Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sunday 24 May 2015 10:50:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running quietly for five years since my intervention with an oil can. Given the cheapness of the fan and the price of the component it protects, is it worth taking a risk? Right, but talking about cheapness of components, I had nearly new fans making a noise that they shouldn't be making. I've even returned relatively expensive aftermarket coolers because they were poorly manufactured with uneven contact surface for the CPU. What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process, we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever breaks. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Thanks Meino. What do you mean by: session-management = windowmanagement I dont know i3wm Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone interested in tiling window managers. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On 05/24/2015 05:32 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Torrent client? Hi behrouz, for simple torrent client I just use aria2. I never use the others.
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sunday 24 May 2015 02:12:34 Joseph wrote: On 05/23/15 20:52, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: On 05/23/2015 06:53 PM, Joseph wrote: On 05/23/15 18:08, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: On 05/23/2015 05:24 PM, Joseph wrote: I have a box in a remote location (8-core CPU) and it turn itself off during compiling The box it connected to UPS. Is it power supply? Maybe. I have a problem like that when using high processing simulation with nvidia-cuda and the power supply protection was unable to keep a safe energy level then the system goes off. But, if the failure happens during compilation time can be a heat problem. Install lm_sensors and use something like that: watch -n 1 sensors. If not, if the temperature stay at safe levels, maybe you have a RAM corruption. In this case, you'll need to use memtest86++ to check. Good Luck I tried to read the lm-sensors again and the compupter turn crash with the readings: fan1: 0 RPM (min = 10 RPM) ALARM fan2: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) fan3: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) fan5: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) temp1:+47.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor temp2: +106.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +70.0°C) sensor = thermal diode temp3: +106.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor cpu0_vid:+1.250 V I'm suspecting it is power supply. Hey, did you run sensors-detect and /etc/init.d/lm_sensors as root before use sensors? As was said, maybe you're using wrong kernel modules. I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. Ha! So the fan speeds showing zero was true. :-) Often they start rattling before they fail. I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running quietly for five years since my intervention with an oil can. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 02:12:34 Joseph wrote: On 05/23/15 20:52, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: On 05/23/2015 06:53 PM, Joseph wrote: I tried to read the lm-sensors again and the compupter turn crash with the readings: fan1: 0 RPM (min = 10 RPM) ALARM fan2: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) fan3: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) fan5: 0 RPM (min =0 RPM) temp1:+47.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor temp2: +106.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +70.0°C) sensor = thermal diode temp3: +106.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor cpu0_vid:+1.250 V I'm suspecting it is power supply. Hey, did you run sensors-detect and /etc/init.d/lm_sensors as root before use sensors? As was said, maybe you're using wrong kernel modules. I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. Ha! So the fan speeds showing zero was true. :-) Often they start rattling before they fail. I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running quietly for five years since my intervention with an oil can. I'm real bad to take a needle, like people take shots with, and poke a small hole in and oil fans that way. I also do that to those expensive high speed bearings on my riding lawn mowers. I've had bearings last for decades that way. It is amazing what just a tiny bit of added oil will do. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:09:58 +0100, Mick wrote: I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. Ha! So the fan speeds showing zero was true. :-) Yes, zero fan speed and high temperatures should be inventigated before being written of as misconfigured sensors. Often they start rattling before they fail. They'd have to rattle pretty loudly on a remote box to warn you of impending failure ;-) I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running quietly for five years since my intervention with an oil can. Given the cheapness of the fan and the price of the component it protects, is it worth taking a risk? -- Neil Bothwick Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. pgpRT0XC1NGTb.