Re: [gentoo-user] Acer 5103 WLMi laptop
Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Ian Porter wrote: Hi All, I have just purchased an new Acer laptop, 5103 WLMi and I am using gentoo on my desktop machine but would like to have an dual boot on the laptop as well. I had good luck going to http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:Hardware and looking at laptops generally similar to mine. Looks like there's a bit of info on the 5102 WLMi, and links to other sites that might have useful additional info. I also found it useful to put up my notes on my own laptop there, in case other people would find it useful, and so that I could find info again. Thanks very much.. shall read up on it :) Ian W: www.codingfriends.com -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Acer 5103 WLMi laptop
Hi All, I have just purchased an new Acer laptop, 5103 WLMi and I am using gentoo on my desktop machine but would like to have an dual boot on the laptop as well. I have tried the am64 since it dual turion 64 processors, but get kernel panics. Was just wondering if there is any advice on what install CD to use and also any advice on setup (wireless broadcom BCM 41xx series) and also if there is any major binaries that I could use to get the system up and running without the laptop burning up from compiling ? (KDE binaries preferably) Purchased from (http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-8758.aspx) Thanks Ian W: www.codingfriends.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
Hi
> Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a
> howto I was pointed at:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder
>
Not sure how much of a help it is, but ages ago I was playing about with
linux avi/mpeg - dvd ripping etc.. and did write up a couple of notes on the
matter and placed on my site. Again not sure how much help they are, was
doing it in 2005 but now do not rip dvd's anymore since dvd's are cheaper
now than cd to backup incase of any scratches.
http://www.designersoft.co.uk/tutorials/tutorialroom/1-1.html
Thanks
Ian
> I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes:
>
> 1:
>
> mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf
> crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts
> subq=4:bframes=4:b_pyramid:weight_b:pass=1:psnr:bitrate=4452:threads=2:turbo=1>
> -oac copy -ofps 24000/1001 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0
> -slang en -o pass1.avi
>
> 2 (which whines about not finding the log file, so I have to rename
> divx2pass.log.temp to divx2pass.log manually -- donchya love having to
> figure things out):
>
> mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf
> crop=720:352:0:62,spp,scale,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc x264 -x264encopts
>
subq=5:4x4mv:8x8dct:frameref=3:me=2:bframes=4:b_pyramid:pass=2:psnr:bitrate=4450:threads=3>
-oac faac -faacopts object=0:tns:quality=100 -ofps 24000/1001 -o
> pass2.avi
>
> However there is a problem with pass 2. I have tried this on two
> seperate systems, and the exact same thing happens:
>
> MEncoder 1.0pre8-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model:
> 13, Stepping: 8)
> MMX2 supported but disabled
> CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> 93 audio & 211 video codecs
> init_freetype
> get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/sgtphou/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
> font: can't open file: /home/sgtphou/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
> Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay
> [file] File size is 7733315584 bytes
> STREAM:
> [file]
> /home/sgtphou/fire-eyes/temp/mencoder/xmen-2/title1/vob/title1.vob
> STREAM: Description: File
> STREAM: Author: Albeu
> STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
> success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xccf10800
> Checking for YUV4MPEG2
> ASF_check: not ASF guid!
> Checking for NuppelVideo
> Checking for REAL
> Checking for SMJPEG
> Searching demuxer type for
> filename
> /home/sgtphou/fire-eyes/temp/mencoder/xmen-2/title1/vob/title1.vob
> ext: .vob
> Trying demuxer 2 based on filename extension
> system stream synced at 0xD (13)!
> ==> Found video stream: 0
> ==> Found audio stream: 131
> ==> Found audio stream: 128
> ==> Found audio stream: 137
> ==> Found audio stream: 132
> ==> Found audio stream: 133
> ==> Found audio stream: 130
> MPEG Stream reached EOF
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
> MPEG-PS file format detected.
> ==> Found subtitle: 0
> ==> Found subtitle: 1
> ==> Found subtitle: 2
> ==> Found subtitle: 3
> ==> Found subtitle: 4
> ==> Found subtitle: 5
> ==> Found subtitle: 6
> ==> Found subtitle: 7
> Searching for sequence header... OK!
> VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0
> kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x1002 size:720x480 fps:29.97
> ftime:=0.0334
> ==
> Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
> dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer.
> dec_audio: Allocating 6144 + 65536 = 71680 bytes for output buffer.
> Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
> AC3: 2.0 (dolby) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s
> A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x2A
> A52 flags after a52_frame: 0xA
> Using MMX optimized resampler
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
> ==
> Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
> Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.00, round: 1
> Opening video filter: [hqdn3d=2:1:2]
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
> Opening video filter: [spp]
> Opening video filter: [crop w=720 h=352 x=0 y=62]
> Crop: 720 x 352, 0 ; 62
> ==
> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
> [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
> Trying filter chain: crop spp scale hqdn3d expand x264
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
> Trying filter chain: scale crop spp scale hqdn3d expand x264
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> Try adding the scale filter, e.
Re: [gentoo-user] Yipes I lost the ability to smb:// browse
Hi On Wednesday 08 February 2006 21:24, Harry Putnam wrote: > Crosspost Alert: gmane.linux.gentoo.use gmane.comp.kde.general > > Setup: Gentoo linux (kernel 2.6.15-r3) >kde-3.5 > > I don't use konquerors ability to browse a network with smb protocol > to often, but it has always been there when I did want to. Today I > tried for the first time in probably a mnth or so and I get this message: > `Protocol not supported'. I had an similar problem with samba when I update the samba version, found out that samba users was not re-created. (/etc/samba/smbusers) thus I just smdpasswd HTH Ian > > I did a big update recently and this is the first time using smb > since. Samba is running and I can smbclient -L //host and see all the > shares but smb://host/share just gets that message in konq. > > Where should I start looking to fix this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004
Hi > Hey everybody, > > Â This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this > one out. Â I can't emerge UT2004. Â I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom > (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time > to umount and mount the second CD. Â It simply tries (and thinks it > has success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied > the data from CD1 six times. > I installed this game with the DVD, a tad easier, but I think that if you make an directory and copy each disk to an separate directory (should be on the main disk the directory structure I believe) and then set the CD_ROOT to the main directory. That should work. HTH Ian > This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on > linux, so any help would be appreciated. Â Thanks. > > - > Steve B. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge R
Hi, On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:30, Ian Porter wrote: > Hi, > > > You should definitely use these drivers - they're excellent. I'm sure > > that once you `emerge rt2500` your problems will be resolved. The name > > of the interface will change from wlan0 to ra0, so you'll need to > > rename your init.d script & edit /etc/conf.d/net or > > /etc/conf.d/wireless > > Thanks, the rt2500 will be installed once I am back online at home. Just to say thanks for all of the help and advice on this problem, once I had done an module-rebuild rebuild and also re-emerge wpa_supplicant, everything is working fine :). thanks again I did try to get the rt2500, but * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options: * SMP Processors and Kernels are currently not supported .config file = CONFIG_SMP=y I am going to stay with the ndiswrapper at present and keep on checking out the rt2500 driver in the future. Thanks again Ian > > Thanks again. > Ian > > > Stroller. > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge R
Hi, > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:03 am, Ian Porter wrote: >> >> ...I am running ndiswrapper (forgot >> the version because I am at work at present), but using rt2500.inf for >> the >> windows drivers. I am thinking about trying out the rtx00 drivers, >> has anyone had these drivers working ok ? > > You should definitely use these drivers - they're excellent. I'm sure > that once you `emerge rt2500` your problems will be resolved. The name > of the interface will change from wlan0 to ra0, so you'll need to > rename your init.d script & edit /etc/conf.d/net or > /etc/conf.d/wireless Thanks, the rt2500 will be installed once I am back online at home. Thanks again. Ian > > Stroller. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge R
