Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:21:23PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > DosBox is working well for me (although I have not used it for much as yet). > > As far as I can tell, you might well be able to run some Win 3.1 and Win > 95 games under it (since there aren't any Win 3.1 games, they were DOS > games, and half of the Win95 games were just DOS games with a GUI > installer/loader stuck on ($DEITY, those were hell to get running). Finally got it running. Since SDL is hooked into svgalib (at least on my system) I had to... - modprobe svgalib_helper (which creates /dev/svga and /dev/svga1) - chmod u+s /usr/games/bin/dosbox (with the usual security disclaimer) - and remember that svgalib has to be emerged every time I rebuild the kernel My startup messages include... > CONFIG: Using default settings. Create a configfile to change them > ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) > MIDI:Opened device:none The config I'll get to later. My question right now is how do I get midi connected. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on m68k
Hi, I've seen that there is a m68k profile in the portage tree. Is there any effort going on to bring Gentoo to my good old Amiga? Is there a stage1 somewhere, instructions? Thanx... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpe38TkQRFGP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution locale
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > > > > > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > > > > > However, when I start evolution from an applet launcher, it seems to > > > > > ignore this locale, but when I start it from the shell, the locale is > > > > > correct. I even tried making the launcher run `bash -c "evolution"` > > > > > to > > > > > try and get the environment from bash, but no luck. > [snip] > > What about charset? Maybe if you add a charset and then run localedef like > > in the \ > > howto? I recommend UTF-8. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml > > I think this may be barking up the wrong tree - it works ok from the > command line (ie gnome-terminal) so I'm assuming its some gnome-panel > thing. Maybe you can dump the environment from the applet launcher and compare it to the environment in gnome-terminal. The "set" command with no arguments will dump the environment for you. bash -c "set > /tmp/applet_env.txt" Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev permissions
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 18:09 -0500, Qv6 wrote: > > Hello: > > Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the > entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default > or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev" > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 usb > > Is this the reason why I cannot play dvd movies? Are you in the cdrom group. (I'm assuming you can't get access to the cdrom?) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:00:18 up 1 day, 16:02, 7 users, load average: 1.15, 0.83, 0.48 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bad NFS performance
I'm getting pretty good performance with these settings: fstab on nfs mount client: naked:/mnt/share/ftp /mnt/nfs/ftp nfs defaults,auto,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,bg,posix,nosuid,intr,tcp 0 0 exports on nfs mount host: /mnt/share/ftp 192.168.x.xxx(root_squash,rw,async,secure,nohide,anonuid=65534,anongid=65533) Note that the NFS host has nfs over tcp enabled, which (AFAIK) makes it much faster. Barring that, if you do the same thing with SMB, are the results similar? On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:22:50AM +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am getting quite sick of my self and NFS. I?ve read many posts at > forums.gentoo.org, I?ve googled, I?ve tested and tested and tested... No help > could be found. > > The problem is not unique as it seems. I have an r/w speed against the > NFS-server going from ~200kb/sec to 2mb/sec. I can?t predict or find a cause > for the strange speed changes. > > I have three computers set up: > > Aquarius is my main work station (AMD XP 3200+, 1 gig ram) > Leo is my file server (AMD 1700+, 630 meg ram) > Aries is for TV-out (AMD 1700+, 512 meg ram) > > All connected via a switched 100mbit network. All have 100mbit NICs. > > Netperf is telling me this: > aquarius hermes # netperf -H leo > TCP STREAM TEST to leo > Recv SendSend > Socket Socket Message Elapsed > Size SizeSize Time Throughput > bytes bytes bytessecs.10^6bits/sec > > 87380 16384 1638410.00 89.61 > > And when I do the same from/to all others the results are quite the same. So, > no problem with the network. > > Next up NFS. > > I have now tried so many different combinations at my /etc/fstab that I don?t > know what is up and down: It currently looks like this: > > > aquarius hermes # cat /etc/fstab | grep nfs > > leo:/home/files /home/hermes/philez nfs > rw,users,auto,hard,intr,tcp,retrans=5,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 > > > I?ve tried rsize and wsize from 1024 up to 32768 (1 through 32 * 1024). I?ve > tried it in combination with sync and async. Here I find async working best. > > The file server (Leo) has a 120 gig HD with DMA enabled: > > leo linux # hdparm -t /dev/hdc > > /dev/hdc: > Timing buffered disk reads: 88 MB in 3.02 seconds = 29.15 MB/sec > > So there should not be a I/O related problem either. > > > I also run Samba on it, and when I am in Windows, filetransfers are as > expected on 100mbit network (haven?t even mesured them as they work fine). > > Can anyone please give me any hints or advices on how to proceed with this > problem? > > Best regards, > Andreas Karlsson -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike pgpvK10WBGgZU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 22:05 -0700, Alan wrote: > Same here. Not sure if this is a gnome issue or a gnome on gentoo > issue though. I dont think its a gentoo issue i installed Ubuntu and Fedora this weekend goofing around and in Fedora i had the same thing but in Ubuntu it worked perfectly. Hopefully this will get resolved shortly. LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org Public Key http://www.lostsonsvault.org/dls/lostson.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel
Same here. Not sure if this is a gnome issue or a gnome on gentoo issue though. On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 08:24:40PM +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > Yes, I've noticed that too. Seems to be happening here with gnome 2.10. > > Previous versions seem to be fine. Is something not loading when gnome > > comes up? or is it taking forever reading the menu config, etc? > > > > > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 01:23 +, LostSon wrote: > >> Hello > >> Has anyone noticed quite a delay after starting gnome after the panel > >> comes up and i go to click on the menu it takes about 10 seconds for the > >> menu to come up. After the initial clicking its fine but that first time > >> takes forever. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me, thanks. > > -- > > Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > If there are two or three people more who have this problem, i'm going > to file a bug ... So if this sounds familiar to you please reply to this > mail ... > Antonio > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
Zac Medico wrote:
>Rumen Yotov wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>Recently saw that i have a udev-tarball enabled setup and think of
>>disabling it.
