Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xine
On Thursday 12 May 2005 19:09, Richard Fish wrote: > Paul wrote: > >On Thursday 12 May 2005 15:22, Richard Fish wrote: > >>Paul wrote: > >>>Hi all, > >>>I posted this problem a few weeks ago and had no replies. I have tried > >>>all sorts including re-installation of xine-lib 1.0-r2 and xine-ui > >>> 0.99.3 but I always get the same error:- > >> > >>snip > > >> > >>>xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. > >>>Aborted > >>> > >>>What does xiTK refer to? > >>>I am at a loss now, can anybody help??? PLEASE > >> > >>What USE flags do you build xine-ui and xine-lib with? Mine are: > > > >snip > >[ebuild R ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.3 +X +aalib -directfb -lirc +nls > > 0 kB > >[ebuild R ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.0-r2 +X -aac +aalib +alsa > > (-altivec) +arts -cle266 -debug -directfb +dvd -dxr3 +esd -fbcon -ffmpeg > > +flac -gnome -i8x0 +ipv6 -libcaca -mng +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png > > +samba +sdl -speex -theora +v4l-vidix +vorbis -win32codecs -xinerama +xv > > -xvmc 0 kB > > > >>Also, what CFLAGS do you have in /etc/make.conf? > > > >CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > >CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > > Two suggestions. First, try moving/deleting the ~/.xine directory. I > am thinking that you might be using a non-default UI skin, or you have > some other configuration problem. If that doesn't help, try rebuilding > xine-lib with USE="-opengl -oss". OpenGL can cause some problems in > some applications, and OSS is just not necessary anymore. You could > also try disabling "v4l", which is not needed for playback. > > HTH. > > -Richard Thanks for the help Richard but after trying your suggestions I still Have the same problem. This is so frustrating, I'm sure it will turn out to be something simple, but I just can't see it. I still don't know what xiTK is and if it's relevent. regards Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't see networked windows xp machine
Hi all, I use kde and when I try the lan Browse option in konqueror I get a message box telling me that The Lisa daemon does not appear to be running. This is after using the guided setup option in control panel and stopping and starting lisa. Has anybody else had this problem or have any suggestions to resolve this issue, please let me know. I can connect and send files from the windows machine onto my linux box which works via samba. Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)
On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: > >>revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot > >>rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the same binary, not > >>build a new one. I just thought I would let you know what I've done to resolve this problem. I have emerged gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 and made an entry in my make.conf of SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt". I then ran revdep-rebuild and all ran without any open office errors. Hope this helps Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] blocking packages when emerge gnome-light
I am sure that this is all explained somewhere but I cannot find it
easily.
When running "emerge -av gnome-light" I get :
[blocks B ] http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/
Below is make.conf and the output of the emerge command:
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
#CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
#see http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Athlon_64_X2_.28AMD.29
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"
#do not use -O2 as this caused segmentation faults in building gcc-4.1.2
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -msse3 -Wno-error "
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo
http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo";
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx"
LINGUAS="en"
# 2007 June 5
# For HPLIP added foomaticdb, scanner, snmp
# For xsane added gimp
USE="acl asf -kde qt4 dbus bluetooth gnome hal startup-notification X
samba nsplugin acpi \
mp3 apm lm_sensors subversion java bzip2 fpx graphviz gs jbig jpeg
\
jpeg2k mpeg png tiff truetype wmf opengl expat gtk \
xcomposite alsa -arts dvd dxr3 imagemagick encode ieee1394 ogg xvid
vcd \
wavpack win32codecs cddb mng svg midi symlink vorbis slp usb dvb
dvb_cards_usb-dib0700 \
foomaticdb scanner snmp gimp type1 mp3 flac ladspa \
libsamplerate 3dnow sndfile cairo nsplugin mysql opengl uk_rt
uk_bleb "
# put my own ebuilds into /usr/local/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
# source the layman configuration tool that allow installation of
overlays
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
# Setup Portage elog
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
# See HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--deep
# Now that I have 2 cpu core
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon
authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio
mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer
proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id
userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
paul-gentoo ~ # emerge -av gnome-light
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] app-arch/unzip-5.52-r2 [5.52-r1] 0 kB
[ebuild N] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1 395 kB
[ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.59 [1.58] 7 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libxklavier-3.5 [3.3] USE="-doc" 439 kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.19 [0.10.17] USE="nls -debug
-test" 2,168 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36 [2.34-r1] 225 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-wm/metacity-2.22.0 [2.20.2] USE="-debug -xinerama"
2,024 kB
[ebuild N] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.14.1 USE="-accessibility
-debug -static" 655 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-perl/XML-LibXML-1.66 [1.65] 271 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/liboil-0.3.14 [0.3.12] USE="-doc" 801 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXv-1.0.4 [1.0.3] USE="-debug" 224 kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b-r5 [0.15.1b-r4] USE="-debug" 0
kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3 [1.1.2] USE="-debug" 215
kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.19 [0.10.17] USE="nls
-debug" 1,866 kB
[ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.22.0 USE="-accessibility
-debug" 1,461 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf-0.10.7 [0.10.6]
USE="-debug" 1,706 kB
[ebuild N] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvb-0.10.6 1,736 kB
[ebuild N] media-plugins/gst-plugins-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.15 281
kB
[ebuild N] media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.6 USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.10.7 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[ebuild N] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.7 USE="-debug" 848 kB
[ebuild N] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.7 0 kB
[ebuild N] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.7 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.7 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.7 [0.10.6] USE="-debug"
0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.7 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.22.1 [2.20.3] USE="python
-debug" 452 kB
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 [0.16.12] USE="opengl python -debug
-doc" 1,089 kB
[ebuild U ] kde-base/arts-3.5.9 [3.5.
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking packages when emerge gnome-light
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 19:57 -0500, Tim wrote: > paul wrote: > > I am sure that this is all explained somewhere but I cannot find it > > easily. > > > > When running "emerge -av gnome-light" I get : > > [blocks B ] > gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1) > > [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking > > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) > > > > > > I am not asking anyone to wade through my make.conf and various portage > > files but if someone who knows the system obviously better than I do > > could please point me in the direction of how to fix this issue I would > > be grateful. > > > > My requirements are "install gnome-light 2.22.0 or later". > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Paul > Paul, > > What this means is that you have some software installed on your system > already that prevents you from getting gnome-light. In this case, it > looks like you have the two packages gtk-doc-am and control-center, > which are preventing gnome-settings daemon and gtk-doc, respectively, > from being installed. > > The usual way of fixing this problem is to do an emerge -avC on the > packages that are blocking to remove them and allow your gnome-light > installation to proceed. However, remember that some other packages > currently installed on your system may depend on these packages, so you > may not want to go into this blindly. I'm not an expert on the setup of > gnome dependencies, so I can't recommend this course of action > unreservedly; it's just a thought. > > In the future, you'll get better (and likely more courteous) responses > if you start your own thread, rather than taking over someone else's. > You would also do well to look through the Gentoo Handbook - there's a > wonderful section at > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 > > that talks at length about blocked packages and what to do to resolve > your issues. > > -Tim Thanks Tim I have now fixed the problem. My confusion was caused by the fact that when I tried "emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am" I was told that gtk-doc-am was not installed. It turns out that gtk-doc was installed and so running the command "emerge -avC gtk-doc" as you suggested did the job. I have raised bug 221195 to help clarify the situation. -- Transplants Save Lives - http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ ___ __ ( _ ) \ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | __ __ _ _ \ \ 07972184336 | | | | / \/ /| | | | > \ 01235 523470 | | | |( () < | |_| |/ ^ \ |_| |_| \__/\_\ \___//_/ \_\ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage
so there is always an assumption On 8/6/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: > > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 "Xav'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I > > >> advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on > > >> your system... > > > > > > To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there > isn't > > > a rootkit: > > > > > > chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ rootkits. > > > > > > BTW, there are other, similar programs that do the same. > > > But my point is: You can never be sure, since a hypothesis can't be > > > proven correct, just invalid. > > > > > > If there are indications a rootkit might be present, there's no secure > > > way to remove it but to reinstall. > > > > > > -hwh > > > > Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. > > The problems remain: You can't be sure. :-( > > Uwe > > -- > Jack Nicholson: My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a > bitch. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
