Re: [gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?
On 12/4/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and subversion-1.4.2 both depend on just "net-misc/neon", without any version deps, so I presume they both work with the current neon-0.26.1-r1. I'm running the latest stable versions of both which depend on different versions of neon. It does look like it will work if I run the ~x86 versions. Thanks for the tip. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?
On 12/3/06, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to run both davfs2 and subversion which depend on different and incompatible versions of neon. Can neon be slotted so I can run both at the same time? What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and subversion-1.4.2 both depend on just "net-misc/neon", without any version deps, so I presume they both work with the current neon-0.26.1-r1. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?
I am trying to run both davfs2 and subversion which depend on different and incompatible versions of neon. Can neon be slotted so I can run both at the same time? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] EXt4
To help dispell some boredom tonight and satisfy some of my curiosity... I did a little impromptu benchmarking with the new ext4 filesystem as delivered in the 2.6.19 kernel. What I did, was pop a 256meg cfdisk into my laptop and did a few file operations on it via a simple script that formatted the card, mounted it and then copied 256meg of data onto it in various fashions... I compare ext2, ext3 and ext4dev. The ext4dev was tested both with and without extents enabled, to get a basic feel for the differences. I then did a test to see just how backward compatible ext4dev is to ext3 and ext2... All three file systems were mounted with the sync flag enabled to eliminate any delay of actually writing the data to the cf card and ended with a sync before ending the timing loop for good measure. Anyways... I got some really interesting results which all boils down to this. The ext2 test run took so damn long that I manually terminated the test after 10minutes... Ext3 took about 6minutes to complete, ext4dev with extents took 4 minutes, ext4dev without extents took about 5. The same numbers came up, again and again during three complete runs of the test script. The ext2 fs was formatted with "mke2fs" and mounted with "-t ext2 -o sync" The ext3 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t ext3 -o sync" The ext4 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t ext4dev -o sync" The ext4 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t ext4dev -o sync,extents" Results: ext2 - never completed... I got too tired waiting for it to eor. ext3 - 6 minutes. ext4 - 5 minutes no extents ext4 - 4 minutes with extents Then... after running the ext4dev with extents test, I unmounted the cf card and tried mounting it with ext2, ext3 and ext4dev (no extents), failing all three times. Once you write to an ext4 file system using the extents option, it ext4 forever... After reformatting the card, mounted with ext4dev (no extents option) and did some simple writes to the card (no extents), I then ran my mount tests again... ext2, ext3 and ext4dev (with extents) and it succeeded all three times. >From my humble tests, I conclude the following: The ext4dev filesystem has some serious performance offerings for those of us that use ext3. Also, as long as you don't write to an ext4dev filesystem mounted with the extents option, it'll be as backwards compatible to ext3 and ext2, just as ext3 is currently to ext2. That is to say, if you don't use ext4 extents for the added performance benefits, you'll have the option open to you to back level to ext3 with out problems or even back to ext2. NOTE: When changing filesystems in such a manner on a partition with valuable data, besure to backup before making the change and running fsck on it before actually using it... Wow... Let the real testing begin. For my workhorse test box, I'm going to convert a document server to ext4dev tomorrow. The server is a little used, heavily backed up box, sporting about 600gid worth of some of the most boring stuff you have ever read. It'll be interesting to see just how it behaves in "the wild". >From the little testing I've done, I'm quite impressed with the first public exposure to a developing filesystem. I can't imagine how things will progress with ext4, but based on these early developments... it's going to be good. Cheers all... hmmm... I'm finally sleepy enough to get some sleep. :'O -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:54 +, Mick wrote: > I noticed that there are at least three DVD rip apps in portage: > > media-video/dvdrip > media-video/acidrip > media-plugins/vdr-vdrrip > > How do they compare? I've never found a gui dvd ripper that I really liked. I just transcode the vob files by hand. > Two more Qs: > Running mencoder seems to work in producing a smaller file, but it is a bit > choppy (drops frames). Not sure what the correct options are, this is what I > have used: > = > mencoder vts_01_1.vob -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -alang en -oac > mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o movie.avi > = not sure about the frame dropping... did you try x264 as suggest earlier? here's the mencoder options I used to transcode some dv. I've found with mencoder, the best way is to try lots of times, and see what works the best. (Only try a minute at a time, or you'll end up waisting a lot of time :) mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=4/3 -ofps 25 -o tape3/2006.06.30_14-57-41.mpeg tape3/2006.06.30_14-57-41.dv This was after some playing around to get to mpeg2 to burn later to dvd. > If I set it to pass=2 it fails with an error about xvid: you must specify one > or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 'quantizer' settings. dunno... try leaving of the "pass" option and see? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Free Speech Is The Right To Shout 'Theater' In A Crowded Fire. -- A Yippie Proverb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
> On Sunday 03 December 2006 16:18, Jerônimo Backes wrote: > > > rdiff-backup. I've been using it for a couple of years and it does > > > just what you need. it also keeps old versions so you can roll back > > > in the event of a mistake. > > > > Man, that's almost what I need. Is there a way to make this script > > execute automatically after some time interval? Just run it from cron. I backup /home and /etc from cron.hourly and /usr etc from cron.daily. > > > You could use find to generate a list of files changed n the last > > > two hours, pass this list to tar - it has an option to accept a > > > list of files to archive on stdin - and then mail this to your > > > backup account. > > > > Ok, I can make a script doing that. But what can I use to send the > > file to my e-mail adresses? And what to do to make that script run > > periodically? cron again. You could use nail or mutt to mail it, nail looks a suitable choice for a script. -- Neil Bothwick There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
Use a cron job to run it periodically. For email, use a cron job that emails it. On Sunday 03 December 2006 16:18, Jerônimo Backes wrote: > > rdiff-backup. I've been using it for a couple of years and it does just > > what you need. it also keeps old versions so you can roll back in the > > event of a mistake. > > Man, that's almost what I need. Is there a way to make this script > execute automatically after some time interval? > > > > And for the activity of packing and mailing recent changed documents, > > > is there a tool that could do this automagically? > > > > You could use find to generate a list of files changed n the last two > > hours, pass this list to tar - it has an option to accept a list of files > > to archive on stdin - and then mail this to your backup account. > > Ok, I can make a script doing that. But what can I use to send the file > to my e-mail adresses? And what to do to make that script run > periodically? > > Thanks a lot for your help. > Jerônimo. > > > > ___ > O Yahoo! est� de cara nova. Venha conferir! > http://br.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA
On 12/3/06, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as kernel setup, I am using gentoo sources, 2.6.18 r3. These SATA configs: Did you also remember SCSI disk (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD) support? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging nis-utils
