[gentoo-user] using lvm without a partition of type linux LVM
In linux.gentoo.user, allan wrote: On Sat, Oct 12 2013, thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 10/12/2013 05:40 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote the following: copy the lvm partitions to directories on an external disk (ext3) What command did you use for copying? cp -ax rsync not is on the minimal install. rsync is on my 2013 amd-x64 minimal install CD. Do you have an amd-x64 install and do you have the latest version of the minimal install CD? -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
In linux.gentoo.user, James wrote: Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: b) The important reason I need an initramfs is that I have my root filesystems on LVM partitions (except for my ARM servers). Hello Gregory, Please tell me, as much as you are confortable with, about your ARM servers I'm running 2 servers at the moment. They are very low power and they mainly serve my home network. One is a Marvell Sheevaplug (single core 1.2GHZ 512MB memory) and has been running reliably for many years. The other is a Texas Instruments Pandaboard (2 core Cortex A9 Processor - 1Gb memory) . I've only had the Panda since October last year and it is also a very reliable server (with added GUI HDMI benefits!). Running Gentoo? Running Embedded Gentoo? Which kernels? HDD ? File Systems? Configurations, Grub 2? LVM, RAID ? Both servers are running Gentoo Stable... therefore current kernels (for their architecture). Both have external HDD attached via USB. File systems: root filesystem is on an SDHC card (2nd partition). Other filesystems (except for the boot partition) are all on LVM. I have /usr/src, /usr/portage, /usr/portage/distfiles is a symlink to /var/www/localhost/gentoo/distfiles (another filesystem). I also have /var/tmp/portage on a separate filesystem and I also run a postgresql database server which also has its own partition on /var/lib/postgresql/version. Both servers have the same setup as I'm currently in the process of replacing the sheevaplug with the panda. Grub? There's no such thing on ARM machines. The kernel or uImage looks for the first partition on the configured root device (SDHC on my systems) the first partition MUST be VFAT (unfortunately) and it contains the u-boot bootloader and the kernel (uImage). Kernels are built the same way as x86 kernels except you do make uImage instead of make bzImage. LVM? All the above filesystems, except the root partition and the boot partition are LVM volumes. Filesystems are mostly Ext4 (very conventional). RAID? Nope. Typical usage? Print server, database server, backups, webserver - which includes serving gentoo portage and distfiles to other machines on the network (THTTPD is a great minimal web server). What install docs did you follow? Sheevaplug: http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml#install Pandaboard: http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/pandaboard/install.xml It's easy. Any suggestions on setting up ARM servers, cluster, and such are most welcome. ARM servers aren't much different to other servers but you must realise that these are low powered devices (the ones I run anyway) and aren't really suited to large loads. They especially suit a small business or home hobbyist environment. Even so, compiling Gentoo, especially on the Panda is not a problem and doesn't take forever (except for gcc updates 8-)). I suppose you could cluster a number of these devices but I think it would be more efficient to use a more powerful server running servers as virtual machines. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
In linux.gentoo.user, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-29 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/09/2013 19:59, Tanstaafl wrote: I've been told that this shouldn't be a big deal... while I am a (barely) passable linux sys admin Allow me to forward an opinion. The above is not true, not even close. Don't knock yourself, you don't deserve it :-) Lol!!! At first I thought you were saying that it wasn't true that merging /usr into / shouldn't be a big deal - and I was about to start gnashing my teeth (again). Thanks Alan, your words are very kind... and I'll just leave it at that... ;) I've just changed one of my machines so that /usr is now part of the root filesystem. Like you, I had a separate /usr filesystem. Unlike you I've been running an initramfs for many years because: a) I'm running laptops and like them to have pretty graphical boot screens and no ugly writing appearing during the boot sequence. It's silly, I know, but it still looks pretty. The initramfs will start up bootsplash 8-) b) The important reason I need an initramfs is that I have my root filesystems on LVM partitions (except for my ARM servers). I've never has a scrap of trouble with the genkernel initramfs builds, despite myriad updates over the years. I've had minor niggles with display but nothing critical. So while I've run an initramfs for many years, now it has had to mount /usr before the pivot_root command. This has led to the problem that /usr is no longer able to be fscked because it is already mounted, and I cannot for the life of me, get the genkernel initramfs to fsck the /usr filesystem before mounting. I've had to manually fsck the /usr filesystem by running my minimal install CD. There are probably ways to do this (like fscking /usr on shutdown, which I couldn't get working) but I'm sick of looking for them. I've bit the bullet and changed things over. It went without a hitch. Here's what I did: I added a new LVM volume group and added a slash filesystem (10Gb), a usrsrc filesystem for my kernels (10Gb), a portage filesystem (3Gb), a distfiles filesystem (15Gb) and a packages filesystem (10Gb). Because these are on LVM they can be adjusted upwards or downwards depending on usage. I updated /etc/default/grub so that the new kernel command line will find my new slash LVM volume, and ran the grub2 installer to make the change valid. I then shut down the machine, booted my minimal install CD, used LVM to find my filesystems. I then mounted my new slash and mounted the new filesystems. I also decided to move portage, distfiles and packages to the old /var partition but to do so I first had to mount them in their old positions on /usr/portage /usr/portage/distfiles etc... Once done, I mounted the old slash and the old /usr (with included distfiles and packages and portage) then did the cp -av old hierarchy new hierarchy. It was then possible to unmount distfiles, packages and portage and then move them to /var (mount /var and mkdir /var/portage /var/distfiles and /var/packages) I altered the new slash fstab. I then rebooted without a hitch. Oh, I also had to update /etc/portage/make.conf and the make.profile symlink to reflect the change. It seems complicated but every step was logical. Having my root filesystem on LVM has made the change more complicated than it should have been, but it still was quite easy to do and downtime was minimal. I don't feel like I've been forced to do anything. I'm grateful for the Gentoo devs and their hard work over the years. This upstream change is just a small bump in the long Gentoo road. If I didn't agree with the change then it would be up to me to find a way to get my system to work without an initramfs, not the Gentoo Devs... after all, this IS open source. Be grateful that the Gentoo Devs are still willing to volunteer their time building this great distribution. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
In linux.gentoo.user, Mr Schilling wrote: On Solaris, you can disable loading unsigned modules, is this not supported by Linux? CONFIG_MODULE_SIG -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
search for CONSOLE in this file and find:
# exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21
Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs
and it is ready to go.
--
Regards,
Gregory.
Thanks Gregory.
I really would like to find that partition number limitation on genkernel
in the docs.
I've never had that problem but then I've always made /boot my first
partition.
I have already had that splash screen problem, very interesting your
solution. That's a big reason I love Gentoo, always learning something new.