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Hi, On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:02:13 +0430 behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) I depends on personal preferences. I'm not sure why, but I always had problems with intensive mail traffic and mutt. Also many mails are html-base and mutt is not the best way to deal with them. (I know that html mails are disgusting, but too many people use them these days to disregard this trend completely.) So I use sylpheed. It is GUI-based, can read html mails (but not write them, he-he). So it suits me well. Your mileage may vary, of course. What about IRC client? Use irssi. It is a reliable and highly configurable CLI solution. Torrent client? Use transmission. Just compile it without qt* and gtk flags. This is a client-server application, so transmission-daemon runs as system service as unpriviledged user and all management is done via nice CLI tool transmission-remote. Also transmission is fully-fledged solution supporting all trends like dht, utp and so on. You'll love it. I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Browser-based solution can't be lightweight, so I try to avoid them whenever possible. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko pgp1oUncgslOe.pgp Description: PGP signature
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On 24-05-2015 07:32 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) What about IRC client? I like weechat Torrent client? I like aria2 I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your time. I also use Elinks, mccaber and vim. Cheers, Sebas
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process, we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever breaks. Permit me a little quibble: we're not doing QA but QC (control). Not at all the same thing. QA is defined in the ISO9000 series of international standards. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sunday 24 May 2015 12:32:40 Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process, we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever breaks. Permit me a little quibble: we're not doing QA but QC (control). Not at all the same thing. QA is defined in the ISO9000 series of international standards. You're absolutely right of course: I meant, but didn't express it so, that we have to compensate for lack of adequate QA and poor QC. However, thinking about it, I am probably wrong altogether. Said manufacturers may have both processes in place, but implemented with comparatively low acceptance thresholds for what we expect. Ahh! The joys of globalisation. :-( Oh, well - thanks for not taking offence! -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On 24/05/15 15:01, Andrew Savchenko wrote: I depends on personal preferences. I'm not sure why, but I always had problems with intensive mail traffic and mutt. Also many mails are html-base and mutt is not the best way to deal with them. (I know that html mails are disgusting, but too many people use them these days to disregard this trend completely.) You can display html mails in mutt via www-client/links (and other) [1]. It works very well for me. Also you might want to have net-mail/isync or net-mail/offlineimap and mail-mta/msmtp or some other sendmail-compatible client because mutt blocks while talking with the remote host. What about IRC client? Use irssi. It is a reliable and highly configurable CLI solution. Just throwing net-irc/weechat in there for good measure. [1] https://www.debian-administration.org/article/75/Reading_HTML_email_with_Mutt
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On May 24, 2015 3:33 AM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Mutt is hard to beat What about IRC client? You'll want IRSSI Torrent client? rtorrent I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your time. Ymmv, but this is what I use. Also there are several good apps that run in an x session without KDE. Others c@n offer advice on them.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Many years ago I also looked for a replacement for kmail, because kde3 was not longer supported and I disliked kde4. First I used thunderbird but I was not very lucky with it (filters were poor and enigmail also was not very komfortable IIRC). I've tested all available e-mail clients and at the end I sticked with claws mail. I'm still using this client and I'm very lucky with it. However, if you prefer HTML-Mail, then it is maybe not the best choice for you. Btw, I'm using geany as text editor, ding as dictionary, thunar as filemanager (sometimes also caja), qpdfview as document viewer, geeqie as image viewer, sonata as mpd client, audacious as music player and xfce as DE. He actually asked for console tools. The tools you listed are only GUI tools. Sorry. I overlooked this detail. -- Regards wabe
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with mailto (fcrontab)
