Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 01:33:22 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote
> 
> > Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing:
> > 
> > "Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as
> > modules. It is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the
> > use of alsaconf which is a boon when you want to configure your card."
> > 
> > I've added some options for my alsa modules in
> > 
> > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, e.g.:
> >   options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
> 
>   This is exasperating.  After re-building alsa sound support as kernel
> modules, rather than built into the kernel, I see some improvement.
> When I blow into the internal mic I hear it from the laptop speakers.
> With mic-boost turned up, I can hear myself echoing when I talk into the
> internal mic or into an external mic.  Turn up the boost high enough,
> and the external mic generates a mean high-ptched feedback squeal,
> unless I also plug in headphones.
> 
>   So the hardware is working now, *BUT I STILL CAN'T RECORD THE BLEEPING
> THING*.  When I try "ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp audio.wav" it thinks it's
> recording, but the output file is only hiss.   Ditto for the command
> "ffmpeg -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 audio.wav".
> 
>   I notice that I have a file named /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf but no
> alsa-base.conf file.  Should I rename it?

No, just create your alsa-base.conf and add the desired options in there.

From what you're saying the microphone works now - not sure why it won't 
record ... I'm not the best man to advise on recording because I have never 
tried it.
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Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
110220 Philip Webb wrote:
> 110220 Florian Philipp wrote:
>> Just change your cron job to look like
>> 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail'
> That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail,
> so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs.

Indeed it does: I tried delaying starting the I/net connection
& there is no 'dead.letter' file.  Thanks again.

PS the file is  /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid , not as above.

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[gentoo-user] ramdisk for lm_sensors and gimps

2011-02-20 Thread Andrey Vul
Does the current minimal install cd have a ramdisk driver so that i
can extract the stage3 tarball to it and emerge lm_sensors and gimps
onto it?
I want to make sure my OCed system won't cause bad compiles so I'm
going to gimps aka prime95 it for 48h :)
DDR1066's timings are a bit high at 200;1:2.66, so I'm going 960 MHz
to have both higher speed and less lag.
Sadly, POST starts to have issues at FSB=250MHz, so I've toned it down
to 230 MHz.
It's still above 200 MHz, so I want to be sure that both CPU and RAM are safe.

Also, if k10temp isn' t included on the cd, to which kernel version
should I compile it as a module*, or need I remaster with modified
kernel?

* and insert into the iso as /misc/k10temp.ko and insmod it as needed
--

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[gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-20 Thread James
James  tampabay.rr.com> writes:


> In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried:
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon"
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

Ok so dmeg says that drm failed. I edited the .config
file, using vi, to:
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="R700_rlc.bin"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/radeon"

Rebuilt the kernel (make && make modules_install)
and rebooted the latest kernel.

Now I get this error message in dmesg:

[drm] Loading RV710 Microcode
r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R700_rlc.bin"
[drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
radeon :01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration

so it's definitely a firmware loading malfunction.

Any guidance is appreciated.






Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:44:58 +
Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
> 
> > As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: 
> > 
> > KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY",
> > RUN+="/bin/mount -a"
> > 
> > and in /etc/fstab is:
> > 
> > /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
> 
> Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
> and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
> 
> Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
> 
> Either way, you should run the command with & because udev blocks
> while running commands.

You're suggesting that the RUN clause be

   RUN+="pmount /dev/PNY &"

right?




[gentoo-user] Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-20 Thread James
Ok,

so I have this card in pretty much equal AMD64 systems:
ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350].

One system is running ATI drivers and the video game
I use to test performance is bzflag; it runs just fine.

The second system had an ATI X1900 card but was replace
with an identical card as the system above (HD 4350).
I followed the gentoo guides on this migration from ATI
to Radeon driver, but could have muck things up.
BZflag runs so slow it get's about every frame. glxgears
has a score of 80 with the radeon driver and a kms
kernel.

When booting (drm RV710) microcode takes about a full minute
to load. Strangely long, but it boots and kde is fine. I turned
off nepomuk services. Both systems use hal, if that makes
any difference...

eselect mesa list
64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945)
64bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x)
64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
  [1]   classic *
  [2]   gallium
64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen)
  [1]   classic *
  [2]   gallium
64bit sw (Software renderer)
  [1]   classic
  [2]   gallium *
32bit i915 (Intel 915, 945)
  [1]   classic *
  [2]   gallium
32bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x)
  [1]   classic *
  [2]   gallium
32bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
  [1]   classic
  [2]   gallium *
32bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen)
  [1]   classic *
  [2]   gallium
32bit sw (Software renderer)
  [1]   classic
  [2]   gallium *


There is not xorg.conf file being used, so maybe
I need a minimal xorg.conf to get 3D acceleration
working?