>>Wanna make a backup of the tarball before doing that, but can't find
>>where it is located/saved.
>>TIA. Rumen
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>
>/lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 is hard coded in /sbin/rc
>
># Actually get udev rolling
>ebegin "Configuring system to use udev"
>if [[ ${RC_DEVICE_TARBALL} = "yes" ]] && [[ -s /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2
>]]
>then
> einfo " Populating /dev with device nodes ..."
> try tar -jxpf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 -C /dev
>fi
>populate_udev
>
>
>Zac
>
>
Hi,
Thanks Zac.
Begun searching for it, stopped too early. Had done such a backup before
only that didn't record the location.
Rumen.
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[gentoo-user] PCMCIA Laptop problems
Hey Again, Im not sure, but I think Linux is having issues with my PCMCIA cardbus. Cardmgr works, and it 'watches 1 socket' quite nicely, (at bootup). Here is the lspci: *Code:* :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX Host Bridge (rev 01) :00:00.1 Multimedia Audio Controller: Intel Corp. 82440MX AC'97 Audio Controller :00:02.0 VGA Compatible Controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM710 LynxEM (rev a3) :00:03.0 Cardbus Bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80) :00:07.0 ISA Bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX ISA Bridge (rev 01) :00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp 82440MX EIDE Controller :00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82440MX USB Universal Host Controller :00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX Power Management Controller :00:09.0 Communication Controller: 3Com Corporation MINI PCI type 3B Data Fax Modem I have installed ndiswrapper and the appropriate drivers for my Wireless LAN PCMCIA card, (DLink Airplus DWL-650+) and when I type ndiswrappre -l, (lists the drivers available) It says (in a nutshell) the driver is working. It makes no mention as its supposed to about the card being present. Im thinking maybe I did not compile my kernel with the correct options for my PCMCIA slot(?), and if someone who has this configuration working could offer some hints as to how to configure the kernel properly, Id be very grateful. It is also worth noting, that another card (3Com LAN card), which I know works on a different laptop, (under the Gentoo install bootdisk) is not detected on this notebook computer. Thanks!!! Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: "PentaQuad"=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev
The problem with this is udev doesnt know about a lot of devices. I cant see the sense of trying to replace a simple makdev when needed while having a large directory of nodes (that dont take up any space) versus using often flaky, complex and problematic utilities like devfs and udev where you have to do a fair bit of reading, ask on mail lists and sacrifice chickens to get your new bluetooth dongle working! Wheres the gain? - I certainly have had my share of pain (bluetooth, cdroms, dvd's, ...) with both udev and devfs - devfs does seem less problematic but I guess thats because its older. Overall, I find myself wishing for the old system ... BillK On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 04:07 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed > udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and > restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory > which is re-populated by udev? > > Thx > Sven -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 09:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/19/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo > > > running. > > > > > > right now, the space stands at > > > > > > total size = 53.6MB > > > ext3 journal = 33MB > > > kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) > > > kernel-modules=9.5MB > > > > Could you describe how you did it? > > (Oops.. the kernel and modules are NOT compiled with uclibc and not as stated previously.) Well, I just followed the instructions on bulah.com though there were some obstacles which I'm still trying to get right. (for one, modules doesn't load, dropbear doesn't start, no network etc.. in short, it's still in-progress :0 > I'd be interested also. Hey, you could even make an iso image > available and we could try it out ourselves. du -chs /mnt/data/devel/MINIME/ 23M total 7.6M MINIME-gentoo.tar.bz2 If anyone really wants to play with it. I can send you the tar.bz2 file. but it currently does nothing other than boots and drops you into a prompt. (i do have the whole devel fs at ~44MB, this is the one which u can use to "emerge" stuffs.) It does Absolutely NOTHING right now. I'm still working on it. :-) Let me know.. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:10:44 up 1 day, 12:13, 7 users, load average: 1.62, 1.39, 1.41 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev
Try setting the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" to no in /etc/conf.d/rc. On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email
[gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev
Hi, i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke
> So it look like we have to go back to trying to get > the CD booting to > work. Copy the /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito to > the boot/grub > directory on the ISO image, re-run the mkisofs > command we used before, > and burn the resulting ISO to a CD. Before that. I used emerge --buildpkgonly from k6/gentoo to get a binary of pppconfig so now I can use pon/poff from my sempron/gentoo2005.0 box. I'm hoping that will give me some sort of advantage to solving this boot problem over moving files between machines but I don't know what that might be. Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
On 6/19/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to debug > > why none of my machines have the lirc/lirc0 devices like the Gentoo > > Wiki's say they should. > > You need to load the lirc module first. But there is always the possibility > that the lirc module is not sysfs-aware, in which case it won't put anything > in /sys, so udev won't know anything about it. > > Daniel Daniel, I found it. The Gentoo Wiki for MythTV shows how to build in support for a remote that I don't use. They don't mention that this one line should be change, nor do they suggest where to get the info to know how to change it. Once I noticed a message while lirc was building that said something about looking at the ebuild source to see what remotes it supported it became clear I needed to change this one line in the instructions to choose my remote. This built a different driver which, when loaded, created all the /dev devices and I now have a working remote. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash no longer updating the bar
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:57 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I noticed recently that the bar that moves across the screen on my > splash screen is no longer doing it... > > > same kernel i'm fairly certian. i don't generally run the latest > kernels. > i do run a mixed ~x86 system. and i saw that i got an update to > > * media-gfx/splashutils > Latest version available: 1.1.9.6-r1 > Latest version installed: 1.1.9.6-r1 > > did something change? I think so. I noticed gentoo-sources has moved to 2.6.12. Reading the changelog for gentoo-sources: Initial 2.6.12 release. Features inotify 0.23-12 and fbsplash 0.9.2-r3. Be aware that you need udev-058 or newer, and splashutils-1.1.9.6 or newer (only if you use fbsplash) to avoid potential problems. Speakup is missing from this release but will return soon. so obviously there are some fbsplash changes, and no doubt if gentoo-sources-2.6.12 requires splashutils-1.1.9.6 or greater, then perhaps the converse is also true. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
* Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 22:27:21 +0300]: > Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > >* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 06:27:04 -0700]: > > > > > > > >>On 6/19/05, Bill Witherspoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi folks, > >>> > >>>Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on > >>>this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>>I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of > >>>time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, > >>>and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and > >>>subsequently growisofs all return the same error: > >>> > >>>localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ > >>>Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > >>>/dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. > >>>:-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error > >>>:-( write failed: Input/output error > >>> > >>>The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I > >>>have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. > >>> > >>>It appears to me that the drive is read-only? > >>> > >>>Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. > >>>TIA, > >>>Bill > >>> > >>> > >>Bill, > >> If you don't get an answer fairly quickly then I'd suggest taking > >>this info to the k3b list. Sebastian is usually pretty responsive to > >>drive specific hardware problems. > >> > >>Good luck, > >>Mark > >> > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > > > >Thanks Mark, > >Your reply made me dig into the k3b archives, where I did see a couple > >of folks with the same issue, but alas no solutions posted. I've > >subscribed to their list and will post the problem there. > > > >Bill > > > > > > > Hi, > Have the same DVD-RW and it works with k3b. > Looking in the messages, think about some things: > 1.Check if you have support for your mobo's chipset in kernel (LBA-message). > 2.Make sure to enable 'DMA' for your drives (see hdparm) WFM. For me > speedx2 = speed-6. > Since i switched to DVD-RW can't write ISO-images using "cdrecord" > (CLI), but haven't investigated much. > Also haven't tried "growisofs' from the command line. It must work as > k3b is a wrapper IMHO. > HTH. Rumen Thanks for verifying that the DVD-RW works (I was worried about that!). My motherboard is an Asus A7V, with a Promise PDC20265 ide controller which I do have compied into the kernel. I have 3 HDDs plugged in, along with a CD-RW - all work fine. The thing that is a bit strange to me - It does spin the drive up at the appropriate time, but can't seem to write it. In the other thread I make mention that the permissions are r-x across the board, but that I can't seem to change that (even as root)? Also, you are correct k3b does wrap growisofs. There is actually a bug logged on kde devel site where the k3b developer (Sebastian?) notes the same bug, but points out that it's not a k3b issue, it's a growisofs issue. I did email the developer of growisofs, but haven't heard anything as yet. Again, my suspicion is that its ME and not any of the programs involved! Thanks for the help, Bill. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution locale
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > >>Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> > >>>However, when I start evolution from an applet launcher, it seems to > >>>ignore this locale, but when I start it from the shell, the locale is > >>>correct. I even tried making the launcher run `bash -c "evolution"` to > >>>try and get the environment from bash, but no luck. [snip] > What about charset? Maybe if you add a charset and then run localedef like > in the howto? I recommend UTF-8. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml I think this may be barking up the wrong tree - it works ok from the command line (ie gnome-terminal) so I'm assuming its some gnome-panel thing. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
* daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 17:26:53 -0400]: > On June 19, 2005 08:51 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on > > this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of > > time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, > > and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and > > subsequently growisofs all return the same error: > > > > localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ > > Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > > /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. > > > > :-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error > > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > > > The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I > > have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. > > > > It appears to me that the drive is read-only? > > > > Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. > > i had similar issues just *reading* a dvd as a normal user. turns out my dvd > drive (/dev/hda) had permissions of root:disk 660 and my normal user wasn't > in the disk group. this may be your case as well? > > -- Thanks for the reply, I agree with you, my permissions are: localhost billw # lha /dev/hdc lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jun 19 14:06 /dev/hdc -> ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd but for some reason I am (even as root) unable to change them. After: localhost billw # chmod 764 /dev/hdc the permission remain as above. I have to admit I don't think that I have a full understanding of how the permissions on the symlink work. I suspect it is something simple, but I can't quite put my finger on it? Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev permissions
Hello: Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev" lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jun 17 06:55 adsp -> sound/adsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 12 Jun 17 06:55 agpgart -> misc/agpgart lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jun 17 06:55 audio -> sound/audio lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 17 06:55 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 cdroms drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 discs drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 17 06:55 dri lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jun 17 06:55 dsp -> sound/dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jun 17 06:55 dvd -> /dev/hdc drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 floppy drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 usb Is this the reason why I cannot play dvd movies? TIA, -- Qv6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx error messages
Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm seeing the following after booting a new machine. Any ideas what I >might have messed up when building it? (If anything) The machine seems >to be working fine. MythTV is all it runs and it's running fine so >far. ati-drivers was emerged after building the kernel. Kernel config >issue? the hardware is a Pundit-R which uses an ATI chipset. > > >Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones >fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, >Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. >[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 144 MBytes. >ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 >[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.12.10 [Apr 4 2005] on minor 0 >[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x (hardware caps of chipset) >[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 5756 using kernel context 0 >myth12 ~ # > > >Thanks, >Mark > > > What kernel version are you using ? Have your kernel support for DRI ? If it has, recompile your kernel without it. Bye. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
