[gentoo-user] OT: Combining two MoBos...
Hi, this is a shot/question into the dark: Suppose I would have two identical motherboards (desktop), both identical equipped with a multi-core CPU each (AMD). Two questions: 1: Is it possible to run one of the boards without a graphics card? 2: Can I combine both (how?) to use the power of both for rendering purposes? Thank you very much for any inspiration! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Endless mysql-update
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-01-10 18:17]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, since some time I got the same mysql update displayed after doing eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world . How can I stop mysql from this ? Best regards, mcc I don't use the package but this may help. Have you ran revdep-rebuild lately? If that comes back clean and it does it even if you haven't re-synced, then maybe it is a bug or something. Dale :-) :-) Hi, revdep comes without problems. This evening mysql was again to be updated... But I dont think, that this is a bug. I do more tend to believe that it is something... Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] vlc oddities
Hi, I am using vlc (beside other things) to watch dvb-t using this hardware (according lspci) 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) . I call vlc like vlc channels.conf When changing channels with n and p there are positions in the range of channels, where vlc gets stuck. Example Start Keyresults in with chn. channel no.: 1 n 2 (video ok,vlc running ok) 2 n 3 (video ok,vlc running ok) 3 n 3 (image freezes,vlc stucks) n 5 (video ok,vlc running ok) 5 p 4 (video ok,vlc running ok) 4 n 5 (video ok,vlc running ok) 5 n 6 (video ok,vlc running ok) 6 n(image freezes,vlc stucks) n(image freezes,vlc stucks) 8 p 7 (video ok,vlc running ok) 7 p 6 (video ok,vlc running ok) ... I didnt find any logical link between the channel number, the corresponding entry in channels.conf and whether the channel is directly selectable while stepping with n or only selectable via np forward-backward stepping. With vlc-1.0.0 I didnt have this problems, after that all versions of vlc shows this unwanted behaviour. Unfortunately vlc-1.0.0 didn't compile anymore beside other reasons to not to install it. Does anyone else have this experienced and - may be - knows a solution ? Have a nice weekend! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -amp;amp;gt; txt
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [11-01-10 01:41]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: I explored the manual of that tool (pdftk) but didnt find any hint of converting pdf ot txt. Please, give me one little, a keyword, only an option which I can search for in the documentation to find out how to convert pdf to txt with pdftk. Maybe this page can help? http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/ Maybe pdftk is not the right tool for your needs? If all you want to do is convert a pdf to text, just use acroread (as previously suggested): There is a button at the top to save out the pdf file into a txt file --File--Save as Text cya, James Hi James, I asked here for a tool to convert from pdf to txt. I had to recompile the gcc (missing USE-flag) to install pdftk. This effort only to get said: Maybe pdftk is not the right tool for your needs?
[gentoo-user] Endless mysql-update
Hi, since some time I got the same mysql update displayed after doing eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world . How can I stop mysql from this ? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] FATAL: unsupported DVB API Version 5.2
Hi, while I trying to create an new channels.conf with w_scan -ft -c DE as root I received the following output: solfire:/rootw_scan -ft -c DE w_scan version 20090918 (compiled for DVB API 5.0) using settings for GERMANY DVB aerial DVB-T Europe frontend_type DVB-T, channellist 4 output format vdr-1.6 Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 - DVB-T Zarlink MT352 DVB-T: good :-) Using DVB-T frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) -_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ Using DVB API 5.2 frontend Zarlink MT352 DVB-T supports INVERSION_AUTO QAM_AUTO TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO HIERARCHY_AUTO FEC_AUTO -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Scanning 7MHz frequencies... 177500: (time: 00:00) set_frontend:1694: FATAL: unsupported DVB API Version 5.2 from this output one see that the API differ. I tried to reemerge media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-headers media-tv/dvbtuneo but this did not help. I am runnning linux-2.6.37 vanilla. How can I bring up w_scan to DVB API Version 5.2 ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regard and have a nice weekend! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -amp;gt; txt
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [11-01-08 17:16]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: Can you give me a hint, how to create ASCII text from pdf files The simpliest method is to install app-text/acroread There is a button at the top to save out the pdf file into an txt file --File--Save as Text Other tools, such as the one I mentioned previously, have greater capability, but need to be 'explored' and 'researched' and 'tested' by the potential user. hth, James Hi James, I explored the manual of that tool (pdftk) but didnt find any hint of converting pdf ot txt. Please, give me one little, a keyword, only an option which I can search for in the documentation to find out how to convert pdf to txt with pdftk. Thank you so much in advance for any help regarding this! Best regards and have a nice weekend! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -gt; txt
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [11-01-07 04:03]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). app-text/pdftk http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Is very cool for all things PDF on linux. hth, James Hi James, I think I need an additional help... Can you give me a hint, how to create ASCII text from pdf files (as mentioned in my initial mail) with pdftk? Thank you very much in advance fro your help! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] pdf - txt
Hi, I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). What tool/s are worth being tried out for this task? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-04 17:28]: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:04 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Very last question: Is there any way to test what font looks best without haveing to boot each time ? setfont Hi all, thank you very much for your help again! Now I have a beautiful console! Long lives Linux! ;) Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvidia-drivers :) Hi, that sounds really promising! :) I tried to compile the stuff...but... When starting to emerge v86d (was it that name...cant remember exactly) also linux-2.6.26 starts to download and klibc.* I checked, for what klibc is good for and in this case it is used for calling the userland tool via from initram, which I do not plan... Ok, I thought, than low level. I compiled v86d by hand using ./configure --default for the default configuration. But this time it fails to compile with: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mccramer/data/downloads/v86d-0.1.9/libs/x86emu' cc -march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3 -I/lib/modules/2.6.36.2/source/include -Ilibs/x86emu -c -o v86_x86emu.o v86_x86emu.c In file included from /usr/include/asm/types.h:4, from /lib/modules/2.6.36.2/source/include/linux/types.h:4, from /lib/modules/2.6.36.2/source/include/linux/connector.h:25, from v86.h:7, from v86_x86emu.c:4: /lib/modules/2.6.36.2/source/include/asm-generic/int-ll64.h:11:29: error: asm/bitsperlong.h: No such file or directory In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.36.2/source/include/linux/connector.h:25, from v86.h:7, from v86_x86emu.c:4: /lib/modules/2.6.36.2/source/include/linux/types.h:13:2: warning: #warning Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders; make: *** [v86_x86emu.o] Error 1 I dont know, what the problem is...I am using linux-2.6.36.2 vanilla and compile this kernel with uvesafb support in beforehand. Nonetheless there seems something to be missed in the kernel sources... My goal is to have a better resolution on the console as this 8bit homecomputer like crap. It doesnot matter that much, whether switching to the higher resolution happens when the first boot scripts are read from /etc ... May I ask you for a little more informations how to proceed here? How did you achieve a working uvesafb? Do you use the gentoo sources or the vanilla kernel? Best regards and thank you very much in advance for your help! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvidia-drivers :) Ok, forget the previous mail... ;) I give up not to use initramfs and did it as described in above webpage. Unfortunately I get an even more blocky design (4bit pocket calculator design, so to say... ;-/ ) Will try more...we will see. If you have some more hints forI would be happier ;))) Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvidia-drivers :) Hi all, thank you very much for all the input ! And(TADA!).it works now! :) Very last question: Is there any way to test what font looks best without haveing to boot each time ? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console
Hi, there is a small linux distribution (GRML), which I use for rescue and other purposes. I installed it on a USB-stick. Furthermore installed in my PC there is a MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card and I use the nvidia-driver in conjunction with xorg 1.9.2. So far so nice... The GRML uses the noveau driver as far as I know. When I boot from my USB-stick I get a very nice high resolution linux console. It uses vga=791 on the kernel commandline. When I use the same option with my kernel (2.6.36.2 vanilla) it ends in a console font/resolution which reminds me at the good old times when 8bit homecomputers were the dream of many people and PACMAN was top! ;) I tried vga=asK and then scan but the highest resolution I was offered were 80x60 and only VGA-modes, which again looks like the high resolution textmode of my old ATARI 800...and not like that nice looking console which I get with the same hardware and the GRML distro. I compared both the kernel config of the GRML distro and my own but I didn't found nay suspicious (or overlooked something?). Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? Best regards and a happy new 2011! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [11-01-02 14:08]: On Sunday 02 January 2011 11:28:09 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, there is a small linux distribution (GRML), which I use for rescue and other purposes. I installed it on a USB-stick. Furthermore installed in my PC there is a MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card and I use the nvidia-driver in conjunction with xorg 1.9.2. So far so nice... The GRML uses the noveau driver as far as I know. When I boot from my USB-stick I get a very nice high resolution linux console. It uses vga=791 on the kernel commandline. When I use the same option with my kernel (2.6.36.2 vanilla) it ends in a console font/resolution which reminds me at the good old times when 8bit homecomputers were the dream of many people and PACMAN was top! ;) I tried vga=asK and then scan but the highest resolution I was offered were 80x60 and only VGA-modes, which again looks like the high resolution textmode of my old ATARI 800...and not like that nice looking console which I get with the same hardware and the GRML distro. I compared both the kernel config of the GRML distro and my own but I didn't found nay suspicious (or overlooked something?). Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? I think that the nice high resolution you see with GRML is presented by the framebuffer. You only get this once the kernel starts to load. Until then you get a very basic VGA screen, which the GRML may not show at all (in other words the first visual impression of a LiveCD may be the framebuffer console). With the latest versions CDs which use KMS (e.g. SystemrescueCD) the two stages VGA--framebuffer are visible if I recall correctly. With regards to your own kernel, are you using KMS? If so, once the kernel starts loading the KMS will dictate what resolution you get. If this is too small to read (I think it will render the highest resolution possible) or you want to set some custom resolution for whatever reason, then add nomodeset to the kernel line in your grub.conf and also restore the vga=XXX line you had there previously. HTH. -- Regards, Mick Hi Mick, unfortunately the nvidia driver does not support KMS...see the Gentoo docs. Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-01-02 14:12]: On 01/02/2011 01:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, there is a small linux distribution (GRML), which I use for rescue and other purposes. I installed it on a USB-stick. Furthermore installed in my PC there is a MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card and I use the nvidia-driver in conjunction with xorg 1.9.2. So far so nice... The GRML uses the noveau driver as far as I know. When I boot from my USB-stick I get a very nice high resolution linux console. It uses vga=791 on the kernel commandline. Nouveau uses KMS, which means it automatically uses the monitor's native resolution and supports all resolutions the graphics card is capable of. On your PC, you're using the VESA fb driver, not Nouveau KMS. That means you're limited to VESA resolutions for your consoles. You can use the vbetest utility to detect which modes your card's VESA BIOS supports. To use this tool, emerge the sys-libs/lrmi package. Simply run the tool and it will print a list of modes you can use, and the resolutions those modes correspond to. If your desired resolution is not in the list, then there's no way to use that resolution in a VESA fb; you will need to switch to Nouveau's KMS fb. Hi Nikos, unfortunately lrmi fails to compile. Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-01-02 16:12]: On 01/02/2011 03:57 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: unfortunately lrmi fails to compile. In addition to what I wrote in my other reply, make sure you use a 32bit Live CD. vbetest does not work with 64-bit kernels. Btw, if you're on a 32-bit Gentoo, you can compile lrmi on it. Steps: Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi/files/lrmi/0.10/lrmi-0.10.tar.gz/download Unpack it and apply the patch from Gentoo with: cd lrmi-0.10 patch -p1 /usr/portage/sys-libs/lrmi/files/lrmi-0.10-kernel-2.6.26.patch Simply run make. Now you can run it with: ./vbetest You don't need to install anything. When you're done, simply delete the lrmi-0.10 directory. Hi Nikos, unfortunately I am on a AMD64 Gentoo. I will whether GRML has this tool...
[gentoo-user] user/grpup spec.
Hi, I noticed that I have files in my $HOME, which I have created as user (me) which owner is set to (user.group) mcc.users other files, also owned by my are set to mcc.mcc . What is the current way to do this correctly ? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] xorg 1.9.2 and nodead keys ?
Hi after updateing to xorg server 1.9.2. first my keyboard layout has gone, which I got back via adding an appropiate option to 10-evdev.conf. Unfortunately I could not find any option to get back the nodead-keys. What do I have to add where for that? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards and a happy new year! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and nodead keys ?
Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de [11-01-01 02:15]: Hartmut Figge: meino.cra...@gmx.de: Unfortunately I could not find any option to get back the nodead-keys. That one i will need also. The main problem was that after upgrading there was a pointer to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.9-upgrade-guide.xml which was quite useless, but no pointer to the real information on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml I had to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, to copy the file 10-evdev.conf from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d and then to modify that 10-evdev.conf. At the moment i am unable to copy paste from the mc. I have still to figure out how the mouse under X11 can recognize gpm, but i can manually type the needed lines. Driver evdev Option XkbLayout de Option XKbVariant nodeadkeys -- Hartmut Hi Hartmut, Thank you for your input -- it works for me so far. Nevertheless I am alittle confused... 1.) gpm and copy'n'paste on the console and under X11 works for me. 2.) my 10-evdev.conf is located under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf 3.) The option I am using for the german keyboard layout is 'Option xkb_layout de' and it works. May it possible, that you have to recompile xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse? Best regards and a Happy New Year!!! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and nodead keys ?
Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de [11-01-01 06:04]: meino.cra...@gmx.de: 1.) gpm and copy'n'paste on the console and under X11 works for me. I need to emulate the middlemouse button by simultaneous pressing the left and right mouse buttons. That stopped working under X11 and i had to figure out a solution. 2.) my 10-evdev.conf is located under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf That's a possibilty, but configuration files should generally be located under /etc, so /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf is a better way. 3.) The option I am using for the german keyboard layout is 'Option xkb_layout de' and it works. Fine. :) I had looked for my modifications into http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml. This link should really have been mentioned for people like me, thrown to xorg-server 1.9,2 from 1.7.7-r1. May it possible, that you have to recompile xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse? Every time x11 changes i use 'emerge --oneshot $(qlist -IC x11-drivers)'. Best regards and a Happy New Year!!! Same for you. :) -- Hartmut Hi Hartmut, it seems you - as myself - not such a great fan of fireworks an endless parties at Sylvester ??? ...1.Januar and hacking the computer at this time...six o'clock in the morning ;) ;) ;) I have copied my /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to /etc/X11 and have restored the original file than in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. You are right: it is better to leave it untouched. When updateing the chance is given, that it will be overwritten... Is Option-wise the 1.8 upgrade guide complete or is it a list of commonly used settings... ? Keep hacking! :) mcc
[gentoo-user] Very old fashioned question
Hi, currently I am playing around with the simulation of on old PDP-10 (DEC). It is real fun to see and feel, how this dinosaurs of high power computing (the CPU of the PDP10, the KL10 processor has eaten 1.26 kW) The installation of the old tapes to finally get a fully functional TOPS-20 OS requires to enter such mysterious key compbinations like CTRL-/ (which at least on a german keyboard produces something totally different. Or in other words: The installation of the system is blocked by not haveing the correct keycodes. My questionis are: Are these old fashioned keycodes are part of a certain terminal emulation, so that I only have to change $TERM, or are they something to hack into .Xmodmap? Does anyone has a list with the mapping of these ancient keycode to any numerical value? Thank you very much ! Long lives the radio tube and CPUs of dicrete transistors!!! :) Have a nice XMas and a happy new Year 2011! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-18 09:52]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these parts of the screen. Previously I fixed this for another nvidia card by enabling different sync options in the nvidia-setting dialog and was happy that these distortion dont come back, when I switched to this newer card. Now: There're back despite my hopes... I started glxgears and got this output on the console: Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 74062 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14812.268 FPS 77502 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15500.350 FPS XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0 after 57 requests (57 known processed) with 0 events remaining. The second sentence say, that there is a syncing active and will get the refresh rate of the monitor (a LCD screen) back. This wouild be around 60Hz as far as I know. And then, the measurements show 15500.350 FPS... Which slightl above 60 Hz To sync or not to sync, that seems to be the question... By the way: Distortion can be watched as when using mplayer as with vlc. I recompiled both just to get sure, but it does not help. The machine is definetly fast enough to play videos (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T) How can I get back the undistorted screen? Thank you very much in advance for any help ! Best regards, mcc I would check the log files and see if they shed some light on this. I would check dmesg, messages and Xorg.0.log as well. The last one may show the best clues. If nothing there points to anything good, I would post the xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as attachments. I have a CPU like yours except 4 core and a little GT-220 card, wimpy compared to yours. What you see about the refresh rates is displayed on my machine too. The last part appears because you hit the close window X instead of doing a ctrl c to stop glxgears. If you start glxgears and do a ctrl c to stop it, the last part won't be there. I mention this because that *may* have nothing to do with the problem you are having. This is what happens when I run glxgears: fireball ~ # glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 27770 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5553.918 FPS 9783 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1955.847 FPS 3084 frames in 5.0 seconds = 616.716 FPS 3085 frames in 5.0 seconds = 616.942 FPS 3105 frames in 5.0 seconds = 620.981 FPS XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0 after 42 requests (42 known processed) with 0 events remaining. fireball ~ # glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 14932 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2985.639 FPS 3011 frames in 5.0 seconds = 602.125 FPS ^C fireball ~ # The last one was stopped with a ctrl c as you can see. The first was closed by hitting the close window button. If this doesn't help, at least you know to post the files so we can look them over. Maybe someone will notice something out of place. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, thank you for your in deep explanations ! :) The distortions I saw on my screen look identical to those I recognizeed with my old nvidia card before using the sync settings...so i /thought/ (read: dont know for sure ;) ) it would by a syncing problem again. But it wan't. For reasons I dont know in the nvidia-settings there was GPU scaling activate. May be someone sitting in front of my computer the same time I use to has fiddled with this setting without informing me... ;) The trick is: When watching a video in its native resolution, the problem does not occur. When watching the video full screen, the GPU was instructed to scale it up (instead of mplayer or vlc doing this job in software). Problem with this is (I thinkt), that there is one-pixel-border around the full-screen window of mplayer/vlc so the GPU is instructed to scale it to 1918x1199 pixel. Then this is thrown into my LCD monitor and rubish... First I deatcivated GPU scaling and then spoke some serious words to this guy, who uses my computer always the same I do and ... I am happy again to have a clean video playing. Thanks a lot for your explanations! (will store them for later use... who knows what things I will encounter next;) Have a nice weekend! Best regards mcc
[gentoo-user] SIMH on AMD64
Hi, I know, the SIMH-packages are masked The only question I have is: Does SIMH simply does not run on AMD64 (or is it my fault, that trying to laod an old UnixV6 tape and booting resulting in a endless process eating up 100% of one core of my CPU...?) Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???
Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these parts of the screen. Previously I fixed this for another nvidia card by enabling different sync options in the nvidia-setting dialog and was happy that these distortion dont come back, when I switched to this newer card. Now: There're back despite my hopes... I started glxgears and got this output on the console: Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 74062 frames in 5.0 seconds = 14812.268 FPS 77502 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15500.350 FPS XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0 after 57 requests (57 known processed) with 0 events remaining. The second sentence say, that there is a syncing active and will get the refresh rate of the monitor (a LCD screen) back. This wouild be around 60Hz as far as I know. And then, the measurements show 15500.350 FPS... Which slightl above 60 Hz To sync or not to sync, that seems to be the question... By the way: Distortion can be watched as when using mplayer as with vlc. I recompiled both just to get sure, but it does not help. The machine is definetly fast enough to play videos (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T) How can I get back the undistorted screen? Thank you very much in advance for any help ! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-15 09:48]: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I can see the services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it just has a little blinking cursor at the top. This is a grep of the log: r...@smoker / # cat /media/disk/files/Xorg.0.log | grep EE [ 2081.047] Current Operating System: Linux fireball 2.6.36-gentoo-r4 #15 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 13 01:15:13 CST 2010 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 2081.048] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): implemented [ 2082.118] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.120] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) r...@smoker / # I have tried X -configure, Xorg -configure and nvidia-xconfig and none of them do any better. I also did a emerge -e all the way up to nvidia-driver as well then reconfiged everything. Still no joy. I'm not going to mention all the reinstalls of the nvidia drivers and different versions I tried. I attached my xorg.conf file too. I can send the whole xorg.log file if needed. Oh, I always get the dri load error. I also used eselect to switch to nvidia's opengl to, many times. Could it be something weird with the card maybe? This is monitor two that has issues with it. I have a ATI card handy. If someone knows of a idiot proof guide I could follow. You know, one that you used and are confident it will work if followed. I don't have much hair left right now. :-( Just for fun, I got a Mandriva install CD and booted it up and even installed it on a spare drive. After the install, it boots just like Gentoo does. I can see the BIOS, the services and such but when it switches to vt7, just a blinking cursor. This new rig is turning into a nightmare. No wonder I waited almost 8 years. lol Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions, other than jumping in the creek. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, me again ... 8) Dont hesitate...I think everything is alright. First of all: In grub add a 2 at the end of the kernel command line. This will boot you into runlevel 2 (console) without trying to switch to X. This way you will have a clean machine with no confused nvidia driver hanging a around and a polling X waiting to something to connect to. Next is: Make yourself a cup of tea (or coffee, if you prefer) cause the next steps may take some compilation time... As root: 1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. Do a emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world to find those packages, which need to be updated/recompiled due to the changes to the USE flags. This morning there was an update to the nvidia driver also. I does not harm to execute the emerge command, even if you have hal already installed and configured. 2.) cd to /etc mkdir hal and extract the fdi rulesset, I will send you in a personal mail soon. If you have already a rulesset installed DONT overwrite it with mine. May be you can use mine for comparison reasons, if something goes wrong. The rulesset works for me -- but that is no reason, that it have to work for you. BE WARNED :) Folder layout: /etc/hal/fdi/.. 3.) Strip you xorg.conf. I will you send mine with the hal/fdi-ruleset. I have a different monitori/mouse and a different nvidia card. But these differences should be hidden behind hal and the nvidia driver. Before installing it, check it against your hardware. Again: YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ! :) 4.) Add input_devices_evdev video_cards_nvidia to the USE flags of xorg-drivers. Add hal to the USE-flags of your xorg-server. 5.) Check your kernel config file for CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y If not set, configured it and recompile the kernel. Reboot. 5.) Recompile xorg-drivers, xorg-servers, xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse, nvidia-drivers 6.) Reboot 7.) Submit telinit 3 as root from the commandline. Should work I cannot make responsible for any consequences directly or indirectly resulting from the usage of these instructions Good luck! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [10-12-15 10:00]: Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes (silently). The first unusual message is that it cannot find the file /usr/sbin/acpid . After that, most other actions fail as well. Once the machine has failed to boot it will fail every time afterwards unless I do the following: I boot by a rescue CD, change root and re-emerge sys-power/acpid (this package contains /usr/sbin/acpid). This single action has helped without any problem each time I had to try it. Of course, I've done many checks on the drive hosting the /usr partition - no errors at all (the drive is only a few months old and a good one (enterprise edition)). So, I suspect openrc. Might it be that this is a timing problem and openrc doesn't check if the partition is mounted? Booting has worked just flawlessly on that machine for more than a year. It looks as if a recent version of openrc (currently 0.6.8) has generated this problem. Thanks for any hint, Helmut. Hi Helmut, it would be interesting to know, whether /usr/sbin/acpid is really missing, when the boot fails. If it is not missing, the boot fails due to a mount problem and not the re-installing of acpid as such cures the problem, but what this installation is doing else. Or in other words: Any installation, which put someting into /usr cures the problem. If the mount of /usr is the problem, which arises from a timing problem than there is something done in parallel which should be done in sequence (and was previously done in sequence). I dont know openrc, but may be a setting in its configuration file regarding this aspect will cure the problem? Good luck! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...
