Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase
On Sunday 08 May 2011 23:24:21 Dale wrote: john wrote: Weather widgets running fine here:- Namely LCD Weather Station and Weather Station . I have only have ever run kde 4-6.2 and 4.6-3 so perhaps there is a problem upgrading from previous versions. Great widgets. Not sure what a Molar Mass Calculator does? Perhaps weighs your teeth?? Do you use noaa stations or something else? I can't get noaa stations to show up. It worked with 4.6.1 tho. If it worked before it ought to work now too. Compare the contents of your previous ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsr with what you have now and adjust the lines that point to the NOAA RSS feed accordingly. If it still doesn't work, then you've discovered a bug. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210
On Sun, 8 May 2011 23:28:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 9 May 2011 00:17:42 +0200, pat wrote: I've bought USB scanner CanoScan LiDE210 which is listed with status complete on sane-project. The driver backend name is genesys. I've followed the instructions on [1]. The sane-find-device -q finds my scanner as: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x190a [CanoScan], chip=GL848+) at libusb:002:006 But when trying to use xsane or scanimage -L ends with information that there's not a scanner device. What happens when you run scanimage -L as root? When I've seen this problem before, it was caused by permissions in /dev/usb. Hi, Nothing :-( Same output as for user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Pat Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
yes, you are right. + curl_opts='-x '\'''\''' the -x '' expands to too many quotes. I tried to replace the double-quotes to single-quotes, but still not working. any idea how to fix this? On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. You need to change: - curl_opts=-x '' + curl_opts=-x Run your program with bash -x as Nils said, and you will see the expansion. Kfir
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
yes, i use the '-x' option, and i can see the expansion now. and i found there are too many quotes. i tried curl_opts=-x , does not work. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. You need to change: - curl_opts=-x '' + curl_opts=-x Run your program with bash -x as Nils said, and you will see the expansion. Kfir -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase
Mick wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 23:24:21 Dale wrote: john wrote: Weather widgets running fine here:- Namely LCD Weather Station and Weather Station . I have only have ever run kde 4-6.2 and 4.6-3 so perhaps there is a problem upgrading from previous versions. Great widgets. Not sure what a Molar Mass Calculator does? Perhaps weighs your teeth?? Do you use noaa stations or something else? I can't get noaa stations to show up. It worked with 4.6.1 tho. If it worked before it ought to work now too. Compare the contents of your previous ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsr with what you have now and adjust the lines that point to the NOAA RSS feed accordingly. If it still doesn't work, then you've discovered a bug. I don't have the previous one tho. At least I don't think I do. I have a backup but I think I have updated it already. I'll check just in case tho. The thing is, when I type in my location and click search, it returns my location but the service is wettercom not noaa. Apparently wettercom doesn't actually have info for my location. It just thinks it does. I did a google search and it is a known problem. I found others talking about it. So, it's not just me. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210
On Mon, 9 May 2011 08:41:04 +0200, pat wrote: Nothing :-( Same output as for user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). An update to sane-backends appeared when I updated today. This adds entries for the LiDE210 to genesys.conf, so updating to 1.0.22 may solve this for you. -- Neil Bothwick There is never enough beer, sex or disk space! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
if i use -x '', or -x , it expands to -x. the quotes are removed as they are empty. if i use -x \'\', the expanded quotes are quoted again...resulting too many quotes it is driving me crazy o_O! please help. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: yes, i use the '-x' option, and i can see the expansion now. and i found there are too many quotes. i tried curl_opts=-x , does not work. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. You need to change: - curl_opts=-x '' + curl_opts=-x Run your program with bash -x as Nils said, and you will see the expansion. Kfir -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210
On Monday 09 May 2011 08:41:04 pat wrote: On Sun, 8 May 2011 23:28:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 9 May 2011 00:17:42 +0200, pat wrote: I've bought USB scanner CanoScan LiDE210 which is listed with status complete on sane-project. The driver backend name is genesys. I've followed the instructions on [1]. The sane-find-device -q finds my scanner as: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x190a [CanoScan], chip=GL848+) at libusb:002:006 But when trying to use xsane or scanimage -L ends with information that there's not a scanner device. What happens when you run scanimage -L as root? When I've seen this problem before, it was caused by permissions in /dev/usb. Hi, Nothing :-( Same output as for user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Do you have the correct driver included on your system and enabled in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf ? Any messages in dmesg? -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
