Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED
Al wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. Any suggestions on how to get things working again? Thanks, Drew Hi I have the same problem however I have been able to start a machine from the comand line, ~ VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm name of your machine I also tried VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm name of your machine but this gave the same unreadable screen. The same results repeated with a new machine also. Installing the guest additions has no effect. Have not got around to investigating any further yet. I tried moving my old xorg.conf out of the way and running X without any conf. Then I started a Virtualbox machine and the display was fine. Must have been something in the old xorg.conf that didn't jive with the xorg 1.6. Everything else worked too except my synaptics touchpad. I killed X and ran X -configure and let it create a xorg.conf file for me. Then I cut an pasted the synaptics part from my old file into this new and restarted X. Everything now works. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade
I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. Any suggestions on how to get things working again? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade
walt wrote: On 08/03/2009 11:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. Do you have the Windows vbox guest additions installed in the Windows guests? If so, you should be able to resize the guest window just like any other X window. Hm, not sure if the guest additions are available for Win7 yet, but definitely are for XP. Worth a try, anyway. I know I installed them but maybe I did it when running Virtualbox 2.x. If I can't see the Virtualbox screens, how can I install/re-install the guest additions? Is there some way to do that from a command line? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] 32 bit Libraries on amd64
Is there some way to get 32 bit versions of libgnomebreakpad.so and libcanberra-gtk-module.so installed on my amd64 gentoo box? I'm attempting to run an Adobe Air application that requires these libraries. I can't seem to turn up anything on Google and am a total newb when it comes to libraries and such. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] 32 Bit Libraries (Was Adobe Air and TweetDeck)
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? Thanks, Drew --- BEGIN Errors --- # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I/O warning : failed to load external entity /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [snip] I've continued my search and think my problem is that I am running amd64 and Adobe Air is 32 bit. Thus I am missing 32 bit versions of libgnomebreakpad.so and libcanberra-gtk-module.so. Can anyone tell me how I might add these to my system? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on- gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? never heard of the product, but: # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This file does not exist. I Googled in an attempt to find which port contains this library but was unsuccessful. However this bug report suggests this is a cosmetic error only. http://bugs.gentoo.org/217094 Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: This is interesting: # find / -iname libcanberra-gtk-module.so find: ftsfind.c:475: consider_visiting: Assertion `state.type != 0' failed. Aborted # find / -iname libcanberra-gtk-module.so find: ftsfind.c:475: consider_visiting: Assertion `state.type != 0' failed. Aborted But I did find it here: /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I/O warning : failed to load external entity /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or It's obviously complaining about missing libraries. Do these files exist anywhere on your machine? You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. What might I need to add? I looked in the directory and found lots of files. Thus I suspect I need to create a file and add the proper line. Would it be some sort of LD_PATH= line? Looks like a classic case of Adobe *nix-cluelessness Combined with my classic *nix-cluelessness regarding libraries and paths... :) Thanks for your help! Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? Thanks, Drew --- BEGIN Errors --- # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I/O warning : failed to load external entity /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: EncryptedLocalStore database access error at flash.data::EncryptedLocalStore$/processErrorCode() at flash.data::EncryptedLocalStore$/getItem() at TweetDeck/init() at TweetDeck/___TweetDeck_WindowedApplication1_applicationComplete() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent() at mx.managers::SystemManager/preloader_preloaderDoneHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.preloaders::Preloader/displayClassCompleteHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/timerHandler() at mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/initCompleteHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.preloaders::Preloader/dispatchAppEndEvent() at mx.preloaders::Preloader/appCreationCompleteHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/set initialized() at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation() at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply() at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2() at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher() -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient
I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do the same on a Gentoo client. I've Googled and found that pptpclient should do what I want. I've followed this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_VPN_client_setup_with_pptpclient I've also come across other guides that are very similar to the one above. After following the guide, I am still unable to connect. I see the following in /var/log/messages: (Please note that I have replaced the actual IP address with IP Address) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: pppd options in effect: Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: debug # (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: nodetach # (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: logfd 2# (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: dump # (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: noauth # (from /etc/ppp/peers/d ca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: name username # (from /etc/ppp /peers/dca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: remotename IP Address # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]:# (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: pty pptp IP Address --nolaunchpppd --log level 2 # (from /etc/ppp/peers/vpn) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: ipparam IP Address # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: nobsdcomp # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: nodeflate # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: pppd 2.4.4 started by tomlinson_dr, uid 0 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: using channel 12 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/3 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7782]: anon log[main:pptp.c:272]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7786]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7786]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7786]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pppd[7781]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x550c0689 pcomp accomp] Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pptp[7788]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pptp[7788]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pptp[7788]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:07 tagalong pptp[7790]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Feb 10 08:34:07 tagalong pptp[7790]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:07 tagalong pptp[7790]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pptp[7782]: anon fatal[open_callmgr:pptp.c:439]: Could not launch call manager after 3 tries. Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Modem hangup Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Connection terminated. Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Script pptp IP Address --nolaunchpppd --loglevel 2 finished (pid 7782), status = 0x1 Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Exit. Here are the contents of my /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: # Secrets for authentication using CHAP # clientserver secret IP addresses #\'\' * \'\' usernameIP Address password * And finally, my connect script from /etc/ppp/peers/vpn: pty pptp IP Address --nolaunchpppd --loglevel 2 name username remotename IP address file /etc/ppp/options.pptp noauth ipparam IP Address Any ideas on what I'm missing? I've been at this for two days but can not figure out my errors. In cases where the guide indicates using a VPN server name, I have tried with both a made up (but common) server name and the actual IP address as this VPN server does not have a resolvable name. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient -- SOLVED
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do the same on a Gentoo client. I've Googled and found that pptpclient should do what I want. I've followed this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_VPN_client_setup_with_pptpclient snip Any ideas on what I'm missing? I've been at this for two days but can not figure out my errors. In cases where the guide indicates using a VPN server name, I have tried with both a made up (but common) server name and the actual IP address as this VPN server does not have a resolvable name. Never mind. I found the problem. The VPN concentrator still had a connection registered for my IP address. Once that was cleared, I was able to connect. Sorry for the noise. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation
I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and remember connections. Also, it's very easy to choose between low and high bandwidth connections with the Windows version. I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation
David Negreira wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and remember connections. Also, it's very easy to choose between low and high bandwidth connections with the Windows version. I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Thanks, Drew Hi, You could use grdesktop that has all that features. Thank you for your reply. However grdesktop appears to be only for connecting to Windows Remote Desktop and NOT VNC. Am I missing something? I need to connect to VNC servers. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation
Aaron Clark wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and remember connections. Also, it's very easy to choose between low and high bandwidth connections with the Windows version. I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Did you check the version numbers for the two TightVNC clients? You might need to switch to a ~arch version of Tight on Gentoo if the stable version is too old. If you're running Gnome, you could also take a look at Vinagre as a client. It does connection bookmarking, multiple connections on tabs, etc. Thanks to all for the suggestions. My TightVNC on Linux is version 1.3.9 and is from net-misc/tightvnc-1.3.9-r2. As I am using Gnome, I've installed Vinagre and it appears to be what I need. I just wish there was some way to scroll in fullscreen mode. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:11 +, Stroller wrote: So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained the same. Stopping ntpd starting ntp-client corrected the date immediately. ntpd will not change the time if the difference is too large, the man page gives the limit. You need to run both at boot; ntp-client sets the time immediately, no matter what the skew, then ntpd keeps the clock in time. To avoid running ntp-client and ntpd, look at the -g switch for ntpd. It will make the big jump once and then keep the clock in sync. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading
John covici wrote: on Thursday 11/27/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Drew Tomlinson wrote: Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue persists. In my previous Gentoo install and other Gentoo installs, autoloading modules worked. I do not know why they are not loading in this case. I have the following: mythfe01 mythtv # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 abituguru ftdi_sio lirc_i2c Yet on reboot, these modules don't load. Loading manually works fine: mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe abituguru mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe ftdi_sio mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c Can anyone tell me where my error may be? I think I read something after one of my upgrades that said loading modules was changing. If you keep your logs, check the messages that appear when portage installs a package. I only use nvidia here as a module so I didn't pay much attention after the reboot worked. I also checked emerge.log but I didn't recognize the package. Maybe this will help tho. If you are using base layout 2.x then the name has changed along with a number of other things -- there is a migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml Hope this helps. Yes, I am using base layout 2. This nudge is what I needed. Thanks for all the replies! Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading
Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue persists. In my previous Gentoo install and other Gentoo installs, autoloading modules worked. I do not know why they are not loading in this case. I have the following: mythfe01 mythtv # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 abituguru ftdi_sio lirc_i2c Yet on reboot, these modules don't load. Loading manually works fine: mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe abituguru mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe ftdi_sio mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c Can anyone tell me where my error may be? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Alan E. Davis wrote: Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main drive is a 1 RPM faster drive, and I'd like to keep the partitions or directories that are mainly for storage separated. I really do notice a difference in the performance of the drive. this is somewhat of a conundrum: how to keep the current projects focused on the faster drive. Interestingly (to me) while I carefully planned for swap on the faster drive, since I moved to 2GB of RAM, I think I've only touched swap two or three times, and then only passingly! I definitely wouldn't want to put / into LVM. If I do LVM it will be the easy way, the most clearcut way. As one that's used LVM and other similar software in both Windows and the BSDs, be sure you understand the risk involved. While the idea of one big drive sounds appealing (which is why I used it), lose one drive and you lose everything in the LV unless you are mirroring, using parity, or some combination of both. I have been bit by this time and time again and have finally decided that LVM is not worth the hassle for me any longer, especially since a 1 TB drive can be found easily for less than $200 (US). Anyway, I'm not knocking those who use LVM. Just understand the risk. :) Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Mouse Quits After Gnome Login
I have a laptop that has been working fine until my last world update yesterday. FWIW, it's probably been at least 3 months since the last update. I'm running the 2.6.25-r4 kernel from gentoo sources. Gnome version is 2.22. Xorg version is 7.3. Mouse is actually a Synaptics Touchpad on the laptop. xorg.conf file has not changed and uses synaptics driver and evdev. The symptom is that X starts and gdm loads. Touchpad mouse still works. However after logging on and somewhere during the Gnome splash screen, the mouse stops responding. Any ideas on what might cause this behavior? Thanks, Drew
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
Eric Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: Josh Cepek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: David Blamire-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it, but I do remember that it worked. Well at least that sounds promising. I did see mention of that in some of my google searches but I wondered, If I had to use ssh, why wouldn't I just pull the X session on linux across with ssh alone. And forget about VNC. Session persistence. [1] With VNC I can create a full desktop session (I use Fluxbox because it's lightweight) and connect to it as needed from any system with network access. This is great for my IM app. I lock my firewall rules down to allow VNC only from localhost and ssh tunnel all my connections (even on the LAN) because VNC's auth scheme is dreadfully insecure. [...] I had expected to be able to connect to the running X desktop but apparently that isn't going to happen. In other words I cannot view the running desktop from a remote machine but am forced to view a new or different desktop where none of the things I have running on :0 are available. I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that. I do know there's a vnc server that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. I can confirm that x11vnc is the one. I use it often. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues
Miernik wrote: list-catcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my install. What sort of ebuilds/apps should I be looking at to solve the problem? I don't mean to be insulting but are you sure you were compiling under Vista? Typically, most users of Windows systems don't compile. They just install pre-compiled binaries or packages if you will. But maybe you are a developer who actually compiles software under Windows... Anyway, the reason I ask is because unless your were actually running your CPU at full load under Windows, it's normal to have your system become warmer while emerging packages on Gentoo because you are actually compiling instead of just installing. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25
On 6/6/2008 2:40 AM Mick said the following:
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I
can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other
than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory, Receiver
not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui
Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am unable
to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This is a
simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not find
anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have a
Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the same
problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it but no
luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211
stack.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
How do you invoke tcpdump? Are you placing your interface in promiscuous
mode? If you iface is 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 which one is 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 ?