Hi, my /tmp has the permissions set to 1777 . And it is the mountpoint for an extra partitions holding the stuff of '/tmp/' When booting into single-user mode and unmounting /tmp and doing a ls -ld /tmp it shows drwxrwxrwt 45 root root 61440 2010-12-15 15:07 /tmp BUT as soon as I mount the device on /tmp and doing the same ls -ld again it shows drwsrwsrwt 45 root root 61440 2010-12-15 15:07 /tm That looks not ok to me. /etc/fstab has an entry which options field is set to default And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount What is the reason for this? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those of the directory. As soon as you mount something on it, the mount point has the ownership and permissions of the root of the filesystem that you just mounted there. In the same way that the contents of the filesystem appear at the mount point, so does the metadata, so change the permissions after mounting. -- Neil Bothwick A real programmer never documents his code. It was hard to make, it should be hard to read ...unfortunately (as root) cd /tmp chmod 1777 . does not help... mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [10-12-15 16:00]: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those of the directory. As soon as you mount something on it, the mount point has the ownership and permissions of the root of the filesystem that you just mounted there. In the same way that the contents of the filesystem appear at the mount point, so does the metadata, so change the permissions after mounting. ...unfortunately (as root) cd /tmp chmod 1777 . does not help... I don't think you can change the permissions like that. Try: cd / chmod 1777 /tmp To remove the s-bits, try the following: cd / chmod u-s /tmp chmod g-s /tmp This, however, needs to be done while the /tmp filesystem is mounted. Otherwise you are only changing the mount-point (directory) not the actual filesystem. -- Joost interesting... Until now, I thought '.' is equal to the directory I am in. Ok, times is changing, me too, but as it seems not fast enough ;) Thanks a lot... thats fix it! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about zero-support consequences). It should be some kind of multi-purpose server (web, ftp, mail, dns, virtualisation, etc). His budget is ~600-700€ (for cpu, mobo, ram), and he wants the best value for the money... Now, the crucial decision is what cpu (mobo) I should use: A: Intel Core i7-950, 4x 3.06GHz (4 cores, + hyper-threading) B: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, 6x 3.30GHz (6 cores) Is it better to use phenom with 6 true cores, or i7 with 4 real and 4 fake cores (hyper-threading)? Concerning price, there is no difference, both of the above mentioned cpus cost ~250€ here in Europe. btw, mobos for phenom have up to 4x dimm, while mobos for core-i7 can have up to 6x dimm (that might be a valid point, he is going to need a lot of memory). So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. I think the formula performance/money is fitted better by AMD than by Intel. If you take performance and forget the money Intel will be your friend. I myself choose an AMD Phenom X6 1090T (which can easily by pushed to be a 1100T by the way) on a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula. But a few days agao I heard Gigabyte would be more AMD friendly... I uses this mainly for rendering -- all cores can be used by Blender in parallel. Only my two cent ... you currency may vary. I DONT WANT to start a flamewar here! Its only my opinion I wanted to express :) Best regards, mcc PS: If the siftware you will use is not capable to put full load on the machine you will pay for more hardware than it is used. PPS: Hyperthreading uses unused parts of a core to run stuff which does not need the used parts of the same core. When you have 8 identical jobs running, there have to be 8 identical parts in the cores available otherwise there is nothing to hypethread. It depends heavily on the kind and mixture of jobs running on the machine whether hyperthreading is a win or a marketing joke... I myself (own opinion) feel better to have six physical cores capable of running six identical threads doing six things real parallel, than to guess, whether 4 of the eight threads Blender is showing me is /possibly/ waiting for getting access to an unused part of one of the four cores. Yes, I am an AMD friend since Intel way of handling the P90 floating point bug for their customers. And since this 15 (?) years this decision was ok -- at least for me. ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:52]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about zero-support consequences). It should be some kind of multi-purpose server (web, ftp, mail, dns, virtualisation, etc). His budget is ~600-700€ (for cpu, mobo, ram), and he wants the best value for the money... Now, the crucial decision is what cpu (mobo) I should use: A: Intel Core i7-950, 4x 3.06GHz (4 cores, + hyper-threading) B: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, 6x 3.30GHz (6 cores) Is it better to use phenom with 6 true cores, or i7 with 4 real and 4 fake cores (hyper-threading)? Concerning price, there is no difference, both of the above mentioned cpus cost ~250€ here in Europe. btw, mobos for phenom have up to 4x dimm, while mobos for core-i7 can have up to 6x dimm (that might be a valid point, he is going to need a lot of memory). So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. I think the formula performance/money is fitted better by AMD than by Intel. If you take performance and forget the money Intel will be your friend. I myself choose an AMD Phenom X6 1090T (which can easily by pushed to be a 1100T by the way) on a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula. But a few days agao I heard Gigabyte would be more AMD friendly... I uses this mainly for rendering -- all cores can be used by Blender in parallel. Only my two cent ... you currency may vary. I DONT WANT to start a flamewar here! Its only my opinion I wanted to express :) Best regards, mcc I'll give my $0.02 worth as well. I just built a new rig. It has a Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3 mobo and a AMD Phenom II X4 and it is really fast and efficient. Price was very good too. From what I have read, Gigabyte is highly rated. This may be something you want to use as a starting point if available in you area. I'd be glad to send you links to the core parts so that you know what works well together. Dale :-) :-) Silent cooling ? Scythe Mulgen 2 Rev B! ;) mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [10-12-14 16:26]: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up, it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used to install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch. Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. Is there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem. What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what monitor it is supposed to hook up to? Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. Dale Like old Bill C. said I feel your pain. I've got a newish Samsung 22 monitor I'm using on this computer. It works great. However recently I tried reinstalling Gentoo on an older Mac Mini. This same monitor, when attached to the Mac, would boot Gentoo from the CD, showing text on the screen for about 10 seconds, and then seems to go into some sort of power savings mode where the text becomes so dim that you almost can't read it. I found in that case I had to turn the lights off to see what the Gentoo install disk was telling me to do. I figured out what I had to type to get yaboot to boot, but it was a mess. I never found a solution to this and just gave up as the Mac was too slow. You might look for BIOS level power management stuff and see if it's turning off or dimming the output? Good luck. I feel your pain... - Mark In the BIOS try to disable any APM and ACPI stuff Good luck! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 17:48]: Hi, I got one more hard drive to move over and it is SATA. Question one, can the new mobo's do hot plugging for SATA drives? I have a plug on the front of the case and was wondering since it is on the front if they can be hot swapped or if I need to shutdown then hook it up. If I can hot swap, where does the power come from? I know the drives I put in the case have a separate power connection. How's that work exactly? Is that just for external drives that have their own power? I have two dries in here already. One I bought and one that was donated. This is what hdparm reports: fireball ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 6788 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3395.32 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 328 MB in 3.01 seconds = 109.06 MB/sec fireball ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 6736 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3367.58 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 324 MB in 3.01 seconds = 107.69 MB/sec fireball ~ # Is that about normal? The mobo is 3Gbs/sec and the drives are too. Shouldn't they be faster than that? I read at one time that SATA is basically plug up and it works. Just checking if there is a setting I need to change. Related to the above, in the BIOS, it is set to Native IDE. Should that be set to AHCI instead? Is that why it is slower than expected? Is that good to go with Linux as well? I have this set in the kernel and built in as usual: AHCI SATA support Let me know if I am somewhat right on anything. Oh, I decided to name the new rig fireball instead of lightening. ;-) You may notice that in the paste up above. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, as I know, the hd hardware can't nearly as fast as the bus speed regardless whether it is 6GB/s or 3GB/s. Quickly doing the same as you on my harddisk gave: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 6726 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3364.06 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 318 MB in 3.00 seconds = 105.93 MB/sec The speeds of 6 GB/s or 3GB/s are only reached, when reading data directly from the hd cache. I dont know, what motherboard you use. But the settings you describe seem to be identical to mine. Important is: In the BIOS go to the hd section and look, what the BIOS think the speed of your hd is (3 GB/s or 6GB/s). When found directly set you SATA chip to that speed. It is recommended to do so by the help of text of my BIOS. I have a 3GB/s disk. And yes, IDE is ok. Here you can find explanations about AHCI vs. IDE sata mode. http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0bogno=316 On my board (ASUS Crosshair IV Formula) it was said, that AHCI is slower than IDE, but (!) is not due to IDE vs. AHCI but to a limitation of the chip. Look at the benchmarks above: There no place to go faster than that. 3/6 GB/s on cach read are standard compliant and ~100 MB/s is the limitation of hardware normal people like you and me can pay for. Plug on the front: This seems to be E-Sata jack AND SHOULD BE CONNECTED INTERNALLY ONLY TO AN E-SATA (not SATA) JACK ON THE MOBO. In unmounted status: Yes it should be hotpluggable as USB. BUT dont connect the E-SATA jack of the case to a normal SATA jack on the board! E-SATA != SATA HTH mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 18:28]:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12/14/10 17:42:40, Dale wrote:
Hi,
I got one more hard drive to move over and it is SATA. Question one,
can the new mobo's do hot plugging for SATA drives? I have a plug on
the front of the case and was wondering since it is on the front if
they
If this is an eSATA connection then it works just fine out of the box.
It's helpful to write some UDEV rule e.g. in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-
local.rules, e.g.
SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, ATTRS{model}==WDC WD10EADS-65L,
SYMLINK=WDExt%n
which generates the /dev/WDExt ... /devWDExt4 devices if there are
e.g. 4 partitions on that drive. Thus you can write a fixed entry
in your fstab using these devices.
So this is doable then. Interesting. ^_^
can be hot swapped or if I need to shutdown then hook it up. If I
can
hot swap, where does the power come from? I know the drives I put in
the case have a separate power connection. How's that work exactly?
Is
that just for external drives that have their own power?
I have two dries in here already. One I bought and one that was
donated. This is what hdparm reports:
fireball ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 6788 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3395.32 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 328 MB in 3.01 seconds = 109.06 MB/
sec
fireball ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 6736 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3367.58 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 324 MB in 3.01 seconds = 107.69 MB/
sec
Exactly the same here, the external SATA drive is even slower
/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads: 7498 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3750.67 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 262 MB in 3.02 seconds = 86.70 MB/sec
fireball ~ #
Is that about normal? The mobo is 3Gbs/sec and the drives are too.
Shouldn't they be faster than that? I read at one time that SATA is
basically plug up and it works. Just checking if there is a setting
I
need to change.
Related to the above, in the BIOS, it is set to Native IDE. Should
that
be set to AHCI instead? Is that why it is slower than expected? Is
that good to go with Linux as well? I have this set in the kernel
and
built in as usual:
AHCI SATA support
I'have configured my BIOS like that. It's working just fine.
Let me know if I am somewhat right on anything. Oh, I decided to
name
the new rig fireball instead of lightening. ;-) You may notice that
in
the paste up above.
Helmut.
Well, according to the mobo book, AHCI enables advanced SATA
features. Me, I read that and I think that it may mean faster. It
also says it is set to native by default for OS's that can handle only
native mode controllers. I just don't want to try it without making
sure it is not going to lead to some sort of file system problems or
something. I did some Googling but most of the stuff I find is from
years ago and things have changed a lot since then.
Thanks for the info.
Dale
:-) :-)
In the linux kernel configuration you can set AHCI for Sata...
But whether this technically option is addtionally a wise one?
I dont know...
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 18:56]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, as I know, the hd hardware can't nearly as fast as the bus speed regardless whether it is 6GB/s or 3GB/s. Quickly doing the same as you on my harddisk gave: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 6726 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3364.06 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 318 MB in 3.00 seconds = 105.93 MB/sec The speeds of 6 GB/s or 3GB/s are only reached, when reading data directly from the hd cache. I dont know, what motherboard you use. But the settings you describe seem to be identical to mine. Important is: In the BIOS go to the hd section and look, what the BIOS think the speed of your hd is (3 GB/s or 6GB/s). When found directly set you SATA chip to that speed. It is recommended to do so by the help of text of my BIOS. I have a 3GB/s disk. And yes, IDE is ok. Here you can find explanations about AHCI vs. IDE sata mode. http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0bogno=316 On my board (ASUS Crosshair IV Formula) it was said, that AHCI is slower than IDE, but (!) is not due to IDE vs. AHCI but to a limitation of the chip. Look at the benchmarks above: There no place to go faster than that. 3/6 GB/s on cach read are standard compliant and ~100 MB/s is the limitation of hardware normal people like you and me can pay for. Plug on the front: This seems to be E-Sata jack AND SHOULD BE CONNECTED INTERNALLY ONLY TO AN E-SATA (not SATA) JACK ON THE MOBO. In unmounted status: Yes it should be hotpluggable as USB. BUT dont connect the E-SATA jack of the case to a normal SATA jack on the board! E-SATA != SATA HTH mcc Sounds like I am normal on speed. Still wonder why they call it advanced tho. Hype maybe? ;-) I noticed when I did some searching that the eSATA connectors have sort of a L shape to them. All the SATA connectors have a L shape to them on my mobo. I think for safety's sake, I think I will shutdown first. The biggest reason I was wondering is because it is on the front next to the USB plugs too. Just made me wonder. Dale :-) :-) You know AGP (_Advanced_ graphics port), Dale? You know, why _this_ is advanced? Look at USB 2.0? Names like Full speed and High speed are only sands in the eyes of the others. Names only names... Why they increase SATA to currently 6GB/s to read from...guess... the RAM of a hd? Ok, I begin to become cycnic ;) Be the boot be with you! Use the source, Luke! And: No, I am _NOT_ you father... ;) mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-14 19:44]: On 14. 12. 2010 19:28, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: You know AGP (_Advanced_ graphics port), Dale? You know, why _this_ is advanced? Because it is Accelerated Graphics Port... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. Hi jarry, ok...this candidate wins 1000 points ... ;) Damn...now the joke is somehow corrupted... But thanks for clearify this !!! :)) mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 05:04]: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up, it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used to install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch. Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. Is there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem. What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what monitor it is supposed to hook up to? Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, just a shot in the dark (I did the same a few weeks ago): May the non-working monitor has more than one input jack, say HDMI, DVI and analog. May be the monitor is set to await a signal at the HDMI input and physically the signal is feed into the DVI input ? HTH! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 05:28]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 05:04]: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up, it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used to install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch. Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. Is there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem. What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what monitor it is supposed to hook up to? Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, just a shot in the dark (I did the same a few weeks ago): May the non-working monitor has more than one input jack, say HDMI, DVI and analog. May be the monitor is set to await a signal at the HDMI input and physically the signal is feed into the DVI input ? HTH! Best regards, mcc This is a older monitor. It only has the DB-15 connector and the power cord of course. This is funny tho. I booted the new puter with the EV700 monitor hooked up. I logged into KDE and once it was running, I cut off the power to the old monitor and unhooked the cable from the puter. I then hooked up the EV910 monitor and cut on its power. It works. Thing is, if I reboot, it does the same thing again. No BIOS screen or anything. Weird huh? I may cut everything off, remove the video card from the system and see if there is a button or battery on it. Maybe that will do something, reset if nothing else. For those keeping up, even the BIOS screen doesn't show up so this is not Gentoo, grub or anything. It's just weird. Open to other ideas tho. This is the weirdest thing I have seen in a while. Dale :-) :-) Next shot in the dark: Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor about its EDID data and the return is The sound of Silence ... or something more weird and misunderstandable... And the graka hangs and therefore the BIOS waits forever for the graka and Dale waits forever for monitor... ;) When booted with a talking and correctly speaking EDID monitor the garak is setup correctly and everything is fine. If you are using a nvidia-card use the nvidia-settings tool when haveing switched the monitors the bad way ;) and in the nvidia settings tool you will find the possibility to Acquire EDID (a button). Do this with the new monitor to check whether it talks EDID correctly. Two things I would try to fix the problem: Boot into the BIOS and check, whether First VGA (this is how it is called in my BIOS) is set to the correct bus type/card. In my case it has to be set to PCIe. Any may be you will also find a setting to instruct the card to acquire EDID data from the monitor. Toggle this. HTH! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 06:04]: Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 05:04]: Hi, I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up, it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used to install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch. Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. Is there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem. What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what monitor it is supposed to hook up to? Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, just a shot in the dark (I did the same a few weeks ago): May the non-working monitor has more than one input jack, say HDMI, DVI and analog. May be the monitor is set to await a signal at the HDMI input and physically the signal is feed into the DVI input ? HTH! Best regards, mcc This is a older monitor. It only has the DB-15 connector and the power cord of course. This is funny tho. I booted the new puter with the EV700 monitor hooked up. I logged into KDE and once it was running, I cut off the power to the old monitor and unhooked the cable from the puter. I then hooked up the EV910 monitor and cut on its power. It works. Thing is, if I reboot, it does the same thing again. No BIOS screen or anything. Weird huh? I may cut everything off, remove the video card from the system and see if there is a button or battery on it. Maybe that will do something, reset if nothing else. For those keeping up, even the BIOS screen doesn't show up so this is not Gentoo, grub or anything. It's just weird. Open to other ideas tho. This is the weirdest thing I have seen in a while. Dale :-) :-) Update with some more info. This may be a monitor setting or something. I took the video card out and put in a different card, ATI actually. It works with the EV700 but not the EV910. No BIOS screen on the EV910 but works on the EV700. Another thing I noticed, when I switch displays after logging in, the EV910 is not as bright as usual. I'm not sure how that would matter but thought I would mention it. Anybody ever seen this before? If it was the OS then that would be one thing but not even the BIOS screen works. I thought that would even if nothing else would. Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, I need a machine gun for all the shots in the dark... May be a bad cable??? If the jack has an sense pin to indicate the presence of a monitor to the graphics card and the cable to that pin (or the pin itself is broken...then the grpahics card thinks No monitor, no need to generate a signal...). The pin layout is here: http://hep.fi.infn.it/CMS/power/old_site/Cables/50m/ctrl/A4602_DB15_pinout.jpg HTH mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 07:12]: Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Next shot in the dark: Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor about its EDID data and the return is The sound of Silence ... or something more weird and misunderstandable... And the graka hangs and therefore the BIOS waits forever for the graka and Dale waits forever for monitor... ;) When booted with a talking and correctly speaking EDID monitor the garak is setup correctly and everything is fine. If you are using a nvidia-card use the nvidia-settings tool when haveing switched the monitors the bad way ;) and in the nvidia settings tool you will find the possibility to Acquire EDID (a button). Do this with the new monitor to check whether it talks EDID correctly. Two things I would try to fix the problem: Boot into the BIOS and check, whether First VGA (this is how it is called in my BIOS) is set to the correct bus type/card. In my case it has to be set to PCIe. Any may be you will also find a setting to instruct the card to acquire EDID data from the monitor. Toggle this. HTH! Best regards, mcc I will try that next. Right now, I unplugged the power from the EV910. It has been unplugged for a while now. I'm hoping it will reset something in the monitor itself. I'm pretty sure this monitor has EDID but I'm not certain. I looked and the EV910 is actually a little newer than the EV700. The EV910 was made in 2001 and the EV700 was made in 2000. Pretty old huh? I really don't want to use this old 17 monitor but I also don't want to have to buy a new one either. :/ Now to reboot and see if it works. If not, I'll check the BIOS setting next. I checked that earlier and I think it is set has you wrote tho. I'll make sure tho. Thanks. Will write in a bit whether it changes anything. Dale :-) :-) Neither of those worked. It did nothing on the EV910. Any more ideas? Dale :-) :-) To sort things out: Do you have the chance to try the questionable monitor with another PC?
Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 07:12]: Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Next shot in the dark: Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor about its EDID data and the return is The sound of Silence ... or something more weird and misunderstandable... And the graka hangs and therefore the BIOS waits forever for the graka and Dale waits forever for monitor... ;) When booted with a talking and correctly speaking EDID monitor the garak is setup correctly and everything is fine. If you are using a nvidia-card use the nvidia-settings tool when haveing switched the monitors the bad way ;) and in the nvidia settings tool you will find the possibility to Acquire EDID (a button). Do this with the new monitor to check whether it talks EDID correctly. Two things I would try to fix the problem: Boot into the BIOS and check, whether First VGA (this is how it is called in my BIOS) is set to the correct bus type/card. In my case it has to be set to PCIe. Any may be you will also find a setting to instruct the card to acquire EDID data from the monitor. Toggle this. HTH! Best regards, mcc I will try that next. Right now, I unplugged the power from the EV910. It has been unplugged for a while now. I'm hoping it will reset something in the monitor itself. I'm pretty sure this monitor has EDID but I'm not certain. I looked and the EV910 is actually a little newer than the EV700. The EV910 was made in 2001 and the EV700 was made in 2000. Pretty old huh? I really don't want to use this old 17 monitor but I also don't want to have to buy a new one either. :/ Now to reboot and see if it works. If not, I'll check the BIOS setting next. I checked that earlier and I think it is set has you wrote tho. I'll make sure tho. Thanks. Will write in a bit whether it changes anything. Dale :-) :-) Neither of those worked. It did nothing on the EV910. Any more ideas? Dale :-) :-) Another thing, Dale: Try to activate the settings menu of the monitor in question when it is attached (nonworking) to the PC. If you can see the menu: The monitor does not hang. When in the menu try to figure out, whether the monitor thinks it is receiving a signal. If not: cable defect or graphics card not seeing the monitor (due to a cable defect: sense pin for example). May be the monitor simply does not came out of its standby/sleep mode ?? Fingers crossed... mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [10-12-12 10:24]: Just build all the sensor drivers into the kernel, not modules but built in. A simpler way: - make sure you have CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y, CONFIG_I2C_HELPER_AUTO=y and select the correct I2C hardware bus drivers for your platform (CONFIG_I2C_I801 for most recent Intel chipsets and CONFIG_I2C_PIIX4 for most recent AMD chipsets; reading the help text of the various drivers should point you in the right direction); - emerge sys-apps/lm_sensors - run sensors-detect - enable the drivers for all the things sensors-detect finds. Hopefully you won't have any unsupported chips... - you can then add lm_sensors to the default runlevel, so that it loads the correct modules during the boot process. The final step is to configure the software you use to display the sensor readings. It is usually a matter of attaching the correct labels to the various inputs, and possibly tweaking the scaling factors so that the readings match those shown by the BIOS; as the details depend on the specific manufacturer and model of your board, this will usually be a trial and error process, although google might help you. The comments in /etc/sensor3.conf, which controls software using the libraries provided by lm_sensors, are also a useful source of information. cat /sys/devices/platform/ This will miss those sensors which do not appear as a platform device (e.g. the AMD k10 on-die temperature sensors, which is a PCI device). andrea Hi Andrea, Hi Dale, Before I post my question I did, what you have suggested, Andrea. Sensors-detect reports the it87 chip to be included as module/in the kernel, which I did -- but the driver does not produces any output AMD k10 was already in and reports everything -- only the fan stuff was missing, which (normall) the ITE (it87) chip is used for. The version of lm_sensors, which is in portage reports here driver to be written but the svn-version of lm_sensors seems to support it. I installed that svn-version locally but I cant read from the ITE chip. Still only voltages and temperatures. GKrellm (normally I use conky) also detects no fans. @Dale: Do you have exactly the same board (ASUS Crosshair IV formula) as I, or? I tried to include everything into the kernel but unfortunately the results are the same: No fans and the it87 driver seems not to work for me... Any other ideas? Best regards and have a nive sunday! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-12 11:32]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Andrea, Hi Dale, Before I post my question I did, what you have suggested, Andrea. Sensors-detect reports the it87 chip to be included as module/in the kernel, which I did -- but the driver does not produces any output AMD k10 was already in and reports everything -- only the fan stuff was missing, which (normall) the ITE (it87) chip is used for. The version of lm_sensors, which is in portage reports here driver to be written but the svn-version of lm_sensors seems to support it. I installed that svn-version locally but I cant read from the ITE chip. Still only voltages and temperatures. GKrellm (normally I use conky) also detects no fans. @Dale: Do you have exactly the same board (ASUS Crosshair IV formula) as I, or? I tried to include everything into the kernel but unfortunately the results are the same: No fans and the it87 driver seems not to work for me... Any other ideas? Best regards and have a nive sunday! mcc I have a Gigabyte mobo here. There are two places that you have to enable all the sensors tho. As was posted a bit ago, one is I2C Support and one is Hardware Monitoring Support both of which are under Device Drivers. Is it possible that you left one out? If you built all the drivers in and it didn't work, then you may have to wait on a newer kernel. If you are running a stable kernel, you may want to try a unstable one since they are newer and may have the updated drivers. I'm using 2.6.36 gentoo-sources here. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, I enabled CONFIG_HWMON=y and CONFIG_I2C=y, I also see temperatures and voltages (I still a little confused by what ASUS states of the CPU-dye temperature of not being a physical temperature but one of arbitrary scale...but this another field to explore...). My kernel is a 2.36.6.2 vanilla...I didn't found any newer ;) ;) ;) Seems I am lost ?!? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [10-12-12 14:00]: AMD k10 was already in and reports everything -- only the fan stuff was missing, which (normall) the ITE (it87) chip is used for. Current IT87xx chips provide fan, temperature and voltage readings. If you built the drivers as modules, are you sure everything (it87 and the relevant i2c drivers) is loaded? Check the kernel log for any error messages. The version of lm_sensors, which is in portage reports here driver to be written but the svn-version of lm_sensors seems to support it Support for a specific sensor chip is provided by the kernel driver, not by lm_sensors. sensor-detect only provides advice based on the situation at the time it was released; if a more recent revision says that the chip is supported, it means that a driver for the chip now exists, *not* that the driver provided by the current kernel supports it. However, according to this page the it8720F chip seems to be supported starting from kernel 2.6.29, so kernel version is not your problem. http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices andrea The chip on the board is a ITE IT8721. An excerpt of the top part of /usr/src/linux-2.36.6.2/drivers/hwmon/it87.c * * Supports: IT8705F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface *IT8712F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface *IT8716F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface *IT8718F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface *IT8720F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface *IT8726F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface *Sis950 A clone of the IT8705F * Therefore the chip is unsupported and the kernel is the source of the problem according to your explanations. mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-12-12 14:52]: On Sunday 12 December 2010 14:06:33 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: IT8721 So look at the lm sensors site: http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices ITEIT8721F, IT8758Eyesit87LPC2.6.37 or standalone driver (2010-10-12) We have a datasheet for the IT8721F. Different from previous IT87xxF chips (12 mV ADC instead of 16 mV, amongst other.) Two requests ( Jae Sammy, Virgil Gheorghiu.) The IT8758E was reported to have the same device ID, so hopefully they are fully compatible. Support added by Jean Delvare, please test the standalone driver and report. you could try this: http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/misc/it87/it87.c google. 2minutes. It really is that simple. Instead I backported the i87.c driver from the upcoming linux 2.36.7.rc5 itree into my linux-2.6.36.6 kernel. After recompiling i and a reboot it loads well but dmesg shows that there were conflicting ACPI areas then. The driver itsself suggests to use the atk0110-acpi driver instead the it87 one. So I will do that and give the BIOS the full control over the fans. Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-12-12 15:16]: On Sunday 12 December 2010 14:57:26 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-12-12 14:52]: On Sunday 12 December 2010 14:06:33 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: IT8721 So look at the lm sensors site: http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices ITEIT8721F, IT8758Eyesit87LPC2.6.37 or standalone driver (2010-10-12) We have a datasheet for the IT8721F. Different from previous IT87xxF chips (12 mV ADC instead of 16 mV, amongst other.) Two requests ( Jae Sammy, Virgil Gheorghiu.) The IT8758E was reported to have the same device ID, so hopefully they are fully compatible. Support added by Jean Delvare, please test the standalone driver and report. you could try this: http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/misc/it87/it87.c google. 2minutes. It really is that simple. Instead I backported the i87.c driver from the upcoming linux 2.36.7.rc5 itree into my linux-2.6.36.6 kernel. After recompiling i and a reboot it loads well but dmesg shows that there were conflicting ACPI areas then. The driver itsself suggests to use the atk0110-acpi driver instead the it87 one. So I will do that and give the BIOS the full control over the fans. I did the same and it is working really well... apart from an annoying cpu-fan error at the boot, because the fan only start turning 1-2 minutes after turning the box on. k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +38.1°C (high = +70.0°C, crit = +90.0°C) atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.00 V (min = +0.85 V, max = +1.70 V) +3.3 Voltage: +3.39 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V) +5 Voltage: +5.08 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V) +12 Voltage: +12.52 V (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V) CPU FAN Speed: 565 RPM (min = 600 RPM) CHASSIS FAN Speed: 1171 RPM (min = 600 RPM) CHASSIS FAN 2 Speed: 698 RPM (min = 600 RPM) CPU Temperature: +36.0°C (high = +60.0°C, crit = +95.0°C) MB Temperature: +29.0°C (high = +45.0°C, crit = +75.0°C) Hi Volker, THAT'S INTERESTING!! What motherboard do you use and may be you can mail me your kernel config in a personal mail ? And: What exactly do you enable/disable in the BIOS of you board? When I try to enable fan control via bios I got a warning and loud beeps from the BIOS *AND* the fan do not start... When disabling fan control, the fan starts nearly instantly (acoustic-wise it is not that a problem ... the CPU fan works silently...). But what is the reason for the ACPI area conflict???
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel doesn't use all of the available memory
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [10-12-10 01:09]: Hi, I see a strange effect which puzzles me. I have two AMD64 (~amd64) Systems. Both have 8Gb memory installed as reported by their BIOS as well as by lshw. One is a somewhat older Opteron, the other one a recent Phenom II. But the output of 'free -m' differs significantly On the Phenom II there a total of 7738 Mb but on the old Opteron there a total of 6477 Mb only. The 2.6.36 kernel is configured nearly identical (just a different SATA driver). Has anybody an idea where this comes from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. (I dont know the exact core count of both processors...) But may be additional cores of the Phenom II (x6?) will result in more mem preallocated by the BIOS (may be without reason). On my system (8GB,Phenom II X6 1090T, ASUS Crosshair IV Formula) there are 8184216 kB in total. So even the 7738 Mb seems to be lesser than possible. Only a shot into the dark... mcc
[gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???
