Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:01:44AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:57:39 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Martoni wrote: | What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at | all)? | | | This is too easy...gcc. Without that, nothing else, including the | kernel, would exist. egcs Yea, but while both these apps are needed for everything else, I don't think they are a killer app in themselves. Neither of them are something you'd say to convince $windows_person that they should check out linux. I'd say something like the gimp (though that's available on windows now :) or evolution (maybe). Man, I used to know this stuff. grrr -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net Backups are for people who don't pray. -- big Mike pgpR1oYBUruY9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mpg joiner
Try this: cat foo.mpg bar.mpg final.mpg On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:48:49PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: emerge mpgtx On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:43:31 +0100 Christian Johansen wrote: I don't know if this is the right mailing list to post this on, but does anyone know of any mpg/avi joining program in portage? To join two files into one (when a movie is clipped for instance)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net Backups are for people who don't pray. -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Remote Desktop
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:48:36PM -0800, timothy johnson wrote: I have my Gentoo machine which I leave at home. But there are times that I want to access it remotely. I have been using a lot of Ncurses programs to get the job done. But I still have some programs that I need a GUI for. What type of server can I set up so I can access my GUI. I have though about VNC, but I am wondering if there is something better. I was wondering if anyone here used NX. Or is there an easy way to get X to run on windows. Something that I can stick on a USB stick and dont have to install. I am thinking that VNC is going to be the way. But I am wondering. What do we have out there? No experience with NX here, but there's a really nice article on the gentoo wiki about setting up a gentoo terminal server using some vnc and gdm tricks. Check out: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xvnc_terminal_server -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net Backups are for people who don't pray. -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent chmod nvram
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:40:07PM -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: I need /dev/nvram to be chmod 666. I make the change, but it doesn't persist through a reboot. Any advice on making the change permanent appreciated. Using udev if that's relevant. Thanks. No udev expert here, but there is a rules file that you can use to configure specific settings for devices. /etc/udev/udev.rules.* or something like that. Google for it or hit the forums for info. Hopefully that's a good starting point. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net Backups are for people who don't pray. -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes scripts/bootstrap behaves like emerge system
Marc Schlienger wrote: Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2005 21:47 schrieb Philipp Hasse: Hi, today I started a gentoo installation and it happened once again that scripts/bootstrap tried to install all those packages that would normally be installed with emerge system (scripts/bootstrap showed about 80 packages in stage 5/6 when running with --pretend). In previous installation attempts this behaviour changed after executing emerge sync a day later. Is there something wrong with the bootstrap script or the portage tree? Regards Philipp Hasse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, it's me again! I just looked in the bootstrap.sh script and found no emerge system. Also all variables seems to have the right values. So far as I can tell it seems to be a problem with portage. Regards Marc Schlienger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Do you have java in your use flags? I have found using -java or adding sys-libs/db -java to /etc/portage/package.use helps. But I also always set my java virtuals to point to the sun java stuff so it may be related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] $ cat /etc/portage/profile/virtuals virtual/kernel sys-kernel/linux26-headers virtual/linux-sources sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources virtual/jdk dev-java/sun-jdk virtual/jre dev-java/sun-jre-bin virtual/os-headers sys-kernel/linux26-headers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes scripts/bootstrap behaves like emerge system
Marc Schlienger wrote: Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2005 21:08 schrieb Keith Alan Landry: Marc Schlienger wrote: Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2005 21:47 schrieb Philipp Hasse: Hi, today I started a gentoo installation and it happened once again that scripts/bootstrap tried to install all those packages that would normally be installed with emerge system (scripts/bootstrap showed about 80 packages in stage 5/6 when running with --pretend). In previous installation attempts this behaviour changed after executing emerge sync a day later. Is there something wrong with the bootstrap script or the portage tree? Regards Philipp Hasse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, it's me again! I just looked in the bootstrap.sh script and found no emerge system. Also all variables seems to have the right values. So far as I can tell it seems to be a problem with portage. Regards Marc Schlienger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Do you have java in your use flags? I have found using -java or adding sys-libs/db -java to /etc/portage/package.use helps. Yes, I have. I have decided not to stop the merge. When it's ready I will check what an emerge system would do now. If it will do nothing I think the emerge system has worked fine. I will mail again. Cool. If the bootstrap dies with a circular perl dependancy, this can fix that too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:36:39PM +, Stroller wrote: On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:21 pm, Brendan Sullivan wrote: the nvidia README is rather helpful...it got me through setting the nvidia drivers up just fine when i started using linux. It did..?!??!? Yikes! You must be loads cleverer than me! Mind you, I think all the discussion on this list recently of the binary DRI drivers has only confused me. binary - drivers are in a compiled form, and the source code is not available. dri- Three Letter Acronym (TLA) for Direct Rendering something or other. two basic things you need to do is modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config and in the modules section add: Load glx and remove : Load dri Okies... so I think I need to emerge the nvidia-glx package, too..? Yup. For nvidia support you need to do a couple of things. emerge nvidia-kernel and load 'nvidia' module through your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kerne-version file (or modprobe nvidia at the command line) emerge nvidia-glx for the libraries for X modify the XF86Config as noted above. restart x That should be all that you need. Also, in the Device section that has your video card in it, change the driver to nvidia instead of the standard 'vesa' or 'nv'. That won't affect my VESA framebuffer..? Nope, completely different. This is for the X config, the framebuffer isn't affected. Many thanks for your speedy helpful response, Good luck! -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?
This removes the kde dependancy package, but leaves all the other kde packages (kdelibs, kdeutils, etc). I guess portage doesn't do reverse dependancy removals yet huh? alan On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:22:48PM +0100, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: This was mentioned some time ago... I had exactly the same issue about 2 days ago, and i did # emerge -P kde -P = prune - it removes all but the latest version of the specified package On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:07:28 +0100 Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff is still there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory). Is it safe to do an emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5 or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause 3.2 to stop working? Has anyone tried this? Thanks P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- GPG public keys available at pgp.mit.edu -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:23:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Alan said, This removes the kde dependancy package, but leaves all the other kde packages (kdelibs, kdeutils, etc). I guess portage doesn't do reverse dependancy removals yet huh? emerge kde -P emerge depclean -p emerge depclean Cool, never even knew about that. Thanks! alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fetching mail
I'm going to be installing Gentoo in the next couple of days and need help with sending/fetching mail. I did install gentoo before but couldn't figure out how to do that. I emerged pine and fetchmail to grab my email but fetchmail was unable to fetch my mail. Actually I think it was able to but it didn't know what to do with it or maybe it needed other software? I tried to emerge exim but it was blocked by virtual/ssmtp and I couldn't figure out how to get it going. I would like to get pine working to send/fetch mail, can anyone give me pointers on what I need to emerge once gentoo is up and running? TIA. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fetching mail
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:50:02PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: I would like to get pine working to send/fetch mail, can anyone give me pointers on what I need to emerge once gentoo is up and running? TIA. In what way are you extracting mail? POP3? IMAP? POP3. Pine is easy to configure for either. Google'ing has always refreshed my memory when it slips. I believe setting the inbox path to wubble.server.com/inbox will do pop3 and wubble.server.com:143 does imap. You have to go into Configure to get to these. Looks like Pine will grab my mail from the pop3 server without any other software like fetchmail or exim? I should have looked into that a long time ago.. thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] any problems with gcc 3.3?
I noticed that gcc 3.3 snuck into stable for x86 a few days ago with no fanfare... [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 [3.2.3-r3] Can I assume that upgrading is painless? The move from 3.1 to 3.2 was pretty bad IIRC due to binary incompatibility or something, but I'd like to know if it's safe to upgrade without b0rking my server. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] any problems with gcc 3.3?
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:33:03PM +, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 February 2004 23:29, Alan wrote: I noticed that gcc 3.3 snuck into stable for x86 a few days ago with no fanfare... [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 [3.2.3-r3] Can I assume that upgrading is painless? The move from 3.1 to 3.2 was pretty bad IIRC due to binary incompatibility or something, but I'd like to know if it's safe to upgrade without b0rking my server. If you do get any bad behaviour, run ldconfig. All fine here. Good to hear, thanks! I just get kinda nervous sometimes with big upgrades like this :) alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fetching mail
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:02:48PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: Looks like Pine will grab my mail from the pop3 server without any other software like fetchmail or exim? I should have looked into that a long time ago.. thanks. Yep. Didn't used to be that way. In fact, it even allows you to pull mail with a different username from the one you are logged in with on the current server. Details are at: http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/config.html Excellent, a couple things I can't figure out.. I can fetch mail from the server with my pop username but how do I send mail with my username? I have the domain set fine but it always uses my login name@ instead of my email username. I've looked through the faq about filtering msgs from a list into a different folder but don't see any examples and can't figure out what they mean. Can you give me an example? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6 and desktop responsiveness under cpu load
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:46:10AM -0500, Edward Paul Wehrwein wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I have been using the 2.6 kernel for a while in my system and noticed that the desktop is not responsive under cpu load. kernel gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 is better for me in this respect. Maybe I am missing something when configuring 2.6. Is there any specific configuration to make the desktop more responsive under load? Any comments? Romildo If I had to guess I'd say that the extra patches in gentoo-sources still provide superior performance under load compared to a vanilla 2.6. However, that's just a guess; I know the O(1) scheduler is in 2.6 but I don't know what else gentoo-sources has that might not be in 2.6. You also may want to enable the pre-emptable kernel option under processors features. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo SOLVED for real this time
Solved for real this time. Turns out that 4.0.16 wasn't using the same indexes in the table as the older 4.0.14, so the newer version was using filesort instead of indexes, causing the massive slowdown. Reverting back to 4.0.14 and everything went back to full speed. I have no idea why mysql would not using the indexes the same database, but I'm happy to have things back up at 100% :) alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo (SOLVED - myisamchk to the rescue!)
