date:20060302

Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Hi Harry!

Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde?

I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions.

I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings
and erros that is.

I have an XMMS player on my kde menu. It just doesn't work but
quietly no warning etc. (Also it is so tiny I can hardly see it.. and
seems no way to enlarge it -- I use a large desktop resolution)

Try /etc/init.d/alsasound start as root and then have a look what dmesg is
telling you and whether /proc/asound/cards contains anything different from
a empty string.

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201

Second, your should configure your kde to use alsa. Go into the control
panel, audio settings (SoundMultimedia), Sound-System, select the
hardware-tab and make sure that audio hardware is set to alsa and not
oss.

It was set to autodetect .. I changed it to alsa, but shouldn't that select
alsa anyway? Soon as I changed it, I immediately got this waning
dialog box:
Sound Server informational message
Error while initializing the sound driver
device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device)
The sound server will continue using teh null output device.

Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

you've ALSA installed but it's not configured yet? Try
editing /etc/modules.d/alsa manually or install alsa-utils and run
alsaconf as root. After that add ALSA to your preferred runlevel.

I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf. /etc/modules.d/alsa looks
like this:

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.11rc2 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

Should the oss stuff be there?

I've put alsasound into run level 3 and rebooted.

On starting kde I still get a dialog message about the sound server
being unavailable. No play tools work.

(lsmod output at the end)

Running the command line util `play' on a wav file shows this:

reader play WestMemphisBlues_SonnyBoyWilliamson2.wav
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3491:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3960:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2107:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device

lismod output:
root # lsmod|grep snd_
snd_pcm_oss48160 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss32256 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8064 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq50448 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_via82xx27544 0
gameport 16264 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 84256 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus3328 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm82052 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 24196 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11528 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 8320 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi24736 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 9484 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd53604 11
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

On Wednesday 01 Mar 2006 22:54, Harry Putnam wrote:
snip

 One way would be to mount the disk locally using cifs.  See
 `man mount.cifs' for details but the syntax looks like this:

 From /etc/fstab (This is all one line in fstab)
 //harvey/harvey-c  /mnt/harvey-c cifs noauto,username=reader,\
 credentials=/etc/samba/CifsCredentials

 Those are `UNC' paths like you would use with smbclient. (But not
 Kanqueror).

 A command line might look like:

   mount -t cifs -o user=reader%XXPASSWDXX //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/harvey-c

 The directory /mnt/harvey-c has to be created ahead of time.
 The user reader needs to have an account on that windows machine.

 You'll need a windows user account username and password.  If you
 don't use passwords for windows shares I think you can just leave out
 the %SECRET_PASS, but I'm not sure exactly.

 Once the device is mounted locally you can read/write to/from it in
 scripting, then umount it at the end of the script.
Thanks for the reply, I think I didn't make the problem clear enough.
I have a usb server running on my network with 2 external disks connected to 
it.  I can read and write to them using smb://lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2/ with 
no problems.
I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to backup all 
of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but even after 
reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct format.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga

On 3/2/06, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Hi Harry!

Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde?

I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions.

I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings
and erros that is.

I have an XMMS player on my kde menu. It just doesn't work but
quietly no warning etc. (Also it is so tiny I can hardly see it.. and
seems no way to enlarge it -- I use a large desktop resolution)

Try /etc/init.d/alsasound start as root and then have a look what dmesg is
telling you and whether /proc/asound/cards contains anything different from
a empty string.

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201

Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

you've ALSA installed but it's not configured yet? Try
editing /etc/modules.d/alsa manually or install alsa-utils and run
alsaconf as root. After that add ALSA to your preferred runlevel.

I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf. /etc/modules.d/alsa looks
like this:

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

Should the oss stuff be there?

I've put alsasound into run level 3 and rebooted.

On starting kde I still get a dialog message about the sound server
being unavailable. No play tools work.

(lsmod output at the end)

Running the command line util `play' on a wav file shows this:

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You should check the ALSA Guide from the Gentoo Docs and see if you
performed all steps, specially your kernel config. I have this same
MOBO, so I can assure you, it works... Just follow the guide.