what is the output of ifconfig -a does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? On 8/6/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There > were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last > backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my > desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I > have. Yes, I know - different hardware. > > I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much followed > all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I > didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on installing > Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the > install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection > works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I boot from > the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is > a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to > "Help" when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, > I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no > help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And > before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf > /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that > last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times > I installed Gentoo!) > > Any ideas? > > Regards, > > Colleen > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware
from the name of the processer you can look up the fsb and socket online. as far as i know there are not any programs with a built in database, but if there is i would like to know too. On 8/9/07, Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oh,the phpsysinfo seems need to install Apache first: > > * Fatal error: Your configuration file sets the server type "Apache" > * Fatal error: but the corresponding package does not seem to be > installed! > * Fatal error: Please "emerge >=net-www/apache-1.3" or correct your > settings. > * Fatal error(s) - aborting > > > > 2007/8/8, Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If you want something to give a simple listing similar to CPU-z, set up > > phpsysinfo > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:18 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > > > Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > > > I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as > everest > > > > or cpu-z do.For example,the FSB,and the socket of the CPU and so on. > > > > > > For the CPU ONLY, you can get a bunch of information from > /proc/cpuinfo: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > processor : 0 > > > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > > > cpu family : 6 > > > model : 10 > > > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ > > > stepping: 0 > > > cpu MHz : 1921.070 > > > cache size : 512 KB > > > fdiv_bug: no > > > hlt_bug : no > > > f00f_bug: no > > > coma_bug: no > > > fpu : yes > > > fpu_exception : yes > > > cpuid level : 1 > > > wp : yes > > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr > > > sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow ts > > > bogomips: 3843.55 > > > > > > > > > - -- > > > Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad > Informatica > > > SHOW DE FUTURABANDA - Sabado 18 de Agosto 2007 (Speed King, Capital > Federal) > > > Entradas anticipadas a traves de www.futurabanda.com.ar - Punk Rock > Melodico > > > > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > > > iD8DBQFGubSVAlpOsGhXcE0RCqRdAJ97rjWSoPWnLEvHUtokT78JsdduZACfUwpU > > > kIjl0U6Xj+WOs3+xDwsbO4U= > > > =Cbrn > > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > > > > -- > wcw > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo
i have a sony digital camera that takes movies, and it just shows up as a usb drive. i would assume that the video recorders would work the same way. maybe you can take a laptop to a store that sells them and check to see if it works that way or find someone that has one and borrow it. if you dont want sony recorders im sure you can find another brand with the same interface. On 8/10/07, Don Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/10/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello to all, > > > > I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the > > sony SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly > > for video transfer. Hopefully I can find a video > > camera that transfers directly to a gentoo > > sytem via usb 2.0? After my experience with a Sony > > Viao Laptop, I'm not really keen on anything else > > from sony (now that I think about it). > > > > Another nice feature would be the ability to use > > the laptop screen for viewing (while recording) > > instead of looking at that 2.7 in popout screen. > > > > A remote control (wireless or via the usb cable) from > > a gentoo linux system would be keen. > > > > Am I dreaming or has somebody seen a linux friendly > > video camera. My target is to record video at > > football and basketball practice where my kids play. > > > > > > Or maybe somebody has interfaces a PTZ (pan tilt zoom) > > to a linux system and record in ntsc(pal) then later > > on convert to h.264 or such? I considering mounting > > the PTZ camera on a pole, so I can sit in the shade > > or a camper and record video, gentoo studio style... > > (beginning to sound like a project). Maybe use a logitech > > joystick to map all of the camera functions and use > > a laptop for recording (under the shade) > > > > Zoneminder leaps to mind, but it's more geared toward being the > recording/viewing center for a separate camera. PTZ cameras tend not > to be camcorders too, but there are several ip-addressable ones (so > one assumes you could wire up the camera to a wireless hub and take > your laptop elsewhere). See www-misc/zoneminder or the website at > www.zoneminder.com. Compatible cameras are listed in their wiki. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo
i meant its main function is taking photos. an added feature is it takes movies, i wouldn't consider it a serious camera. show us what you are getting in dmesg when you plug in the camera. and i think it is very stupid that someone would make it so you could only transfer photos with usb. if it shows up as a hard drive you should have to do more or less exactly what garry said. if you can get a usb thumbdrive to mount on your computer, you should be able to mount your camera in the same way. On 8/13/07, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't believe that's the case for video cameras, which usually use > firewire for video transfer. > > I have a customer who bought a DV camcorder with a USB socket & it > transpired that this socket was only capable of transferring photos > from the camera (which had both a video and a static "photo" mode). > Video had to be transferred by firewire. > > Although videos appear in the mass storage device of my mum's digicam > in "proper" video recorders firewire is MUCH more common. If I wanted > to record video I would expect to be buying a firewire-capable video > camera; although I might well take Iain Buchanan's advice of 13th > August 2007 00:00:23 BST to supplant my previous expectations, I > wouldn't expect USB is a "serious" camcorder. > > Stroller. > > > On 12 Aug 2007, at 14:46, Paul wrote: > > > i have a sony digital camera that takes movies, and it just shows > > up as a usb drive. i would assume that the video recorders would > > work the same way. maybe you can take a laptop to a store that > > sells them and check to see if it works that way or find someone > > that has one and borrow it. if you dont want sony recorders im > > sure you can find another brand with the same interface. > > > > On 8/10/07, Don Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/10/07, James > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello to all, > >> > >> I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the sony > >> SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly for video transfer. > >> Hopefully I can find a video camera that transfers directly to a > >> gentoo sytem via usb 2.0? After my experience with a Sony Viao > >> Laptop, I'm not really keen on anything else from sony (now that > >> I think about it). > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- / / \ O / \/_( .__ / \ __\/ ) ./ (
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
to get the most out of kde run the following commands :emerge -C kdeemerge gnome-lite:Pok flame awayOn 1/20/06, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I use Fluxbox but have been experimenting with KDE 3.5. I must say Ireally like it however it is not the complete KDE I emerged all theapps that I use and then emerged kdebase so I have the very very basicKDE system without all the other rubbish and bloatware that you get. KDE detects all my installed software and sorts out the menu and all.Fluxbox for speed and simplicity and KDE for eyecandy (can lag a bit).I despise gnome, I find it to be particularly backwards and I have not found a nice looking gnome desktop as of yet compared to soem of theKDE and fluxbox desktops around.Anyway my 2cents.--Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical)"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
my findings with KDE is that its bloadwareif I wanted bloat , I'd run windowsGnome-lite is just that , lightIt serves my purposes fine and the menus are easy to edit to my liking. On 1/20/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul wrote:> to get the most out of kde run the following commands :>> emerge -C kde> emerge gnome-lite>> :P>> ok flame away>>> < cough cough > Can we assume you don't like KDE? LOLNo flames here. I'm to pissed at kppp at the moment. I can only getmad at one thing/person at a time. o_O Cool huh?Dale:-) --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup
Hi all, Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running" In the control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED Media Manager has a status of Not Running. If I try to start it manually I just get a message saying Unable to start service. I just don't know what to try next - any suggestions? Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup
On Tuesday 24 Jan 2006 17:45, Manuel McLure wrote: > Paul wrote: > > Hi all, > > Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config > > files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get > > an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running" > > In the control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED > > Media Manager has a status of Not Running. If I try to start it manually > > I just get a message saying Unable to start service. > > > > I just don't know what to try next - any suggestions? > > Just got this last night - the problem is that the new dbus/hal changed > the shared library they use. revdep-rebuild should solve the problem (in > my case it made me rebuild kioslaves and k3b.) revdep-rebuild solved the problem Thanks to all who replied Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??
Hi all, Recently I have been having a problem with my usb mouse actions. In kmail when deleting messages using the bin icon sometimes 2 messages will be deleted instead of 1. Sometimes when reading messages another instance will appear in a separate window. Sometimes I have to click a number of time to raise the menu. If I exit out of a program (file exit) the program exits but the desktop icon underneath gets activated. It's almost like 2 clicks are happening instead of 1. KDE is set up for single click. This has only started happening within the last week. I'm sure this will turn out to be something simple and stupid that I have done, but I just can't solve it. Can anyone HELP please Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??