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I should have read the email before i sent it. Sorry. I am installing nis on my network of gentoo machines. During the compilation step I keep having the error in the original message. I performed a find / -name mp.h on my system and couldn't find it. If you need it, i can supply the call stack. What version of nis-utils are you merging? Also, what version of dev-libs/gmp do you have installed? Perhaps this bug may give you an idea: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135102#c10 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Philip Webb wrote: So you differ in having "cscope nls -perl": could it be one of those ? Don't think so, they were there before. The "-perl" is the only difference from my other box (the one without the gvim problem). 'emerge world' is always a bad idea (grin). So I've heard, but what's the alternative? I do it frequently, so as to not let problems build up. I also do revdep-rebuild -p. reading the forums I get the impression there's some design fault with the Gentoo way of upgrading, the need to keep the toolchain sane. The last should correct itself as you upgrade pkgs. The problem with 'emerge world' is that it makes assumptions for you, which is the very opposite of the Gentoo Way (tm). Once a week, I do 'eix-sync', which produces a nicely-colored list of pkg changes hilited to show those I have installed & their version updates. Thanks for the tip. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 03/12/06, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-12-03, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used K3B myself, but its site is not clear whether it > handles the DeCSS part of the DVD rip. I've never used K3B either. If I want to make an exact (decrypted, dereionalize) copy, I just do this: $ dvdbackup -M -i /dev/sr0 -o dvds $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 -dvd-video dvds/ > CSS is the system used to region-restrict DVDs, and AFAICT it > works by encrypting the files on the disk against a key stored > in a special part of the DVD's header. This "header" part of > the DVD is not writable by normal DVD-burners (I have heard > that "authoring" DVD- burners which support it cost several > thousand pounds), so a "bitwise" copy of a DVD cannot be > decrypted (because the key is missing). > > As I understand it, in order to copy DVD movies one must first > make a copy of the DVD's files - with the region-encoding > removed - onto hard-disk, then burn this as a new DVD > "compilation". The result is an R0 disk which should play fine > in any standard player. Exactly. The dvdbackup/growisofs method works fine for making same-size copies. This is getting me down: = $ dvdbackup -M -i /dev/dvd -o dvds $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video dvds/PIRATESOFTHECARIBBEAN Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video dvds/PIRATESOFTHECARIBBEAN | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0' 0.14% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 21:55:10 2006 0.29% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 21:55:10 2006 0.43% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 21:55:10 2006 /dev/dvd: splitting layers at 175 blocks /dev/dvd: "Current Write Speed" is 2.5x1385KBps. 0.57% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:27:14 2006 0.71% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:27:48 2006 0.86% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:28:12 2006 1.00% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:30:09 2006 1.14% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:30:09 2006 [snip...] 49.86% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:32:08 2006 50.00% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:32:07 2006 50.14% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:32:07 2006 50.29% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:32:11 2006 50.43% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 3 22:32:10 2006 :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error :-( write failed: Input/output error = This must be the third wasted DL DVD. I think that I will need to concentrate on transcoding the darn thing from now on. I wish I could pin point the problem. When I tried playing the DVD in M$Windows it complained about the region not being set - but I didn't have any such problem in Linux. Nero express won't even see the DL disk, just shows the size of CD. Could it be something to do with the firmware? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy Disk Light
Dale wrote: Check to make sure the drive data cable is plugged in correctly. I think this is what it does when it is backwards. How do I know, I had a bunch of drives that are not marked or have the slot so that it would only plug one way. Pin 1 on one side one time and on the other the next. Just have to try it and hope it don't smoke. LOL Well I haven't ever unplugged or messed with the disk drive. Heck, I don't think I've even ever used it... All's I did was reinstall... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Update from User Relations wrt User Representatives.
As of Friday 17th November, George Prowse, known to most as cokehabit, has left the Gentoo User Relations project and his position as User Representative. Regrettably, as things turned out, he did not fit the role as well as many had hoped, and it was decided that it would be in everyone's best interests to part ways. We would like to thank George for his time and work as a user representative, and wish him luck in his future endeavours. On a related note, it was resolved at a meeting between User Relations and the User Representatives on December 2nd, 2006 to instate Alex Bokag aka djay-il as the eleventh and last User Representative. This motion passed unanimously and Alex accepted the position with immediate effect. We welcome Alex onboard and look forward to working closely with him over the next year. On behalf of User Relations, Christel Dahlskjaer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy Disk Light
Randy Barlow wrote: > Not a big problem, but I just did a new install and my floppy disk's > light seems to always be on. This is weird. Any ideas why? > > R Check to make sure the drive data cable is plugged in correctly. I think this is what it does when it is backwards. How do I know, I had a bunch of drives that are not marked or have the slot so that it would only plug one way. Pin 1 on one side one time and on the other the next. Just have to try it and hope it don't smoke. LOL Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
> But 2GB? Huh... :) . 2Gb is the entire documents directory. I just want to e-mail the altered ones (in fact, the total attachment size is no greater than 200 Kb) I'll see what Kmail can do. Thanks again. Jerônimo. ___ Yahoo! Acesso Gr�tis - Internet r�pida e gr�tis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Floppy Disk Light
Not a big problem, but I just did a new install and my floppy disk's light seems to always be on. This is weird. Any ideas why? R -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
> That's a little complicated for me to play with at this time (no time > to read the man page), but I think it can solve the problem. I feel your pain, but anyway, it looks that you need to write a small shell script which does what you want. If you're using KDE, it's even possible to use DCOP so KMail automatically sends a mail with an attachement. But 2GB? Huh... :) . Cheers, ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable
Richard Fish wrote: This means that /usr/bin/as is a broken symlink, since -L is the dereference option. But binutils-config should fix that... ...unless glibc is broken in which case nothing will work... I have a suspicion that changing the ntpl/ntplonly use flags at the same time as changing CHOST wasn't a good idea. :-( I have a suspicion that you are right :) At this point, you probably need to boot from a liveCD and restore /lib/libc-2.4.so and /lib/libc.so.6 from a backup, or copy them from the liveCD. I tried this but it didn't really work. So I decided to backup and reinstall. Besides, I've been wanting to get that RAID system working anyways, and now I seem to have managed that so I am quite happy :) Now on to restoring the system... R -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:57 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > I have a laptop with lots of documents, plus, I am writing lots of > > documents. When I'm working with these files, I stop after every 2 to > > 4 hours of work to save the changes, copying the updated files on a > > external hard drive. > > http://konserve.sourceforge.net/ and Konserve is great, but it is too overhead to overwrite an entire 2GB file after intervals of 2 hours. > > > I also send them to two e-mail accounts (gmail > > and yahoo). > > rsync come to my mind. > That's a little complicated for me to play with at this time (no time to read the man page), but I think it can solve the problem. Thanks for your input. ___ O Yahoo! está de cara nova. Venha conferir! http://br.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start