Hi Daniel. I've jsut been reading your primer on UDEV. Thanks. On 6/19/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > My question is how do the devices get created if TARBALL="no"? Is it > > only the 50-udev.rules file that's responsible? > > The whole tarball thing is strongly against the ideas behind udev. Yes, normally I've been using TARBALL="no" and jsut letting the system create the devices. That has worked so far, but it's not working for this IR receiver that's part of lirc/mythtv. > udev reads > information about your hardware from /sys (and listens for and creates nodes > based on that. > > If you don't rely on the tarball stuff, it's perfectly safe to do: > # rm -rf /dev/* > # ls /dev # almost empty > # udevstart > # ls /dev # everything is back Humm...almost everything. ;-) The /dev/lircd entry I had was not recreated. Maybe that's a sign of that stuff not being set up right? It was recreated after zapping and starting the lircd daemon again: myth12 ~ # /etc/init.d/lircd start * Starting lircd ... [ ok ] myth12 ~ # ls -al /dev/lirc* srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 19 15:21 /dev/lircd myth12 ~ # > > > I'm trying to debug > > why none of my machines have the lirc/lirc0 devices like the Gentoo > > Wiki's say they should. > > You need to load the lirc module first. But there is always the possibility > that the lirc module is not sysfs-aware, in which case it won't put anything > in /sys, so udev won't know anything about it. Yes, the modules (I hope the right ones) are loaded: myth12 ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by fglrx 240380 0 agpgart28968 1 fglrx snd_usb_audio 63680 0 snd_usb_lib11520 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi20640 1 snd_usb_lib snd_atiixp 17120 0 snd_ac97_codec 75384 1 snd_atiixp lirc_i2c8836 0 i2c_core 18704 1 lirc_i2c lirc_dev 13156 1 lirc_i2c myth12 ~ # The device is visible in /proc/bus/usb/devices: T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0e9c ProdID= Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=Streamzap, Inc. S: Product=Streamzap Remote Control C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 50mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms But I do not understand yet how this device is told to use the lirc driver. I'll keep studying, and thanks very much for the response. I'm interested in udev. It's pretty nice. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > Janne Johansson schreef: >> On su, 2005-06-19 at 20:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: > Has anyone noticed quite a delay after starting gnome after the panel >comes up and i go to click on the menu it takes about 10 seconds > for the >menu to come up. After the initial clicking its fine but that first > time >takes forever. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me, thanks. >>>If there are two or three people more who have this problem, i'm going >>>to file a bug ... So if this sounds familiar to you please reply to this >>>mail ... >> >> >> I'm experiencing this also. >> > > Ditto. > > Holly Ok, filed a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96551 Maybe some of you would like to add to what i've written there - maybe only the output of emerge --info. Guess this problem only occurs with a specific configuration, as I know at least one persion who is not suffering from this bug. Antonio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bad NFS performance
On June 19, 2005 03:43 am, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > On Sunday 19 June 2005 00.45, Scott Tiret wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 00:22 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I am getting quite sick of my self and NFS. I´ve read many posts at > > > forums.gentoo.org, I´ve googled, I´ve tested and tested and tested... > > > No help could be found. > > > > I had similar performance issues with NFS. Tried all the different NSF > > options. Turned out to be a simple networking problem. One of the > > hosts on my switched 100Mb/s network was actually running half-duplex. > > Try ifconfig to see if there are any errors on each of the network > > cards. Also try mii-diag to see what the auto-negotiation messages are > > saying. You can then set speed and duplex using mii-tool if you need > > to. You might also check the cables just to be sure. > > Thanks for the reply. > I forgot to include that information. All cards are running at 100mbit, > full duplex, with auto negotiation on, according to ethtool. > And as I get good performance out of netperf I don´t really see this as a > problem on a harware level. Neither are ifconfig reporting any > error-packets or droped packets. make sure you've got the async option set on the share. "sync" is now the default and it's slower to transfer. -- without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony - lau tzu, "tao te ching: chapter xxxii" __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
On June 19, 2005 08:51 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > Hi folks, > > Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on > this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of > time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, > and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and > subsequently growisofs all return the same error: > > localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ > Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. > > :-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I > have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. > > It appears to me that the drive is read-only? > > Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. i had similar issues just *reading* a dvd as a normal user. turns out my dvd drive (/dev/hda) had permissions of root:disk 660 and my normal user wasn't in the disk group. this may be your case as well? -- here in america we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. as their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. - dwight d. Eisenhower __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
Mark Knecht wrote: > My question is how do the devices get created if TARBALL="no"? Is it > only the 50-udev.rules file that's responsible? The whole tarball thing is strongly against the ideas behind udev. udev reads information about your hardware from /sys (and listens for and creates nodes based on that. If you don't rely on the tarball stuff, it's perfectly safe to do: # rm -rf /dev/* # ls /dev # almost empty # udevstart # ls /dev # everything is back > I'm trying to debug > why none of my machines have the lirc/lirc0 devices like the Gentoo > Wiki's say they should. You need to load the lirc module first. But there is always the possibility that the lirc module is not sysfs-aware, in which case it won't put anything in /sys, so udev won't know anything about it. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
On 6/19/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rumen Yotov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Recently saw that i have a udev-tarball enabled setup and think of
> > disabling it.
> > Wanna make a backup of the tarball before doing that, but can't find
> > where it is located/saved.
> > TIA. Rumen
>
> /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 is hard coded in /sbin/rc
>
> # Actually get udev rolling
> ebegin "Configuring system to use udev"
> if [[ ${RC_DEVICE_TARBALL} = "yes" ]] && [[ -s
> /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 ]]
> then
> einfo " Populating /dev with device nodes ..."
> try tar -jxpf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 -C /dev
> fi
> populate_udev
>
>
> Zac
Thanks Zac. So this explains why if I set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" that
I don't use it.
