Re: problems with nautilus
> Mine looks like this: > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > /dev/sda1 / reiserfs notail 0 1 > /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs defaults0 2 > /dev/sdb1 /optreiserfs defaults0 2 > /dev/sdb2 /proj reiserfs defaults0 2 > /dev/sda6 /root reiserfs defaults0 2 > /dev/sda5 /usrreiserfs defaults0 2 > /dev/sda2 noneswapsw 0 0 > /dev/hda/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 > > What should I delete? Delete everything and see if it makes a difference. It's probably your noauto drives. Eric
Re: problems with nautilus
> Hi, > I've just installed the gcc-3.4 branch from alioth on a dual Opteron > 244. Works well except Nautilus in Gnome which crashes during Gnome's > start up phase. I can't start it manually either so I wonder if anyone > else has seen this? This may be the same bug that's been kicking around for a while. If so, if you remove just about everything from /etc/fstab, Nautilus should start working again. It can't seem to handle nfs mounts or other "unusual" things that just about everybody not living in a bubble has. Eric
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > > The i386 install had one major obstacle, > > > > Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of > > bumprace.) > > Works great in the i386 installation, does not work on amd64, but this is > due to bumprace not running (SDL parachute...), even with sound switched > off. Thanks, Christian. This is enough information for me to be reasonably certain that this problem only occurs on amd64 systems built with the Via chipset. (Your board is nVidia.) Eric
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > > > apt-get install bumprace. > > apt-cache show bumprace | grep Maintainer Ah, yes, I see that you're familiar with it... I *really* didn't notice that at all. > I think I heard something like this before, not sure which package. But it > only happened with 2.6 kernels, I think it was reassigned to the kernel, I > don't see it in the bumprace or sdl-mixer bugreports, maybe you can dig it > up... It's not at all bumprace specific. What I really am trying to do is track down who has this problem and who doesn't. I've got it. Rod Smith of rodsbooks.com has it too, also on a board with a Via chipset. Everyone else I've talked to seems to have no trouble with sound, but I don't know what the pattern is, and I don't know if half of those people who have "no trouble" have no trouble because all they tested was "saytime" or something similar. So, what I would like to know is, does bumprace sound ok on your ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, or does it sound like crap? Eric
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > > The i386 install had one major obstacle, > > > > Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of > > bumprace.) > > bumprace, what's that? ;-) apt-get install bumprace. The reason I mention it as a test app is because it's relatively small and easy to install, don't require 3D X accelleration (or much video at all) and it it's a good example of an app that sounds absolutely awful on my i386/sid Athlon64. Basically, when the CPU load goes above 1 (which will happen quite easily with bumprace) audio seems to just go to pieces. Stuttering and dropping out, but also speeding up and changing volume erratically. Happens with all apps which put the CPU under load, AFAICT, and a few that don't, too, but most simple single-thread audio producing applications like saytime will sound just fine. Eric
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
> The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Eric
Re: network probs on HP xw8200
> On the other end is an OpenBSD box providing NAT services to this > private network, You are using a cross-over cable? > And as I said, when I install Redhat, this same box works fine. Yes, that can happen. The autonegotiation is controlled via the mii registers on the card, and different distributions may initialize this differently. You may want to install the mii-diag package and see what it says about your card. Eric
Re: network probs on HP xw8200
> the network > doesn't appear to be working correctly when I try and 'apt-get update' > or even use wget to download a file. The transfer starts, and then > abruptly slows down to just a few bytes/sec, and then eventually times > out. The nic is an Intel pro/1000, pretty standard I think. I've seen this sort of thing on other architectures. Other operating systems, too (AIX). When I've seen it, the cause has been a bad autonegotiation, where one half of the link thinks the line is full duplex, and the other half of the link doesn't support it. Everything starts out ok, but then TCP acknowledgements get lost because they're transmitted at the same time as another packet in the other direction, and then everything slows down to a trickle. What is on the other end of your network line? Eric
Re: double mouse clicks with Linux 2.6.9?
> I've also run across this problem if more than one mouse is configured > in XF86Config(-4). Not sure why another kernel would suddenly make it > start to manifest this behavior, but it's something to look at. Thanks. My XF86Config-4 had an entry for both "Configured Mouse" and "Generic Mouse". After commenting out the Generic Mouse entry, the problem seems to have gone away. It's odd. I've been using that config file for several years now. Not only did I need to restart my X session after modifying the config, but I needed to restart my wife's X session (on the F8 virtual terminal) before the problem went away, even in my session. Eric
double mouse clicks with Linux 2.6.9?
I've upgraded to a vanilla Linux 2.6.9 kernel in hopes of fixing my strange audio problems. (no such luck, btw) I seem to have picked up another strange behavior, though. Around 25% of mouse clicks seem to be registered as double clicks. (Clicking "Back" on Mozilla will sometimes go back two pages.) It's happening with all apps, and it just started happening when I replaced the kernel. Has anyone else noticed this, or is my system just slowly falling apart? I'm running Debian sid i386 on an Asus K8V SE Delux Athlon64. Eric
Re: still funky sound with Asus K8V SE Deluxe
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:59, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> > When using a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit userspace I have no audio at
> > all. The modules load and the card is detected, but trying to run
> > "alsamixer" yields:
> >
> > Oct 16 13:40:25 marvin kernel: ioctl32(alsactl:2947): Unknown cmd fd(3)
> > cmd(80045500){00} arg(d7bc) on /dev/snd/controlC0
>
> You probably need to make sure the 32-bit compatibility alsa module is loaded.
