Re: [gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:16 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Ok here is what I am wanting to do: I windows when you connect your IPod it autodetects it and brings up itunes, then you can do the whole safely remove hardware blah blah. After you have done that you no longer have the DO NOT DISCONNECT screen on the IPod but it continues to charge. I would like to do the same in linux. My IPod isnt currently mounted but when you connect it creates a node in /dev. No how do I disconnect it so that it still remains to charge and no longer has the DO NOT DISCONNECT screen? I use: `eject /dev/hd[a|b|c]` - sub in whatever letter your USB driver has assigned to your ipod. It probably won't work if you use /dev/hda2 (which is the device file for the *partition* on which your music resides). You'll need to actually use the device, /dev/hda. It usually takes a few seconds, then the command returns and my iPod mini's screen goes back to normal mode as it continues to charge. All of this as root, of course... Good luck, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Most single family homes in the US have a phone access box on the outside of the house. Especially new construction. glad, that I am not living there ;) Where I live, almost all houses have no boxes outside anymore, and thus makes digging a requirement, or to look for the right manhole and find the right cable ;) I think I've got the solution for both of ya: FIBER! Time to get on the neighborhood SONET ring... :) Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:22 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to get, so I'm polling for recommendations. Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I'd prefer to be able to simply mount it as a USB device, but as long as I can add/remove/view the contents of the player from Linux it'll be fine. A GPL/BSD firmware and/or Linux interface is a plus. I'm not set on hard drive or flash based so feel free to recommend on either or both. I had a Rio Karma for quite a while. This was a great little player. It played ogg files, and it came with a base with RCA outputs. The base could be located at your home stereo, with an ethernet connection to your linux box. There's a java-based light client for it that works under Linux and connects via USB or ethernet. Only problem I had was that I really had to baby the device or I'd crash the hard drive. I roasted 2 drives, then ebay'd the 2nd replacement unit so I could buy a flash player. I now use an Apple iPod mini (unfortunately no ogg support) with gtkpod. But it'd be worth checking out some of the other (flash-based) offerings from Rio to see if they support ogg and the java manager interface. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] blog software recommendation for gentoo?
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 02:53 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to experiment with a blog as a way to track and collaborate on projects. Do any of you have recommendations, for or against, very simple blog software, ideally available in portage? I confess I'm a complete novice when it comes to blogs. Thanks Michaek FWIW... If you're comfortable installing a masked package, I see that Wordpress is in Portage. I don't use it myself, but several of the blogs that I follow use it. There is a large library of freely-available templates, the features list is extensive, and it produces clean-looking RSS feeds for those of us who like to syndicate... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] photo management
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:32 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: The fact is that we need the hardware corporations to release drivers for its hardware that works on all systems, take a look at NVidia, it took me 10 minutes to install my video drive, both on Win and Lin. What I meant to say is: To support new hardware should be more of a hardware engineer problem than an OS programmer one. At the risk of playing devil's advocate, there's a flipside to this. Code is [almost] never perfect, and anyone who subscribes to gentoo-announce knows that there are almost always security flaws discovered (and patched) after an initial version is released. If more functionality is pulled into the hardware, with the same potential for flaws (security or otherwise), then you've got a tough predicament. As a hardware engineer, do you spec more expensive re-programmable parts, or do you risk premature obsolescence (and potentially millions of $$ in lost NRE charges) by using ROM-based parts? Consider a video vendor who spins an ASIC (a custom chip) for its latest graphics card... They might spend $50 million in mask fees to have the new chip produced. Amortized over 100,000 graphics cards produced, this is less expensive to them (and thus to us as consumers) than instead spec'ing a re-programmable chip that costs 5x as much. What's really needed is not for hardware engineers to integrate more functionality into their hardware, but rather for hardware and software engineers to better work together. There's plenty of open-ness on the part of software engineers; but the companies don't want to release the gritty technical details of their products, and thus the hardware engineers' hands are tied. Open the eyes of the managers and administrators, and you'll open the hardware. Just my $0.02 as a hardware designer who regularly struggles with these same issues... :) DDR -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy
On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead already. Windoze shows the same behavior. Thanks, Rob Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each other?? Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mozsvg question...
Hi All- I'm trying to view some SVG files via mozilla-firefox. I have mozilla and mozilla-firefox compiled with USE=mozsvg and have verified this using `equery uses mozilla-firefox`: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddr4179 # equery uses mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE variables for www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.3 ] U I + + java : Adds support for Java + + mozsvg : Enable SVG support in mozilla and firefox [snip] Yet when I do a File - Open in either Firefox or Mozilla, it pegs one of my processors for a few seconds, then displays the XML with the following error: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. Do I need to associate a mime type or something to this effect? Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:16 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Most prism2/GT boards work great with in-kernel drivers, but they can be hard to find. I have a source for the MiniPCI version of these cards in the Philippines; we use the Prism GT Javelin chipset boards as an OEM module in our product. The company makes both Javelin and Frisbee based boards, as well as boards based on the Connexant/Intersil WorldRadio chipset. Some others can be made to work with the windows driver via the NDIS wrapper, but I have never tried this. I have successfully run a Broadcom BCM94306MP chipset using the NDIS wrapper driver. It was a PITA, used closed-source drivers and performed poorly. Avoid Broadcom's cards! I ended up yanking this board out of my laptop and replacing it with an Atheros CM9 reference design board. That is soon to be replaced with a Connexant/Intersil ISL3886 (Javelin) based card. Unfortunately, manufacturers change chipsets frequently, sometimes without even updating the version number of the product, so good luck! According to the local FAE for Connexant/Intersil products, the ISL3880 and ISL3886 (PRISM GT Frisbee and Javelin, respectively) are in full production and have not yet reached maturity, so they won't be end-of-lifed any time soon. The ISL3890 (Duette) chipset is in it's maturity phase, and is thus not recommended for new designs. The WorldRadio (PRISM GT Crossbow) chipset is also not slated for discontinuation any time soon. An important thing to note about the Intersil chipsets is the amount of available RAM on the MAC. The newer Javelin chipset only has 512Kb of SRAM on the MAC chip, so it require what Intersil calls a split MAC driver, where some of the higher-level MAC functions reside in system SRAM. The older Frisbee version of the PRISM GT chipset has 2Mb of on-MAC SRAM. Our product uses [vomit] Windows CE, so I'm not sure about split-MAC drivers for Linux. I'm sure there's some mention of it at prism54.org, but I won't be able to check it out until lunch... Check out: http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz Amusingly enough, when Xterasys end-of-lifed the XG600 (which is a Frisbee-based MiniPCI WLAN card) that we were using in our product, that 2nd link is the one we used to locate another one! We settled on a model from Easix. They don't have any US distributors, hence my contact above. One thing to note, if you're looking to change the MiniPCI card in your laptop, be careful about what form factor it supports. Most laptops support some flavor of Type III ... Caution is due because Type IIIa cards are longer in the Y dimension than Type IIIb cards. Check the type before you sink any $$ into a card! Dave PS - UPDATE - Looked on Prism54.org and it looks like the Linux drivers do NOT support the so-called Split-MAC or Soft MAC cards. So stick with the Frisbee-based versions! The web site gives a somewhat accurate, albeit limited, assessment of the issue. The CARD manufacturers are designing the Frisbee chipset out of their products because it's about $1.50 more expensive in volume. So when they make 150,000 cards, that adds up to a chunk of change. Connexant/Intersil just makes the chipset, and they report they will continue to support and manufacture the frisbee chipset. Get yer Frisbees while they're hot! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