My question is how do the devices get created if TARBALL="no"? Is it
only the 50-udev.rules file that's responsible? I'm trying to debug
why none of my machines have the lirc/lirc0 devices like the Gentoo
Wiki's say they should.
Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 10:28 -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2 (x86 > architecture)? I just can't seem to remember the name of the site. Gentoo is a source-based distribution. I believe your favorite download mirror should have package CDs with precompiled binaries but I don't know for certain. To install it from source is simple with Portage: # emerge mail-client/evolution Hth! -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 GPG Public Key Fingerprint: A5E9 EA8E 146B 4B44 E26A 385B 278C 74CC 87C5 9026 Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preferred. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Hi,
> Recently saw that i have a udev-tarball enabled setup and think of
> disabling it.
> Wanna make a backup of the tarball before doing that, but can't find
> where it is located/saved.
> TIA. Rumen
/lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 is hard coded in /sbin/rc
# Actually get udev rolling
ebegin "Configuring system to use udev"
if [[ ${RC_DEVICE_TARBALL} = "yes" ]] && [[ -s /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2
]]
then
einfo " Populating /dev with device nodes ..."
try tar -jxpf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 -C /dev
fi
populate_udev
Zac
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[gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball
Hi, Recently saw that i have a udev-tarball enabled setup and think of disabling it. Wanna make a backup of the tarball before doing that, but can't find where it is located/saved. TIA. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
Bill Witherspoon wrote: >* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 06:27:04 -0700]: > > > >>On 6/19/05, Bill Witherspoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Hi folks, >>> >>>Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on >>>this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>>I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of >>>time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, >>>and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and >>>subsequently growisofs all return the same error: >>> >>>localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ >>>Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' >>>/dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. >>>:-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error >>>:-( write failed: Input/output error >>> >>>The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I >>>have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. >>> >>>It appears to me that the drive is read-only? >>> >>>Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. >>>TIA, >>>Bill >>> >>> >>Bill, >> If you don't get an answer fairly quickly then I'd suggest taking >>this info to the k3b list. Sebastian is usually pretty responsive to >>drive specific hardware problems. >> >>Good luck, >>Mark >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > >Thanks Mark, >Your reply made me dig into the k3b archives, where I did see a couple >of folks with the same issue, but alas no solutions posted. I've >subscribed to their list and will post the problem there. > >Bill > > > Hi, Have the same DVD-RW and it works with k3b. Looking in the messages, think about some things: 1.Check if you have support for your mobo's chipset in kernel (LBA-message). 2.Make sure to enable 'DMA' for your drives (see hdparm) WFM. For me speedx2 = speed-6. Since i switched to DVD-RW can't write ISO-images using "cdrecord" (CLI), but haven't investigated much. Also haven't tried "growisofs' from the command line. It must work as k3b is a wrapper IMHO. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel
Janne Johansson schreef: > On su, 2005-06-19 at 20:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: Has anyone noticed quite a delay after starting gnome after the panel comes up and i go to click on the menu it takes about 10 seconds for the menu to come up. After the initial clicking its fine but that first time takes forever. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me, thanks. >>> >>If there are two or three people more who have this problem, i'm going >>to file a bug ... So if this sounds familiar to you please reply to this >>mail ... > > > I'm experiencing this also. > Ditto. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel
On su, 2005-06-19 at 20:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > Yes, I've noticed that too. Seems to be happening here with gnome 2.10. > > Previous versions seem to be fine. Is something not loading when gnome > > comes up? or is it taking forever reading the menu config, etc? > > > > > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 01:23 +, LostSon wrote: > >> Hello > >> Has anyone noticed quite a delay after starting gnome after the panel > >> comes up and i go to click on the menu it takes about 10 seconds for the > >> menu to come up. After the initial clicking its fine but that first time > >> takes forever. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me, thanks. > > -- > > Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > If there are two or three people more who have this problem, i'm going > to file a bug ... So if this sounds familiar to you please reply to this > mail ... I'm experiencing this also. -- Janne "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." - Immanuel Kant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] drm and dri problem
Alle 17:19, sabato 18 giugno 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > I can see why you don't understand-- everything looks right, and I > thought ATI fixed the problems with ut in this release. Maybe this is > specific to UT somehow. Do other OpenGL apps work correctly for the > user? > > I'll go see if anyone else seems to be reporting this. People > complain a lot about UT performance on the Rage3D Linux Drivers > forum, but I haven't tried to install my bf's copy (he doesn't play > it, and neither do I, so it's not on my list of "games I see if they > work so I can convince him to switch to Linux"), so I don't know > anything about it. > > Holly I found the problem! I had : drwxr-xr-x 2 root root40 18 giu 14:39 shm but I must be: drwxrwxrwt 2 root root40 18 giu 14:39 shm now all works good!!! Thanks a lot!!! Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpHtJPNDTaFf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > Yes, I've noticed that too. Seems to be happening here with gnome 2.10. > Previous versions seem to be fine. Is something not loading when gnome > comes up? or is it taking forever reading the menu config, etc? > > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 01:23 +, LostSon wrote: >> Hello >> Has anyone noticed quite a delay after starting gnome after the panel >> comes up and i go to click on the menu it takes about 10 seconds for the >> menu to come up. After the initial clicking its fine but that first time >> takes forever. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me, thanks. > -- > Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If there are two or three people more who have this problem, i'm going to file a bug ... So if this sounds familiar to you please reply to this mail ... Antonio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?