Thanks. You were right. Now I can get the same crappy unreliable
sound with both 64 and 32 bit kernels...
Eric
still funky sound with Asus K8V SE Deluxe
I'm still having no luck getting audio working correctly on AMD64.
When using a 32-bit kernel and a 32-bit userspace audio works correctly
only with some apps (e.g. xmms, tuxkart, mplayer) but stutters and plays
erratically with most everything else (circuslinux, bumprace, many
more). This may have something to do with OSS emulation.
This is not a problem with this particular audio chip or driver, since
it happens both with the onboard audio (Via) and a PCI sound card
(Trident).
When using a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit userspace I have no audio at
all. The modules load and the card is detected, but trying to run
"alsamixer" yields:
Oct 16 13:40:25 marvin kernel: ioctl32(alsactl:2947): Unknown cmd fd(3)
cmd(80045500){00} arg(d7bc) on /dev/snd/controlC0
Is anyone else here having any trouble with Alsa?
Eric
Re: Audio problems with Asus K8V SE Deluxe
> I'm using an x86_64 kernel (64-bit), compiled from the Debian kernel > source package for version 2.6.7, with ALSA compiled as modules, and > no OSS (except for the ALSA OSS APIs). It's using the snd_via82xx > driver. I've tried to switch to an x86_64 kernel today, but failed to get it to boot. I've followed the FAQ's instructions for cross compiling a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit host, and also recompiled in a pure64 chroot after booting the official debian amd64 kernel, but in both cases, the kernel I've compiled stops booting after: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed It just sits there. It isn't hung, since it responds to keyboard input (enter, shift page-up, alt sys-req), but it doesn't go any further. Any thoughts? Eric
Re: playing DVD: libdvdcss2 missing
> sorry, I did not understand what you mean. First I have to install 32bit > source packages an run the commands you suggested? Source packages are not 32 or 64 bit. There is one source for all, and the source package can be compiled into a 32 bit or 64 bit package. If you run "apt-get source --build packagename", you'll get a freshly compiled binary package for whatever platform you're currently running. You must have the appropriate apt repository in your sources.list for compiling unofficial packages. Eric
Re: playing DVD: libdvdcss2 missing
> I tried to play a DVD on my amd64 system and I am missing the libdvdcss2 > package. How o you solve this or are you waiting until there is a package? There are legal restrictions on distribution of that package, so it is not officially part of debian. Debian compatible packages are available from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ but only as source or i386. If you want amd64 packages, I think you'll need to compile them yourself. Eric
Re: Audio problems with Asus K8V SE Deluxe
> I had a problem with sound just not working, and it had something to do > with the kernel loading up the OSS drivers as well, which interfered > with the ALSA drivers. perhaps you have something similar? No, I never mess with the OSS stuff. I'm certain that wasn't compiled in. > p.s. maybe broken Mboard? I don't think so, since the same problem has been reported by others, and its affecting the pci card as well. It's almost as if the internal unit of time used to pace sound playback were unstable, which is why I suspected it may have had something to do with cpu frequency scaling, but turning that off didn't seem to make a difference. Eric
Audio problems with Asus K8V SE Deluxe
Does anyone have audio working correctly on an Asus K8V SE Deluxe? I recently upgraded the motherboard on my desktop at home to this board and am having trouble getting audio to work correctly. The motherboard has an integrated VIA VT8237 audio chip on it, and it sort-of works with the ALSA VT82xx driver, but not very well. Some things seem to sound ok (xmms) but others don't (nearly everything else I've tried). The sound is irregular, with pops and crackles, random large fluctuations in volume, and runs at the wrong speed (usually too fast). I've searched the web/usenet and found that I'm not the only one with this problem: From: Rod Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: athlon64 upgrade ... Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Date: 2004-05-27 16:54:03 PST [] the VIA VT8237 that drives it is not yet officially supported by the kernel, although it does work with the ALSA VT8233 driver -- just not optimally. Specifically, some programs produce sped-up or "stuttery" sound. [] http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=1et59c-90v.ln%40speaker.rodsbooks.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3Dvt8237%2Balsa%2Bk8v%26btnG%3DSearch But I've also read that this is supposed to be fixed as of ALSA 1.05a (I've installed modules compiled from Debian's alsa-source 1.06). Now, here's where it gets weird. I decided to just disable the onboard audio and install a pci sound card (Trident 4DWaveNX) since this chip has been around for several years and is very well supported by ALSA. After switching to the new card I expected the problems to go away, but they persist. This happens both with the analog output and the SPDIF out, so it's not just analog noise. I've been running stock i386 Debian sid with a vanilla Linus Linux 2.6.8 compiled 32-bit but optimized for Athlon64. I've tried twiddling several of the kernel settings (APIC, ACPI, CPU Frequency scaling, pre-emption) and lots of compiles/reboots later I've yet to find a setting that does not have this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Eric
Re: Diskless AMD64; mknbi
> I have a server running with pure64 and would like to follow the > method on http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DiskLess. FWIW, I've been (slowly) working on overhauling the diskless package. The most recent version is in CVS on Alioth. I've been deliberately avoiding uploading to Debian before the sarge release. Let me know if you're interested in helping test new versions. Eric