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:34:47PM +, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:59, Alan wrote: *sigh* Never mind, still sucks. Turns out I forgot to restart the mysql server after running the above command, and ab and wget happily returned pages, just ones that had no data on them. Oh well, back to looking I'd go for a nice vanilla kernel next. Then check for query logging, the extra IO could be hurting it. Same problem with 2.4.24 vanilla, and I've also tried using the precompiled binary from mysql.com. I don't think it's query logging either, as this performance hit can be seen in a single query. Any other ideas? -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Running gentoo inside VMWare
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:39:57PM +0100, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: Did anybody successfully run a gentoo installation within a VMWare session? If so I would really appreciate it if I could get the kernel configuration for it. Yup, no problems at all. The kernel configuration is pretty standard, the only thing you'll want to do is make sure you have the right ethernet card set, vmware uses the pcnet32 driver IIRC. Not sure which SCSI driver it uses though (if you're using scsi). Probably the best way would be to use the livecd in the vmware session and just note what drivers / modules are loaded in there. Of course how to install X and this stuff will also help, but the first step is the kernel. :) For X you can either configure using the standard vga driver or go to vmware.com and download the vmware specific X driver. HTH alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone successfully emerged kdebase-3.2.0?
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:15:14AM -0800, Manuel McLure wrote: I'm having problems emerging kdebase-3.2.0 - it keeps failing when building the userguide with docbook (everything else seems to succeed) - has anyone seen this and have a solution? IIRC the solution to this was to add -doc to your USE flags. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] request to unmask mysql 4.0.17
Just wondering what is blocking mysql 4.0.17 from being unmasked and released in stable? My earlier mysql performance problems with 4.0.16 (current stable x86) were resolved in 4.0.17 which compiled and installed fine. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Running gentoo inside VMWare
Yes. That's where I not so sure about. I read that I had to use this SCSI driver and the pcnet32 card, but apart from that I don't know which hardware to configure i.e. as chipset, agpgart, gfxcard and so on. I'm not sure how much of this translates over from your own hardware, but I never had any problems just using the defaults. For graphics (framebuffer I assume) you can use the VESA driver. SCSI driver it uses though (if you're using scsi). IF you are using scsi? I was looking for IDE support, but it seems that VMWare doesn't support it, right? It does but it's hidden. I think you have to go through the 'add new hardware' vmware wizard and then hit the advanced button, and in there it gives you a choice of scsi or ide. For X you can either configure using the standard vga driver or go to vmware.com and download the vmware specific X driver. I was googling about this and I got the impression that I have to do some kernel patching. I only found support on their page for standard distributions like Suse 8.x, which I used earlier, so I looked into them. These mentioned some kernel patch. So I was not sure if this patch has to be applied always, or only for Suse kernels. I'm always using the vanilla-sources, so I can be sure that I have the same as the official version. What XFree configuration should I use? Or is this exaplined there as well? I will take a look anyway, as soon as I have a running system. Download the tarball from vmware, it's got a file called something like vmware_drv.o (or something like that). Put this in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ with the other drivers and then for the graphics driver in the XF86Config use vmware. IE: Section Device Identifiervmware video Drivernvidia [...] The rest of X can be configured with any number of tools out there. The best way these days is to boot up on a LiveCD (knoppix, mandrakemove, etc) and just copy the X config from there. Heck, some of them even provide a GUI for doing just this! If not that, use reasonable defaults. The only real variables in this file is your mouse, video card, and monitor, and your mouse and monitor are whatever are physically in front of you. Until you put the vmware driver in you can use the Standard VGA option for your video card. One other thing. Is it possible to connect the serial port from the virtual machine to a serial port on the host machine? Or to a tty? I wonder because I want to do some kernel stuff, and I would need the serial port for debugging purposes, so I wonder if it is possible to do this without an actual cable. Or do I need to connect a real cable to both ports and configure one to be used by the VM and the other by the host? This should work for sure. You should be able to connect to a pipe or socket or something. I don't have any experience in this though.. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo (SOLVED - myisamchk to the rescue!)
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:25:11PM -0800, Alan wrote: Hi guys... still in the middle of getting a server cut over from debian to gentoo and I just found some serious performance problems with mysql. Figured it out as soon as I got home today from work. I'm not sure if it was due to it never being done, or moving tables from one server to another, or swapping mysql versions, but running # myisamchk -r -S -n *.MYI in the /var/lib/mysql/database directory and now all the speed has returned. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo (SOLVED - myisamchk to the rescue!)
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:20:12PM -0800, Alan wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:25:11PM -0800, Alan wrote: Hi guys... still in the middle of getting a server cut over from debian to gentoo and I just found some serious performance problems with mysql. Figured it out as soon as I got home today from work. I'm not sure if it was due to it never being done, or moving tables from one server to another, or swapping mysql versions, but running # myisamchk -r -S -n *.MYI *sigh* Never mind, still sucks. Turns out I forgot to restart the mysql server after running the above command, and ab and wget happily returned pages, just ones that had no data on them. Oh well, back to looking -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:28:00PM +, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 23:25, Alan wrote: Hi guys... still in the middle of getting a server cut over from debian to gentoo and I just found some serious performance problems with mysql. My new hardware is a dual p3 1.13Ghz system with 2G of ECC ram running kernel 2.6.1 (gentoo-dev-sources) with preempt compiled. I stopped reading here. Get rid of preempt, it's only useful on a desktop and makes a right mess of a server. Hi Mike. I thought of that just after I posted. However, moving to gss-sources (2.4.25_pre6) with no preempt enabled and the same result. Top shows the following while the stat is running: top - 15:57:35 up 12 min, 2 users, load average: 1.97, 0.53, 0.18 Tasks: 96 total, 7 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 71.1% user, 28.9% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Cpu1 : 73.1% user, 26.9% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 2069524k total, 582020k used, 1487504k free, 3936k buffers Swap: 1494012k total,0k used, 1494012k free, 459904k cached And on the debian box: top - 16:01:39 up 13:38, 6 users, load average: 8.69, 3.39, 2.20 Tasks: 320 total, 6 running, 308 sleeping, 2 stopped, 4 zombie Cpu0 : 25.6% user, 8.3% system, 2.5% nice, 63.6% idle Mem: 1033384k total, 1007244k used,26140k free,10176k buffers Swap: 20k total, 126116k used, 873804k free, 613216k cached This is about the same as under 2.6 with prempt, with lots of system resources (not just user). My 2.4 .config is at http://arcterex.net/stuff/kernel24-config if that helps at all. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo
Any clue as to what could be making it so slow? Check to make sure that DMA is enabled on the HD. Yup, that's fine, I have the system running on scsi with software raid5 and get about 100mb/s transfer rates. I'm pretty sure it's not the hard drives as everything else seems to go ok, just the database that's slow. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:48:12AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? It's not really a leap as you can swap kernels back and forth with only a reboot, no need to recompile everything or any such sillyness :) Personally I have problems with my logitech mx700 mouse (ps2). There were speed issues (different sampling method or something) which are solved with a kernel parameter (search the archives) but with the same X config my extra buttons and scroll wheel have stopped working properly. This is the only reason I'm not back with 2.4 for my desktop :-\ alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] save dmsg output across reboot?
I have a server with the kernel append line having panic=30 which reboots the box 30 seconds after a kernel panic. However, once it reboots I have no way to see what the problem was. Is there any place that stores the output of this so that it can be looked at later? I know that the dmesg command looks at stuff in the kernel memory itself (I think anyway), so that's cleared on reboot, but I am hoping there's a way to see what happened. Thanks -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] order of raid drives coming up?
