I just ran mythfrontend in a terminal and looked at the output. I saw a lot of this line: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory If /dev/dsp doesn't exist, then how is everything else using sound? If I put -oss in /etc/make.conf and emerge -ND world, would it theoretically fix this problem? How are you implementing ALSA? Are you using the kernel modules or the alsa ebuilds? If kernel, then make sure it the oss emulation is enabled. Check your alsa file at /etc/modules.d/alsa, it should look like: alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp # the alsa drive I need for my sound hardware alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss options snd cards_limit=1 alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend
On Thursday 07 February 2008 08:45:50 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge information: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14972 USE=alsa dvb dvd ivtv jack joystick lirc mmx opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -autostart -backendonly -crciprec -dbox2 -debug -directv -dts -freebox -frontendonly -hdhomerun -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc VIDEO_CARDS=i810 via -nvidia 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB I think it might have something to do with OSS, but I don't know what to do about that because it's gone from my gnome volume control. Sound in audacious and pidgin still works though. What should I do? I just ran mythfrontend in a terminal and looked at the output. I saw a lot of this line: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory If /dev/dsp doesn't exist, then how is everything else using sound? You have /dev/adsp and that's what they use. For mythtv, I found I had to provide the oss modules also... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] CHOST question.
Morning... A small question to satisfy my curiosity about the CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf... Currently I have CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu on a computer with a pentium4 processor. Would it make any differences, at all, to change this to CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu ? Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? Thank you, in advance P.S. Please don't warn me about changing chost, I've been through it before.:') -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. Where do I find a list of valid chosts? I've been digging since my first post and the Gentoo Handbook on this page says: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/handbook.xml?part=2chap=5 QUOTE # info gcc Select GCC Command Options, Submodel Options, and pick your architecture. UNQUOTE On the submodel page for i386, it clearly lists the pentium4... My question is, what difference in performance would this change make? Thank you, for the post. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious little. You want a machine that performs better? Stick in a disk drive with more cache memory. Instant improvement that will dwarf any change you could ever make with the compiler. Ever wondered why Ubuntu distributes 386 generic code? Because it makes no discernible difference whatsoever. But if you wanna go ahead and prove to yourself something that the toolchain world has know for like forever, then go ahead, don't let me stop you shrug -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your computer would in fact run a tiny tad faster, where tad is defined is a teensy weensy little bit, so small you can hardly see it with a magnifying glass Not worth the effort IMHO. Of course, there are ricers out there that will swear by it and declare that their machine runs much faster, but very few if any of them ever produce some actual numbers... Thanks for the post. I actually started working on this project late last night... My target test machine is an getting old Compaq R3000 with a 3ghz P4. What I'm going to do is just what you suggested. First I'm going to finish freshening the laptop. This is my daily hack-n-slash computer, so no worries clobbering it. I'm near the end of finishing an emerge -e world that was preceded with two rounds of emerge -e system Next step is some exhaustive bench marking. All suggestions welcomed. Then once completed, I'' make the change to chost from i686 to pentium4, following the docs on the net. Once done and smoothed out... another freshening as mentioned above, followed up with identical runs of what ever benchmarks I ran before... Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your computer would in fact run a tiny tad faster, where tad is defined is a teensy weensy little bit, so small you can hardly see it with a magnifying glass Not worth the effort IMHO. Of course, there are ricers out there that will swear by it and declare that their machine runs much faster, but very few if any of them ever produce some actual numbers... Thanks for the post. I actually started working on this project late last night... My target test machine is an getting old Compaq R3000 with a 3ghz P4. What I'm going to do is just what you suggested. First I'm going to finish freshening the laptop. This is my daily hack-n-slash computer, so no worries clobbering it. I'm near the end of finishing an emerge -e world that was preceded with two rounds of emerge -e system Next step is some exhaustive bench marking. All suggestions welcomed. Then once completed, I'' make the change to chost from i686 to pentium4, following the docs on the net. Once done and smoothed out... another freshening as mentioned above, followed up with identical runs of what ever benchmarks I ran before... Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') Cheers. There is a script that will take care of the emerge and you only have to do it once. It's on the forums but I still have a copy if you want me to email it to you. Dale :-) :-) Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On Saturday 02 February 2008 08:42:25 pm Grant wrote: port-knocking is the biggest load of fud (Microsoft products apart) I have heard about in ages. The term snake-oil comes to mind, as does security by obscurity and obfuscation which we all know is no security at all. Uhm. Security by obscurity is not good because it hides something *that is known for sure to be there*. Port knocking, on the other hand, makes a computer appear as if nothing is there. No open ports. A computer with all ports closed which uses portknocking and a computer with just all ports closed cannot be told apart from remote, either by portscanning or whatever mean. What the attacker sees is just no open ports. It could, of course, imagine that port knocking might be in use, but even in that case, he would have to discover the knock sequence. With a knock sequence long enough (say, 8 ports), the likeliness of such a discovery is really low (1/65535^8 in this case). And, even if he succeeds, he just opens a port (as if there was no portknocking), and still has to violate whatever security measure is in place for the service (eg, ssh authentication). I don't care if the originating process knocks on the well known port with gold plated gloves hand braided from the finest Unobtainium by seductive alluring Puerto Rican virgins, the receiving machine still has to open another port short thereafter. This is not a magic port and is not wrapped in Star Trek's finest stealth cloak, it's a port that does TCP/IP stuff. If the end process listening on the newly opened port is in any way weak - and this is the only possible reason anyone would ever try the port knocking workaround - it's just as weak when it's listening on an obfuscated port number. This is not true, for at least two reasons: - the port stays open only for the duration of the connection, not all the time; - at least with some implementations, the port is opened *only to the IP address of the user who did the knock*, not to the whole world. If it's open, I can find it. If it's weak, I can get in. Then it's game over, go home, I win. See above. I've yet to hear positive things about port knocking from someone who actually implemented it fully. In truth it's just a major pain in the arse that makes the admin's life miserable and gives the boss a warm fuzzy feeling based on hot air. I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past, and never had a problem. This is just my little experience, of course. OK, port knocking is going back on the todo list. - Grant Wow... that was easy... :') -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Friday 01 February 2008 08:21:38 am Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. On the other hand, it's working just fine here on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. Not much consolation, I suppose, but at least it does work some of the time, for some people. Hos anyone been able to get 6.0.2 to work? I tried to evaluate it, but everything crashes when I try to enter the serial number. There's an outstanding bug at b.g.o and I filed a support request about a week ago with VMWare, but they haven't touched it yet... Hmmm... With all the fresh posts about vware, I too tried it recently and my results were the same as yours... clich help, enter serial number and bang... crash. I thought it was me... :') Try virtualbox... similar to vmware. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: Hi all, may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird. Regards emilio You have a good trail to follow for your problem in the other messages... For my problem, with regards to anti-aliasing... I have one computer running kde that I can't turn on sub-pixel hinting. The option is under the Fonts tab in control settings, but it's greyed out... I'm not able to tell why... Any hints? (pun intended) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:25:46 pm Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Jerry McBride pisze: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: Hi all, may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird. Regards emilio You have a good trail to follow for your problem in the other messages... For my problem, with regards to anti-aliasing... I have one computer running kde that I can't turn on sub-pixel hinting. The option is under the Fonts tab in control settings, but it's greyed out... I'm not able to tell why... Any hints? (pun intended) To use anti-aliasing You must have card with driver that allows to use RGBA colorspace in hardware mode. Currently new cards using that colorspace, but some older use only YUV* color spaces. Some cards on PCI slot with 2 MB memory and first cards on AGP slot using only YUV* color spaces. If you have such card, you can only emulate subpixel hinting, but not all drivers allowing to do this. If you can't use subpixel hinting, that will be problem of the driver or older card. Try to verify /etc/X11/xorg.conf for driver - is it realy driver for Your card, or just replace G.C. with some newer... Mateusz M. Thanks for the post. Yes, this is a recent pcix nvidia and nvidia's own drivers... Thank you for the help. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 04:26:01 pm Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Mike, I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Apply to VMware Workstation. VMware Server is free. That and I believe the server package requires vm support in the cpu while the workstation does not. Cheers all. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Michael Higgins wrote: Hello, folks -- Most days, I work remotely from the 'ndoze net via rdesktop when I have to access it for some reason. But the bandwidth there is getting choked as others follow suit. I'm thinking I'd have a better time of it if I just had my own little toybox -- I mean, Windows XP installation -- at home. Sure, I can dual-boot, but then I lose the whole of my reasons for having a real OS. And I'd put up another machine, but I have enough anxiety over the ones I have to maintain already. Why bring that kind of trouble into your home? So, the quick question is, is VM Ware the best way to go? I think XP is still lurking on a partition here... and I do need to run Internet Extorter, Outlook, etc... pretend I'm in their domain... At any rate, I'm hoping some on the list can give me a leg up on this. My first question is, what does this mean to me: * app-emulation/vmware-workstation Available versions: 4.5.3.19414-r7 5.5.5.56455 ~6.0.1.55017!f ~6.0.2.59824!f ... when I downloaded the evaluation license and a tar.gz, does that satisfy the !f, for example? What do I do with it, then? I do notice the version number matches. And the other question I hate to ask -- I'm pretty sure there is one, but, if there is a Gentoo HOW-TO on this process, where is it and IS IT UP TO DATE??? ;-) Any and all pointers welcome! . . . I just read through a bunch of stuff on-line, found the vmware overlay, and I feel less sure of how to proceed than before writing this. '-) Cheers, Hey Mike, I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly, you only get to use it for 30 days... the vmware workstation evaluation copy that is. Over here, I decided to go the qemu/kqemu route. Although I am only able to emerge kqemu, with qemu-softmmu failing miserably... I was able to download a binary off the Qemu website and it runs beautifully. Although I don't like running windows in qemu... it's a resource hog bar none, linux in qemu is a jewel. You can find excellent install and usage instructions in the obvious places like the wiki, forums and the Qemu webpage. You can also find a gem of an article about it on the LINUX JOURNAL website. It'll give you quite a detailed howto with the windows installation. My first qemu experiments involved windows98se and windows xp. By a factor of maybe 2, windows xp was slower than molasses when compared to win98se. Since then I've managed a few linux images and I've been thinking about trying a BSD image just for the experience of it. I don't know if vmware provides cow files, Qemu does... what this allows is for you to setup your windows image anyway you want, then reload your qemu image with cow file support enabled... and any modifications made during your windows session is written to the cow file, not your windows image. If things get really, really hashed up, closeup Qemu... delete the cow file and start afresh... A perfect way to dump the worms, viri, malware, etc... or your accidentally hosed linux image... Really, really good stuff. Cheers. Jerry McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:02:58 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. When I was at the vmware website, browsing the system requirements it listed older versions of both linux distributions and kernel versions. Perhaps those were the supported settings and the versions outside of that are the unsupported fare? I never installed vmware, just simply too big while other vmanagers are much smaller. Thanks for the note though... maybe I'll have a look soon too. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)
On Sunday 27 January 2008 07:06:59 am Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: unsubscribe NO! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote: Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: Posted -- please let me know what you think: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB The only thing I could add is to mention the ebuilds for the tools you used. That said, it works for me. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions
Alan McKinnon wrote: All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) It does grow on you and it is an excellent step forward. That said, I can't wait to see this get polished off and fully fleshed out. I dearly miss all the tweaker bits ! :') -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0 and dbus compile error