On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 16:24, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 15:38, Paul wrote: > > Recently I have been having a problem with my usb mouse actions. > > In kmail when deleting messages using the bin icon sometimes 2 > > messages will be deleted instead of 1. > > > > Sometimes when reading messages another instance will appear in a > > separate window. > > I see this too - only with KDE-3.5.0. > > > Sometimes I have to click a number of time to raise the menu. > > If I exit out of a program (file exit) the program exits but the > > desktop icon underneath gets activated. > > It's almost like 2 clicks are happening instead of 1. > > KDE is set up for single click. > > This has only started happening within the last week. > > This all sounds as if could be because of KMail's unresponsiveness > while it's checking mail or executing filters - see > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514, which has been open for > a _very_ long time. Thanks to Peter and Yann for your replies. I have tried another mouse and another USB port which didn't solve the problem. By the way I am running KDE 3.4.3 I just can't see why we seem to have this problem, it's so frustrating. I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the problem Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(nearly resolved)
On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 12:58, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the problem > > You can also try running xev, and try some clicking in the xev window, > which will show you want events X is generating to the clients. If > you see something like two button down or button up events, that could > account for your double clicking. I think I might have solved this problem. I have changed the xorg.conf mouse protocol from "auto" to "PS/2". The mouse is still connected to a USB port and now appears to work correctly. How strange, perhaps Peter and Dale could try this and see if it solves their problem as well. Ho wait my mouse wheel isn't working now - back to the drawing board Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)
Hi all, Thanks for all the help. I changed the protocol to "ExplorerPS/2" and I now have the wheel working again. The question is - What has change in the last few weeks to have caused this problem. Previously the mouse had been working with the protocol set to "auto" with no problems. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
Hi all, I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message and read the next one. Sometime I miss reading a message because 2 have been deleted instead of 1. This happens quite often, also sometimes when I select a message to read a duplicate copy appears in a new window. Is anybody else having this sort of problem? Has anybody been able to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to "ExplorerPS/2". Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error "module mousedev not found" and something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! Any other ideas I could try? Paul > > Funny, I thought about that thread when I saw it was taking one click > twice too. May want to check on that. If you look in the Xorg.0.log > file in /var/log it should tell you what it tries to see it as. It may dmesg | grep mouse mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > be seeing it as the wrong thing. This may help too: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # dmesg | grep mouse > > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 . . . (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) NVIDIA(0): v4l[/dev/video0]: using hw video scaling [YUY2]. . . . (**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Mouse1: Device: "/dev/input/mice" (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (==) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 5 (**) Mouse1: SmartScroll: 1 (**) Option "CoreKeyboard" (**) Keyboard1: Core Keyboard (**) Option "Protocol" "standard" (**) Keyboard1: Protocol: standard (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg" (**) Keyboard1: XkbRules: "xorg" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "gb" (**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: "gb" (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off" (**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard1" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 8 -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 16:35, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/31/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: > > I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by > > changing the mouse protocal to "ExplorerPS/2". Although the mouse works > > OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. > > I have noticed that on boot I get an error "module mousedev not found" > > and something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! > > Any other ideas I could try? > > Hmm, seems I responded to the wrong part of a reply... > > Anyway, could you post the InputDevice and ServerLayout sections of > your xorg.conf? Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection > The only obvious thing I saw missing in your xorg.0.log output was a > line about "core events", but maybe you just skipped it... I have just checked again and can't find any mention of core events in the log. Thanks for your help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 17:21, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/31/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyway, could you post the InputDevice and ServerLayout sections of > > > your xorg.conf? > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse1" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Maybe you also need: > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > Although, I'm not sure, since I don't have this either...and my mice work > fine. > Thanks for the help Richard I have added the option line but it has made no difference, I am still deleting 2 messages sometimes, it seems to be completely random, as does the problem with the second copy of a message opening in another window. Also I sometimes click on the terminal program or the personal files icon and 2 instances open. This is very weird Any more ideas? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 16:29, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was > > resolved by changing > > the mouse protocal to "ExplorerPS/2". Although the mouse > > works OK It still > > appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. > > I have noticed that on boot I get an error "module mousedev > > not found" and > > something else but I don't appear to have a boot log!!! > > For besides the hardware related messages in dmesg and xorg.0.log > messages you can also check the last boot cycle in /var/log/syslog. Mick I don't have a directory /var/log/syslog. I have been looking for a boot log, I suppose I need to turn it on somehow. Do you know how? Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 10:43, Paul wrote: > On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 17:21, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 1/31/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added the option line but it has made no difference, I am still > deleting 2 messages sometimes, it seems to be completely random, as does > the problem with the second copy of a message opening in another window. > Also I sometimes click on the terminal program or the personal files icon > and 2 instances open. > This is very weird UPDATE I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which programs a usb mouse uses. Any ideas out there Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem
On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UPDATE > > I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have > > disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back > > > > This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I > > have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have > > caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which > > programs a usb mouse uses. > > Any ideas out there > > Hm, ok, for a USB mouse we are just talking kernel drivers...so let's > have a peak at your kernel configuration. Please post the output of: > > zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -e USB -e MOUSE | grep -v "^#" > > or if you don't have /proc/config.gz: > > grep -e USB -e MOUSE /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -v "^#" I do not have any udev rules for the mouse. This is the info you asked for - Thanks for the interest. CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1280 CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=1024 CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR55=y CONFIG_USB_HID=y CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y CONFIG_USB_IBMCAM=m CONFIG_USB_KONICAWC=m CONFIG_USB_OV511=m CONFIG_USB_SE401=m CONFIG_USB_SN9C102=m CONFIG_USB_STV680=m CONFIG_USB_PWC=m Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem (Part Resolved)
On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UPDATE > > I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have > > disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back > > > > This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I > > have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have > > caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which > > programs a usb mouse uses. > > Any ideas out there I noticed that I had 2 UHCI (USB1.1) and 1 EHCI (USB2) ports on my motherboard and the mouse was connected to the USB2 port. As soon as I connected it to a USB1.1 all of the double clicking problems have disappeared. Question Has something changed recently that has affected USB2?? I would like to report this as bug but without discovering exactly what changed, it's a bit wishy washy. Thanks to all who took the trouble to reply and help with this problem. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge world error message
Hi all, I am getting the following message when I emerge -uDtaNv world Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils If I emerge -s on them, none are found. However, if I equery depgraph them they are found with a load of dependencies. Any thoughts? Paul This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem (Part Resolved)
On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 13:31, Paul wrote: > On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 2/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > UPDATE > > > I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have > > > disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back > > > > > > This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. > > > I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could > > > have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know > > > which programs a usb mouse uses. > > > Any ideas out there > > I noticed that I had 2 UHCI (USB1.1) and 1 EHCI (USB2) ports on my > motherboard and the mouse was connected to the USB2 port. As soon as I > connected it to a USB1.1 all of the double clicking problems have > disappeared. > > Question > Has something changed recently that has affected USB2?? > I would like to report this as bug but without discovering exactly what > changed, it's a bit wishy washy. > > Thanks to all who took the trouble to reply and help with this problem. > Paul > Sorry to reply to my own message but I was too quick off the mark the double clicking problem is still there. I guess I'll stick to the PS2 mouse. Disappointed Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world error message
On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 14:01, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: > --- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Calculating world dependencies > > !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all > > !!! masked or don't exist: > > sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils > > sys-apps/textutils > > They all have been obsoleted a VERY long time ago by > coreutils. Unmerge them and get coreutils instead. Thanks I must have missed that info Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with backup script
Hi, I am probably missing the obvious here but how do I get a script to recognise a network usb2 disk? I konqueror I can read and write using smb:// xxx.yyy.com but if I define the backup disk the same I get the error message that there is no such file or directory. Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script