On Sunday 24 May 2015 05:46:37 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [15-05-24 05:52]: On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:34:09AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote What reasons disable fcron to send mail to me or root? By convention, it seems that all MTAs have symlinks at /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. Programs that automatically send email, expect to find sendmail symlinks. Do you have those symlinks from msmtp? My most embarressing linux moment was when ssmtp sent output from verbose cron jobs to root (at me). My ssmtp was configured to simply re-route everything to my ISP's MTA. The net result was that the output went to root@my_ISP They were not amused. Well, you are meant to define root's alias address as your own my_em...@myisp.com equivalent, if you have set up your local mail program to relay messages via your ISP's mail servers. That was when I learned about setting the destination for all userids 10 to myself. I also ran a script designed to break the symlinks and prevent portage from making sendmail symlinks... rm -r /usr/bin/sendmail rm -r /usr/lib/sendmail rm -r /usr/sbin/sendmail mkdir /usr/bin/sendmail touch /usr/bin/sendmail/.keep mkdir /usr/lib/sendmail touch /usr/lib/sendmail/.keep mkdir /usr/sbin/sendmail touch /usr/sbin/sendmail/.keep Unorthodox perhaps, but whatever works for you ... :-) That worked great for a few years. Portage output an error message about being unable to symlink, but continued. Then portage changed the failure mode to shut down portage when it was unable to create symlinks... AAARRRGGGHHH. Now when that happens, I remove the sendmail directories, run emerge to build ssmtp, and then run the script to break the symlinks. I know that it's redundant, after setting destination for uid 10, but once burned, twice shy. Hi Walter, This is, what I have found: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 11 19:25 /usr/bin/sendmail - /usr/bin/msmtp My email address (see above) is different from my userid on my Linux box and (personally) I dont have configured anything which alias my userid to my email address or vice versa. Have you configured your msmtp to be able to send messages? Which SMTP server are you pointing it at? I will now try to let fcron to mail to me (my userid so to speak) instead of root since the fcrontab is alos mine. When I do something like this cat file | mail my userid or cat file | mail my userid@localhost I get send-mail: recipient address my userid not accepted by the server send-mail: server message: 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments send-mail: could not send mail (account default from /home/my userid/.msmtprc) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 65 send-mail: recipient address my userid@localhost not accepted by the server send-mail: server message: 550-Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable send-mail: server message: 550 invalid DNS MX or A/ resource record send-mail: could not send mail (account default from /home/my userid/.msmtprc) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 65 Question for me is: Is server my ISP's server? Or a default error message or something which is exspected to be installed at my Linux box? It depends how you have configured msmtp. You are meant to point it to an SMTP server which in turn is configured to accept messages from the user you have defined in your msmtp configuration. So, if you are sending messages from cron@localhost without having configured an alias for cron: pointing to a real email account at your ISP, they will reject it because root@localhost is not configured on their mailserver. If you want to only send messages locally, then set up mailx or equivalent application and create necessary local boxen to receive messages in. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sunday 24 May 2015 10:50:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:09:58 +0100, Mick wrote: I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running quietly for five years since my intervention with an oil can. Given the cheapness of the fan and the price of the component it protects, is it worth taking a risk? This is the CPU fan we're talking about here. When I took the lid off my box the other day to put new SSDs in it, I was astonished once again at the size and complexity of the fan on this i5 chip. Not at all cheap-looking! -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] recommended applications
Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) What about IRC client? Torrent client? I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your time.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Many years ago I also looked for a replacement for kmail, because kde3 was not longer supported and I disliked kde4. First I used thunderbird but I was not very lucky with it (filters were poor and enigmail also was not very komfortable IIRC). I've tested all available e-mail clients and at the end I sticked with claws mail. I'm still using this client and I'm very lucky with it. However, if you prefer HTML-Mail, then it is maybe not the best choice for you. Btw, I'm using geany as text editor, ding as dictionary, thunar as filemanager (sometimes also caja), qpdfview as document viewer, geeqie as image viewer, sonata as mpd client, audacious as music player and xfce as DE. He actually asked for console tools. The tools you listed are only GUI tools.
[gentoo-user] Re: recommended applications
On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:02:13 +0430 behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) If I wanted a TUI, I'd use mutt. I use Claws Mail, mostly because it has good filtering/processing capabilities, has a plugin architecture, and has a good user list where devs also participate. http://www.claws-mail.org/ Torrent client? I like net-p2p/rtorrent , which has a good TUI. https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: I dont know i3wm Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone interested in tiling window managers. What's your take on xmonad? +1 for irssi midnight commander anyone?