061203 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Philip Webb wrote: >> Emerge details (this is the latest "unstable"): >> app-editors/gvim-7.0.174 USE="-acl (-aqua) -bash-completion -cscope >> -gnome gpm gtk motif -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -nls perl python -ruby" > Mine are: > app-editors/gvim-7.0.17 USE="cscope gpm gtk motif nls python -acl (-aqua) > -bash-completion -gnome -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -perl -ruby" So you differ in having "cscope nls -perl": could it be one of those ? > Maybe I'll try unstable. I have the same stable version in another box, > and it doesn't have this problem. Actually, I reverted briefly to 7.17 for another reason yesterday & there was no difference in start-up time, so that's probably not it. >> 'emerge world' is always a bad idea (grin). > So I've heard, but what's the alternative? I do it frequently, > so as to not let problems build up. I also do revdep-rebuild -p. > reading the forums I get the impression there's some design fault > with the Gentoo way of upgrading, the need to keep the toolchain sane. The last should correct itself as you upgrade pkgs. The problem with 'emerge world' is that it makes assumptions for you, which is the very opposite of the Gentoo Way (tm). Once a week, I do 'eix-sync', which produces a nicely-colored list of pkg changes hilited to show those I have installed & their version updates. Then I use 'emerge -Dup world' to see which order to follow & a parallel version with the deprecated-but-shouldn't-be 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge', which alerts me to pkgs I am willing to try in an unstable version (roughly, apps vs system). Then I make a written list of pkgs which I judge to deserve updating & do a series of individual emerges. I keep my own file of installed pkgs. No, it's not the same to use /etc/portage to flag unstable pkgs: I don't decide to use "unstable" by pkg-name, but by version & some week-by-week judgement & choices. I don't spend 6 hr updating Open Office from -r1 to -r2 & I never -- never -- encounter unexpected blue-screen effects after some broken attempt to 'emerge -XyZaBc world' (see list PASSIM). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RAID related boot problems
Thanks to *NeddySeagoon *from Gentoo forums, I've been able to resolve my problem. It turned out not to be RAID related at all: I made and mistake in configuring support for my IDE controller! R Randall Barlow wrote: Howdy, I'm trying a new install (since I hosed my last one) and I figured I'd give the RAID+LVM thing a go. I followed the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml and everything seemed to have worked ok, but when I boot I get 3 no-fun (TM) lines: VFS: Cannot open root device "md3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Now, my relevant grub lines read: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/md3 My partition layout is just like the one show in the guide: /boot -> RAID 1 of hda1 and hdc1 swap -> hda2 and hdc2 /-> RAID 1 of hda3 and hdc3 LVM -> RAID 0 of hda4 and hdc5 (I used an extended partition on hdc because it it much larger than hda and I wanted to create an hdc6 for the additional space) I am able to boot from the livecd and mount the arrays just fine, so I believe it might be a kernel problem. But I did enable all of the necessary kernel options listed in the guide and they are built into the kernel (as is ext2/3 which are the only file systems in use). Any clues? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: amd Athlon 64 x2 install cpu?
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck gmail.com> writes: > > > Im using the livecd amd64 to install a new AMD ATholon 64 x2 Dual-Core > > > based system. I'm at the processor selection and stumped by the lack of > > > choices. > You should be specifying '-march=athlon64'. > '-athlon64' is not a valid CFLAG, also -sse/2 and -3dnow are all implied > by -march=athlon64 and I'm quite sure that -mfpmath=sse is also the default > on amd64. It may be useful to specify '-msse3' in the CFLAGS though if your > cpu supports SSE3 as no -march setting implies it yet. Although it's unlikely > that gcc utilises sse3 properly. > I recommend the following CFLAGS: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" > Adding ) if appropriate for your cpu. OK, I guess, I'll use the minimal CD and the older (handbook) style install. I was hoping to use the amd64 liveCD, but the (Gig)ethernet is acting funny; it gets ping replies during the live cd install, but when ping from another machine, it never answers. It can get to the gateway, with ping replies as seen on while booted into the livedCD, but no further (yes resolve.conf) is set up. It answers no pings from other systems... The mobo, a 'MSI K9A' with an AM2 socket board with dual (Gig)ethernets, 8 channel surround, PCI-X and setup for the ATI 1900 crossfire dual video cards. I only have one ATI 1900 video card installed. I've gotta put the install aside, for a few days, to get some other work finished. Between the hardware and the need to figure out how to compile/run code directly on the ATI 1900 video card, I'm sure I'll be posting again on this project. When I try the install again, I'll post more about the chipsets and driver issues, if I cannot resolved them myself. thx to all for the comments, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Overlay SVN problem
On 12/3/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, here's the descrition: I tried to emerge emerald- from the xeffects overlay, but the progress hang up, so I hit crtl+c an it told me it caught the signal but is still cleaning up, but after five minutes notting happend so I killed the processes and now I have a problem. when I try the emerge emerald again it tells me: svn: Working copy '.' locked svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details) !!! ERROR: x11-wm/emerald- failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack ebuild.sh, line 1255: Called subversion_src_unpack subversion.eclass, line 274: Called subversion_fetch subversion.eclass , line 195: Called die I ran svn cleanup on different directories but it seems I didn't get the right one because the lock is still aktive. does someone know on which directory I have to run svn ceanup to solve the locking problem??? thanks jakommo Ok found it myself by running emerge in debug mod. it was svn cleanup /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/emerald/emerald/ jakommo
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA
This is the only message I am receiving: libata version 2.00 loaded. As far as kernel setup, I am using gentoo sources, 2.6.18 r3. These SATA configs: moonunit linux # grep SATA .config # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_AHCI is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_MV is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_QSTOR is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SX4 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL24 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIS is not set CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_ULI=y # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VITESSE is not set Thank you. Alan On 12/4/06, Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am trying to install a SATA drive from another machine, so I can > access backups and install them into the current system's filesystem. > > lspci gives the following > moon lngndvs # lspci |grep ATA > 00:16.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi M5288 SATA > > However according to dmesg, nothing is recognized or configured. I'm > not sure where to turn next. Besides compiling support into the > kernel, what else must me done? I have compiled a kernel with support > for ULI SATA (SCSI_SATA_ULI). There are several sets of messages you should be getting. There should be one for the driver, one for the controller, and then one for each drive. I get: libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix :00:1f.2 version 2.00 ... ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 ... ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 ... If you're getting literally nothing, you didn't get the right options or something. If you only get line 1, it's not finding your controller (maybe the kernel doesn't have the PCI ID, or you need a slightly different driver). If you only get lines 1 and 2, your disk isn't connected properly, most likely. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am trying to install a SATA drive from another machine, so I can > access backups and install them into the current system's filesystem. > > lspci gives the following > moon lngndvs # lspci |grep ATA > 00:16.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi M5288 SATA > > However according to dmesg, nothing is recognized or configured. I'm > not sure where to turn next. Besides compiling support into the > kernel, what else must me done? I have compiled a kernel with support > for ULI SATA (SCSI_SATA_ULI). There are several sets of messages you should be getting. There should be one for the driver, one for the controller, and then one for each drive. I get: libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix :00:1f.2 version 2.00 ... ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 ... ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 ... If you're getting literally nothing, you didn't get the right options or something. If you only get line 1, it's not finding your controller (maybe the kernel doesn't have the PCI ID, or you need a slightly different driver). If you only get lines 1 and 2, your disk isn't connected properly, most likely. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 2006-12-03, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used K3B myself, but its site is not clear whether it > handles the DeCSS part of the DVD rip. I've never used K3B either. If I want to make an exact (decrypted, dereionalize) copy, I just do this: $ dvdbackup -M -i /dev/sr0 -o dvds $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 -dvd-video dvds/ > CSS is the system used to region-restrict DVDs, and AFAICT it > works by encrypting the files on the disk against a key stored > in a special part of the DVD's header. This "header" part of > the DVD is not writable by normal DVD-burners (I have heard > that "authoring" DVD- burners which support it cost several > thousand pounds), so a "bitwise" copy of a DVD cannot be > decrypted (because the key is missing). > > As I understand it, in order to copy DVD movies one must first > make a copy of the DVD's files - with the region-encoding > removed - onto hard-disk, then burn this as a new DVD > "compilation". The result is an R0 disk which should play fine > in any standard player. Exactly. The dvdbackup/growisofs method works fine for making same-size copies. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Then, it's off to at RED CHINA!! visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:19, Stroller wrote: > On 3 Dec 2006, at 19:03, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Dec 2006, at 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:28:42 +, Mick wrote: > >>> I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to > >>> another > >>> DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my > >>> laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. > >> > >> If you want to be able to play it on a standard DVD player, you > >> need to > >> transcode it into MPEG2, the format used by DVDs, at a lower > >> bitrate... > > > > Since Mick has dual-layer DVDs he could even copy it ay the same > > bit-rate. He is experiencing problems because his DVDs are region- > > encoded & he has not decrypted them. > > Ooops! My apologies. > > Having read the previous thread I see that the problem is actually > 1/2way through burning. > > Although I'm not clear whether or not Mick has de-regionalised his > movies, my comments are nevertheless incorrect. Thanks Stroller, I have not intentionally 'de-regionalised' the movie. However, I can: - Play them straight from the DVD drive with mplayer/xine. - Rip an iso of the DVD onto the hard drive, mount it and play any *vob files in it with mplayer/xine. - Use mencoder and turn each *.vob file on the hard drive into an *.avi, which I can thereafter play. What I can't do is save the DVD, or its iso onto a DVD+R DL. On the other hand if the quality loss is not that great and helps me save them on single layer (cheaper) re-writable DVDs, I don't mind transcoding them to a different lossy format. -- Regards, Mick pgpiX3jJ6oJfq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:03:57 +, Stroller wrote: > Since Mick has dual-layer DVDs he could even copy it ay the same bit- > rate. He is experiencing problems because his DVDs are region-encoded > & he has not decrypted them. I thought he was unable to burn DL DVDs, getting an error halfway. -- Neil Bothwick "How long is this Beta guy going to keep testing our stuff?" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Philip Webb wrote: 061203 Jorge Almeida wrote: My gvim now takes about some 5s to start. The no-gui vim from Konsole still is as fast as ever. Vim & Gvim were compiled with the "bash-completion" USE variable, so I recompiled gvim without it. No difference. Delay here < 1 s from Konsole on KDE 3.5.5 . Emerge details (this is the latest "unstable"): app-editors/gvim-7.0.174 USE="-acl (-aqua) -bash-completion -cscope -gnome gpm gtk motif -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -nls perl python -ruby" Mine are: [ebuild R ] app-editors/gvim-7.0.17 USE="cscope gpm gtk motif nls python -acl (-aqua) -bash-completion -gnome -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -perl -ruby" 0 kB Maybe I'll try unstable. I have the same stable version in another box, and it doesn't have this problem... It started happening after "emerge -NDu world". 'emerge world' is always a bad idea (grin). So I've heard, but what's the alternative? I do it frequently, so as to not let problems build up. I also do revdep-rebuild -p... I'm not qualified to judge, but reading the forums I get the impression that maybe there's some design fault with the Gentoo way of upgrading, regarding the need to keep the toolchain sane...I _think_ this started after a very minor upgrade of gcc. Cheers. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 3 Dec 2006, at 19:03, Stroller wrote: On 3 Dec 2006, at 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:28:42 +, Mick wrote: I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. If you want to be able to play it on a standard DVD player, you need to transcode it into MPEG2, the format used by DVDs, at a lower bitrate... Since Mick has dual-layer DVDs he could even copy it ay the same bit-rate. He is experiencing problems because his DVDs are region- encoded & he has not decrypted them. Ooops! My apologies. Having read the previous thread I see that the problem is actually 1/2way through burning. Although I'm not clear whether or not Mick has de-regionalised his movies, my comments are nevertheless incorrect. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 3 Dec 2006, at 13:28, Mick wrote: ... I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn an iso image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent topic) I came to the conclusion that the combination of K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work I've never used K3B myself, but its site is not clear whether it handles the DeCSS part of the DVD rip. CSS is the system used to region-restrict DVDs, and AFAICT it works by encrypting the files on the disk against a key stored in a special part of the DVD's header. This "header" part of the DVD is not writable by normal DVD-burners (I have heard that "authoring" DVD- burners which support it cost several thousand pounds), so a "bitwise" copy of a DVD cannot be decrypted (because the key is missing). As I understand it, in order to copy DVD movies one must first make a copy of the DVD's files - with the region-encoding removed - onto hard-disk, then burn this as a new DVD "compilation". The result is an R0 disk which should play fine in any standard player. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 3 Dec 2006, at 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:28:42 +, Mick wrote: I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. If you want to be able to play it on a standard DVD player, you need to transcode it into MPEG2, the format used by DVDs, at a lower bitrate... Since Mick has dual-layer DVDs he could even copy it ay the same bit- rate. He is experiencing problems because his DVDs are region-encoded & he has not decrypted them. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] RAID related boot problems
