[gentoo-user] Questions about pulseaudio
I'm thinking about trying pulseaudio and seeing if it will fix a issue I have. Some of my programs, k3b for one, plays a sound and it will about wake up the dead. Some others, like KDE sound effects when I change desktops, can't even be heard unless the speakers are turned up a good bit. Then some, like smplayer, affect the volume of other applications such as the PCM control which also changes a lot of other apps. Does it sound like this will do what I need? Control each app separately? While I am at it: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel One of those is my sound card. I never noticed I had two entries there. H. Weird. Anybody get this to work well with this hardware? Easy to set up? So difficult it was like pulling teeth? The sound does work here, just need some fine tuning. Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10
Hi, as I've been just be bitten by this, I'd like to warn you. My root partition has an ext4 FS while other partitions use BTRFS. But the bug shown below seems to be related to the ext4 FS on my root partition. I've just tried to install the 12.6.37-gentoo-r2 kernel. make modules_installed told me, some modules were invalid. Stepping back to sys-apps/coretuils-8.9 fixed the problem, though coreutils-8.10 doesn't seem to be buggy. It's related to a bug in btrfs and ext4 which is revealed by sys-apps/coreutils-8.10 While the btrfs bug seems to be fixed in 2.6.38-rc7 the ext4 bug is not fixed, yet (AFAIK) See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353907 esp. comments 17 and 22 and http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg19952.html Be warned, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Did you reboot your system and then realize it was empty or did you notice it was empty after merging the updates? As the updates were running, when it came time to update the nvidia-drivers, a message appeared that it could not find a valid .config in /usr/src/linux I went to investigate and the linux directory under /usr/src was completely gone. Fortunately I keep a backup copy of .config.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote: Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it? That's the only way I can think of that emerge would remove it. Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but it wouldn't have removed .config or anything resulting from compilation. Not unless it's horribly broken, in which case I'm sure we'd have heard by now. -- Rgds Peter I do run depclean after updating the system. Still at a loss as to the cause.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of Gentoo. On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your box was hacked. But, otherwise, you removed it, maybe without noticing. --depclean would never remove this, even if it was buggy enough to remove all your kernels (which it isn't) it wouldn't remove all the files that do not belong to the package, and there are thousands of these in any kernel tree that's been configured and/or compiled. Hence, the non-empty directories would never be removed either. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella If you have anything you wish me to check, I will. But I know that I did not remove it. I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. That is what led me to discover the missing directory. I update the system regularly.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
way out of this list? On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:11, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of Gentoo. On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your box was hacked. But, otherwise, you removed it, maybe without noticing. --depclean would never remove this, even if it was buggy enough to remove all your kernels (which it isn't) it wouldn't remove all the files that do not belong to the package, and there are thousands of these in any kernel tree that's been configured and/or compiled. Hence, the non-empty directories would never be removed either. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella If you have anything you wish me to check, I will. But I know that I did not remove it. I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. That is what led me to discover the missing directory. I update the system regularly. -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele
Re: [gentoo-user] *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:44, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, as I've been just be bitten by this, I'd like to warn you. My root partition has an ext4 FS while other partitions use BTRFS. But the bug shown below seems to be related to the ext4 FS on my root partition. I've just tried to install the 12.6.37-gentoo-r2 kernel. make modules_installed told me, some modules were invalid. Stepping back to sys-apps/coretuils-8.9 fixed the problem, though coreutils-8.10 doesn't seem to be buggy. It's related to a bug in btrfs and ext4 which is revealed by sys-apps/coreutils-8.10 While the btrfs bug seems to be fixed in 2.6.38-rc7 the ext4 bug is not fixed, yet (AFAIK) See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353907 esp. comments 17 and 22 and http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg19952.html Be warned, Helmut. -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about pulseaudio
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 05:37, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about trying pulseaudio and seeing if it will fix a issue I have. Some of my programs, k3b for one, plays a sound and it will about wake up the dead. Some others, like KDE sound effects when I change desktops, can't even be heard unless the speakers are turned up a good bit. Then some, like smplayer, affect the volume of other applications such as the PCM control which also changes a lot of other apps. Does it sound like this will do what I need? Control each app separately? While I am at it: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel One of those is my sound card. I never noticed I had two entries there. H. Weird. Anybody get this to work well with this hardware? Easy to set up? So difficult it was like pulling teeth? The sound does work here, just need some fine tuning. Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-) -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele
Re: [gentoo-user] Logout of Desktop Hangs on Laptop
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 20:45, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Alt-SysRq-R and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp do nothing. Try Alt-SysRq-R and then ctrl alt f1. That should take you to a console. It does on my desktop anyway. It *should* work the same way. Dale :-) :-) -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele
Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 20:28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:34:02 +, Stroller wrote: MythTV uses a perl script for the IMDB lookup, you could adapt that to another setup. However, MythTV also handles all the database stuff. A recording is a recording, whether copied from a TV card or a DVD. In referring to MythTV's focus one aspect I had in mind was that, last time I read about it, I think MythTV kept DVD rips in a separate menu hierarchy from TV. So if you want to look for an action movie, and you click on TV and browse through the videos there, you only see the TV recordings; you then have to exit out of TV and choose DVDs before you can browse what action genre DVDs you have stored. It still keeps recordings separate from videos, and probably always will as TV recordings don't have menus, multiple subtitle languages etc. I was looking into using MythTV's DVD ripping and tagging capabilities separately when I discovered that DVD ripping has been removed from the latest release, so the whole discussion is moot. -- Neil Bothwick There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On 3/12/11, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: If you have anything you wish me to check, I will. It's probably too late to think about this option, but just in case: you don't happen to have a copy of root's bash history from around the time you noticed the problem? -- Arttu V.