Any benchmarks that run under both drivers that the 
sytems both have 2G or ram on dual processor; one
is 2.4GHz the other is 2.2GHz otherwise identical.

I think I munge up the /lib/radeon part of setting up
the kernel (kms) for loading the microcode, but, I cannot
seem to fine a url or thread where instructions are
for that (even though I did find it over a week ago
in another thread).

In the kernel, under the Generic section, I have:
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

Correct?

Ideas?


James




Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:03:24 +
Mick wrote:

> On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > > As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
> > > is: KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY",
> > > 
> > > RUN+="/bin/mount -a"
> > > 
> > > and in /etc/fstab is:
> > > /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
> > 
> > Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
> > and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
> > 
> > Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
> > 
> > Either way, you should run the command with & because udev blocks
> > while running commands.
> 
> To state the obvious ... have you tried it on a different USB port, a 
> different PC and finally a different OS?
> 
> I've had a USB stick failing recently and there was a mechanical
> (contact) problem.  So a process of elimination would at least do
> away with physical level problems and indirectly confirm if there is
> something wrong with your system.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick

The PNY stick mentioned runs very nicely on a machine at work.  The
environment there is Ubuntu (as guest OS) running in VMWare on
WinXP (as host OS).  Automounting works very nicely.

The slowness is true of several USB sticks. 



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Have you had a look at:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml

Yes. Got some info there.

> 
> Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in 
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

This was helpful.
> 
> 
[snip]
>>
>> In the past I used
>>
>> Option "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1"
> 
> Do you want this to work for your touchpad with the synaptics driver, or do 
> you want this to work with any physical buttons on the laptop, or even an 
> external (e.g. USB) mouse?

The latter.

> 
> If the former, then have a look at the NOTES at the end of the man synaptics 
> page, where it mentions button mapping.

man pages (evdev and xorg.conf) were really helpful.

> 
> For non tap buttons you can try setting this option in an InputClass section 
> in your xorg.conf for an InputClass device mouse:
> 
> Section "InputClass"
> Identifier  "mouse catchall"
> Driver  "evdev"
> MatchIsPointer "on"
> MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
> Option  "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1"
> EndSection

I tried the above for the Identifier "evdev pointer catchall" in the
xorg.conf file and both the usb mouse and trackpoint get their buttons
inverted as desired. However the touchpad buttons do not get inverted. I
am using xorg.conf.d/ with the synaptics file: 10-synaptics.conf

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "synaptics touchpad catchall"
 Driver "synaptics"
 Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
 Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true"
 Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
 Option "AutoServerLayout" "on"
EndSection

which apparently needs to be read before the keyboard conf: 30-keyboard.conf

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
 MatchIsKeyboard "on"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "evdev"
 Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
 Option "AutoSeverLayout" "on"
EndSection

otherwise my keyboard keybindings do not work. I have also tried the
pointer InputClass outside the xorg.conf file, that is, inside the
xorg.conf.d/ directory. As long as the 10-synaptics.conf file is read
first, the keyboard config works so do the usb mouse and trackpoint
(with inverted buttons). However so far I have not been able to get the
touchpad buttons to be inverted.

This is a minor thing I can deal with later.

Thanks,

--
Valmor



> 
>> which apparently does not work here. Last but not least, how do I get
>> the good old  ctrl-alt-backspace  keybinding to kill X?
> 
> You'll need to define this in the InputClass that deals with the keyboard:
> 
> Section "InputClass"
>Identifier  "keyboard catchall"
>Driver  "evdev"
>MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
>Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> EndSection
> 
> HTH.




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it
>> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and
>> wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no
>> wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config
>> utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down.
>> There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to
>> get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this.
> 
> The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not
> what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for
> you when X is unavailable.
> 
> If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need
> that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot.
> 
> 
Indeed, wicd-curses does the job.