I had KDE working with ALSA, but strangely, the Test button at KDE
config don't work, all other apps does using arts.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick

Harry Putnam schreef:
 
 cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8237  ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 
 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201
 
 
 I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf.  /etc/modules.d/alsa looks
  like this:
 
 alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias 
 /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
 
 # Set this to the correct number of cards. # --- BEGIN: Generated by 
 ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.11rc2 --- alias
  snd-card-0 snd-via82xx alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx # --- END: 
 Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
 
 Should the oss stuff be there?

Yes, it should (imo); many apps use ALSA's OSS emulation to play sounds.
So it's wise to have it unless you want to investigate every sound app
you use to make sure it's ALSA-capable.

 
 I've put alsasound into run level 3 and rebooted.
 
 On starting kde I still get a dialog message about the sound server 
 being unavailable.  No play tools work.
 
 (lsmod output at the end)
 
 Running the command line util `play' on a wav file shows this:
 
 reader  play WestMemphisBlues_SonnyBoyWilliamson2.wav ALSA lib 
 confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' snip 
 ALSA lib conf.c:3960:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such 
 device ALSA lib pcm.c:2107:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM 
 default sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device

OK, here's the thing. Forgive me if I'm going too far back to basics,
but

The VIA 8237 is an onboard sound chip. I have one myself. As such, it's
controlled by the BIOS. Since you have previously not used sound on this
machine, it's within the realm of possibility (imo) that you disabled
the sound chip in the BIOS, which -- if that was the case-- would
possibly explain why the card is not being found when you actually try
to use it.

Have you checked, or would you check your BIOS and confirm that the
onboard sound is enabled there?

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet

  mount -t cifs -o user=reader%XXPASSWDXX //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/ 
harvey-c


The directory /mnt/harvey-c has to be created ahead of time.
The user reader needs to have an account on that windows machine.

You'll need a windows user account username and password.  If you
don't use passwords for windows shares I think you can just leave out
the %SECRET_PASS, but I'm not sure exactly.

Once the device is mounted locally you can read/write to/from it in
scripting, then umount it at the end of the script.

Thanks for the reply, I think I didn't make the problem clear enough.
I have a usb server running on my network with 2 external disks  
connected to
it.  I can read and write to them using smb://lkg5f.homenet.com/ 
DISK 2/ with

no problems.
I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to  
backup all
of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but  
even after
reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct  
format.



mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace

if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o  
username=whatever,password=whatever


only root will be able to do this.  You might want to try to avoid  
spaces in your share names in the future...just makes things easier  
on the unix side.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to backup all 
 of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but even after 
 reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct format.

So are you saying the cifs commands posted don't work?

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Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick

Robert Persson schreef:
 I am finding that with one particular windows application running
 under wine the graphics are incredibly slow. My question is: Is this
 something to do with wine that I just have to live with, or could it
 be connected to other things on my system, such as the xserver?
 
snip
 
 The problems are:
 
 1. Typed text gets to the screen pretty slowly - 200 characters per
 second or so. However pasted text appears more or less instantly.
 
 2. Windows are drawn very slowly - which is pretty annoying because
 scribe opens and shuts a lot of windows.
 
 3. when scribe starts, a considerable part of the screen (both inside
 and outside the application windows) ends up covered in black
 rectangles. These disappear when something is dragged over them or a
 button underneath them is clicked.
 
 4. There is a slowdown in opengl which persists even when scribe and
 all wine-related processes have terminated. Before starting scribe
 glxgears will clock around 960 fps, whereas afterwards it will only
 clock up 750 fps or so.
 
 
 I am using the following versions of things: 
 x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r4 app-emulation/wine-0.9.8-r1 
 x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.22.5
 
 
 Robert, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there's a high chance
that you have just run into one of the reasons that people say the ATI
drivers suck.

I am also an ATI user, and to be flatly honest, there are some things
(effects, usually bad ones) that you *will* get when using an ATI card
under Wine or Cedega that you *won't* get while using another brand of
video card (not even specifically nVidia, but really just any other
brand with decent drivers). I have several programs that I run under
Wine/Cedega that behave oddly or run significantly slower than reports
of that same program running with nVidia cards. Because the drivers
really are not good, and don't do what they are supposed to/expected to
in many respects, for one, and because the driver team has not yet
reached the point where they're optimizing for speed (they're trying to
get the drivers stable first), for another.