I'm about to move a debian server with 2xIDE software raid to a gentoo box with software raid. In the swap I'm hoping to just take the two drives in the current box and put them into the new box (hoping for a speedy cutover). Then I can move data over at my lesiure. What I'm worried about is that the current box has md0-md2, and the new gentoo box has md0-md2 as well, and that when I plug in the old hard drives the old raid won't come up accidently. Does anyone know how the kernel goes about starting up raid autodetect drives? Or in what order? Thanks. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] save dmsg output across reboot?
Add this to /etc/conf.d/local.start: echo Saving dmesg output to /var/log/dmesg... echo /var/log/dmesg echo # /var/log/dmesg date /var/log/dmesg dmesg /var/log/dmesg Thanks peter, but this only deals with boot messages, I'm looking for the kernel panics and whatnot that are thrown there by the kernel just before the box crashes horribly :) alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DNS setup
Hey that's cool. It's much less work than configuring bind. Can it do reverse lookups? Not AFAIK. dnsmasq is simple enough that it just serves out IPs from your hosts file, nothing more. It's great for a lan or small network though, as previously mentioned :) -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended SATA controllers
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:16:49PM -0800, Ajay Sharma wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Alan wrote: I'm looking to upgrade my fileserver with a couple or three SATA drives and a SATA controller (will upgrade the machine itself with a SATA enabled MB sometime next year I think). I'm wondering what people recommend for offboard SATA controllers. I've seen many posts on the forums that SATA raid from the silicon image chipset doesn't work, but I'm not worried so much about RAID (will probably use SW raid) as just having a stable set of hard drives available. Any suggestions for a cheap ($100) SATA card (raid or non-raid) that is compatible with linux? This is an old message, but I just saw it and no one replied. I would go with a 3ware SATA card. My gentoo install went smooth with my WD SATA drive because the 3ware card was detected on boot. Get that, no funky patches or anything as the 3ware drivers have been in the default kernel for quite some time. This is my second 3ware card that I put Linux on and I'm just amazed at how easy it was. Hey Ajay, thanks for the belated reply. I've also heard good things about 3ware, but when I looked they were a bit above my buget. Since this is going to be a data storage drive using SW raid isn't a big deal, and nice (ie: installable) operation isn't essencial. I ended up going with the promise tx150 (I think that's what it is). It was a $150CND card with sw raid on it (which I played around with a bit and then gave up) and works dandy with the 2.6.* kernel. It's been happily storing my data with software raid1 for the last couple of months. When I upgrade my other server I'll probably look at the 3ware controller though, unless I put in a full new box (which I'd make sure that it would have some sort of raid card in it anyway :) End result, if you're just looking for a plain jane SATA controller and don't mind 2.6, promise works dandy. If your budget is a big larger and you want real raid, go 3ware. Those are at least IMHO :) alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild openssl problems and questions
Sorry if this is bringing up old issues, but I couldn't seem to find enough info out there to fix this up. I finally got around to updating openssl to 0.9.7 on my workstation, which is a mix of stable and ~x86 packages. When I run revdep-rebuild --soname openssl-0.9.7 I get a list of packages that are needed to update and then it starts, but fails immediately, telling me that package is masked and cant' be built. These packages are in ~x86. Running the command as # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 revdep-rebuild --soname openssl-0.9.6 renders the same issue. I tried rebuilding a couple of packages by hand but ldd told me that they were now linked to *both* openssl-0.9.6 and 0.9.7. On my server, which is fully stable with only one ~x86 package I had to unmerge the one package and then emerge it after it was done. Is there a way to tell revdep-rebuild to rebuild packages that are a mix of stable and ~x86? Thanks. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chrooted shell can't access outside network??
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:04:35AM -0600, Scott Jackson wrote: My friend is having an interesting problem He can access the network from the livecd, but from the chrooted shell, he can't ping anything outside the local network! I told him to try using route, but route exits with an error. Did he bind /proc and /dev/ properly? Just a thought. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-config.pl fails
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:06:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using vmware for more then one year and have installed several times without problems. Now with a new install, and running vmware-config.pl i get this compile error: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r7/build/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.20-gentoo-r7' In file included from ../linux/driver.c:16: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r7/build/include/linux/module.h:21:34: warning: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.20-gentoo-r7' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.20-gentoo-r7' In file included from ../linux/driver.c:16: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r7/build/include/linux/module.h:21:34: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [driver.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.20-gentoo-r7' make[1]: *** [driver] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' make: *** [auto-build] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. like always help is more than welcom Check to make sure that your /usr/src/linux points to the current kernel, and that you've actually compiled the kernel in that dir. The missing linux/modversions.h sounds like the kernel has been extracted but not compiled or something. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[gentoo-user] recommended server dual cpu mb
Hey folks. I had some problems trying to get gentoo onto a supermicro p3tdle board and was hoping for some suggestions of good quality dual p3 (or higher) server class motherboards. Features that would be nice would be ECC ram support (so the 2G I have now doesn't go to waste) and any nice hardware monitoring systems that are supported under linux. Also anyone who has the p3tdle (or similar supermicro board) how are your experiences? I'm not sure if my bad luck was caused by a bad motherboard or some *very* strange incompatibilites with the gentoo livecd kernel with this board (yes I tried with noapic :). Symptoms included: - complete system freeze when mke2fs-ing scsi drives on an AIC7xxx board - only able to run IDE drives off the MB without DMA - hard drives off a pci ide card working fine except... - at the end of a raid5 resync when setting up a raid one of the HDs was kicked out with a DMA error - at the end of *that* resync and the end of the install (setting up grub) grub told me that it couldn't mount the partition, and when checking I discovered that the four IDE drives that were set up for software raid (and had been working fine through the rest of the install) had no partitions on them! Not the nicest thing to find at the end of 8 hours of messing with hardware and doing an install :) So MB recommendations for something that gentoo likes would be awsome, as well as any suggestions as to why I was having the strangness noted above would be awsome. Thanks guys! -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:09:09AM -0600, Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote: Hi; I've some issues with the latests gentoo-sources (including several freezes with heavy processor/IO load), and by searching in the mailing lists and in the forums (and the bug database), it seems that the better solution is to make the move to 2.6.x. I'm currently using gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 (hand configured kernel, using more or less the same configuration since 2.4.20-something). The thing is, I use various modules and subsystems, and I need to know if they work in 2.6.x. These are: - NVidia binary drivers. They work ok in 2.6.x? I've an AGP GeForce4 MX 420. Work fine with my gf4ti4200 with 2.6.0 and the pre kernels. I'm not using it all the time due to not being able to resolve some of my mouse issues, but nvidia works dandy (you might need ~86 however). - LIRC. The lirc_gpio module works in 2.6.x? - V4L/bttv. The latest driver (0.9.12) works OK with 2.6.x? No idea, sorry. Besides that, I have several other questions. I know that devfs will be changed to something else in the near future. Should I worry? I need to make a special change? Only issue with this is you have to remember to put in /dev/pts. You don't need this with the 2.4 kernels as it's integrated in with devfs, but in 2.6 it was taken out. What about NTPL? Should I use them? Not sure about this, check the forums as there are some people in there talking about it. I don't think it's needed anyway. If someone has made the switch from 2.4 to 2.6, and has similar/the same hardware as I, please post your comments about it. I have a very similar system and would be using 2.6 if I could deal with my mouse issues. In short, I have a logitech mx700 and after I got the mouse speed problems fixed (moving from 2.4 to 2.6 sped the mouse up about 100x :) I found that the buttons and scroll wheel stopped working properly. I hear it's due to that mouse using a new protocol (ps2 plus) which isn't supported by default in XFree86 (yet, there is a patch out there). Of the binary drivers I use, nvidia worked fine, nforce-net didn't work at all, and I couldn't get vmware going, but I have seen reports of it working if you check the archives and google. Other than that everything worked just dandy. I was using the ck and ac kernels before, so they had some of the preemptive patches already and I didn't notice any huge speed increase, but I didn't use it long enough for real use. I have 2.6 running on my apache server for the SATA drivers and it's rolling along just fine. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sergey Berezka wrote: I have Athlon XP+ 1800 CPU. I type flags : -march=athlon-xp -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer in the make.conf. Now, when i compile any program , all the time line : unrecognized option '-03' shows up. What is the problem ? As mentioned by others, it's letter O not number 0. As an aside though, I've heard that -O2 works better than -O3, produces faster/better code. Search for it in the forums or google, I don't remember where I saw it right now. One of the cases where over-optimization doesn't help. I think it might have been a comparision of adding cflags and testing the results of each. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea? I've heard good things about ipcop(.org), which is a firewall distro. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 to 2.6 migration