Funny thing is that checking the file you've mentioned in this new system,
it has no hash at that line (line number 13, right?). On the other working
system, the same, no hash.
No, the line is 149.
You see, I've got this as part of my kernel command line:
console=tty1
The code section from the linuxrc file is part of the kernel command
line check as part of a bash(sh) do loop:
CONSOLE=*|console=*)
CONSOLE=${x#*=}
CONSOLE=$(basename ${CONSOLE})
# exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21
If you change your console= value on the command line then the new
console choice is redirected. If the hash is in place then the
console is not redirected and usually you get console output writing all
over your splash screen.
I'm using genkernel-3.4.45.1 on both systems, perhaps not the same as you.
Regarding that last issue, the message complaining that the root partition
is not a valid block device _is still there_, only masked by the splash
(which now is verbose).
I was optimistic in believing everything would work as expected once I
found that detail.
I'm not sure I can help you here. My root filesystem is on an LVM volume
(as are all the rest of my filesystems except for my /boot partition.
--
Regards,
Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [SOLVED]
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look
closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error
message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my real_root
is, that initramfs has just /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda4 .
I think it must be a limitation on genkernel part, although I was unable to
find anything related to this issue up to now.
It appears as if genkernel can only boot off real, not extended
partitions.
So now I have rearranged the partitions, using just the first ones. Now I
got a stuck splash image, no initialization shown, no progress bar
moving... but this is another problem, probably I forgot to change
something to reflect the new partitioning scheme.
It could be a tty problem. If I use genkernel unchanged I get a weird
splash screen and the boot dialog writes all over my splash screen. What
I have to do evey time an emerge updates my genkernel is:
edit my /usr/share/genkernel/defaults/linuxrc file
search for CONSOLE in this file and find:
# exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21
Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs
and it is ready to go.
--
Regards,
Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Swap is manually 'swapon-able' but not via fstab...?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hi, When I do a beagleboneblack:/rootswapon /dev/sda2 beagleboneblack:/rootfree total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:507476 50812 456664 0 13108 17244 -/+ buffers/cache: 20460 487016 Swap: 5242876 05242876 swap is added to the system. If I add /dev/sda2 none swap sw0 0 swapspace will not be used after a reboot. dmesg has nothing specific... What did I wrong here? Why get swap not used via fstab? Do you have swap added to the boot runlevel? # rc-update add swap boot -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: 2013/6/29 Zind wzmind...@gmail.com Can you search with dmesg and find if it's nead a firmware. Yes. At the bottom of the dmesg message, I can see these lines: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode' failed. request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode' failed. no suitable firmware found! You can try to fix this with emerging linux-firmware. I'm not sure if this firmware is in there, or what else to configure to fit it exactly, but in default the firmwares ware installed. I can confirm that these firmware files are in the linux-firmware package. -- Regards, Gregory Shearman.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mesa 9.1.2.r1 fails to build
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: The problem isn't obvious to me, but in the past I've seen strange linking errors happen when the ebuild (for some strange reason) uses the headers in /usr/include (from the previous version of the package) instead of the headers in the new source code. No idea why. Anyway, you could try removing your current mesa installation (after using quickpkg, of course) and then trying the emerge again. Sometimes when a package fails to build while doing an: emerge -auDN world I've had to add the '--with-bdeps=y' option: emerge -auDN --with-bdeps=y world For some reason I can't understand, it seems to work. It may not help with mesa-9.1.2-r1 but it doesn't take much effort and can't hurt to try -- Regards, Gregory Shearman.
Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: Randolph Maaßen wrote: I'm so damn lucky I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real machine and Gentoo works again. Allow me to introduce what is likely the luckiest computer user there is. Here he is: Randolph Maaßen If that was me, I would have lost everything on there. But you'd lose everything on there with style, Dale. I don't trust any machine and therefore have multiple backups in different places. I haven't lost anything yet. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:29:19 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: Good idea, but as I updated udev yesterday on one of my Gentoo systems, in the usual after-update messages there was a line in red, telling me You don't have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS enabled. udev will not start. So it's not really a surprise, is it? Hence, I built a new kernel *before* rebooting :-) That's fine if you see the message, which you should, and the system does not suffer an unplanned reboot, which it shouldn't. But leaving a system in a state that won't reboot following a crash or power failure is not particularly clever, making the warnings fatal sounds a safe default to me. As this is Gentoo there will always be a way to turn the airbags off and even disable the brakes :) A similar message has been shown after quite a few previous udev updates, not just this last one. I remember having to add the CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y option to my gentoo kernels at least 6 months ago after seeing a message telling me that this option must be enabled for udev or there'll be big problems later on. I have all update messages emailed to me using: PORTAGE_ELOG_*=blah In my /etc/portage/make.conf After every update I read every message that portage sends me and I act appropriately upon them. BTW, My udev update went without a hitch. I had a revdep-rebuild to do for a libudev update and that was about it. Even if you didn't see the message and your system didn't boot then you could still fix things by using your Minimal Install CD to start up, then chroot into your normal system and rebuild your kernel. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] hard disk name changes within initramfs
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: * Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [121206 09:27]: Hi, on one of several machines I have a problem with initramfs. The machine has a single SATA drive. When the kernel boots it shows that it is called /dev/sda, Now, within the init script of my initramfs it tries to mount /dev/sda2 as root but fails. Since the initramfs spawns a shell (busybox) I can see the device files for /dev/sda? but fdisk /dev/sda fails. As it turns out, the harddisk is now named /dev/sdb with /dev/sdb? partition names. [..] I can't tell you why it changed but after my device names got messed around with (after an upgrade) and the next boot mounted /home on /tmp and an initscript blew away a bunch of home directories before I caught it I switched to mounting via UUID. Once you find the UUID to use it's easy and alleviates lots of problems in the future. Todd All of the partitions of my HDD (including the root partition) are LVM partitions so I don't have to worry about this problem at all. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I've been using Gentoo for quite a long time, and today I decided to try compiling the kernel myself, Thing I've never done before. I want a smaller kernel, a faster boot (without initramfs) and, of course, some fun :). Good for you. I've rolled my own kernels for around 15 years, but I still use genkernel to build me an initramfs. I require the initramfs because: a) I've got my root filesystem on an LVM partition. b) I've got my /usr directory on a separate partition. This is not a problem, yet, but the udev update is coming! c) I like a fancy boot splash screen during early boot. I'm not that fond of using genkernel to build my initramfs, but it works. I'll probably switch to dracut when it becomes more stable. I'm still reading the oficial documentation, but I don't think it will be enough, so, if anyone of you know some documentation more detailed, I'd appreciate reading it. What do you mean by official documentation? Do you include the information in the Documentation directory in your latest kernel? Have you tried: $make menuconfig This gives you a good interface for configuring your kernel. If you hit / you'll get a search function and there are help options for just about every feature you want to include in your new kernel. I've just ran 'make xconfig', and I noticed that the configuration is the same from genkernel (genkernel --menuconfig). Is it good? Should I get an original .conf, with less garbage, or this is just the 'normal default' instead of 'genkernel default' as I'm guessing? I usually start from scratch with a new machine, but in your case you should be able to use your old genkernel .config file and then pare it down to what you require ie what works. Is there any tool that can scan my pc and help me out with the .conf or even generate one? I guess not. There are lots of options that I have no idea what they are for. I think this will be the fun part, but I think I can't get a running kernel before I optimize it, so I can do it gradually. I have had reasonable success with lshw (sys-apps/lshw). It generates a list of the hardware on your machine. Unfortanately it won't produce a .config file for you. One option that makes subsequent kernels easier to produce is: CONFIG_IKCONFIG Kernel .config support This feature provides copy of your current Kernel's .config file at /proc/config.gz which you can then extract and use on your new kernel by doing: $ zcat /proc/config.gz new-kernel-directory/.config $ cd new-kernel-directory $ make oldconfig Just for curiosity, what is the size of your kernel? Mine is 3.4 MB. 3.7MB Yep.. it's bigger than your genkernel generated kernel... 8-) Remember, the first kernel you produce on your own will take a bit of effort, but subsequent kernels are easy. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: I have ran into a issue here. I copied everything over to sdb, my temp drive. When I try to boot it, it still boots from sda which is the primary drive. I can not get it to boot from the copy. I did update the fstab file to point to the new sdb partitions, I use labels for that and they have different names. I also edited grub and told it root was sdb2. When I boot, everything mounted is sda. Did you actually install grub onto your MBR by either: # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb or # grub grub root (hd1,0) grub setup (hd1) grub quit - You didn't actually write down these steps. Are you assuming that we know you've done that? -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On 02/02/2012, at 11:02, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am asking for a recommendation of a router/wap. I know the wired/wireless tradeoffs. thanks, allan Sorry, read it as wired or wireless. Check out the buffalo routers -I have a G300NH which while it has a few early reports of bad wifi, it's been faultless for me. After a couple of months I changed the custom ddwrt firmware for real ddwrt (basically because I could!) and it's always been problem free. My limited experience with 1G has been mixed - usually don't notice much of a difference though its occasionally wow! - mostly cisco devices though. I can second the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run it with Openwrt rather than ddwrt and I find it runs flawlessly, though I only run it with a few wireless laptops and a wired server. Everthing works as it should. I love the ease of configuration that is provided by Openwrt, plus the flexibility of having IPV6 available. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; I never managed to fill that drive.) I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of memory but only 640KB was accessible to the system without a memory mapping hack. It ran MSDOS 3.1. (Ah! the late '80s) Gee I had a lot of fun on that machine. I could connect via 1200 baud modem from my home to the university VAX-VMS and use the VAX Wordperfect wordprocessor to do my course work and then send it to the University printer, which produced beautiful results. I wouldn't go back though! I love my HP quadcore laptop running Gentoo. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources: can't make menuconfig with user? User can't access ncurses?
In linux.gentoo.user, Mick wrote: I use a separate output directory that is under control of the user. What I do as an ordinary user: mkdir kerneloutputdir zcat /proc/config.gz kerneloutputdir/.config # assuming you have this option set in your kernel ie the current kernel # config saved in /proc/config.gz cd /usr/src/linux # assuming that /usr/src/linux is a soft link to your new kernel # directory. make O=kerneloutputdir oldconfig # The O= makes sure that any kernel output goes to the directory under # the permissions and control of the kernel builder user rather than in # the kernel directory under root permissions. # If you want to make changes to the new kernel then: make O=kerneleoutputdir menuconfig You can then proceed with building kernel and modules. Yes, I know that make without a command will automatically build both kernel image and modules but I prefer to do things explicitly. make O=kerneleoutputdir bzImage make O=kerneleoutputdir modules You can then install the new kernel and modules as root: make O=kerneleoutputdir modules_install make O=kerneleoutputdir install You need to set the following environment variable: KBUILD_OUTPUT=kerneloutputdir This variable ensures that any emerged app can find the kernel output if necessary. I've created a script in /etc/profile.d that automatically keeps this environment variable up to date. Oh, remember to unset this variable if you do *anything* requiring a busybox build (eg genkernel). An enjoyable side-effect of this system is that when you remove an obselete kernel from your system using emerge -C oldkernelversion, everything will be removed because there are no changes, no files added to those portage added kernel directory. The kernel builder user does nothing but build new kernels. This user's home directory is a hierarchy containing current kernel builds. I've been using this system for years now, on all my gentoo systems. It is second nature. Of course, the .bash_history of the kernel builder user is *very* useful for quickly doing all this from the command line. I used to have a script to automate all this, but it is just as easy to do from the command line. What is the benefit of this approach vis a vis su to root first as the gentoo handbook suggests? You've answered your own question. I'm of the opinion that it is far better to do the absolute *minimum* commands as the superuser, for your own system security. My way of compiling a new kernel means that only the install commands are done as superuser. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources: can't make menuconfig with user? User can't access ncurses?