(Forgive my top-posting) try: curl_opts=-x \'\' Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: yes, i use the '-x' option, and i can see the expansion now. and i found there are too many quotes. i tried curl_opts=-x , does not work. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. You need to change: - curl_opts=-x '' + curl_opts=-x Run your program with bash -x as Nils said, and you will see the expansion. Kfir -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
(Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus in stackovervlow.com. My handle there is 'pepoluan'. Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve the proxy ''. But If I modify the script to: url=http://mypage; curl $url -d \mydata\ -x '' It works fine. I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
i tried that already. not working. i will try the stackoverflow.com. thanks On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: (Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus in stackovervlow.com. My handle there is 'pepoluan'. Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve the proxy ''. But If I modify the script to: url=http://mypage; curl $url -d \mydata\ -x '' It works fine. I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: i tried that already. not working. i will try the stackoverflow.com. thanks On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: (Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus in stackovervlow.com. My handle there is 'pepoluan'. Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve the proxy ''. But If I modify the script to: url=http://mypage; curl $url -d \mydata\ -x '' It works fine. I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ I have replied you before. What I have sent you is the solution to your problems. Try to run what I told you. I ran it successfully on my comp. curl_opts=-x Kfir
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve the proxy ''. But If I modify the script to: url=http://mypage; curl $url -d \mydata\ -x '' It works fine. I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. Do as you tried first, but add an eval: eval curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts I have replied you before. What I have sent you is the solution to your problems. Try to run what I told you. I ran it successfully on my comp. curl_opts=-x This gives a command not found error, as bash tries to execute the empty command . Are you using another shell? Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
He --Original Message-- From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error Sent: 9 May 2011 11:36 Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve the proxy ''. But If I modify the script to: url=http://mypage; curl $url -d \mydata\ -x '' It works fine. I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. Do as you tried first, but add an eval: eval curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts I have replied you before. What I have sent you is the solution to your problems. Try to run what I told you. I ran it successfully on my comp. curl_opts=-x This gives a command not found error, as bash tries to execute the empty command . Are you using another shell? Wonko Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve the proxy ''. But If I modify the script to: url=http://mypage; curl $url -d \mydata\ -x '' It works fine. I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help. Do as you tried first, but add an eval: eval curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts I have replied you before. What I have sent you is the solution to your problems. Try to run what I told you. I ran it successfully on my comp. curl_opts=-x This gives a command not found error, as bash tries to execute the empty command . Are you using another shell? Wonko Sorry, I have put www.google.com in th url, so got the page, and didn't notice the error. hehe Kfir
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
Well, I saw a lot of advice on this but no real solution - just some debugging
help.
At least from my own experience with Bash Scripting, I find that you can never
use enough braces when referencing variables.
So, the script should read:
url=http://mypage;
curl_opts=-x
curl ${url} -d \mydata\ ${curl_opts}
I would probably even go one further and use quotes in the final line as well,
thus producing:
curl ${url}-d \mydata\ ${curl_opts}
Please note that the single and double quotes have meanings as far as expansion.
Also, the guys on IRC (#bash) are quite helpful - a great resource in addition
to 'man bash'.
$0.02
Ben
- Original Message
From: Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com
To: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 1:44:58 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :)
My script looks like:
url=http://mypage;
curl_opts=-x ''
curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts
If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve
the proxy ''.
But If I modify the script to:
url=http://mypage;
curl $url -d \mydata\ -x ''
It works fine.
I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do
not know how to fix it. Please help.