Hallo, I want to read the fan speed and want to control it with gentoo. My motherboard is a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula. lm_sensors does not report any relevant sensor. Does anyone got this working on this or an equivalent board with 890FX chipset? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Which architecture ???
KIM WHALEN dhk...@optonline.net [10-12-08 18:33]: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Matthew Summers wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:58 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: On 12/08/2010 07:57 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: I don't see any address size but when I cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep size I get casche size 256 KB and clflush size 64. The laptop has 4G of memory. With 4G or more I would go with amd64. Thanks all, I'll give it a try. Hi, If you don't mind, could you post the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'? I am interested in some of the details of that CPU. Mainly I am curious if it is a fam10 cpu or something else. TIA, -- Matthew W. Summers livecd ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family: 15 model : 107 model name: AMD Athlon(tm) Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L335 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1595.727 cache size: 256 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid: 0 initial apicid: 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp: yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch bogomips : 3191.45 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family: 15 model : 107 model name: AMD Athlon(tm) Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L335 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1595.727 cache size: 256 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid: 1 initial apicid: 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp: yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch bogomips : 3191.89 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps livecd ~ # Hi, from the above youu will find address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual may be you mistyped the grep keyword ? :) Welcome to the AMD64 family ! :) Have a nice evening! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] udev: renaming eth0 to eth1 ???
Hi, unfortunately I had to change my motherboard (the replacement is exactly the same model/type of the previous on). I booted the new board and: NO Lan. Eth0 dead it seems. It took me several long minutes before I found the following line in dmesg's log: udev: renaming etho to eth1 There is only the onboard lan chip and no extra ethernet card is installed in the rig. Now I have eth1 and no eth0. Why does this happen? What is the reason for that? Thank you very much for any hint in advance! Have a nice weekend! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] AMD Phenom X6 + Linux + Turbo Core ???
Hi, I googled this and found some other people asking the same question... But I didn't find the answer. I am using linux kernel 2.6.36.1 vanilla to run on a AMD Phenom X6 1090T/ASUS Crosshair IV Formula system. I enabled ondemand CPU frequency scaling givernor in the kernel and Cool'n' Quiet in the bios of the board. I also enabled Turbo Core in the bios (which says the 3200MHz is max and 3600 MHz in case of Turbo Core being used.. I disabled C1E. After Linux is booted (AMD64!) and idled, the CPU is running at 800Mhz (nice!) and at 3200 MHz when system is under load. But: With prime I put exactly two cores under load, so normally Turbo Core would kick in...but the clock of those both cores show 3200MHz instead of 3600MHz How can I make use of the Turbo-Core feature unde Linux? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice weekend! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Phenom X6 + Linux + Turbo Core ???
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-12-04 01:24]: On Friday 03 December 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I googled this and found some other people asking the same question... But I didn't find the answer. I am using linux kernel 2.6.36.1 vanilla to run on a AMD Phenom X6 1090T/ASUS Crosshair IV Formula system. I enabled ondemand CPU frequency scaling givernor in the kernel and Cool'n' Quiet in the bios of the board. I also enabled Turbo Core in the bios (which says the 3200MHz is max and 3600 MHz in case of Turbo Core being used.. I disabled C1E. After Linux is booted (AMD64!) and idled, the CPU is running at 800Mhz (nice!) and at 3200 MHz when system is under load. But: With prime I put exactly two cores under load, so normally Turbo Core would kick in...but the clock of those both cores show 3200MHz instead of 3600MHz How can I make use of the Turbo-Core feature unde Linux? and you looked at the speed using cat /proc/cpuinfo? Because the mhz displayed there are misleading. cpuinfo does not show at which speeds it is acutally running if there is any oc/uc involved. An overclocked cpu might show 2Ghz while it is running at 2.3GHz See: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26065 No, I didn't. I looked at: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-5]/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq and it is saying 320 .
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to copy text from hex editor
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-11-28 10:32]: This may be simple, but I don't know how to do it: I have opened a file I captured with tcpflow using hexdump and also tried okteta. With either applications I can select the plain text, but corresponding hexadecimal characters are also selected at the same time. Is there a way of copying and pasting the plain text portion of the file content only, or are there some clever incantations that hexdump will take to only show the plain text portion of the file? -- Regards, Mick Hi Mick, suppose you have a file containing everything of the capture You can cut off everything you dont want with the tool cut (- man cut) or the parts you want. Another way is to read everything with the ascii editor vim and use the visual mode for what cut was used in the previous example. Sorry for not giving examples...I dont know the exact format of the capture you are talking about... HTH Have a nice sunday! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Rosegarden constantly crashing...
Hi, I am trying to use jack/qjackctrl with Zynaddsubfx and Rosegarden to play some midi stuff... It works...for a few seconds. Then Rosegarden dies. Jack list this: 09:36:36.740 Patchbay deactivated. 09:36:36.751 Statistics reset. 09:36:36.789 JACK is starting... 09:36:36.790 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 -P -m -H -M 09:36:36.793 ALSA connection graph change. jackd 0.118.0 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. `default' server already active 09:36:36.896 JACK was started with PID=6536. 09:36:36.896 JACK was stopped with exit status=1. 09:36:36.896 Post-shutdown script... 09:36:36.897 killall jackd 09:36:37.347 Post-shutdown script terminated successfully. 09:36:39.023 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info. 09:36:51.696 JACK is starting... 09:36:51.696 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 -P -m -H -M 09:36:51.706 JACK was started with PID=6576. jackd 0.118.0 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. apparent rate = 48000 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|-|1024|2|48000|0|0|hwmon|hwmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for playback 09:36:53.803 Server configuration saved to /home/mccramer/.jackdrc. 09:36:53.803 Statistics reset. 09:36:55.221 Client activated. 09:36:55.222 JACK connection change. 09:36:55.223 JACK connection graph change. 09:37:06.125 JACK connection graph change. 09:37:06.141 ALSA connection graph change. 09:37:06.228 JACK connection change. 09:37:06.229 ALSA connection change. 09:37:16.523 JACK connection change. 09:37:19.795 JACK connection change. 09:38:35.328 JACK connection graph change. 09:38:35.353 ALSA connection graph change. 09:38:35.473 JACK connection change. 09:38:35.474 ALSA connection change. 09:38:35.720 ALSA connection graph change. 09:38:43.430 ALSA connection graph change. 09:38:49.824 ALSA connection graph change. 09:39:45.079 ALSA connection graph change. subgraph starting at ZynAddSubFX timed out (subgraph_wait_fd=18, status = 0, state = Finished, pollret = 0 revents = 0x0) 09:39:45.084 JACK connection graph change. 09:39:45.084 XRUN callback (1). alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.769 msecs 09:39:45.093 JACK connection change. 09:39:45.094 ALSA connection change. 09:39:58.668 JACK connection graph change. 09:39:58.687 ALSA connection graph change. 09:39:58.699 JACK connection change. 09:39:58.699 ALSA connection change. 09:39:58.728 JACK connection graph change. 09:39:58.900 JACK connection change. 09:39:59.086 ALSA connection graph change. 09:40:03.031 ALSA connection graph change. 09:40:04.637 ALSA connection graph change. 09:40:07.876 ALSA connection graph change. 09:40:08.428 ALSA connection graph change. subgraph starting at ZynAddSubFX timed out (subgraph_wait_fd=18, status = 0, state = Finished, pollret = 0 revents = 0x0) 09:41:04.641 XRUN callback (2). alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 0.712 msecs subgraph starting at rosegarden lost client bad status (-2) for client rosegarden handling event (type = 8) 09:41:04.655 JACK connection graph change. 09:41:04.655 ALSA connection graph change. 09:41:04.722 JACK connection change. 09:41:04.723 ALSA connection change. dmesg reports this: sky2 :05:00.0: eth0: enabling interface PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs2 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa2 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs3 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa3 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs4 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa4 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs5 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa5 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs6 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa6 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs7 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs8 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa8 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs9 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa9 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs10 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa10 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs11 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa11 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs12 PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa12 sky2 :05:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both sky2 :05:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both sd 0:0:0:0: __pm_runtime_resume()! sd 0:0:0:0: __pm_runtime_resume() returns 1! sd 0:0:0:0: __pm_runtime_resume()! sd 0:0:0:0: __pm_runtime_resume() returns 1!
[gentoo-user] Console-kit instances...
Hi, is it really necessary, that console-kit runs 65 instances of itsself??? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Varying clocks freqs of CPU ?
Hi, new features, new problems... Recent multi-core CPUs modify the clock freqs of their core if only a subset of all cores are used. Are their any CONFIGs need to be set in the linux kernel to guarantee a stable system running those kind of CPUs ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] jack and headaches
Hi, I got some headaches from trying to use jack (the audio-connector). Following this: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK I finally tried this: jackd -d alsa and got this: solfire:/home/mccramersudo jackd -d alsa jackd 0.118.0 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for playback jackd watchdog: timeout - killing jackd same when using qjackctrl. Any hint what I can do to get jack running? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] X crashing
Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr [10-11-17 16:20]: Hi all, I use an astronomical open source imaging software (http://www.audela.org/) which works fine except when launching a tcl photometry script (Calaphot). X crashes with the error message : X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 148 (RENDER) Minor opcode of failed request: 4 (RenderCreatePicture) Serial number of failed request: 51329 Current serial number in output stream: 51338 I get the same crash on two PCs with Gentoo. I use an ATI graphic card 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] and the open source radeon driver. tcl package is : dev-lang/tcl-8.5.8-r1 I really don't know where to go... Have you an idea ? Thank you for your help, Cheers, -- Jacques Hi Jacques, just a shot in the dark: May be the binary uses no longer valid calls into X. Try to recompile the source of that program on your machine, so that the newest headers get used by the compile process... Good luck! :) Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Swing !
pk pete...@coolmail.se [10-11-12 00:50]: On 2010-11-10 20:24, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am a little confused. I am compiled SuperCollider3 from source. When started, it complains of not finding swing. As far as I know, Swing is part of the java sdk. Is it? Or what can trigger this message? If I remember correctly, swing is the gui package of (sun?) java. Not sure if it gets installed by default (I haven't done any java coding for quite a while). Or it may be that your java path needs updating... HTH Best regards Peter K Hi Peter, thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I have no knowledge about java. I would be very happy, if someone could me a hint, how to make SuperCollider finding an using Swing. How can I make Swing accessible for SuperCollider? Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Swing !
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [10-11-12 01:20]: On 11/10/2010 09:24 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am a little confused. I am compiled SuperCollider3 from source. When started, it complains of not finding swing. As far as I know, Swing is part of the java sdk. Is it? Or what can trigger this message? Best regards, mcc There's a media-sound/supercollider package in the pro-audio overlay. You can add the overlay with layman and emerge that package. Does it install Swing / make Swing available on my box ? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Swing !
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [10-11-12 04:40]: On 11/12/2010 05:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de [10-11-12 01:20]: On 11/10/2010 09:24 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am a little confused. I am compiled SuperCollider3 from source. When started, it complains of not finding swing. As far as I know, Swing is part of the java sdk. Is it? Or what can trigger this message? Best regards, mcc There's a media-sound/supercollider package in the pro-audio overlay. You can add the overlay with layman and emerge that package. Does it install Swing / make Swing available on my box ? I've no idea. I once had to write a small Java app that uses Swing, and I was able to use it without anything special, as long as dev-java/sun-jdk was installed. So in other words, either there's a bug in SC, or it needs an older/newer JDK than the one you have installed. Anyway, I thought the point of Java was to not having to compile anything; doesn't SC provide ready to run binaries? Do those work? I installed the dev-java/sun-jdk and logout/login but it does not change anything. Will check binaries of SC if available... Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Swing !
Hi, I am a little confused. I am compiled SuperCollider3 from source. When started, it complains of not finding swing. As far as I know, Swing is part of the java sdk. Is it? Or what can trigger this message? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...
Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za [10-11-10 18:40]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system (AMD64). But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc Hello Meino, My setup is one 32bit pc with gentoo and another 64bit pc with gentoo I managed to get this going on the 64bit with a 32-bit chroot, distcc, and crosstools Just make sure you compiled your kernel with IA32 binary support (should be default) Here are some links: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=2 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?part=1chap=2 Regards, Coert Waagmeester Hi Coert, thanks a lot for your informations and the links! :) I will see, how I will proceed... Best regards mcc
[gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...
Hi, it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system (AMD64). But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com [10-11-09 18:36]: On 9. 11. 2010 18:25, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? I think that is what cross-compilation is good for... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. Is there a toolchain already setup for cross-compiling 32-bit executables on a AMD64 system, or do I have to do all that cross- compiling magic by myself ? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...
Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com [10-11-09 18:40]:
2010/11/9 meino.cra...@gmx.de:
Hi,
it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system
(AMD64).
But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get
an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how???
gr...@kraken ~ $ cat test.c
void main() {}
gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -o a.out.64 test.c
gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -m32 -o a.out.32 test.c
gr...@kraken ~ $ file a.out.*
a.out.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
2.6.9, not stripped
a.out.64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not
stripped
gr...@kraken ~ $
Br,
Maciej Grela
Oh YEAH! That's a definition of straight forward I do like very much!
Thanks a lot, Maciej! You saved me a lot of half defunct bits ! ;)
Best regards,
mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...
Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com [10-11-09 18:40]:
2010/11/9 meino.cra...@gmx.de:
Hi,
it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system
(AMD64).