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:58:18 -0200 Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not currently at my Gentoo box, sorry for this, but if I don't post this now I'll probably forget to post it at all. Anyways, last time I tried upgrading my kernel, I copied my .config and ran make menuconfig as my main user, but it whined about missing ncurses libraries or something. After su'ing, everything went better than expected. Was that normal behavior? I remember configuring my kernel as user before. Even compiling it as user. How did you install the kernel sources? If you downloaded them as a normal user you should be able to make menuconfig; make; sudo make install just fine. If portage installed the sources, then you should configure/compile/install as root. The sources are owned by portage (IIRC) and you can't su to that user, leaving only root. Or, try adding yourself to the portage group. Personally I think that's too much effort for zero gain so I always do it as root. I use a separate output directory that is under control of the user. What I do as an ordinary user: mkdir kerneloutputdir zcat /proc/config.gz kerneloutputdir/.config # assuming you have this option set in your kernel ie the current kernel # config saved in /proc/config.gz cd /usr/src/linux # assuming that /usr/src/linux is a soft link to your new kernel # directory. make O=kerneloutputdir oldconfig # The O= makes sure that any kernel output goes to the directory under # the permissions and control of the kernel builder user rather than in # the kernel directory under root permissions. # If you want to make changes to the new kernel then: make O=kerneleoutputdir menuconfig You can then proceed with building kernel and modules. Yes, I know that make without a command will automatically build both kernel image and modules but I prefer to do things explicitly. make O=kerneleoutputdir bzImage make O=kerneleoutputdir modules You can then install the new kernel and modules as root: make O=kerneleoutputdir modules_install make O=kerneleoutputdir install You need to set the following environment variable: KBUILD_OUTPUT=kerneloutputdir This variable ensures that any emerged app can find the kernel output if necessary. I've created a script in /etc/profile.d that automatically keeps this environment variable up to date. Oh, remember to unset this variable if you do *anything* requiring a busybox build (eg genkernel). An enjoyable side-effect of this system is that when you remove an obselete kernel from your system using emerge -C oldkernelversion, everything will be removed because there are no changes, no files added to those portage added kernel directory. The kernel builder user does nothing but build new kernels. This user's home directory is a hierarchy containing current kernel builds. I've been using this system for years now, on all my gentoo systems. It is second nature. Of course, the .bash_history of the kernel builder user is *very* useful for quickly doing all this from the command line. I used to have a script to automate all this, but it is just as easy to do from the command line. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote: I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to invoke when I use X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?BTW, among my class I am the only one who uses Linux, so it's impossible to use ssh. Window managers are started by users. I think you are talking about display managers. Xorg runs a script /etc/X11/startDM.sh. It will start up /etc/init.d/xdm if that's the display manager defined (as it is in a default Gentoo setup). You define which display manager you want to start in /etc/conf.d/xdm, for example: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm This will start the KDE4 display manager. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote: Thanks a lot ! But I used lspci -v | less, it printed vebose information, then I looked up carefully for my video card, but I did not find anything about R600,R700 or other like, I'm still not clear about R*** things , is it chipset name? Hmm, I re-installed radeon-ucode package and I'm sure that I have R600_rlc.bin cause I canlocate it in /lib/firmware/ and /usr/src/linux/somewhere. But when I use make , the error message like:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin', needed by `firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin.gen.o'. Stop.make: *** [firmware] Error 2 It's weird, because I think I have done all the Prerequisite correctly, so how could I fix it out ? I think you need: CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y Configured into your kernel. Have a look at your dmesg output. It should have your Radeon card version listed. Mine is a Radeon REDWOOD chip. Here's my kernel config relating to building firmware into the kernel: (ignore the fact that I wastefully build in all the chip versions other than the REDWOOD) CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=radeon/REDWOOD_pfp.bin radeon/REDWOOD_rlc.bin \ radeon/REDWOOD_me.bin radeon/CEDAR_pfp.bin radeon/CEDAR_rlc.bin \ radeon/CEDAR_me.bin radeon/CYPRESS_me.bin radeon/CYPRESS_pfp.bin \ radeon/CYPRESS_rlc.bin radeon/JUNIPER_me.bin radeon/JUNIPER_pfp.bin \ radeon/JUNIPER_rlc.bin carl9170-1.fw CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] pg_upgrade91 - You must have read and write access in the current directory
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On 12/05/11 13:37, Gregory Shearman wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote: I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but when try to transfer the data base: pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/ --new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data --old-bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/bin/ --new-bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql-9.1/bin/ Running in verbose mode Performing Consistency Checks - Checking current, bin, and data directories You must have read and write access in the current directory. Failure, exiting What am I doing wrong? Have you checked that you have read and write access in the current directory before running the command? I did the upgrade as the postgres user and made sure that I ran the command from a read/writable directory for that user. Yes, I did su postgres and ls -al /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/ drwx-- 13 postgres postgres 4096 Dec 4 18:20 data so it should work. -- Joseph hmmm... Which directory are you running the command from? I ran mine from /var/lib/postgresql which has the properties: drwxr-xr-x 4 postgres root I don't recall using the command pg_upgrade91, but I see that it is a symlink to /usr/lib/postgresql-9.1/bin/pg_upgrade This is the command that worked for me: pg_upgrade -u postgres -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \\ /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data -b /usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/bin -B \\ /usr/lib/postgresql-9.1/bin For more information do (as postgres user) $ pg_upgrade --help -- Regards, Gregory
Re: [gentoo-user] pg_upgrade91 - You must have read and write access in the current directory
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On 12/05/11 21:56, Gregory Shearman wrote: hmmm... Which directory are you running the command from? I ran mine from /var/lib/postgresql which has the properties: drwxr-xr-x 4 postgres root I don't recall using the command pg_upgrade91, but I see that it is a symlink to /usr/lib/postgresql-9.1/bin/pg_upgrade This is the command that worked for me: pg_upgrade -u postgres -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \\ /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data -b /usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/bin -B \\ /usr/lib/postgresql-9.1/bin For more information do (as postgres user) $ pg_upgrade --help I definitely wasn't in that directory I just su postgres and run the command. I just recreate the databases by hand and populated them with backup data. I see. That's a shame. Usually, the HOME directory of the postgres user is set to /var/lib/postgresql. If you just do su postgres you'll remain in the directory from which you ran the command. What you *must* do is run: $ su - postgres Notice the '-'? This makes the su to the user a *login*, so that you'll be in the HOME directory of the postgres user. Try it yourself. Do an 'ls' after su postgres and then do an 'ls' after su - postgres See man su for more information. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] pg_upgrade91 - You must have read and write access in the current directory
In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote: I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but when try to transfer the data base: pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/ --new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data --old-bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/bin/ --new-bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql-9.1/bin/ Running in verbose mode Performing Consistency Checks - Checking current, bin, and data directories You must have read and write access in the current directory. Failure, exiting What am I doing wrong? Have you checked that you have read and write access in the current directory before running the command? I did the upgrade as the postgres user and made sure that I ran the command from a read/writable directory for that user. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.