The router? Does setting -s 65535 provide more packet info?
As root:
tcpdump -i wlan0
My iface is 00:14:a5:fc:3b:b2 and is not shown in my log snippet. In
the log snippet, one MAC is my access point and the other is a Wii
gaming console.
Please note that this same command on this same network was just fine
when I was running kernel 2.6.23. Problems began when I upgraded to
kernel 2.6.25. Thus I suspect there is either some change with .25 or
more likely, I turned something on/off in my kernel config that I should
not have. I just don't know what that something might be.
Thanks for your reply.
Drew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25
On 6/5/2008 4:49 PM Eric Martin said the following:
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25,
I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device
other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send
seq 42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory,
Receiver not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send
seq 43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06
(oui Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am
unable to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This
is a simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not
find anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have
a Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the
same problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it
but no luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211
stack.
I don't have much help to offer than go with WPA over WEP (especially
WEP64). A guy at my LUG gave a presentation on hacking WEP and did it
in under 1 minute. I went home that night and got WPA to work.
Agreed that WEP is only marginally better than wide open. However I am
using an old Linksys ethernet/wireless bridge that does not support
WPA. Plus this is my small home network on property that is not that
close to others. Add to that MAC filtering (again, not hard to crack)
and I feel that the likelihood of someone seeking me out and cracking my
network is unlikely. And even if someone did, what are they going to
get? They'd still have to crack each system on my net before finding my
MP3s and family photos.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
Yes, turning on wep vs WPA ;)
For me, WEP isn't wrong. Just an educated choice based upon my hardware
capability and security needs. Yours may be different.
Thanks,
Drew
Sorry the only answer is do it totally differently but nobody else
replied so I figured I'd chime in.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Drew
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[gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I
can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other
than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory, Receiver
not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui
Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am unable
to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This is a
simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not find
anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have a
Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the same
problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it but no
luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211 stack.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
Thanks,
Drew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?
ionut cucu wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:23:05 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just sits. I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? For me both work fine. Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Thanks. I suspect it's normally a good page. However when I attempted to open it, I got a page with this text: The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. :) Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?
For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just sits. I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just sits. I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? For me both work fine. Thanks. I'll keep checking on this end. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth they are using... Ideally, I'd like to see a real-time list of the main bandwidth consuming communicators... So you want to monitor the traffic going through your router? I imagine that would be difficult to do from one of the endpoints in your LAN (your Gentoo box). The switch should only route to your machine traffic destined for it, so how to measure the bandwidth the other machines are consuming between themselves and the outside world? If there is a way to do this I'd be very interested :) Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need to make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the ADSL router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any one of numerous tools I concur with the above poster and use a FreeBSD machine as my gateway. There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real time traffic analysis which might be useful for you. I found it in portage: net-analyzer/trafshow Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)
Philip Webb wrote: 080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu ? If the latter, check that the menu is using the correct command (eg use Kmenuedit). If the former, are there any error messages ? I have started it both ways as a user. As root, I start from the CLI after su to root from my user login. There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and then a progress bar at the bottom of the splash graphic progresses in about 10 seconds and OpenOffice starts. The progress bar never progresses when starting as a user. I have to kill oosplash.bin with signal 15 after starting as a user to return my system to normal. Some more Googling turned up this post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623771-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html?sid=1514fa8e48f6a12a86c6c66e920161e9 I found that when I su to root, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined. As a user, it is defined as: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and then a progress bar at the bottom of the splash graphic progresses in about 10 seconds and OpenOffice starts. The progress bar never progresses when starting as a user. I have to kill oosplash.bin with signal 15 after starting as a user to return my system to normal. Some more Googling turned up this post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623771-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html?sid=1514fa8e48f6a12a86c6c66e920161e9 I found that when I su to root, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined. As a user, it is defined as: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? See http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LD_LIBRARY_PATH So the question is one of hunting down where this variable is set. Your .bashrc? Perhaps grepping through /etc/env.d? Thank you for your reply. The culprit appears to be /etc/profile.d/ati-fglrx.sh. So if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not a good idea, why does the ATI driver do so? And more importantly, how can I workaround this issue? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User
I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any suggestions on how to get this going? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any suggestions on how to get this going? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop. There is a unofficial hack discussed at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0start=0. It has worked for many but not for me. If anyone knows any other tricks, I'd be happy to hear about them. I'm using a gentoo 2.6.23-r5 kernel with the Broadcom 4311 driver. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
On 12/25/2007 8:56 AM Stroller said the following: On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. You should demonstrate that your xorg.conf is referencing the appropriate ATi driver. Stroller. Thank you for your reply. I'm not sure how to demonstrate other that pasting the relevant section xorg log: (II) LoadModule: fglrx (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so (II) Module fglrx: vendor=FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc. compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.43.2 Module class: X.Org Video Driver Is this sufficient? Thanks, Drew Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
On 12/25/2007 10:19 AM Grant Edwards said the following: On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit jumpy as if the video hardware is not fast enough. It's pretty hard to believe that the video hardware is the problem. I've played back DVDs on laptop ATI chipsets a decade older than yours and it worked fine. I've currently got a two year old ATI laptop chipset (X300?), and it has no trouble playing DVDs using either the Radeon or the fglrx drive. My guess is the optical drive doesn't have DMA enabled. DMA is enabled. If it were not, I would also expect to see the choppiness no matter what the video size. tagalong conf.d # hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: IO_support= 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) You may want to check to make sure the XV video overlay support is enabled, but even without it, playing back SD video purely in software shouldn't be a problem on anything with a CPU faster than 500MHz. How can I verify XV video overlay support? I'm sure my CPU is capable as its an AMD Turion dual core running at 1.6ghz. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
On 12/25/2007 9:49 AM András Csányi said the following: 2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit jumpy as if the video hardware is not fast enough. Keeping the video smaller in a window produces much better results. As you might expect, the larger the video picture, the worse the jumpiness gets. Results are the same with both Totem and VLC. I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. Hi! I have this problem but i have another ATI inegrated card (01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]) The solution is the next: - use fglrx (you have to test the 3D rendering with fgl_fglxgears command) - use mplayer with -vo gl or -vo gl2 option (the gl and gl2 is opengl video output) I have fglrx and verified it works. I have not tried mplayer. Does mplayer work better than other players? I hope i can help you. András ps.: sorry my english :) Your English is good. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit jumpy as if the video hardware is not fast enough. Keeping the video smaller in a window produces much better results. As you might expect, the larger the video picture, the worse the jumpiness gets. Results are the same with both Totem and VLC. I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 Bridged Networking w/Wireless Card
Is is possible to get VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 guest OSs to work via bridged networking on a wireless card? I've Googled and found threads regarding this issue. This one seems to be the most relevant: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0start=0 My post is on the 3rd page as being from imacamper. Basically from the guest OS (Win XP) I can ping the host but nothing beyond. My wireless card is a Broadcom that uses the BCM43xx kernel module. Bridging works OK with the wired Ethernet port that uses the sky2 driver. NAT works fine with both wired and wireless. I'm stumped. I've used VMWare with Windows as the host but this is my first attempt at installing on a Linux host. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched
I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't know much about how portage works so I am at a complete loss. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've included the emerge output below: Emerging (3 of 10) media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 to / * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ] * You enabled the 'xvmc' USE flag, you must have a GeForce 4 or * greater to use this. Otherwise, you'll have crashes with MythTV * This ebuild now uses a heavily stripped down version of your CFLAGS * Don't complain because your -momfg-fast-speed CFLAG is being stripped * Only additional CFLAG issues that will be addressed are for binary * package building. Unpacking source... * * ERROR: media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 1654: Called dyn_unpack * ebuild.sh, line 768: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack * mythtv-0.20.2_p14357.ebuild, line 108: Called subversion_src_unpack * subversion.eclass, line 254: Called subversion_fetch * subversion.eclass, line 179: Called die * * subversion.eclass: ESVN_REPO_URI (or specified URI) and working copy's URL are not matched. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?