But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get
an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how???
gr...@kraken ~ $ cat test.c
void main() {}
gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -o a.out.64 test.c
gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -m32 -o a.out.32 test.c
gr...@kraken ~ $ file a.out.*
a.out.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
2.6.9, not stripped
a.out.64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not
stripped
gr...@kraken ~ $
Br,
Maciej Grela
Sorry a little offtopic, but: There is kinda nonsense-humor of
gcc in you lines. To call a program, which only consists of void main() {},
to be non stripped is - at least - british understatement (no
punt intended!) :) ;) X-}
Best regards,
mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] How to record a dvb-t stream for a specific time ?
pk pete...@coolmail.se [10-11-02 00:24]: On 2010-10-31 13:30, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ...cat has no timing parameter (see mail)... Yes, but I put it in a sub shell (cat ... ) and then kill it (using a very rough script that loops date). Basically what I do is: 1. set channel for a certain video adapter (I have two). 2. Use a script that loops date (with a 5 second interval) and when it hits the threshold starts a sub shell with 'cat /dev/video0 filmname.mpg' and saves the PID in a filename with the same name but with a .pid ending instead. 3. Use a script that loops date and when it hits the threshold reads the PID of the cat process from the .pid file and kills it. Perhaps not the ideal way to solve a problem but it works for me without having to mess with something that can sing dance while (hopefully) doing whatever I want it to do... and needing the kitchen sink for a minimal install. MfG Peter K Hi Peter, yes, the killing thing was my first idea also. But since it is not that gentleman like, I asked here for another solution. In the meanwhile I found this: tzap -r -H -t duration in seconds -o - channelname from ~/.tzap/channels.conf filename records the stream into filename. The redirection is necassary, since tzap gets problems when trying to write more than 2Gigs of streamed data. I start this via fcron. MfG mcc
[gentoo-user] Problems with frcon and pam?
Hi, currently my fcron seems to have problems to do its jobs done: Nov 02 04:56:21 [fcron] Could not open PAM session for '/usr/sbin/check_system_crontabs -s 0': Module is unknown Nov 02 04:56:21 [fcron] read_write_pipe(): read/write returned 0: retrying... (size: 4, size_processed: 0, num_retry: 1): Success Nov 02 04:56:22 [fcron] read_write_pipe(): read/write returned 0: retrying... (size: 4, size_processed: 0, num_retry: 2): Success Nov 02 04:56:23 [fcron] read_write_pipe(): read/write returned 0: retrying... (size: 4, size_processed: 0, num_retry: 3): Success Nov 02 04:56:24 [fcron] Could not read job pid because of closed pipe: setting it to -1 /etc/fcron/fcron.deny is empty /etc/fcron/fcron.allow says all Additionally I recompiled fcron. Unfortunately I dont know how to interpret the above lines from the logs... How can I fix this? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice day! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] How to record a dvb-t stream for a specific time ?
pk pete...@coolmail.se [10-10-31 12:40]: On 2010-10-30 13:55, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am looking for a way to record from a dvb-t card a stream of a certain channel fpr a specific time. Is there any tool of application to do this from the commandline so that there is no additional mousclick is needed? I assume you have a video device (dev/video0)? If so, you should be able to capture it by doing 'cat video_filename.(mpg or whatever format is used)' . It's what I do for my recordings (v4l2, analog video)... MfG Peter K ...cat has no timing parameter (see mail)... Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] How to record a dvb-t stream for a specific time ?
Hi, I am looking for a way to record from a dvb-t card a stream of a certain channel fpr a specific time. Is there any tool of application to do this from the commandline so that there is no additional mousclick is needed? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] How to record a dvb-t stream for a specific time ?
Fatih T??men fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com [10-10-30 15:36]: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 14:55, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to record from a dvb-t card a stream of a certain channel fpr a specific time. Is there any tool of application to do this from the commandline so that there is no additional mousclick is needed? Best regards, mcc I know that mplayer can do it but I did not try it myself. mplayer record dvb gives these [MPlayer-dvb] Record dvb-t on Ubuntu linux I want to record my favorite dvb-t channels and I found in docs the way ... http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dvb/2007-March/001911.html Record dvb-t at night - Ubuntu Forums I want to record my favorite dvb-t channels and I found in docs the way to do it : mplayer -dumpfile r1.ts -dumpstream dvb://CHANNEL ... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=394308 -- Fatih Hi Fatih, oh thanks a LOT! Great! mplayer was the keyword I missed while googling. I did a more general search and may overlooked those! Thats helps me a lot! Have a nice weekend! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] xmltv to MySQL ???
Hi, I am looking for a tool to simply put the contents of xmltv-files into a MySQL database. I googled a lot this day and found some tools but some does not use MySQL (for example one uses Postgresql) other have started a project but do not release any code. And lot tools are part of very very big packages and cannot be cut out of them in a simple way. I only want a xmltv-reader which feeds the data into MySQL. Everything else is done elsewhere... Does anyone know a tool like this? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice weekend! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] xmltv to MySQL ???
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [10-10-31 02:26]: On 30 Oct 10, at 6:25pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... I am looking for a tool to simply put the contents of xmltv-files into a MySQL database. I googled a lot this day and found some tools but some does not use MySQL (for example one uses Postgresql) other have started a project but do not release any code. And lot tools are part of very very big packages and cannot be cut out of them in a simple way. I only want a xmltv-reader which feeds the data into MySQL. Everything else is done elsewhere... I think the best answer to this is MythTV. A week ago you asked about waking your computer up at certain times to record TV. Earlier today you were asking for something to schedule recordings. I would have replied then and suggested MythTV or atd, but you'd already had a reply you were happy with by the time I saw it. Now you're trying to fix another problem which has already been solved by MythTV. What are you going to do when you find that shows are running late and the bash script you've bodged together cuts off the last 5 minutes of Inspector Morse? You will never know whodunnit!! MythTV automatically pads the program by a few minutes, except when this would clash with another program. MythTV has thousands of lines of code already written to solve the problems associated with recording and watching TV on a computer. All the stuff you've asked for already, MythTV started addressing years ago. Will your script be able to record two shows at once, using a single tuner? MythTV can. I understand where you're coming from, wanting to do this yourself, but I think you're going to be continually wanting to add features to your solution. Having said that, I think you could probably use Perl. I think there is an xmltv module in CPAN, and you'll find about a zillion articles on the web about using Perl to shove stuff into databases. http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/xmltv/ Is there any reason your database has to be MySQL, rather than, say, SQLite? Stroller. Hi Stroller, thank you for your help and answer. May be your right: Why doing anything myself ?! I want to use MySQL since it is already installed and used and dont want to have n different databases programs for n different applications which basically do all the same: gathering data... Best regards and thank you again! mcc
[gentoo-user] Fcron question
Hi, I want to start a script via fcron, which collects all EPG informations into an xml- and into a text-file. To do so, tzap needs to be run. This implies, that noone is using the dvb-t interface under /dev. This cannot quaranteed for all cases in the future. Can I instruct fcron to retry the execution of a script - say - 30 minutes after the time of the original scheduled start, if the script returns with an rc != 0 ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Fcron question
Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net [10-10-17 13:52]: Am 17.10.2010 11:27, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I want to start a script via fcron, which collects all EPG informations into an xml- and into a text-file. To do so, tzap needs to be run. This implies, that noone is using the dvb-t interface under /dev. This cannot quaranteed for all cases in the future. Can I instruct fcron to retry the execution of a script - say - 30 minutes after the time of the original scheduled start, if the script returns with an rc != 0 ? Hmm, I don't think so. Its man-page doesn't show such an option. I think your best bet is to create a wrapper script which tests the existence and stats of some file for checking it. Then let fcron run that script every 30 minutes. The attached file should get you going. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp Hi FLorian, thank you for your support! :) I will check it. Have a nice sunday! mcc
[gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...
Hi, I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card. Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :) What should work is: 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!) suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already). 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time somewhere. 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk for later processing. My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported by lspci): 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D) 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B) 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40) 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40) 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40) 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40) 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03) 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards and have a nice weekend! :) mcc
[gentoo-user] NVidia and reserved memblocks?
Hi, I am using a recent gentoo (64bit) with a nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) graphics card (according to lspci), the nvidia-drivers 256.53 and an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard with an AMI bios. I encounter system freezes from time to time when working with Blender (which uses OpenGL a lot). Are there any settings to reserve memory blocks for the graphics card? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards an d have a nice weekend! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...
James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com [10-10-16 16:23]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card. Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :) What should work is: 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!) suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already). 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time somewhere. 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk for later processing. My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported by lspci): 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D) 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B) 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40) 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40) 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40) 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40) 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03) 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards and have a nice weekend! :) mcc To get the computer to come out of the suspended states, you need to look for an option in the BIOS to automatically start your PC, typically called RTC Alarm or similar. Your cron jobs will be able to take over at that point. HTH, James - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMuaRLAAoJEISPTA/exVD8Z40H/iGK1Mtz9eg47XiMxfCMshO2 j9s/ULrVI3KKvDr9ygOu/mGApv9pKENgiAz3X1HTSQpT42A/UmrWCHkkUl2JV1Lh
Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [10-10-16 16:23]: On 16 Oct 2010, at 14:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:59:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: What should work is: 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!) suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already). 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time somewhere. This can be done through the BIOS. MythTV also has an option to wake up before recordings, so you could look at how they do it. MythTV just sets the time in the BIOS then shuts the computer down (or to sleep). First Google hit for wake from sleep linux: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726596/continual-wake-and-sleep-for-minimal-power-usage-on-linux http://tinyurl.com/32ahspk Linked to in the answer: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup Stroller. Who, sorry, I had frist answered the first posting and than read the other ones... Thanks a lot for your help...will see what I can accomplish... Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...
James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com [10-10-16 16:23]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card. Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :) What should work is: 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!) suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already). 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time somewhere. 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk for later processing. My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported by lspci): 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D) 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B) 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40) 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40) 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40) 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40) 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03) 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards and have a nice weekend! :) mcc To get the computer to come out of the suspended states, you need to look for an option in the BIOS to automatically start your PC, typically called RTC Alarm or similar. Your cron jobs will be able to take over at that point. HTH, James - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMuaRLAAoJEISPTA/exVD8Z40H/iGK1Mtz9eg47XiMxfCMshO2 j9s/ULrVI3KKvDr9ygOu/mGApv9pKENgiAz3X1HTSQpT42A/UmrWCHkkUl2JV1Lh
[gentoo-user] Suspend-to-disk stopped by xhci-module...
Hi, For my ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard I use the (experimental) USB 3.0 driver xhci. When this driver is loaded as module I cannot send the PC to suspend-mode. After unloading that module, it works. Is it possible to rmmod this module and maybe sync and unmount any related USB-device automagically before entering any suspend mode? (Or is there any other nice trick to circumvent that problem?) Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [10-10-08 16:36]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: for a long time I have compiled makehuman from the svn tree. quick guess...lafilefixer --justfixit? In the past with some video games, I had problems with the .la files after compiling new versions of the games that used libsdl. (WAG) James Hi all, I finally found the reason for haveing no z-buffering available... The libsdl was copiled without the opengl USE-flag set. Would it possible, that this flag is set for 32bit-Linux by default and is totally missing (not shown when doing a 'emerge -pv libsd�', neither set nor unset) on 64bit-Linux? I added this flag and now everything is working fine... Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [10-10-09 18:16]: On 9 Oct 2010, at 13:14, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... I finally found the reason for haveing no z-buffering available... The libsdl was copiled without the opengl USE-flag set. Would it possible, that this flag is set for 32bit-Linux by default and is totally missing (not shown when doing a 'emerge -pv libsdl', neither set nor unset) on 64bit-Linux? It appears to be set as -opengl by default on 32-bit here, but it is shown as an option. Stroller. Hi, yes, thats why I activated it on my 32bit system and therefore the z-buffer problem does not hit me. But doing an emerge -pv libsdl on my 64bit system does not show this neither activated nor deactivated. Thats why did not noticed that it is missing. Adding it to package.use (activate it) results in a clean compile, so despite it is not mentioned at all it is known and solved the problem. Thats why I am thinking it should be shown as it is shown on 32bit system. Just an idea for a little bit more comfort in searching for problem fixes... Only my two cent, your currency may vary... Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [10-10-08 16:28]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: When makehuman is started it prints on the console: I have no experience with this software... No antialiasing available, turning off antialiasing. No 24 bit z buffer available, switching to 16 bit. No 16 bit z buffer available, exiting. This relates, most probably, to the lack of z-buffer support in your video card hardware on linux. Here's a link on z buffer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-buffering What's your video card and driver? Have you tried these apps on another system with a different video card and driver? Latest testing driver for the video card? Hi James, thank you for your help ! :) Hmmm...that is a kind of frightning to me... On my previous system I had a nvidia GT7200 or GT7500 (cant remember exactly) and makehuman does work with it. Now I have a nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) according to lspci. So this card /seems/ to be more advanced -- at least to me when I took a look at the numbering 7200-9500. I am using the propietary nvidia drivers. No problems since now exept for the use of makehuman. I have no problems with other SDL-related executables. Blender (for example) is heavily using OpenGL and DRI and wirks fine under 64bit Gentoo linux. Then this suggest your 'makehuman' application is male_formed? (guess). male_formed ... sorry James, what does it mean...English isn't my mothers tongue...does it mean something like falsy compiled, badly built? The output of glxinfo was sent to the developers of makehuman and they did not find anything suspicious. SDL is always tricky, in my limited use (video games). Sometimes the libsdl work with the app and sometimes they don't. I have not used it in a while. It could also be a problem with the frame buffer setup on your system? (another WAG, wild a__ guess). Framebuffers? Hu? I thought, these wre only used when dealing with the bare console or when using X in cases there is no support for the graphics card. Please give me a hint here... May be someone here on this mailing list is able to point me into the right direction to fix this ? maybe go over your compiler options with a fine tooth comb, use C and not C++ and just one processor to compile libsdl and your apps. (MAKEOPTS=-j1) .Just another WAG. Ok, I will check that, thank you James... Is there something else...for example in xorg.conf to switch on or off to get this z-buffering working? Have a nice weekend! Best regards, mcc hth, James Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [10-10-08 16:36]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: for a long time I have compiled makehuman from the svn tree. quick guess...lafilefixer --justfixit? In the past with some video games, I had problems with the .la files after compiling new versions of the games that used libsdl. (WAG) James Doesn't help... But thank you, James, anyway! :) I will start to recompile all related sources with sane CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS-settings now and will see what is not working than ;) Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] ASUS Crosshair IV Formula + AMD Phenom II X6 1090T: Fan speead readout ???