So if you have another brand of video card available to you, I would
suggest you give it a whirl and see if the problem persists. It may not.

That said, I suspect you do have an issue with your X server as well...
the 6.8.99-blahblahblah series is buggy and unmaintained. I tried it
myself and had even more problems than I did with 6.8.2-r6, which I
reverted to. So the xserver version you're using may well be
excaberating the problems the drivers already have.

I am (at this very moment, actually) upgrading to Xorg 7.0, after which
I'm going to enable the r300 drivers (I have a 9800SE), and if those
don't help, I'm going to see if the fglrx drivers work better under 7.0
than under 6.8.2. If not, I'm buying an nVidia card (my birthday is
coming, and I am just sick of this after nearly two years; I've had
enough of the does not work with ATI cards list on the Cedega Release
notes).

It's an option to take under serious consideration (upgrading to 7.0 and
switching to the open source drivers). I'll keep you posted on my
progress -- meaning, if Wine seems to work better under these conditions.

Also consider that Wine is doing a lot of work as they close in on 1.0
(which might be as soon as April if the release schedule holds up), and
the devs are specifically working on ATI issues (I lurk on wine-dev, and
some of the devs working on wine3d and direct x do have ATI cards). Now
I'm sure that scribe doesn't use d3d or OGL (though it might, for all I
know), but surely any work on the directx backend will have some effect
on things like draw speed and rendering. So there's hope from that end
as well.

In any case, hope this helps to some extent.

Holly
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[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The VIA 8237 is an onboard sound chip. I have one myself. As such, it's
 controlled by the BIOS. Since you have previously not used sound on this
 machine, it's within the realm of possibility (imo) that you disabled
 the sound chip in the BIOS, which -- if that was the case-- would
 possibly explain why the card is not being found when you actually try
 to use it.

 Have you checked, or would you check your BIOS and confirm that the
 onboard sound is enabled there?

Have not, but will on next reboot.  However the chances are slim to
none.  This box only began its career as a gentoo box a few weeks ago
when my existing box gave up the chase ... a disk controller problem I
was to dumb to solve and scrapped the whole thing.

This box (athlon64 +3200) was previously an winxp video crunching
(Edit and transpose) box.  And had sound working all the time.

I've made no changes bios wise.  But will report what I find later. 

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[gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

I know this is very off topic, but I have no idea how to find a place where it 
actually is on topic.. so I'm posting it here.

I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that prints 
colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored output as a 
mail. In order to get colors in a mail a have to use html. If there exist a 
program that is capable of converting escape sequences used for formatting 
and coloring an xterm to html I would love to know about it. 

Otherwise I'll make it myself (with a very limited range of supported escape 
sequences). My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines 
the escape sequences. Guessing by testing with xterm isn't really a optimal 
way to find out...

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Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
 Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt 
 segfaults.
snip
 The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), 
 the problem went away---everything just started working.
 

This sounds awfully like a heat problem, especially if the problem goes
away after waiting a significant amount of time (the system cools down),
or only appears after a long time of use (the system heats up).

I did have a similar problem (but I knew it was heat, because I have the
gkrellm temp monitors displayed), and it was so bad that I could not
even run the computer without an external fan pointing into the box (the
sides have been off all the time). If I turned the fan off, I got
immediate segfaults, and I was unable to even boot the machine. Even
with the fan, it was running *extremely* hot (I'm talking about 70 to
over 100 degrees Celsius).

Finally, I realized that I was insane to even attempt to run like that,
and took the machine apart, to discover that the CPU fan was absolutely
clogged with dust and stuff (I have a cat, and her hair gets into
*everything*. A LOT of hair).

Cleaned out the CPU fan, and suddenly the box was running at like 48 degrees
C. Without the external fan.

It could be some kind of intermittent hardware issue in your case, but
heat is easy enough to check, and very well might be the problem.

HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

Just in case somebody wonders what I'm talking about here is an example (^[ is 
an escape character):

 
^[[32;01m*^[[0m Running emerge --sync ...
^[[A^[[73G  ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok^[[34;01m ]^[[0m
 ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Running update-eix ...
^[[A^[[73G  ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok^[[34;01m ]^[[0m


^[[32;01m = green
^[[0m = black
^[[73G = right justify
^[[34;01m = blue
^[[A = ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Jason Stubbs

On Thursday 02 March 2006 22:49, Bo Andresen wrote:
 My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines 
 the escape sequences.

Google for xterm escape sequences yields many results. s/xterm/ansi/
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RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Kintzios

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: 02 March 2006 13:29
 To: gentoo-user
 Subject: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

 Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt
 segfaults.
[snip...]
 Anyone else ever experience anything like this?  Anyone have any
 thoughts as to what the problem might be?

The random nature of your segfaults probably points to an overheating
problem.  I am saying that because if you waited for a while before the
segfaulting disappeared, the particular device (CPU, hard drive, memory)
cooled down and was able to function again.  Easy to test this
hypothesis with a domestic comfort cooling fan blowing towards an open
case.  More difficult to find out what particular device overheats.  A
problematic cooling fan (CPU, PSU, case) would usually become noisier as
its bearings are drying out (a drop of oil will provide an instant fix).
So would a hard drive.

If the application of a domestic cooling fan does not relieve the
problem, then it could well be faulty memory module(s), or a faulty
power supply.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Uwe Thiem

On 02 March 2006 13:44, Harry Putnam wrote:
 Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Hi Harry!
 
  Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde?

 I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions.

 I still get nothing when attempting to play something.  But warnings
 and erros that is.

Go to KDE's Control Center - Sound  Multimedia - Sound - Sound System - 
Hardware. Tfhen play with the Select audio device setting.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote:
snip
 mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace

 if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o
 username=whatever,password=whatever

 only root will be able to do this.  You might want to try to avoid
 spaces in your share names in the future...just makes things easier
 on the unix side.
I hace tried the above commands with and without username and password but all 
I get is the usage message, no indication of an error.
Usage: mount -V : print version
   mount -h : print this help
   mount: list mounted filesystems
   mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
   mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
   mount device : mount device at the known place
   mount directory  : mount known device here
   mount -t type dev dir: ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
   mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
   mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .

I was going to try Harry Putnam's solution of using cifs but it seems to me 
that the commands are exactly the same except for the file system.
Any other ideas please
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet



On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote:


On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote:
snip

mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace

if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o
username=whatever,password=whatever

only root will be able to do this.  You might want to try to avoid
spaces in your share names in the future...just makes things easier
on the unix side.
I hace tried the above commands with and without username and  
password but all

I get is the usage message, no indication of an error.

that message indicates you did not type it as shown.  they probably  
are the same, but I'm an old guy and this was before cifs... :)


if you NEED  a password but don't pass it, you'll get a permission  
denied error.  if you get usage, you mucked the syntax.  try it  
exactly as I had it above, but replacing the mountpoint at the  
end..and if it fails, cut and paste EXACTLY what you typed.


I was going to try Harry Putnam's solution of using cifs but it  
seems to me

that the commands are exactly the same except for the file system.
Any other ideas please
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:49:49 +0100 Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that
 prints colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored
 output as a mail. In order to get colors in a mail a have to use
 html. If there exist a program that is capable of converting escape
 sequences used for formatting and coloring an xterm to html I would
 love to know about it. 

I'd say, the Perl module HTML::FromANSI should do what you want
(available from cpan). It brings a script, ansi2html, that provides
access from the command line. Note that you might have to play with the
TERM environment variable.

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote:
 On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote:
  On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote:
  snip
 
  mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace
Thanks for all your help  --  I now have it working, it appears that the line 
didn't like the space between DISK and 2. I created another share (with no 
spaces and it worked)

Thanks again
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet



On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Paul wrote:


On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote:

On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote:

On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote:
snip


mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace
Thanks for all your help  --  I now have it working, it appears  
that the line
didn't like the space between DISK and 2. I created another share  
(with no

spaces and it worked)

yes, i'm not surprised...which is why I added the comment about  
avoiding spaces.  if you can't avoid the space in the future,  
sometimes you can escape it (for instance, you'd do // 
lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK\ 2).  Not sure if smbmount will let you do  
that but if you can't change the share name, it's worth a try.