On 8/3/2007 7:15 AM Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-08-03, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: Flashplayer 9 doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it in both Opera and Firefox, but for most videos (e.g. nytimes.com) it just sits there with the spinning loading arrow. Clicking play does nothing. Working here. I had a similar problem on a Kubuntu system, and it was audio related (disabling aRTs was the solution). Are you using aRTs, gstreamer or similar? No, and flashplayer doesn't have any problems with sound on videos from other sites or with videos using a smaller format on nytimes.com This may help: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=186198 Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured -- SOLVED
On 6/27/2007 7:45 AM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I don't think DHCP is at the TCP layer of your network, and so you shouldn't see packets for DHCP there. DHCP is a special protocol if I recall... That's correct, dhcp is an ethernet protocol, and tcp/ip are one layer above it. Drew should be able to see the packets with the 'proto ether' expression. man tcpdump for more info alan Thank you both for your ideas. I've tested and it seems that I should be able to see the packets without any special expressions. I've run tcpdump on my DHCP server and can see packets from other nodes on my network: Client IP: bigdaddy Client Ethernet Address: 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown) [|bootp] 15:39:48.229850 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 25950, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 328) bigdaddy.bootpc 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown), length: 300, xid:0x7707a3b2, secs:768, flags: [none] When I run 'tcpdump -i eth1' on the laptop, I see no traffic whatsoever. I read the man page for tcpdump regarding the 'proto ether' expression Alan mentions. While it is true that this expression will limit the traffic captured, not specifying any expression will show all traffic. Plus DHCP works by sending UDP packets and thus 'proto ether' does not seem to be appropriate. Thanks, Drew For the archives... Ditching wpa_supplicant in favor of iwconfig (wireless tools port) solved my problems. Only downside is that I am unable to use WPA-PSK authentication. Maybe a future version of wpa_supplicant will work? Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this card with dri enabled. I followed the guides at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml and I've also Googled for a week with no success. With the x11 drivers installed, I get this error message when starting X: (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I've emerged ati-drivers and set make.conf to include the fglrx driver as suggested in the ATI guide. However when loading the fglrx.ko module, I get an error about ...taints the kernel. Thus I suspect I have some option set in my kernel that conflicts with the fglrx module? I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the taint message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an Operation not permitted error (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted So, I am confused. What exactly should VIDEO_CARDS= setting be in /etc/make.conf? =radeon? =fglrx? =radeon fglrx? I think I need to be sure I have everything set right, be sure to un-emerge any conflicting ports, and then re-emerge the proper ports. Can someone please point out the steps? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the taint message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an Operation not permitted error (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the operation not permitted complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the taint message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an Operation not permitted error (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the operation not permitted complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that driver... That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 7:01 PM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the taint message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an Operation not permitted error (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the operation not permitted complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that driver... That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? I've done some more Googling. It would appear the Radeon Xpress 1100 is supported with ATI drivers. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_14603_14624%5E14627,00.html Now, how to get the fglrx module to load?... -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 7:14 PM Mark Knecht said the following: The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that driver... That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? Thanks, Drew See if Michael can help you at the Phoronix forums: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/index.php He has been good at helping me with corner case issue on ATI drivers. Thanks. I'll try that. I also tried installing the ATI drivers directly from ATI's web site. Same issue. Can not load the resulting module. tagalong X11 # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured
On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I don't think DHCP is at the TCP layer of your network, and so you shouldn't see packets for DHCP there. DHCP is a special protocol if I recall... That's correct, dhcp is an ethernet protocol, and tcp/ip are one layer above it. Drew should be able to see the packets with the 'proto ether' expression. man tcpdump for more info alan Thank you both for your ideas. I've tested and it seems that I should be able to see the packets without any special expressions. I've run tcpdump on my DHCP server and can see packets from other nodes on my network: Client IP: bigdaddy Client Ethernet Address: 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown) [|bootp] 15:39:48.229850 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 25950, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 328) bigdaddy.bootpc 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown), length: 300, xid:0x7707a3b2, secs:768, flags: [none] When I run 'tcpdump -i eth1' on the laptop, I see no traffic whatsoever. I read the man page for tcpdump regarding the 'proto ether' expression Alan mentions. While it is true that this expression will limit the traffic captured, not specifying any expression will show all traffic. Plus DHCP works by sending UDP packets and thus 'proto ether' does not seem to be appropriate. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured
I have a Gateway 6454 laptop with 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 amd64 kernel running.
I am trying to set up the wireless network. I have never done this
before so I started with the Handbook's Wireless Networking section. I
begin by attempting to figure out what network card I have. lspci
reports the wireless network chip as:
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
mini-PCI (rev 01)
Thus it seems the bcm43xx driver is what I need. I selected it to
compile as a module with DMA+PIO transfer mode selected. Along with it,
I compiled:
M Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack
--- IEEE 802.11 WEP encryption (802.1x)
M IEEE 802.11i CCMP support
M IEEE 802.11i TKIP encryption
M Software MAC add-on to the IEEE 802.11 networking stack
I wasn't sure exactly what I needed so I compiled all as modules and
loaded all. My though was that once I had it working, I would remove
modules to see what I really needed.
Googling revealed something about cutting firmware. Thus I emerged
bcm43xx-fwcutter and followed some tidbits I found on the web about how
that worked. First I grabbed the latest Windows driver and copied
bcmwl564.sys (since I am using an amd64 kernel). When running
bcm43xx-fwcutter -i bcmwl564.sys, I got the following error/output:
*** WARNING ***
This file contains new version4
firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
you need latest bcm43xx development version
(wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don't know what
this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
instead to extract the firmware.
Well I couldn't find a version 3 driver and I have no idea how to use
the wireless-dev kernel tree even after Googling for another hour.
However I did find a Linux driver for the BCM43xx named wl_apsta.o but
I really don't know much about it. Thus I extracted firmware from that
and copied it to /libs/firmware. An 'ifconfig eth1 up' and now I was
able to get the wireless card recognized:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:FC:3B:B2
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:29319 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:91345 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:184 (184.0 b) TX bytes:4141799 (3.9 Mb)
Interrupt:17
Anyway, next I continued following the Gentoo Handbook on Wireless
Networking
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=4),
specifically the WPA Supplicant section. Here's the contents of the
files I created pursuant to that page:
tagalong ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
# From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=4
# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools
modules=( wpa_supplicant )
# It's important that we tell wpa_supplicant which driver we should
# be using as it's not very good at guessing yet
wpa_supplicant_eth1=-Dwext
tagalong ~ # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
# The below line not be changed otherwise we refuse to work
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# Ensure that only root can read the WPA configuration