In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: I'm getting this LVM thing down pat tho. cfdisk to create partitions, if not using the whole drive. pvcreate vgcreate lvcreate then put on a file system and mount. Sounds good. I still get them confused as to what comes first but I got some pictures to look at now. That helps to picture what I am doing, sort of. pv = physical volume. Physical comes first. vg = volume group. LVM volumes MUST belong to a group. lv = logical volume. Logical obviously comes last. Thanks to all for the advice tho. It's helping. Still nervous about / on LVM tho. :/ If you're nervous then don't do it. I've had my root filesystem on LVM for years on a number of different machines and never had a problem. I've used Genkernel's initramfs generator to create my initramfs, but I've just unmasked dracut and I've begun testing it on my system. It looks good so far, except that dracut mounts something on my nonexistent /run directory. This caused a warning when displaying mounted filesystems using df about /run not existing. I'm wondering whether I can just add the directory or do I need to do something special such as add a .keep file to it. If you want to go ahead with root on LVM then leave a duplicate root partition in a normal linux partition until you're satisfied, or backup your root partition to another machine or disk drive. You should be backing up your system anyway. My root filesystem on my laptop is only 161MB. Of course I've got a separate /usr and /var filesystem, which is the reason for my testing of dracut. I want to be ahead of the game when these forced udev changes become mandatory. I'm not happy about the decision to make /usr necessary for udev to populate /dev, but I've used an initramfs for years so it's not such a wrench for as it for other gentoo users. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit chroot set up as an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages available for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though. That's interesting. I run a SheevaPlug with Gentoo onboard. It runs at 1.2G and has half a G of memory. I have no trouble compiling gentoo on this little server. It works as a file server, backup server, web server and portage server (distfiles and portage sync for the gentoos on my network). Is ARM more efficient than the intel atom? -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I don't think I am logged in long enough to change the settings. I may try my test user but I think a file got corrupted or something. I did have a power failure the other day and the relay on my UPS was not quite fast enough. I think the contacts may need some cleaning. My UPS does some odd things at times. I need a new one but they are pricey. I had forgot about the power failure issue. That has lead me down a different path now. You don't need much time. The default shortcut to disable compositing in kde is shift+alt+f12 You can also edit the user KDE config directly via: ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc [Compositing] Enabled=True change to Enabled=False There's more than one way to skin a cat. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support
In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote: * Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [110528 12:43]: After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my own question... I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become one)... Specifically, I want to have one VLAN that my wireless access points are plugged into, to provide ONLY internet access, and then a separate VLAN for my internal network... This is to protect my internal net from any potentially infected machines that are on the wireless access points (I routinely work on infected computers for friends/family, so, I need internet access, but want them isolated from my internal network). Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, Tomato, DD-WRT or OpenWRT)? Looking forward to any suggestions/ideas... Hi, I'm pretty sure OpenWRT supports VLANs. I started using it on a Buffalo WHR-G300N (I think, not at home to check right now.) Cheap and I didn't expect much but it works great (far better than any Linksys or trendnet products I've purchased and run their firmware on.) I'll second that. I run a Buffalo Nfiniti WZR-HP-G300NH with openwrt installed. It is VLAN capable and has Gigabyte ethernet and b/g/n wifi. It also has a USB socket for extra disk storage if needed (or any other peripheral you fancy). It just sits in the corner and does its job. It is also very cheap. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 04:55:46 -0500, Dale wrote: I'll leave it like it is I guess. I like all the little green OK's that scroll up anyway. Reassuring, aren't they? What's bad is when something doesn't start for some reason and you don't know it didn't start. Then things start acting weird and you get a head scratcher. It's one reason I don't like the picture stuff that some people use that covers all that up. Even when I boot off a USB stick or CD, I hit F2 or whatever to see if everything I need is seen and ready. The picture stuff will switch to verbose if there's any errors in the bootup process, otherwise it's a nice graphical bootscreen and a progress bar. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS on. Just my personal opinion on LVM. This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or two, your photos etc. are irreplaceable. It does to me. I want to keep things so that if there is a problem, I know how to fix it or can at least get to a point that I can get help on it. If LVM fails and I can't boot, then I loose everything on LVM because I would have to reinstall from scratch. If it fails just on my data stuff, I can get help and fix it because I can still boot up and get to my email program. Also, I have the important stuff backed up to DVD. I would only loose things that I can download again. I would just rather avoid that and I'm sure ATT would agree. That's a lot of downloading. I have all my partitions on LVM except the boot partition. I've used LVM for more years than I could count and have *never* had a failure related to LVM. I backup my machines to an external drive (2 backup drives actually) using rsync. If I have a failure and cannot boot then I just put in my Gentoo Minimal CD (which has all the LVM tools available) and I can fix the damage. If the damage isn't fixable then I can just copy over the backups. LVM snapshots make live backups a breeze. Backups are always in a consistent state and I've tested them and they *work*. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] screen just saved my day!
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2011 05:44:17 Pandu Poluan wrote: Someone really should mention 'screen' in the handbook; that venerable tool just saved my day :) I was in the midst of 'emerge --update --newuse world' over SSH when my office had a 'temporary power failure'. Luckily, I had started a 'screen' session. When the power is restored 5 minutes later, I just re-attach the screen session, and all's well :) Rgds, Have a look here, under Section 3 - Leaving your Terminal: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml Regards, Mick I run a SheevaPlug with Gentoo installed. I use 'Screen' to talk to the SheevaPlug via its serial USB connection: # screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 This gets me to a login screen on the SheevaPlug. The serial USB connection is only used for installation and if the network connection to the SheevaPlug is unavailable for any reason. Screen should get a medal. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] non-root user switch gcc version ?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hi, many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler. Is there something similar in GenToo? Many thanks for a hint, $ gcc-config -h -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] non-root user switch gcc version ?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hi, many distributions have something like a 'switch' command such that an ordinary user can switch the version of his/her default gcc compiler. Is there something similar in GenToo? Many thanks for a hint, Forgive previous post. Didn't read it properly. I'm not aware of any user switching program but perhaps you can manually select your gcc profile by using /usr/bin/gcc-x.x.x rather than gcc. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hello, I cleanup up a system, per the postings to not use HAL. k3b does not work, but, I'll look for a fix for it later. I keep 2 kernels on this system. kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 and kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 the *36 does not work. I have copied it over from an identical system, build new kernels an still it fails with the verbiage listed in the title. Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your microcode built into the kernel. You need CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE, and provide the filenames of the firmware you require (in the form of a space delimited string) to run your graphics card. You also need CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR to tell the kernel where to find the microcode. Mine is set to /lib/firmware. Reboot and Running: xorg-server-1.9.2 ati-drivers-10.11 xorg-x11-7.4-r1 kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 with no hald all is fine? The old kernel was built with hal and hald running, if that makes a difference.? I don't think it has anything to do with HAL. Check to make sure if you are now running Kernel Modesetting where the previous kernel wasn't. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [drm] loading RV710 Microcode fails