On Wednesday 01 Mar 2006 22:54, Harry Putnam wrote: snip > > One way would be to mount the disk locally using cifs. See > `man mount.cifs' for details but the syntax looks like this: > > From /etc/fstab (This is all one line in fstab) > //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/harvey-c cifs noauto,username=reader,\ > credentials=/etc/samba/CifsCredentials > > Those are `UNC' paths like you would use with smbclient. (But not > Kanqueror). > > A command line might look like: > > mount -t cifs -o user=reader%XXPASSWDXX //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/harvey-c > > The directory /mnt/harvey-c has to be created ahead of time. > The user reader needs to have an account on that windows machine. > > You'll need a windows user account username and password. If you > don't use passwords for windows shares I think you can just leave out > the %SECRET_PASS, but I'm not sure exactly. > > Once the device is mounted locally you can read/write to/from it in > scripting, then umount it at the end of the script. Thanks for the reply, I think I didn't make the problem clear enough. I have a usb server running on my network with 2 external disks connected to it. I can read and write to them using smb://lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2/ with no problems. I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to backup all of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but even after reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct format. paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip > mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace > > if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o > username=whatever,password=whatever > > only root will be able to do this. You might want to try to avoid > spaces in your share names in the future...just makes things easier > on the unix side. I hace tried the above commands with and without username and password but all I get is the usage message, no indication of an error. Usage: mount -V : print version mount -h : print this help mount: list mounted filesystems mount -l : idem, including volume labels So far the informational part. Next the mounting. The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'. Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted. mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab mount device : mount device at the known place mount directory : mount known device here mount -t type dev dir: ordinary mount command Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device. One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere: mount --bind olddir newdir or move a subtree: mount --move olddir newdir A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom, or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid . Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd]. For many more details, say man 8 mount . I was going to try Harry Putnam's solution of using cifs but it seems to me that the commands are exactly the same except for the file system. Any other ideas please Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: > On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: > > On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: > > snip > > > >> mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that the line didn't like the space between DISK and 2. I created another share (with no spaces and it worked) Thanks again Paul > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 15:14, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: > > > > On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: > > > > snip > > > > Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that > > the line didn't like the space between DISK and 2. I created another > > share (with no spaces and it worked) > > I didn't notice this thread and the last answers earlier, therefore I > didn't react, but of course, spaces on command line must be escaped if > not meant to separate arguments. i.e., both of the following should > > have worked, too: > > mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK\ 2 /mnt/someplace > > mount -t smbfs "//lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2" /mnt/someplace > > (of course, you can use ' - single apostrophe - instead of " here.) Thanks for the info, I did try the "\" but it didn't work. I have just tried the "" and it mounted just fine. Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] rsync backup problem
I am using rsync to backup my home directory to a network drive using the following command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress --exclude '*~' --exclude '.Trash*' /home/paul /mnt/network/home I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks that each message should be a directory and then fails to copy. How can I get round this Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Rsync backup problem2
I have mounted a networked usb drive to /mnt/network using the command: mount -t cifs -o user=paul //lkg7f.homenet.com/disc2 /mnt/network I then use: rsync -Cav --delete --progress --exclude '*tmp*' --exclude '*Trash*' /usr /mnt/network All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0" -> "libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0" failed: Operation not supported I am wondering if this is a permissions problem. My network usb server will not let me have a user called root so I have set user paul with the 'can do anything' previlege. The mount and rsync commands are using user root Can anybody help please. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xine will not run
Hi, I am having trouble with xine, if I start it from the command line I get the following error:- xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. Aborted Any idea how to fix this? please Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine will not run
Hi, I have re-emerged xine and emerged strace. strace produced the following error:- futex(0x8114054, FUTEX_WAIT, 78, NULLxiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ I just don't know what to try next, any ideas?? Paul On Monday 11 Apr 2005 22:38, Nick Rout wrote: > I believe this is caused by some library problem - have you recently > re-compiled one of the libraries that xine depends on? > > If so you may need to re-compile xine. > > You could do more testing by running xine through strace > > emerge strace > strace xine > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:44:05 +0100 > > Paul wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having trouble with xine, if I start it from the command line I get > > the following error:- > > > > xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. > > Aborted > > > > Any idea how to fix this? please > > > > Paul > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with xine
Hi all, I posted this problem a few weeks ago and had no replies. I have tried all sorts including re-installation of xine-lib 1.0-r2 and xine-ui 0.99.3 but I always get the same error:- This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0132 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x017c libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x26de libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x270a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 2 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. Aborted What does xiTK refer to? I am at a loss now, can anybody help??? PLEASE regards Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xine
On Thursday 12 May 2005 15:22, Richard Fish wrote: > Paul wrote: > >Hi all, > >I posted this problem a few weeks ago and had no replies. I have tried > > all sorts including re-installation of xine-lib 1.0-r2 and xine-ui 0.99.3 > > but I always get the same error:- >snip > > >xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. > >Aborted > > > >What does xiTK refer to? > >I am at a loss now, can anybody help??? PLEASE > > What USE flags do you build xine-ui and xine-lib with? Mine are: > snip [ebuild R ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.3 +X +aalib -directfb -lirc +nls 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.0-r2 +X -aac +aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -cle266 -debug -directfb +dvd -dxr3 +esd -fbcon -ffmpeg +flac -gnome -i8x0 +ipv6 -libcaca -mng +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png +samba +sdl -speex -theora +v4l-vidix +vorbis -win32codecs -xinerama +xv -xvmc 0 kB > > Also, what CFLAGS do you have in /etc/make.conf? CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" Thanks for your interest Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Hi all, My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and causing the computer to freeze. I have another spare disk and I wondered if somebody would list out the procedure I need to follow to create and format the partitions and to copy all of the faulty disk contents. Then how to boot from the new disk. The new disk will need the following partitions:- /boot ext2 /swap / reiserfs Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
On Friday 16 Sep 2005 16:37, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 16 September 2005 15:23 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and > > causing the > > computer to freeze. > > Forgot to say: are you sure it is your hdd? An old box of mine was > making a racket and it transpired that the CPU fan needed oiling! The > bearing had run dry and was rattling every now and then. What > temperatures does your CPU show? > -- > Regards, > Mick Thanks for your replies Mick, I think it may have been a heat problem, since running the disk out of the case everything seem to work fine. I'm sure your advice will come in handy in the near future. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning "unable to open an initial console", the screen freezes until x is started. This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix it -- any ideas thanks for all who helped Paul On Friday 16 Sep 2005 16:33, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 16 September 2005 15:23 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and > > causing the > > computer to freeze. > > I have another spare disk and I wondered if somebody would > > list out the > > procedure I need to follow to create and format the > > partitions and to copy > > all of the faulty disk contents. Then how to boot from the new disk. > > The new disk will need the following partitions:- > > /boot ext2 > > /swap > > / reiserfs > > 1. Using the dd command or a cloning software derivative: > If the new disk is *exactly* the same size like the old one, then using > the dd command you can basically clone your failing disk, including MBR > and all partitions, including swap!, bit by bit: > = > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > = > > On the other hand, if the new drive is larger then you will need to > partition it, exactly like the old one. On the new drive, create the > same entries you find with fdisk for your old drive: # fdisk -l > /dev/hda > > Also, don't forget to clone the MBR: > = > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=446 count=1 > = > If you also want to clone the partition table (as opposed to writing one > afresh with fdisk) then increase the bs=446 to 512. > > 2. Using tar > If at the same time you want to alter the partition sizes on the new > drive then you can use the tar command, for each partition except for > swap. Besides creating partitions of a preferred size on the new drive, > you will also need to mkfs for each partition. Still have to use dd to > clone the MBR. > = > # mkdir -p /mnt/new_boot > # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new_boot > # cd /boot > # tar lcpf - .|(cd /mnt/new_boot; tar xpvf -) > = > Repeat for / and also use tar -d (check $ man tar) to verify that the > directories were copied over without any mishaps. Personally I prefer > tar because it is faster, it defragments the drive's contents and can > verify that the new directory was not corrupted in the tarring/untarring > process. > > 3. There's a number of backup apps out there which can do more or less > the same using a different front end; e.g. partimage. > > Good luck. > -- > Regards, > Mick -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Thanks for the response, I do have an entry /dev/console, user root, group tty. It has no symlinks. I would have to reconnect the suspect disk to check if it is the same. Thanks Paul On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:23, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > > > > Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your > > message, but I have had > > some problems. > > When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs > > problem (I once > > rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I > > formated the > > partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. > > Which of the different procedures did you try. Did you run > fsck.reiserfs from a LiveCD or your old disk to see if some corruption > occurred during the data transfer? (I guess it's too late now). > > > The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning > > "unable to open > > an initial console", the screen freezes until x is started. > > This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix > > it -- any > > ideas > > Not entirely sure - others may want to advise better - but are you > running devfs? It seems that this is an error thrown up when devices > are not recognised. This would make some sense, after all this is a new > device. With udev all you should do is restart udev and the new device > parameters would be recognised. That should happen during a reboot > unless you have configured your machine to cache the device db? Can you > find your /dev/console and does it have the same sylinks and access > rights as your old disk installation? I'm not at my Linux machine now > so I can't check myself. > > Finally, reset your BIOS before a reboot if you have > disconnected/reconnected drives, to recognise the new devices and their > boot order. > -- > Regards, > Mick -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: > Hi, > Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web > and use dd_rescue > bye > Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. If I do a "dd_rescue" what would I do to get the initial console working? Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] missing console (was Replacing main harddisk)
This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix > > it -- any > > ideas Hi, Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning message on boot "unable to open an initial console", the screen freezes until x is started. The computer then works fine nut on shutdown I have a scrolling message on the screen, something about creating a dir /mnt/fixit --- etc. It scrolls so fast that I can't read it. I have tried the pause key but the screen kept on scrolling. I have checked my logs but can't see any mention of the advise. How can I a) stop the screen scrolling on shutdown and stay displayed long enough to read, or b) can I force the messages into a file so that I can read them on the next boot? Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] missing console (was Replacing main harddisk)
On Tuesday 20 Sep 2005 13:47, John Jolet wrote: > > Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning > > message on boot "unable to open an initial console", the screen freezes > > until x is started. > > This is caused by the fact that, at that time, there is no /dev/console > file. There's a readme on the gentoo site somewhere I read the other > day that talks about how to fix this. I apologize, but I cannot recall > the exact url. Has to do with udev versus devfs. Well thanks John, that fixed it. If anybody else needs this the reference is www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml regards Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to get a usb mouse working?