ctrl_interface_group=0
# Let wpa_supplicant take care of scanning and AP selection
ap_scan=1
# This is a network block that connects to any unsecured access point.
# We give it a low priority so any defined blocks are preferred.
network={
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-999
}
network={
ssid=DrewNet
key_mgmt=NONE
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0=ff # not the real keys - but then it's WEP so
wep_key1=ff # am I hiding them? :)
wep_key2=ff
wep_key3=ff
wep_tx_keyidx=0
priority=5
}
Now when I fire up wpa_supplicant, it seems to associate:
wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -ieth1 -d
Initializing interface 'eth1' conf
'/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default'
ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' -
'/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
ctrl_interface_group='0' (DEPRECATED)
ap_scan=1
Priority group 5
id=0 ssid='DrewNet'
Initializing interface (2) 'eth1'
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf
capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
Own MAC address: 00:14:a5:fc:3b:b2
wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0
[gentoo-user] Help With Cron
My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format %T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S --link /tv/pretty However it fails to run and I get this error message emailed to me from cron: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:07:01 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format X-Cron-Env: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/mythtv X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=mythtv X-Cron-Env: USER=mythtv Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file So I suspected the quotes in my command line might be the problem and I removed the '--format ...' part. Thus my command looked like this: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --link /tv/pretty But still I received email with the same error. I don't understand what cron doesn't like. The command runs just fine as the user from the command line. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With Cron -- SOLVED
On 4/10/2007 3:20 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format %T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S --link /tv/pretty However it fails to run and I get this error message emailed to me from cron: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:07:01 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format X-Cron-Env: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/mythtv X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=mythtv X-Cron-Env: USER=mythtv Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file So I suspected the quotes in my command line might be the problem and I removed the '--format ...' part. Thus my command looked like this: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --link /tv/pretty But still I received email with the same error. I don't understand what cron doesn't like. The command runs just fine as the user from the command line. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Never mind. Although I was editing the crontab with 'crontab -e', I wasn't exiting out of my editor between edits. I was only hitting the save button. Thus because I didn't actually exit the editor, the updated crontab was not getting installed. Sorry for the noise. Thanks, Drew P.S. Yes, the problem was with the quotes as I suspected earlier. Escaping the quotes (\) solved the problem. -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
On 5/12/2006 9:51 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to wait a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. You can do all this in /etc/conf.d/net # set the dhcp timeout to 3 minutes dhcpcd_eth0=-t 180 # create static fallback options fallback_eth0=( 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) See /etc/conf.d/net.example Thanks to all of you for the replies. The above seems to be the simplest/best option for me. I will try this out and report my results. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Startup Script Help
Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to wait a few minutes if DHCP fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally uses a static configuration. However my scripting knowledge is limited so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
On 2/14/2006 6:32 AM Benno Schulenberg wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried touching it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. From 'man ntpd': ... After one hour the frequency file is created and the current frequency offset written to it. Right. I should have been more clear. Even after 2 hours, there was no file. I suspected file permissions which is I used chown to set the file to ntp:ntp. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems
On 2/12/2006 8:01 PM Harry Putnam wrote: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo box will set its clock with ntpd -gq. I am currently using this brute force method via a cron job as a temporary workaround. Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? It might be that the clock got off by more than ntp is willing to adjust. As I recall there is a threshold above which ntp will not go. Hopefully someone more knowledgable might confirm that. Thanks for your reply. If I understand correctly, using the '-g' option will allow a one time clock adjustment of any size. To cure that sort of problem here I run ntp-client at boot. It sets the time by any amount I think. So time gets set right on boot then ntp will keep it in good order. Next boot up ntp-client comes in ahead of ntp and sets the clock before ntp gets to it, so the too-large discrepancy never occurs. I have used both 'ntpupdate' (the utility used by ntp-client) and 'ntpd -gq' (ntpd's way to mimic the behavior of ntpupdate) with successful results. However I still can not seem to get ntpd to sync when run in daemon mode. I seem to recall that the too-large discrepancy is not really that large. I remember thinking it seemed kind of small to be a problem. 1000 seconds according to my understanding of the man page. Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out that my recordings were off by over an hour and half. :) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems
On 2/13/2006 12:22 PM Mark Knecht wrote: On 2/13/06, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out that my recordings were off by over an hour and half. :) Thanks, Drew Drew, Please excuse me jumping in here. I have seen no other emails in this thread so maybe I'm wasting time. I hope not. Thanks for jumping in. I'll try any suggestions at this point. :) I have a number of Gentoo machines. For some reason in the last week or 10 days my AMD64 machine stopped keeping time. I'd boot it in the morning and even the day would be off. It was horrible. With a little help from others I found that, at least in my case, I needed to start running ntp-client in the default run level. I never ran this before but there appears to have been change recently that has made it more important. Either that or I was just lucky before. This leads me to believe that your issues are related to the initial step being beyond the 1000 second limit by default. I thought about this and thought the '-g' switch would override any such limit. I have also tried your suggestion in my testing. Not specifically by enabling ntp-client but by running ntpdate from the command line and then immediately running ntpd -A -d from the command line. Still, no sync. I've since added ntp-client on all the machines and things are now dead on as far as I can tell. One other thing that was recommended to me was to remove the /etc/adjust file when doing this. I did that also. I don't seem to have one of these. Again, if all of this has already been covered I apologize for taking up too much time. No, this hasn't been covered and they're good suggestions. I have a bit of an update. In experimenting, I tried both broadcastclient and server 192.168.1.2 (my time server machine) in ntp.conf. Neither worked. However, I read the man page for ntpd and came across the options of 'burst and iburst. I added both of these options so now my ntp.conf contains the line server 192.168.1.2 burst iburst. This seems to work but I don't understand why. One thing I noticed is that 'ntpd -d' output shows a burst of many communications between my Gentoo box and my time server each time it communicates. This results in a sync most of the time. However my ntp.log file shows entries such as this: 13 Feb 19:11:20 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:12:10 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:12:24 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:13:13 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:13:27 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:14:16 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:14:32 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:15:22 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:15:36 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:16:27 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:16:41 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:17:31 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:17:45 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:18:34 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:18:48 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:19:39 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:19:53 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:19:01 ntpd[8830]: time reset -52.104173 s The no servers reachable bothers me a bit. Is this indicative of a network issue and thus, the cause of my trouble? Both my Gentoo box and my time server are on a 100 mbps LAN and so there should not be a reachable issue. Just trying to understand... Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
On 2/13/2006 1:11 PM Nick Rout wrote: If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out then the compensation will be way out. Take a look at /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift, if its seems like a large figure, then zero it and start again from scratch. ie stop ntpd, set the clock with ntpdate, then start the ntpd service again (preferably not while recording with mythtv LOL). I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried touching it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. I'm by no means an expert but I don't get it. Thanks for your reply, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?
On 2/9/2006 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. What ebuild does it come from? Err, genlop $ eix genlop * app-portage/genlop Available versions: 0.30.2 0.30.3 0.30.5 Installed: 0.30.5 Homepage:http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html Description: A nice emerge.log parser Thanks. I guess I missed the obvious... :) Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
I have Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel running and have used ntpd in broadcastclient mode to keep its time in sync on my home network. The other day, the system suffered and abrupt shutdown due to a power outage. Ever since then, the system clock gains about 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Also, I can't get ntpd to sync the clock. My command line is ntpd -A -b -g -u ntp:ntp. I've included some output running the command with the debug switch below. I've also tried to gain more info with the ntpdc utility although I don't really know what I'm doing. However it appears that ntpd does see my FreeBSD time server even though it's not synced: ntpdc peers remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp === =192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 2 647 0.00038 -9.600170 1.98438 The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo box will set its clock with ntpd -gq. I am currently using this brute force method via a cron job as a temporary workaround. Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? Thanks for your help, Drew --- Begin debug output --- ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) addto_syslog: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) addto_syslog: precision = 3.000 usec create_sockets(123) addto_syslog: no IPv6 interfaces found bind() fd 4, family 2, port 123, addr 0.0.0.0, flags=8 addto_syslog: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 bind() fd 5, family 2, port 123, addr 127.0.0.1, flags=0 addto_syslog: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 bind() fd 6, family 2, port 123, addr 192.168.1.6, flags=8 addto_syslog: Listening on interface eth1, 192.168.1.6#123 init_io: maxactivefd 6 local_clock: time 0 clock 0.00 offset 0.00 freq 0.000 state 0 bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr 192.168.1.255, flags=8 io_setbclient: Opened broadcast client on interface 2, socket: 8 io_setbclient: Opened broadcast clients addto_syslog: frequency initialized -36.958 PPM from /etc/ntp/ntp.drift local_clock: time 0 clock 0.00 offset 0.00 freq -36.958 state 1 report_event: system event 'event_restart' (0x01) status 'sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 1 event, event_unspec' (0xc010) auth_agekeys: at 1 keys 1 expired 0 timer: refresh ts 0 receive: at 15 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 5 Finding addr 192.168.1.2 in list of addresses key_expire: at 15 peer_clear: at 15 assoc ID 33252 refid INIT newpeer: 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 3 vers 4 poll 6 10 flags 0x210 0x20 ttl 0 key receive: at 15 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 peer 192.168.1.2 event 'event_reach' (0x84) status 'unreach, 1 event, event_reach' (0x14) auth_agekeys: at 60 keys 1 expired 0 transmit: at 79 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 3 receive: at 79 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 clock_filter: popcorn 7.896193 0.000960 receive: at 82 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 receive: at 82 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 auth_agekeys: at 120 keys 1 expired 0 transmit: at 143 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 3 receive: at 143 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 clock_filter: n 2 off -9.600170 del 0.000386 dsp 3.937744 jit 1.703977, age 64 receive: at 148 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 receive: at 148 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 auth_agekeys: at 180 keys 1 expired 0 transmit: at 206 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 3 receive: at 206 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 clock_filter: n 3 off -9.600170 del 0.000386 dsp 1.938216 jit 1.639332, age 127 receive: at 215 192.168.1.6-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 receive: at 215 0.0.0.0-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 --- End debug output --- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?
On 2/9/2006 12:37 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:07:39 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists. Thus I suspect I deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'. Any suggestion on the best way to figure out what that something was and get things running again? Running revdep-rebuild -p should identify the culprit. If not, look at the output from genlop -u to see what was removed by the depclean. Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. What ebuild does it come from? I seem to have resolved my problem. When I reinstalled ivtv, it picked up the newest version (0.4.2) since it was unmasked in my package.keywords. Reverting back to 0.4.0-r3 worked. I'm running 2.6.13-r5 kernel and maybe the newer ivtv isn't compatible with this kernel. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?