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: Are you using kernel modesetting? If you are then you have to get your microcode built into the kernel. Not sure, can you be more specific on modesetting as grepping the /usr/src/linux/.config does not find anything, so I'm not exactly sure what modesetting refers to I run an ATI HD5660 graphics card and use the open source Radeon driver found in the kernel. When I select this driver, there's a second option about allowing kernel modesetting by default. I've found that 3D graphics and even the Xserver doesn't run on the 2.6.36 kernel unless Kernel Modesetting is selected. This driver requires microcode to be installed (emerge radeon-ucode). Now, I don't run an initramfs and because kernel modesetting requires that the kernel handle the framebuffer it loads the graphics driver before it has accessed any of the system's hard drives. This means that for the kernel to find the microcode it must be included when the kernel is compiled. I can't help you further as I'm not sure what graphics card you run, nor whether or not you're using the proprietary driver nor have you provided the context for the error message provided in the subject. Nothing undeer the Generic Driver section of the kernels I have been using has changed. The kernel worked before I began following web pages and notes from this list on removing hald and the hal flag from the system. I did rebuild the kernel-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 after these hal purge exercises began. I don't think HAL is your problem. Your kernel cannot find the microcode for your graphics card. See above. You need CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE, and provide the filenames of the firmware you require (in the form of a space delimited string) to run your graphics card. Here are the setting from .config, as they always have been: (I'd prefer not to use modsetting, unless provided a GOOD reason to use it?) CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=/sbin/hotplug # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= See CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=? This needs to be where you place your filenames for your kernel microcode required by your graphics card. You should also have: CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR= This should show the kernel the directory where your firmware is stored. Mine is in /lib/firmware. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Some people, such as myself, use kernel sources outside of portage (I follow a git repo) and do so as a non-root user. In this case the kernel tree is not owned by root and the config/compile is easily done as a non-root user. If you are super-paranoid. You can make a non-root copy of /usr/src/linux and compile it as a non-root user. But there really isn't any point in using sudo. It's effectively doing the same thing that you are trying to avoid. I agree there's no point in using sudo, but what's the problem? You don't need to edit the kernel sources merely to build a new kernel. You can build your kernel outside the tree using for example: make O=/home/user/kernel/tree/ menuconfig make O=/home/user/kernel/tree/ All files are put into the user's directory. All that's need is the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment variable set, so that drivers can find the kernel .config file etc. I've built my kernels like this for years now. All kernels are built by a specific user and then installed as root. No problem, no worries about permissions and no altering the portage installed kernel sources so that a purge (emerge -P gentoo-sources) will automatically remove the whole tree. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: I was trying to figure this out myself. I thought maybe I was missing something in the message. Maybe not. Isn't the list aggregated into that news site gmain or whatever its called? Then he can have it as a newsgroup. It's not the question how I read it, but a question how a majority of users can read and write to it. That influences the culture and athmosphere of communication. Also I think Volkers remark was very ironical else he should best go back to his dishes. Al up until today nobody ever mentioned news. Everybody was happy using mailing lists, forums or irc. I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address. Or to phrase it differently: news is dying out quickly and gentoo never missed anything not having a newsgroups. Usenet is dying because it doesn't attract new users. The old ones are slowly dying out. If usenet dies I'll use something else. No problem. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address. Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a posting? Easy to set up? How? More or less. Instead of press f to reply in slrn I press r and slrn starts up Mutt and my favourite text editor. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning:/usr/tmp/portage
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010, James wrote: Hello, What the usual admin cycle/tools/habits for pruning /usr/tmp/portage for a Gentoo workstation or server? James tmpfs 8,0G 0 8,0G 0% /var/tmp/portage thus with every reboot all the garbage is done. uptime 19:44:45 up 2:39, 12 users, load average: 0.31, 0.19, 0.18 there is no need to keep the box running while I am at work... I'd like to see you emerge openoffice from source with that setup. I reckon you'd need around 8Gb of memory to do the job. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix messed up KDE menu icons?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I have a broken Firefox-3 reference in my KDE favorites menu. Is there a tool to fix these broken items because I haven't found one. If you are on KDE 4.x then: emerge kde-base/kmenuedit Then type: kmenuedit That should be all you need. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix messed up KDE menu icons?
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I have a broken Firefox-3 reference in my KDE favorites menu. Is there a tool to fix these broken items because I haven't found one. In another message I suggested kmenuedit. I missed the bit about the favourites menu. You should be able to remove it with a right click onto the context menu. There should be an entry to delete the menu item selected. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xchat fails
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' libpng is installed: /usr/lib$eix libpng [I] media-libs/libpng Available versions: (1.2) 1.2.44 (0) 1.4.3 Installed versions: 1.2.44(1.2)(06:16:49 PM 07/01/2010) 1.4.3(06:15:21 PM 07/01/2010) Checking the lib directory, I find: /usr/lib/$ls libpng* libpng12.so.0 libpng14.a libpng14.la libpng14.so libpng14.so.14 libpng14.so.14.3.0 libpng.a libpng.la libpng.so Any suggestions on how I go about fixing this? Have you run: # lafilefixer --justfixit It looks like the libpng update has removed /usr/lib/libpng12.la and /usr/lib/libpng.la is probably referencing this file. lafilefixer should fix this. You're running with both libpng 1.2 and libpng 1.4 installed. May I suggest you read: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update Do you keep a log of emerge messages so that you can fix these issues as they arise? The file /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example gives examples of how to store all messages generated during an emerge update. These messages can save you a lot of grief later on. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't get accelerated opengl renderer ati radeon xpress 200M
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: GentooPenguin# /usr/sbin/lspci | grep Radeon 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] Yesssir! o_0 tony # lspci | grep Radeon 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] Are you sure your opengl libraries are being found in /usr/lib/opengl? Maybe we could compare this information: o_0 opengl # ls -lh /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/ total 352K lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-08 02:46 libGL.so - libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-04-08 02:46 libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.1.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 345K 2010-04-08 02:45 libGL.so.1.2 Hmmm here's mine: GentooPenguin$ ls -lh /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/ total 392K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 723 2010-04-04 22:22 libGL.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-04 22:22 libGL.so - libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-04-04 22:22 libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.1.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 383K 2010-04-04 22:22 libGL.so.1.2 Note the libGL.la file. I wonder where yours has got to, or if it's necessary for proper operation. When I check which package produces this file I get: GentooPenguin$ /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6 $ equery belongs libGL.la [ Searching for file(s) libGL.la in *... ] media-libs/mesa-7.5.2 (/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.la) You're running a newer version of mesa aren't you? Perhaps it doesn't produce this file. o_0 opengl # ldd /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2 linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7851000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb77ce000) libXxf86vm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xb77c8000) libXdamage.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb77c4000) libXfixes.so.3 = /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb77be000) libX11-xcb.so.1 = /opt/gfx-test/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0xb77ba000) libX11.so.6 = /opt/gfx-test/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb769d000) libxcb-glx.so.0 = /usr/lib/libxcb-glx.so.0 (0xb768a000) libxcb.so.1 = /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb766f000) libdrm.so.2 = /opt/gfx-test/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb7664000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb763e000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7624000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb762) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb74d8000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb74d4000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb74ce000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb74c4000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7852000) Why are libX11-xcb.so.1, libX11.so.6, libdrm.so.2 in the /opt/gfx-test/lib directory rather than in /usr/lib as they are on my machine? o_0 opengl # ls -lh /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ total 388K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K 2010-04-05 18:13 libdri2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38K 2010-04-05 18:13 libdri.