Hi all. I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used a ps2 mouse with no problems. Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:- recompiled the kernel to include usb input devices checked that the mouse is connected using lsusb, this shows Bus 003 Device 002: ID 09da:022b A4 Tech Co., Ltd My xorg.conf reads Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection I can't find any info on what to do to set the new mouse correctly Can anybody please help Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get a usb mouse working?
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 13:45, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 11/18/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used > > a ps2 mouse with no problems. > > Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:- > > recompiled the kernel to include usb input devices > > checked that the mouse is connected using lsusb, this shows Bus 003 > > Device 002: ID 09da:022b A4 Tech Co., Ltd > > My xorg.conf reads > > Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "X.org Configured" > > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > > InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" > > InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "Auto" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > EndSection > > Well, you should check dmesg when you plug your mouse to see how > exactly it is recognized, then use "cat" in the file that represent > your mouse (you're pointing to /dev/input/mice at xorg.conf, mine is > /dev/mice) and move the mouse, if you get garbage at the console while > moving it, its the right file and your mouse is working, so you just > need to get the right protocol (I went testing all of them till I find > the one, auto never did it for me). > > > I can't find any info on what to do to set the new mouse correctly > > Can anybody please help Thanks for the response, cat /dev/mice - no such file cat /dev/input/mice and dev/input/mouse0 work but it is my ps2 mouse not the new usb one. Where do I find a list of protocols to try? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get a usb mouse working?
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 14:48, Richard Fish wrote: > > With /dev/input/mice, you do not need to try extra protocols. > > /dev/input/mouseX corresponds to a specific mouse...if both PS/2 and > USB mice are seen by the kernel, you should have both mouse0 and > mouse1 devices. With these specific devices, you need the right > protocol. > > /dev/input/mice is the kernel mouse multi-plexor. All mice that are > recognized by the kernel can be read there, with the same protocol, so > "Auto" or "ExplorerPS/2" are both fine. > > What specific kernel options did you enable for the USB mouse? The > best one is CONFIG_USB_HID with CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT: > > Device Drivers ---> > USB support ---> >USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support > [*] HID input layer support > > If you have these, post the relevent lines from dmesg after plugging > in the mouse. > Thanks for the info, I think it was me being stupid, after I changed and rebuilt the kernel I didn't install modules again. I now have both mice working so I guess all I need to do now is unplug the ps2 mouse and all will be well. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users
Not any more RyanOn 12/6/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> You guys are still awake!?!?> > When I signed up (about half an hour ago) I was the only one in San> Francisco! What's up with that?>> What a great idea, b.n.! Thanks!>> Michael>>> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, b.n. wrote:>Yup currently I am the only South African and one of 3 in the SouthernHemisphere.--"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people juststare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem
Hi all, First of all best wishes for the Christmas season. I have a dvd that I created in nero on (wi...) of a school's christmas productions. I have been trying to copy this dvd on my gentoo box using k3b version 0.12.10 (Using KDE 3.4.3) The image was created ok and is k3b_image.img, when I start the copy I get the following output on the copy screen:- Using growisofs 5.21 Starting writing OPC failed. Please try writing speed 1x Fatal error at startup: input/output error Unable to eject media Even if I try speed x1, I get the same errors. This is the Debugging Output:- System --- K3b Version: 0.12.10 KDE Version: 3.4.3 QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 Devices --- HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8520B 1.00 (/dev/hdd, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] DVDRW IDE1004 0040 (/dev/hdc, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite] Used versions --- growisofs: 5.21 growisofs --- Executing 'builtin_dd if=/tmp/kde-paul/k3b_image.img of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=/tmp/kde-paul/k3b_image.img -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -dvd-compat This is the output from the command line k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. k3b: ERROR: (K3bDevice::Device) Unable to do inquiry. QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key How can I resolve this??? How else can I copy this dvd? This is urgent as I need to produce as many copies today as possible. Thanks in anticipation of your help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem
On Monday 19 Dec 2005 13:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:55:31 +0000, Paul wrote: > > I have been trying to copy this dvd on my gentoo box using k3b version > > 0.12.10 (Using KDE 3.4.3) > > > > The image was created ok and is k3b_image.img, when I start the copy I > > get the following output on the copy screen:- > > Using growisofs 5.21 > > Starting writing > > OPC failed. Please try writing speed 1x > > Fatal error at startup: input/output error > > Unable to eject media > > Firstly, have you checked that the image file is good? You should be able > to play it with mplayer or xine, e.g. > mplayer -dvd-device /path/to/k3b_image.img dvd://1 Yes it workd with mplayer but goes straight into the first video ( there are two on the dvd and a menu. > Second choice, maybe the most likely, is the media OK? The media is the same as I am using to write the dvd on that other operating system. > Have you tried writing with growisofs directly? > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=/path/to/k3b_image.img This is the error using growisofs directly. growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=/tmp/kde-paul/k3b_image.img Executing 'builtin_dd if=/tmp/kde-paul/k3b_image.img of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error Thanks for your quick response, What else can I try? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem
On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Paul wrote: > > :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error > > That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a > test done on all discs to find out how must power is needed to optimally > write to the disc (can only be done 99 times on any disk) IIRC. > > Have you tried with another disk? > Thanks for the suggestion. I am now in the process of writing the image file using a different make of disc. How silly of me to think that if discs work on windows they should work on linux Thanks for all who have helped Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem
On Monday 19 Dec 2005 18:46, Jonathan Wright wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: snip> > > > > don't assume it's the os...could very well be the burner. unless it's > > the same box and dual-boot? > > I've been working with burners since there was only 1x scsi cdr and the > > media was $25/each. There has ALWAYS been great variation in media and > > burner compatibility. It's a LOT better than it used to be, but > > still > > Very true - although it could be a case of Windows 'covering' over a > problem, where it would continue on this disk when Linux won't (what > with it's superior tools and everything ;) > > I have found the DVDs are very difficult to get working reliably. In > fact, I've found alot write fine in the drive, but the drive has trouble > reading them again, but no problems in reading normal DVDs. > > It may be worthwhile looking at a different batch of disks instead of a > different disk - just in-case it's a bad batch. Well the disc completed ok and played ok on the computer but when I tried both of my dvd players, the picture and sound kept jumping on one and on the other the disc was not recognised. Ah well plod on with windows for this task. I could but another burner and install it in the windows box because nero will write to multiple discs. Than way I can cut down the time to produce 70 ish dvd by half. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > 3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've > never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in > any way. If there is such an option, disable it. Sometimes referred to as "virus protection" or "anti-virus" in some bios versions too.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] >> >>This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better >> results also. > [snip] > > These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older > computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS would not boot from the toshiba > drive I mentioned earlier. However when used as an external usb drive, I > could boot gentoo. Since I have been using this drive as backup storage > I did not investigate the reason for the lower speed. I am happy to get > a factor of 8 in speed up now after you did the research :) > > Thanks for your postings. Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient free space (or free time) to repartition them? :) I am really curious if there are any gains to be made on my own system... Next time I partition I will definitely pay attention to this, and feel foolish that I didn't pay attention before. Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly > explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my > head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in the near future. :) HAL-in-xorg-in-a-nutshell: If you're using an ordinary desktop system, you shouldn't need to manually do anything. Just run X as usual and it should work. You can further customize behavior from inside Gnome/KDE/whatever using their configuration tools. Obviously that doesn't always work, at which point you'll then need to start editing stuff. But I wouldn't bother with it unless you're unable to get into X for some reason. The first place to look is the X log file, which contains info about the hardware it auto-detected. There's also quite a bit of outdated info from when the transition was taking place, much of it making things sound more complicated than they really are. (I have not RTFM) Are you able to get into X or is it failing?