I have a very similar system and would be using 2.6 if I could deal with my mouse issues. In short, I have a logitech mx700 and after I got the mouse speed problems fixed (moving from 2.4 to 2.6 sped the mouse up about 100x :) I found that the buttons and scroll wheel stopped working properly. I hear it's due to that mouse using a new protocol (ps2 plus) which isn't supported by default in XFree86 (yet, there is a patch out there). That sucks. I have the mx300, and it works fine. I can even toggle the mouse resolution from 400dpi to 800dpi using a program called logitech_applet. Odd... how many buttons do you have? Part of it for me might be that my mouse running through a ps/2 KVM. I can make it run ok as far as motion, but my scroll wheel puts the cursor up in the top right of the screen, as do the cruise control, back/forward, etc buttons. Under 2.4 scroll wheel and cruise control work with no changes to the xf86config file. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR - comments
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:57:47PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was running the xine-bugreport program and it correctly pointed out that my kernel doesn't have MTRR Support built in. I've never bothered with this before. Is it worth adding? Athlon XP 2600+ Gentoo Sources 2.4.22-r2 AGP 4X adapter Asus A7V333-X motherboard Shouldn't matter much, other than to allow the programs to run. Nvidia drivers require it as well. *shrug* -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition size recommendations
And for a server: /boot 32MB / 5GB should be enough, but obviously it depends /tmp 100MB /var 1GB + whatever space the services you run require /home lots if it's a /home server, packed in with / if it isn't Good suggestions I'm going through this right now in preparation to redo a server I have. The thing that I'm struggling with is RAID. I have 4xIDE drives (and a separate SCSI for /home) and I'd like to set it up like you have, but that would mean partitioning each drive into 5 and then raiding hda4, hdb4, hdc4, hdd4 into an array for /var, hd[abcd]3 for /tmp, hd[abcd]2 for /, etc. This is fine, but if I lose one drive I now have three (or however many) RAID arrays running in degraded mode. I've always been under the impression that it makes more sense to RAID on a disk basis (ie: each drive has one partition that is part of a raid array, not multiple partitions part of multiple raid arrays) to cut down on the chances of something going wrong. Of course, if you have one raid partition only (ie: a really big / consisting of 4 drives) if one goes you're in the same spot. See what I mean? :) Any suggestions welcome. I've asked on the list before but I'm always looking for other options! alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: burning a CD with CCD, CUE, IMG, and SUB
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:21:13PM +0100, Dennis Freise wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:32:46 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to find FireBurner (via the forums) which allowed me to write a CD from the .CCD, but I don't think it worked correctly because the CD won't mount. Okay, in that case you really need the subchannels, because FireBurner does exactly what I suggested (burn the .img without the .sub). As Miklos said, you're now out of options. Sorry. Actually I've heard that cloneCD will work under wine quite nicely. I haven't tried it myself, just heard it around the net. You might want to give that a shot before giving up :) (assuming you don't have a windows box/partition to burn it on). alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[gentoo-user] hard drive testing advice requested
I just got a drive bumped out of one of my RAID5 arrays with the
following error:
hdf: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdf: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=70031146,
sector=28995464
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:44 (hdf), sector 28995464
I'd normally put it up to bad hardware or a dying drive as this is
usually the cause, but this is a brand new from the manufacture so I'm a
bit wary. Also the drive that was on here before failed in a similar
fashion.
I'm about to put gentoo on this box and I want to make sure that these
problems don't follow me. Is there some way to test the drive?
I was thinking that
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512
might do it, but any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive testing advice requested
I just got a drive bumped out of one of my RAID5 arrays with the
following error:
hdf: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdf: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=70031146,
sector=28995464
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:44 (hdf), sector 28995464
[..]
There is an option in the kernel:
Use multi-mode by default (IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE)
If you get this error, try to say Y here:
hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Have you tried setting this and recompiling the kernel?
That is already set. This error appears DMA related and not the
multimode :( Or so I'd think if it wasn't a brand new drive of
course...
alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:26:05PM +, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 15 Jan 2004 19:46, gabriel wrote: On January 15, 2004 04:06 pm, Aleksandr wrote: As KDE 3.1.5 was released and appeared in stable, i want to upgrade my 3.1.4 KDE. But I want to be able to use my computer's GUI during upgrade process. I've already fetched all the required tarballs (emerge -uf kde) to speed up things. I have always upgraded KDE in konsole, with KDE running. This is Gentoo and that works fine (I wouldn't do it with any other distibution). Actually it's a linux thing (not locking filehandles) and works just as well in debian, redhat, etc :) I've never had a problem doing upgrades on the fly. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie portage question -- don't want X progs
I'm setting up a web/dns/mail server as my first try at gentoo, and everything was going along pretty well as I installed bind and apache and a few other basic packages with 'emerge -k package_name', until I decided to try to install mod_php. Now, granted I didn't verify that this was exactly what I wanted, but I think it is. I'm just looking for the php plug-in to Apache. But anyway, I didn't do the --pretend switch on emerge to see what kind of dependencies it'd pick up and was rather surprised when it started pulling all of the xfree86 libraries and a few other things. Needless to say, as this is a server, I'd rather not even have X, or anything that's only needed by X, installed. Waste of space, etc. Is there any way I can set a USE flag in make.conf that's like a don't-install-any-X-stuff flag? The USE flags as I understand them are kind of the opposite of that. They say, 'install this capability for every package you build that can', but I want to avoid installing any packages that either require X or are X-related. Funnily enough, add -X into your list of use flags for this. However, php seems to really like having X for some of it's plugins and font processing. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome MPEG movie player - How do I replace my Video Card and update Gentoo
Hello, Thanks for the suggestion. On another slightly related matter I wish to replace the video card in my computer. The current one is quite old. Is it a simple update procedure under Gentoo? Can anyone give me any pointers Thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome MPEG movie player begin quote On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:43:46 +1000 Alan Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - Can anyone suggest an MPEG movie player that runs under Gnome or X? totem is a good one for Gnome (works with the xine libraries for backend) plays most things around mplayer is otherwise rocking... ;) vlc has some good things for it too. though the interface.. erm.. sucks. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost; connection refused
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:04:56PM +, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 January 2004 17:41, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello list, On a recent installation of gentoo, the command telnet localhost returns Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: unable to connect to remote host: connection refused This problem seems to be pertinent to another problem I am having in configuring sendmail. Nope, the error you're getting is a good thing, and nothing to do with sendmail. All it means is you don't have a telnet daemon running. Telnet is evil, at least the server, the protocol is quite useful (or you can use netcat). Anyway, if you're looking at testing sendmail you have to telnet to the specific port that it's listening on, in this case, 25. So for you running: telnet localhost 25 Would let you know if sendmail is listening or not. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:37:53PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:48:38 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm looking for a decent PCI IDE RAID card that can do hardware RAID 0 | and/or 1 under Linux. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks. If you *really* want 'IDE RAID', you have to get a 3ware. The promise and highpoint drivers are just silly software hacks. On the other hand, in-kernel md raid is faster for IDE anyway, and doesn't lock you in to a specific vendor. With the kernel software RAID, what would I need to do in order to move an existing system over to the RAID? I have 2 identical 120GB HD's. The second is just backup. I have a script that runs every night and rsync's from HD1 to HD2. I want to move to RAID-1 with minimal system downtime as this is a production server. If you want to move to raid 1 from a single disk there's a bit of a procedure to go through. Hopefully others can add onto this for me, as I've never done it myself (completely anyway). First of all, check the howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.6 It has one way to do it (redhat specific, but should give you some good pointers that are compatible with gentoo and a liveCD :) Basically what you'll do is set up *one* of the two disks for raid, setting the other as 'failed-disk' in the raidtab. Start up the raid and it'll be running in degraded mode (1/2 disks available). At this point you can copy data across from your real disk. Setup grub or lilo so that your system will boot from /dev/md0 instead of /dev/hda1, then change your fstab to match up. Then you can reboot (I think) and because raid1 is redundant you can leave your old hard drive alone without having to nuke it as you would if you were going to raid5 or raid0. Once things are set up properly and working from the raid disk, you can set the old disk to be integrated into the raid array and then hot-add it in, let it resync (mirror the data) and you're golden. Disclaimer: I haven't done this, never tried it, and quite possibly missed some very important step, so don't hold me responsible for things totally screwing up and destroying everything :) Backup first, etc etc. However, the gist of what is above *should* work :) -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:33:46PM +, Richard Revis wrote: I have upgraded from 2.4.19 to 2.4.22-r4 on one machine and 2.6.1 on another. In both cases hdparm returns this: elrsr-0 root # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Looks like your Hard Drive might not support DMA. Is it an older drive? -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome MPEG movie player
Hi - Can anyone suggest an MPEG movie player that runs under Gnome or X? Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] proftpd will not work!
Hello,
Can anyone give me any idea why proftpd gives the following error when I try to
connect? I initially thought it was
because there was some form of LDAP or SSL error. So I emerged the package again without either
by using USE=-ldap -ssl
before running emerge proftpd.
