[gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
Hello ! I am realy a beginner at Linux, and i am trying to get Gentoo work with my Epia Via C3 Nemiah. I have followed the Handbook (I hope), and have looked at some Epia HOWTO's on how to configure the kernel. (manual config) I configured the needed devices as built in, and nothing as a module. I have a primary ide-disk on the first IDE-channel, /dev/hda when I boot the minimal installation cd. Use tha handbook's partition's. And use lilo, as in the examples. But when I reboot i get: VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) Please help me, as I don't know what to try next. Does anyone have a .config-file that works with the Epia card ? / Thomas
Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on- gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? never heard of the product, but: # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I/O warning : failed to load external entity /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or It's obviously complaining about missing libraries. Do these files exist anywhere on your machine? You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. Looks like a classic case of Adobe *nix-cluelessness -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} HD makes weird noise, smartmontools says OK
On Thursday 16 April 2009 01:30:56 Paul Hartman wrote: The fan on top of my case randomly starts vibrating and makes the most awful buzzing noise. If I touch the case in a certain spot it goes away (until I remove my finger). :) I usually just give it a couple whacks and it stops... but that's probably not a good course to take with a hard drive. :) That's dirt in the bearings causing tiny wear patterns that just happen to vibrate at a resonant frequency to buzz. When it gets bad enough they wobble on the drive shaft and shake. Same principle as squeeking disc brakes. Solution is a new fan. Cleaning with aerosol lubricant products temporarily helps. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] CMake and empty directories
Hey Arttu! Just a wild guess from a perl-fan: would it work if you escaped that dollar sign with a backslash? It might move the expansion around a bit, maybe even to the right place if you're lucky. Tried that, unfortunately it did not have the desired effect. Thanks for your suggestion. Patrick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox
Dear all, I'm using x11-misc/slim as a login manager, and I have troubles with loading any DE other than Xfce. I've followed the wiki entry [1], but I must still be doing something wrong: it fails to load Fluxbox whether I select Fluxbox or Xfce with F1. It's actually quite funny: selecting Fluxbox I get Xfce loaded on top of Fluxbox; in this case, when I log out of Xfce I fall back onto Fluxbox. I suspect that an xfce entry is left in some init script, but i cannot figure out where it would be. Thanks, Liviu [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM [I] x11-misc/slim Installed versions: 1.3.1-r5(16:01:49 08/04/09)(branding pam screenshot) [I] x11-wm/fluxbox Installed versions: 1.0.0-r2(15:08:30 12/10/08)(gnome imlib nls slit toolbar truetype -kde -vim-syntax -xinerama) li...@localhost ~ $ rc-status default | grep -i xdm xdm[ started ] li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/xdm | grep -i slim DISPLAYMANAGER=slim li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc #SLiM session call DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 case $1 in fluxbox) exec startfluxbox ;; *) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;; esac # load local modmap test -r $HOME/.Xmodmap xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i login_cmd login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i sessions sessionsxfce,fluxbox li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i sessionst #sessionstart_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l :0.0 %user #sessionstop_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l :0.0 %user
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:56:03 -0500, Dale wrote: have been using lsusb and udev monitor to check for what the kernel sees. So far, it has seen nothing at all. They only show you what udev sees, do any of your USB devices show up in dmesg? If not, either your kernel or your hardware is broken, and kernels don't often break without recompilation. If dmesg shows it, you have a software problem, but it can't be anything to do with X or your USB ports would work if you booted in text mode. Use genlop with the --date argument to see what you emerged since your USB last worked, then start with the obvious suspects. -- Neil Bothwick Resistance is futile, Persistance is MSDOS signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} HD makes weird noise, smartmontools says OK
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:18:23 -0700, Grant wrote: Is there any other type of test I can do to see if the thing is healthy? Save some really important data to it that isn't backed up anywhere else. -- Neil Bothwick A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, Wish you were here. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:03:06 +0200, Thomas Chef wrote: I configured the needed devices as built in, and nothing as a module. Which devices? I have a primary ide-disk on the first IDE-channel, /dev/hda when I boot the minimal installation cd. Is this an old CD? Modern kernels would see that device as /dev/sda VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the sda notation, if that fails post your kernel config. Does anyone have a .config-file that works with the Epia card ? Yes, but I netboot my Epia box so it may not be much use to you. -- Neil Bothwick Q-Tip: When an omnipotent alien gives you advice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
I just rembered that lilo verifies that the root-device that I use in lilo-conf actually exists ? So when I boot from my minimal-cd the disk is /dev/hda so if I write /dev/sda in lilo.conf I will get an error when running lilo ? On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:58:49 +0200, Thomas Chef wrote: Is it lilo that tells the kernel at boot what device to mount as root ? Yes, although you'll find that most people prefer GRUB to Lilo nowadays. -- Neil Bothwick Work is the curse of the partying class!
[gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
From the handbook: To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system, namely /dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the kernel. If you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is /dev/hda . But when I boot on Via Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get my IDE-disk as /dev/hda Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ?