Thanks again
Paul

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote:
  On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote:
   On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote:
   snip
  
  
 Thanks for all your help  --  I now have it working, it appears that
 the line didn't like the space between DISK and 2. I created another
 share (with no spaces and it worked)

I didn't notice this thread and the last answers earlier, therefore I
didn't react, but of course, spaces on command line must be escaped if
not meant to separate arguments. i.e., both of the following should
have worked, too:

 mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK\ 2 /mnt/someplace
 mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace

(of course, you can use ' - single apostrophe - instead of  here.)


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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Remy Blank

Bo Andresen wrote:
 My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines 
 the escape sequences. Guessing by testing with xterm isn't really a optimal 
 way to find out...

man console_codes

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
 I'd say, the Perl module HTML::FromANSI should do what you want
 (available from cpan). It brings a script, ansi2html, that provides
 access from the command line. Note that you might have to play with the
 TERM environment variable.

Sounds interesting. Unfortunately I don't know Perl but I think I'll have a 
look at it anyway... Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread matthew . garman

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:23:17PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
 If the application of a domestic cooling fan does not relieve the
 problem, then it could well be faulty memory module(s), or a
 faulty power supply.

I'm afraid it's a random hardware failure.  I've been running
cpuburn for the last couple hours.  According to sensors, my cpu has
reached a max temp of 57 degress C.  No segfaults thus far.

It's been several months ago, but I did run about eight hours of
memtest86 on the memory.  Is it unusual for memory to work fine for
a while and *then* go bad?

I might try a new power supply anyway.

For what it's worth, mysterious problems on this box have come and
gone for probably a year now.  Every time something comes up, it's
so random that I don't even know where to start looking.  I'm this
- - close to building a whole new PC :)

Thanks again,
Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Jason Weisberger

First off, I'm fairly certain that this application doesn't use OpenGL, so that will not be of any concern, however it seems that if you have an ATI card, you'd want to use the proprietary drivers from the ATI website to increase your performance. This would increase your 2D performance as well. I haven't heard about any specific slowness related to ATI cards running 2D applications, so it might be a bug in Wine itself. Please visit the
WineHQ.org website and submit a bugzilla report to see what they can come up with. Even if they don't know right away, the problem is noted and they can work on it in the future.Thanks!JBDubbs
On 3/2/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Persson schreef: I am finding that with one particular windows application running under wine the graphics are incredibly slow. My question is: Is this something to do with wine that I just have to live with, or could it
be connected to other things on my system, such as the xserver?snip The problems are: 1. Typed text gets to the screen pretty slowly - 200 characters per second or so. However pasted text appears more or less instantly.
2. Windows are drawn very slowly - which is pretty annoying because scribe opens and shuts a lot of windows. 3. when scribe starts, a considerable part of the screen (both inside
and outside the application windows) ends up covered in black rectangles. These disappear when something is dragged over them or a button underneath them is clicked. 4. There is a slowdown in opengl which persists even when scribe and
all wine-related processes have terminated. Before starting scribe glxgears will clock around 960 fps, whereas afterwards it will only clock up 750 fps or so. I am using the following versions of things:
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r4 app-emulation/wine-0.9.8-r1 x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.22.5 Robert, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there's a high chancethat you have just run into one of the reasons that people say the ATI
drivers suck.I am also an ATI user, and to be flatly honest, there are some things(effects, usually bad ones) that you *will* get when using an ATI cardunder Wine or Cedega that you *won't* get while using another brand of
video card (not even specifically nVidia, but really just any otherbrand with decent drivers). I have several programs that I run underWine/Cedega that behave oddly or run significantly slower than reports
of that same program running with nVidia cards. Because the driversreally are not good, and don't do what they are supposed to/expected toin many respects, for one, and because the driver team has not yetreached the point where they're optimizing for speed (they're trying to
get the drivers stable first), for another.So if you have another brand of video card available to you, I wouldsuggest you give it a whirl and see if the problem persists. It may not.That said, I suspect you do have an issue with your X server as well...
the 6.8.99-blahblahblah series is buggy and unmaintained. I tried itmyself and had even more problems than I did with 6.8.2-r6, which Ireverted to. So the xserver version you're using may well beexcaberating the problems the drivers already have.
I am (at this very moment, actually) upgrading to Xorg 7.0, after whichI'm going to enable the r300 drivers (I have a 9800SE), and if thosedon't help, I'm going to see if the fglrx drivers work better under
7.0than under 6.8.2. If not, I'm buying an nVidia card (my birthday iscoming, and I am just sick of this after nearly two years; I've hadenough of the does not work with ATI cards list on the Cedega Release
notes).It's an option to take under serious consideration (upgrading to 7.0 andswitching to the open source drivers). I'll keep you posted on myprogress -- meaning, if Wine seems to work better under these conditions.
Also consider that Wine is doing a lot of work as they close in on 1.0(which might be as soon as April if the release schedule holds up), andthe devs are specifically working on ATI issues (I lurk on wine-dev, and
some of the devs working on wine3d and direct x do have ATI cards). NowI'm sure that scribe doesn't use d3d or OGL (though it might, for all Iknow), but surely any work on the directx backend will have some effect
on things like draw speed and rendering. So there's hope from that endas well.In any case, hope this helps to some extent.Holly--gentoo-user@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 15:14, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
 Hi,