I checked the configurations file in /etc/proftpd and can't see anything particularly unusual. But then again I don't really know what I'm
doing :). Any help would be gratefully
appreciated.
Alan
error message follows:
Connected to 192.168.1.57.
Error loading /etc/ssl/certs/ftpd.pem:
2058:error:02001002:system library:fopen:
No such file or directory:bss_file.c:245:fopen('/etc/ssl/certs/ftpd.pem','r')
2058:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:247:
2058:error:140AD002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file:system lib:ssl_rsa
.c:515:
ftpd: SSLeay initialisation
failed
User (192.168.1.57:(none)):
alan
Connection closed by remote host.
[gentoo-user] System package listing
Is there a command that can tell me what packages / applications are listed on my system? Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer issue in 2.6.1
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:39:01PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hello everybody! I decided to give a try to the new 2.6.1 kernel. It was released as stable just a few days ago. emerge what-exactly? I was going to try this out this weekend. Kernel 2.6.1 can probably be grabbed via emerge development-sources -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] unmerging packages
I am a bit unsure of the correct command to unmerge. I want to remove proftpd from my system. Can anyone give me a pointer. I am just a bit unsure because the man page is very specific in giving warnings about what could go wrong. Many thanks, Alan
[gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?
Either this weekend or next I'm going to be moving my main server from debian unstable to gentoo stable. My reasoning is pretty simple. I've had more problems with debian unstable lately than gentoo stable (which I run on my personal webserver), nicer control of things via cflags and such, and gentoo provides a nicer mix between current/secure/stable than debian seems to. I'm looking forward to a stage 1 install on a nice dual CPU box (though in the interests of time I may just do a stage 3:) Anyway, I'm setting up a checklist in my mind and trying to figure out what I need to do and set up and back up before the move, if there's something I've forgotten. The box is a web/db/jabber/mail system with some user accounts. Anyway, this is what I'm thinking so far. - don't screw up /home (separate disk), unplug before upgrading just to be sure - backup: * jabber home dir (for the spool files, I'll install the gentoo jabber ebuild * /usr/local/sbin scripts * /usr/local/ files to sort through later * /etc to copy passwd/shadow/group over to retain user perms * apache config * php.ini * mysql binary data dir * postgresql binary data dir * /root * random cgi files in /usr/lib/cgi that might there - dump mysql/postgresql to sql files for import/backup - dump dpkg currently installed packages - list whatever has been installed via cpan from the command line - copy across rdiff-backup backups directory so I don't have to upload multi-megabytes next time my home box does it's backup - anything else obvious I'm missing? The next thing would be the actual set up of the system. I'd like it to be a pretty failsafe box, I've had mucho bad hardware karma lately, so I want the set up of the drives filesystems to be as rock solid as I can get them. I currently have: - 3x18G SCSI drives (intended for sw RAID5 on /home) - 4x40G IDE drives (intended for the rest of the system) What would be the best set up as far as drives go? Raid5? Raid 1+0? Raid 0+1? I currently have each disk split into four parts, one that's for / (with the other three synced each night so that they can be booted off of if the main hda1 goes), a swap partition, and two partitions for part of a raid array (md0 = hda3 hdb3 hde3 md1 = hda4 hdb4 hde4). I'm not sure if this makes any sense now though, when I originally set it up I was new to raid you see. The rest of the box is a dual 1.13Ghz PIII with 2G ram. Thanks! alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?
okay, i setup this one from my own dev-box when I was doing a lot of reinstalls on my only machine that then did everything from serving to compiletesting things. However, it might be at least somewhat relevant and something to start with: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/migration-guide.html copying passwd, shadow group verbatim is a bad idea, i'd suggest using vipw to just copy the relevant lines instead of it all, since the core system things may differ. Very cool info spider, thanks a lot! as for the raid , here's a pretty good guide that I fall back to whenever I feel mixed up about it : http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multXY-c.html More info to read through :) My current setup (with disks with multiple partitions belonging to different raid arrays) helped to save my butt a couple of times when I had filesystem or raid curruption. Even though hde4 was bad, and knocked out my md1 (and something in the filesystem messed up and nuked it), I could still use md0 which had hde3 as part of it. My concern is going to a more sane seeming method of each disk having only one partition for a raid array is that I'd lose this little extra barrier of protection. Of course, as others would say, you don't run a system on known bad harddrives :) One other question about the system set up (not so much the RAID setup) is how to best configure partitions. On my home system I have one drive with hda1 being 10m for /boot, a small swap partition, and the rest for / and /usr and /var. I guess having a big-ass 4disk RAID-N array (5 or 10 or 01 or whatever is best) created from disks partitions as such: hda1 = 10m /boot hda2 = 500m swap hda3 = raid autodetect hdb1 = 10m /boot mirror hdb3 = 500m swap (striping swap is fun) hdb3 = raid autodetect and so on would be a sane setup? It's a bit hokey looking to me somehow, but I can't say why. Maybe I should ask people to post their production server with raid partitioning setups? :) How is gentoo.org partitioned and set up gentoo devs? alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] moving from debian to gentoo - setup and what have I forgotten?
- list whatever has been installed via cpan from the command line - copy across rdiff-backup backups directory so I don't have to upload multi-megabytes next time my home box does it's backup - anything else obvious I'm missing? I always save either /usr/src/linux/.config, or sometimes the kernel itself and /lib/modules/2.4.../. Oh, and maybe /boot/grub/grub.conf - if you have one. Kernel config! Thanks! Didn't know CPAN could list the stuff you've installed with it. Cool! Don't think it can be. I was thinking more of going through my site_perl directory with ls :) I'm really interested in others' opinions on this one, as well. I used Raid 5 with three SCSI disks for a while, but when one of my disks crashed, I lost the whole thing. Somehow it got confused and thought that the one bad drive was the only one left that was good, and it managed to trash the filesystem somehow. Spider has some good suggestions in his reply. I have had similar strangeness with disks being knocked out and then errors coming from other disks, but I've sort of gotten it to a state where it's stable enough I won't worry about it much because the co-lo is a fair drive away, and I'd rather not spend too much time on the road. That's partly what this rebuild is all about, getting rid of any crap, taking the time to test the drives one by one, and so on. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote:
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without
reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
The only situation that I've seen was in were the gcc/libc updates in
the 1.1-1.2 and 1.2-1.3/1.4 era of gentoo. Basically because of the
binary incompatibility of gcc 3.n to 3.n+1 (3.1 to 3.2 maybe, don't
remember exactly) it was a PITA to do an upgrade, because you had to
update your entire system from the ground up, and if something went
wrong you were hooped, so most (myself included) seemed to think that a
re-install with the newer and more forwards compatible version of gentoo
(and gcc) was the way to go. There's nothing to say that this won't
happen again.
As another poster has said the devs do their best, and regular updates
are going to do you fine in the foreseeable future!
alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] this is so much fun
Doesn't it seem like you find something the minute you ask the question in a public forum? I do that all the time... Quick tip: qpkg -l package will show you where the installed files are. I use that when I emerge something and have no clue what to run to execute it :) alan On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:04:20PM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: Ack! Nevermind. Sorry, I should look a little more carefully before I post. sheepish grin b Ben Munat wrote: Ok... where does portage put apps that I emerge? Like mozilla firebird? It's not on my path and doing a locate on firebird, all I find are the /usr/portage, /var/db and /var/cache files. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:37:00AM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running 'mondoarchive' a number of times without success. I'm running it from the live filesystem. The first time it bombed out saying something about /etc/lilo.conf not existing. I use grub, so I just did 'touch /etc/lilo.conf'. It allowed it to get past that part, but then it died while running mindi saying that it Failed to generate boot+data disks. When I run mindi manually, I see lots of errors about not being able to create temp files. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I think I have solved this particular issue. It uses vfat (WTF?!) to create the temp images for the mindi bootable disks/CD. My system, being a production web/db/mail server had no need for vfat in the kernel. I compiled it as a module and loaded it and it seems to be working better now. Yea, the boot disk format is vfat... Odd that it didn't pick this up in the initial sanity check. Normally on my system it will bail out when first starting and tell me there is no vfat support. Odd. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2004.0 -- Testers needed
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:50:58AM +0100, Benjamin Judas wrote: The upcoming release of Gentoo-Linux 2004.0 needs testers as soon as possible. The following parts have to be tested: + The Live-CD and installing via Live-CD + The stages and installation from those + stage3 + GRP Installation Just out of interest, what is new in the 2004 release? Revolutionary or evolutionary? :) I don't have spare PCs, but if vmware hosts work, I can definately help out. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/pts what is it?