Howdy, I'm trying a new install (since I hosed my last one) and I figured I'd give the RAID+LVM thing a go. I followed the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml and everything seemed to have worked ok, but when I boot I get 3 no-fun (TM) lines: VFS: Cannot open root device "md3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Now, my relevant grub lines read: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/md3 My partition layout is just like the one show in the guide: /boot -> RAID 1 of hda1 and hdc1 swap -> hda2 and hdc2 /-> RAID 1 of hda3 and hdc3 LVM -> RAID 0 of hda4 and hdc5 (I used an extended partition on hdc because it it much larger than hda and I wanted to create an hdc6 for the additional space) I am able to boot from the livecd and mount the arrays just fine, so I believe it might be a kernel problem. But I did enable all of the necessary kernel options listed in the guide and they are built into the kernel (as is ext2/3 which are the only file systems in use). Any clues? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:18, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-12-03, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03 December 2006 15:28, Mick wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another > >> DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my > >> laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. > >> > >> I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn > >> an iso image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent > >> topic) I came to the conclusion that the combination of > >> K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work. I could start > >> trying out different brands of DVD+R DL, but I cannot see a sustainable > >> economic case for persevering with my coaster production. :-( > > > > So far, I haven't managed to burn any DL DVD. > > I had a lot of trouble burning DVDs using a USB connected > drive. I moved the drive internal and connected it directly to > the IDE controller and since have had no problems burning > either single or double layer. [IIRC, it's an vanilla OEM > Samsung drive.] Thanks for all the suggestions! My Phillips DVD writer is internally mounted. After about half way instead of flipping over and burning the second layer it just fails with an input/output error. I've tried my Gentoo OS and a Knoppix CD just in case it was a matter of OS/application settings, but the same error occurred. I noticed that there are at least three DVD rip apps in portage: media-video/dvdrip media-video/acidrip media-plugins/vdr-vdrrip How do they compare? Two more Qs: Running mencoder seems to work in producing a smaller file, but it is a bit choppy (drops frames). Not sure what the correct options are, this is what I have used: = mencoder vts_01_1.vob -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -alang en -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o movie.avi = If I set it to pass=2 it fails with an error about xvid: you must specify one or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 'quantizer' settings. The think is I cannot read what it says fully because the character set in my terminal gets screwed up: = videocodec: XviD (720x576 fourcc=44495658 [XVID]) xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=1024x576, sampled=720x576 xvid: you must specify one or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 'quantizer' settings ΣÏάλμα: ÎδÏναÏη η αÏÏικοÏοίηÏη ÏÎ¿Ï Î¿Î´Î·Î³Î¿Ï ÏÎ¿Ï Î²Î¯Î½Ïεο! ÎξοδοÏ... == Any idea how I can fix this? -- Regards, Mick pgp6gM2tdQlE6.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 2006-12-03, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03 December 2006 15:28, Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD >> to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and >> (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. >> >> I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn an >> iso image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent >> topic) I came to the conclusion that the combination of >> K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work. I could start >> trying out different brands of DVD+R DL, but I cannot see a sustainable >> economic case for persevering with my coaster production. :-( > > So far, I haven't managed to burn any DL DVD. I had a lot of trouble burning DVDs using a USB connected drive. I moved the drive internal and connected it directly to the IDE controller and since have had no problems burning either single or double layer. [IIRC, it's an vanilla OEM Samsung drive.] -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. my NOSE is NUMB! at visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start
061203 Jorge Almeida wrote: > My gvim now takes about some 5s to start. > The no-gui vim from Konsole still is as fast as ever. > Vim & Gvim were compiled with the "bash-completion" USE variable, > so I recompiled gvim without it. No difference. Delay here < 1 s from Konsole on KDE 3.5.5 . Emerge details (this is the latest "unstable"): app-editors/gvim-7.0.174 USE="-acl (-aqua) -bash-completion -cscope -gnome gpm gtk motif -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -nls perl python -ruby" > It started happening after "emerge -NDu world". 'emerge world' is always a bad idea (grin). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
hi i have 2 favorites the 1st is app-cdr/dvdshrink. it shrinks the movie and creates a single dvd image. burn it with k3b and play it back with any dvd player the 2nd is media-video/dvdrip. it creates a divx/xvid movie that you can play on computers or divx capable dvd players. best regards robert On Sunday 03 December 2006 14:28, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD to > take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and (if > it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. > > I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn an > iso > image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent topic) I > came to the conclusion that the combination of > K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work. I could start > trying out different brands of DVD+R DL, but I cannot see a sustainable > economic case for persevering with my coaster production. :-( > > So, I am now looking at alternative solutions to be able to enjoy my movies > when on hols. I mounted the DVD and can see a number of *.vob files only > some of which are the main film. Saving these would be enough, if only they > could fit in a single layer DVD. Each of these *.vob files are approx.: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 michael users 1073684480 Dec 3 11:21 vts_01_1.vob > > There are 6 of them in a video which I want to copy, but given the recent > failed attempts with burning DVD+R DLs I will have to compact them so that > they can fit in a single DVD. I read about transcoding into mpeg4, but I > don't know what are the right options for what I want. What would you > recommend? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
> I have a laptop with lots of documents, plus, I am writing lots of > documents. When I'm working with these files, I stop after every 2 to > 4 hours of work to save the changes, copying the updated files on a > external hard drive. http://konserve.sourceforge.net/ and > I also send them to two e-mail accounts (gmail > and yahoo). rsync come to my mind. Cheers, ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:33:52 -0200, Jerônimo Backes wrote: > Is there a tool to make these repetitive tasks automatically? I would > like to have something that just copies the updated (and new) files to > my external HD, in order to keep both directories' contents in sync (on > my laptop: /home/jbackes/documents; on my external > HD: /mnt/external/backup/documents/) . rdiff-backup. I've been using it for a couple of years and it does just what you need. it also keeps old versions so you can roll back in the event of a mistake. > And for the activity of packing and mailing recent changed documents, is > there a tool that could do this automagically? You could use find to generate a list of files changed n the last two hours, pass this list to tar - it has an option to accept a list of files to archive on stdin - and then mail this to your backup account. There's also a FUSE module to mount your gmail mail account and use it for file storage, but you won't find it in portage because it breaks Google's T&Cs http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html -- Neil Bothwick You couldn't get a job as a firing squad target. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?