 On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote:
   On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote:
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote:
snip
 
  Thanks for all your help  --  I now have it working, it appears that
  the line didn't like the space between DISK and 2. I created another
  share (with no spaces and it worked)

 I didn't notice this thread and the last answers earlier, therefore I
 didn't react, but of course, spaces on command line must be escaped if
 not meant to separate arguments. i.e., both of the following should

 have worked, too:
  mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK\ 2 /mnt/someplace
  mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace

 (of course, you can use ' - single apostrophe - instead of  here.)
Thanks for the info, I did try the \ but it didn't work. I have just tried 
the  and it mounted just fine.
Thanks
Paul

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[gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon

Hi Folks,

Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU,
and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem
to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an
emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install
CD. Anyway, seeing as I was very new to the whole thing, I went with the
genkernel option. As I say, everything seems to boot fine, except that I
get this message:

Starting eth0
  Bringing up eth0
dhcp
  eth0 does not exist
ERROR: problem starting needed services.
netmount was not started

I've tried /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and /etc/init.d/netmount start and
they both complain that eth0 doesn't exist. But if I do lspci I see my
emulated network card right there:

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8029(AS)

Can anyone help out? Am I just missing a kernel module?

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Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga

On 3/2/06, Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Folks,

 Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU,
 and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem
 to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an
 emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install
 CD. Anyway, seeing as I was very new to the whole thing, I went with the
 genkernel option. As I say, everything seems to boot fine, except that I
 get this message:

 Starting eth0
   Bringing up eth0
 dhcp
   eth0 does not exist
 ERROR: problem starting needed services.
 netmount was not started

 I've tried /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and /etc/init.d/netmount start and
 they both complain that eth0 doesn't exist. But if I do lspci I see my
 emulated network card right there:

 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
 RTL-8029(AS)

 Can anyone help out? Am I just missing a kernel module?

Probably, yes.


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[gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Marton Gabor


Hi!

Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately 
we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID.
Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need 
let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk, 
and I can build a RAID5 from the rest of the storage space, and will be 
able to use 750GB-(/boot*4)-(swap*4) and the 4th HD will store the 
so-called parity information.


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RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread sHadoW MaN


Hi

This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at 
boot time. Be sure you have entered your driver name ( I am not sure maybe 
it's 8029too) at file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. You can use nano 
text editor to edit the file...


Cheers



cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK






From: Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:27:48 +

Hi Folks,

Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU,
and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem
to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an
emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install
CD. Anyway, seeing as I was very new to the whole thing, I went with the
genkernel option. As I say, everything seems to boot fine, except that I
get this message:

Starting eth0
  Bringing up eth0
dhcp
  eth0 does not exist
ERROR: problem starting needed services.
netmount was not started

I've tried /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and /etc/init.d/netmount start and
they both complain that eth0 doesn't exist. But if I do lspci I see my
emulated network card right there:

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8029(AS)

Can anyone help out? Am I just missing a kernel module?

Tom Haddon
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Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Fish

On 3/2/06, Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi!

 Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately
 we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID.
 Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need
 let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk,
 and I can build a RAID5 from the rest of the storage space, and will be
 able to use 750GB-(/boot*4)-(swap*4) and the 4th HD will store the
 so-called parity information.

FYI, RAID5 will spread the parity information across all disks.

You should also consider what kind of IO throughput you require from
this system.  RAID5 will require an IO to every drive for each write
operation.  Additionally, reads can only be satisfied by a single
drive.  This means your write performance will max out at around
33MB/s, and reads will max out at the speed of the disks (70MB/s
typical today)

However writes to a RAID 0+1 array will only require writing to 2
disks, so your maximum bandwidth should be around 66MB/s when writing.
 Reads really benefit here however, since they can be satisfied by
either RAID1 set, so you should easily be able to saturate the bus
bandwidth at 132MB/s.

Of course, if you really need IO bandwidth, hardware RAID is best...

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RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon

Thanks, much appreciated. Turns out it was ne2k-pci. Added that to the
file you mentioned and it was all good.

Thanks, Tom

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:56 -0500, sHadoW MaN wrote:
 Hi
 
 This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at 
 boot time. Be sure you have entered your driver name ( I am not sure maybe 
 it's 8029too) at file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. You can use nano 
 text editor to edit the file...
 
 Cheers
 
 
 
 cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Subject: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist
 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:27:48 +
 
 Hi Folks,
 
 Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU,
 and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem
 to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an
 emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install
 CD. Anyway, seeing as I was very new to the whole thing, I went with the
 genkernel option. As I say, everything seems to boot fine, except that I
 get this message:
 
 Starting eth0
Bringing up eth0
  dhcp
eth0 does not exist
 ERROR: problem starting needed services.
  netmount was not started
 
 I've tried /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and /etc/init.d/netmount start and
 they both complain that eth0 doesn't exist. But if I do lspci I see my
 emulated network card right there:
 
 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
 RTL-8029(AS)
 
 Can anyone help out? Am I just missing a kernel module?
 
 Tom Haddon
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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[gentoo-user] Import SSL Certificate Authority

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong

Hi all, 

  I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my university's IMAP server
with SSL enabled. After an upgrade to the latest stable version,
whenever I run fetchmail, I get the following output:

[12:12 PM]wwong ~ $ fetchmail
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer 
certificate
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the first 
certificate

But since I didn't request fetcmail to strictly match certificates,
the mail still downloads fine. Now, the server certificate from the
university mail server is signed by the university's computing staff,
and I know that if I use webmail or other resources, I can download
the certificate and, when a dialog pops up asking if I want to trust
the CA, I can set it so that firefox won't ask anymore in the future. 

My question is, how do I import a certificate authority so that
fetchmail would recognize it? From the man page it says

   --sslcertck
  (Keyword: sslcertck) Causes  fetchmail  to  strictly  check  the
  server  certificate  against a set of local trusted certificates
  (see the sslcertpath option). If the server certificate  is  not
  signed  by one of the trusted ones (directly or indirectly), the
  SSL connection will fail. This checking should  prevent  man-in-
  the-middle  attacks  against  the SSL connection. Note that CRLs
  are seemingly not currently supported by OpenSSL in  certificate
  verification!  Your  system  clock should be reasonably accurate
  when using this option!

   --sslcertpath directory
  (Keyword: sslcertpath) Sets the directory fetchmail uses to look
  up  local certificates. The default is your OpenSSL default one.
  The directory must be hashed as OpenSSL expects it - every  time
  you  add  or  modify a certificate in the directory, you need to
  use the c_rehash tool (which comes with OpenSSL  in  the  tools/
  subdirectory).

so I guess my question is how to import a certificate into OpenSSL?

Thanks, 

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[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... I'm in need of sound on my
 unix box and kind of quickly.  I never even configure sound or want it
 as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a
 second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed.

This was solved by going thru the Alsa Guide.  But I got a sneaking
suspiciion that my main trouble was not understanding that play stuff
would only work for root.  So naturally anything in KDE desktop would
be my user.

I never thought to try playing as root.

So now all fixed and added my user to audio group as stipulated in
ALSA Guide.

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