[gentoo-user] problem libxml2 icu flag, chromium and wine
Hi all, Recent Chromium upgrade needs icu flag for libxml2, but Wine doesn't compile with that flag set. So i compiled libxml2 with icu flag, and compiled Chromium. then i re-compiled libxml2 without icu flag, then compiled Wine. Well, i really don't like that. Anything else to do ? Thank you for your advice, Cheers, -- Jacques
Re: [gentoo-user] problem libxml2 icu flag, chromium and wine
Am 19.02.2011 11:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, Recent Chromium upgrade needs icu flag for libxml2, but Wine doesn't compile with that flag set. So i compiled libxml2 with icu flag, and compiled Chromium. then i re-compiled libxml2 without icu flag, then compiled Wine. Well, i really don't like that. Anything else to do ? ... and that works? Did you run revdep-rebuild afterwards? Is it this bug? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355515 If it's not, please file another bug. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] problem libxml2 icu flag, chromium and wine
Le 19/02/2011 12:14, Florian Philipp a écrit : Am 19.02.2011 11:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, Recent Chromium upgrade needs icu flag for libxml2, but Wine doesn't compile with that flag set. So i compiled libxml2 with icu flag, and compiled Chromium. then i re-compiled libxml2 without icu flag, then compiled Wine. Well, i really don't like that. Anything else to do ? ... and that works? Did you run revdep-rebuild afterwards? Is it this bug? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355515 If it's not, please file another bug. Regards, Florian Philipp Chromium and Wine work fine. revdep-rebuild is ok. Yes, it is the same bug. Thank you, Regards, -- Jacques
[gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
Hi, got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and may other parts. If I play a video from for example youtube there remains some rests (one frame of the video, the controlling taskbar of the player or parts of them) in the system: Everytime I open something with a black background (mrxvt for example) I see these frozen parts even if firefox has been closed. Restarting X or openbox does not help ... I have to reboot to wipe that from my videocard. My system: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe) ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Phenom X6 1090T recent Gentoo AMD64 This is a recent feature...previously I have had no problems with this setup... Where do I have to dig for the bug? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] problem libxml2 icu flag, chromium and wine
Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, Recent Chromium upgrade needs icu flag for libxml2, but Wine doesn't compile with that flag set. So i compiled libxml2 with icu flag, and compiled Chromium. then i re-compiled libxml2 without icu flag, then compiled Wine. Well, i really don't like that. Anything else to do ? Thank you for your advice, Cheers, -- Jacques This sounds like a use for package.use to me. Put the one that effects the most packages in make.conf and dis/enable the others in package.use. That sounds weird. I don't think I have ran into that before. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and may other parts. If I play a video from for example youtube there remains some rests (one frame of the video, the controlling taskbar of the player or parts of them) in the system: Everytime I open something with a black background (mrxvt for example) I see these frozen parts even if firefox has been closed. Restarting X or openbox does not help ... I have to reboot to wipe that from my videocard. My system: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe) ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Phenom X6 1090T recent Gentoo AMD64 This is a recent feature...previously I have had no problems with this setup... Where do I have to dig for the bug? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc I don't know if this is related or not but if I open several tabs that have videos on them, after I go through a couple tabs, the videos disappears. I have to reload the page to get it to show up again. It's as if it can only load so many then loses its cache or something. I know these are not the same but could it be that flash is broken somehow? Maybe the video drivers has a issue? I'm sort of like you, looks like yours is a video card or driver issue but not real sure. BTW, I'm amd64 as well, have a GT-220 nvidia card, 4 core CPU, and it did this when I had 4Gbs of ram and after my recent upgrade to 8Gbs. I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 for my drivers. Are we using the same drivers but just slightly different problems? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-02-19 13:08]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and may other parts. If I play a video from for example youtube there remains some rests (one frame of the video, the controlling taskbar of the player or parts of them) in the system: Everytime I open something with a black background (mrxvt for example) I see these frozen parts even if firefox has been closed. Restarting X or openbox does not help ... I have to reboot to wipe that from my videocard. My system: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe) ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Phenom X6 1090T recent Gentoo AMD64 This is a recent feature...previously I have had no problems with this setup... Where do I have to dig for the bug? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc I don't know if this is related or not but if I open several tabs that have videos on them, after I go through a couple tabs, the videos disappears. I have to reload the page to get it to show up again. It's as if it can only load so many then loses its cache or something. I know these are not the same but could it be that flash is broken somehow? Maybe the video drivers has a issue? I'm sort of like you, looks like yours is a video card or driver issue but not real sure. BTW, I'm amd64 as well, have a GT-220 nvidia card, 4 core CPU, and it did this when I had 4Gbs of ram and after my recent upgrade to 8Gbs. I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 for my drivers. Are we using the same drivers but just slightly different problems? Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge... on a daily basis. I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36. May be our problems can be abstracted to the flash player get lost control over its own video overlay area... I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally perform, hahahaha! :)) Hopefully another wizard will tune in... Have a nice weekend! Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge... on a daily basis. I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36. May be our problems can be abstracted to the flash player get lost control over its own video overlay area... I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally perform, hahahaha! :)) Hopefully another wizard will tune in... Have a nice weekend! Best regards mcc Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while. See if it helps any. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge... on a daily basis. I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36. May be our problems can be abstracted to the flash player get lost control over its own video overlay area... I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally perform, hahahaha! :)) Hopefully another wizard will tune in... Have a nice weekend! Best regards mcc Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while. See if it helps any. Dale :-) :-) Never mind, just saw you are already using that version. I may test that in a bit to see if it does the same for me. If I have the same problem, then we know what the problem is. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-02-19 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge... on a daily basis. I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36. May be our problems can be abstracted to the flash player get lost control over its own video overlay area... I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally perform, hahahaha! :)) Hopefully another wizard will tune in... Have a nice weekend! Best regards mcc Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while. See if it helps any. Dale :-) :-) My mail, you are citeing, says, that I am already using this version of the nvidia driver...
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-02-19 14:16]: Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge... on a daily basis. I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36. May be our problems can be abstracted to the flash player get lost control over its own video overlay area... I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally perform, hahahaha! :)) Hopefully another wizard will tune in... Have a nice weekend! Best regards mcc Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while. See if it helps any. Dale :-) :-) Never mind, just saw you are already using that version. I may test that in a bit to see if it does the same for me. If I have the same problem, then we know what the problem is. Dale :-) :-) Ok, I was too fast in answering your previous posting, sorry... Even if the symptons are the same, the reasons may be different... Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] New drive devices after install
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:54:56 -0700, Mike Diehl wrote:
I just finished a new (RAID1) installation and most if it is working
just fine.
However, I don't have any drive device files in /dev/. I'd expect to
see hda, hdb,md{1-3}
Something changed recently, my RAID devices are now md126 and md127.
--
Neil Bothwick
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
I see the same thing here. I'm in the middle of an install so I create
/dev/md3 to build my RAID1. I build it, install, chroot, do the work,
install grub, reboot and it's md126. The problem is that the machine
name changes between the install and the reboot.
The change apparently has something to do with a decision to only
assemble Version 1.+ superblocks with the right name when the name
field matches something in the superblock.
Apparently you can set up the naming as you wish using
mdadm --update=homehost
mdadm --update=name
but I don't feel confident enough yet to do it.