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:47:55PM +0100, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: When booting I get an errormessage from modprobe /dev/pts not available or something like that. I have no idea what /dev/pts is for or which module this requires. Any ideas? I'm not sure exactly what it is, but if you're using kernel 2.6 you'll need to enable /dev/pts under filesystems. On 2.4 kernels you don't. HTH alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing mondo-rescue
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:43:44AM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Martin LORANG wrote: Hi group, I'm looking for a good backup/restore system. I'll test mondo-rescue. if I do emerge -pv mondo-rescue I get the following : These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-arch/lzop-1.01 [ebuild N] app-arch/afio-2.4.7 [ebuild N] sys-fs/mtools-3.9.8-r1 [ebuild N] sys-boot/syslinux-2.05 [ebuild N] sys-apps/mindi-kernel-1.0 [ebuild N] sys-fs/dosfstools-2.8-r3 [ebuild N] sys-boot/lilo-22.5.1 [ebuild N] sys-apps/mindi-0.86 [ebuild N] sys-libs/slang-1.4.9 -cjk [ebuild N] dev-libs/newt-0.50.35-r2 [ebuild N] sys-apps/mondo-rescue-1.65 My bootloader is grub. What is the reason for installing lilo ? may be for boot disk/cd/dvd ? Will that mess up my grub ? I don't know what the reason for installing lilo is, but it will not interfere with grub unless you create a lilo.conf and run lilo. mondo has the ability built in to create boot CDs using either grub or lilo, so this gets lilo installed so it can be used if it's needed. Not a big deal. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?
The reason for this happen is that the ebuild that is in the system (0.74) is no longer in portage (check /usr/portage/net-im/gaim to confirm this), so emerge doesn't see it as a valid version number for the -U option. Go in and emerge 0.74-rN (or whatever the current version is) and then you -U will work. On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:58:34AM +0200, Alex V. Koval wrote: Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u --upgradeonly world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] My emerge version: * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.0.49-r15 Latest version installed: 2.0.49-r15 Size of downloaded files: 230 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system Thanks. -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File list from package?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:24:02PM -0500, Michael Balamuth wrote: Hello List, Being a newbie to gentoo, I'd like to know if there is a simple way to extract the file list and file destinations for a package like one can do in debian? emerge gentoolkit qpkg -L package -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] proftpd errors on log-in and /etc/init.d/proftpd stop
Hi - I ran emerge proftpd in order to get an ftp server running on my
machine. I used the standard configuration file to create
/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf. I can start the daemon with /etc/init.d/proftpd
start. When I try and log in I get
Connected to 192.168.1.4
Error loading /etc/ssl/certs/ftpd.pem: 10181:error:02001002:system
library:fopen
:No such file or
directory:bss_file.c:245:fopen('/etc/ssl/certs/ftpd.pem','r')
10181:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:247:
User (192.168.1.4:(none)): anonymous
10181:error:140AD002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file:system
lib:ssl_rs
a.c:515:
Login failed.
ftp
I then tried to stop the daemon with /etc/init.d/proftpd stop but it will
not stop. I get [!!] instead of [ok]. restart does no work either. Can
anyone offer advice?
Thanks,
Alan
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[gentoo-user] logitech mx700 buttons and the 2.6 kernel
Hey guys. Trying to get things working in the 2.6 kernel for me and I've come across another roadblock, this time to do with the mouse. It's not the speed, but the fact that my scroll wheel and extra buttons on the mx700 from logitech don't work anymore. Clicking any of the extra buttons or moving the scroll wheel results in the mouse moving off to the right hand side of the screen. Can anyone help? The mouse is attached via the ps/2 port (I'd use the USB but I have a ps/2 KVM) and I'm using kernel 2.6.0-test11. The XF86Config file looks like this: Section InputDevice Identifier Logitech MX700 Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ProtocolExplorerPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons false Option Buttons 7 Option ZAxisMapping6 7 EndSection I found a bit of information here and there and it looks like code for the extra buttons and the higher DPI are in the kernel (drivers/mouse/*), but I can't convince X (4.3.0-r3, stable x86) to use it properly. It detects it and I can move the pointer around, but the buttons/scroll wheel don't work :( TIA alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problems
Hi - Thanks for the reply. Yes I can print a test page from http://localhot:631 with no problem. Actually I fixed it...! I had installed a printer twice looking at /dev/lp0. Deleting one fixed the problem. Thanks for the pointer. Alan - Original Message - From: Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problems Alan Watson wrote: Hi - I installed CUPS and can print from Open Office OK but none of my other programmes seem to work OK. Specifically I want to print a Latex DVI file and when I issue the command dvips filename.dvi nothing happens. Also the lpr command does not seem to work. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Alan Can you print a test page from the web_interface? ie: http://localhost:631 -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management app suggestions?
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:53:56PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm looking for a Linux alternative to Fujifilm's Finepix photo management app. Does anyone have any suggestions? It should: - show a thumnail view for an entire folder - allow batch rename/rotate - let me edit the embedded metadata (I forgot what this is called...) Check out gthumb or gqview, both have the features you're looking for. I'm not sure what is available in the KDE world. Both nautilus, rox and konqueror show you thumbnails. Sadly there's nothing in the linux world that's in the realm of adobe photoshop album or the ms digial photo organization software yet though. I use both gthum and gqview and they both work quite well. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs AFS vs?
I got a CD with a linux journal of a 30 day trial for the MS unix tools. I played around with it a bit, but was frustrated that it seemed to be neither a nice pointy-clicky windows program and not a clone of the NFS unix client, but something in between. There were a bunch of web pages that let you change things (kinda) and some binaries that weren't named nicely like nfsd or nfs-client or something. I got frustrated quickly and gave up, and tossed the cd :) I just run both SMB and NFS from my fileserver, and the windows xfers are a bit slower alan On 11-Dec-03, at 4:35 PM, Rex Young wrote: Let me know what you find. Maybe it was just Win2K server that had it. Microsoft's Unix tools for Windows has it. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Printing Problems
Hi - I installed CUPS and can print from Open Office OK but none of my other programmes seem to work OK. Specifically I want to print a Latex DVI file and when I issue the command dvips filename.dvi nothing happens. Also the lpr command does not seem to work. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Belkin Wireless NIC Cards
Hi anyone - Are there any drivers / modules on Gentoo to support wireless Lan PCMCIA / PCI cards. I have a Belkin wireless network at home and it would be nice to be able to use the card. I apreciate it's only 10MBPS but it's enough for what I need. Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
3) The network card connecting to the cable modem will negotiating at 10baseT-HD or 10Mb half-duplex. The other nic on the internal lan will be running at 100baseTX-HD. Are there any any foreseen horrors with this type of setup (specifically downloading and file transfers going from a 10Mb to 100Mb and vicea-versa) or is this a pretty common scenario? I wouldn't bet my house on that, but I am quite sure that this isn't a proiblem. Linux (Kernel) will handle this... Linux handles this just fine :) Don't forget that one of the first things that Linux was developed for was networking, it wasn't an afterthought (like other OSs I could mention :) so pretty much any networking situation will be handled just fine! knock on wood alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:12:07PM -0600, rd wrote: Matthew -- I don't want to bust your bubble... but scanning 35mm slides is not something that should be done with $300 scanners. No if you want any kind of quality. It might be ok if you are just trying to build an index/thumb gallery of your pictures. To truly scan a slide into the computer, all of the docs that I have read say a minimum of 2000 dpi is required. This translates into a special purpose film/slide scanner (Nikon is one) in the range of $1500 to $1800. That's pretty much what I've heard. I have a cheaper ($250CND) HP that has the slide and negative scanner attachment for it (not a real negative scanner by any means) that works ok except for the tediousness of loading it that at high res can produce some nice scans, more than enough for a thumbnail gallery (scans up to 1200x1200 I think), but is still not professional grade. However, if what you're looking for is to get images into digital at a decent resolution to display online and do some photo manipulation, a set up like I have works fine, and the one you pointed to probably will be around the same quality as a normal scanner, just much easier to load and use :) Good luck though, please post what you end up doing, as I'd be interested in hearing what it's about. BTW, good to see I'm not the only person who prefers 35mm to digital (or at least I can replace my SLR with a digital rebel or *ist without needing to sell a kidney to pay for it :) alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:16:47AM -0500, Marshal Newrock wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Glenn English wrote: OK, this is a fun thread. So what plays the .ogg abcde just made for me? Ah. xmms. Or on command line, ogg123 is the basic player. mp3blaster will also play oggs. Rhythmbox and whatever the qt version of the linux version of itunes is called also are ogg friendly, as are most linux sound apps I've found. Now if only the hardware that supports ogg (rio karma, and the neuros) would come down in price :( alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HIGHLY interrestion sound tests, on various formats
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:28:45PM +0100, Christian Aust wrote: Redeeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 08.12.2003 14:12 Uhr: HMM, i just tested this again, but with another track, and it seems it depends extremely much on what track it is I've tried it on a 16 Minutes Audio file (176MB of 98 per cent funk [does anybody know the song? :-)]), the tar.bz2 was approx. 160MB. The corresponding MP3 file weights about 22MB. I guess, it really depends on the audio file. Best regards, That would make sense I think. Compression works by taking similar binary data and combining it togther. IE: a file of 5 letter a would compress much better than one of all different data (as I understand it anyway :) So if a song is repetative and has a lot of the same notes and elements (assuming that that translates into similar binary data anyway) it will compress via gzip or bzip much better. By this thinking, Britney Spears songs should compress down to about 2k :) *duck* alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] recommended SATA controllers
I'm looking to upgrade my fileserver with a couple or three SATA drives and a SATA controller (will upgrade the machine itself with a SATA enabled MB sometime next year I think). I'm wondering what people recommend for offboard SATA controllers. I've seen many posts on the forums that SATA raid from the silicon image chipset doesn't work, but I'm not worried so much about RAID (will probably use SW raid) as just having a stable set of hard drives available. Any suggestions for a cheap ($100) SATA card (raid or non-raid) that is compatible with linux? TIA alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] .bin/.cue -- .iso ?