Hi, with the setup mentioned in the subject to this posting I have mananged to get this readout with the command 'sensors': k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +18.5 C (high = +70.0 C, crit = +90.0 C) atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.28 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) CPU/NB Voltage:+1.16 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.60 V) CPU VDDA Voltage: +2.50 V (min = +2.00 V, max = +3.00 V) DRAM Voltage: +1.50 V (min = +1.40 V, max = +1.90 V) HT Voltage:+1.20 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.50 V) NB Voltage:+1.10 V (min = +0.90 V, max = +1.35 V) SB Voltage:+1.11 V (min = +0.80 V, max = +1.50 V) +3.3V Voltage: +3.34 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V) +5V Voltage: +4.93 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V) +12V Voltage: +12.26 V (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V) CPU Temperature: +34.0 C (high = +40.0 C, crit = +90.0 C) MB Temperature:+30.0 C (high = +35.0 C, crit = +95.0 C) NB Temperature:+46.0 C (high = +65.0 C, crit = +95.0 C) SB Temperature:+40.0 C (high = +35.0 C, crit = +75.0 C) OPT_TEMP1 Temperature: +0.0 C (high = +0.0 C, crit = +90.0 C) OPT_TEMP2 Temperature: +0.0 C (high = +0.0 C, crit = +90.0 C) OPT_TEMP3 Temperature: +0.0 C (high = +0.0 C, crit = +90.0 C) The help tp atk0110-acpi-0 says: CONFIG_SENSORS_ATK0110 If you say yes here you get support for the ACPI hardware monitoring interface found in many ASUS motherboards. This driver will provide readings of fans, voltages and temperatures through the system firmware. The BIOS of this motherboard has displays for fan speeds and even limits to give alarms on certain conditions. Neither running sensors-detect nor examination of the output of sudo lspci -k has given me a hint. How can I get these additonal informations? Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] HAL? ACPID?
Hi, in search of informations about acpi/acpid on the internet I found the statement, that acpid is now obsoleted by hal. When I give acpi in the gentoo wiki I found installation instructions for acpid and HAL is not mentioned. I am confused now... I am using an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula wuth an AMD Phenom II X6 CPU. Suspend-to-Swap works fine (as a sign of a working ACPI implemention...) What should I use ? Acpid? Hal? Both? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] seq24 fails to comoile
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [10-10-07 11:53]: On 7 Oct 2010, at 06:40, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... MAKEOPTS=-j 12 Agh No!!! That's probably your problem right there. The recommendation in the manual is N+1, where N == number of cores. Do you have 11 or more cores? I find that even that isn't always safe. I set... MAKEOPTS=-j 1 ... I made the changes you suggested and now got an different error ... it still does not compile. Did you reduce it to (the number of cores in your system + 1) or to -j 1? If the former, try the latter. Stroller. Yes, I reduces -j n to n=1 (why exist this option, if it does not work?) mcc
[gentoo-user] Beyond-Gentoo question
Hi, for a long time I have compiled makehuman from the svn tree. This works with no problems with my 32bit Gentoo linux. When changed to 64bit Gentoo Linux it does not work any longer. The compilation itssself is clean, buth the executable does not work as exspected... From the developpers forum I know that makehuman is 64bit aware and runs (for others, not for me). They also said, that it may have be something to do with the SDL lib. I searched for differences of the installation of SDL between the two systems but I did not found anything -- at least nothing which would alarm me. When makehuman is started it prints on the console: No antialiasing available, turning off antialiasing. No 24 bit z buffer available, switching to 16 bit. No 16 bit z buffer available, exiting. I have no problems with other SDL-related executables. Blender (for example) is heavily using OpenGL and DRI and wirks fine under 64bit Gentoo linux. The output of glxinfo was sent to the developers of makehuman and they did not find anything suspicious. May be someone here on this mailing list is able to point me into the right direction to fix this ? Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx with keyboard input
Hi, I am currently experimenting with ZynAddSubFX. This synth has a virtual keyboard, which is accessible via clicks of the mouse and via the keyboard of my computer. When tuning parameters of the synth it is often of help to hear, what the current parameter does with the sound. All parameters of ZynAddSubFX are altered via the computer mouse. Doing so will change the window focus of the virtual keyboard to the parameter window and hitting the keyboad of the computer then will have no effect (the keypress is directed to the window with the parameter knobs, which has the focus now). Zynaddsubfx will accept input from midi devices also. I am no midi expert at all. :) Is there any Virtual keyboard or anything else, which can be used to interpret keyboard (computer) events to midi somthing and send them to ZynAddSubFX? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] seq24 fails to comoile
Hi, The application seq24 fails to compile on my recent Gentoo AMD64 system. The screen says: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.-pthread -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/lib64/pangomm-1.4/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -Wall -march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -MT seqevent.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/seqevent.Tpo -c -o seqevent.o seqevent.cpp x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.-pthread -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/lib64/pangomm-1.4/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -Wall -march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -MT seqkeys.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/seqkeys.Tpo -c -o seqkeys.o seqkeys.cpp make[2]: *** [mainwnd.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs perform.cpp: In member function 'void perform::output_func()': perform.cpp:1152: warning: unused variable 'jack_ticks_converted' perform.cpp:1153: warning: unused variable 'jack_ticks_converted_last' perform.cpp:1154: warning: unused variable 'jack_ticks_delta' perform.cpp: In member function 'void perform::add_sequence(sequence*, int)': perform.cpp:353: warning: array subscript is below array bounds mv -f .deps/options.Tpo .deps/options.Po mv -f .deps/perform.Tpo .deps/perform.Po mv -f .deps/perftime.Tpo .deps/perftime.Po mv -f .deps/perfnames.Tpo .deps/perfnames.Po mv -f .deps/seqdata.Tpo .deps/seqdata.Po mv -f .deps/seqkeys.Tpo .deps/seqkeys.Po mv -f .deps/seqevent.Tpo .deps/seqevent.Po mv -f .deps/perfroll.Tpo .deps/perfroll.Po mv -f .deps/seq24.Tpo .deps/seq24.Po mv -f .deps/perfedit.Tpo .deps/perfedit.Po mv -f .deps/seqedit.Tpo .deps/seqedit.Po make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/work/seq24-0.9.0/src' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/work/seq24-0.9.0/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * ERROR: media-sound/seq24-0.9.0 failed: * emake failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 2312: Called _eapi2_src_compile * ebuild.sh, line 646: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die emake failed * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =media-sound/seq24-0.9.0', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =media-sound/seq24-0.9.0'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/work/seq24-0.9.0' Failed to emerge media-sound/seq24-0.9.0, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/temp/build.log' solfire:/home/mccrameremerge --info =media-sound/seq24-0.9.0 zsh: media-sound/seq24-0.9.0 not found emerge -pqv =media-sound/seq24-0.9.0'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/work/seq24-0.9.0' Failed to emerge media-sound/seq24-0.9.0, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.9.0/temp/build.log' solfire:/home/mccrameremerge -pqv =media-sound/seq24-0.9.0 [ebuild N] media-sound/seq24-0.9.0 USE=-jack -lash solfire:/home/mccrameremerge --info =media-sound/seq24-0.9.0 Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35.7 x86_64) = System Settings = System uname: Linux-2.6.35.7-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:50:01 +
Re: [gentoo-user] seq24 fails to comoile
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [10-10-07 07:32]:
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:43:55AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote
=
System Settings
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CFLAGS=-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe -msse3
Let the compiler figure out the CPU. Change that line to...
CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe -msse3
The recommended way of doing things here is...
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
...which exactly copies whatever settings you have there.
Synchronization between CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS becomes automatic this way.
MAKEOPTS=-j 12
Agh No!!! That's probably your problem right there.
The recommendation in the manual is N+1, where N == number of cores. Do
you have 11 or more cores? I find that even that isn't always safe. I
set...
MAKEOPTS=-j 1
and it solves quite a few problems. Note that the final binary is just
as fast, regardless of that setting. The compile speed is somewhat
faster with a higher number. But you quickly lose any time savings
from that, the first time you waste several hours trying to figure out
why something isn't compiling. MAKEOPTS=-j 1 should be mandatory.
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Hi Walter,
thank you for your help,
I made the changes you suggested and now got an different error ... it
still does not compile.
Here is the output:
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.-pthread
-I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gtkmm-2.4/include
-I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/giomm-2.4/include
-I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/lib64/pangomm-1.4/include
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0
-I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4
-I/usr/lib64/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4
-I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0
-I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0
-I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -Wall -march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3 -MT mainwnd.o
-MD -MP -MF .deps/mainwnd.Tpo -c -o mainwnd.o mainwnd.cpp
mainwnd.cpp: In member function 'void mainwnd::file_import_dialog()':
mainwnd.cpp:531: error: invalid conversion from 'Gtk::ButtonBox*' to
'Gtk::HButtonBox*'
make[2]: *** [mainwnd.o] Error 1
To not to pollute the mailing list again with a dozen of outputs and
logs I haven't attached those to this different posting. If you need
a certain file/log/output or whatever to fix this, please let me now!
:)
Best regards,
mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] fetchmail + certs = problems
Heiko Zinke ma...@rabuju.com [10-10-03 22:01]: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:31:38PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, fetchmail's log told me, that there is something wrong with the setup of the certificats. In the log there is the following section fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: pop.gmx.net key fingerprint: A6:57:BC:4A:97:AD:DB:99:00:E9:3A:B8:81:55:D7:B6 fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for /C=DE/ST=Bayern/L=Munich/O=GMX GmbH/CN=pop.gmx.net) is not in the trusted CA certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on the certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of --sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page. fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first certificate fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!) In beforehand I did the following: i did pretty much the same thing without success :( but the sslcertfile option in the default section of my .fetchmailrc finaly solved the problem: he...@chiefwiggum:~ cat .fetchmailrc defaults proto pop3 limit 0 mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T sslcertfile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt poll pop.1und1.de user xxx keep ssl poll pop.gmx.net user xxx keep ssl option sslcertfile in the fetchmail manpage and the update-ca-certificates manpage gave me the hint. cheers heiko Hi Heiko, looks good! ...and works! Thank you for your help! Best regards mcc -- This email is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. If you have received this message by mistake, it would be ridiculous for me to tell you not to read it or copy to anyone else, because, let's face it, if it's a message revealing confidential information or that could embarrass me intensely, that's precisely what you'll do. Who wouldn't? Likewise, it is superfluous for me to claim copyright in the contents, because I own that anyway, even if you print out a hard copy or disseminate this message all over the known universe. I don't know why so many corporate mail servers feel impelled to attach a disclaimer to the bottom of every email message saying otherwise. If you don't know either, why not email your corporate lawyers and system administrators and ask them why they insist on contributing so much to the waste of bandwidth? To say nothing of making the presence of your mail on public discussions or mailinglists of explicitly contratictory nature. May as well just delete it, eh? Oh, and this message is probably plagued with viruses as well.
