Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and also the kernel.) What can the problem be? What is needed for softlevel= selection to work? According to Wolfram Schlich in bug 213988: softlevel= as a kernel parameter will be replaced by rc_runlevel= in OpenRC 0.2.2 and higher
[gentoo-user] Re: Supercookies
Andrew Lewman wrote: On 08/20/2009 10:09 AM, Ted Smith wrote: You don't lose most functionality by using free software. Not picking on Ted, but this whole thread is off-topic. Arguably, this is very much on-topic. We all know to disable active content when trying to maximize/optimize anonymity. But real world, there are situations when we need to visit sites sub optimally, and knowing how to deal with flash is increasingly an issue. FWIW, I've always wondered; given that gnash is open source, could there be a way to have both flash content and pretty-good anonymity.
[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
On 08/20/2009 05:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and also the kernel.) What can the problem be? What is needed for softlevel= selection to work? According to Wolfram Schlich in bug 213988: softlevel= as a kernel parameter will be replaced by rc_runlevel= in OpenRC 0.2.2 and higher Doesn't work either.
[gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60. First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version. Could anyone shed some light on this, please? One thing I can think of is to disable 3D effects, but they're working quite well and it's the same with *cough* Vista - they are the main reason for switching over from a previous version. TIA I had a similar problem on my laptop last time but I do not remember if it is a glibc problem or not. And my problem had gone after I rebuild the whole system using emerge -aeNv world. Hung
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart: === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error messages. === X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor any Xorg*.log contains glibc. ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Emacs is a great operating system, which only lacks a good editor. kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_konsole.so kded: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed klauncher: Exiting on signal 15 kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children. kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed kglobalaccel(5653) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::unregisterKey: Unregistering key Ctrl+F9 for kwin : Expose [ 40 more of them ] kglobalaccel(5653) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::unregisterKey: Unregistering key Ctrl+Alt+V for klipper : show_klipper_popup kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit4: Exit. Unexpected response from KInit (response = -1207865328). startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly. klauncher: Exiting on signal 15 klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed) ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed) drkonqi: cannot connect to X server :1.0 kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed kglobalaccel: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children. ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed) ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed) ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed) NepomukServer(5707)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit4: Exit. ~ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg? It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own internal copy of ffmpeg's libav*.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. I had Konsole-related crashes and other weirdness when I first switched to KDE4. It turned out to be related to fonts! I installed DejaVu fonts and used them for everything in KDE's font config, and in Konsole I'm using Fixed [ETL] size 10 (I'm not sure which package that came from, but I think it's one of the core Xorg fonts). It probably has nothing to do with your problem but I figured I would mention it just in case.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1
Anyway, thanks for helping. Did you try python-updater? Regards Roger
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. I had Konsole-related crashes and other weirdness when I first switched to KDE4. It turned out to be related to fonts! I installed DejaVu fonts and used them for everything in KDE's font config, and in Konsole I'm using Fixed [ETL] size 10 (I'm not sure which package that came from, but I think it's one of the core Xorg fonts). I, too, changed the font to a bitmap variant (terminus). But that didn't help; though crashes occured less, if my memory serves me correctly, they were still there. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Ladies fist, James Last. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg? It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own internal copy of ffmpeg's libav*. And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up playback of full HD video. This is quite popular in the Windows world (most Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt). There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around. But nothing for Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it. Bundled libs were always a pain in the bum...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg? It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own internal copy of ffmpeg's libav*. And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up playback of full HD video. This is quite popular in the Windows world (most Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt). There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around. But nothing for Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it. Bundled libs were always a pain in the bum... check out this site: http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mtlang=en He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent versions). Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though: http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart: === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error messages. === X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor any Xorg*.log contains glibc. ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much. startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... check your permissions - and make a rebuild of glibcco
[gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520
Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? I tried 'lspci', it gave me no clue regarding the above hardware and is as follow: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a40 (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a42 (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a43 (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2919 (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 03) 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) 0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01) 1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 10f7 (rev 01) 1a:00.1 Class 0805: O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 8120 (rev 01) 1a:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 8130 (rev 01) any help would be appreciated.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor any Xorg*.log contains glibc. ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much. startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... check your permissions - and make a rebuild of glibcco Which permissions do you mean in particular? It's a fresh install with a newly created test user acount. I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see what happens. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' The first time you’ll get a Microsoft product that doesn’t suck will be the day they start producing vacuum cleaners. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520
Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? I tried 'lspci', it gave me no clue regarding the above hardware and is as follow: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a40 (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a42 (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a43 (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2919 (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 03) 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) 0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01) 1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 10f7 (rev 01) 1a:00.1 Class 0805: O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 8120 (rev 01) 1a:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 8130 (rev 01) any help would be appreciated. Try the command lspci -v from the install CD and see what drivers the CD uses. That is assuming you can boot the CD and it works of course. If the output is to large, most likely it will be, try this: lspci -v | less . You can replace less with more if you prefer. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Yoav Luftyoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? Luckily, I think all of those (except for fingerprint reader -- no idea about that) are very generic kinds of devices. Bluetooth has its issues in Linux but drivers are not one of them. In a laptop it's probably a part of the wifi card, and you've probably got a button to turn bluetooth off and on. How to actually use the bluetooth is another story (I still haven't gotten it to work in KDE4). Basically enable the bluetooth stuff in kernel and emerge bluez... beyond that is very dependent on what you actually intend to use it for (wireless headphones? input devices? file transfer from cell phone? modem? etc) Your webcam most likely is UVC so you can use that driver (in v4l section of kernel config). Touchpad should work in X.org with x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics package, and there are Gnome KDE config programs for setting up all the features.
Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? I tried 'lspci', it gave me no clue regarding the above hardware and is as follow: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a40 (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a42 (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a43 (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2919 (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 03) 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) 0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01) 1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 10f7 (rev 01) 1a:00.1 Class 0805: O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 8120 (rev 01) 1a:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Unknown device 8130 (rev 01) any help would be appreciated. Try the command lspci -v from the install CD and see what drivers the CD uses. That is assuming you can boot the CD and it works of course. If the output is to large, most likely it will be, try this: lspci -v | less . You can replace less with more if you prefer. Or lspci -k which will tell you which kernel module is in use by each device. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see what happens. That's exactly the kind of problems I was having, and went away when I redefined all of the fonts in System Settings - Appearance - Fonts. I don't think it even matters which font you change it to, just that you change it to something. IIRC it had generic font family like Sans Serif instead of specific font names. FWIW. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor any Xorg*.log contains glibc. ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much. startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... check your permissions - and make a rebuild of glibcco Which permissions do you mean in particular? It's a fresh install with a newly created test user acount. I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see what happens. permissions of /tmp /var/tmp and the kde stuff in /usr/share. make sure that all of your system is build with the same compiler.
Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? I tried 'lspci', it gave me no clue regarding the above hardware and is as follow: SNIP any help would be appreciated. Try the command lspci -v from the install CD and see what drivers the CD uses. That is assuming you can boot the CD and it works of course. If the output is to large, most likely it will be, try this: lspci -v | less . You can replace less with more if you prefer. Or lspci -k which will tell you which kernel module is in use by each device. :) Heck with that, the output is MUCH shorter. -v can get pretty long sometimes. Dale makes a note of this in hope he won't forgetDale is not holding his breath tho;-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see what happens. That's exactly the kind of problems I was having, and went away when I redefined all of the fonts in System Settings - Appearance - Fonts. I don't think it even matters which font you change it to, just that you change it to something. IIRC it had generic font family like Sans Serif instead of specific font names. FWIW. :) I've only changed font sizes, not the families. Besides, kdelibs contained a gentoo patch changing the default to Dejavu, so they're all set to Dejavu already. I've changed them to courier new, and I got a crash, this time with context menu of the KDE4 notification icon (i). And lol - now I can't even open system settings anymore. Perhaps it's something with font rendering. Deleting .fonts.conf, I could open system settings again, but still I can't open a context menu without a crash. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' The manual said WindowsXP or better, so I installed GNU/Linux... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520
On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:44:10 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Yoav Luftyoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? Luckily, I think all of those (except for fingerprint reader -- no idea about that) are very generic kinds of devices. Thinkfinger deals with the fingerprint reader, the docs tell you which module to use. It's easy to set up and use, it's very hard to configure it *exactly* right - it always involves getting low down with PAM. For instance, I have one and it logs me in fine. But I run a local IMAP server for my mail (to use multiple mail clients) and dovecot uses PAM auth. Every minute when kmail checks the inbox, dovecot (pam actually) silently waits for a finger swipe. I reckoned it was much easier to unload the reader module and type a password once into a wallet than to deal with pam. Everyone I know has to re-learn everything about pam all over again every time they go near it... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot
beta ~ # mdadm --manage --stop /dev/md0 mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 beta ~ # mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sda1 has no superblock - assembly aborted beta ~ # mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sda has no superblock - assembly aborted beta ~ # mount /dev/evms/slash on / type xfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: Why am I here? But now we know the question is actually: Why is THAT THERE? -Me --- On Wed, 8/19/09, Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 4:17 PM On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Kevin Haddock kevinhadd...@yahoo.com wrote: beta ~ # /sbin/mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 mdadm: cannot get array info for /dev/md0 beta ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive dm-0[0](S) 104320 blocks super non-persistent If you have /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 in raid1, md0 : inactive dm-0[0](S) line is obviously wrong, it should be something like md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]. So, what's this dm-0 device? Prehaps you had sda/sdb linked via device mapper during boot? Try removing md0 (by --manage --stop) and re-assemble the raid, specifying the correct devices. Try to remove md0 and re-create it, specifying the right devices (or just /dev/sda1, then add sdb1). Alternatively, you can try --assemble --scan, maybe it'll just work now, then I guess something wrong should be happening during boot. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
[gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel doesn't support this card. What can I do?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
On Thursday 20 August 2009 21:19:02 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. I had Konsole-related crashes and other weirdness when I first switched to KDE4. It turned out to be related to fonts! I installed DejaVu fonts and used them for everything in KDE's font config, and in Konsole I'm using Fixed [ETL] size 10 (I'm not sure which package that came from, but I think it's one of the core Xorg fonts). I, too, changed the font to a bitmap variant (terminus). But that didn't help; though crashes occured less, if my memory serves me correctly, they were still there. I get occasional crashes with various odd KDE4 apps, like: Moving two bookmark folders around in Edit BookMarks is certain to crash. kmail crashes while doing deleting several mails on IMAP folders in quick succession. Kopete crashed regularly today while shuffling contacts around. I agree that emerge -e world is sure to sort it out but we won't find out the actual cure. We have three guys at least with this problem, so I suggest a trick: List the likely problematic packages (kdelibs, Qt, glibc, font stuff). Split the list up. When one of us hits a fix, the others can test it. With luck... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon: I get occasional crashes with various odd KDE4 apps, like: Moving two bookmark folders around in Edit BookMarks is certain to crash. kmail crashes while doing deleting several mails on IMAP folders in quick succession. Kopete crashed regularly today while shuffling contacts around. But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down as well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the short time I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' IBM - International Bubblegum Machines signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Simon Huntchesemonkyl...@gmail.com wrote: I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel doesn't support this card. What can I do? Try uvesafb, it is (sometimes) able to utilize more modes than the other framebuffers. The available resolutions are highly dependent on your video hardware, though. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