Hi, Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2 (x86 architecture)? I just can't seem to remember the name of the site. Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fglrx error messages
I'm seeing the following after booting a new machine. Any ideas what I might have messed up when building it? (If anything) The machine seems to be working fine. MythTV is all it runs and it's running fine so far. ati-drivers was emerged after building the kernel. Kernel config issue? the hardware is a Pundit-R which uses an ATI chipset. Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 144 MBytes. ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.12.10 [Apr 4 2005] on minor 0 [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x (hardware caps of chipset) [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 5756 using kernel context 0 myth12 ~ # Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Udev doubt
Thank you simon, it helped a lot now, at least te hardware is ok... :) now, sorry for the ignorance, It just remain a lot of tty pty ... is this right ? On 6/19/05, Simon Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check that RC_DEVICE_TARBALL is set to no in /etc/conf.d/rc > > I think having this set to yes can cause the behaviour you are seeing. > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:04 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > Hi All, sorry by the dumb question, but , I belive I am using udev, my > > kernel is set, my grub is configured to nodevfs , but I got tousends > > of devices on /dev when I see udev on gentoo instalation disk it > > has only my devices on /dev, shouldn't this be happening now ... in my > > computar if so , what I mabe done wrong ? > > > > Thanks, Allan > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On 6/19/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo > > running. > > > > right now, the space stands at > > > > total size = 53.6MB > > ext3 journal = 33MB > > kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) > > kernel-modules=9.5MB > > Could you describe how you did it? > I'd be interested also. Hey, you could even make an iso image available and we could try it out ourselves. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Udev doubt
Check that RC_DEVICE_TARBALL is set to no in /etc/conf.d/rc I think having this set to yes can cause the behaviour you are seeing. On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:04 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, sorry by the dumb question, but , I belive I am using udev, my > kernel is set, my grub is configured to nodevfs , but I got tousends > of devices on /dev when I see udev on gentoo instalation disk it > has only my devices on /dev, shouldn't this be happening now ... in my > computar if so , what I mabe done wrong ? > > Thanks, Allan > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Udev doubt
Hi All, sorry by the dumb question, but , I belive I am using udev, my kernel is set, my grub is configured to nodevfs , but I got tousends of devices on /dev when I see udev on gentoo instalation disk it has only my devices on /dev, shouldn't this be happening now ... in my computar if so , what I mabe done wrong ? Thanks, Allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE
Fernando Meira schreef: > On 6/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>If so, you either need to set UseFBDev to Off, or build your kernel with >>the radeon frame-buffer driver into the kernel or as a module. > > > > The UseFBDev is commented.. does that means that is Off ? > Not necessarily, if the internal default for this setting is ON (which I don't know), but in any case, when commented settings revert to their internla default, so in this case it might be better to explicitly set it to "Off". > Anyway, I managed to start KDE. To do that, I created a new user. The > difference was that the HOME of my first user is located in a FAT32 > filesystem, while I placed the new one is at /tmp/ (ReiserFS). Thus, I would > say the problem is with the partition. I also noticed that when creating a > new user, the files from /etc/skel are not copied to the users' home-dir. > Something is wrong with this partition.. i mount it as follows: > > /dev/hda5 /home vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 > > Both root and users are able to write in that partition, I seems that only > scripts fail... Well, of course they do-- you're using the 'defaults' option, which implies (among other things) 'noexec'-- which means scripts may not be run (no executables may be run) from the partition. You might want to add the 'exec' option *after* the 'defaults' option (so that it overrides the 'noexec' included by 'defaults', if you put 'exec' before defaults, the 'noexec' witll override the exlplicit 'exec', which is not what you want). Also not quite sure what is the usefulness of 'umask=000', since that just says "leave the umask as it is" by default rather than changing it in any way (umask removes permissions from the default settings, which in this case would be something like rw (root), r (root), and r (others), because the default permissions of 777 and 666 have been changed by use of the 'defaults' option). You would probably do better to 1) set the uid= and/or gid= options to give users some ownership rights; 2) change the permissions of the mount point itself to give users some ownership rights; and 3) set an appropriate umask to block rights of others (I was always fond of 007-- all rights for owner , all rights for group and no rights whatsoever for others . You probably want to read 'man mount', but I also wrote a tutorial that discusses managing shared partitions of this nature: http://www.shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=230 (:: Shell-Shocked :: Tutorial: Multiple Linux Distros). Scroll down to "The fast explanation of fstab entries" for a 'how-tolet' on a successful /etc/fstab entry for vfat partitions. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo > running. > > right now, the space stands at > > total size = 53.6MB > ext3 journal = 33MB > kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) > kernel-modules=9.5MB Could you describe how you did it? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE
Fernando Meira wrote: > On 6/19/05, *Richard Fish* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > If so, you either need to set UseFBDev to Off, or build your > kernel with > the radeon frame-buffer driver into the kernel or as a module. > > > The UseFBDev is commented.. does that means that is Off ? > The default is off, so yes. But I don't understand why you would get a FATAL error from X in that case...but since it seems to be working now, I guess it was something else. > While changing this and that, I deleted the /tmp/ by mistake. After > creating (mkdir /tmp) and set chmod a+rwx, I got this problem (using > the new user): Normal permissions on /tmp are "a+rwxt". -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 06:27:04 -0700]: > On 6/19/05, Bill Witherspoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on > > this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of > > time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, > > and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and > > subsequently growisofs all return the same error: > > > > localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ > > Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > > /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. > > :-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error > > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > > > The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I > > have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. > > > > It appears to me that the drive is read-only? > > > > Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. > > TIA, > > Bill > > Bill, >If you don't get an answer fairly quickly then I'd suggest taking > this info to the k3b list. Sebastian is usually pretty responsive to > drive specific hardware problems. > > Good luck, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thanks Mark, Your reply made me dig into the k3b archives, where I did see a couple of folks with the same issue, but alas no solutions posted. I've subscribed to their list and will post the problem there. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:33 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > > > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > but something less than 100MB would be good. > > How does one do that? > > > >>> > >>> Have you seen this howto? > >>> > >>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo > >>> > http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo running. right now, the space stands at total size = 53.6MB ext3 journal = 33MB kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) kernel-modules=9.5MB BTW, I've subscribed to the embedded mailing list too Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:22:10 up 1 day, 24 min, 4 users, load average: 1.10, 0.84, 0.80 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't save Mixer config
Daniel Drake wrote: >Rafael Fernández López wrote: > > >>I do use gnome and alsa for my sound. Everytime that I boot I've to set >>up mixer properties and volumes, because it doesn't save them as >>default. I don't know how to do it, but I don't like to set up it >>everytime that I boot. >> >> > >The ALSA guide can probably help you out > >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml > >Daniel > > Fixed. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't save Mixer config