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 09:42:08 am Dale wrote: Hi, I started my emerge of KDE 4.0 a while ago and I keep getting this error: Emerging (1 of 177) app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 to / * strigi-0.5.7.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking strigi-0.5.7.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] * You are building Strigi with qt4 but without dbus. * Strigiclient needs dbus to detect a running Strigi daemon. * Please enable both qt4 and dbus. * * ERROR: app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 46: Called pkg_setup * strigi-0.5.7.ebuild, line 62: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/app-misc:strigi-0.5.7:20080122-143048.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/strigi-0.5.7/temp/die.env'. * * Messages for package app-misc/strigi-0.5.7: * You are building Strigi with qt4 but without dbus. * Strigiclient needs dbus to detect a running Strigi daemon. * Please enable both qt4 and dbus. * * ERROR: app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 46: Called pkg_setup * strigi-0.5.7.ebuild, line 62: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/app-misc:strigi-0.5.7:20080122-143048.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/strigi-0.5.7/temp/die.env'. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Here is my emerge info USE info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge --info | grep USE USE=3dnow X acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fam fdftk fortran gaim gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hbci iconv ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde ldap libwww logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection sdl seamonkey session spell spl sqlite sse ssl syslog tcl tcpd tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wmp x86 xml xorg xprint xv yahoo zlib ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias CAMERAS=canon ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=en USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I have dbus and qt4 in there and have had it for quite a while if I recall correctly. Here is the flag info for the specific packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -vp qt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_rc1 USE=opengl -qt3support 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv strigi These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 USE=clucene dbus exiv2 java qt4 -debug -hyperestraier -inotify -test 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Note that dbus is not included in qt4 and is not even a option. What's up with that you reckon? I also get this when doing a emerge -uvDN world: Emerging (1 of 177) app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 to / * strigi-0.5.7.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0
On Monday 21 January 2008 06:40:42 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:09 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: not quite the same :) emerge -u world would download one package, and compile it, download the next, compile it. So the total time is the sum of the individual downloads and compiles. Not if you add parallel-fetch to FEATURES. last time I used parallel-fetch (a while ago) it looked different to Dale's output though - I don't remember seeing the wget style completion: 79% [+=== ] but rather I see the message (just tried it out now) Downloading 'jdk-6u4-dlj-linux-i586.bin'... see /var/log/emerge-fetch.log for details. hmm... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au What you are seeing is the result of a RESUMED download... Try grabbing a file, interrupt the download then follow up with fetching it again. You'll see the above -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0
Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff. Stinking dial-up. :-@ That will take a lng while. Most KDE4 packages are far larger than there KDE3 counterparts. Just as an example: kdebase-3.3.8.tar.bz2 was 24MB. Now we have three kdebase tarballs: kdebase 3.9MB kdebase-runtime 46MB kdebase-workspace29MB Good luck with dialup! Thanks for the reminder If anyone on this mailing list isn't able to grab the gentoo sources in a reasonable amount of time (ie. dialup) I'm willing to copy and burn to cdrw or dvdrw anything you desire... Just ask me via my email address. What I prefer to do, is work with users that are in the USA and are willing to swap disks or at least give me a $1.00 or $2.00 to cover material and shipping. That said, if you're really financially strapped... I'll assume all costs involved... Whatever... I'm easy. Cheers and May the Penguin Be Kind to You. P.S. Kde 4.0 is a real looker. Compiled free of defects, aside from having to fix a few USE's that I didn't have prior... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0
On Saturday 19 January 2008 02:58:11 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 19. Januar 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, after the painful and time-consuming creation of /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, emerge --pretend --verbose =kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0 tells me: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.0) I do not have emerge kdebase-3.5.7 but kdebase-3.5.8. The3refore, I cannot unemerge 3.5.7. How can I work around this? Uwe For future reference, check out autounmask. I found out about it the other day. I have not used it yet but I'm hopeful it works. I'll have look into autounmask. Also, there is a thread on the forums about this, I think you have to have 3.5.8* version to do this. Not sure why tho. Isn't KDE 4.0 slotted? Can't you have 3.5 AND 4.0 installed and select which version you want to log into? Exactly. So why is kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (which is not even installed here) blocking kdelibs-4.0.0? error in ebuild? I did not have that block. Maybe you should remove the blocker from the ebuild. Apart from that, kde4 installed very nice in parallel to 3.5 - in 2.5h (with qt4 rebuilt). Sadly I can not use it - because of a reiser4 problem... Same here, no blockers... however I kdelibs-4 wanted accessibility use flag enabled in qt4... so... recompile qt4 with use flag set and I'm off compiling kde4... I can't wait!!! P.S. Autounmask worked like a charm... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot records. alan I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that different? Just curious. Do you have partitions on that memory stick? Yes. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Stroller wrote: Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive). Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up I could just `dd` the image back onto the laptop and all would work as the manufacturer shipped it, but I'd now find it useful to be able to take a look inside the image and examine a few files. Is there any way to do this, please? I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. I know that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso / mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole partition tables? Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advices, Stroller. Try this... modprobe loop modprobe ntfs mkdir /mnt/iso mount -t ntfs /path/to/your/iso /mnt/iso -o loop,ro Assuming the iso is ntfs and you have loop and ntfs as modules... Cheers. Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot records. alan I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that different? Just curious. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive). Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up I could just `dd` the image back onto the laptop and all would work as the manufacturer shipped it, but I'd now find it useful to be able to take a look inside the image and examine a few files. Is there any way to do this, please? I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. I know that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso / mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole partition tables? Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advices, Stroller. Try this... modprobe loop modprobe ntfs mkdir /mnt/iso mount -t ntfs /path/to/your/iso /mnt/iso -o loop,ro Assuming the iso is ntfs and you have loop and ntfs as modules... Cheers. Jerry McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?