[gentoo-user] How to install linux-gazette correctly?
Hi, there are several entries regarding the linux-gazette app-doc/linux-gazette app-doc/linux-gazette-all app-doc/linux-gazette-base I tried linux-gazette-all but this ends up in an overwriting message and the information was given that linux-gazette 182 will not be installed then. Its ended up in /usr/share/doc with 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 archives.html authors contact.html copying.html current faq ftpfiles.txt gx index.html issue01to08 issue09 issue10 issue11 issue12 issue13 issue14 issue15 issue16 issue17 issue18 issue19 issue60 issue61 issue62 issue63 issue64 issue65 issue66 issue67 issue68 issue69 issue70 issue71 issue72 issue73 issue74 issue75 issue76 issue77 issue78 issue79 issue80 issue81 issue82 issue83 issue84 issue85 issue86 issue87 issue88 issue89 issue90 issue91 issue92 issue93 issue94 issue95 issue96 issue97 issue98 issue99 lg.css lg.rss lg_index.html mirrors.html robots.txt search.html tag which isn't consistent. Loading lg_index.html into a browser and clicking one of the first items ends up with the classic 404-Not Found-message. So, how can I install linux-gazette 1) completly 2) correctly 3) consistently ? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Re: *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10
On 03/12/2011 05:26 AM, Gregory Fontenele wrote: any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to: gentoo-users+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org Note: You must use the identical address that you subscribed with to unsubscribe successfully. If your email address is now forwarded/rewritten beyond your control, please contact the list owner via listname+ow...@lists.gentoo.org with a request for manual removal.
Re: [gentoo-user] *** Warning - beware of sys-apps/coretuils-8.10
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 23:29:56 sean wrote: I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under /usr/src is not there. In fact under /usr/src there is nothing. Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have happened, and how to fix? I can't help with your problem, but it's odd that I had something similar happen the other day. I was making a fresh installation of Gentoo on an oldish dual-Opteron box, booting rescue-CD and using two SATA disks with md RAID and LVM2. I'd spent the whole afternoon on this, as many steps are involved, and I'd eventually reached the installation of GRUB into /boot, when I got an error saying that /boot was mounted read-only. On investigating, I found that everything I'd put on those two disks had disappeared, as though in a puff of smoke. All that was left was the underlying partition layout, but with no content. Vanished, without trace, just like your kernel tree. I'm mystified. Oh well, just start again. So I sympathise with you in your frustration. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source may have never been touched (configured) so all files (including the directory) might be removed by an emerge --depclean. That is what led me to discover the missing directory. I update the system regularly.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone
2011/3/12 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source may have never been touched (configured) so all files (including the directory) might be removed by an emerge --depclean. That is what led me to discover the missing directory. I update the system regularly. But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he upgraded. Sean, Two questions. I don't think you ever replied as to whether /usr/src is a mounted partition, is it? Also, did you have multiple kernels emerged into different slots before this happened? if so, does portage still think they're installed?
Re: [gentoo-user] How to install linux-gazette correctly?
on 03/12/2011 08:31 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote the following: same here...but did you /install/ the stuff and tries - as mentioned in my initial posting -- to use the index file to the table of contents? You are right, there is a bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358391 try: COLLISION_IGNORE=/usr/share/doc/linux-gazette emerge app-doc/linux-gazette-all