c2stable ~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md126
/dev/md126:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Tue Apr 13 09:02:34 2010
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 52436032 (50.01 GiB 53.69 GB)
Used Dev Size : 52436032 (50.01 GiB 53.69 GB)
Raid Devices : 3
Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 126
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Sat Feb 19 06:13:16 2011
State : clean
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : edb0ed65:6e87b20e:dc0d88ba:780ef6a3
Events : 0.248829
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 850 active sync /dev/sda5
1 8 211 active sync /dev/sdb5
2 8 372 active sync /dev/sdc5
c2stable ~ #
- Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and may other parts. Well, I was noodling around the net about video (VP8) and there seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced VP8 as a replacement for H.264. It seems that the web browser groups each pay millions of dollars per year to be able to give away a browser that supports h.264 streaming video. h.264 is everywhere, cell phone apps, HDTV, utube, just to name a few. Now Theora was based on an old codec (vp3) I believe. Google purchased the company that developed VP8 and purports it to replace h.264. Naturally MPLA (the stinking lawyers behind h.246) is upset because the financial rewards of the the patents behind h.264 are worth an enormous sum of money, over the next few decades. VP8 is not threating that. If you saw my post on Nokia and Microsoft going down the darkside together (very strange), what I did not say is that Balmer is pushing the bussword EcoSystem composed of Xbox-live, Office and Bing. Google has that and more. Apple has their own EcoSystem. Many Browsers will be dropping support for h.264 in the near future, and streaming video, at least in the short run, is now fair game and going to be not interoperable. Is this your problem? Maybe, maybe not. Drop back a version and see if it fixes your problem. Better still, one of the young (smart) kids on this list prolly (guesses?) knows all about this. If it is not your problem now, it surely will be *REAL SOON*; as it will become everybody's problem as the Economic Giants scratch out and protect their video EcoSystems. Stock prices are more of a concern to these titans, than piss_ants consumuers (that's what they ALL really see in us). So do not be fool, Google is as big a whore as the rest, imho. Google has well intentioned folks, but to quote an old addage Money talks and Bullshit walks... hth, James
[gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
Hello, I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy configurations. I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Here are the outputs of some commands: emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 In make.conf I have: USE=-hal INPUT_DEVICES=evdev synaptics VIDEO_CARDS=intel Thanks for your help. -- Valmor
[gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: My system: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe) ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Phenom X6 1090T Um, I'm looking for a new system. Who/where did you purchase this system? Did you get 6G-Sata drivers? Any one else with a new 6+ processor AMD rig, that got a bargain, would be keen information (Dale?). James
[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Since you removed HAL support, did you enable udev support? emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 Check your package.use. Also try to unmerge xf86-input-synaptics and then emerge it again.
Re: [gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy configurations. I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Here are the outputs of some commands: emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 In make.conf I have: USE=-hal INPUT_DEVICES=evdev synaptics VIDEO_CARDS=intel Thanks for your help. -- Valmor I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeidaval.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy configurations. I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Here are the outputs of some commands: emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 In make.conf I have: USE=-hal INPUT_DEVICES=evdev synaptics VIDEO_CARDS=intel Thanks for your help. -- Valmor I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though. - Mark As some already know, I removed hal a long time ago so basically you want a set up similar to mine now. This is in my make.conf: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. Hope this helps a little. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 08:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Since you removed HAL support, did you enable udev support? I am not sure how to do this. Is it a matter of adding a USE=udev in /etc/make.conf ? It's a USE flag of xorg-server. emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 Check your package.use. Also try to unmerge xf86-input-synaptics and then emerge it again. Another check on my system shows: emerge --search xf86-input-synaptics Latest version available: 1.3.0 Latest version installed: 1.2.1 emerge --search xf86-input-evdev Latest version available: 2.6.0 Latest version available: 2.4.0 I don't emerge them directly. They are pulled in by xorg-drivers which I have re-emerged several times. xorg-drivers doesn't install files. It's only a meta-package. Don't know why the latest versions of the drivers don't get installed. Is this the way to force the update without recording into world: emerge --oneshot xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-evdev The best way it to emerge -auDN world, like always.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Since you removed HAL support, did you enable udev support? I am not sure how to do this. Is it a matter of adding a USE=udev in /etc/make.conf ? SNIP Thanks, -- Valmor That's where mine is. Just add it and do a emerge -Na world to see what changes. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeidaval.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though. As some already know, I removed hal a long time ago so basically you want a set up similar to mine now. This is in my make.conf: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start X without an xorg.conf; same problem. Since you removed HAL support, did you enable udev support? I am not sure how to do this. Is it a matter of adding a USE=udev in /etc/make.conf ? emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 Check your package.use. Also try to unmerge xf86-input-synaptics and then emerge it again. Another check on my system shows: emerge --search xf86-input-synaptics Latest version available: 1.3.0 Latest version installed: 1.2.1 emerge --search xf86-input-evdev Latest version available: 2.6.0 Latest version available: 2.4.0 I don't emerge them directly. They are pulled in by xorg-drivers which I have re-emerged several times. Don't know why the latest versions of the drivers don't get installed. Is this the way to force the update without recording into world: emerge --oneshot xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-evdev Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
James wrote: meino.cramerat gmx.de writes: My system: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe) ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Phenom X6 1090T Um, I'm looking for a new system. Who/where did you purchase this system? Did you get 6G-Sata drivers? Any one else with a new 6+ processor AMD rig, that got a bargain, would be keen information (Dale?). James Mine is 4 core but 6 core ready. Just didn't have the extra cash at the time. Mine is a Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3 but you may can find similar with 6Gbs/sec drives for a bit more, especially on sale. The rest seems to be about the same. I bought all the electronics at newegg except the power supply which I got at Tiger Direct. One thing, buy two 4Gb sticks of ram off the bat. They are much faster in pairs and no need getting smaller ones when you have to remove them to upgrade. I'm up to 8Gbs with another 8Gbs on the way, hopefully DHL won't loose these. Am I happy with my set up, darn skippy. Oh, sign up for newegg's newsletter and they have great sales at times. I have had zero luck with the rebates tho. Supposed to be here in 10 weeks and I sent them both off before Christmas. They better hurry. ;-) I did look at MSI but decided against it. It seems that Gigabyte has the best rated mobos at this time. That may change but you know. We live in the moment not the future. I can get you a full list if you need it. Oh, total cost for a nice rig with new monitor and all, about $1,000 or so. It is built like a tank tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 01:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not being installed: sys-apps/hal pulled in by: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 [snip] emerge --oneshot xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-evdev This fixed the problem of hal being pulled in. -- Valmor Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. I am only using evdev and finally got my X Window server working fine. Need to do some fine tuning to get a left-hand mouse working. Amazing that the mouse pad works and so does the mouse pointing keyboard stick. There is little from hal to clean up. Apparently only the /etc/hal directory with some policy files were left there since they did not belong to hal originally. Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. I been wondering about that but never saw emerge complain so I left it in there, after all, it is working so why try to fix it. I'll remove that since it isn't needed and buggy. Thanks for the update. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. That's good to know. As I said, I was guessing. I'll remove them from my setup. Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my own udev rules. I can only comment on what individual packages do with the udev flag. I can't possibly know what each and every package in portage does when udev is enabled globally :-/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my own udev rules. I can only comment on what individual packages do with the udev flag. I can't possibly know what each and every package in portage does when udev is enabled globally :-/ Of course. At the time I really meant the question to ask what people are doing. On my machines currently the only package with a udev flag is xorg-server so it's easy. Cheers, Mark I enabled the udev flag in make.conf and after emerge --pretend --verbose --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world Only vlc needed to be reemerged. Apparently the udev flag was already set for xorg-server. -- Valmor
[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 10:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my own udev rules. I can only comment on what individual packages do with the udev flag. I can't possibly know what each and every package in portage does when udev is enabled globally :-/ Of course. At the time I really meant the question to ask what people are doing. On my machines currently the only package with a udev flag is xorg-server so it's easy. If you don't have udev in make.conf, you can usually do: USE=udev emerge -pDN world and see which packages that have a currently disabled udev USE flag this triggers. You can then investigate each package to see what it does with udev. Of course this works for all USE flags. The reverse also works (USE=-udev). Or, simply pay attention whenever you emerge something or update world, and examine the USE flags of the packages :-) Unfortunately though, many ebuild maintainers don't document their USE flags, so in those cases you can't tell what a package does with a USE flag without looking at the documentation for that package. Imagine the python USE flag for example. It's impossible to tell what it does most of the time. There are many other such examples. Also note that sometimes udev is enabled by default (in the ebuild itself) for some packages; this is mostly done when this is recommended by upstream or simply works better with it.