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Many years ago I also looked for a replacement for kmail, because kde3 was not longer supported and I disliked kde4. First I used thunderbird but I was not very lucky with it (filters were poor and enigmail also was not very komfortable IIRC). I've tested all available e-mail clients and at the end I sticked with claws mail. I'm still using this client and I'm very lucky with it. However, if you prefer HTML-Mail, then it is maybe not the best choice for you. Btw, I'm using geany as text editor, ding as dictionary, thunar as filemanager (sometimes also caja), qpdfview as document viewer, geeqie as image viewer, sonata as mpd client, audacious as music player and xfce as DE. -- Regards wabe
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com [15-05-24 12:39]: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) What about IRC client? Torrent client? I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your time. Hi behrouz, If you want to be fast and non-gui-applications are as acceptable for as gui-applications for you... kmail = mutt/muttng gui-editors = vim xine-gui = mplayer/mpv session-management = windowmanagement I dont know i3wm (which simply means I dont know ... there is nothing hidden between the lines :) I am using openbox. Only my two cent... ;) Have fun! Best regards, Meino
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process, we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever breaks. Permit me a little quibble: we're not doing QA but QC (control). Not at all the same thing. QA is defined in the ISO9000 series of international standards. You're absolutely right of course: I meant, but didn't express it so, that we have to compensate for lack of adequate QA and poor QC. However, thinking about it, I am probably wrong altogether. Said manufacturers may have both processes in place, but implemented with comparatively low acceptance thresholds for what we expect. Ahh! The joys of globalisation. :-( -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Torrent client? rtorrent is quite good.
[gentoo-user] HF Propagation for conky ???
Hi, Looking at http://www.hamqsl.com/solar.html#addwebsite (left side) one could find a real nice HF propagation*) display, which looks like (style-wise) be inspired by conky... :) Unfortunately all the offered ways to include this forecast is for webpages and Windows. I am a Linux-only rebel. :) Is there any way to make conky to display the HF propagations? Or anything else displaying these informations on my desktop background without using just another application, which needs to be called manually? Thank you very much in advance for any help! 73! Best regards, Meino *) HF propagation: Weather forecast for HAM radio enthusiasts and shortwave listeners mainly giving answer to the question:Broadcasts on which frequency range are most likely to be heard best?
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
My pattern: 1. Use FVWM for 5 years. 2. Get sick of it. 3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts. 4. Go to step 1. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
On Sat, 23 May 2015 19:12:34 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. I suggest to inspect the CPU's fan/heatsink assembly periodically. While back one of my systems CPU's hinksink was coming unattached from the motherboard. -- Ed Martinez edward...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:02:13PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Note that text-based tools split the download-from-ISP, read-the-email, and upload-to-ISP functions. I use getmail to download email. I've used mutt for years as my mail-client (reading email). It's text-based, but you can have it invoke W3M to read HTML email as text email. For the filtering function, I use procmail. It allows me to read from multiple ISPs and direct email into multiple mailboxes (a many-to-many relation). For MTA (sending email out) functionality I use ssmtp. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Thanks everyone. +1 for mc too! On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Alan Grimes alonz...@verizon.net wrote: My pattern: 1. Use FVWM for 5 years. 2. Get sick of it. 3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts. 4. Go to step 1. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox
On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says... [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf MIXER:Can't open audio: No available audio device , running in nosound mode. ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) MIDI:Opened device:oss It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit == 64-bit). Audio works in linux Youtube, mplayer, mpg123, etc. It's just dosbox that fails. Google searching did not help. I saw a few references to checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present on my system. Any ideas? Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... games-emulation/dosbox alsa media-libs/libsdl alsa ...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf It is enabled in make.defaults for all desktop profiles I think. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On 05/24/15 06:32, behrouz khosravi wrote: Torrent client? Another +1 for transmission - the transmission-remote CLI is good, and the client-server model is great. rtorrent has always seemed a little off for me, and seems to do a lot of computation in its GUI thread because it's not really that responsive. Also, i3 rocks. Alec