[gentoo-user] fetchmail + certs = problems
Hi, fetchmail's log told me, that there is something wrong with the setup of the certificats. In the log there is the following section fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: pop.gmx.net key fingerprint: A6:57:BC:4A:97:AD:DB:99:00:E9:3A:B8:81:55:D7:B6 fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for /C=DE/ST=Bayern/L=Munich/O=GMX GmbH/CN=pop.gmx.net) is not in the trusted CA certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on the certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of --sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page. fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first certificate fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!) In beforehand I did the following: From the output of this command # openssl s_client -connect pop.gmx.net:995 -showcerts I copied the section -BEGIN CERTIFICATE- MIIDUzCCArygAwIBAgIQDNZUbIDJ5EM+DVSd5AzXOjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCB zjELMAkGA1UEBhMCWkExFTATBgNVBAgTDFdlc3Rlcm4gQ2FwZTESMBAGA1UEBxMJ Q2FwZSBUb3duMR0wGwYDVQQKExRUaGF3dGUgQ29uc3VsdGluZyBjYzEoMCYGA1UE CxMfQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBTZXJ2aWNlcyBEaXZpc2lvbjEhMB8GA1UEAxMYVGhh d3RlIFByZW1pdW0gU2VydmVyIENBMSgwJgYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhlwcmVtaXVtLXNl cnZlckB0aGF3dGUuY29tMB4XDTEwMDQyMjAwMDAwMFoXDTEzMDUwOTIzNTk1OVow WDELMAkGA1UEBhMCREUxDzANBgNVBAgTBkJheWVybjEPMA0GA1UEBxQGTXVuaWNo MREwDwYDVQQKFAhHTVggR21iSDEUMBIGA1UEAxQLcG9wLmdteC5uZXQwgZ8wDQYJ KoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIGJAoGBAMu3VYZP3YqpNweeIp+zIYtAlYL9Nya5hq6j k+ShUtukV1746nqJto70+4oNhCYJ33mMw+vS5fODjuggG+Z1xcL5YU8mUyG2E7fH YkfNtHHMhRntN15ml7Kv3c52kmOI09r2psnlNPkkNx5shneON8jZfXYlqQq5Vq1l Hz+jEjFrAgMBAAGjgaYwgaMwDAYDVR0TAQH/BAIwADBABgNVHR8EOTA3MDWgM6Ax hi9odHRwOi8vY3JsLnRoYXd0ZS5jb20vVGhhd3RlU2VydmVyUHJlbWl1bUNBLmNy bDAdBgNVHSUEFjAUBggrBgEFBQcDAQYIKwYBBQUHAwIwMgYIKwYBBQUHAQEEJjAk MCIGCCsGAQUFBzABhhZodHRwOi8vb2NzcC50aGF3dGUuY29tMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEB BQUAA4GBAF/BVQRh2QOAtH8491d2XIKqdRZNY4OUMh6qccb0xLGNTDx3E4iwoYHc yi2axElQG+7VAEIbDftzfhVUttsPwLI0BM2Nvz6KkwnlrJmt9HuZOjyv9M6szCxX jHqVXkTDtrvRzT3hHTLD63l4PAqAUDpR4Th4N23IyxpgVqmYZwoJ -END CERTIFICATE- into a file pop.gmx.net.pem and copied ths file into /etc/fetchmail/certs Than I downloaded the whole package of root certificates from here https://www.verisign.com/support/thawte-roots.zip unpacked it and copied each *.pem file into /etc/fetchmail/certs also. I renamend the files to not to contain blanks with detox. Then I run as root the command $ c_rehash /etc/fetchmail/certs I checked /etc/fetchmail/certs and found all files being symlinked to something which looks like hash keys (?). c_hash does not submit any error message. After this I added below the poll section of my accounts $HOME/.fetchmailrc the following line: sslcertpath /etc/fetchmail/certs Nonetheless fetchmail complains about local certifcates. What do I have to do to fix this ? Best regards and thank you for any help in advance! mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] fetchmail + certs = problems
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-10-02 13:52]: On Saturday 02 October 2010 11:31:38 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, fetchmail's log told me, that there is something wrong with the setup of the certificats. In the log there is the following section fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: pop.gmx.net key fingerprint: A6:57:BC:4A:97:AD:DB:99:00:E9:3A:B8:81:55:D7:B6 fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for /C=DE/ST=Bayern/L=Munich/O=GMX GmbH/CN=pop.gmx.net) is not in the trusted CA certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on the certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of --sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page. fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted fetchmail: Server certificate: fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Thawte Consulting cc fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Thawte Premium Server CA fetchmail: Subject CommonName: pop.gmx.net fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first certificate fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!) In beforehand I did the following: From the output of this command # openssl s_client -connect pop.gmx.net:995 -showcerts I copied the section -BEGIN CERTIFICATE- MIIDUzCCArygAwIBAgIQDNZUbIDJ5EM+DVSd5AzXOjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCB zjELMAkGA1UEBhMCWkExFTATBgNVBAgTDFdlc3Rlcm4gQ2FwZTESMBAGA1UEBxMJ Q2FwZSBUb3duMR0wGwYDVQQKExRUaGF3dGUgQ29uc3VsdGluZyBjYzEoMCYGA1UE CxMfQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBTZXJ2aWNlcyBEaXZpc2lvbjEhMB8GA1UEAxMYVGhh d3RlIFByZW1pdW0gU2VydmVyIENBMSgwJgYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhlwcmVtaXVtLXNl cnZlckB0aGF3dGUuY29tMB4XDTEwMDQyMjAwMDAwMFoXDTEzMDUwOTIzNTk1OVow WDELMAkGA1UEBhMCREUxDzANBgNVBAgTBkJheWVybjEPMA0GA1UEBxQGTXVuaWNo MREwDwYDVQQKFAhHTVggR21iSDEUMBIGA1UEAxQLcG9wLmdteC5uZXQwgZ8wDQYJ KoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIGJAoGBAMu3VYZP3YqpNweeIp+zIYtAlYL9Nya5hq6j k+ShUtukV1746nqJto70+4oNhCYJ33mMw+vS5fODjuggG+Z1xcL5YU8mUyG2E7fH YkfNtHHMhRntN15ml7Kv3c52kmOI09r2psnlNPkkNx5shneON8jZfXYlqQq5Vq1l Hz+jEjFrAgMBAAGjgaYwgaMwDAYDVR0TAQH/BAIwADBABgNVHR8EOTA3MDWgM6Ax hi9odHRwOi8vY3JsLnRoYXd0ZS5jb20vVGhhd3RlU2VydmVyUHJlbWl1bUNBLmNy bDAdBgNVHSUEFjAUBggrBgEFBQcDAQYIKwYBBQUHAwIwMgYIKwYBBQUHAQEEJjAk MCIGCCsGAQUFBzABhhZodHRwOi8vb2NzcC50aGF3dGUuY29tMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEB BQUAA4GBAF/BVQRh2QOAtH8491d2XIKqdRZNY4OUMh6qccb0xLGNTDx3E4iwoYHc yi2axElQG+7VAEIbDftzfhVUttsPwLI0BM2Nvz6KkwnlrJmt9HuZOjyv9M6szCxX jHqVXkTDtrvRzT3hHTLD63l4PAqAUDpR4Th4N23IyxpgVqmYZwoJ -END CERTIFICATE- into a file pop.gmx.net.pem and copied ths file into /etc/fetchmail/certs Than I downloaded the whole package of root certificates from here https://www.verisign.com/support/thawte-roots.zip unpacked it and copied each *.pem file into /etc/fetchmail/certs also. I renamend the files to not to contain blanks with detox. Then I run as root the command $ c_rehash /etc/fetchmail/certs I checked /etc/fetchmail/certs and found all files being symlinked to something which looks like hash keys (?). c_hash does not submit any error message. After this I added below the poll section of my accounts $HOME/.fetchmailrc the following line: sslcertpath /etc/fetchmail/certs Nonetheless fetchmail complains about local certifcates. What do I have to do to fix this ? Best regards and thank you for any help in advance! mcc Sendmail and I think fetchmail (haven't used the latter yet) do a strict check of certs against a local store. The error above tells you to add to your .fetchmailrc the option of sslcertck. Did you do that? So your .fetchmailrc should show something like: user 'm...@gmx_whatever.com' with pass 123456 is 'mcc' here options ssl sslcertck sslcertpath '/etc/fetchmail/certs' If you have done the above and still does not work then the problem may be that the user you are running fetchmail as does not have read access to your /etc/fetchmail/certs. Change that to a ~/fetchmail/.certs and it should work. HTH. -- Regards, Mick Hi Mick, thank you for your help. :) I currently have this line in my fetchtmailrc (the rest is commented out). This had worked until the ssl/cert-showdown: poll pop.gmx.net protocol pop3 user meino.cra...@gmx.de password this is the password mda
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to compile for less bits :)
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-09-27 21:16]: On 2010-09-27, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: For my microcontroller board (ATMEL AT81RM920, linux based) Do you mean AT91RM9200? I want to crosscompile kernels and applications on my 64bit Gentoo linux. That's easy enough. The source of a gcc (prepared on a 32bit system I fear) for the purpose of crosscompiling from a 32bit system-- target is the above mentioned processor -- is available. Is it possible to compile this gcc as a 32bit-application on my 64bit system to ensure the same behaviour as it would if to was built on a original 32bit Gentoo Linux? You want to compile gcc on an AMD64 machine and end up with a cross-compiler that runs as an IA32 app and generates code for an ARM9 target? That's called a Canadian Cross, and is rather tricky, since it involves three different architectures: building a compiler on architecture A (AMD64) to be run on architecture B (IA32) and generate code for architecture C (ARM9). Can you explain why you want that rather than a normal cross compiler? IOW, why do you want to build a gcc cross compiler that runs as a 32-bit application? It's _way_ simpler to build a normal cross compiler: building a compiler one architecture (AMD64) to be run on that same architecture (AMD64) and generate code for a second architecture (ARM9). (And in this context: The audio application chuck is only as 32bit application available currently. How is it possible to compile this on a 64bit system?) You use a compiler that generates code for a the desired 32-bit architecture. The width of the host is immaterial. The easiest way to build such a compiler is using crosstool-ng http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool Crosstool-NG does have some support for doing a Canadian-cross, but I don't see why you would want to do that. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Gibble, Gobble, we at ACCEPT YOU ... gmail.com Hi Grant, Thank you very much for your offered help! Sorry, sorry I think my English confused a lot of infos... I'll try it again. Setup BEFORE I switched to 64bit Gentoo Linux. * a normal system gcc as installed by emerge usually on many (all?) gentoo systems... * a crosscompiling gcc in source form. Compiled with the normal gcc to an executable which runs on the 32bit Gentoo system and produces executables/kernel to run on the ATMEL AT91RM9200 (yes, you're right - this typo was mine ;) ) . * Additional chuck audio application only available for 32bit Linux, also compiled with the normal gcc Wanted setup on my shiny new 64bit Gentoo Linux: * a normal system gcc as installed by emerge usually on many (all?) gentoo systems... (== already there and living quite well) * a crosscompiling gcc in source form. To be Compiled with the normal gcc to an executable which runs on the 64bit Gentoo system and produces executables/kernel to run on the ATMEL AT91RM9200 (yes, you're right - this typo was mine ;) ) . OR: compiled to be an 32bit gcc-executable which generate executable binaries for my ATMEL cookie. As long a 64bit-executable of gcc can do the job I would prefer that solution of course. * Additional chuck audio application only available for 32bit Linux, to be compiled with the normal gcc to be a 32 bit executable since not 64bit-ready. I hope not to have made too much knots into that above... Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to compile for less bits :)
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-09-30 00:32]: On 2010-09-29, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: (And in this context: The audio application chuck is only as 32bit application available currently. How is it possible to compile this on a 64bit system?) You use a compiler that generates code for a the desired 32-bit architecture. The width of the host is immaterial. Thank you very much for your offered help! Sorry, sorry I think my English confused a lot of infos... Cross-building stuff is just plain confusing. I'll try it again. Setup BEFORE I switched to 64bit Gentoo Linux. * a normal system gcc as installed by emerge usually on many (all?) gentoo systems... * a crosscompiling gcc in source form. Compiled with the normal gcc to an executable which runs on the 32bit Gentoo system and produces executables/kernel to run on the ATMEL AT91RM9200 (yes, you're right - this typo was mine ;) ). * Additional chuck audio application only available for 32bit Linux, also compiled with the normal gcc Wanted setup on my shiny new 64bit Gentoo Linux: * a normal system gcc as installed by emerge usually on many (all?) gentoo systems... (== already there and living quite well) * a crosscompiling gcc in source form. To be Compiled with the normal gcc to an executable which runs on the 64bit Gentoo system and produces executables/kernel to run on the ATMEL AT91RM9200 (yes, you're right - this typo was mine ;) ) . All you need to do is build a cross compiler for the ARM9 target the same way you did before. The width of the host where you're building things doesn't matter (if it does, that's a bug in gcc or binutils). I've had excellent results using the crosstool-ng makefile: http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool Crosstool is used by a lot of embedded developers. If there were problems building an ARM comiler on an AMD64 host, Yann Morin et al. are your best bet for a solution. You may want to take a look at the crossgcc mailing list: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.cross-compiling http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/ From a brief search of the mailing list, it appears that building an ARM compiler on an AMD64 machines works just fine. or, It's quite likely that you can install IA32 libraries on your AMD64 host OS and then use the exact same compiler executable you used before. OR: compiled to be an 32bit gcc-executable which generate executable binaries for my ATMEL cookie. As long a 64bit-executable of gcc can do the job I would prefer that solution of course. You really don't want to do that. It's rather tricky, and it shouldn't be required. * Additional chuck audio application only available for 32bit Linux, to be compiled with the normal gcc to be a 32 bit executable since not 64bit-ready. Just use the arm-linux-gcc compiler and you should be fine regardless of the width of the host on which you built the arm-linux-gcc compiler. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's the RINSE CYCLE!! at They've ALL IGNORED the gmail.comRINSE CYCLE!! Hi Grant, thank you very much for your help again ! :) Life on planet AMD64 becomes easier ;) One question remains open to me: * How can I build 32bit applicationa to run on a 64bit Gentoo Linux (I have both /lib32 and /lib64 and /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64) with the normal gcc (64 bit executable) on the 64bit Gentoo Linux. Is this trick possible? (Chuck is not 64bit ready...) Thank you very much for your help in advance! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] How to compile for less bits :)
Hi, I asking in beforehand, to prevent the search for spurious unexplainable errors which may be hardly to detect. For my microcontroller board (ATMEL AT81RM920, linux based) I want to crosscompile kernels and applications on my 64bit Gentoo linux. The source of a gcc (prepared on a 32bit system I fear) for the purpose of crosscompiling from a 32bit system-- target is the above mentioned processor -- is available. Is it possible to compile this gcc as a 32bit-application on my 64bit system to ensure the same behaviour as it would if ot was built on a original 32bit Gentoo Linux? (And in this context: The audio application chuck is only as 32bit application available currently. How is it possible to compile this on a 64bit system?) Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards mcc