Rafael Fernández López wrote: > I do use gnome and alsa for my sound. Everytime that I boot I've to set > up mixer properties and volumes, because it doesn't save them as > default. I don't know how to do it, but I don't like to set up it > everytime that I boot. The ALSA guide can probably help you out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
Le 19 juin à 15:15:05 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | On 6/19/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: | > | > > I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. | > > Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have | > > the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login | > > screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use | > > that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. | > | > Yep, gdm is a pita in that it requires gnome. I use xfce4 and xdm. Xfce4 | > allows you to shutdown or reset the system, via sudo. Would this not | > suffice? Otherwise xdm is quite flexible and here's a solution to make | > your own shutdown button: | > | > http://neilt.org/computing/xdmshutdownbutton.html | > | > hth | > | | Peter, |Thanks! I may try this. I have tcl on the system, but not tk. This | might be a very acceptable solution. [...] You might want to try qingy, if framebuffer works on this machine cheers, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier | email: jean-at-bornier.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
On 6/19/05, Bill Witherspoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on > this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. > > I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of > time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, > and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and > subsequently growisofs all return the same error: > > localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ > Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. > :-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error > :-( write failed: Input/output error > > The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I > have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. > > It appears to me that the drive is read-only? > > Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. > TIA, > Bill Bill, If you don't get an answer fairly quickly then I'd suggest taking this info to the k3b list. Sebastian is usually pretty responsive to drive specific hardware problems. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
On 6/19/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. > > Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have > > the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login > > screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use > > that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. > > Yep, gdm is a pita in that it requires gnome. I use xfce4 and xdm. Xfce4 > allows you to shutdown or reset the system, via sudo. Would this not > suffice? Otherwise xdm is quite flexible and here's a solution to make > your own shutdown button: > > http://neilt.org/computing/xdmshutdownbutton.html > > hth > Peter, Thanks! I may try this. I have tcl on the system, but not tk. This might be a very acceptable solution. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
Hi Claus, Not running KDE either. This is a very minimalistic Gentoo machine that runs nothing but mythfrontend as part of a MythTV network. I'm currently using fluxbox and have only one user called mythtv. That user logs in and mythtv runs. When the user quits mythfrontend the machine (currently) goes back to xdm. With a shutdown button I'd be in pretty good shape for a keyboard based system. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Mark On 6/18/05, Claus Ladekjær Wilson - Otterup Kirke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if you run KDE kdm is fine and has the ability you are talking about > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. > > Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have > > the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login > > screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use > > that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > > -- > Venlig hilsen > Claus Ladekjær Wilson > c/o Otterup Kirke > Bakkevej 2A > 5450 Otterup > tlf. 66191050 > mobil 61665543 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] I can't save Mixer config
Hi ! I do use gnome and alsa for my sound. Everytime that I boot I've to set up mixer properties and volumes, because it doesn't save them as default. I don't know how to do it, but I don't like to set up it everytime that I boot. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with DVD burner [Slightly OT]
Hi folks, Not strictly speaking a Gentoo problem, but I'm completely flumoxed on this one so any help would be greatly appreciated. I've purchased a Lite-On SOHW-1673s DVD burner and am having a heck of time getting anything burnt ;-). My system sees the drive fine as hdc, and dvd+rw-media returns the correct output (below). However k3b and subsequently growisofs all return the same error: localhost myth # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc dvdrw/ Executing 'mkisofs dvdrw/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 3.3x1385KBps. :-( unable to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Input/output error :-( write failed: Input/output error The drive spins up and down 3 times before the error message appears. I have done some googling, and have already turned off scsi-emulation. It appears to me that the drive is read-only? Any thoughts? My dvd+rw-mediainfo is below. TIA, Bill localhost mnt # dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc INQUIRY:[LITE-ON ][DVDRW SOHW-1673S][JS02] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Media ID: PRODISC/R03 Current Write Speed: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #0:8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #1:6.0x1385=8310KB/s GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE: Write Performance: 3.2x1385=4432KB/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> 0] Speed Descriptor#0:00/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s Speed Descriptor#1:00/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: A1h, DVD+R book [revision 1] Legacy lead-out at:2295104*2KB=4700372992 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: blank Number of Sessions:1 State of Last Session: empty Number of Tracks: 1 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: blank Track Start Address: 0*2KB Next Writable Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 2295104*2KB Track Size:2295104*2KB ROM Compatibility LBA: 262144 READ CAPACITY: 1*2048=2048 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll wheel doesn't scroll
Chris Ong wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >> Colin wrote: >> >>> Sorry for all the messages all at once. I've noticed recently that my >>> mouse's scroll wheel isn't working. How do I turn on the wheel in X >>> (since I'm guessing it's off)? >>> -- >>> Colin >> >> >> >> It's the ZAxisMapping option. >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "mouse" >> Option"Protocol" "IMPS/2" >> Option"Device" "/dev/input/mice" >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" >> EndSection >> >> Zac > > Did you miss out > Option"Buttons" "x" > > x = no. of button in your mouse. > This is usually not needed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE
Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, > > I've just merged KDE 3.4.1 (after installing gentoo) following the KDE > Configuration HOWTO, but it seems I missed something. > Everything works right with root, but I can't start KDE with a user... > DCOPserver problem.. This is the output: > > > Using vt 7 > FATAL: Module radeon not found. > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" The problem is here. My guess is that you have something like the following in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeon" Option "UseFBDev" "On" <...> EndSection If so, you either need to set UseFBDev to Off, or build your kernel with the radeon frame-buffer driver into the kernel or as a module. If this doesn't help, post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. Yep, gdm is a pita in that it requires gnome. I use xfce4 and xdm. Xfce4 allows you to shutdown or reset the system, via sudo. Would this not suffice? Otherwise xdm is quite flexible and here's a solution to make your own shutdown button: http://neilt.org/computing/xdmshutdownbutton.html hth Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE
I tried that.. but it didn't solve it. There's a suggestion of re-emerging xorg: echo x11-base/xorg-x11 -minimal >> /etc/portage/package.use emerge xorg-x11 but from emerge -pv xorg-x11 I realize that this use flag is used by default.. so I assume this would't solve it either.. Having KDE 3.4.1 and 3.3.2 can be a problem? I seem to messed up the instalation and end up with both versions installed :( Any idea? Thanks, FernandoOn 6/18/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,shutdown X, than:remove .Xauth, remove all dcop mcop, .ICE* stuff in the home-dir. Remove in /tmp kde-*, mcop*, .X*, .ICE*.try again.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive space low, buildpkg to blame?