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: (x)emacs. But he said keep the system small! ^__^ -- Emanuele Rusconi
[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says... [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf MIXER:Can't open audio: No available audio device , running in nosound mode. ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) MIDI:Opened device:oss It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit == 64-bit). Audio works in linux Youtube, mplayer, mpg123, etc. It's just dosbox that fails. Google searching did not help. I saw a few references to checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present on my system. Any ideas? Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... games-emulation/dosbox alsa media-libs/libsdl alsa ...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Mick wrote On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says... [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf MIXER:Can't open audio: No available audio device , running in nosound mode. ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) MIDI:Opened device:oss It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit == 64-bit). Audio works in linux Youtube, mplayer, mpg123, etc. It's just dosbox that fails. Google searching did not help. I saw a few references to checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present on my system. Any ideas? Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... games-emulation/dosbox alsa media-libs/libsdl alsa ...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf It is enabled in make.defaults for all desktop profiles I think. USE=X apng bindist ffmpeg jpeg png truetype xorg mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 -acl -berkdb -chatzilla -cracklib -crypt -gallium -gdbm -gmp-autoupdate -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -nls -openmp -pam -roaming -sendmail -tcpd -udev -unicode I'm running default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib. Out of sheer curiousity, is it OK to remove the x86 CPU flags from USE yet and assume that CPU_FLAGS_X86 is used by all ebuilds? The news item suggested keeping them around for a while. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. Dust is often the culprit on Computers. Just pull the side cover and blow it out with an air compressor, once a year or so. Dust build up and also dampen the heat transfer rate (cooling effect) on all sorts of parts. So cleaning out the dust allows things to run cool, keeps moving parts clean and will extend the life of your hardware. This is particularly acute with the sort of fine dust that builds up inside of computers Blowing compressed air on fans make them often over speed so be mindful to only blow on the fans in short bursts. Clean the fans in the power supply likewise. hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) What about IRC client? Torrent client? I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your time. (x)emacs.
[gentoo-user] net-analyzer/portsentry
Well, we have this gentoo guide for portsentry:[1]This seem a bit dated. I'd be curious for any information folks use including config file snippets or deployment strategies, particularly in a multi-layered scheme. There is only basic configuration/deployment ideas in /usr/share/doc/portsentry/. Something newer/better than portsentry to watch the ports? I'm building up a small soho with 5 static ips, including (2) dns servers, mail and a small (less than 10 domains) webserver all in a dmz' and the then a few dozen systems behind a second firewall. Certainly the minimal ports to leave open (via iptables on each of these servers systems) as well as the specific list of which ports to set portsentry to monitor by category (DNS(bind) :: Web(apache) :: mail(postfix)) would be keen. Should I put the port scanning on the the systems behind the published (routed) ip address too just to see what (if anythying) get thru? Nothing but return traffic should get through to the lan (no ssh into lan systems or such will be allowed). Reference diagrams of typical soho ( 50 systems) are of keen interest just to get some ideas. In fact suggestions on FOSS to use to draw up some generic diagrams, a wee bit nicer than dia, would be keen suggestions too. Tripwire vs AIDE? Perhaps a iptables protecting the dmz systems and main gateway (single homed) but a nftables [2] based firewall/gw/router to the internal lan? Note: This is more of a project than a collection of simple (syntax) answers to specific questions (although all information is appreciated just to complete the discussion). Any sensitive information can be send to me privately for assured confidence. Your ideas are welcome, James [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PortSentry [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nftables
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
Am 24.05.2015 um 23:53 schrieb Emanuele Rusconi: On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: (x)emacs. But he said keep the system small! ^__^ -- Emanuele Rusconi init=/usr/bin/emacs doesn't get smaller than that...
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:20:29PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: No no no! LiLo, on a six year old machine actually works well. It does exactly what it says on the packet, i.e. it boots up the machine, and nothing more. I use LiLo, mainly to avoid the complexities of Grub. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany) ack