Hi, >> Oh soz, thought that "R" meant re-compile. sorry. > > it does mean recompile, however what your saying is: > emerge -p = compile newest stable version of package > > and if the newest stable version is the one you've already got, then it > will "Recompile" it. K, cheers, I am still learning :). >> > It might be helpful if you supply the exact command you're trying to >> > use, and a sample of the output. It may be that you should be doing >> > something slightly different. >> >> umm.. I am not at the PC at the minute, but I think it is something >> like iwconfig wlan0 up > > I was referring to the emerge commands, but you seem to have that > sorted out now. > >> to bring up the wlan0 with the ndiswrapper (I assume ?) and it is >> stopping on this, > > now that you've mentioned it though, if you still want to try the ndis > version and not wait for the rt2500 package, then you have to > 1. install ndiswrapper (of course :) > 2. load your inf file from windows (I'll leave it up to you to find out > which one :) > 3. load it (modprobe ndiswrapper) > 4. then set essid, key, etc with iwconfig > 5. then do ifconfig wlan0 ... (or dhcp) Ok, thanks, I have already done this before because it was working. But I am not sure why it is not now, I shall have to check my emerge logs for the passed week and see what is in there that could effect this. (sorry for saying the obvious, of which I should have done last night) > OO is fine to upgrade, if a little large. I use the openoffice-bin > (version 2) and it works great! yeah that is the version and I am impressed with that as well :). > >> btw do you use wpa_supplicant >> with the rt2500 driver ? > > no, I've been meaning to for a while, so it's on my list of "been > meaning to's" Cheers once I am back online, I may see if the rt2500 driver works with wpa_supplicant because that is how I am/was using ndiswrapper with. Thanks for all of the help Ian > cya, > -- > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge R
Hi Iain :) > Hi Ian, Iain here! > > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 08:03 +0000, Ian Porter wrote: >> > >> > I am just wondering if there is an option within emerge that will >> > tell me which packages need to be re-compiled >> > [ R ] > > recompiled? generally you don't need to "recompile" packages. Oh soz, thought that "R" meant re-compile. sorry. > yup, I'm using the rt2500-1.1.0_beta3. Funnily, I couldn't get the > download from the web to work but the gentoo emerge worked, thanks > gentoo!! lspci for me shows: Great, I shall download that with gentoo (thanks from me as well for when I am :) > > $ lspci > :00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus > Reference Card (rev 01) > > $ lspci -n > :00:08.0 Class 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01) > >> > Because I have just updated the wpa_supplicant and now my wireless >> > card is not working but found out that baselayout, ndiswrapper and >> > wpa_supplicant are all saying that they need to be re-compiled, but >> > everytime that I re-emerge them >> > emerge wpa_supplicant, it still says that it is needs to be >> > re-compiled. > > It might be helpful if you supply the exact command you're trying to > use, and a sample of the output. It may be that you should be doing > something slightly different. umm.. I am not at the PC at the minute, but I think it is something like iwconfig wlan0 up to bring up the wlan0 with the ndiswrapper (I assume ?) and it is stopping on this, the pc just hangs and I have to restart the pc(button on case :() have not tried ssh'ing to see if it is just the console that is hanging, I should have really tried that as well soz. > Everything will say it needs to be recompiled if you say > `emerge -p ` > however, what you probably want to do is > `emerge -up ` > oh ok, thanks I was wondering why most packages appear to be needing re-compiling. thanks. > This tells you there is a new version available. Provided you've done > `emerge --sync` Yeah, I usually do this most days :) > > even better would be > `emerge -upD world` > followed by a > `revdep-rebuild` > if kernel / gcc / major things like that have changed. > I have done this as well, and only got the OO package, but with the information from someone else on this list (thanks but forgot your name), I shall not have OO in the revdep-rebuild list :) >> > I am not able to sort out the problem until next week, but thought >> > that I would ask so that I have a few things to check out once I am >> > back online. > > Sorry if you know all this already, I'm kinda guessing as to what > you're trying to do. > Yeah, thanks, I shall try the rt2500 version instead of ndiswrapper to see if that is able to bring up the wireless card, btw do you use wpa_supplicant with the rt2500 driver ? Thanks Ian > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R
Hi, > Ian Porter wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am just wondering if there is an option within emerge that will tell >> me which packages need to be re-compiled >> [ R ] > > try: > module-rebuild list > (and change list to rebuild if you want to rebuild them) > > This will give you the packages that needs to be rebuilt when the > kernel change. But it _wont_ give you what packages needs to be > rebuilt now. Ok, thanks never run that before, but I have upgraded the kernel a couple of weeks ago to 2.6.13r3 (I think, the latest one in the stable version), I shall run that once I am back on the PC at the weekend (but without the internet until next week :( ) > > try: > revdep-rebuild > to see what packages needs to be rebuilt due to broken deps. > I only get Open Office, of which thanks to someone else on this list, has said how to tell revdep-rebuild not to include this program. Thanks Ian > -- > Naga > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge R