--
Best Regards,
Xi Shen (David)
http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths
I can't believe it!!! Since the purpose of the whole installation was to start using a machine that has been abandoned for some time i paid no attention to a CMOS alert that came up on the screen the first time i turned it on, shrugging it off as one more error message of a machine aproaching the end of its useful life. After reading your responses i went straight to the CMOS clock and, non surprisingly, it was not set correctly, i corrected the time and date and the weird errors dissapeared. I can't say i fully understand why the unset clock caused this but i do can say that this was a tough one and never would have figured it out without your expertise, so thanks, much obliged Considering the confusing nature of the error and the easyness which it is fixed with, should'n it be in a faq or something? truly yours Rafael 2011/5/6 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Friday 06 May 2011 19:57:36 Kevin McCarthy wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: 2011/5/6 Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:01PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Attached to this message are the contents of the afforementioned file, thanks for the help!!! This seems like cause for alarm: Unpacking source... Unpacking dialog-1.1-20100428.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work tar: dialog-1.1-20100428/aclocal.m4: time stamp 2010-04-28 17:36:28 is 252636716.880100597 s in the future Something is definitely wrong with your clock. Then we have this: Source configured. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-201004 28 ... make make: Warning: File `trace.c' has modification time 2.4e+08 s in the future Here is the libtool link from the compile phase. It looks correct, but notice that it warns you about the clock problems: libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o .libs/dialog .libs/dialog.o -L/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428 /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428/. libs/libdialog.so -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lm make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428 Then in the install phase, you will see that make can't figure out what is up-to-date (because the clock is off) so it decides everything needs to be rebuilt. Install dialog-1.1.20100428 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/image/ category dev-util ---8---SNIP---8--- make: Warning: File `trace.c' has modification time 2.4e+08 s in the future /usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/ncursesw -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/share/locale\ -c trace.c In the install phase, DESTDIR is set to the PORTAGE_TEMP directory and libtool is called with -rpath set to the temp dir. This is what's causing the QA warning. The problem is that we aren't supposed to be building anything at this point. It is the INSTALL phase after all: /usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -rpath /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/image//usr/lib -version-info `cut -f1 ./VERSION` -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o libdialog.la trace.lo rc.lo calendar.lo fselect.lo timebox.lo formbox.lo guage.lo pause.lo progressbox.lo tailbox.lo mixedform.lo mixedgauge.lo arrows.lo buttons.lo checklist.lo columns.lo dlg_keys.lo editbox.lo inputbox.lo inputstr.lo menubox.lo mouse.lo mousewget.lo msgbox.lo textbox.lo ui_getc.lo util.lo version.lo yesno.lo -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lm So, the short of it is that you need to fix your clock. It needs to be set reasonably close to the actual time and the timezone needs to be set correctly as well. You might also look into net-misc/ntp to set the clock from the network. If your clock is set correctly, there's something horribly wrong and it will require additional troubleshooting. O_O Thanks for an excellent and very educational explanation! I don't think I've come across anything like this clock skew generated problem before. I'll know what to look for in the future. The OP may also want to check out chrony in case he's using a laptop. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:44:10AM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Considering the confusing nature of the error and the easyness which it is fixed with, should'n it be in a faq or something? Well, I suppose the handbook could be changed to explain that no only do you have to set the timezone and UTC/local settings for you clock, but you also have to make sure it is set. Unfortunately, adding this specific problem to a FAQ is problematic because there are dozens of errors and problems that can come from a mis-set clock. It would be difficult to cover them all. -- Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:44:58PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :)
My script looks like:
url=http://mypage;
curl_opts=-x ''
curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts
If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot resolve
the proxy ''.
While bash arrays probably aren't required for this, the following seems
to work OK:
curl_opts=(-x )
curl $url -d \mydata\ ${curl_opts[@]}
But I'm sure there's a quotes-only solution, too.
--
Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?
On 05/06/2011 05:06 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: What about using gimp in scripting mode? I've been working on a pygimp-based plugin for the GIMP yesterday. It's a bit slow but it does the job, and comes with a simple GUI [1]. After running # sudo layman -a betagarden # sudo emerge -av media-plugins/gimp-imagescaler you should find an item Scale Image with correct Gamma... at the bottom of the Image menu as seen on [2]. The sources are up at [3]. Best, Sebastian [1] https://blog.hartwork.org/__images/imagescalerplugin-dialog-332x395.png [2] https://blog.hartwork.org/__images/imagescalerplugin-menu-394x449.png [3] http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=imagescaler.git;a=summary
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain
On May 6, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 06 May 2011 18:04:31 John Nielsen wrote: Doesn't look like this went through the first time; re-sending without attachment. On May 5, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I am trying to set up a 5GHz wireless access point on an Alix 3d2 board with an AR9220 (ath9k Merlin) PCI card. I have done so successfully using Fedora 14 on identical hardware but I would greatly prefer to use Gentoo so I can use a more recent kernel and customize things appropriately for the platform. It seems like everything is pretty much the same, other than the kernel (and presumably the ath9k driver). But I would look at the udev rules for CRDA to be sure they match and are being applied the same on both systems. You shouldn't ever need to iw reg set on a system with CRDA, it should do it for you. So I wonder if you're setting it, and then CRDA is immediately setting it back to 00... The udev rule for CRDA is the same on both systems, and matches what is shown on http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA. The Fedora box also has a magic rule to call /sbin/setregdomain when an 80211 interface is added, which is a shell script that infers the regdomain from the currently set timezone. The punch line of the script is simply a call to iw reg set $COUNTRY However, I'm not sure crda is being called appropriately on the Gentoo box. On the Fedora machine I see this in dmesg: [ 17.248674] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US [ 18.848206] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US and I don't ever see anything similar on the Gentoo machine, even when running iw reg set by hand. Further, I don't see anything in the output of udevadm monitor --environment kernel. I just dropped the kernel from the Fedora machine on to the Gentoo box and (somewhat surprisingly) it works just fine. The reg domain gets set no problem, hostapd starts, life is good--except that now I feel like I've sinned against nature and I'd like to get my own, smaller kernel back. While it's possible the new kernel version is broken I rather suspect that I have configured it badly. I set out to configure a minimal kernel with just the features and drivers I want on this hardware and no need for modules or an initramfs. Does cfg80211 need to be a module to work properly? I wouldn't think so. I'll do some more experimenting but in the mean time here's my kernel config in case anyone has ideas on what could be wrong. Thanks! Config file here: http://pastebin.com/S68ye6Pz I suggest that you run a diff --suppress-common-lines -y between the Fedora and your own kernel to find out what's different between the two as far as your driver is concerned. The outright diff was far too verbose to be useful, but looking at lsmod output when running the Fedora kernel was instructive. I recognized everything as being in by Gentoo kernel except for rfkill, which was listed as a dependency of cfg80211. Long story short, I got it working like I want by: 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it, and just building cfg80211 and friends as modules without RFKILL also didn't fix it; I had to do both. Thanks all for your responses so far. I'll be happy to ditch Fedora. :) For future reference, does anyone know why either of the above would be required? If I see the same behavior in the latest git kernel should I file a bug? If so, where (since I doubt this is a Gentoo issue)? JN
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain
On Monday 09 May 2011 17:20:49 John Nielsen wrote: On May 6, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 06 May 2011 18:04:31 John Nielsen wrote: Doesn't look like this went through the first time; re-sending without attachment. On May 5, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I am trying to set up a 5GHz wireless access point on an Alix 3d2 board with an AR9220 (ath9k Merlin) PCI card. I have done so successfully using Fedora 14 on identical hardware but I would greatly prefer to use Gentoo so I can use a more recent kernel and customize things appropriately for the platform. It seems like everything is pretty much the same, other than the kernel (and presumably the ath9k driver). But I would look at the udev rules for CRDA to be sure they match and are being applied the same on both systems. You shouldn't ever need to iw reg set on a system with CRDA, it should do it for you. So I wonder if you're setting it, and then CRDA is immediately setting it back to 00... The udev rule for CRDA is the same on both systems, and matches what is shown on http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA. The Fedora box also has a magic rule to call /sbin/setregdomain when an 80211 interface is added, which is a shell script that infers the regdomain from the currently set timezone. The punch line of the script is simply a call to iw reg set $COUNTRY However, I'm not sure crda is being called appropriately on the Gentoo box. On the Fedora machine I see this in dmesg: [ 17.248674] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US [ 18.848206] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US and I don't ever see anything similar on the Gentoo machine, even when running iw reg set by hand. Further, I don't see anything in the output of udevadm monitor --environment kernel. I just dropped the kernel from the Fedora machine on to the Gentoo box and (somewhat surprisingly) it works just fine. The reg domain gets set no problem, hostapd starts, life is good--except that now I feel like I've sinned against nature and I'd like to get my own, smaller kernel back. While it's possible the new kernel version is broken I rather suspect that I have configured it badly. I set out to configure a minimal kernel with just the features and drivers I want on this hardware and no need for modules or an initramfs. Does cfg80211 need to be a module to work properly? I wouldn't think so. I'll do some more experimenting but in the mean time here's my kernel config in case anyone has ideas on what could be wrong. Thanks! Config file here: http://pastebin.com/S68ye6Pz I suggest that you run a diff --suppress-common-lines -y between the Fedora and your own kernel to find out what's different between the two as far as your driver is concerned. The outright diff was far too verbose to be useful, but looking at lsmod output when running the Fedora kernel was instructive. I recognized everything as being in by Gentoo kernel except for rfkill, which was listed as a dependency of cfg80211. Long story short, I got it working like I want by: 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it, and just building cfg80211 and friends as modules without RFKILL also didn't fix it; I had to do both. Thanks all for your responses so far. I'll be happy to ditch Fedora. :) For future reference, does anyone know why either of the above would be required? If I see the same behavior in the latest git kernel should I file a bug? If so, where (since I doubt this is a Gentoo issue)? I wouldn't have thought that you *must* have rfkill built in as a module for it to work. However, I have my wireless drivers (inc. rfkill) built in as modules. I did this because I need to pass some options to the wireless driver at some point. The only time I had to build something as a module was alsa, because otherwise I couldn't configure my sound card on a particular box (alsaconf/alsactl expected it to be a module so that it can probe it). I ended up compiling it as a module since. Perhaps someone else can advise on this rfkill issue. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to check PDF against PDF/X-3 ?