Thanks,

--
Valmor



Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote
> Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing:
> 
> "Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as
> modules. It is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the
> use of alsaconf which is a boon when you want to configure your card."
> 
> I've added some options for my alsa modules in
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, e.g.:
> 
>   options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

  This is exasperating.  After re-building alsa sound support as kernel
modules, rather than built into the kernel, I see some improvement.
When I blow into the internal mic I hear it from the laptop speakers.
With mic-boost turned up, I can hear myself echoing when I talk into the
internal mic or into an external mic.  Turn up the boost high enough,
and the external mic generates a mean high-ptched feedback squeal,
unless I also plug in headphones.

  So the hardware is working now, *BUT I STILL CAN'T RECORD THE BLEEPING
THING*.  When I try "ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp audio.wav" it thinks it's
recording, but the output file is only hiss.   Ditto for the command
"ffmpeg -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 audio.wav".

  I notice that I have a file named /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf but no
alsa-base.conf file.  Should I rename it?

-- 
Walter Dnes 



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Dale

walt wrote:

On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:


Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I
lost my keyboard --


Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also
rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86-
video-whatever, synaptics, etc.

This is not obvious, so it's a very common problem.





I saved this when someone posted it.  I think it was in one of the news 
thingys too.


rebuild input drivers after xorg upgrade
emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/)

That may help.

Dale

:-)  :-)



[gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread walt

On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:


Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I
lost my keyboard --


Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also
rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86-
video-whatever, synaptics, etc.

This is not obvious, so it's a very common problem.




Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread William Kenworthy
"usb verbose debug" in the kernel? - check dmesg.  Mine are always slow
to mount if this is on.

BillK



On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:33 -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Mounting USB devices is very, very slow.  This morning I inserted my
> PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3
> minutes later at 10:21:05.
> 
> As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: 
> 
> KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", 
> RUN+="/bin/mount -a"
> 
> and in /etc/fstab is:
> 
> /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
> 
> The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
> the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).
> 
> Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
> recognition?
> 
> Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
> what's happening would also be helpful.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David
> 

-- 
William Kenworthy 
Home in Perth!




Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 18 February 2011 05:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Hi.  I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text
> console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm,
> the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether.  It works
> under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the monitor is OK, but
> I don't understand what happens when gdm starts.  I have
> Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give the
> same result.  Is my card going or what?
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Xorg.0.log would be very helpfull.




[gentoo-user] ipv6 privacy random addresses

2011-02-20 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Have activated the privacy extensions on a dual stack (native) ipv6
configuration. A random local address is generated for each boot (for
eth0). I'd like to be able to change it within a session.

ip -6 address flush dev eth0; followed by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart;
will generate a new random address ("global temporary dynamic") - but
one time only.

So the question becomes, how could I do this repeatedly within a session?

(ISTM there is a variable somewhere that limits the number of
regenerations allowed - perhaps that could be tweaked? Alternatively,
perhaps I could configure the /etc/conf.d/net script to assign a local
ipv6 net address using random numbers generated within the net script?
I'm a newbie, and would appreciate any corrections, flames and
especially examples)

TIA




Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Alex Schuster  wrote:
> > Mick writes:
> > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > Oh I see.  You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ?
> > > 
> > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version.
> > 
> > X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in
> > four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I
> > fear this will lead to trouble eventually.
> > 
> > I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with
> > it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just
> > give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does
> > not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X
> > since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when
> > X just worked.
> 
> Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I
> lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to
> get out.  Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure.  I have
> in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary
> testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel.
> 
> X stuff is sure quirky.

Yes, especially between versions!  ;-)

To get your keyboard/mouse back with version 1.7 you may need to set up those 
pesky .fdi files and of course you will need to make sure that hal is running.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread covici
Alex Schuster  wrote:

> Mick writes:
> 
> > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > Oh I see.  You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ?
> > 
> > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version.
> 
> X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in
> four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I
> fear this will lead to trouble eventually.
> 
> I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with
> it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just
> give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does
> not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X
> since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when
> X just worked.
Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I
lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to
get out.  Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure.  I have
in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary
testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel.

X stuff is sure quirky.


-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

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 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
110220 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb:
>> I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security.
>> Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs
>> before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection
>> which results in a file  ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted
>> Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script
>> which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron',
>> while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel.
> When dhcpcd runs, there should be the following files:
>   /var/run/dhcpcd.pid   <<-- not this one
>   /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid  <<-- yes
> Just change your cron job to look like
> 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail'

That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail,
so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs.
Thanks for all the suggestions, which I will add to my Linux notes.