Hi, > Hi All, > > I am just wondering if there is an option within emerge that will tell > me which packages need to be re-compiled > [ R ] > Soz, forgot to say that the wpa_supplicant is now 0.3.9 and I have tried going back to 0.3.8, but both do not work. I am running ndiswrapper (forgot the version because I am at work at present), but using rt2500.inf for the windows drivers. I am thinking about trying out the rtx00 drivers, has anyone had these drivers working ok ? Thanks Ian > Because I have just updated the wpa_supplicant and now my wireless card > is not working but found out that baselayout, ndiswrapper and > wpa_supplicant are all saying that they need to be re-compiled, but > everytime that I re-emerge them > emerge wpa_supplicant, it still says that it is needs to be > re-compiled. > > I am not able to sort out the problem until next week, but thought that > I would ask so that I have a few things to check out once I am back > online. > > Cheers > Ian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge R
Hi All, I am just wondering if there is an option within emerge that will tell me which packages need to be re-compiled [ R ] Because I have just updated the wpa_supplicant and now my wireless card is not working but found out that baselayout, ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant are all saying that they need to be re-compiled, but everytime that I re-emerge them emerge wpa_supplicant, it still says that it is needs to be re-compiled. I am not able to sort out the problem until next week, but thought that I would ask so that I have a few things to check out once I am back online. Cheers Ian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newcomer: Nvidia from GRP and MX4000
Hi On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:55, Alan E. Davis wrote: > On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card. > > I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the > Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far. > > Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel driver and > nvidia-glx. > Xorg -configure > then > X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > I also did "modprobe nvidia" > > I am receiving the message > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! I did not use the Xorg -configure, but these are the first things that I check to make sure that there is the following lines within your /etc/X11/xorg.conf For the nvidia drivers Section "Device" Identifier "nvidiaCard" Driver "nvidia" EndSection And there should be a link within the screen section to your (mine) nvidiaCard Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "nvidiaCard" . This is my section for the Module, for the nvidia cards you need to unselect the dri module and include the glx. Section "Module" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" #Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "type1" EndSection If you have these options created then make sure there is the /etc/modules.d/nvidia file, mine has # Nvidia drivers support alias char-major-195 nvidia alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 within it (if you have to add it do an modules-update) HTH Ian > > Then the process aborted. > > I haven't found (yet) any suggestions, except to install a newer version of > the nvidia-kernel. > > I fear I will have to upgrade the whole system now, once I can get online, > which may be days away. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Alan Davis > > > > > > -- > ~/.signature -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] printing - via windows PC
Hi all, I am trying to print on my linux pc via a windows xp pro pc (the printer is a HP 1110 PSC), but I have followed the advice on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_print_winserver but keep on either getting NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED message via the smb url or ERRDOS via the lpd method. I have tried to have the smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pcname/printer and also my smb://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pcname/printer (with also the lpd version) but that does not work either, I just get either access denied or just sticks at 21% printer (on the test printer part of cups) and then it says that the pc is not available, /var/log/cups/error_log [Job 1] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED [Job 1] ERRDOS - ERRbadaccess (Invalid open mode.) opening remote spool Te st Page /etc/cups/printers.conf DeviceURI smb://NAME/HP1110 I have turned off any firewall that was on the windows pc (just incase) but still no joy. Any advice ? I used to have the Linux machine as the print server, but found that my wife was using the printer far more than me thus made more sense to have the printer on her pc, if I log onto windows on my pc the printer works fine so it is shared *ok* as such. Thanks Ian PC - 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 CUPS - 1.1.23 SAMBA - 3.0.14a -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