Odp: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
I guess he just answered. The facts speak for itself. Dnia 16-04-2009 o godz. 11:28 Thomas Chef napisał(a): From the handbook: To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system, namely /dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the kernel. If you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is /dev/hda. But when I boot onVia Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get my IDE-disk as /dev/hda Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ? Zamów neostradę, w promocji dostaniesz cyfrowy aparat fotograficzny! - Kliknij:http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http://neostrada.wp.pl/promocje.html?src01=bda32=696 From the handbook: To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system, namely /dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the kernel. If you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is /dev/hda . But when I boot on Via Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get my IDE-disk as /dev/hda Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ?
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
Thomas Chef wrote: Aha I understand. But what if my cd installation names my disk hda, but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it should be sda instead ? I guess when you boot the new kernel, it will error looking for the root block device, and ask you what it should do. You can then tell it that it should be looking for sda, not hda. Then once the system is booted, you can update the bootloader config. That should let you migrate and you shouldn't have to do it again unless you go back to the old hda names. HTH Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:58:49 +0200, Thomas Chef wrote: Is it lilo that tells the kernel at boot what device to mount as root ? Yes, although you'll find that most people prefer GRUB to Lilo nowadays. -- Neil Bothwick Work is the curse of the partying class! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:28:54 Thomas Chef wrote: From the handbook: To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system, namely /dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the kernel. If you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is /dev/hda . But when I boot on Via Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get my IDE-disk as /dev/hda Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ? Not really. It's whatever was reasonably current at the time the CD image was built. It's not the age of the kernel that matters here. it's which drivers are in use. These things are in a constant state of flux and right now the Linux kernel still has drivers for the old and the new way of doing things with disks. Rationale: a driver writer decided some time ago that it would be better to consolidate things in the kernel and use the same code-base for all types of disk. This makes things easier overall as you don't have to eternally figure out if you have IDE/SCSI/PATA/SCSI/something_else drives - the thing is always going to be /dev/sd** But you can still use the old drivers and framework if you choose. Apparently, whoever mastered that CD did choose. Point being, if /dev/sda doesn't work for you and /dev/hda does, then you should be using /dev/hda. From your point of view, it's just a name for something -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
I selected all devices from the guideline in the EPIA Howto: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/VIA_Epia_M_II I downloaded the minimal CD: http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2008.0-minimal/x86/ For the kernel source I followed the online Handbook (with links) I will try with sda notation in my lilo config. If this doesnt work I will send my .config and lilo.conf-files. Is it lilo that tells the kernel at boot what device to mount as root ? / Thomas On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:03:06 +0200, Thomas Chef wrote: I configured the needed devices as built in, and nothing as a module. Which devices? I have a primary ide-disk on the first IDE-channel, /dev/hda when I boot the minimal installation cd. Is this an old CD? Modern kernels would see that device as /dev/sda VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the sda notation, if that fails post your kernel config. Does anyone have a .config-file that works with the Epia card ? Yes, but I netboot my Epia box so it may not be much use to you. -- Neil Bothwick Q-Tip: When an omnipotent alien gives you advice.
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
Hi,
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On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:07:08 Thomas Chef wrote:
Aha I understand.
But what if my cd installation names my disk hda,
but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda.
So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks
for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it should be sda
instead ?
It's more complicated than that, much more complicated.
lilo is not Linux, it runs before Linux runs. So the boot loader itself (when
booting) has absolutely no idea about /dev/sda or /dev/hda. It doesn't even
know about /dev, and doesn't need to know such things.
However, before lilo (the boot loader) can work at all, it's code must be
installed to the MBR of the disk, and there is a Linux app that does that.
This app needs to know which disk to install the boot loader onto, but it's a
Linux app so must follow Linux conventions when using disks. If your current
kernel calls it /dev/hda, then the lilo installer must do the same otherwise
it cannot find the disk (it must use the running kernel to do that, it cannot
do it itself. The fact that it's a bootloader *installer* doesn't change
anything).
When booting, the BIOS will access the first sector of the boot device (as
defined in the BIOS) and load what it finds there. In your case this will be
lilo. Lilo will read data directly off the disk and stuff them into memory. By
a process of magic and a little voodoo, this will just happen to be an exact
copy of a working kernel. The kernel will load, initialise itself, create
/dev, find disks and decide what to call them - hda or sda depending on how
you configured it when you built that kernel. This is the first point where
hda or sda even exists at all so before then these are meaningless concepts.
Now all of this makes complete sense when you pick it apart. The problem (and
the point of confusion for most folks), is how the hell did lilo get onto the
disk The correct answer is You ran Linux and put it there yourself of
course
The trick is to realise that you ran Linux off a CD which let you see the
disks so that you could put a boot loader on them, then reboot and start all
over.
It's a chicken and egg thing, and I did tell you up front it was complicated.
Next week we will cover the wonderful topic of GRUB.
Summary: When you finally get the machine to boot, the disks will be called
whatever you told the kernel to call them.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:28:54 Thomas Chef wrote:
From the handbook:
To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device
is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system,
namely
/dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even
IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the
kernel.
If
you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is
/dev/hda .
But when I boot on Via Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get
my IDE-disk as /dev/hda
Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ?