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 327K 2010-04-05 18:13 libglx.so The same as on my machine, but you need links from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions for each of these files. Have you done: GentooPenguin# eselect opengl set xorg-x11 Sometimes this works. o_0 opengl # ldd /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri2.so linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7837000) libdrm.so.2 = /opt/gfx-test/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb780c000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb77e6000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb77dd000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7695000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7838000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb767b000) o_0 opengl # ldd /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb773b000) libdrm.so.2 = /opt/gfx-test/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb770b000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb76e5000) librt.so.1 = /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb76dc000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7594000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb773c000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb757a000) Again there are links to libs in /opt/gfx-test that aren't on my machine. Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter 0 Driver radeon Option AccelMethod EXA BusID PCI:1:5:0 EndSection I tried copying yours. It all worked except it couldn't find the 'xtrap' module. Oh dear! Neither can mine: (EE) Failed to load module xtrap (module does not exist, 0) I'd better remove it from my xorg.conf. Didn't make a difference though. Still have no accelerated rendering and nothing in /dev/dri. Really odd. Have you re-emerged all the drivers found in /var/db/pkg/x11-drivers? I'm starting to stab in the dark here. What does glxinfo | grep render say for you? direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL Do you have this section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Have you followed
Re: [gentoo-user] can't get accelerated opengl renderer ati radeon xpress 200M
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: GentooPenguin# /usr/sbin/lspci | grep Radeon 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -19 (etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc) (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI. Well the directory /dev/dri/ is empty, so there you go. Hmmm... Mine has an entry for card0: GentooPenguin# ls -l /dev/dri crw-rw 1 root video 226, 0 2010-04-08 17:42 card0 Are you sure your opengl libraries are being found in /usr/lib/opengl? I used to run the ATI proprietary driver and switched to the open Radeon driver and remember some fiddling was required in this directory, possibly a symlink pointing in the wrong direction. What does the command eselect opengl list show you? Mine tells me that the xorg-x11 driver is being used. I have these package versions: xorg-server 1.7.6 mesa 7.8 libdrm 2.4.19 xf86-video-ati 6.12.192 xorg-drivers 1.7 I'm running: xorg-server 1.6.5-r1 mesa7.5.2 libdrm 2.4.15 xf86-video-ati 6.12.5 xorg-drivers1.6 I have drm set in my kernel too: t...@o_0 ~ $ zgrep DRM /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DRM=m CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m CONFIG_DRM_TTM=m # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I830 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I915 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set # CONFIG_DRM_VIA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_CH7006 is not set GentooPenguin$ zgrep DRM /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DRM=m # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I830 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I915 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set # CONFIG_DRM_VIA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE is not set and this dmesg output appears to indicate that its working ok: [ 53.428828] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 53.642115] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting. [ 53.642122] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. But glxgears only gets about 19 fps. Here is what glxinfo | grep OpenGL reports: I get: 1438 frames in 5.0 seconds = 287.483 FPS Not really screaming along, but adequate for my needs. Section Module Load record Load extmod Load dri Load glx Load GLcore Load dri2 Load dbe EndSection My xorg.conf shows: Section Module Load extmod Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load glx EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option ShadowFB# [bool] #Option DefaultRefresh # [bool] #Option ModeSetClearScreen # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] BusID PCI:1:5:0 Option MergedFB true Option CRT2Position LeftOf Option ColorTiling true Option EnablePageFliptrue #Option AccelMethod EXA #Option AccelDFS true EndSection My Device Section: Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter 0 Driver radeon Option AccelMethod EXA BusID PCI:1:5:0 EndSection If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Would posting to the xorg or radeon mailing lists be good places for help as well? I hope this helps. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I wrote: Shawn Haggett writes: Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following happens: sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv [...] /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment: line 3924: cd: /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0 -2 1-fixes/mythtv: No such file or directory sed: can't read /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0 -2 1-fixes/mythtv/version.pro: No such file or directory [...] I just had the same problem with a fresh install of mythtv. I tried other versions, 0.21_p19961-r2 showed the same problem, but 0.21_p20877 did compile. So give that one a try. Now python-updater wants to rebuild mythtv, and fails to do so because of the missing version.pro. Same version which built before. The ebuild's date is from july 20th, some days before I emerged it, so there was no silent change. Strange. But for the moment I don't care, no time yet to play with mythtv. BTW, the expected .../work/mythtv-0.21_p20877/version.pro can be found in .../work/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythtv/version.pro. I had the same problem. What I've done is to remove ~x86 from mythtv in /etc/portage/package.keywords and then rerun the python updater on the older stable mythtv version (0.21_p18314-r1). The compile completed successfully. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Roger Mason writes: I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: [...] Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for the specific application that needs it but then revert to 4.1.1 without having to re-compile all or most of my system? I'm pretty sure you can. Emerge gcc 4.3, activate it with gcc-config, compile your application, and use gcc-config again to revert back to 4.1 if you like. Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems. Wonko he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be done. But seriously, why staying with 4.1? it's old... and 4.3 was a nice release... Well, for me, media-plugins/mytharchive won't compile with gcc 4.3. Hopefully things will change with the next mythtv release. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com said: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has t= o be=20 done. But seriously, why staying with 4.1? it's old... and 4.3 was a nice rel= ease... =20 Well, for me, media-plugins/mytharchive won't compile with gcc 4.3. Hopefully things will change with the next mythtv release. Please file a bug so we actually know about the problem and can fix it :) https://bugs.gentoo.org/ Have a look at this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/240379 It describes how mytharchive-0.21_p17948 requires an earlier version of mjpegtools (1.80) than the portage 1.90 version. mjpegtools-1.80 won't compile on gcc-4.3. Perhaps I didn't make myself completely clear when I said that mytharchive won't compile using gcc 4.3. It's mjpegtools 1.80 (required by mytharchive) that won't compile using gcc 4.3. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 */usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so * * Package 'x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2, Log file: microway ~ # portageq owners / /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so Doing portageq owners / /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so gets the following response: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so Suggestions for how to successfully emerge -D -uav world would be much appreciated. G'day John, I had the problem on a 32 bit machine and just removed the offending file: rm /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so I then proceeded with the emerge of the ati-driver. It's discussed here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/247685 I hope this helps. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Hi, I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but then it gets garbled again. I am using nvidia-drivers 96.XX for legacy reasons. One of my machines runs a GeForce4 card and uses the legacy 96.XX drivers. Anybody got a clue how to fix this? Do I need to change something in xorg.conf? I had the same problems with font smudging in *all* programs and on the kde desktop. It was almost impossible to even read the start menu. I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: In 20090415113152.ga11...@pacific.net.au zek...@gmail.com (Gregory Shearman) writes: I solved the problem by adding nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86) to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The latest 96.XX driver was installed which was 96.43.11 You do need: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.00.00 in /etc/portage/package.mask so that the latest (~x86) 96.XX driver will be installed. I'm not sure if it will work for you, but maybe it's work a try. Thanks for the tip. Do I need to rebuild anything but nvidia-drivers? No, I just added the nvidia drivers line to /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged the nvidia-drivers. I hope it works for you. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?