I'm using Gentoo kernel 2.6.13-r5 kernel on a box whose primary purpose is MythTV. After upgrading to this kernel and reading about periodically cleaning cruft from systems, I followed some advice about doing something along the lines of 'emerge -depclean'. I thought everything was fine but now I suspect I was wrong. Just the other day, my machine (which has been functioning just fine for several weeks) locked up. After rebooting, known good video files in Myth freeze on the first frame. Audio plays just fine. Previous experience has shown me that this is caused by ivtv not being happy. For example, this behavior will occur after a kernel upgrade and then is fixed by emerging ivtv again. So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists. Thus I suspect I deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'. Any suggestion on the best way to figure out what that something was and get things running again? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)
On 1/21/2006 2:44 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:08:29 +0900, Chris White wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. That's the most blatant start of a flamewar I've seen... Ok, let's sit here and ponder. People like KDE, people like GNOME, hell, people like fluxbox and xfce. Now to put this in perspective, basically there is no right answer to this question, and no matter how much someone suggests, there never will be. There is a right answer to this question, because it is simple numbers, which is most popular. Carry out a poll of Linux users to ask which is their favourite desktop and you have the answer. If you really want to start a flamewar, ask which is better. Better is not the same as most popular, unless you really believe that Windows is the best OS out there. LOL. This could be the start of another flame war especially since it could be argued that any OS is the best in specific situations. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)
On 1/19/2006 11:37 PM Rumen Yotov said the following: On (19/01/06 18:15), Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The errors and the frame errors matched exactly. I did the standard testing to try and isolate the problem. I tried known working patch cables and known working hub ports. Then when the errors persisted, I even moved the box to a known working cable run. The errors remained. So I figured that the actual port on the motherboard must be bad. I recompiled my kernel with 3Com networking support and began using the 3Com port but I am still getting errors. Here's my current 'ifconfig' output: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0C:60:8D inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:131785 errors:481 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:760 TX packets:168955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27189676 (25.9 Mb) TX bytes:169280962 (161.4 Mb) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000 The errors have changed a little in that now the frame errors exceed the errors. How can that be? I must not understand the output. Anyway, I'm starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their defaults as far as I recall. Any ideas on what might be going on? I'm still having this issue. A networking guy told me that framing errors can typically come when the two ends of the connection (card and switch) are not set to the same parameters such as half-duplex vs. full-duplex. He suggested I try forcing both ends to be the same and see if the errors go away. However this is just a cheap 8 port TrendNet switch that doesn't have any management capability. Thus I thought I'd try forcing the NIC to one way or the other and see if the errors are resolved. I've Googled for information on how to (a) find out the current setting and (b) change the setting but have been unsuccessful. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks, Drew Hi, For setting up NICs check: mii-diag or better ethtool (both are in portage). Read the corresponding man pages for needed options. HTH.Rumen Thank you. I installed ethtool. The output of concern is this: tv mythtv # ethtool -S eth1 NIC statistics: tx_deferred: 0 tx_multiple_collisions: 0 rx_bad_ssd: 47853 Does rx_bad_ssd mean framing errors? I Googled on the term and only came up with a bunch of ethtool patches. Here's some other output if that helps anyone know why I might be getting framing errors: tv mythtv # ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 2 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Current message level: 0x0001 (1) Link detected: yes tv mythtv # ethtool -i eth1 driver: 3c59x version: LK1.1.19 firmware-version: bus-info: :02:01.0 Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)
On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The errors and the frame errors matched exactly. I did the standard testing to try and isolate the problem. I tried known working patch cables and known working hub ports. Then when the errors persisted, I even moved the box to a known working cable run. The errors remained. So I figured that the actual port on the motherboard must be bad. I recompiled my kernel with 3Com networking support and began using the 3Com port but I am still getting errors. Here's my current 'ifconfig' output: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0C:60:8D inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:131785 errors:481 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:760 TX packets:168955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27189676 (25.9 Mb) TX bytes:169280962 (161.4 Mb) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000 The errors have changed a little in that now the frame errors exceed the errors. How can that be? I must not understand the output. Anyway, I'm starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their defaults as far as I recall. Any ideas on what might be going on? I'm still having this issue. A networking guy told me that framing errors can typically come when the two ends of the connection (card and switch) are not set to the same parameters such as half-duplex vs. full-duplex. He suggested I try forcing both ends to be the same and see if the errors go away. However this is just a cheap 8 port TrendNet switch that doesn't have any management capability. Thus I thought I'd try forcing the NIC to one way or the other and see if the errors are resolved. I've Googled for information on how to (a) find out the current setting and (b) change the setting but have been unsuccessful. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge is Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed
I've got some weirdness going on with my system after an upgrade. Seems that some things that were compiled with gcc 3.3 don't want to run with a kernel that was compiled with gcc 3.4. I'm not sure of this but that's my guess, especially after re-emerging a few packages (that one doesn't normally have to re-emerge after a kernel upgrade) and they suddenly stop seg faulting. So anyway, I thought I'd just re-emerge my entire system with 'emerge -vuDNe1 world'. It was chuggin' along fine until it hit app-misc/lirc-0.7.2. The build starts, goes through configure, and actually begins compiling, and then starts waiting here: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -c `test -f irxevent.c || echo './'`irxevent.c `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. source='xmode2.c' object='xmode2.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/xmode2.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/xmode2.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -c `test -f xmode2.c || echo './'`xmode2.c `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irw irw.o Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed mkdir .libs gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irw irw.o /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o mode2 mode2.o gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o mode2 mode2.o /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irsend irsend.o gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irsend irsend.o /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o smode2 smode2.o -lvga -lvgagl Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o smode2 smode2.o -lvga -lvgagl /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o xmode2 xmode2.o -lSM -lICE -lX11 gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o xmode2 xmode2.o -lSM -lICE -lX11 Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed sandbox: Caught signal 2 in pid 30088 I've stopped lircd, removed all lirc kernel modules, searched the entire file system for a file named lirc_client.o.lock, searched Google for the same, even rebooted, and am still stuck at this point. I keep using 'emerge --resume' to retry as i don't want to rebuild the 130+ things that have already been built. I just want to continue with the remaining 250+. Any ideas on how to overcome this hurdle? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge is Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed
On 1/12/2006 10:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:45:30 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've stopped lircd, removed all lirc kernel modules, searched the entire file system for a file named lirc_client.o.lock, searched Google for the same, even rebooted, and am still stuck at this point. I keep using 'emerge --resume' to retry as i don't want to rebuild the 130+ things that have already been built. I just want to continue with the remaining 250+. Any ideas on how to overcome this hurdle? The short term fix is to use emerge --resume --skipfirst to continue with the next package in the list. It (probably) won't help fix the lircd problem, but it will let you emerge everything else. Cool. Thanks for getting me going again. lirc is working anyway and probably doesn't need rebuilding. Wonder why I didn't see skipfirst? Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Rx Errors on NIC
I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The errors and the frame errors matched exactly. I did the standard testing to try and isolate the problem. I tried known working patch cables and known working hub ports. Then when the errors persisted, I even moved the box to a known working cable run. The errors remained. So I figured that the actual port on the motherboard must be bad. I recompiled my kernel with 3Com networking support and began using the 3Com port but I am still getting errors. Here's my current 'ifconfig' output: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0C:60:8D inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:131785 errors:481 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:760 TX packets:168955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27189676 (25.9 Mb) TX bytes:169280962 (161.4 Mb) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000 The errors have changed a little in that now the frame errors exceed the errors. How can that be? I must not understand the output. Anyway, I'm starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their defaults as far as I recall. Any ideas on what might be going on? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't Re-Emerge lirc After Kernel Upgrade
I upgraded from 2.6.13-r5 to 2.6.14-r5 using gentoo-sources. I'm using this machine for MythTV and I noticed lirc was not working after the upgrade. So I tried rebuilding it but lirc 0.7.2 (the same version I was using before) fails to build. I have no idea what's wrong and haven't found anything via Google. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew --- BEGIN Build Failure Output ---. creating doc/man/Makefile creating config.h You will have to use the lirc_i2c kernel module. Now enter 'make' and 'make install' to compile and install the package. * Converting lirc-0.7.2/Makefile to use M= instead of SUBDIRS= ... [ ok ] cd . \ /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/missing --run automake --gnu Makefile cd . /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/missing --run autoheader autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot' autoheader-2.59: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in' autoheader-2.59: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged. autoheader-2.59: autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `acconfig.h': autoheader-2.59: autoheader-2.59: WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1, autoheader-2.59:[Define if a function `main' is needed.]) autoheader-2.59: autoheader-2.59: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the autoheader-2.59: WARNING: documentation. configure.in:18: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst aclocal.m4:629: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.in:18: the top level configure.in:1316: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp aclocal.m4:642: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from... configure.in:1316: the top level cd . \ CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h \ /bin/sh ./config.status creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2' Making all in drivers make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers' cd .. \ /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/missing --run automake --gnu drivers/Makefile cd .. \ CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \ CONFIG_FILES=drivers/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status creating drivers/Makefile make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers' Making all in lirc_dev make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev' cd ../.. \ /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/missing --run automake --gnu drivers/lirc_dev/Makefile cd ../.. \ CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \ CONFIG_FILES=drivers/lirc_dev/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status creating drivers/lirc_dev/Makefile make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev' mv Makefile Makefile.automake cp ../Makefile.kernel Makefile make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r5/build/ SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev modules \ KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5' mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_versions WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev/.lirc_dev.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev/../.. -I /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r5/build//include/ -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME=lirc_dev -DKBUILD_MODNAME=lirc_dev -c -o /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_lirc_dev.o /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c /bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory make[5]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/lirc_dev] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5' make[3]: *** [lirc_dev.o] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory
[gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?