On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot records. alan I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that different? Just curious. Do you have partitions on that memory stick? Yes. OK... It just got through my dense head! He has multiple partitions in his disk image, not one What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with just one partition in the image... It's a shame too. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems
On Saturday 05 January 2008 02:02:09 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have a new Sansa Sandisk MP3 player. When I plug it in, I get the following dmesg output usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110 hub 2-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) I have been able to successfully mount several other players. Has anyone had similar problems or can offer a potential solution? Thanks Jeff Try rmmod ehci-hcd, then modprobe ohci-hcd and see what happens. Also, include from /var/log/messages everything printed from when ohci-hcd is modprobed to then end of actually plugging in the Sansa. And again when trying ehci-hcd. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: Encountered: warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available i googled and found a no buffer space available. followed suggestions on the thread: warhammer etc # mount -va df mount -v /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/sda7 already mounted on /mnt/home1 mount: /dev/sda5 already mounted on /mnt/oldroot mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted on /mnt/Movies mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted on /mnt/windows2 mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/boot mount: shm already mounted on /dev/shm mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/cdrom I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/ filesystems Trying # Trying #vfat Trying ext4dev mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/cdrom I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/ filesystems Trying # Trying #vfat Trying ext4dev Trying squashfs Trying msdos Trying hfsplus Trying gfs2 mount: No buffer space available *** so i guess it was looking for a lot of fs, but the machine couldn't find the right one. i dunno why. my fstab: /dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom autoauto,users 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3noatime 0 1 /dev/sda7 /mnt/home1 xfs user0 0 /dev/sda6 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/oldrootxfs user0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/Movies xfs user0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows2 vfatuser0 0 /dev/sda3 /mnt/boot ext3noatime 1 2 /dev/sdb /mnt/ipod hfsplus noauto,user 0 0 so i changed /mnt/cdrom from auto to iso9660 and... everything works. no more no buffer buffer space available error after that. my question is... is there a way to set it to auto and still it will pick up iso9660? or maybe i missed some setting on the kernel that needs to be set? What is the cdrom? Music or Data? You can't mount a music cdrom... period. However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into the kernel or available as a module for the auto part of your cdrom fstab line to work correctly... hmmm... maybe need also autoload in the module loading section of the kernel configurator. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi guys, I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on laptop with Gentoo. - ReiserFS looks unsupported now - ext3 looks slow some time - XFS maybe? Requirements are: - low memory usage - fast enough for laptop - good supported Any ideas? Plenty... Yes, all laptops need a journaled FS. The easiest I've found to install and then admin is EXT3. If you feel that you need anything more powerful then you should move your work to a desktop. As a side note, I've been using ext4dev as an expirement and I find it quite nice. However, be aware, once you enable extents as a boot option and cause writes to the disk (ie. save a file, etc)... you can never go back to ext3 or plain old ext2 without a format. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi guys, I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on laptop with Gentoo. - ReiserFS looks unsupported now - ext3 looks slow some time - XFS maybe? Requirements are: - low memory usage - fast enough for laptop - good supported Any ideas? Plenty... Yes, all laptops need a journaled FS. The easiest I've found to install and then admin is EXT3. If you feel that you need anything more powerful then you should move your work to a desktop. As a side note, I've been using ext4dev as an expirement and I find it quite nice. However, be aware, once you enable extents as a boot option and cause writes to the disk (ie. save a file, etc)... you can never go back to ext3 or plain old ext2 without a format. if we are at recommending experimental fs, why not reiser4? Its atomic structure makes it very nice - and so far it survived a lot of crap it had to endure (like a lot of reset-button and plugs out of socket events). And reiser4 has less bug reports than ext3 :P You mean bug reports that got fixed? :') But to get back on track: as long as he stays away from XFS it should not matter which fs he chooses (well, except jfs...) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?
On Monday 17 December 2007 04:30:16 am Eduardo Otubo wrote: Hello Marzan, I have the same wifi card and tryed the same methods to get it working and nothing. I'am using ndiswrapper right now, just until I can find a way to make it work. Any news gonna mail our list. []'s On Dec 13, 2007 6:53 PM, Marzan, Richard non Unisys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get my Broadcom 4311 b/g card to work with the native kernel driver (bcm43xx) and b43-fwcutter but it's does not work. I placed the extracted firmware code in /lib/firmware and dmesg states that it failed to load the module. Has anyone gotten this card to work and how? Any link or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Works like a charm here. Compaq R3000 using the bcm4306 chipset and bcm43xx module... No real magic involved, but I did write my own initialization script. I could never get the wireless started the gentoo way. If you guys like, I can zip up and send you what's in my /lib/firmware directory. Just ask via email. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?
Sorry for the second post on this, but if it helps... My /var/log/messages contains the following after loading the bcm43xx driver. Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx driver Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Radio initialized Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Radio initialized Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x127, pl 0xe (2005-04-18 02:36:27) Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) Dec 17 10:20:45 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1 -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Audacious Madness???