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now >> suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts >> of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient >> free space (or free time) to repartition them? :) > > With the RAID, you could fail one disk, repartition, re-add it, rinse and > repeat. But that doesn't take care of the time issue. I will admit that if a drive fails I will have to google for the instructions to proceed from there. When I first set it up, I read the info, but since I never had to use it I've completely forgotten the specifics. And in hindsight I should have labeled the disks so I know more easily which one failed (when one fails). Next time, I'll do it right. :) >> I am really curious >> if there are any gains to be made on my own system... > > Me too, so post back after you've done it ;-) I have a dmcrypt on top of the (software) RAID5, so speed is not so much of an issue in this case, but reducing physical wear & tear on the disks would always be a good thing. Maybe someday if I am brave I will try it... but probably not until I made a full backup, just in case.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Laurent Kappler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in portage is > 6.5.7. > > How could I do that?? Here you can download ebuilds for all previous versions and then put it in your local overlay: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-gfx/imagemagick/?hideattic=0 Although it looks like 6.4.7.0 was never in portage. You might be able to take an ebuild from a version near that one and simply rename it to the version you want.
Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see > signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making > it come in with new profiles or something. Some lvm tools/packages have replaced others that don't have "lvm" in the name, so maybe that's what you have seen. They aren't solely used for LVM-related things, though
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new > version? > This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they > go to different slots. > Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that. I use the kde overlay and the unmask/keywords files it contains. The only thing I had to do manually was unmask newest version of libmsn. After that it all emerged in one try.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Well, in 4.3.x I eliminated it after the first try, because it took so many > resources of my machine, that I could not use it for something else. So, you > mean, in 4.4.x it takes only a 10% of the resources it took with 4.3.x? LOL, > although I really like the idea of the semantic desktop, I rather have a > usable machine ... I tried it again in KDE 4.4, and other than virtuoso taking 100% with a bug (I killed it and it behaved normally after that) I didn't experience any extreme load even during the initial indexing. However, I disabled it after a couple hours of indexing because it was already using a few gigabytes of disk and I simply don't find it useful.
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Gentoo, >> >> My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. >> > > Just one more reason. > > Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed? > > If yes, you might have to reduce memory speed. > Some CPUs (among them AMD Phenom) have difficulties > at the specified RAM speed if more than 1 memory bank is > installed. > I have been burnt by that several times. > Helmut. I had exactly the situation you described. 4 GB of RAM worked great at 800MHz but when I increased to 8 GB I had to lower speed to something like 533 MHz otherwise system was very unstable. In my case Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. I contacted the RAM manufacturer and this was their recommendation as well.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:58:33 hb-...@web.de wrote: > On 21.02.2010 16:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > package.provided is the wrong file. Your problem is caused by busybox > > being in @system, which is a subset of @world. That's why you see the > > message about it being in world even though it is not in the world file. > > To remove it from @system, add > > > > -sys-apps/busybox > > > > in /etc/portage/profile/packages. > > I tried this before I posted my question and did it again now ... sorry, > no ... this doesn't solve the problem. It doesn't matter if > /etc/portage/profile/packages (tried "packages." too, just to be sure) > contains "-sys-apps/busybox" or not, as soon as I do remove busybox from > package.provided emerge tries to install busybox-1.15.3, and if I add it > back to provided the warning reappears. > > What's wrong? Did any change of the system installation I made break > portage? ... but everything else seems to work fine. > > ... but thx for that fast try to help. Have you tried making an ebuild for 1.16 and putting it in /usr/local/portage directory? That way you won't be fighting with portage about what version to install. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
Re: [gentoo-user] Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Stroller wrote: > Some comments were made recently about KDE4, where it was advised "don't try > using just Kmail under a different window manager - use the whole KDE > environment, but not single apps. Use something else instead of Kmail". > > I kept my gob somewhat shut at that time, because I've been using Knode for > a long time on my headless server. I ssh in from my Mac and open Knode in > X11. > > I guess Usenet isn't so popular these days, and I have never been able to > find a Mac native client that I'm happy with. > > I like Knode's simple 3-pane layout. Knode has improved visually with the > KDE4 release, but the much debated KDE4 dependencies thing. > > It has only just occurred to me today to ask if there's an alternative that > looks & acts just the same, but which isn't part of the whole KDE4 > environment. > > Any suggestions? For textual usenet i use mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird. For binary usenet I use net-nntp/bnr2.
[gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation
Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things that you say "I wish I set mine up this way the first time..." or have learned from experience how to do it right the first time already. :) Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome): - be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the recent thread) - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping /dev/sda stays /dev/sda always - initrd - I've never used one, but maybe it's needed if root is on software RAID? - grub/kernel parameter tips and tricks... i'm already using uvesafb, and don't dual-boot with MSWin or anything, just Gentoo - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) - some kind of small linux emergency/recovery partition? equivalent to a liveCD maybe. - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small cluster size maybe. - SSD vs 1rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files. I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway. - omit/reduce number of reserved-for-root blocks on partitions where it's not necessary. - I have never used LVM and don't really know about it. Should I use it? will it make life easier someday? or more difficult? - Is RAID5 still a good balance for disk cost vs usable space vs data safety? I can't/don't want to pay for full mirroring of all disks. Or any other tips that apply to things which are difficult to change once the system is in use. It will be ~amd64 Gentoo using Intel Core i7 920 with 12GiB RAM. No disks have been purchased yet. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > protip: if you are running badblocks (or ddrescue) on a probably damaged > device - attach it with an usb adapter. That way your box is still usable. +1, i had a bad drive and it's so much easier to unplug/replug the USB instead of rebooting and etc.
Re: [gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > For quite a long time I've been using things like: > vga=0x31A > > On the kernel line in grub.conf > > Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found > somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago. > > ## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 > ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x307 > ## 32k 0x310 0x313 0x3160x319 > ## 64k 0x311 0x314 0x3170x31A > ## 16M 0x312 0x315 0x3180x31B > > I've used kernel lines like below in grub.conf: > (asterisks added) > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ** vga=0x31b ** video=vesfb:mtrr:3,ywrap > > For a very long time. (On occasion I've needed a smaller resolution > and used 0x317) > > But on two recent installs of gentoo as vmware guests, that kind of > entry isn't doing any good and I'm still being prompted to make a > choice. > > When I hit as directed a largish chart of what look to be > octal based settings, flashes by and only the last portion of it > remains visible. > > It has choices like 340, 341 and many other three digit offerings from > a large chart that shows the resolutions you get with the 3 digit > choices. > > I was unable to find this chart by grepping in the kerne//Documentation > directory. > > Where does the boot process access that chart? > > And why is it that the hex system is ignored and this other system > offered at boot? > > I'm successfully using the hex system on my main gentoo machine... but on > the two recently installed gentoo vmware guests it doesn't work. > > It may be relevant that these installs are console only... no X. >From linux/Documentation/svga.txt: ** Short intro for the impatient: Just use vga=ask for the first time, ** enter `scan' on the video mode prompt, pick the mode you want to use, ** remember its mode ID (the four-digit hexadecimal number) and then ** set the vga parameter to this number (converted to decimal first). HTH :)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens. > KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just use > the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets must be the > same on both monitors, but actual app windows running there independent. This > seems perfectly reasonable to me - e17 does it out the box - but thus far I > have not found the magic voodoo spell that makes it happen. Can you symlink Desktop-1 to Desktop? ( I only have 1 monitor and have never tried this... so forgive me if it's a stupid idea)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing > function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself. AFAIK it is on the Amarok to-do list now that the speed is good enough to replace mysql, but nobody has volunteered to take on the challenge yet. I think there's also the potential problem of users who don't install or enable the indexing/semantic-desktop stuff might not be able to use Amarok then...
Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dale wrote: > Also, if you file a bug report somewhere, I got to the site, click on a > thread then try to go back to the home page by clicking on the link in the > top box. So far, it has not been able to get past that point. Oh, my CPU > is at 100% doing whatever it is doing. FWIW I just tried it in Konqueror 4.4.0 on Windows XP (work computer) and, while it didn't use any noticeable CPU, Konqueror did get stuck on a blank page spawning dozens and dozens of kwalletd and kioslave processes for about 2 or 3 minutes, and then suddenly the page displayed and everything settled down, back to normal. It seems random but has happened every couple pages while clicking around in the site. Weird.
Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card
2010/3/4 Dmitry S. Makovey : > Hi everybody, > > I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise > things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered > - even though video is working flawlessly, my audio has gone AWOL. No > matter how many goats and virgins I have sacrificed to the gods of > Google - can not find an answer. Am I missing something obvious? As a > stop-gap measure I'm trying to rebuild my kernel without USB sound > support, but it would be nice to not resort to such drastic measures. I have the same webcam. My work-around is to unplug the webcam before you reboot. Real fix would be set up alsa so it knows the proper order of soundcards... I've never been able to get it to do that, though, so I just unplug webcam until I want to use it. If someone else has figured out how, I'd be happy to hear it too.
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system. > netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system. > netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system. > netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system. > > > I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol > names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel. Can anyone > give me any advice on this situation? I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same messages. I don't think it is meaningful. I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat -lnp --inet With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or however it is defined there) and see if that helps.
Re: OT: CVS [WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)]
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan >> wrote: >> > netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system. >> > netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system. >> > netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system. >> > netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system. >> > >> > >> > I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol >> > names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel. Can anyone >> > give me any advice on this situation? >> >> I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a >> program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same >> messages. I don't think it is meaningful. >> >> I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat >> -lnp --inet >> >> With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and >> specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or >> however it is defined there) and see if that helps. >> > > Now I've got the server running, but I can't connect to it: > > mich...@camille ~ $ cvs login > Logging in to :pserver:mich...@carter.espersunited.com:2401/root > CVS password: > cvs [login aborted]: connect to > carter.espersunited.com(192.168.1.2):2401 failed: Connection refused Hmm, does cvsd use inetd? maybe it needs to be added to allowed port list or something like that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card
2010/3/5 Dmitry Makovey : > On 03/04/2010 08:37 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> 2010/3/4 Dmitry S. Makovey : >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise >>> things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered >>> - even though video is working flawlessly, my audio has gone AWOL. >> I have the same webcam. My work-around is to unplug the webcam before >> you reboot. Real fix would be set up alsa so it knows the proper order >> of soundcards... I've never been able to get it to do that, though, so >> I just unplug webcam until I want to use it. If someone else has >> figured out how, I'd be happy to hear it too. >> > well I've figured it out half-way (based on > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleCards ) > > alias char-major-116 snd > alias char-major-14 soundcore > > options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 > > alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss > alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss > alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss > > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-osshree > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel > options snd-hda-intel index=0 > > alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio > alias sound-slot-1 snd-usb-audio > options snd-usb-audio index=1 > options snd slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-usb-audio > > Now my problem is that the only control ALSA shows for my built-in > "hda-intel" is "Master" with no sub-channles available. Anybody > knowledgeable enough to suggest where is the problem? To make ALSA show the proper controls for my sound card I had to tell it which model I'm using /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf: options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig Look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt to see the list of models. Hopefully then it will show things appropriate to yours.
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Bader wrote: >> - SSD vs 1rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files. >> I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway. > > SSDs can make things snappier for boot times. Having lots of ram for > disk cache eliminates the benefit after booted since ram is even > faster than a SSD. I decided on a hard drive for the primary disk rather than SSD. For a combination of size (1TB), performance (according to benchmarks) and price (according to my pockets) I chose a Samsung HD103SJ (7200rpm, 1TB, 32MB cache, 2x500gb platters) drive which appears to have great overall performance and low operating temperatures. I haven't received the disks yet so for now I'm just playing with an old spare drive and installed Windows 7 (trial) for configuring/testing the overclock settings since all of the motherboard tools are in Windows only. Once I have it running fast & cool, it's Gentoo time! I also tried the Gentoo LiveDVD 10.1, written to a USB flash drive (with unetbootin), and it worked great. I had the PC hooked up to my TV with HDMI and it used proper 16:9 resolution, got DHCP address automatically and everything seemed to simply work properly. It will be great to use Konsole and Firefox during install, compared to having a 80x25 terminal like I did many years ago in my last install. Good job to the LiveDVD team!
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale wrote: > ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> >>> On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >>> >>> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is: operation not permitted. Any ideas? Thanks. >>> >>> This happens when the flash drive is type vfat. This excuse for a file >>> system >>> does not have a concept of owners and permissions so the kernel has to >>> fudge >>> it. You are finding that you cannot change these for the simple reason >>> that >>> they do not exist and the kernel is pretending they are owned by root >>> with >>> MODE 755 or some such. >>> >>> If hal is mounting the device, check your hal config, looking for some >>> likely >>> named option. >>> >>> >> >> What config file would this be? Can I find it in the handbook? >> >>> >>> If the device is mounted via /etc/fstab, adjust the >>> uid/gid/umask/dmask/fmask >>> options to mount in column 4. Full details in the man page, under section >>> "fat" >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> I need to interact with university computers from time to time, any >> other file system with proper permissions, to be used under both linux >> and windows (without additional drivers)? >> >> >> > > I don't use these so I am by no means saying they work well. > > sys-fs/ntfs3g > > sys-fs/ntfsprogs > > I have read that the first one works pretty well but no first hand knowledge > if it is true or not. You may want to read this as well. > > http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php > > You may just want to test this with something not so important for a bit and > see how well this works for you. You could also use ext2 and install the driver on Windows: http://www.fs-driver.org/
Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not > good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that > i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery > informatiion, etc. > > i am already in these groups: disk,wheel,audio,video,usb,haldaemon,plugdev. > > now, i cannot get notification when i plug a new usb device. my > battery gadget says battery information is not available. > > all there stuffs works fine if i log in with root account. Depending on your specific USB device you may need to edit UDEV rules to set proper permissions on the device node. For example I had to do that for normal users to read my digital camera.
Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > now i have a damn wired good news. all the problems i talked about are > gone. :) i can access my usb disk, i can see the battery info. Congratulations :) This reminds me to attempt to solve why my laptop has no battery info. I think I need to create a custom DSDT...
Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Damian wrote: > While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 > > It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if > somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem. I don't use gvfs (or gnome) but I just tried to emerge with the same USE flags you listed in the bug report. It worked for me. I'm on ~amd64 and emerged gvfs-1.4.3 (and I do not have the file /usr/lib64/liblzmadec.so on my system).
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > No you're not. But it is far easier to miss important changes without > oldconfig to point them out to you by shoving them in your face. That's how I use it. I do oldconfig as a kind of "kernel config diff" and then follow it by menuconfig and a quick browsing of the critical settings to make sure they look sane enough to boot. As long as it boots and supports my disks and filesystems I can sort out any minor settings/module changes after that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one >> of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. > > Understood, thanks... > > Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask' > me if I want to continue and remove the packages it finds, correct? > Meaning, it won't just blindly go ahead and start ripping stuff out... > > How does that differ from 'emerge -p --depclean'? Saves you the time of running it twice if you decide to say "Yes"
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mick wrote: > I see in the amd64 FAQs this: > == > Can I get Adobe Flash working? > Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash > plugin starting with version 10.0.22.87. If you don't need the 32-bit > plugin, then run echo "www-plugins/adobe-flash -32bit" >> > /etc/portage/package.use. This will install only the 64-bit Flash > plugin. > == > > So that I am clear, why would I want to install flash with both the > 32bit and 64bit USE flags? If there is no reason for both flags, then > should I be disabling the 32bit globally or are there other > circumstances that mean I should only set it so for this package? In the old days, when Flash and Java was only available as 32-bit plug-ins, people also ran 32-bit versions of their browsers (in order to be able to use those plug-ins). In the time since then, we had nspluginwrapper to allow 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit browsers, and now we have native 64-bit plug-ins. I guess the 32-bit option is still there for people who are still using the old set-up and haven't gone to a totally 64-bit browser yet.
Re: [gentoo-user] About mount with user rw
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. > > I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write > freely there. > > This line, does not do it: > > grep hdd7 /etc/fstab > /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserfs noatime,exec,users,rw 0 2 > > (using the singular `user' didn't help either. > > What is the syntax I need? Are the permissions set on /home/reader/spool (when mounted) so that the users can read and write to it?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About mount with user rw
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. >>> >>> I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write >>> freely there. >>> >>> This line, does not do it: >>> >>> grep hdd7 /etc/fstab >>> /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserfs noatime,exec,users,rw 0 2 >>> >>> (using the singular `user' didn't help either. >>> >>> What is the syntax I need? >> >> Are the permissions set on /home/reader/spool (when mounted) so that >> the users can read and write to it? > > ahhh no. And I see doing that cures the problem, but how do I make > this happen at every mount... is there syntax for fstab in the options > column that take care of that or does it have to be scripted or something > to get it to happen with every mount. Maybe in the local.start init > script. > > But I was under the impression this could be done with mount options. It should survive unmount and remount. The mount options should only control who is allowed to mount it, not who can use it once it is mounted. (Filesystems that don't understand the concept of permissions might have some mount option to force a certain umask but normal linux filesystems don't need it)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Yes, Gwenview has been quite useable for some time now >> & the KDE 4 version is a bit of an improvement generally. >> Useable alternatives are Thunar (icon view) & Feh (thumbnail view) >> to browse around & Feh (image view) to look at the actual pictures. > > I like gqview, but it's time to give Gewnview another try. gqview is obsolete, geeqie is the modern version under active development.
[gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users
Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be updated or else you won't be able to login to your system. If you have: AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys (which is the default example in the config file) change it to this: AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys and then restart sshd. Thanks to Doktor Notor who posted the solution on bugzilla. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308939
Re: [gentoo-user] MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: > > emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0. > > I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask > > But when I look there, I see: > # Ulrich Mueller (10 Mar 2010) > # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. > ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1. > ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0. > ~virtual/emacs-24 > > With no explanation of what the Tilde means. > > Looking thru man emerge in the MASKED section there is only one mention of > tilde and its in relation to notating architecture like ~x86. > > All Ulrich M. says is `use at your own risk' > > Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde > means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the > masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? > > PS- and by the way, there is no mention what so ever of `tilde' in > man portage. I think generally in portage tilde means "about". For example if you want to mask ~foo-1.00 it will also cover foo-1.00-r1 etc. rather than mask >=foo-1.0.0 and
Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: > >> Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. > > I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is > the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn't be enough to go for a cuppa > while it's running; I'd have to come back tomorrow if I let it continue > at its own pace*. So I watch the beginning of --sync and if I get that > server I kill it and try again. There was a distfiles mirror that would always hang and timeout for me, so I added it to my hosts file with a bogus IP so it just fails instantly and tries a different server. Maybe you could do the same for the server that's bothering you, then you won't have to worry about it.
Re: [gentoo-user] getting firmware for orinoco pcmcia card
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. > > I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the > wireless "works fine", but is not right. > > When booting there is a very long delay at the net.eth1 and the system > wants the agere_sta_fw.bin firmware. If you wait it out, it eventually > proceeds and the wireless works. I assume I should be getting the > firmware, but I don't know from where. I did emerge the orinoco-fwutils > but that doesn't have firmware or say where to get it. You have to find and download the windows drivers for your device and extract the firmware out of them, then rename it and put it in /lib/firmware. See here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco#device_firmware A google search turned up this firmware link: http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=121078835610877&q=p3 I don't have this card so I have no idea if it'll work for you. I hope it at least helps lead you int he right direction.
Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup > using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half > and all's been working well. > > I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in > the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. > > Initially I suspected a kernel bug because it started around the same > time I'd upgraded the kernel (around the 2.6.30 upgrade) but subsequent > kernel upgrades haven't improved the situation. > > I've run smartctl --all and bablocks on both disks, but nothing is > reported as faulty. > > I don't understand what is causing RAID to report these faults and would > like some ideas as to how I can further diagnose the problem. I remember reading something recently (within the last year?) about smartmontools causing disks to go offline unnecessarily in some situation, i think due to a bug in the smart tools. I don't know if it's a certain version of smartmontools or combination of that and other things. Maybe you can try upgrade/downgrade of smart or temporarily disable smartd to see if it stops the disks from being taken offline.
Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote: > Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >> green drives. [] >> - Mark >> > > Hi Mark, > > What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for > confirmation - that those energy saving drives change spinning and also do > spin down. The problem would be that the drives than might drop out of the > raid since they are not reachable fast. > > Don't know if that is true. I bought me some black label drives for the > longer warranty. If it is a WD drive, google "TLER" for info about possible problems in RAID use.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller wrote: > > I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer > and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised > that the inability to copy settings from one profile or machine to another > is a *complete* deal-breaker to me. [OT] In Windows XP it was called "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard". It could be run from the Windows install CD or maybe it was installed as well. You ran it on the source machine, then on the target machine and it did its magic. It even carried over individual apps settings for supported products (microsoft, adobe, etc). Did they get rid of that tool in later versions of Windows?
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology - INTEL_TXT
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mick wrote: > Is INTEL_TXT needed on a kernel for a laptop? > > The kernel (2.6.32-r7) advises: > > "If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N." > > Although I understand the general principle of this, I don't know what impact > it may have on day to day terms. I never heard of it before, but there's an extensive description in the kernel docs: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/intel_txt.txt It sounds like it's a way of the BIOS authenticating your kernel hasn't been altered before allowing the system to boot. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: >> hi, >> >> when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and >> all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes >> stable, and is used in real linux application? > > F-Spot is written in C#. C# is a CIL-only language, and requires the > Mono runtime to execute. > > If you consider F-Spot a "real" Linux application, then clearly Mono is > used by "real" Linux applications. The author of F-Spot, at least, > considered it stable enough to use. > > If you don't consider Mono stable, you'll have to use something other > than F-Spot. Unfortunately I don't know of an application for Linux > that does everything that F-Spot does, except maybe Picasa from Google? DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system).
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for > some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of > random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a slideshow but if done > in random order, they make no sense at all. All I need is a little check > box to disable the random part. If you're not afraid of doing a little scripting you might be able to whip something together yourself using this: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Scripted+Image+Wallpaper+Plugin?content=115147
[gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link
Hi,
Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month
with bad RAM modules), I got this error today:
[48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[48055.741393] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[48055.741398] ata3.00: cmd 60/20:08:38:15:03/01:00:18:00:00/40 tag 1
ncq 147456 in
[48055.741400] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
0x4 (timeout)
[48055.741402] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[48055.741405] ata3: hard resetting link
[48056.198746] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[48056.210514] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[48056.210518] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[48056.210523] ata3: EH complete
I really don't understand what it means, but the "timeout", "hard
resetting link" and "invalid CHS sector 0" look scary to me...
Initial bootup messages for this device were:
Mar 25 22:02:32 [kernel] [4.496102] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar
m2...@0xfbffc000 port 0xfbffc200 irq 34
Mar 25 22:02:32 [kernel] [8.519169] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps
(SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 25 22:02:32 [kernel] [8.536681] ata3.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG
HD203WI, 1AN10002, max UDMA/133
Mar 25 22:02:32 [kernel] [8.548388] ata3.00: 3907029168 sectors,
multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
Mar 25 22:02:32 [kernel] [8.566100] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
That disk is part of a md RAID5, but I was at work when this error
happened so I didn't notice if the RAID repaired itself or whatever
would happen in this case (I don't have mdadm monitoring configured
yet). Right now all RAID disks are all up and healthy.
I googled it but most of the results are pastebin snippets. I'm using
kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers.
>From libata documentation in the section about timeout errors it says:
"Most often this is due to an unrelated interrupt subsystem bug (try
booting with 'pci=nomsi' or 'acpi=off' or 'noapic'), which failed to
deliver an interrupt when we were expecting one from the hardware."
I really don't know the potential implications of disabling MSI or
APIC, but in /proc/interrupts I do see AHCI related to both MSI and
APIC rows. So at least I know they are active right now.
Temperatures in my system are good, hddtemp says the drive in question
is 21C degrees right now.
Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the
motherboard, since it is running 6 hdd's and 1 DVD-ROM. I'll have to
research to see which voltage is related to this. (X58 motherboard)
Thanks in advance if anyone has any knowledge about this, otherwise I
go to trial-and-hopefully-no-error mode. :)
Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware > acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. > > Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag, but > also brings in the "x11-libs/libvdpau" libraries which I think I do not > want, as my NVidia proprietary driver provides these libraries. AFAIK Nvidia split the vdpau off into libvdpau late last year sometime. On my system I use both nvidia-drivers and libvdpau without issue. libvdpau provides libvdpau.so while nvidia-drivers provides libvdpau_nvidia.so Here are my versions: x11-libs/libvdpau-0.3-r2 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15 Are you using older versions? I use ~amd64 so maybe if you run stable it has the older versions.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: >> I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers. >> > > I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific > drivers have always worked better for me. > >> Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the >> motherboard, since it is running 6 hdd's and 1 DVD-ROM. I'll have to >> research to see which voltage is related to this. (X58 motherboard) >> > > No, no, no! Don't touch the motherboard voltages! They have nothing > to do with the connected drives. Surely you must have noticed that > power to the drives comes directly from the power supply. If the > drives are not receiving sufficient voltage, a new, bigger power supply > is the only option. Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 SATA headers on this motherboard but I don't know how much it can realistically handle at once. Hopefully all of my disks. :)