It was suggested to me on the MythTV list to upgrade from 0.4 to 0.5.0 or 0.5.1. However after running 'emerge --sync', portage still show 0.4.0-r2 as the latest version. I have it unmasked with the '~x86' in package.keywords so I assume this is the latest version in the normal portage tree. I've read about overlays and non official ebuilds but don't understand the process. Can anyone tell me if there is an ebuild for ivtv 0.5 and nudge me to a newbie link that explains the overlay process? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. Make that an NForce 4 chipset. Got confused between graphics and motherboards. :) here are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'm using the opportunity to covert this machine to a Gentoo desktop. However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly after logon. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
On 12/10/2005 1:04 PM Nick Smith wrote: On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'm using the opportunity to covert this machine to a Gentoo desktop. However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly after logon. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list what about safe mode? Safe mode with networking still leaves me without networking which I need or an overlay install? Tried that. Still hosed or even the recovery console? Never had any luck with this. Maybe I just don't know how to use it? i know that doesnt answer your knoppix question but i deal with that crap everyday and i have tried using knoppix a few times and it had problems with the ntfs partitions. where would you put the data once you got it? Was hoping to mount an smbfs filesystem and transfer it to another machine. Hence the need for networking above. its booted off the cd, so even if it was a burner how would you burn something when the drive is being used? a flash drive possibly. but probably the easiest way to get that data (sorry to say) is get winders functioning again, get your data, and then blow it away. which rises a question, if its a hardware raid stripe, i dont think knoppix should be seeing both drives, i thought the hardware controller told it what to see, so it should only see the one raid device, at least that was my take on it. This is what I thought too. hope some of this helps. At least I know I'm not the only one confused. :) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. ... I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. I'm no expert on this, but I believe that many ATA hardware RAID arrangements in fact just use their Windoze drivers to do software RAID. I'd do some research via Googling the chipset /or board's model number if I were you. I haven't found anything yet but then I haven't looked real hard. However I suspect this does not rely on any Windows drivers as the controller is managed long before Windows boots. Just after POST and before the OS starts, a brief message showing the controller is displayed. By pressing F10, I can manage my stripe. Much like I see most SCSI cards. Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly after logon. If my guess is correct then the best thing might be to install Windows on a spare drive boot from that to see the RAID as one. You might try booting with a Windows CD see if the RAID is recognised as a single partition... if you get the option to do a repair install you _should_ be able to get an at-least-mostly-working Windows install all your data intact. Recover the data to a portable drive format. Thanks. I tried an overlay install again and things seem to be going well. Copying data now. Thanks for your ideas! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
On 12/10/2005 1:50 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:08:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. There used to be problems accessing RAID arrays from Knoppix, and LVM still doesn't work AFAIK. The solution is to use a different live CD. As you plan to install Gentoo, it seems reasonable to assume you have a Gentoo CD, so try that. The Recovery Is Possible! live CD also worked with my RAID setup. Thanks for the encouragement. I attempted a Windows overlay install again and this time it seems to have worked! However I'll keep the live CD in mind for future emergencies. I started with Knoppix because a previous Gentoo installation I did wouldn't work with the live CD. I had an Advansys SCSI card in that box which wasn't supported on the live CD but was supported with Knoppix. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ivtv 0.5 ebuild?
Someone on the MythTV list recommended I install ivtv 0.5 to get a pctv HD-3000 card working. However portage shows the current version at 0.4-r2. Is there an ebuild for 0.5? Kicks to the portage overlay process welcome. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv 0.5 ebuild?
On 12/10/2005 5:33 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Try doing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge ivtv -s Which will you versions that are not considered stable yet. Yes, I have the keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords but the newest version is still 0.4.0-r2. I did emerge --sync just yesterday. Thanks anyway, Drew On Saturday 10 December 2005 20:25, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Someone on the MythTV list recommended I install ivtv 0.5 to get a pctv HD-3000 card working. However portage shows the current version at 0.4-r2. Is there an ebuild for 0.5? Kicks to the portage overlay process welcome. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
On 12/10/2005 3:47 PM Shawn Haggett wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. ... I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. I'm no expert on this, but I believe that many ATA hardware RAID arrangements in fact just use their Windoze drivers to do software RAID. I'd do some research via Googling the chipset /or board's model number if I were you. I haven't found anything yet but then I haven't looked real hard. However I suspect this does not rely on any Windows drivers as the controller is managed long before Windows boots. Just after POST and before the OS starts, a brief message showing the controller is displayed. By pressing F10, I can manage my stripe. Much like I see most SCSI cards. Have a look at: http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ I bought an ABit motherboard a while ago with a SIL3114 raid controller. While it gives you an option at boot to manage the drives, all this does is configure the drivers so the software can see them as a raid set, i.e. it's not true hardware raid. Shawn Haggett Thanks for that info. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Frozen Video]
On 11/5/2005 9:12 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:15:37 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a box running kernel version 2.6.13-r5, and MythTV 0.18.2 built from portage. I'm using a video card with the nvidia nv18 chipset (6600?). I also have a custom xorg modeline for my widescreen HDTV. My video card is connected via a VGA to component converter. The screen looks good and regular desktop mode works fine. The mouse moves. MythTV menus are displayed and the cursor moves around when I hit the arrow keys. The problem is when I switch to a video mode. The video freezes at the first frame. The audio continues and plays just fine. The freezing problem occurs whether I'm viewing LiveTV, previously recorded shows, and even video files via MythVideo (uses mplayer). All of this used to work until I upgraded hardware and rebuilt my system. I have no idea what the cause might be or where to start looking. Any ideas? Drew try running mplayer from the command line and see what error messages are given. also look in the standard places like dmesg and /var/log/Xorg*.log. You can also run mythfrontend from the command line with verbose logging. Thanks for your reply. mplayer did not indicate any errors, nor did dmesg. I didn't think to look in Xorg.log before I fixed the problem. In upgrading my system to use a component to VGA converter, I copied a xorg.conf file I found on the web as a starting point. One of the modules it loaded was fbdevhw which I have no idea what it does. Judging by the name, I guess frame buffer from fb and development from dev? I could not find any info on Google about what modules are included for X and what they do. But this module just seemed like it might be interfering and it wasn't included in my old xorg.conf so I commented it out and restarted X. Now the video works fine. I'd appreciate any link that describes X modules so I could learn more about them. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Frozen Video]
I have a box running kernel version 2.6.13-r5, and MythTV 0.18.2 built from portage. I'm using a video card with the nvidia nv18 chipset (6600?). I also have a custom xorg modeline for my widescreen HDTV. My video card is connected via a VGA to component converter. The screen looks good and regular desktop mode works fine. The mouse moves. MythTV menus are displayed and the cursor moves around when I hit the arrow keys. The problem is when I switch to a video mode. The video freezes at the first frame. The audio continues and plays just fine. The freezing problem occurs whether I'm viewing LiveTV, previously recorded shows, and even video files via MythVideo (uses mplayer). All of this used to work until I upgraded hardware and rebuilt my system. I have no idea what the cause might be or where to start looking. Any ideas? Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc
On 11/3/2005 12:26 PM Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:11:41 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_dev FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c WARNING: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting lirc_i2c (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_i2c.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) well, and what does dmesg say? Do you have i2c support in the kernel? What kind of IR receiver are you using? Do you need certain kernel drivers for the TV card? Thank you for your reply. Here is the relevant part of dmesg: lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_add lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_destroy lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_remove lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_create lirc_i2c: Unknown symbol lirc_unregister_plugin lirc_i2c: Unknown symbol lirc_register_plugin I think I have i2c support in the kernel via module. This is my lsmod output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod | grep i2c i2c_nforce2 6560 0 i2c_algo_bit9448 1 ivtv i2c_core 20976 7 i2c_nforce2,tda9887,msp3400,saa7115,tuner,tveeprom,i2c_algo_bit I'm using the receiver that comes with the Hauppauge PVR-250 card. I have this line in /etc/make.conf: # From http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Setup_MythTV LIRC_OPTS=--with-driver=hauppauge From something I read last spring when I first setup the box, I have /etc/modules.d/lirc with these lines: alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c And I have rebuilt lirc against the new kernel. Any ideas? Thanks for your help! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc
On 11/4/2005 8:52 AM Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:31:55 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: [...] well, and what does dmesg say? Do you have i2c support in the kernel? What kind of IR receiver are you using? Do you need certain kernel drivers for the TV card? Thank you for your reply. Here is the relevant part of dmesg: lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_add lirc_dev: Unknown symbol class_simple_destroy [...] While just checking google to make sure that I'm not gonna talk nonsense here, I found a lot of similar trouble descriptions. It seems that there's some incompatibility between newer kernel versions and some lirc versions. Are you running lirc w/ ~x86 or just x86? If the latter is the case (lirc 0.7.2), I'd recommend $ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge lirc Thank you so much! This seems to have solved the problem. I was running version 0.7.0-r1. Now I have 0.7.2 installed and modprobed the lirc_dev module without error. I will verify it's working when I get home tonight. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc
I had MythTV 0.18 running just fine on a Gentoo 2.6.11-r6 kernel built with genkernel. Then I upgraded the hardware to a Athlon 2800 XP processor running on an Asus motherboard with an Nvidia2 chipset and upgraded the kernel to 2.6.13-r5 from Gentoo sources using genkernel. The system has a PVR-250 and I added a pcHDTV-3000 card. I mention this card in case there's some known conflicts. I have used the module-rebuild and modules-update tools to recompile those modules that needed to be against the new kernel. The specific modules were nvidia-kernel, ivtv, and svgalib. I also reemerged lirc as that wasn't included in the module-rebuild tool. But the two things I can't seem to get working are ALSA and lirc. My sound card is an Audigy that uses the emu10k1 driver. Following the Gentoo ALSA guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml), I've tried both the kernel and alsa-driver method. The card is detected. All the 'cat /proc/asound' stuff as described in the Issues section of the guide produces expected results. All my volume levels are up and unmuted in 'alsamixer'. Yet I get no sound. What else might I check? What should I delete to be sure all ALSA stuff is gone so I can try again from scratch? Any other ideas on how to get this working? This same card was working before my upgrades. And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_dev FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c WARNING: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting lirc_i2c (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_i2c.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Any ideas on how to get this working as well? And the modules.conf items used to be in /etc/modules.d/ivtv but now the new ivtv doesn't need its lines as it autodetects. So where should I put the lirc lines? Leave them where they are? Create a /etc/modules.d/lirc? Thanks for any help. I've Googled and experimented for over a week now but can't get these two issues resolve. I MISS MY MYTHTV!!! :) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc
On 11/3/2005 11:24 AM Christoph Eckert wrote: But the two things I can't seem to get working are ALSA and lirc. My sound card is an Audigy that uses the emu10k1 driver. if the module is loaded you shoud see the card when doing a cat /proc/asound/cards Thank you for your response. I do see the card: tv mythtv # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Audigy ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090] Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x511102) at 0x9400, irq 22 Following the Gentoo ALSA guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml), I've tried both the kernel and alsa-driver method. I usually prefer the kernel method except there is brad new hardware so the external drivers are more recent than the kernel drivers. Yes, I started with the kernel method as recommended in the guide. When that didn't work I tried the alsa-driver method. Neither has worked for me yet. The card is detected. All the 'cat /proc/asound' stuff as described in the Issues section of the guide produces expected results. All my volume levels are up and unmuted in 'alsamixer'. Yet I get no sound. I guess the card is already occupied by an soundserver like arts (KDE) or esound (Gnome). Good guess. However I only have iceWM on this box and as far as I know, there is no sound server. I'd try artsshell -q terminate starting xmms, setting my card in the preferences and see if it plays an audio file. I tried this and switched to the ALSA driver. I saw three devices listed so I just decided to try the standard PCM Playback (hw:0,0) device. Still no sound but at least I had a constant sound source. Then I disconnected from my stereo system and just ran standard computer speakers that I knew were working. After trying all the various jacks on the back of the sound card, SUCCESS!!! I found one that was outputting sound. This is an old Audigy card where all the jacks look the same. Oh sure, there's some small graphic etched into the metal by each jack but my old eyes can't see them. None of the newer colored markings on the actual jacks. So anyway, I must have some issue with my stereo system to sort out. But at least I know the box is producing sound. Thank you very much for your ideas. It got me thinking in a new way. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel? --SOLVED!!!
On 10/30/2005 9:46 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. snip it appears likely that my problem is that Advansys SCSI support is either not built into my kernel or is built as a module? In any event, I ran genkernel with the --menuconfig option to check it out. But I could not find Advansys support in the SCSI Low Level Drivers section. Searching on 'advansys' revealed this: Symbol: SCSI_ADVANSYS [=n] Well, this means that the ADVANSYS support is not built at all (if it was set to be built as a loadable module, it would say =m, and if it was statically built into the kernel, it would say =y). Prompt: AdvanSys SCSI support Defined at drivers/scsi/Kconfig:401 Depends on: (ISA || EISA || PCI) SCSI BROKEN Location: - Device Drivers - SCSI device support - SCSI device support (SCSI [=y]) - SCSI low-level drivers So why does this not show up in menuconfig and is there some way to turn this on? The Depends on section tells you what is required for the option to appear. In the Device Drivers section, under SCSI device support, SCSI device support must be set to yes, and then SCSI low-level drivers must be enabled/selected for this and other sub-options to appear. So I would suggest heading back to menuconfig and enabling what needs to be enabled, and then the option itself when it appears, naturally. Thank you for your reply. I think I have all the stuff enabled as I see plenty of other SCSI adapters like Adaptec, QLogic, and others. What does the BROKEN mean? Is it broken and that's why I don't see it? For the archives, in menuconfig I selected Code maturity level options, enabled Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers, and cleared Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly. Then I found the Advansys driver listed. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?
I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. I'm a noob at this so don't assume I've done the obvious. :) I've searched Google and it appears likely that my problem is that Advansys SCSI support is either not built into my kernel or is built as a module? In any event, I ran genkernel with the --menuconfig option to check it out. But I could not find Advansys support in the SCSI Low Level Drivers section. Searching on 'advansys' revealed this: Symbol: SCSI_ADVANSYS [=n] Prompt: AdvanSys SCSI support Defined at drivers/scsi/Kconfig:401 Depends on: (ISA || EISA || PCI) SCSI BROKEN Location: - Device Drivers - SCSI device support - SCSI device support (SCSI [=y]) - SCSI low-level drivers So why does this not show up in menuconfig and is there some way to turn this on? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?
On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. snip it appears likely that my problem is that Advansys SCSI support is either not built into my kernel or is built as a module? In any event, I ran genkernel with the --menuconfig option to check it out. But I could not find Advansys support in the SCSI Low Level Drivers section. Searching on 'advansys' revealed this: Symbol: SCSI_ADVANSYS [=n] Well, this means that the ADVANSYS support is not built at all (if it was set to be built as a loadable module, it would say =m, and if it was statically built into the kernel, it would say =y). Prompt: AdvanSys SCSI support Defined at drivers/scsi/Kconfig:401 Depends on: (ISA || EISA || PCI) SCSI BROKEN Location: - Device Drivers - SCSI device support - SCSI device support (SCSI [=y]) - SCSI low-level drivers So why does this not show up in menuconfig and is there some way to turn this on? The Depends on section tells you what is required for the option to appear. In the Device Drivers section, under SCSI device support, SCSI device support must be set to yes, and then SCSI low-level drivers must be enabled/selected for this and other sub-options to appear. So I would suggest heading back to menuconfig and enabling what needs to be enabled, and then the option itself when it appears, naturally. Thank you for your reply. I think I have all the stuff enabled as I see plenty of other SCSI adapters like Adaptec, QLogic, and others. What does the BROKEN mean? Is it broken and that's why I don't see it? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process
I wrote a script to read a smbfs mounted filesystem and make symlinks to the files locally. The script appears to run fine interactively and fine most of the time when run by cron. I run the script every half hour. Over the course of a week or so, 15 - 20 defunct sh processes show up in the ps output. I've Googled and learned that the child (my script) is exiting but the parent (cron) is still around. So now my question is why and what's wrong with my script to cause this occasional behavior. And more importantly, how can I fix it? :) Thanks for your help! Drew --- BEGIN --- #! /bin/sh # 10/13/05 # This script creates symlinks to media files on Blacklamb. Because MythTV # needs to write it's own . files and such, mounting a read-only share and # then creating symlinks locally keeps the share on Blacklamb clean. remote_dir=/multimedia/Pictures local_dir=/tv/pictures find_args=-iname \*.jpg\ -or -iname \*.gif\ # Don't wipe out the entire directory or else MythTV has to recreate all its # local cache files. Consider using find with above $find_args to remove # symlinks and avoid listing each *.xxx explicitly. echo -e \nRemoving old symlinks from $local_pictures_dir... rm $local_pictures_dir/*.[Jj][Pp][Gg] rm $local_pictures_dir/*.[Gg][Ii][Ff] # Default sh delimiter is a space and is stored in $IFS. # This caused $original to be truncated at the first space in the file name. # Save $IFS and then set sh delimeter to a newline so 'for' loop works. OLDIFS=$IFS IFS=' ' echo -e \nCreating new symlinks in $local_pictures_dir... # Search directory contained in $remote_dir using criteria in $find_args for original in \ $( eval /usr/bin/find $remote_dir \( $find_args \) -print ) do # Remove $remote_dir from filename and replace remaining / with - # and spaces with _. Save in $newfile newfile=`echo $original | cut --delimiter=/ --fields=4- | \ sed -e s/\//-/g -e s/ /_/g` # Create symlink from original file to $newfile in $local_dir # specified above. ln -s $original $local_dir/$newfile # Increase count by 1 count=$(( count + 1 )) done # Reset $IFS to original value IFS=$OLDIFS # Print number of symlinks created. echo -e \nCreated $count symlinks. exit --- END --- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process
On 10/24/2005 1:04 AM Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 07:36 -0700 schrieb Drew Tomlinson: # Create symlink from original file to $newfile in $local_dir # specified above. ln -s $original $local_dir/$newfile Just a suggestion: insert a minimum of error handling like ln -s $original $local_dir/$newfile if (( $? 0 )) ; then logger -t myscript That didn't work for some reason ; fi ... or something else at points where the script could fail. Good idea! Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is There An Ebuild For aee?