eupdatedb works something like updatedb / locate does for the rest of the system, but only on the portage tree. esearch is a -far- faster implementation of emerge -S or emerge -s. (wonderfully so) /me makes a note to add eupdatedb into cron. Great and fast proggy, but if you forget to run the update you end up like me wondering why all the version numbers are off :) -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:44:04PM -, Paul Grenyer wrote: Hi All I'm new around here and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with a problem I have. I recently bought a Shuttle SN45G (http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=279), which has an North bridge - NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400, South bridge - MCP-T chip-set. I have tried a number of different Linux distributions, but most of them, including Debian 3.0, Slackware 9.1 and Gentoo 1.4 won't even boot from the installation cd. I've managed to install Mandrake 9.1, but that failed on first boot. I've installed Red Hat 9.0, but that refused to boot after the first day. I've also installed SuSE 8.1, but that was horrible to use and didn't appear to want to online update . As I said above I couldn't get Gentoo 1.4 to boot. I've also tried the latest Live CD, but that won't boot either. Has anyone managed to get Gentoo (or any other distribution) working correctly with my chipset? I went through this when I got my new MB as well :) Try passing pci=noacpi to the kernel on boot. Do a search on forums.gentoo.org for 'a7n8x' which also has the nforce2 chipset and caused a bunch of problems. Hopefully the stock gentoo-sources kernel will update to 2.4.22+ which has support for that chipset. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:45:50AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Quoting David Gethings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;) In case you're wondering, you have to specify the --ogg option to make it completely Ogg-compatible. Here's my flac line: $ flac -V --ogg -8 -o something.flac something.wav -V verifies the conversion -8 gives maximum (lossless) compression -o names the output file When you say ogg-compatible do you mean that it'll be identified as an ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something Also, the Rio Karma http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220cat=53 has FLAC and Ogg Vorbis support. I saw this recently and have been lusting after it since then :) I just wish they were actually in the stores around me, as for something like this I really want to hold it in my hand and know that it *feels* right before I drop big $$ on it. Either that or the Cali[1] (for going to the gym). It doesn't have ogg or the huge hd, but is expandable up to 768mb and has an fm tuner, is solid state (not as many worries about dropping it) and is tiny. [1] http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=214cat=54 -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
When you say ogg-compatible do you mean that it'll be identified as an ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something I'm not really sure, actually. It just sounded like a Good Thing. I hear that with that enabled, you can rename stuff to something.ogg and have it still be FLAC inside. Don't know what the implications are, though. The website seems to indicate that you get extra overhead that's not really needed, but perhaps in the interests of compatibility... I'll have to play with this when I get home. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:30:18PM +0100, Arturo di Gioia wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: Now I'm in that situation: -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI controller, where the two SATA hds are actually attached. No standard ATA hds. RedHat 9: 'officially' supported, installs using the driver I downloaded from the Promise website. I'd like to install Gentoo on that PC My questions are: 2) Did anyone succeed in installing Gentoo on it, maybe using kernel 2.6 or the source code version of Promise driver (available 'as is' on their website)? Update: I compiled the source code driver on a running Gentoo box, and now I've got a nice ft3xx.o kernel module. I'll try to boot a Gentoo LiveCD on the new PC and to load the kernel module from a floppy disk. If it succeeds, I'll hope to have access to my RAID array. The problem could then be: once the system is installed, how can I make the kernel load that module at boot time? RH is able to do that. I googled a little and I found that I could load the module through initrd (which, if I'm right is a packed filesystem directly loaded by the bootloader with the kernel). I could check RH initrd and copy it. I'll try it as I'll have some time. Did anyone do something similar in the past to load some SCSI/RAID driver and has some hints for me? Does someone of you know about the existence of any tutorial/howto? I admit I still have to check the kernel-howto, maybe it has the answers I need. Under gentoo if you put the name (in this case ft3xx) in the /etc/modules.autoload file it will load on boot. Of course, as it depends on the module being under the /lib/modules/$kernelversion/ tree you may have to copy it there each time you recompile the kernel, but once it's there you should be fine. You just have to ensure that it's there for the initial reboot if your whole system is under the RAID. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec ATA 2 channel raid card? (or SATA card?)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:00:15AM +, Senectus - wrote: Does anyone know if the 1200A Adaptec ATA 2channel Raid controller card will work under linux/gentoo ?? Funnily enough I'm just researching the 1210 card, and am wondering the same thing for SATA raid. TIA. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [ot] hardware/setup recommendations for a reliable server
Hi folks, sorry for the way OT post but hopefully the brainpower here will help. I run a server on the net, used by a fair number of people for shell, mail, web, dns etc etc etc. On sunday part of my IDE raid config blew up and even though the raid recovered, the filesystem was hooped, so I lost /var, and then last night (tuesday) the reliable scsi disk holding /home that's been working perfectly blew up with odd errors (still hoping it can be recovered, but not holding my breath). Anyway, in light of this I'm wondering two things. Why is my hardware karma so bloody bad? and how can I make it so my sunday is never spent in the data-center again? What do people recommend for hardware, hard drive in particular (have a server class MB and dual P3s, ECC ram, good SCSI card (though no raid) in there now)? Right now the OS (debian, moving to gentoo when I have the chance) takes about 20G or so, with /home about 40. Things I'm thinking about: - hardware raid or software - should raid be set up on a disk or partition basis. Right now I have 4x40G IDE drives (3 in sw raid5 one spare) partitioned each with 4 partitions (500/500/20/19). The first is / and each night / is rsynced to each of the other three drives as a backup, the second is swap, the third is part of the first raid array (/usr) and the forth part of the second raid array (/var). This was set up when I was first learning about raid, so it is probably not optimal. I'd almost think that having one partition each (or two one for swap) would be less hassle, but I've had my butt saved a couple of times by errors on one partition of one drive only affecting (and nuking) one raid array instead of both. - partition setup - raid for everything, including / or just for /home, /var, /usr and the like - backups/mirroring? Right now I backup selected important dirs (/var/lib/mysql, /etc, etc) via rdiff-backup to two remote servers and locally, which saved my butt on sunday. Should I have a spare drive to mirror all of /home onto as well? - RAID1 or RAID5 or rsync? The current server specs are: - 2xp3-1.13ghz - 2G ecc serer ram - 4x 40G IDE for /, /usr, /var, swap (off the shelf maxtors and WDs, probably the cause of a lot of my problems) - 1x 36G 15k SCSI cheeta or baracuda drive, no problems until last night for /home - 400-450w power supply - *lots* of fans :) Many thanks. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcdroast slow to start: solved
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:35:10AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 031128 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a couple of days ago, i got CD-writing working satisfactorily, having emerged xcdroast-0.98_alpha13 , stable for X86 . today, having done nothing special meanwhile except get sensors working, Xcdroast is very slow to start -- 1 m 30 s -- both as user as root; it's a real puzzle, as there's no CPU activity showing this box is fast. i had this problem on an earlier machine (Mandrake 9.0) have forgotten the explanation whether/how far it got fixed. generally, Xcdroast is a good enough front-end to Cdrecord etc before i try eg K3b as an alternative, can anyone suggest a solution ? sorry to reply to myself, but a medium-length visit to Forum gave an answer. the problem seems to be that if there's no CD in the drive, a probe is done to determine whether the drive is indeed RW, which takes a very long time. w a CD in the drive, Xcdroast starts at once. Sounds like a pretty silly issue, maybe throw a bug to the author? From what I've seen using windows burning software it does a quick check to see if there is nothing in the drive and puts in reasonable defaults for size and CDR speed, then resets them when it detects a CD in the drive. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice export to pdb
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:02:43PM +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: After upgrading my openoffice.org to 1.1_rc4 i can not export to palm pdb's. Does anyone know if this in a future version be back or do i need to find another program for exporting to pdb's. I'm using this feature a lot. Do you need pdb format or can you export to vCard/vCalendar? -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[gentoo-user] Logging into Telstra Bigpong Cable as rp-pppoe does not work