On 08/21/2009 12:37 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon: I get occasional crashes with various odd KDE4 apps, like: Moving two bookmark folders around in Edit BookMarks is certain to crash. kmail crashes while doing deleting several mails on IMAP folders in quick succession. Kopete crashed regularly today while shuffling contacts around. But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down as well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the short time I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago. Stupid question, but did you run revdep-rebuild?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down as well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the short time I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago. Stupid question, but did you run revdep-rebuild? Of course. I did before I started installing kde4, and also now, which only revealed some missing links for kde3 apps, because I had to remove kde3's bluetooth packages. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Windows: reboot. Linux: be root. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:06:15 +0200 Roger Cahn rc...@club-internet.fr wrote: Anyway, thanks for helping. Did you try python-updater? Regards Roger yes, this is what I wrote in my initial post (I just misspelled it -python-upgrade -)
Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
Simon Hunt wrote: I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel doesn't support this card. What can I do? Don't know the specifics of your hardware but I use vesa framebuffer which works fine for me (stationary pc, radeon 3870). However, for some reason, the radeon cards I have (all rv600+) do not seem to support the standard vga modes; I had to use a tool (vbetest from package lrmi) to find out the number to put into the kernel command line. I use vga=804 to achieve 1280x1...@24. Don't know if this will help but it can probably (don't know for sure) find the supported modes... HTH Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
Simon Hunt wrote: I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel doesn't support this card. What can I do? Oh, one more thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:40:07 Paul Hartman wrote: The available resolutions are highly dependent on your video hardware, though. And the BIOS. -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner
I have had both epiphany and firefox on my machine for quite a while,
but the latest stable of each are now incompatible.
Specifically they require incompatible versions of xulrunner.
Is there a reason why epiphany cannot use xulrunner-1.9-1?
thanks,
allan
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
net-libs/xulrunner:1.9
('ebuild', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.2-r1', 'merge') pulled in by
=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.2[java] required by ('ebuild', '/',
'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1', 'merge')
(and 2 more)
('installed', '/', 'net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.11-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by
=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0* required by ('installed', '/',
'www-client/epiphany-2.24.3-r10', 'nomerge')
(and 2 more)
[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up playback of full HD video. This is quite popular in the Windows world (most Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt). There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around. But nothing for Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it. Bundled libs were always a pain in the bum... check out this site: http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mtlang=en He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent versions). Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though: http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2 I rolled my own and it works very nicely :) If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed files: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up playback of full HD video. This is quite popular in the Windows world (most Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt). There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around. But nothing for Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it. Bundled libs were always a pain in the bum... check out this site: http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mtlang=en He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent versions). Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though: http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2 I rolled my own and it works very nicely :) If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed files: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154 I'll give it a try. Thanks!
[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [] I rolled my own and it works very nicely :) If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed files: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154 This worked fine on my core I7 (hardened) box. Thank You
Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner
=== On Thu, 08/20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ===
=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0* required by ('installed', '/',
'www-client/epiphany-2.24.3-r10', 'nomerge')
===
The latest version of epiphany is 2.26.3. try unmerging your epiphany
first.
-- Keith Dart
--
--
Keith Dart
ke...@dartworks.biz
===
[gentoo-user] How to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs
Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount command into the file /etc/conf.d/rc-extra, but it didnot work. Regards, Zhiwei
Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner
Keith Dart wrote:
=== On Thu, 08/20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ===
=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0* required by ('installed', '/',
'www-client/epiphany-2.24.3-r10', 'nomerge')
===
The latest version of epiphany is 2.26.3. try unmerging your epiphany
first.
-- Keith Dart
Not if your @stable.
I'm probably going to wait it out but I may re-compile epiphany using webkit if the slot conflict
pursues.
[gentoo-user] Re: How to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs
On 08/21/2009 08:20 AM, Song Zhiwei wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount command into the file /etc/conf.d/rc-extra, but it didnot work. Mount points are specified in /etc/fstab. I mount my /var/tmp/portage there with: none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs defaults 0 0 You can look-up the tmpfs mount options to specify the amount of RAM. Default is half the RAM in the system. With that being said, your system will break horribly if you mount /var as a tmpfs. /var is supposed to survive reboots.
Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner
=== On Fri, 08/21, Beau Henderson wrote: === Not if your @stable. === But firefox 3.5 is not marked stable. Then there is some mixup here. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===