On 05/05/2011 11:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: I'm not aware of any real verification tool. I guess you could easily build one using one of the free pdf libraries for introspecting the file and matching all requirements. If you ever find yourself making such a tool please make it free software and send me a link. A quick and dirty check would be to look for the identification string. Every PDF/X has to specify its conformance using a plaintext string. I can't provide you with an PDF/X example but this is how it looks for PDF/A1 created by OOo: `strings pdf | grep PDFA /Type/OutputIntent/S/GTS_PDFA1/OutputConditionIdentifier(sRGB IEC61966-2.1)/DestOutputProfile 76 0 R Thanks. Best, Sebastian
[gentoo-user] Need Preferred Applications help
A couple of weeks ago I switched my gcc profile over and rebuilt everything with emerge -e system and emerge -e world. Now, when I click on a link in Evolution, seamonkey opens to a blank page instead of to the link that I clicked on. I'm using gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1. Seamonkey is my preferred web browser, but I used to have the abiltiy to supply other options (a.k.a. /usr/bin/seamonkey %s I think it was). Now I don't have that ability. How can I get this back? I'm getting very tired of having to copy the link location and manually paste it into an active seamonkey window...
[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to set wireless regulatory domain
On 05/09/2011 09:20 AM, John Nielsen wrote: I got it working like I want by: 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it, and just building cfg80211 and friends as modules without RFKILL also didn't fix it; I had to do both. Some drivers contains quite a few distinct subsystems, and I can imagine a scenario where some section of code is executed only when it gets loaded by another driver module. If my SWAG is correct, then I think a bug report would be appropriate. Unfortunately I have no idea if I'm guessing right or wrong :) As Mick said, the same problem has been reported with alsa drivers, and I would consider that to be buggy behavior as well and I would file a bug report if I had the same problem. (But I don't.)
[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210
On Mon, 9 May 2011 09:15:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 9 May 2011 08:41:04 +0200, pat wrote: Nothing :-( Same output as for user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). An update to sane-backends appeared when I updated today. This adds entries for the LiDE210 to genesys.conf, so updating to 1.0.22 may solve this for you. -- Neil Bothwick There is never enough beer, sex or disk space! Thanks Neil !!! It works :-D Pat Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to set wireless regulatory domain
On Monday 09 May 2011 23:46:06 walt wrote: On 05/09/2011 09:20 AM, John Nielsen wrote: I got it working like I want by: 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it, and just building cfg80211 and friends as modules without RFKILL also didn't fix it; I had to do both. Some drivers contains quite a few distinct subsystems, and I can imagine a scenario where some section of code is executed only when it gets loaded by another driver module. If my SWAG is correct, then I think a bug report would be appropriate. Unfortunately I have no idea if I'm guessing right or wrong :) As Mick said, the same problem has been reported with alsa drivers, and I would consider that to be buggy behavior as well and I would file a bug report if I had the same problem. (But I don't.) Funny you should say that ... I remember raising a bug at the time, only to be told by a dev that this is what alsactl expects (i.e. alsa modules to probe in a particular order). I was reluctant to engage in an argument with a dev about the logic of all this, so I left happy knowing that I could hear sound coming out of my machine again. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Mick wrote: On Saturday 07 May 2011 01:40:54 Indi wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:10:01AM +0200, Indi wrote: Speaking of that, I always get that notice the PGP signature could not be verified on your mails, Neil. Never mind, sorry -- that was my configuration needed updating. Just a thought - I had to change the default public key server the other day, because connecting to it was timing out. Not sure if it was the subkeys.pgp.net that I was having trouble with. Now it seems to work fine again and it finds said key: === $ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --search-keys sign...@gentoo.org gpg: enabled debug flags: memstat gpg: searching for sign...@gentoo.org from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net (1) Kevin McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org 2048 bit RSA key D0AE2DE8, created: 2011-02-22 Keys 1-1 of 1 for sign...@gentoo.org. Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit Q === -- Regards, Mick Thanks, but it was self-induced -- shot myself in the foot fooling about with .muttrc and failing to proofread all the changes properly. -- caveat utilitor
Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling
On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08/2011 11:21:06 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: sys-process/atop shows current CPU freqency I use it to check the effect of sys-power/powernowd why are you using powernowd?
