[gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux

2008-04-26 Thread Yoav Luft
I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices, specifically, ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux user and an electronics technician, and know nothing about programming operating systems. Are there any relevant projects, specifically Gentoo flavored once for

[gentoo-user] Can't play audio CD's

2008-06-09 Thread Yoav Luft
Hello all, All of the sudden I found out that I can no longer play audio cd's from my computer, nor can I rip them and listen to the music from my HD. I have checked that the CD drive works (I can mount data cd's), and I checked /etc/mtab in case audio cd's are being mounted automatically by hald

[gentoo-user] Installing themes, and all the cool things I see on gnome-look.org etc

2008-06-12 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I guess it's not exactly a gentoo question, but I don't figure out how to setup all does themes/applets/eye-candies I see in gnome-look.org and similar sites. I can't find a decent documentation and I'm sure I'm missing something which is right under my nose. So, where should I look?

[gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and various programs manage to gather useful information

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-27 Thread Yoav Luft
OK, it works! this what I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/music $ cdda2wav -e -N -B cdda2wav: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-1'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'wodim -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more. Probably you

[gentoo-user] CD ROMs that doesn't play audio, take 2.

2008-07-04 Thread Yoav Luft
, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Yoav Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it works! this what I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/music $ cdda2wav -e -N -B cdda2wav: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-1'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'wodim -scanbus'. Make sure you are root

[gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-10-27 Thread Yoav Luft
hello, during an emerge -uDN process, the compilation for gcc-4.2.1 failed, as well as for glibc, with same errors. I have run revdep-rebuilt, and found out about a broken libexpat.so.0thingy, which I solved following the instruction of the gentoo irc bot. after that, compiling gcc still fails.

[gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-10-27 Thread Yoav Luft
hello, during an emerge -uDN process, the compilation for gcc-4.2.1 failed, as well as for glibc, with same errors. I have run revdep-rebuilt, and found out about a broken libexpat.so.0thingy, which I solved following the instruction of the gentoo irc bot. after that, compiling gcc still fails.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-10-28 Thread Yoav Luft
On 10/28/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:04:43 +0200 Yoav Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, during an emerge -uDN process, the compilation for gcc-4.2.1 failed, as well as for glibc, with same errors. I have run revdep-rebuilt, and found out about

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-11-01 Thread Yoav Luft
On 10/28/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:40:01 +0200 Yoav Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/28/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:04:43 +0200 Yoav Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, during an emerge -uDN

[gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi all, Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? Or can you think of any other way to install without a burning a new CD? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-28 Thread Yoav Luft
. I just booted it up for the first time, and it looks... ok. I think I forgot to include vesa or other standart video support in the kernel. On Nov 27, 2007 2:46 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:53:42 -0500 Aaron Clark wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi all, Got

[gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-07 Thread Yoav Luft
Hello all, My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as the host machine for our embedded system. Since my only Linux experience with

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi stroller, that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2 hours work, to mount the directories I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Yoav Luft
, etc. On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 9 Aug 2008, at 01:05, Yoav Luft wrote: ... that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help

[gentoo-user] Kernel Linux 2.6.25-r7 with gentoo patches fail to boot

2008-08-09 Thread Yoav Luft
Good afternoon, I have used my weekend to compile a new kernel, but to my dismay the new kernel does not boot. All I get is a black screen, and nothing happens. I compiled the kernel like this: eselect kernel set (the new sources) cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig (answering various options about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Linux 2.6.25-r7 with gentoo patches fail to boot

2008-08-10 Thread Yoav Luft
Thanks, it works! On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: mount /boot copied the kernel, reconfigurated grub, and rebooted. You can also emerge debianutils (I think it's installed by default, but check first) which will enable you to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-11 Thread Yoav Luft
Thanks everyone. I was actually hoping for a read the google, newb response, as long as it had the right search terms, cause I didn't have a clue what to google for :). So again, thanks, I've downloaded a pile of howto's to my workstation and I work on it on my dead time. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at

[gentoo-user] Building and Installing with gentoo to non-gentoo Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I have small device running linux. I've set up crossdev and compiled a few binaries for it and tested that they don't break, including recompile of the original kernel. I wanted to use emerge to build binaries for my device, but I don't want portage on it, only to build the binaries and copy

[gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-07 Thread Yoav Luft
I had a similar with the intel video driver, it took me some time to get it all working smoothly. First, read this wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA, and follow to the latter, including the specific versions of everything, and parameters that need to be passed to the kernel (yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Yoav Luft
As with me, the problem is appearently with certain packages which require the older Qt libraries, or at least that's what I understand. Below is the emerge (only partly, as it wants to update a lot more other packages which are not relevant). It seems to me like a pain in the ass, and usually a

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Yoav Luft
This regard that last one, I was just being stupid. Portage handles that just fine, I just forgot to add the --upgrade flag On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Yoav Luft yoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: As with me, the problem is appearently with certain packages which require the older Qt libraries

[gentoo-user] Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some software mixer. I tried to follow information

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Yoav Luft
the mixing or muxing of audio streams. I couldn't set such device, though. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Yoav Luft
hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access to sound device called hw:0,0 and there for do not allow it to be shared. MPD was one of them, and when I changed the setting in mpd.conf to using default it works. The flash player, though, still tries to access the hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Yoav Luft
, it doesn't matter what sound device the apps want to open. On 12/05/2009 05:51 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access to sound device called hw:0,0 and there for do not allow it to be shared. MPD was one of them, and when I changed the setting

[gentoo-user] system freeze

2010-01-26 Thread Yoav Luft
Hello, My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze?

Re: [gentoo-user] system freeze

2010-01-26 Thread Yoav Luft
down this kind of error in the past. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: Hello, My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after several minutes of being idle. How can I gather

[gentoo-user] Trying to use ndiswrapper caused a hell of trouble: no suspend and wl doesn't autoload

2010-04-12 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I have problems to connect to WPA wireless networks, and it seemed like those were driver related, so I've tried running ndiswrapper. After I failed to get better (or any) performance with it, I tried to revert to the previous settings, but at first the system wouldn't even boot. I've booted

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to use ndiswrapper caused a hell of trouble: no suspend and wl doesn't autoload

2010-04-12 Thread Yoav Luft
a lot of device names to itself in modprobe.conf, although I removed it completely. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:47:26 +0300, Yoav Luft wrote: I have problems to connect to WPA wireless networks, and it seemed like those were driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to use ndiswrapper caused a hell of trouble: no suspend and wl doesn't autoload

2010-04-13 Thread Yoav Luft
to the driver thingy, but the problem appear when I tried to replace drivers. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:52:19 +0300, Yoav Luft wrote: No, I haven't. I've also checked all files in /etc/modprobe.d/, /etc/modules.d/ and /etc/{modules

[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

2010-04-16 Thread Yoav Luft
After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through /sys/class/power/BAT1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

2010-04-23 Thread Yoav Luft
I think it does, but how can I make sure of it? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped providing a frontend to various power capabilities

[gentoo-user] Tomcat global variables are not set (documentation says they should be)

2010-04-23 Thread Yoav Luft
Hey, I've emerged tomcat-5.5, and according to this documentation page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tomcat-guide.xml, starting the server should initialize $CATALINA_HOME, $CATALINA_BASE and some others. It seems like it doesn't happen/