[gentoo-user] Nouveau test : back to Nvidia
Following my recent request for info + replies, I tried using Nouveau for a week & didn't have any basic problems, but it couldn't handle the 3D Xscreensavers, eg Gears + Pipes, so I've come back to Nvidia, which has always worked well enough, but tends to create problems matching Nvidia/Kernel versions. Is there any prospect that Nouveau wb able to do 3D one day ? Are there any 3rd possibilities ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Mouse wheel makes firefox hang
Hello, After a recent system update I get this annoying strange behavior: when scrolling in a firefox or thunderbird window with the mouse wheel, the full X interface freezes for some seconds, then a system beep is emitted and the interface unfreezes, but most of the time the mouse cursor becomes invisible. I must restart X to get it back. Scrolling with scrollbars or arrow keys works. Scrolling with wheels in others apps like terminals works too. No useful message in syslog, dmesg or console. I tried various things, like downgrading firefox and thunderbird to the version I used before the upgrade, compiling without the system-libXX use flags, downgrading the nvidia drivers, upgrading the kernel, etc... without success. Any idea ? -- Hervé
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel makes firefox hang
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 09:07:23 BST Hervé Guillemet wrote: > Hello, > > After a recent system update I get this annoying strange behavior: when > scrolling in a firefox or thunderbird window with the mouse wheel, the > full X interface freezes for some seconds, then a system beep is emitted > and the interface unfreezes, but most of the time the mouse cursor > becomes invisible. If it is a BIOS beep, rather than a desktop/application sound, then you have some hardware problem. The recent update may have implemented some hardware acceleration rendering on the browser and this is putting pressure on your GPU, RAM, PSU. A single beep points to RAM, but I don't know all OEM's BIOS codes. I'd start by opening the cover and reseating your RAM modules. Oxidisation may have increase contact resistance. Usually pulling them out and pushing them back in cleans them enough to restore a good electrical contact. While you're there try removing all the dust from CPU, GPU, PSU coolers and air ducts using a vacuum cleaner (carefully) or a compressed air can. Keep holding the chassis at all times with one hand or use an earthing strap, some vacuum cleaners I've tried have a terrible problem with creating static electricity and a discharge could blow your MoBo chipset. Finally, reseat any SATA/IDE cables. Their contacts can also corrode with time and if the browser is caching pages on disk while the freeze occurs it might cause a problem, although unlikely to get a BIOS beep from it. You wouldn't be able to boot with a hard disk failure beep code going off, if this was your problem. > I must restart X to get it back. This sounds like a Xorg drivers problem, but if Xorg has partially crashed due to RAM or power problems, then this cursor problem will go away after you address the hardware issue. > Scrolling with scrollbars or arrow keys works. > Scrolling with wheels in others apps like terminals works too. > No useful message in syslog, dmesg or console. What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log reveal? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] dev-libs/ucommon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi folks, I need dev-libs/ucommon but failed to compile: > emerge --info '=dev-libs/ucommon-6.0.3' Portage 2.3.40 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.26-r7, 4.18.5-gentoo x86_64) = System Settings = System uname: Linux-4.18.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_L7500_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 3969708 total, 1132364 free KiB Swap:2096476 total, 2096476 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:30:01 + Head commit of repository gentoo: 7b250144b71909f550bec1c8a1f9415c89da37cd Timestamp of repository quarks: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:45:05 + Head commit of repository quarks: 760d3ded9f126ddf0d710bb72c4e0d4e58cc5fa2 sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p2) 2.30.0 ccache version 3.3.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl:5.24.3-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.3.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc:7.3.0-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool:2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.16-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.26-r7::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: no sync-rsync-extra-opts: quarks location: /var/db/repos/quarks sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/quarks.git masters: gentoo flightsim location: /var/lib/layman/flightsim masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/"; LANG="de_DE" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X acl alsa amd64 bzip2 caps crypt cxx hardened iconv ipv6 jpeg libtirpc multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp oss pam pcre pcsc-lite pie png pulseaudio readline seccomp ssl ssp threads udev unicode xattr xtpax zlib zsh-completion" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertra
[gentoo-user] sys-process/psmisc 23.2 broke
Hi. 23.2 is broke and has a mandatory new format where you have to put -s before the signal when using killall. Killall is not finding existing process even though I have the name correct. Downgrading to 23.1-r1 fixes the problem. I just thought I'd let people know. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-process/psmisc 23.2 broke
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:34:42 -0400, John Covici wrote: > Hi. 23.2 is broke and has a mandatory new format where you have to > put -s before the signal when using killall. Killall is not finding > existing process even though I have the name correct. Downgrading to > 23.1-r1 fixes the problem. I just thought I'd let people know. The -s does not appear to be mandatory here, it still sends SIGTERM by default. However, I have got a 'no process found' error with some processes, which now require killall `which processname` to work. -- Neil Bothwick Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again pgp19GfOV2rc8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