Not really. It's whatever was reasonably current at the time the CD image
was
built.
It's not the age of the kernel that matters here. it's which drivers are
in use. These things are in a constant state of flux and right now the
Linux kernel still has drivers for the old and the new way of doing
things with disks.
Rationale: a driver writer decided some time ago that it would be better
to consolidate things in the kernel and use the same code-base for all
types of
disk. This makes things easier overall as you don't have to eternally
figure
out if you have IDE/SCSI/PATA/SCSI/something_else drives - the thing is
always
going to be /dev/sd**
But you can still use the old drivers and framework if you choose.
Apparently,
whoever mastered that CD did choose. Point being, if /dev/sda doesn't
work for
you and /dev/hda does, then you should be using /dev/hda. From your point
of
view, it's just a name for something
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
Aha I understand. But what if my cd installation names my disk hda, but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it should be sda instead ? On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:28:54 Thomas Chef wrote: From the handbook: To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system, namely /dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the kernel. If you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is /dev/hda . But when I boot on Via Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get my IDE-disk as /dev/hda Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ? Not really. It's whatever was reasonably current at the time the CD image was built. It's not the age of the kernel that matters here. it's which drivers are in use. These things are in a constant state of flux and right now the Linux kernel still has drivers for the old and the new way of doing things with disks. Rationale: a driver writer decided some time ago that it would be better to consolidate things in the kernel and use the same code-base for all types of disk. This makes things easier overall as you don't have to eternally figure out if you have IDE/SCSI/PATA/SCSI/something_else drives - the thing is always going to be /dev/sd** But you can still use the old drivers and framework if you choose. Apparently, whoever mastered that CD did choose. Point being, if /dev/sda doesn't work for you and /dev/hda does, then you should be using /dev/hda. From your point of view, it's just a name for something -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage3 tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that correctly? And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo? tnx
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:34:02 Adam Carter wrote: Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage3 tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that correctly? And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo? tnx First, no HTML mail here. The majority of users don't like it. Second, you can't use ia64 on a Dell laptop - I sincerely doubt you have Itanium chips in it. You want amd64. You other question is correct, you can't run 64 bit stuff from a 32 bit kernel. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
Thomas, I also have an EPIA (disk booted) so I can dig that up if there's no progress I'm pretty shure that I have selected all device drivers as specified in: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/VIA_Epia_M_II but I will tripple check this tonight.
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:34:02 +1000 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage3 tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that correctly? And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo? tnx ia64 is an arch for Intel Itanium server processors, a laptop should have amd64-compatible processor, so just try this one. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ?. The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it.
RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the sda notation, if that fails post your kernel config. Neil, could this alternatively be due to the filesystem driver being absent from the kernel? Ie not built at all or built as a module, so it wont be available early enough in the boot process? Thomas, I also have an EPIA (disk booted) so I can dig that up if there's no progress.
Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
Thomas Chef schrieb: Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ?. The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it. but it is logged, type dmesg. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
090416 Thomas Chef wrote: Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ? The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it. 'Shift-PageUp' 'Shift-PageDown' allow you to scroll thro' the text. You can increase the size of the buffer among the kernel config choices. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
Thomas Chef schrieb: Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ?. The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it. And of course app-admin/showconsole signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
Thomas Chef wrote: Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ?. The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it. if you have Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) you can try rootdelay=120 kernel parameter, and use shift+pageup|pagedown.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:45:02 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the sda notation, if that fails post your kernel config. Neil, could this alternatively be due to the filesystem driver being absent from the kernel? Ie not built at all or built as a module, so it wont be available early enough in the boot process? The error says the kernel can't open the root device. It's a slightly different message when the filesystem can't be read, although I haven't seen that one in a while. -- Neil Bothwick Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on the earth. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:16:07 Thomas Chef wrote: Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ?. The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it. Try ctrl-s to stop the scrolling, ctrl-q to restart it. They will only work after a certain point has been passed, though. Maybe when init is running? -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 mythfrontend[31548]: segfault at 6f732e4c ip 6f732e4c sp bfe0b09c error 4 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 mythfrontend[32128]: segfault at 6f732e4c ip 6f732e4c sp bffb8a4c error 4 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 mythfrontend[32527]: segfault at 6f732e4c ip 6f732e4c sp bf98041c error 4 SNIP Here's what I could gather from Xorg.0.log: camille log # grep EE Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) Failed to load module type1 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering camille log # grep WW Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/CID/ does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB (WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x0001, instruction error (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state. SNIP This is all suggesting to me a fairly serious setup problem, but not necessarily a problem with Myth. You are correct - there is no mythfrontend log file. That would be on your server. My mistake. You still might want to look through the tail of that file but I doubt anything about this will be there. As I said earlier, you should simply remove the freetype line from the fonts section of your xorg.conf file. It's not an issue though. PRobably the same for the type1 font, assuming it's a font. Xorg isn't finding those fonts which jsut means it cannot use them. That's not going to cause a crash in Myth though. I'm not understanding why your system isn't finding the right video driver. It appears hal wants you to run the i915 driver. Is the i915 driver in memory? (lsmod|grep i915) Is it on your system? On the 32-bit machine they are in /usr/lib/dri. Your Xorg.0.log file says they aren't there. Why not? dragonfly ~ # ls -la /usr/lib/dri/ total 8824 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 2009-04-12 08:37 . drwxr-xr-x 125 root root 77824 2009-04-14 17:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2150796 2009-04-12 08:37 i810_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2372108 2009-04-12 08:37 i915_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2422028 2009-04-12 08:37 i965_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1978328 2009-04-12 08:37 swrast_dri.so dragonfly ~ # If they really aren't there then you need to build them. They are provided byxf86-video-intel. I don't have them on this AMD64 machine but note that if I wanted to add them then they drag in XvMC which I am suspecting is causing the segfault crash on my wife's 32-bit Intel based machine: lightning mythtv # emerge -pv1 xf86-video-intel These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-xvmc-0.1 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.4 USE=-debug 220 kB [ebuild N] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 USE=dri -debug 772 kB Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 992 kB lightning mythtv # I am curious as to whether this matters. xvmc is one of the rendering technologies and is pretty much default with Myth. On my wife's machine neither implementation is selected. Possibly that's part of the problem on her machine. I'll have to play with that a bit: dragonfly ~ # eselect xvmc list Available XvMC implementations ( * is current ): [1]xorg-x11 [2] intel dragonfly ~ # I don't know what other clues to give you. I'm going back to xorg-1.3 as we speak to see if I can get her machine working again. I'll let you know how it goes. - Mark In my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, the only errors are as follows: camille ~ # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering Now I don't know what /dev/fb0 is, but the /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so I
Re: [gentoo-user] gecko-mediaplayer inconsistent dependencies
The gecko-mediaplayer ebuild RDEPEND is as follows: RDEPEND=dev-libs/dbus-glib =media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2 || ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8* =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2* =www-client/seamonkey-1* www-client/epiphany ) I'm not sure how to interpret that, but on one system portage wants to downgrade to mozilla-firefox-2* and on the other it does not. Can anyone tell me why that is? - Grant The trick is in that || symbol. Any one of the xulrunner, firefox, seamonkey or epiphany versions listed will do. My guess would be that one machine has xulrunner installed, the other does not They both had xulrunner installed but only one had xulrunner-1.8 installed. I installed it on the other and now the dependencies resolve great. Thanks for your help. - Grant
[gentoo-user] Battery knock out
Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox
Am Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:28:26 +0200 schrieb Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com: Dear all, I'm using x11-misc/slim as a login manager, and I have troubles with loading any DE other than Xfce. I've followed the wiki entry [1], but I must still be doing something wrong: it fails to load Fluxbox whether I select Fluxbox or Xfce with F1. It's actually quite funny: selecting Fluxbox I get Xfce loaded on top of Fluxbox; in this case, when I log out of Xfce I fall back onto Fluxbox. I suspect that an xfce entry is left in some init script, but i cannot figure out where it would be. Thanks, Liviu [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM [I] x11-misc/slim Installed versions: 1.3.1-r5(16:01:49 08/04/09)(branding pam screenshot) [I] x11-wm/fluxbox Installed versions: 1.0.0-r2(15:08:30 12/10/08)(gnome imlib nls slit toolbar truetype -kde -vim-syntax -xinerama) li...@localhost ~ $ rc-status default | grep -i xdm xdm[ started ] li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/xdm | grep -i slim DISPLAYMANAGER=slim li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc #SLiM session call DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 ^^ This sets DEFAULT_SESSION to dbus-launch and then executes startxfce4. That would explain why you have fluxbox and xfce both started simultaneously. You need to put the whole thing in quotes, like so: DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 case $1 in fluxbox) exec startfluxbox ;; *) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;; esac # load local modmap test -r $HOME/.Xmodmap xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i login_cmd login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i sessions sessionsxfce,fluxbox li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i sessionst #sessionstart_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l :0.0 %user #sessionstop_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l :0.0 %user HTH -- Marc Joliet -- Lt. Frank Drebin: It's true what they say: cops and women don't mix. Like eating a spoonful of Drāno; sure, it'll clean you out, but it'll leave you hollow inside. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 09:40 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 mythfrontend[31548]: segfault at 6f732e4c ip 6f732e4c sp bfe0b09c error 4 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 mythfrontend[32128]: segfault at 6f732e4c ip 6f732e4c sp bffb8a4c error 4 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 mythfrontend[32527]: segfault at 6f732e4c ip 6f732e4c sp bf98041c error 4 SNIP Here's what I could gather from Xorg.0.log: camille log # grep EE Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) Failed to load module type1 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering camille log # grep WW Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/CID/ does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB (WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x0001, instruction error (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state. SNIP This is all suggesting to me a fairly serious setup problem, but not necessarily a problem with Myth. You are correct - there is no mythfrontend log file. That would be on your server. My mistake. You still might want to look through the tail of that file but I doubt anything about this will be there. As I said earlier, you should simply remove the freetype line from the fonts section of your xorg.conf file. It's not an issue though. PRobably the same for the type1 font, assuming it's a font. Xorg isn't finding those fonts which jsut means it cannot use them. That's not going to cause a crash in Myth though. I'm not understanding why your system isn't finding the right video driver. It appears hal wants you to run the i915 driver. Is the i915 driver in memory? (lsmod|grep i915) Is it on your system? On the 32-bit machine they are in /usr/lib/dri. Your Xorg.0.log file says they aren't there. Why not? dragonfly ~ # ls -la /usr/lib/dri/ total 8824 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 2009-04-12 08:37 . drwxr-xr-x 125 root root 77824 2009-04-14 17:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2150796 2009-04-12 08:37 i810_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2372108 2009-04-12 08:37 i915_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2422028 2009-04-12 08:37 i965_dri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1978328 2009-04-12 08:37 swrast_dri.so dragonfly ~ # If they really aren't there then you need to build them. They are provided byxf86-video-intel. I don't have them on this AMD64 machine but note that if I wanted to add them then they drag in XvMC which I am suspecting is causing the segfault crash on my wife's 32-bit Intel based machine: lightning mythtv # emerge -pv1 xf86-video-intel These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-xvmc-0.1 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.4 USE=-debug 220 kB [ebuild N] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 USE=dri -debug 772 kB Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 992 kB lightning mythtv # I am curious as to whether this matters. xvmc is one of the rendering technologies and is pretty much default with Myth. On my wife's machine neither implementation is selected. Possibly that's part of the problem on her machine. I'll have to play with that a bit: dragonfly ~ # eselect xvmc list Available XvMC implementations ( * is current ): [1]xorg-x11 [2] intel dragonfly ~ # I don't know what other clues to give you. I'm going back to xorg-1.3 as we speak to see if I can get her machine working again. I'll let you know how it goes. - Mark In my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, the only errors are as follows: camille ~ # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so:
Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?
Thomas Chef wrote: Is it somehow possible to pause the kernel's startup text output ?. The text is so fast so there is no way of reading it. I usually hit the scroll lock key and it works every time for me. Hit it again and it continues on. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc #SLiM session call DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 ^^ This sets DEFAULT_SESSION to dbus-launch and then executes startxfce4. That would explain why you have fluxbox and xfce both started simultaneously. You need to put the whole thing in quotes, like so: DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 That's news to me. Now it works fine. I also put the info in the wiki article. Thanks. Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP In my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, the only errors are as follows: camille ~ # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering Now I don't know what /dev/fb0 is, but the /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so I think I should have, but I don't. camille ~ # locate i915_dri.so camille ~ # ls -l /usr/lib/dri total 2004 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2047960 Apr 12 03:17 swrast_dri.so Where can I get this file? This was caused by you and I following the somewhat generic upgrade instructions. fb = Frame Buffer. Under VIDEO_CARDS=intel fb vesa (that's all from meory but you'll know it when you look at your make.conf file you probably added fb or fbdev - whatever it was. If you and I don't use frame buffers then you and I should remove it, or so I think. Then when X starts it won't have those drivers to load and it won't look for stuff we don't have in our kernels. Hope this helps, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults [SOLVED]
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Now I don't know what /dev/fb0 is, but the /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so I think I should have, but I don't. camille ~ # locate i915_dri.so camille ~ # ls -l /usr/lib/dri total 2004 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2047960 Apr 12 03:17 swrast_dri.so Where can I get this file? I found /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so on one of my other boxes and ran equery belongs on it. It belonged to media-libs/mesa. I re-merged mesa and rebooted X and myth works. I checked LiveTV and it works too. Thanks. that's great news, although somewhat perplexing to me. None the less I shall attempt to duplicate it this afternoon and see if my wife's machine is fixed. thanks much, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:56:03 -0500, Dale wrote: have been using lsusb and udev monitor to check for what the kernel sees. So far, it has seen nothing at all. They only show you what udev sees, do any of your USB devices show up in dmesg? If not, either your kernel or your hardware is broken, and kernels don't often break without recompilation. If dmesg shows it, you have a software problem, but it can't be anything to do with X or your USB ports would work if you booted in text mode. Use genlop with the --date argument to see what you emerged since your USB last worked, then start with the obvious suspects. dmesg shows nothing and there is nothing in messages either. Usually mine shows up in messages and dmesg is always the same. I'm not sure why that is tho. I'm using the same kernel because I can't compile a new one. Gcc-4.3 doesn't like a 2.6.23 kernel and after it compiles a little while, it fails with a error. I googled it and they know it but the fix hasn't made it to Gentoo yet I guess, at least not in stable anyway. So, given that, I know I haven't recompiled a new kernel since I can't. I do know that I went through the xorg-server upgrade and that I upgraded gcc. I suspect that something related to the xorg-server upgrade got recompiled and either doesn't like my kernel or that maybe gcc has more troubles than was thought. I switched back to my old gcc and am doing a emerge -ev ivman which would include hal, dbus, udev and all their little friends. If after this it works, this could very well be a gcc problem. I also agree that it could be a hardware failure but not real likely. I got plenty of cooling here and I'm plugged into a surge protector and a UPS as well. While it is still possible, it is unlikely. It is funny that my printer is also dead in the water. It's not a device problem, broke camera or something, since they both stopped working at the same time. Will report back later when my recompile finishes. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:03:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I also agree that it could be a hardware failure but not real likely. I got plenty of cooling here and I'm plugged into a surge protector and a UPS as well. While it is still possible, it is unlikely. It is funny that my printer is also dead in the water. Isn't the printer US too? It sounds like a dead USB controller. Try booting from a live CD and seeing if USB works. -- Neil Bothwick What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:03:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I also agree that it could be a hardware failure but not real likely. I got plenty of cooling here and I'm plugged into a surge protector and a UPS as well. While it is still possible, it is unlikely. It is funny that my printer is also dead in the water. Isn't the printer US too? It sounds like a dead USB controller. Try booting from a live CD and seeing if USB works. I'll have to check and see what bootable CDs I have around here. Some are pretty old and I have never tried to use USB on them before. I do see a 2006 Gentoo CD. Would that have USB drivers on it? Based on other issues I have ran into here, things not compiling and errors during compiling, I'm really wondering about gcc. Gcc 4.3 will not compile a working kernel at all. The first compiled fine but wouldn't boot. The next booted but things wouldn't work that I know has the right drivers installed. Now, I can't even get a kernel to compile. I been trying to upgrade to 2.6.29 but always have to go back to my trusty old 2.6.23. I have switched back to gcc 4.2 and am recompiling packages with it, up to ivman anyway. This is getting weird. My emerge -ev ivman is about through so I will reboot and try that then a CD boot. Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. This is Linux. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) If I had one, I would too. lol r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/init.d/ud* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 508 Apr 16 12:27 /etc/init.d/udev-postmount r...@smoker / # What is udev-postmount anyway? Why do I not have something that it appears you have? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In 58965d8a0904151141u394849ckc7b241dddf686...@mail.gmail.com paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com (Paul Hartman) writes: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Hi, I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy reasons. Check this list's archives from a couple weeks ago for a thread called Ugly fonts on some seb sites (sic), there were a couple of hints posted by Nikos Chantziaras that really made my fonts look a lot better in Firefox and friends. Maybe it will help you, too. The upgrade to the 96.XX version from ~x86 resolved it. -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In 20090416054846.ga9...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers? No, I just added the nvidia drivers line to /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged the nvidia-drivers. I hope it works for you. Yup it did. A great many thanks! -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Yup it did. A great many thanks! Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) If I had one, I would too. lol r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/init.d/ud* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 508 Apr 16 12:27 /etc/init.d/udev-postmount r...@smoker / # What is udev-postmount anyway? Why do I not have something that it appears you have? Dale :-) :-) rc-update show --verbose What does it show? Post your results back. I'm interested. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and it fails, did not recognize the ethernet and some problems install packages. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.netwrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:34:02 +1000 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the stage3 tarball using the 32 bit knoppix kernel. Do i understand that correctly? And if so, what are my options for installing 64 bit gentoo? tnx ia64 is an arch for Intel Itanium server processors, a laptop should have amd64-compatible processor, so just try this one. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net -- Francisco Rivas http://www.vaslibre.org.ve - And on the seventh day God said :wq and then make http://beck3r.wordpress.com/ Linux User (New) : #448324 Linux Machine (New) : 355187
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) Here is the results. I went back to my old gcc and did a emerge -ev ivman. I ran revdep-rebuild -i afterwards to make sure everything was good there. All was well with the links and such. I then rebooted and booted a CD. I made sure my printer was on and hooked up my camera as well. Both devices showed up in the list on lsusb. That cleared my hardware. Hardware is good. Whew!! I then booted back from the hard drive to my old kernel, 2.6.23. I logged into KDE and after the desktop came up and all my usual windows opened from my saved session, I turned my camera back on. I then went to run lsusb but before I could do that, the icon was on my desktop and shortly after that the pop up window came up. KDE sees my camera and lsusb shows both products. Given the fact that all I did was recompile with the older gcc, I suspect there is something wrong with what the newer gcc was compiling. Here is gcc-config: r...@smoker / # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 r...@smoker / # I was using gcc 4.3 but switched back to gcc 4.1. I'm not a developer and I don't feel right about filing a bug since I can't really tell them what is broke but something is wrong somewhere. I have not syncd my tree and it was a reinstall of the same version of packages. No config files were updated or listed that needs to be updated either. Basically, the only difference is the compiler. Ideas? Thoughts? Thanks much for the help too. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Mark Knecht wrote: rc-update show --verbose What does it show? Post your results back. I'm interested. - Mark This is it: r...@smoker / # rc-update show --verbose acpid | alsasound | bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot consolekit | crypto-loop | cupsd | default dbus | device-mapper | dmcrypt | dmeventd | dnsextd | esound | folding | gkrellmd | gpm | hald | default hddtemp | hdparm | hostname | boot hsqldb | http-replicator | ip6tables | iptables | ivman | default keymaps | boot lisa | local | default nonetwork localmount | boot mDNSResponderPosix | mdnsd | modules | boot net.eth0 | net.lo | boot netmount | default nscd | ntp-client | ntpd | default numlock | default nvclock | pciparm | portagexsd | pwcheck | pydoc-2.5 | reslisa | rmnologin | boot rsyncd | saslauthd | smartd | default sshd | syslog-ng | default udev-postmount | upsd | default upsdrv | default upsmon | default urandom | boot vixie-cron | default xdm | default xinetd | xprint | r...