I am trying to connect to my cable providor in Australia who does not use rp-pppoe. I downloaded their Linux log-in client to install. This is a shell script called bpalogin-2.0-linux-2.4.bin. When I ran the script it created: /usr/sbin/bpalogin -- the executable /etc/bpalogin.conf -- for login information /etc/init.d/bpalogin [start|stop|restart] -- for starting and stopping the daemon /usr/share/doc/bpalogin-2-0 -- Document directory When I tried to run /etc/init.d/bpalogin start it errored asking: 1. How to source the function library. In the script it is set to look at . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions 2. Source the networking configuration. In the script it is set to look at . /etc/sysconfig/network At this stage I am assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that if I change the paths in the /etc/init.d/bpalogin file the programme will execute correctly. Be kind ...:) as I don't really know this stuff very well. The developer claims it should run on a 2.4 kernel (which I am). Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Logging into Telstra Bigpong Cable as rp-pppoe does not work
Hi Jason, I think you are right. The /etc/init.d./functions.sh seems to work. It's just the /etc/sysconfig.network error to get rid of now. I googled and understand your comments better and will create the file you suggest. Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Logging into Telstra Bigpong Cable as rp-pppoe does not work On Monday 24 November 2003 11:10, Alan Watson wrote: I am trying to connect to my cable providor in Australia who does not use rp-pppoe. I downloaded their Linux log-in client to install. This is a shell script called bpalogin-2.0-linux-2.4.bin. When I ran the script it created: /usr/sbin/bpalogin -- the executable /etc/bpalogin.conf -- for login information /etc/init.d/bpalogin [start|stop|restart] -- for starting and stopping the daemon /usr/share/doc/bpalogin-2-0 -- Document directory When I tried to run /etc/init.d/bpalogin start it errored asking: 1. How to source the function library. In the script it is set to look at . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions Changing this to /etc/init.d/functions.sh might work but I'm not sure. 2. Source the networking configuration. In the script it is set to look at . /etc/sysconfig/network This one's a little more tricky. Looks like the application was designed for RedHat or a derivative. I checked from Google and found that this file normally contains something similar to: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=yes HOSTNAME=deep. openna.com GATEWAY=0.0.0.0 GATEWAYDEV= What bpalogin probably wants to know about is GATEWAYDEV, but try putting all that (changing to your settings of course) into a file somewhere and point the initscript to it. If this works, great! If it doesn't, you should get more specific errors and we can go from there. ;-) Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adding eth1 as DHCPCD
Hi all, When I installed Gentoo I only configured eth0 to 192.168.1.4 although their are 2 cards in my PC. I now want to configure eth1 to come up at boot as DHCPCD so I can set the box up to Masquerade with iptables. Can anyone tell me how to do it. The net-setup script does not run. Where would I get it? Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rp-pppoe fails with adsl-setup
I ran adsl-setup and everything seemed to go OK. eth1 came up ok with dhcpcd. But when I ran adsl-start I got the error message: /usr/sbin/adsl-start: line 191: 2167 Terminated$CONNECT $@ /dev/null 21 Any help would be really appreciated. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Printing from OpenOffice with Cups
Hi, I have CUPS running OK as I can print when I issue a command line lp. But I can't get any output from OpenOffice. When I select Print the menu says Generic Printer. If I try and print with this I get nothing. Any help would be really appreciated. Would I need to install gimp-print or gnome-print? Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Installing Latex on Gentoo
Hi, I would like to install the Latex typesetting engine. When I run emerge -s latex the results only seem to show front end support. Is it included in a different package? Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:25:10PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I will only be doing text-based work on the smaller monitor. There is no reason for me to kill resources running X twice. I have a problem of not getting work done because there are DVDs I'd rather watch. This way, I can have a movie going on the big monitor and be getting my work done on the smaller done. As far as i understand it does not run x twice, rather it runs one instance of x, with a wider screen. I've only run it this way (via nvidia twinview, their version of xinerama), but I understand that it can be set up with a second X running if it's desired. No idea how to set it up though, I'm sure there's info in the web forums though. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cardreader and hotplug questions
I have hotplug set up to recognize my CF flash card reader properly, but it's not user friendly just yet. Right now when I want to use it I have to put the card in the reader, run /etc/init.d/hotplug restart, and it comes up fine. If I don't restart hotplug the dev/sda* devices don't show up. I have some of the auto-mounting scripts set up from the forums, but it doesn't work completely :) I think that hotplug is working when the reader is plugged into the usb slot, but I was hoping it would work (like windows) when the card itself was plugged in and out. Anyone got any setup advice for me here? I'd *like* to be able to simply put in the card and have it mounted, and unmount when I take it out (or have it always mounted but no files displaying maybe, not sure how it's supposed to work. Another oddity is that the mask of the files on the flash are 744, so under nautilus I cannot go into the DCIM directory (for the stored pictures), and have to do all my copying from a terminal. The mount line in /etc/fstab has noauto,users,mode=0755,ro as the options. TIA alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What Guest OS do you run on Vmware?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:03:23PM -0800, FX wrote:
question,
What guest OS('s) do you have running on your vmware?
Have you run into an OS that would not install on vmware?
What steps did you take that might of been different for an install?
I have run windowsxp, windows2000 and gentoo within vmware 4 under
linux. No differences in install, except choosing the right hardware,
and installing the vmware tools after a completed install.
the reason i ask is i ran mandrake version 9.1rc-1 on vmware and it
froze my gentoo box? I had no keyboard control, with flashing numlock
and caplock.
Sounds like a kernel issue maybe. I know that the 2.6 series isn't
completely vmware friendly yet. What kernel sources are you running?
Have you managed to get any different OSs to install (IE another
gentoo, bsd, or a windows* variant)? Also, at what point did it freeze.
It might have been something to do with the network or usb perhaps. Try
removing some of these options in the config to try to debug.
alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xnest GDM login from KDE
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:59:48PM +0100, Guy Van Sanden wrote: How can I get a GDM login using Xnest under KDE? Gnome has it in the menu options. I can do Xnest :1, but that only starts the server. I run gdmXnestchooser as root, and it allows me to choose my server, and then login and choose whatever session type I'd like. Give that a shot. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:19PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I pulled the following card from my PowerMac: pci bus 0x cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x4754 ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] CardVendor 0x card 0x STATUS0x0280 COMMAND 0x0080 CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x41 BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x08 APBASE0xda00 addr 0xda00 BLOCKIO 0xbc01 addr 0xbc00 REGBASE 0xdc00 addr 0xdc00 MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x08 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b Since I don't have the space to setup my Mac anymore, I'm stealing the video card from it to use in my x86 box for a dual-head setup. The problem is that whenever X tries to configure it, I get the error: (EE) ATI(0): Cannot read V_BIOS Does this mean that the card does not work or that it is just not compatible with anything other than a Mac? Based on what I have heard, mac and pc video cards aren't interchangable because the bios is mac or pc :( You have to flash the bios somehow. I'm sure there are tools out there, but like the other poster said, it's dangerous (or so I heard). Gotta love hardware huh? :) I was looking at buying a mac and figured I could just throw my older nvidia card in it to upgrade, but no. /rant alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cardreader and hotplug questions
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:27:01PM -0700, Derek Williams wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:09, Alan wrote: I think that hotplug is working when the reader is plugged into the usb slot, but I was hoping it would work (like windows) when the card itself was plugged in and out. Anyone got any setup advice for me here? I'd *like* to be able to simply put in the card and have it mounted, and unmount when I take it out (or have it always mounted but no files displaying maybe, not sure how it's supposed to work. Check to make sure you have support for hot pluggable devices compiled into the kernel, I had that problem with my ipaq. I could use it just fine but hotplug would not see it when I plugged it in until I enabled that option Yeap, it's there. Do you know if in the case of a cardreader it is supposed to be recognized when the reader is plugged in, or when the card is inserted into the reader? alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SLOW with Seti@home
When I ran TOP, I found a root session was running nano - at 50% CPU - continuously. This session would have survived at least 3 reboots. This system is behind my firewall and I have no reason to think it has been hacked.and why would nano be using 50% of the CPU anyway? I've seen vim do this as well occassionaly. Every once and a while an app will just start spinning and kill off your CPU with it. However, I highly doubt that it survived 3 reboots without being restarted somehow. After a reboot, running apps die, so if it was running again it was started somehow I'd think. Do I have a clue how? Nope, not one. Does it show up in a ps after a reboot? Or if you check periodically? alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