[gentoo-user] Re: New drive devices after install
Mike Diehl mdiehl at diehlnet.com writes: I just finished a new (RAID1) installation and most if it is working just fine. Hello Mike, Here are a couple of links, that I ran across recently, that you might find useful, if you do not already have them: http://www.magma.com.ni/moin/EnterpriseNumber/1.3.6.1.4.1.22692.2.7243 https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. That's good to know. As I said, I was guessing. I'll remove them from my setup. Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my own udev rules. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and may other parts. Well, I was noodling around the net about video (VP8) and there seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced VP8 as a replacement for H.264. It seems that the web browser groups each pay millions of dollars per year to be able to give away a browser that supports h.264 streaming video. h.264 is everywhere, cell phone apps, HDTV, utube, just to name a few. Now Theora was based on an old codec (vp3) I believe. Google purchased the company that developed VP8 and purports it to replace h.264. Naturally MPLA (the stinking lawyers behind h.246) is upset because the financial rewards of the the patents behind h.264 are worth an enormous sum of money, over the next few decades. VP8 is not threating that. If you saw my post on Nokia and Microsoft going down the darkside together (very strange), what I did not say is that Balmer is pushing the bussword EcoSystem composed of Xbox-live, Office and Bing. Google has that and more. Apple has their own EcoSystem. Many Browsers will be dropping support for h.264 in the near future, and streaming video, at least in the short run, is now fair game and going to be not interoperable. Is this your problem? Maybe, maybe not. Drop back a version and see if it fixes your problem. Better still, one of the young (smart) kids on this list prolly (guesses?) knows all about this. If it is not your problem now, it surely will be *REAL SOON*; as it will become everybody's problem as the Economic Giants scratch out and protect their video EcoSystems. Stock prices are more of a concern to these titans, than piss_ants consumuers (that's what they ALL really see in us). So do not be fool, Google is as big a whore as the rest, imho. Google has well intentioned folks, but to quote an old addage Money talks and Bullshit walks... hth, James IME most video on the web can be viewed with mplayer, if you can get a link to the actual file. I often download flv files and use ffmpeg to reencode them as mp4. Works even for videos that the linux flashplayer can't handle. I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my own udev rules. I can only comment on what individual packages do with the udev flag. I can't possibly know what each and every package in portage does when udev is enabled globally :-/ Of course. At the time I really meant the question to ask what people are doing. On my machines currently the only package with a udev flag is xorg-server so it's easy. Cheers, Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... Doesn't the Moonlight Firefox add-on work?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... Doesn't the Moonlight Firefox add-on work? What I've read is that moonlight doesn't handle the Netflix DRM issues. Does anyone know differently? I'm still using a Window VM to watch Netflix. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:49:46AM +, Mick wrote Perhaps because there is no analogue audio capture on my machine ... ? $ cat /proc/asound/devices 2:: timer 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 5: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 6: [ 0] : control 7: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback 8: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 9: [ 1] : control 10:: sequencer My system is very similar... [aa1][root][~] cat /proc/asound/devices 2:: timer 3:: sequencer 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 7: [ 0] : control 8: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback 9: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 10: [ 1] : control I do not have your hardware, but on my laptop I could not get the microphone to work until I switched on the digital capture and selected Digital under Input Source in alsamixer. For some reason it would not work with any other setting. What exactly do you mean by switched on the digital capture? In alsamixer I have all sound capture settings on... Front Mic Boost 67 Mic Boost 67 Capture 81 Capture 1 81 Digital 83 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... Doesn't the Moonlight Firefox add-on work? What I've read is that moonlight doesn't handle the Netflix DRM issues. Does anyone know differently? I'm still using a Window VM to watch Netflix. - Mark I use Firefox and the download manager. I just download the video and watch it with (s)(k)(m)player locally. That also gives me the option of saving them locally and not having to download them again if I want to watch them more than once. I'm sure ATT likes that part. So far, I have not had much trouble with doing it this way. Other than the video being lost when changing tabs. Well, I did have on download that failed and only go the first part of the video. I think my DSL modem did its reset thingy. It does that once a day. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... Doesn't the Moonlight Firefox add-on work? What I've read is that moonlight doesn't handle the Netflix DRM issues. Does anyone know differently? I'm still using a Window VM to watch Netflix. - Mark I use Firefox and the download manager. I just download the video and watch it with (s)(k)(m)player locally. That also gives me the option of saving them locally and not having to download them again if I want to watch them more than once. I'm sure ATT likes that part. So far, I have not had much trouble with doing it this way. Other than the video being lost when changing tabs. Well, I did have on download that failed and only go the first part of the video. I think my DSL modem did its reset thingy. It does that once a day. Dale :-) :-) Where are you finding links on Netflix pages that allows you to start a movie download? I'm not finding that at all using Firefox. Are you digging into page source or something? - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
