[gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
Hi list, I have a three year old Inspiron 6000 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon X300 graphics. I can't get the laptop to resume from suspend or hibernate. I have gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r3, hibernate-script and ati-drivers-8.40.4 installed. Both hibernate and suspend used to work a long time ago, but stopped after a few `emerge -uDN world`s. The older package versions when it used to work aren't in the portage tree anymore :( Does the suspend/hibernate process produce logs anywhere? I don't see anything in /var/log/* Will using open source drivers for my graphics chipset help in making suspend/hibernate work? And how do they handle 3D for this chipset? I don't play games, but it would be nice to use Compiz once it's stable in portage. Thanks for any pointers. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nspluginwrapper
Hello, I run seamonkey on a amd64 (64bit os). Now every time after rebooting my workstation, I have to re emerge net-www/nspluginwrapper in order to get shockwave (flash) things to work with seamonkey. This was not the case before. Could someone enlighten me as to what I need to do to fix this once? I have nsplugins set as a flag in make.conf... and still I have this problem. suggestions are most welcome? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the suspend/hibernate process produce logs anywhere? I don't see anything in /var/log/* In /etc/hibernate/common.conf (or one of the other config files in that directory), you need something like: LogFile /var/log/hibernate.log LogVerbosity 3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.
I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and repeat). This gets me working again 98% of the time. This is slightly better than rebooting every time you have a problem. Slightly. So, of course I have a lot of questions. Anyone know what is going on? Anyone know how I can find out what is going on? Adding a gig and a half of ram didn't change the behaviour. Changing video cards didn't either. (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Finally, I'd like to just get the PID of gnome panel in a one-liner to send to kill, if I can't get this fixed. Can anyone volunteer a gimme only the PID one-liner? [ And why does it always complain about not finding GDM... when was that required? I've never used it, nor wanted it. I want the warnings to go away! ] Any replies appreciated. Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.
On Monday 25 February 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: Finally, I'd like to just get the PID of gnome panel in a one-liner to send to kill, if I can't get this fixed. Can anyone volunteer a gimme only the PID one-liner? killall gnome-panel edit 'gnome-panel' as appropriate to make it whatever the binary is actually called. Also look at pidof from sys-apps/sysvinit -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir
My /usr/share/info dir has several different versions of emacs info. In addition to the usual emacs-*.info.gz (1-36), there are two subdirs. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13269 Feb 10 2005 /usr/share/info/emacs-1.info.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14595 Feb 10 2005 /usr/share/info/emacs-36.info.gz These two subdirs have very nearly the same contents as each other, but their emacs files only go to 8. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2600 Dec 1 11:49 /usr/share/info/emacs-22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72996 Dec 1 11:12 emacs-1.info.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16261 Dec 1 11:12 emacs-8.info.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2712 Dec 7 22:43 /usr/share/info/emacs-23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73191 Dec 7 22:42 emacs-1.info.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23606 Dec 7 22:42 emacs-8.info.bz2 But the individual subdir files are bigger, are bzipped not gzipped, and the total byte counts come out roughly the same, so I think it is a fair bet that each of the three sets is complete. If I use info /usr/share/info/emacs-23/dir, I do see the latest emacs info, not some old -21 stuff. The dates are also interesting. The main info dir has three year old files, teh two subdirs are more recent. So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the info system, and what do I do to correct this? I am tempted to just manually relocate the files, but it should be unnecessary. This is a ~amd64 system, if that matters. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.
On Montag, 25. Februar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: as Alan wrote killall is your friend. It does not need a pid. pidof can tell you the name of an app. And with strace you can look for yourself where gnome-panel hangs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the info system, and what do I do to correct this? 'eselect emacs' allows you to select which version of emacs to use, and as part of that sets the correct info directory for the selected version. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Grant, As Florian suggested you might want to check out PulseAudio in the proaudio overlay. I think it has some capability to switch the destination of application audio more or less on the fly. I haven't used it but it sounds interesting. http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=PulseAudio Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:38 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: Hi list, I have a three year old Inspiron 6000 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon X300 graphics. I can't get the laptop to resume from suspend or hibernate. I have gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r3, hibernate-script and ati-drivers-8.40.4 installed. I have an 3ish yr old Inspiron 9100, with an ATI Mobility 9600/9700 (RV350?). Apparently mine is a special case... Both hibernate and suspend used to work a long time ago, but stopped after a few `emerge -uDN world`s. The older package versions when it used to work aren't in the portage tree anymore :( I've had mixed success over the last 3 years. Various versions and combinations of ati-drivers and kernels did / didn't work. Simple solution could be because some names have changed recently. (suspend2 tuxonice, eg). The other think I can suggest is to try various versions of each. At least try ati-drivers 8.452 flavour, and some ati-drivers 8.35.x to 8.40.4 versions as well. There's also suspend2-sources. er, that's tuxonice-sources now. Try unstable sources and hibernate-script as well. Are you using suspend or suspend2? You might also want to check out radeontool. Does the suspend/hibernate process produce logs anywhere? I don't see anything in /var/log/* post the output when you get logging going from the other suggestion. Will using open source drivers for my graphics chipset help in making suspend/hibernate work? And how do they handle 3D for this chipset? I don't play games, but it would be nice to use Compiz once it's stable in portage. I think the X300 has decent success, unlike mine :( There was some help on the wiki... OK there are a few links you probably want to read: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2 (your card is known to work) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL/Troubleshooting http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL Thanks for any pointers. np, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? :( (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Make a new user with default .blah files. Does it happen for the new user? If so, start singling them out one by one... yes it's tedious. [ And why does it always complain about not finding GDM... when was that required? I've never used it, nor wanted it. I want the warnings to go away! ] who's it? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