Hi! I have a laptop with lots of documents, plus, I am writing lots of documents. When I'm working with these files, I stop after every 2 to 4 hours of work to save the changes, copying the updated files on a external hard drive. I also send them to two e-mail accounts (gmail and yahoo). Is there a tool to make these repetitive tasks automatically? I would like to have something that just copies the updated (and new) files to my external HD, in order to keep both directories' contents in sync (on my laptop: /home/jbackes/documents; on my external HD: /mnt/external/backup/documents/) . And for the activity of packing and mailing recent changed documents, is there a tool that could do this automagically? ___ Novidade no Yahoo! Mail: receba alertas de novas mensagens no seu celular. Registre seu aparelho agora! http://br.mobile.yahoo.com/mailalertas/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Media Player
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Im relatively new to the whole gentoo system but im looking for a basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy basically. Any reccomendations or opinions on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Kelly Stewart Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone And there's Ogle Features * Supports DVD menus and navigation. * Reads from mounted, unmounted DVDs and hard drive. * Reads encrypted and unencrypted DVDs using libdvdread/libdvdcss. * A new MPEG2 decoder with MMX, Altivec and SUN Solaris mediaLib acceleration. * Normal X11 and XFree86 Xvideo display support with subpicture overlay. * Accelerated display on Sun FFB2+ cards. * Audio and subpicture selection. * Handles advanced subpicture commands such as fade/scroll and wipe. * Detects and uses correct aspect for movie and menus. * Possible to play AC3, DTS, MPEG, LPCM via S/PDIF. * Hardware yuv2rgb on Sun FFB2+ (Creator3D). * Fullscreen mode. * Screenshots with and without subpicture overlay. * Title/chapter search. * Audio formats supported: AC-3, MPEG, LPCM (DTS only via SP/DIF). Limitations * Reverse play not implemented. * No angle selection during playback (angle selection in DVD menu works). * No closed caption support (not the same as subpicture subtitling). * DTS audio not supported (other than via SP/DIF). * To play another DVD you have to restart the program. * Karaoke mode is missing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xfce4 session strange behaviour...
Hi! Since my upgrade to GCC4.1.1 and Glibc 2.4 I've had this annoying problem with xfce4 session; whenever I log in it takes a lot longer than it used to for the session to come up. When it does come up I have two xterm's running that _should_ be sitting on the far left and far right side respectively with a size of 100x85 each. Unfortunately since the upgrade they show up but only next to each other and with a size of 80x24. It seems that xfce4-session only cares about running the program but forgets size/position. Anyone else who has encountered this? Anyone know of any solution? Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:28:42 +, Mick wrote: > I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another > DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my > laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. If you want to be able to play it on a standard DVD player, you need to transcode it into MPEG2, the format used by DVDs, at a lower bitrate. A simple program for doing just this is k9copy * app-cdr/k9copy Available versions: !1.0.3b !1.0.4 [M]1.1.0_beta1 [M]1.1.0_beta2 Homepage:http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/ Description: k9copy is a DVD backup utility which allow the copy of one or more titles from a DVD9 to a DVD5 -- Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 03 December 2006 15:28, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD > to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and > (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. > > I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn an > iso image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent > topic) I came to the conclusion that the combination of > K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work. I could start > trying out different brands of DVD+R DL, but I cannot see a sustainable > economic case for persevering with my coaster production. :-( So far, I haven't managed to burn any DL DVD. > > So, I am now looking at alternative solutions to be able to enjoy my movies > when on hols. I mounted the DVD and can see a number of *.vob files only > some of which are the main film. Saving these would be enough, if only > they could fit in a single layer DVD. Each of these *.vob files are > approx.: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 michael users 1073684480 Dec 3 11:21 vts_01_1.vob > > There are 6 of them in a video which I want to copy, but given the recent > failed attempts with burning DVD+R DLs I will have to compact them so that > they can fit in a single DVD. I read about transcoding into mpeg4, but I > don't know what are the right options for what I want. What would you > recommend? --- begin script --- #! /bin/sh BITRATE="730" VIDCOM="-ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=$BITRATE:pass" AUDCOM="-oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=0:br=64" RMLOG="rm divx*.log" if [ $# != 2 ]; then echo "Usage: encode infile outfile" exit 1 fi $RMLOG mencoder $1 $VIDCOM=1 $AUDCOM -o $2 mencoder $1 $VIDCOM=2 $AUDCOM -o $2 $RMLOG --- end script --- if you launch the script like "encode dvd:// yourfile.avi" it will read from the dvd drive. You might want to set BITRATE to something in the range of 2000. Beware, this is *extremely* slow but leads to the best quality at the highest compressions rate (depending on BITRATE) I have encountered so far. Oh yes, and you need the x264 codec. It is in portage. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 22:58:36 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > However according to dmesg, nothing is recognized or configured. I'm > not sure where to turn next. Besides compiling support into the > kernel, what else must me done? I have compiled a kernel with support > for ULI SATA (SCSI_SATA_ULI). Which kernel? The SATA stuff moved around in 2.6.19. -- Neil Bothwick Planet 98% full! Delete Windows users? (Y/y) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:28, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD > to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and > (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. > > > There are 6 of them in a video which I want to copy, but given the recent > failed attempts with burning DVD+R DLs I will have to compact them so that > they can fit in a single DVD. I read about transcoding into mpeg4, but I > don't know what are the right options for what I want. What would you > recommend? For travelling I transcode my movies and fit three on a single DVD. If you are only watching it on your laptop this is fine, although you can see artifacts at that ratio. I use DVD::RIP and set it based on a target size of 1.5GB. You can get all manual about it and use just the vobs and be all mathematical about the transcode CLI options, but for my time and simple movies on the go DVD::RIP is the shit. - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > Miles Militis Fons < pgpyXq22PVd8a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging nis-utils