On Saturday 19 February 2011 22:40:25 Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:49:46AM +, Mick wrote Perhaps because there is no analogue audio capture on my machine ... ? $ cat /proc/asound/devices 2:: timer 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 5: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 6: [ 0] : control 7: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback 8: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 9: [ 1] : control 10:: sequencer My system is very similar... [aa1][root][~] cat /proc/asound/devices 2:: timer 3:: sequencer 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 7: [ 0] : control 8: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback 9: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 10: [ 1] : control I do not have your hardware, but on my laptop I could not get the microphone to work until I switched on the digital capture and selected Digital under Input Source in alsamixer. For some reason it would not work with any other setting. What exactly do you mean by switched on the digital capture? In alsamixer I have all sound capture settings on... Front Mic Boost 67 Mic Boost 67 Capture 81 Capture 1 81 Digital 83 Ah ... mine have more. F4 in alsamixer brings up all these Capture devices: Front Mic 6767 Mic6767 Capture8080 Capture8080 Digital6161 Digital Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the front left of the keyboard. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On Saturday 19 February 2011 20:41:42 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my own udev rules. I can only comment on what individual packages do with the udev flag. I can't possibly know what each and every package in portage does when udev is enabled globally :-/ Of course. At the time I really meant the question to ask what people are doing. On my machines currently the only package with a udev flag is xorg-server so it's easy. On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I guess). I tried of course to remove them all and leave evdev initially, but it all went horribly wrong. Perhaps evdev will catch up eventually, I just hope synaptics and keyboard don't default into being deprecated before then. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I guess). I tried of course to remove them all and leave evdev initially, but it all went horribly wrong. Perhaps evdev will catch up eventually, I just hope synaptics and keyboard don't default into being deprecated before then. I am using evdev and synaptics only on a thinkpad t201. Without an xorg.conf, all works including when I connect an usb mouse. However I am trying to configure the touchpad, trackpoint and extended buttons to work as left-hand; that is I would like to have the 3 buttons reversed. I have not been lucky so far. In fact I've read on the web about some new (relative to xorg 1.7) syntax for the xorg.conf file. Does anyone know about a site with humanly friendly information on how to write a modern xorg.conf file? In addition to the devices I mentioned above I am also trying to setup an external monitor as a hotplug virtual screen. For instance, things like this do not work: Section InputClass Identifier TouchPad MatchIsTouchpad on Driver synaptics #Option SHMConfig on Option VertTwoFingerScroll on EndSection In the past I used Option ButtonMapping 3 2 1 which apparently does not work here. Last but not least, how do I get the good old ctrl-alt-backspace keybinding to kill X? Thanks, -- Valmor
[gentoo-user] libungif??
It seems libungif has been deprecated, but I'd like to install a program that requires it. Should there be any conflicts if I have libungif and giflib installed on one system?
[gentoo-user] Re: libungif??
On 02/20/2011 04:53 AM, Tony Miller wrote: It seems libungif has been deprecated, but I'd like to install a program that requires it. Should there be any conflicts if I have libungif and giflib installed on one system? If the library name is different, then it's OK.
[gentoo-user] OT: Log filling with driver messages
I am have two sun quad 10/100 Ethernet cards using the sunhme happy meal driver as a pseudo switch. Two of the eight ports are set aside for transient devices (i.e., laptop when it needs a cable connection). However, when nothing is plugged into the ports, the log fills up with the messages below. Is there an easy method of controlling the messages? - one every 10 minutes, or even better, only on status change? Or would it be easier to get syslog-ng to filter them? Feb 20 13:28:03 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:05 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:15 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:17 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:25 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:27 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:37 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:39 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:28:46 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:48 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:28:56 rattus fcron[5265]: pam_unix(fcron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 20 13:28:58 rattus fcron[5265]: pam_unix(fcron:session): session closed for user root Feb 20 13:28:58 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:00 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:08 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:10 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:20 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:22 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:29 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:32 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:41 moriah kernel: eth7: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:44 moriah kernel: eth8: Auto-Negotiation unsuccessful, trying force link mode Feb 20 13:29:51 moriah kernel: eth7: Link down, cable problem? Feb 20 13:29:53 moriah kernel: eth8: Link down, cable problem? -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote Ah ... mine have more. F4 in alsamixer brings up all these Capture devices: Front Mic 6767 Mic6767 Capture8080 Capture8080 Digital6161 Digital Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the front left of the keyboard. Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I like it. My card shows up in lspci -v as... 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at d040 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel alsamixer shows... Card: HDA ATI SB Chip: Realtek ALC272X One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a parameter. Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and I'm an absolute newbie on alsa-driver. alsa-driver is keyworded ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it. Maybe even desparate enough to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS. If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in make menuconfig... Sound card support --- Is that correct? Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf ? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