Marc Blumentritt wrote: I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are written an screen above (for lack of a better word) my splash. When the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach Starting XDM the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running. I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7. The problem is with your linuxrc file in the initrd (you are using genkernel to build your initrd, right?) There's a mistake in the section which parses the kernel command line so that it misses the CONSOLE=tty1 bit... causing it to write all over the splash screen. There's already a bug report (#232012) on this filed in july and I've supplied information about how to work around this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232012 Let's hope the genkernel developers get the time to fix this. -- Regards, Gregory.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Gregory Shearman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some random java ebuild. Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see: Total: 14 packages (14 upgrades), Size of downloads: 99,898 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes Verifying ebuild Manifests... !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification !!! Got: 751637964edd458f00c9c72de8f5375eabaf9004 !!! Expected: c7268656bf1adccafde5dd9c1104c5a12905b1dc treat init.d # I've tried deleting the offending file and re-syncing, but the same error occurs. Help??? ++ kevin https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215288 [] Workaround: remove EBUILD line from Manifest remove /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild [...] Things have moved quickly. The workaround did not work for me, but before I got to post a complaint about it, the PowersThatBe somehow pushed good copies of the portage tree out to the mirrors, and things seem to be working again. The workaround worked for me but I had to get rid of the Changelog ( and remove it from the Manifest) as well. It was also corrupted. emerge worked fine after that. I'll do another sync later in the week. Thanks, though. It was an interesting education. Yep. Gentoo is like that. -- Regards, Gregory. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers
James wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes:
NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers.
The FX card ist even supported by the latest drivers!
Yep I got this one(FX 5200) working with the lastest driver.
The Gf2 based ones are supported by the 7186 drivers - which are even in
portage.
Hmmm,
I'm using 2.6.24-gentoo-r3.
Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.01
snip
*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***
make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1
*
* ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.01 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3558: Called linux-mod_src_compile
* environment, line 2624: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake HOSTCC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC) CC=$(get-KERNEL_CC)
LDFLAGS=$(get_abi_LDFLAGS) ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS}
${BUILD_TARGETS} || die Unable to make ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS}
${BUILD_TARGETS}.;
* The die message:
* Unable to make IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux
SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r3/build clean module.
I've never seen this before
Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the
kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify
their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or
the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
So where/how do I set the SYSSRC variable?
Or is something else wrong?
I had the same problem going from 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 to 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 using
the legacy nvida 96.43.01 driver. The masked 96,43.05 driver works on the new
kernel,but it is unstable on my old Geforce MX 440 card.
What I did discover was a nasty hack to get the old driver to recognise the
new kernel version:
# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-x86 /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386
( This assumes that /usr/src/linux points to the new kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r3)
It looks like the kernel devs are trying to update references to the include
asm files and the nvidia devs are yet to catch up. Maybe one day nvidia will
release its driver specs and save itself a lot of trouble and money building
catchup linux drivers. Maybe hell will also freeze over on that day.
Hope this helps.
--
Regards,
Gregory.
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some random java ebuild. Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see: Total: 14 packages (14 upgrades), Size of downloads: 99,898 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes Verifying ebuild Manifests... !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification !!! Got: 751637964edd458f00c9c72de8f5375eabaf9004 !!! Expected: c7268656bf1adccafde5dd9c1104c5a12905b1dc treat init.d # I've tried deleting the offending file and re-syncing, but the same error occurs. Help??? ++ kevin https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215288 [] Workaround: remove EBUILD line from Manifest remove /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild [...] -- Regards, Gregory. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x - tainted driver 96.43.05 causes X crash sig 11 - Kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r3
Last week I upgraded the kernel on one of my 5 year old Pentium 4 desktop machines to 2.6.24-gentoo-r3. Kernel compilation went fine as usual but when I tried to emerge the current (x86) binary nVidia driver [96.43.01] for its GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x graphics card it failed with an error message that the it couldn't determine the kernel version. The graphics card is around 5-7 years old and won't run on later 1xx.xx.xx versions of the binary blob, so I'd masked the driver to: /etc/portage/package.mask/nvidia-drivers =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-97.00.00 == The driver worked fine on the previous kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r9. The solution was to do what I've always done for binary blobs (nvidia,ati,madwifi-ng etc) and add: /etc/portage/package.keywords x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~86 == This allowed me to go from 96.43.01 to 96.43.05. Unfortunately, even though the driver compiled fine and started without error this driver proved to be unstable on my machine and graphics hardware. X (1.3.0-r5) failed on KDE logout with: /etc/var/log/Xorg.0.log: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x85) [0x80c7c57] 1: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so(_nv001216X+0xe5) [0xb71d6711] 2: [0x1] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting === Maybe running the uvesafb framebuffer and fbcondecor (livecd-2007.0 theme) has something to do with the sigsegv problems on just this particular driver version but I knew that I couldn't run this driver. I did a bit of research and found an ugly hack to get the 96.43.01 driver working on kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 so I changed the mask to: /etc/portage/package.mask/nvidia-drivers x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.01 = I then worked the dark magic: # ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-x86 /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 (/usr/src/linux points to the new kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r3) == I reemerged nvidia-drivers and the hack worked. I got the reliable 96.43.01 driver working again, though with some concerns about future reliability. There might be other changes within the kernel 2.6.24 that driver 96.43.01 doesn't know about that could cause me some grief in the future, but for now it works fine. Now a week later I find that portage has released the nvidia binary driver 96.43.05 as stable on x86. I allowed it to emerge, but it still had the X killing problem when logging out of KDE. Some of the things I've read suggest nvidia have been informed of this specific problem but I was wondering if there's any more information around about this issue? I know the card is getting old and perhaps I should use the open nv driver, but the card usually works really well with the binary blob. I would also like to know if these problems were known to the Gentoo devs when they released 96.43.05 as stable on x86. -- Regards, Gregory. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