@smoker / # There is nothing but udev-postmount in init.d at all. Since you like a rather lengthy list, here is another one: r...@smoker / # ls /etc/init.d/ total 354 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1896 Apr 16 15:21 . drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 4680 Apr 16 15:57 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 818 Apr 6 07:57 acpid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6557 Apr 6 13:58 alsasound -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3661 Apr 16 12:28 bootmisc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1188 Apr 16 12:28 checkfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3226 Apr 16 12:28 checkroot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3054 Apr 16 12:28 clock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1429 Apr 16 12:28 consolefont -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 540 Apr 6 18:24 consolekit -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1729 Apr 16 13:20 crypto-loop -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 305 Apr 6 22:49 cupsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1152 Apr 16 13:26 dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root21 Apr 16 12:28 depscan.sh - ../../sbin/depscan.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 628 Apr 16 12:11 device-mapper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 660 Apr 16 12:36 dmcrypt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 547 Apr 16 12:11 dmeventd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 998 Apr 6 12:48 dnsextd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 993 Apr 6 11:44 esound -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51410 Dec 13 02:37 folding lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root23 Apr 16 12:28 functions.sh - ../../sbin/functions.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 637 Apr 7 01:18 gkrellmd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 951 Apr 16 13:16 gpm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root Apr 16 15:19 hald -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5606 Apr 16 12:28 halt.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 547 Apr 6 09:52 hddtemp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3407 Apr 6 07:20 hdparm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 433 Apr 16 12:28 hostname -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 464 Apr 6 13:03 hsqldb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 762 Apr 6 11:40 http-replicator -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2570 Apr 6 08:17 ip6tables -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2570 Apr 6 08:17 iptables -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 524 Apr 16 15:20 ivman -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1874 Apr 16 12:28 keymaps -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 546 Apr 7 13:04 lisa -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 620 Apr 16 12:28 local -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2088 Apr 16 12:28 localmount -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1247 Apr 6 12:48 mDNSResponderPosix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 845 Apr 6 12:48 mdnsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2947 Apr 16 12:28 modules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 16 12:28 net.eth0 - net.lo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30696 Apr 16 12:28 net.lo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3311 Apr 16 12:28 netmount -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1566 Apr 16 14:06 nscd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 833 Apr 6 14:09 ntp-client -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 827 Apr 6 14:09 ntpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 670 Apr 16 12:28 numlock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146 Apr 7 02:56 nvclock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1871 Apr 16 12:17 pciparm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 390 Apr 6 09:02 portagexsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 538 Apr 6 13:50 pwcheck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 666 Apr 16 14:38 pydoc-2.5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 304 Apr 16 12:25 reboot.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 557 Apr 7 13:04 reslisa -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 Apr 16 12:28 rmnologin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) If I had one, I would too. lol r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/init.d/ud* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 508 Apr 16 12:27 /etc/init.d/udev-postmount r...@smoker / # What is udev-postmount anyway? Why do I not have something that it appears you have? Dale Maybe I'm using a different udev? [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/udev in *... ] sys-fs/udev-141 (/etc/init.d/udev) (which, by the way, also owns the udev-postmount script)
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the legacy driver 173.14.xx series.
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) If I had one, I would too. lol r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/init.d/ud* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 508 Apr 16 12:27 /etc/init.d/udev-postmount r...@smoker / # What is udev-postmount anyway? Why do I not have something that it appears you have? Dale Maybe I'm using a different udev? [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/udev in *... ] sys-fs/udev-141 (/etc/init.d/udev) (which, by the way, also owns the udev-postmount script) Well here is something funny, no sound now. Working on it. lspci -v shows the driver is not loaded for some reason. It is built into the kernel so not sure why that is. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the legacy driver 173.14.xx series. OK. I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my FX-5200. Maybe I was in the wrong place or something. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) If I had one, I would too. lol r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/init.d/ud* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 508 Apr 16 12:27 /etc/init.d/udev-postmount r...@smoker / # What is udev-postmount anyway? Why do I not have something that it appears you have? Dale Maybe I'm using a different udev? [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/udev in *... ] sys-fs/udev-141 (/etc/init.d/udev)