Anyone here noticed how badly Audacious 1.4.2 is? I get random crashes and a host of other problems... something never experienced with XMMS. I traded a few emails over Audacious and it seems as though it sports a new (improved) thread model. Once I humbly suggested the new model has some warts... the email trade stopped. How do you report problems to the authors, if they won't listen? I'm currently using XMMS-1.2.11. It works perfectly... even streams from gnump3d without errors. Anyone know why this goes on? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP 5
On Sunday 18 November 2007 08:38:04 pm sean wrote: Is anyone able to tell me what the status is of Gentoo moving to LTSP 5? http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Ltsp5Status shows Gentoo as not supported but states work is being done to provide LTSP-5 in the future. Doing some searches I do not come across any information newer than eight months old. So would anyone know if this is still being worked on for inclusion into Gentoo and portage? Thanks Sean LTSP is in portage now... at version 4.2. There are no operation features in LTSP 5.0 that would drive you to use it. I haven't visited bugs.gentoo.org to check on a 5.0 request yet... Since you want/need it, why don;t you post one? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1
On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:42:04 am Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote: If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very issue. An awesome collection of techies does not gravitate users to join the ranks of distro users. A (easy) graphical installation method is a requirement. Gentoo get's tons of bad reviews, based on the installation process. Personally, I think a graphical installer for Gentoo is a bad idea (yes, including the current one). What I want to see is: 1) Boot off of live CD 2) ROOT=/mnt/sda1 emerge system 3) ROOT=/mnt/sda1 emerge other packages 4) Reboot without CD snip One of the strong points of Gentoo is also one of it weaknesses... you can do a thing in so many, many different ways. A lot of us like/love that complexity. Some of us don't and a lot of new Gentoo users absolutely hate it... Early on, in my love affair with Gentoo, I took the install manual and wrote a bash script that does all the steps needed to get to a bootable skeleton on the target harddrive. It was my way to beat sitting at the console, reading the manual and typing in what I read. I did have a lot of previous Linux experience with Open Caldera Linux. I agree with you, you don't really need a GUI for that... but it does sell the product to new users. Wether we like it or not, we need new blood (new users) to keep the Gentoo momentum going. And that new blood is mostly coming from the windows ranks... you know... point, point, clickey clickey... There is a bit of a migration going on now, from windows to something else. We should be trying to be a part of that something else. After all, RedHat, PCLinuxOS, etc... maybe not be the answer for some of these new users. That said, we really do need a KILLER GUI install tool for those that need it and the rest of us can use a CLI... You know, it should be possible to write a bash script to facilitate a complete Gentoo install session and that install script could then be used as the guts of a slick GUI interface for those that need it. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
On Monday 29 October 2007 10:40:08 am Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-10-29, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell ha scritto: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same switch/hub as you can the wired connections. They usually bridge the connections. You're probably right; you only need an AP, because you likely already have a gateway/router. They sell for about $20 us around here, if you get them on the web. Exactly what I thought. Thanks. As for the brand, is Netgear stuff so bad? Here these gadgets seem to be more costly, and Netgears cost much less than Linksys stuff. I've had good luck with Buffalo AP/routers and xwrt firmware. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now we can become at alcoholics! visi.com Do you really need router functionality? If not, I've had tremendous success with SENAO brand WAPs... namely http://www.wlansolution.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=NCB%2D3220 Excellent, if all you really need is 802.11b or g and basic WAP features. Setup is via web browserand it delivers 400mw of power. Goes through most anything and makes just about all other name brand stuff look dismally weak... Usually I set these up behind a linux firewall on their own subnet and ipchain/iptable access to users as needed. Works really, really well. Oh... almost forgot, it's a linux appliance and supports remote syslog feature. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 03:34:52 am Adam Carter wrote: Alsaconf doesnt find any sound devices, however modules (in particular snd_via82xx) are loaded; localhost linux # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss29664 0 snd_mixer_oss 12160 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy 1988 0 snd_seq_oss21824 0 snd_seq_midi_event 3584 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq30864 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_via82xx_modem 9736 0 snd_via82xx18324 0 snd_ac97_codec 71268 2 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx snd_pcm44424 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 14596 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 6280 3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi14560 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 4364 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd29860 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via8 2xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq _device ac97_bus1152 1 snd_ac97_codec If i try to run /etc/init.d/alsasound localhost linux # /etc/init.d/alsasound start * Loading ALSA modules ... * Could not detect custom ALSA settings. Loading all detected alsa drivers. * Loading: snd_via82xx ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd_via82xx_modem ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state, you have to unmute you [ ok ] alsa-driver is not recommended so i'm avoiding it. Is that my only option to try to fix this? tnx Adam Sounds like the wrong driver is being loaded. What is the output of lspci? From a console, what does modprobe snd_via82xx show and what's being sent to /var/log/messages?? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 compile failure
On Monday 15 October 2007 09:30:52 am Stuart Howard wrote:
As part of regular updates I have come across an error with gcc, the
system is ~x86.
The error has been occurring for a week or so and my usual wait till
it goes away approach does not seem to be working. Originally the
error was called against a file with reference to fortran so I changed
the use flag to - but no help as the result is as below.
If someone has a suggestion for a way forward I would appreciate it.
stu
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2/work/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/expmed.c: In
function 'expa nd_divmod':
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2/work/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/expmed.c:4933:
internal com piler error: in free_list, at lists.c:66
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/ for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [expmed.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2/work/build/gcc' make[2]: ***
[all-stageprofile-gcc] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2/work/build' make[1]: ***
[stageprofile-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2/work/build' make: ***
[profiledbootstrap] Error 2
*
* ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 1695: Called dyn_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 1033: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
* ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 1377: Called toolchain_src_compile
* toolchain.eclass, line 26: Called gcc_src_compile
* toolchain.eclass, line 1546: Called gcc_do_make
* toolchain.eclass, line 1420: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake \
* LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS} \
* STAGE1_CFLAGS=${STAGE1_CFLAGS} \
* LIBPATH=${LIBPATH} \
* BOOT_CFLAGS=${BOOT_CFLAGS} \
* ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET} \
* || die emake failed with ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET}
* The die message:
* emake failed with profiledbootstrap
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevan t.
* A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/sys-devel:gcc-4.2.2:2007101 5-101943.log'.
Hey Stu,
I just upgraded three gentoo boxes using gcc-4.2.2. No issues, aside from a
few packages that refuse to compile.
What I would recommend is some basic maintenance... Sorry, but is it possible
you are seeing heat related issues? Perhaps memory errors?
It could be a good time to let memtest exercise your mems...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc problems...