I should have read the email before i sent it. Sorry. I am installing nis on my network of gentoo machines. During the compilation step I keep having the error in the original message. I performed a find / -name mp.h on my system and couldn't find it. If you need it, i can supply the call stack. Thank you for your time, Daryl Mathison - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, December 3, 2006 8:51 am Subject: [gentoo-user] emerging nis-utils To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > generic.c:30:16: error: mp.h: No such file or directory > > thank you for your time, > > Daryl Mathison > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerging nis-utils
generic.c:30:16: error: mp.h: No such file or directory thank you for your time, Daryl Mathison -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
On 12/3/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn an iso image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent topic) I came to the conclusion that the combination of K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work. I could start trying out different brands of DVD+R DL, but I cannot see a sustainable economic case for persevering with my coaster production. :-( So, I am now looking at alternative solutions to be able to enjoy my movies when on hols. I mounted the DVD and can see a number of *.vob files only some of which are the main film. Saving these would be enough, if only they could fit in a single layer DVD. Each of these *.vob files are approx.: -r-xr-xr-x 1 michael users 1073684480 Dec 3 11:21 vts_01_1.vob There are 6 of them in a video which I want to copy, but given the recent failed attempts with burning DVD+R DLs I will have to compact them so that they can fit in a single DVD. I read about transcoding into mpeg4, but I don't know what are the right options for what I want. What would you recommend? -- Regards, Mick Hi Mick, I'm not sure if this is what you want, but there is a tool in portage called dvdrip, maybe that helps. I never used it so I don't know if it will suit your needs.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo
On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:22, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/2/06, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The next step which I'm afraid of is upgrading > > to glibc-2.5 > > > > Having destroyed (the system) of my machine some years > > ago by upgrading glibc (on Suse), I know that this > > is not a trivial step. > > Actually the glibc-2.4 to 2.5 upgrade is pretty trivial, *if* you > already have nptl/nptlonly USE flags set. If you are using a i386 > CHOST (vs i686 or x86_64), then you end up having to change CHOST > before you can upgrade since glibc-2.5 is nptlonly, and that is not > trivial unfortunately. See the current thread on this list. > > > So, the question: > > > > Is there a general source of information about > > warnings, actions to be taking, etc to be followed > > when upgrading certains critical packages. > > Generally speaking, if you set in make.conf: > > PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" > PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save" > > then any ebuilds that want to warn you or give you actions to take > will create files in /var/log/portage/elog/ for you to read. You can > just delete these once you've taken whatever action is required. > > More complicated upgrades (like the switch to modular-X, or gcc > upgrades) usually have some kind of guide created before they reach > stable. But at this point, there isn't any single-page reference for > these guides...probably something we should have. Also, the GWN gives a heads up on substantial system component upgrades and links to upgrade guides, which is fine as long as you are not running ~ARCH and bleeding edge version packages. -- Regards, Mick pgpV8QVJeoRCs.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Overlay SVN problem
Hi all, I have a problem, here's the descrition: I tried to emerge emerald- from the xeffects overlay, but the progress hang up, so I hit crtl+c an it told me it caught the signal but is still cleaning up, but after five minutes notting happend so I killed the processes and now I have a problem. when I try the emerge emerald again it tells me: svn: Working copy '.' locked svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details) !!! ERROR: x11-wm/emerald- failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack ebuild.sh, line 1255: Called subversion_src_unpack subversion.eclass, line 274: Called subversion_fetch subversion.eclass, line 195: Called die I ran svn cleanup on different directories but it seems I didn't get the right one because the lock is still aktive. does someone know on which directory I have to run svn ceanup to solve the locking problem??? thanks jakommo
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA
On Sunday 03 December 2006 12:58, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am trying to install a SATA drive from another machine, so I can > access backups and install them into the current system's filesystem. > > lspci gives the following > moon lngndvs # lspci |grep ATA > 00:16.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi M5288 SATA > > However according to dmesg, nothing is recognized or configured. I'm > not sure where to turn next. Besides compiling support into the > kernel, what else must me done? I have compiled a kernel with support > for ULI SATA (SCSI_SATA_ULI). It's most likely a kernel issue (or the lack of the SATA controller in your host machine?!). Compile CONFIG_SCSI_SATA into your kernel and try again. -- Regards, Mick pgpCWm1hVeDCA.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Media Player
Totem (based on xine); vlc and mplayer (or Gmplayer) are all good and fairly easy. Last time I checked (and it was yesterday), I inserted DVD; totem started and ran into movie - all automatic. I use Gnome as an interface. Hope it helps -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 14:59 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Media Player Hey, Im relatively new to the whole gentoo system but im looking for a basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy basically. Any reccomendations or opinions on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Kelly Stewart Sent via BlackBerryR from Vodafone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?