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:41:04 -0700, Grant wrote: > What is the best way to clean out the PKGDIR directory? Maybe I > should delete its entire contents and run quickpkg to build a package > of everything I have installed? I'm happy with this system as it > currently is. Manually delete packages for older versions you know you'll no longer need. Of you could change PKGDIR to somewhere withmore space (I use an NFS mount for it). > Also 'man quickpkg' says PKGDIR defaults to /var/tmp/portage-pkg but > it seems to have defaulted to /var/tmp/portage for me. Should I > submit a bug? /var/tmp/portage is the default for TMPDIR, which could fill up if you have failed emerges, or have keepwork in FEATURES. -- Neil Bothwick Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate? pgpzsRbhmKhD5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] resume interrupted emerge operation.
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:35:22 +0300, David Harel wrote: > I did emerge --resume but this started the entire compilation from > scratch. > > This is really annoying. I remember there should be a much better way > to resume an unfinished emerge operation but I don't remember how to do > it. "ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge" will finish the job off. The only real disadvantage to doing it this way is that the package won't be included in your world file, so you may want to do "emerge --noreplace package" after. -- Neil Bothwick I believe the technical term is "Oops!" pgpM8zHgcifst.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild badness
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:49:35 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > Okay right on. I skipped openoffice-bin, because I don't see the point > in remerging a binary... The tool could be slightly more intelligent :) It can be, read the thread "revdep-rebuild and -bin packages". -- Neil Bothwick NOTICE: -- THE ELEVATORS WILL BE OUT OF ORDER TODAY -- (The nearest working elevators are in the building across the street.) pgpnFW1dT9hYC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive space low, buildpkg to blame?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: > > Best one I've found is > > x11-misc/xdiskusage > Available versions: 1.46 ~1.48 > Installed: 1.46 > Homepage:http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/ > Description: front end to xdu for viewing disk usage > graphically under X11 If you use KDE, you might want to check out filelight * kde-misc/filelight Available versions: 1.0_beta6 Installed: 1.0_beta6 Homepage:http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ Description: Filelight is a tool to display where the space is used on the harddisk It's very clean, and shows a (IMO) more intuitive display of disk space. Plus, it plugs in neatly into the KDE guts... cheers Aniruddha "Karim" Shankar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCtS3FhJkrd6A3rSsRAjMLAJ9BaeTQBVStfp2I6XERGwThewxyrACgoGwm af3+ojB0S6Mb0LJ6V2uCEyk= =yPTM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke
maxim wexler wrote: >> Or maybe the selected shell didn't initialize, >> including grub's if this >> is at that point? > > > Then I realised the one word GRUB appearing in upper > left corner of the screen is just a truncated version > of the above. Ah, ok, I see now. It looks like the stage1 loader in the MBR prints out the 'GRUB ' part of the message before it starts probing the disk looking for the stage1.5 or stage2 loader. The rest of that line is supposed to be filled in by the stage1.5/stage2. So, apparently we have the same basic problem...neither stage1 nor stage1.5 can pull your stage2 file in. I was really, really, really hoping that was a 'grub> ' prompt! :-( So it look like we have to go back to trying to get the CD booting to work. Copy the /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito to the boot/grub directory on the ISO image, re-run the mkisofs command we used before, and burn the resulting ISO to a CD. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bad NFS performance
On Sunday 19 June 2005 00.45, Scott Tiret wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 00:22 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am getting quite sick of my self and NFS. I´ve read many posts at > > forums.gentoo.org, I´ve googled, I´ve tested and tested and tested... No > > help could be found. > > I had similar performance issues with NFS. Tried all the different NSF > options. Turned out to be a simple networking problem. One of the > hosts on my switched 100Mb/s network was actually running half-duplex. > Try ifconfig to see if there are any errors on each of the network > cards. Also try mii-diag to see what the auto-negotiation messages are > saying. You can then set speed and duplex using mii-tool if you need > to. You might also check the cables just to be sure. > > Good luck, Thanks for the reply. I forgot to include that information. All cards are running at 100mbit, full duplex, with auto negotiation on, according to ethtool. And as I get good performance out of netperf I don´t really see this as a problem on a harware level. Neither are ifconfig reporting any error-packets or droped packets. Best regards, Andreas Karlsson pgpgsCvvsI7zT.pgp Description: PGP signature