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:37:21 -0500 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: I've identified a few packages that simply will not compile when distcc is being used. Has anyone noticed problems with; ncurses, groff or libpcre? I'm thinking about modifying /etc/portage/bashrc to detect a new file named /etc/portage/package.distcc that will turn off distcc for each package listed. Maybe even honor a custom make option -j for listed packaged too. Would anyone else find this useful? -- Jerry McBride I just recompiled ncurses with seven distcc slaves and am currently working on groff and libpcre with no problems so far. Are you sure that all the participating machines have the same versions of gcc, CHOST, and CFLAGS? Often a small error in one or more of these settings can completely ruin a compile. I'm positive. I've spent hours on this so far and I can recreate the failures without error... Sorry, just some humor there... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Distcc problems...
I've identified a few packages that simply will not compile when distcc is being used. Has anyone noticed problems with; ncurses, groff or libpcre? I'm thinking about modifying /etc/portage/bashrc to detect a new file named /etc/portage/package.distcc that will turn off distcc for each package listed. Maybe even honor a custom make option -j for listed packaged too. Would anyone else find this useful? -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 + nvidia-driver = death ?
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, having installed gcc-4.2.2 (and making it the default with the new gcc-config - hurrah) You have a gcc-config that works??? What version is that, please? -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wireless question...
I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but trying to get it done automatically is troublesome... I setup a softlevel named wireless. I deleted the net.eth0 hardware connection and added net.eth1 in it's place. My /etc/conf.d/net looks like (wired config deleted): # wireless # dns_domain_eth1=(my.domain) config_eth1=( 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth1=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) ap_eth1=any essid_eth1=any essid_eth1=wireless_at_mcbrides preferred_aps=( wireless_at_mcbrides) mode_eth1=managed managed_essid_eth1=wireless_at_mcbrides key_wireless_at_mcbrides=[1] ccf4c2305d0d99563a4eaa9597 #ccf4 c230 5d0d 9956 3a4e aa95 97 #1c20 3ad0 cd0c e131 8c54 7b3e bb #4c1a 952c 4ee4 4190 3688 d121 d6 #2786 96d8 4ab4 075f d541 9dad 22 rate_wireless_at_mcbrides=(54M) channel_eth1=11 dns_servers_eth1=(68.87.75.194 68.87.64.146) What fails to happen is... the device is not brought up automatically. That is, to get this to work, I have to manually ifconfig eth1 up then /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start. After that, wireless connection is perfect. The problem I have is, how to get ifconfig eth1 up to run before the wireless stuff? Also, are the entries in /etc/conf.d/net order specific? To me it seems if things are ordered just right you either get support for various commands or you don't. Anyone see anything killer wrong in my net file? Thanks for your time... and for the flame bots out there... I've googled my self to death and have been through the gentoo.forums. My specific setup issues aren't addressed. --- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless question...
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0400
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with
Broadcom 4306 wireless chips...
I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but
trying to get it done automatically is troublesome...
I setup a softlevel named wireless. I deleted the net.eth0 hardware
connection and added net.eth1 in it's place.
My /etc/conf.d/net looks like (wired config deleted):
# wireless
#
dns_domain_eth1=(my.domain)
config_eth1=( 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth1=( default via 192.168.0.1 )
ap_eth1=any
essid_eth1=any
essid_eth1=wireless_at_mcbrides
preferred_aps=( wireless_at_mcbrides)
mode_eth1=managed
managed_essid_eth1=wireless_at_mcbrides
key_wireless_at_mcbrides=[1] ccf4c2305d0d99563a4eaa9597
#ccf4 c230 5d0d 9956 3a4e aa95 97
#1c20 3ad0 cd0c e131 8c54 7b3e bb
#4c1a 952c 4ee4 4190 3688 d121 d6
#2786 96d8 4ab4 075f d541 9dad 22
rate_wireless_at_mcbrides=(54M)
channel_eth1=11
dns_servers_eth1=(68.87.75.194 68.87.64.146)
What fails to happen is... the device is not brought up automatically.
That is, to get this to work, I have to manually ifconfig eth1 up
then /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start. After that, wireless connection is
perfect.
The problem I have is, how to get ifconfig eth1 up to run before the
wireless stuff?
Also, are the entries in /etc/conf.d/net order specific? To me it
seems if things are ordered just right you either get support for
various commands or you don't. Anyone see anything killer wrong in
my net file?
Thanks for your time... and for the flame bots out there... I've
googled my self to death and have been through the gentoo.forums. My
specific setup issues aren't addressed.
---
Jerry McBride
Sorry to reply to my own cry for help...
I fixed it. After determining that net.lo is pretty much brain dead and
not being willing to fix it... I wrote my own init script. It's even
more brain dead, but works 100%.
The net.lo script and supporting code simply does not work as needed
for this laptop.
Cheers all...