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, how does one restart udev? Does going to rc single then back to rc default restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :) If I had one, I would too. lol r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/init.d/ud* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 508 Apr 16 12:27 /etc/init.d/udev-postmount r...@smoker / # What is udev-postmount anyway? Why do I not have something that it appears you have? Dale Maybe I'm using a different udev? [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/udev in *... ] sys-fs/udev-141 (/etc/init.d/udev) (which, by the way, also owns the udev-postmount script) Well here is something funny, no sound now. Working on it. lspci -v shows the driver is not loaded for some reason. It is built into the kernel so not sure why that is. Dale When my sound goes belly up I just run alsaconf and it magically fixes it (though I use modules)
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just curious cause I have trouble when I try to upgrade the drivers. I'm currently using nvidia-drivers-173.14.09. The readme file in the driver archive (and on the unix download page at ndivia's site) contains the list of supported GPUs and which driver can operate them. The FX-5200 is listed as being supported by the legacy driver 173.14.xx series. OK. I looked on the site but couldn't find anything even close to my FX-5200. Maybe I was in the wrong place or something. Here's the list section of the README file on the web: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/180.44/README/appendix-a.html
Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well here is something funny, no sound now. Working on it. lspci -v shows the driver is not loaded for some reason. It is built into the kernel so not sure why that is. Dale When my sound goes belly up I just run alsaconf and it magically fixes it (though I use modules) Well, it turns out that those won't run here. I'm about to run emerge -ev world and let it recompile everything here. I think this gcc thing is going deeper than I thought. If things work after this emerge, I'm going to know that on my system, gcc 4.3 is not a good upgrade. I checked again and I was looking at the joystick part of the card which is not installed. It is loading the sound driver so it is something else keeping it from working. Oh, it will take a day or so to do this emerge. It's big for sure. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda
I'm unsure if lilo supports booting by filesystem label/uuid but that's what I do with grub. Might be woth looking into Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:07:08 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda Aha I understand. But what if my cd installation names my disk hda, but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it should be sda instead ? On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:28:54 Thomas Chef wrote: From the handbook: To begin, we'll introduce block devices. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first drive in a Linux system, namely /dev/sda. SCSI and Serial ATA drives are both labeled /dev/sd*; even IDE drives are labeled /dev/sd* with the new libata framework in the kernel. If you're using the old device framework, then your first IDE drive is /dev/hda . But when I boot on Via Epia with my minimal installation CD 2008 I get my IDE-disk as /dev/hda Is the kernel on the minimal CD old ? Not really. It's whatever was reasonably current at the time the CD image was built. It's not the age of the kernel that matters here. it's which drivers are in use. These things are in a constant state of flux and right now the Linux kernel still has drivers for the old and the new way of doing things with disks. Rationale: a driver writer decided some time ago that it would be better to consolidate things in the kernel and use the same code-base for all types of disk. This makes things easier overall as you don't have to eternally figure out if you have IDE/SCSI/PATA/SCSI/something_else drives - the thing is always going to be /dev/sd** But you can still use the old drivers and framework if you choose. Apparently, whoever mastered that CD did choose. Point being, if /dev/sda doesn't work for you and /dev/hda does, then you should be using /dev/hda. From your point of view, it's just a name for something -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Thursday 16 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before. Right, that's what I thought too. The battery cannot 'keep its charge' when under load. Is cpufreqd and cpufrequtils enough to gracefully shutdown the laptop, or is there some additional configuration required (fancy runlevels and what have you)? -- Regards, Mick
RE: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:taken...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and it fails, did not recognize the ethernet and some problems install packages. Its a Studio 1737. I found the old 2.6.19 kerneled Knoppix didnt pick up the hardware properly (eg didnt autoload tg3 for the ethernet, many unknown devices in dmesg), but 2.6.27 i'm using now seems fine so far. So make sure you use the latest kernel you can, and enable the Dell specific kernel options.
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
If using gnome look for gnome-power-manager (it sucks so i usually kill it), otherwise laptopmode may be installed (configurable shutdown levels I think). Can also be a bios setting on some laptops - on my old dell it was independent to the OS. I actually run a perl daemon to do it - seems more reliable :) BillK On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:06 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia
Thanks for all your support. Yesterday evening I reconfigured the kernel again, and I added SCSI I think, but I also removed some generic IDE drivers and just kept the VIA driver for ide. Recompiled, and rebooted. And voila, it booted :) I will compare the two .config's to see what I actually did that made it work. But there is a lot of work left before it's complete: * APCI don't work (powerbutton) * Framebuffer at startup (like on the install-cd, which looks nice) * Mouse-support (maybe this comes with the framebuffer, as I can see it detects the mouse) * Swedish keymap (I didnt get the config correct, but I know how to now) * X (Hmm. If I would have choosen Windows instead, I would have been up and running with Cubase in 3 hours max, but I would not have learned so much) A few questions: - When I recompile the kernel and replace an existingly (in lilo) configured kernel, do I have to rerun lilo ? - Neil: How have you configured your frambuffer support in lilo/grub ? The handbook is some what confusing in this matter I think ? - How much do I earn in speed by optimising and removing unneeded options in the kernel ? Or is it just kernel-size ?
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Friday 17 April 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: If using gnome look for gnome-power-manager (it sucks so i usually kill it), otherwise laptopmode may be installed (configurable shutdown levels I think). Can also be a bios setting on some laptops - on my old dell it was independent to the OS. I actually run a perl daemon to do it - seems more reliable :) Thanks Bill, it seems that the BIOS does not contain any such setting. I am using Fluxbox which does not have all this functionality of Gnome/KDE. With laptopmode, do you mean: app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools? -- Regards, Mick