Hi All, I want to copy a movie from a DVD which I bought in a shop, to another DVD to take with me on holiday. I'll be playing back the copy on my laptop and (if it is feasible) the hotel's DVD player. I thought that K3B and a double layer blank DVD+R is all I need to burn an iso image of the DVD. After two expensive coasters (see other recent topic) I came to the conclusion that the combination of K3B/Phillips-DVD8421/Imation-DVD+R DL will just not work. I could start trying out different brands of DVD+R DL, but I cannot see a sustainable economic case for persevering with my coaster production. :-( So, I am now looking at alternative solutions to be able to enjoy my movies when on hols. I mounted the DVD and can see a number of *.vob files only some of which are the main film. Saving these would be enough, if only they could fit in a single layer DVD. Each of these *.vob files are approx.: -r-xr-xr-x 1 michael users 1073684480 Dec 3 11:21 vts_01_1.vob There are 6 of them in a video which I want to copy, but given the recent failed attempts with burning DVD+R DLs I will have to compact them so that they can fit in a single DVD. I read about transcoding into mpeg4, but I don't know what are the right options for what I want. What would you recommend? -- Regards, Mick pgpNm5zQPz0wA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Media Player
On Sunday 03 December 2006 06:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Media Player': > im looking for a > basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy > basically. I like kaffeine, though other KDE users swear by kmplayer. Codine is a KDE frontend for xine that focuses on being simple to use. If you've chosen gnome as your desktop these will pull in some parts of KDE as dependencies, resulting in a bigger footprint both in memory and HD space, but should work fine and not affect the rest of your desktop. Alternatively, you could see if any friendly gnome user has a suggestion or two. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgppQ3iZUivtc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Media Player
On Sunday 03 December 2006 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > Im relatively new to the whole gentoo system but im looking for a > basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy > basically. Any reccomendations or opinions on this would be greatly > appreciated! # emerge -uDv xine-lib xine-ui gxine and # emerge -uDv mplayer kmplayer mplayerplug-in should give you the two video players that linux offers. You can try both and see which one suits your needs/preferences better. -- Regards, Mick pgp5ASmw3dF37.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Media Player
Hey, Im relatively new to the whole gentoo system but im looking for a basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy basically. Any reccomendations or opinions on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Kelly Stewart Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SATA
I am trying to install a SATA drive from another machine, so I can access backups and install them into the current system's filesystem. lspci gives the following moon lngndvs # lspci |grep ATA 00:16.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi M5288 SATA However according to dmesg, nothing is recognized or configured. I'm not sure where to turn next. Besides compiling support into the kernel, what else must me done? I have compiled a kernel with support for ULI SATA (SCSI_SATA_ULI). Uncle! (Can someone point to a useful doc?) Alan Davis -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gvim slow to start
My gvim now takes about some 5s to start. It started happening after "emerge -NDu world". revdep-rebuild has no requirements. The no-gui vim (started from KDE's konsole) still is as fast as ever. The difference between vim and gvim used to be almost negligible... I noticed that both were compiled with the "bash-completion" USE variable, so I recompiled gvim without it. No difference. I also tried gvim -R and gvim -u NONE, but it makes no difference. What else can I do? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight Savings Time patch ...
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:02:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > I agree. In fact, we should just do away with timezones altogether > and all start using UTC. :-) Let's get rid of those confusing hours and minutes too and use a decimal system like Swatch time http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html -- Neil Bothwick Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best method for automounting...
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:58:26 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > I don't normally want it to leave CF cards alone, but just tried and > > it worked perfectly. Bear in mind that there is no differentiation > > between different physical formats of flash media, but that KDE > > considers anything with a dcim directory in the root to be a camera. > > I just set the auto-action for unmounted camera to Ignore and plugged > > in my camera's CF card and it did not automount. all that happened > > was that an icon appeared on the desktop, which I could also disable > > if I wished. > > > > It sounds more like a misconfiguration than a bug. > > If you spend a bit of time googleing the problem, a lot of people are > trying to deal with it. I would if I understood what the problem was. You say you want KDE to leave CF cards alone, now you seem to be saying that you want it to automount them and then leave them alone. Please provide a URL explaining the problem. > Not everyone works on a desktop/gui all the time... What happens, and > this is documented in a lot of google matches, once you mount a cf > card... hald won't let go... the only way to get in unmounted is to > turn the hal daemon off. This is a horrible situation if you do work > with cli while kde is being used by someone else. I've just tried this. I plugged in a CF card, let KDE automount it and then switched to a VC and pumounted it as the same user, no problem. I expected there to be a problem if a file manager window was showing the contents of the card, this used to happen because konqueror had a lock on the mount point, but that also worked perfectly. > Form the looks of everything offered... it's easier to not support the > kde media manager and use autofs... It'll be something to plan on > administrating, but at least it works 100% with concurrent kde and cli > sessions. Autofs polls the drive to see if it's still there, unlike HAL/D-BUS based solutions that use system messages. This always struck me as rather kludgy. KDE's automount/hotplug support was patchy a few releases ago, particularly in 3.4 IIRC correctly, but it seems to work just as expected now. -- Neil Bothwick Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] glib doesn't compile
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 20:32, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm failing to emerge glib (_not glibc_!) when emerging -NDu world. My system is up-to-date (emerging almost everyday). No clue why there's no -pthread and -lpthread on your system but maybe it's the problem. Either way I suggest that you file a bug.. I'm recompiling glibc, just in case there's some problem with my system and not really a bug. -- Jorge Almeida
Re: [gentoo-user] lirc emerging: ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:50:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > If you are still following this thread... It's not your problem... it's > an unexpected reaction between kbuild in latter version of kernels and > portage. The simple fix is to patch kbuild in /usr/src/linux... No it's not, although that has affected a number of other packages. In this case, the fault is with lirc and has been fixed. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156807 -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as Satan laid his soul to waste. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] udev_run_{hotplugd,devd} failed
Hi, I updated to udev-103, but now I get a heap of error messages after booting e.g.: udevd-event[4615]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev_runhotplugd' failed udevd-event[4616]: run_program: exec of program '/sbin/udev_devd' failed I did a: # rc-update -d coldplug # emerge -C coldplug # emerge -av udev and set RC_COLDPLUG="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc. Both programs do not exist in my /sbin directory. What went wrong and what to do next? -- Regards, Oliver -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glib doesn't compile
On Saturday 02 December 2006 20:32, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I'm failing to emerge glib (_not glibc_!) when emerging -NDu world. My > system is up-to-date (emerging almost everyday). > [SNIP] > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer > -Wall -o .libs/errorcheck-mutex-test errorcheck-mutex-test.o > ../glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so ../gthread/.libs/libgthread-2.0.so > /var/tmp/portage/glib-2.12.4-r1/work/glib-2.12.4/glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so > -lrt [SNIP] This is the same line on my system: > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=pentium-m -Os -pipe > -Wall -o .libs/errorcheck-mutex-test errorcheck-mutex-test.o > -pthread ../glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so ../gthread/.libs/libgthread-2.0.so > -lpthread > /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.12.4-r1/work/glib-2.12.4/glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so > > -lrt > Couldn't find any similar error message by googling. I have another box > where glib-2.12.4 compiled successfuly. [SNIP] No clue why there's no -pthread and -lpthread on your system but maybe it's the problem. Either way I suggest that you file a bug.. -- Bo Andresen pgpEngXbmq1ca.pgp Description: PGP signature