#!/sbin/runscript
#
depend() {
before cupsd
}
start() {
ebegin Starting wireless
modprobe bcm43xx
ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
iwconfig eth1 ap 00:02:6e:49:19:2f
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig eth1 channel 11
iwconfig eth1 key [1] ccf4c2305d0d99563a4eaa9597
iwconfig eth1 rate 54M
iwconfig eth1 essid wireless_at_mcbrides
ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gateway 192.168.0.1 eth1
echo domain my.domain /etc/resolv.conf
echo nameserver 68.87.75.194 /etc/resolv.conf
echo nameserver 68.87.64.146 /etc/resolv.conf
}
stop() {
ebegin Stopping wireless
ifconfig eth1 down
rmmod bcm43xx
}
--
Cheers...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:19:57 pm Jed R. Mallen wrote: Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file for a new kernel version if it's *not* a revision-upgrade and I can only upgrade safely between 2 revisions. I don't want to go through all those kernel settings one by one. Do you just remember a few key things that you need (framebuffer, video, usb, etc) and just use the default settings? You really don't know what you're missing. :') Seriously, just print out your old config, key it into menconfig... tweak it a bit and compile it... Then test it by rebooting into the new kernel... Painless, safe... easy. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? snip... Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script via cron... #!/bin/sh rm /portage.list/*.* emerge -pe --color=n system /portage.list/system.list emerge -pe --color=n world /portage.list/world.list Basicly it generates a list of installed ebuilds for both the system and world model. In my normal backup routines I add /portage.list... A great way to help rebuild an exact duplicate of an existing gentoo box. Cheers... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Jerry McBride, Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script via cron... #!/bin/sh rm /portage.list/*.* emerge -pe --color=n system /portage.list/system.list emerge -pe --color=n world /portage.list/world.list Basicly it generates a list of installed ebuilds for both the system and world model. Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world? Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file. It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all you need... The system list is contained in your profile, so you just need a note of where /etc/make.profile points, which you will already have is you backup /etc. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 07:16:09 pm Grant wrote: I recognize everything in 'ps -ef' I think, but I've never really used netstat before. Under Active Internet connections I don't recognize: tcp localhost:10030 tcp *:snpp Also, snpp is for pagers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Paging_Protocol With netstat -lp it looks like *:snpp is associated with apache2 and is using the same pid as *:http and *:https. I've never set up anything having to do with a pager. I've never had a pager. What can I do to investigate that further? Then run lsof (check man lsof) to see if there is anything suspicious there, like another user logged in either as root or with a different name. Any handy lsof commands? Not sure about lsof... but something I did was to boot from a rescue disk, mounting the suspected partition and piped the outout from tree to a text file... A glance through the text file showed a lot of stuff from alien sources, explainging where some storage space had disappeared. The fix in that situation was a simple reformat and better inchains rules. Yeah, ipchains... this was a few years back. Good luck Grant. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?
Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are gentoo users using? Anyone? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?
On Sunday 19 August 2007 01:32:27 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. I've been using slub since kernel 2.6.22 has been made available on an amd64 desktop. No problems. No feeling of speed increase either. By chance, are you running any ext4 partitons too? On the nntp server I mentioned, not only slub, but the partition that contains the news spool is formatted ext4. Never a problem... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: Has anyone else had problems updating program listings with mythfilldatabase? Here's my output from it: No problems... I still have access to the zap2it servers until october, 10 of this year. After that I'll have to deal with: http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ You do know that zap2it is dropping support for us leaches, right? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?
On Saturday 18 August 2007 04:51:20 pm Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. That said, slub is running very well here on an internal nntp server... no problems but no real, measureable performance boost. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311
On Saturday 04 August 2007 01:40:30 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2007 12:59, Mick wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2007 16:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work. The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea The wifi card is a Broadcom 4311 (rev 1) I've been looking at the Gentoo Wiki page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx The problem I've run into is with the kernel setup (kernel linux-2.6.21-gentoo-r4) Under Device Drivers -- Network device support -- Wireless LAN drivers Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support does not appear. Has it been removed from the kernel for some reason? Do I need to enable some other option in order to make this option available? I have enabled the PCI express support. Any clues would be most welcome Try: Location: - Device Drivers - Network device support - Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) - Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) - Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) Wireless Extension - Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (BCM43XX [=m]) It's not there, it's not on the list I have Network device support and Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) Wireless Extension checked -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% It's in the later versions of the kernel. I've been using 2.6.22.1 with zero problems... bcm43xx included. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] einit?
Anyone here using einit? I've a small problem. I can set a static ip address, no problems. But how and where do you establish the route to a gateway? I've googled to the wee hours and still haven't figured it out. I'm running einit from the layman overlay. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
On Monday 16 July 2007 08:15:43 am Mark Shields wrote: Personally... reading what I have about the gpl 3.0 , I'd be pretty comfortable having Gentoo/Portage moved to it. It offers a lot of protection that gpl 2. does not. Anyway, if it makes Microsoft catch up then it must be good. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 12:39:48 pm Willie Wong wrote: I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server running just to read documentation. There are some advantages serving the index out via httpd. Anyone you allow can read your documents... I've been working on (in my very spare time) on a similar project. Mine is in python. It scans an entire hard drive for index.html's, chm's and pdf's... then pours it's findings into a single index.html. The script is no where complete, free for the asking though wth setup tips... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote: 070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all other distros pale in comparison. Yes, there have been a couple of hurdles, but it was all learning. I view these, not as annoyances, but challenges. I love what I have learned about my system with Gentoo and there is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Thirded (smile). Fourth one here... Gentoo has been one of the most rewarding linux experiences that I've had in years. The only thing that even comes close is LFS... but then upgrading it is a nightmare. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the taint message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an Operation not permitted error (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the operation not permitted complaint... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the taint message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an Operation not permitted error (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the operation not permitted complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that driver... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards
On Monday 11 June 2007 10:19:58 am Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like some technical advice concerning the possibility of mounting two network devices on the same desktop computer. One network card (which is binded to a fixed IP) allows me to allow the machine to be visible on the public network, while the second one (faster, the one i've installed now) is used to work. Would it be possible to install both of them, with the first one used only for accessing the machine from an external site? Thanks in advance, marco Absolutely... the only limit is how many slots you have to work with. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE
On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:28:32 am b.n. wrote: I wonder if it's worth using Kdevelop for small apps with graphic interface. Any Kdevelop users around ? How useful is it to you ? Is it hard to learn ? Did you give up using it ? Thanks for replying to this quick survey. As for me, it's better to write small apps in python, and Kdevelop is not userfull for python. Now I'm using eric - it's qt IDE for python. By the way: I am looking for a good, general Python IDE on Linux. Most people advice Eclipse+PyDev. I tried it and it looks good, but it's damn too memory intensive (I need to use it on an office machine with 512 K ram, and it eats almost half of it). Any other suggestion? m. Anyone mention SPE? Nice, small foot print, completion, etc... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] encfs/fuse fails after update world
On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:47:10 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following recent update world, encfs encrypted partition refuses to mount with error: EncFS Password: Error decoding volume key, password incorrect I had my fill of enfs a while back and now deploy ecryptfs in it's place. The best part about ecryptfs is that the filesystem deriver is in recent kernel sources. Cheers. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs/fuse fails after update world
On Saturday 02 June 2007 05:25:33 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:47:10 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following recent update world, encfs encrypted partition refuses to mount with error: EncFS Password: Error decoding volume key, password incorrect I had my fill of enfs a while back and now deploy ecryptfs in it's place. The best part about ecryptfs is that the filesystem deriver is in recent kernel sources. It appears not to have usefull documentaion... only the usual manpage that assumes you already know how to use it. Do you know of any `getting started' type documentation? It's hosted on sourceforge.net. Google will turn up a lot of information... but here's what I do... mount -t ecryptfs /crypt /crypt -o rw,key=passphrase,ecryptfs_key_bytes=32,cipher=aes,passthrough=no /crypt on /crypt type ecryptfs (rw,ecryptfs_sig=cf5c9b2c19863be6,ecryptfs_key_bytes=32,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,) When mounted in this manner... whatever you stick in /crypt is encrypted automaticly. You should read/print man ecryptfs when you get a chance. It covers the nitty gritty details. Over all, I like it a LOT. Heavy encryption, key not stored on the disk, unless you desire it... A simple umount command and access to the decrypted files is denied... Quite powerful and there's no limits to using it, other than you can't encrypt /... Cheers and have a nice weekend. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:23:13 am Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I also want to say Thank you to the gentoo devs. Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. ? I haven't seen one... in years... Cirular deps have been really sucking in SuSE and were one of the major for dropping it to me. Great, great thanks to the devs for forcing me to maintain my own overlay to clean up the crap. (anyone who's interested in it, please give a note). I think maybe you should look your gentoo over again... you've done something really STUPID. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:32:19 pm Danyelle Gragsone wrote: Hi, I tried rewritting my conf.d/net file the way you explained. I still can not get networking to work unless I edit my resolv.conf. Any Suggestions? Sorry, no. On 4/16/07, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 07:01:11 am arnuld wrote: on every boot Gentoo cleans up the /etc/resolv.conf :-( any solution ? - /etc/hosts -- 127.0.0.1 gnu.planet gnu localhost ::1 localhost -- /etc/conf.d/net - dns_domain_lo=planet config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2/24 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ Yes... this is typical of the later versions of baselayout. You have to enter your dns info into the file ate /etc/conf.d/net... Like this... #/etc/conf.d/net modules=(ifconfig) config_eth0=(192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255) routes_eth0=(default via 192.168.0.1) dns_domain_eth0=(my.domain) dns_search_eth0=(search hsd99.nj.comcast.net.) dns_servers_eth0=(68.87.75.194 68.87.64.146) -- -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?
On Thursday 19 April 2007 12:55:57 am chris wrote: On 4/18/07, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who'd have thought a Promise SATA300 TX4 would be unsupported in 2006.1? I'm running 2006.1 and my Promise SATA300TX4 worked fine on a new install. The kernel I started on was: 2.6.17-r8. I never changed anything in my BIOS or on teh controller itself. Just worked (tm). :) I just chose the Promise modules for SATA to install into the kernel (not as a module). I had 3 of them in my system running 12 drives till I switched 2 out for a 8 port card (Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8). Hey Chris Would you take the time and post what motherboard the Supermicro is plugged into and whether you are running 32bit or 64bit Gentoo? Thank you, in advance. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv support for gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r7 and higher?
On Thursday 19 April 2007 06:08:03 pm Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I am trying to update my MythTV server's kernel to 2.6.19 or higher. It's been running 2.6.17. When I boot either 2.6.19-r7 or 2.6.20-r6 and attempt to build the ivtv driver I get message like this: * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... * CONFIG_VIDEO_HELPER_CHIPS_AUTO: should not be set. But it is. * CONFIG_VIDEO_WM8775:is not set when it should be. * CONFIG_VIDEO_CX25840: is not set when it should be. * CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA711X: is not set when it should be. * CONFIG_VIDEO_CX2341X: is not set when it should be. * CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7127: is not set when it should be. * Please check to make sure these options are set correctly. * Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems. * Once you have satisfied these options, please try merging * this package again. It seems that in the gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r2 kernel under Multimedia devices-Video Capture Devices there was an option for Encoders and Decoders where these could be set. On these newer kernels that section is not there and scanning through the .config file for the kernel I'm not finding them at all. Does anyone know what's required to get these features into the kernel? Thanks, Mark Hi Mark, I am currently running 2.6.20.6 and to get ivtv to compile correctly, you MUST unmask it in /etc/portage/package.keywords to get the correct version ivtv sources. Each version increment, requires a specific version of ivtv... If you need more details, feel free to email me direct. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 08:22:23 am Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:37:28 +0200 May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html Daniel... the post you made wasn't directed tome, but I benefited from it greatly. Thanks for the info... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z� ��(��j)b�bst== 51... and feeling a lot like 40. :.) well... maybe 42. Cheers... -- Jerry McBride
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically
On Monday 16 April 2007 07:01:11 am arnuld wrote: on every boot Gentoo cleans up the /etc/resolv.conf :-( any solution ? - /etc/hosts -- 127.0.0.1 gnu.planet gnu localhost ::1 localhost -- /etc/conf.d/net - dns_domain_lo=planet config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2/24 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ Yes... this is typical of the later versions of baselayout. You have to enter your dns info into the file ate /etc/conf.d/net... Like this... #/etc/conf.d/net modules=(ifconfig) config_eth0=(192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255) routes_eth0=(default via 192.168.0.1) dns_domain_eth0=(my.domain) dns_search_eth0=(search hsd99.nj.comcast.net.) dns_servers_eth0=(68.87.75.194 68.87.64.146) -- -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