On 10/14/2005 10:02 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I also recall reading about non-official ebuilds available at somewhere like bugs.gentoo.org. Is there something preventing you from doing a search in Bugzilla? Not at all. Just needed to know where to begin searching. And now I do. :) So I searched on 'aee' and found Zarro Boogs found. I assume this is someone's idea of a cute way to say 'Zero Bugs Found? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bash Pattern Matching Syntax
On 10/15/2005 3:38 PM Michael Kjorling wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-15 15:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to list the files in a directory that end in .jpg irregardless of case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able to issue a command something along the lines of ls [*.[JjPpGg]] or ls *.[JjPpGg] but neither of these work and return a No such file or directory message. What is the correct syntax for what I'm trying to do? ls *.[jJ][pP][gG] Each [] group matches a single character, so ls *.[JjPpGg] is list all files that end in a period followed by one of J, j, P, p, G or g. Character ordering is irrelevant. Alternatively, you could do: ls | grep -i '.jpg$' Or: find . -maxdepth 1 -iname '*.jpg' The find or ls-pipe-grep versions get a LOT cleaner when you have many known characters with unknown case in the file name, but don't work if you need to discriminate based on case for some characters and not by others. Thank you very much for your explanation. This works well!!! Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is There An Ebuild For aee?
I've used 'app-editors/easyedit' which is an ebuild of 'ee' available from http://mahon.cwx.net/. Also on that page is 'aee' which is a superset of 'ee'. I'd like to give it a try and was wonder if there was an ebuild in portage. I have been unable to find one. I also recall reading about non-official ebuilds available at somewhere like bugs.gentoo.org. If there is an ebuild there, links to a tutorial on the preferred Gentoo way of keeping official and non-official ebuilds would be appreciated. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web
James Colby wrote: Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any luck. Is anyone doing this that may have a suggestion/advice for me? Thanks for your replies, James Seems to me that Webmin has a shell. In other words, the machine that is running Webmin offers clients shell access via their browsers to itself. But then if the machine upon which you want to run Webmin already has a web server running on it, you'll have to configure the web server to server Webmin's pages instead of relying upon the one that's included to avoid port conflicts. HTH, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that it is loaded. * media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed * sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed Additionally, I installed the coldplug package. grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules KERNEL==nvidia*, NAME=%k, GROUP=video Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ? What did I forget? Thanks for suggestions and greetings Alex I recall reading somewhere that because of the binary nature of the nvidia driver, you have to re-emerge it after building a new kernel. Seems like it was on a gentoo.org page about the nvidia driver. HTH, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL
Have you tried asking at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably like many others here, I looked over your configs and compared the SASL part with mine to see if there's any obvious omissions. I found none and thus, did not post. Don't assume no one is attempting to help you just because you've only gotten limited response. And remember, this is a Gentoo list, not a Postfix or SASL list. If you're not getting your problem resolved here to your liking, then I suggest you try a list that specializes in the software with which you are having problems. Good luck, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail
On 10/2/2005 2:06 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:39:52 -0700 Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/1/2005 1:50 AM Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:54 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ do not drop it in the new subdir, procmail will look after that. Also search on the right header: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail gentoo-user.gentoo.org Just consider if someone sends a list message to the list with cc to you. Your recipe subverts the message designed for your inbox in to the Gentoo.User folder. Here's mine that I use for various lists. I can't claim writing it but I found it somewhere and it works well for me: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+gentoo-\/[^.]+ .Gentoo.$MATCH/ What this does is create a Gentoo folder under my inbox and then a subfolder under Gentoo for each list to which I subscribe. So for example if you subscribe to gentoo-users, gentoo-announce and gentoo-security, this one rule will deliver all your Gentoo list mail to users, announce, and security folders under your Gentoo folder. In fact it could probably be extended to match about a zillion mailing lists! Yes, I use it for several and it works very well. :) -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?
I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before reverting back to the older version. Is there a way to do this with the emerge tool? I've read the man page and Googled but I am unable to turn anything up. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?
On 9/16/2005 2:50 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before reverting back to the older version. Is there a way to do this with the emerge tool? I've read the man page and Googled but I am unable to turn anything up. I would remove the installed version, remove the USE flag and just re-emerge the stable release. If you've changed USE flags as well, then you may want to do --newuse. Thanks for your reply. Yes, your suggestion is my Plan B. I was just going to try the other and see if it made a difference. I'm using media-video/vlc to stream video across my lan. This software uses ffmpeg to do it's encoding. I was just wondering if lower bitrates were supported in the newer version of ffmpeg, at least as far as vlc is concerned. I get errors when trying bitrates lower than 32kbps with mp3 audio. Seems I should be able to go lower than that. Anyway, just fiddling around. :) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvtv Seg Faults After 'emerge -uvD world'
On 9/13/2005 2:30 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 kernel on a box whose main purpose is MythTV. Everything was working fine until I did an upgrade using 'emerge -uvD world' followed with 'revdep-rebuild'. Now nvtv seg faults when I first attempt to run it. Additional attempts result in this error message: Fatal: Cannot access video cards. Either you are not root, or the NVidia devices are not accessible. I get the same message when attempting to run as root. I've tried removing and reinstalling both nvtv and nvidia-kernel but no joy. I'm new to Gentoo and Linux but do have a bit of a *nix background with FreeBSD. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Drew I ahve seen a few messages here from you about mythtv related stuff. Although I have no problem at all with you posting here, you may get better results on the mythtv-user list. You can sub from a link on www.mythtv.org Thanks for the tip. I do post there when my issue is directly related to MythTV. I just felt this was more of a Gentoo thing as my issues started after a emerge -uvD world. It is a busy list, quite knowledgeable. As for nvtv, are you actually using the nvidia driver? - do you get the nvidia splash screen when you start X? Yes, I am using the latest (I have ~x86 set) nvidia-kernel driver from portage as I was before upgrading. I've read that many times the nvidia-kernel driver has to be recompiled after an upgrade. I think it's just when upgrading the actual kernel but I recompiled anyway just to check. It didn't help. I also recompiled nvtv from portage but no help there either. I also have TightVNC installed on this box and normally start a session on :1. In checking this further, it is interesting that nvtv starts fine when using :1 via the TightVNC viewer if X is not running on :0. However once X is on :0, that's when the seg faults start. Maybe I have a problem with my X config. BTW, I'm using xorg. Oh, and yes, I do see the nvidia splash screen when starting X on :0. Thanks for your help! Although I come from the FreeBSD world, I'm a noob when it comes to both Linux and Gentoo (and MythTV for that matter). Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvtv Seg Faults After 'emerge -uvD world'
I'm running a 2.6.11-r6 kernel on a box whose main purpose is MythTV. Everything was working fine until I did an upgrade using 'emerge -uvD world' followed with 'revdep-rebuild'. Now nvtv seg faults when I first attempt to run it. Additional attempts result in this error message: Fatal: Cannot access video cards. Either you are not root, or the NVidia devices are not accessible. I get the same message when attempting to run as root. I've tried removing and reinstalling both nvtv and nvidia-kernel but no joy. I'm new to Gentoo and Linux but do have a bit of a *nix background with FreeBSD. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: MythTV help
On 9/13/2005 7:27 AM Luigi Pinna wrote: Can you help me,please? I can't set up MythTv! I had a database access problem! $mythfilldatabase 2005-09-13 16:24:37.095 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-09-13 16:24:37.203 Unable to connect to database! 2005-09-13 16:24:37.204 Driver error was [1/1045]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) 2005-09-13 16:24:37.204 Failed to init MythContext, exiting. I can't set up mysql, aber I can access to mysql as user. Please I become mad!! Thanks, and sorry if I contact you in privat but in the list nobody answered me. I did see your message on the list and I understand your frustration. But unfortunately, I'm not a MySQL expert nor am I a MythTV expert. I don't know the exact answer to your problem but a Google search revealed these links: http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/archive/o_t/t_355/acces_denied.html http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?act=Printclient=printerf=2t=4450 Maybe this will get you on the right track. Good Luck! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: XMLTV and tv_grab_de_tvtoday (Was: [gentoo-user] Re: MythTV help)
On 9/13/2005 10:17 AM Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 17:14, martedì 13 settembre 2005, Drew Tomlinson ha scritto: I did see your message on the list and I understand your frustration. But unfortunately, I'm not a MySQL expert nor am I a MythTV expert. I don't know the exact answer to your problem but a Google search revealed these links: http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/archive/o_t/t_355/acces_denied.html http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?act=Printclient=printer; f=2t=4450 Maybe this will get you on the right track. Good Luck! That's works! But not enough :-( Now is a xmltv problem... I don't know anything about xmltv. I'm in North America and get my listings from Data Direct. Maybe some one else can help. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd timezone
On 9/11/2005 11:41 PM Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 23:36 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/11/2005 9:34 PM Mark Shields wrote: What does ls -ln /etc/localtime return? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ln /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 27 May 8 11:07 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Thanks for your reply! and what is the result of the date command? Right now it's correct: tv mythtv # date Sun Sep 11 23:52:49 PDT 2005 However after some time it will return to being 8 hours earlier. I also saw in another thread that you could show your hardware clock by this command: tv mythtv # hwclock Sun Sep 11 23:54:54 2005 -0.081182 seconds Don't know if that helps or not. Thanks for your reply! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ntpd timezone
I'm new to Gentoo. I've built a system based on the 2.6-11 kernel and everything has been working fine. Some time passed and I thought it a good idea to update. Thus I ran emerge -uvD world to update. Then I ran etc-update to merge the conf files. I basically accepted replacement of conf files I didn't think I'd changed and merged the ones I did change. However, now ntpd seems to make my time about 8 hours behind my local time. I am on PDT. I suspect ntpd is seeing PDT as GMT and then the system is subtracting the 8 hours. What file(s) should I look at to get things back to normal? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