-- 
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ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT`-O--O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca




Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
> > KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY",
> > 
> > RUN+="/bin/mount -a"
> > 
> > and in /etc/fstab is:
> > /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
> 
> Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
> and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.
> 
> Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.
> 
> Either way, you should run the command with & because udev blocks while
> running commands.

To state the obvious ... have you tried it on a different USB port, a 
different PC and finally a different OS?

I've had a USB stick failing recently and there was a mechanical (contact) 
problem.  So a process of elimination would at least do away with physical 
level problems and indirectly confirm if there is something wrong with your 
system.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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[gentoo-user] no emerge of emacs-vcs

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I haven't been able to emerge emacs-vcs for a while now.  I know there
was some trouble with renaming of the repo more than once but this
problem today looks different.

Looks like some other kind of change on the repo end.

Is anyone else noticing a problem building emacs-vcs?

Oh, and in the meantime, untill I get this straightened out, I've
forgotten how to tell gentoo that I will supply emacs-vcs. It used to
be done is one or another `pakage*' file.  Anyway, how would I tell
the OS that I will supply any emacs-vcs?

Emerge failure below:

>From emerge -v emacs-vcs:
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1
 * Package:app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1
 * Repository: gentoo
 * Maintainer: em...@gentoo.org
 * USE:X Xaw3d dbus elibc_glibc gif gpm gtk gzip-el jpeg kernel_linux 
motif png svg tiff toolkit-scroll-bars userland_GNU x86 xpm
 * FEATURES:   sandbox
>>> cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Checksum index is up-to-date ...
 * bzr.eclass uses branches instead of checkouts now.
 * Therefore, you may remove the old bzr checkout:
 * rm -rf /anex/portage/distfiles/bzr-src/emacs-trunk
>>> Unpacking source...
 * bzr pull start -->
 *repository: bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: 
"/anex/portage/distfiles/bzr-src/emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/".
 * ERROR: app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.0.-r1 failed:
 *   bzr.eclass: can't pull from bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
 * 
 * Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line   56:  Called src_unpack
 *   environment, line 3784:  Called bzr_src_unpack
 *   environment, line  794:  Called bzr_fetch
 *   environment, line  768:  Called bzr_update 
'bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk' 
'/anex/portage/distfiles/bzr-src/emacs/trunk'
 *   environment, line  811:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   ${EBZR_UPDATE_CMD} ${EBZR_OPTIONS} "${repo_uri}" || die "${EBZR}: 
can't pull from ${repo_uri}";

 [...]




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote:

> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it
> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and
> wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no
> wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config
> utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down.
> There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to
> get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this.

The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not
what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for
you when X is unavailable.

If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need
that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I distinctly remember forgetting that.


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Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote:

> As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: 
> 
> KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY",
> RUN+="/bin/mount -a"
> 
> and in /etc/fstab is:
> 
> /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0

Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount
and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a.

Even better use pmount /dev/PNY.

Either way, you should run the command with & because udev blocks while
running commands.


-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread Dale

David Relson wrote:

Mounting USB devices is very, very slow.  This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.

As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:

 KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", RUN+="/bin/mount 
-a"

and in /etc/fstab is:

 /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0

The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).

Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
recognition?

Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
what's happening would also be helpful.

TIA,

David

   


Just out of curiosity, have you tried it with no entry in fstab?  I 
don't have a entry for any of those in my fstab and it mounts in just a 
few seconds.


Just a thought.

Dale

:-)  :-)



[gentoo-user] Spammassassin: bd path?

2011-02-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi,

I want to use berkdb for bayes learning.

how can I tell spamd/spamassassin where to look for the bayes database?

Thank you very much for any help in advance!
Best regards
mcc





[gentoo-user] Re: flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread walt

On 02/20/2011 07:33 AM, David Relson wrote:

Mounting USB devices is very, very slow.  This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.

As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:

 KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", RUN+="/bin/mount 
-a"

and in /etc/fstab is:

 /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0

The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).


Looks like udev is creating the device immediately, as it should.  I'm
pretty fuzzy on how the automounting actually gets done, though.

I've noticed this puzzling situation on my own machines (which auto-mount
correctly, BTW):

 1929 ?Sl 0:04 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
 1930 ?S  0:01  \_ udisks-daemon: polling /dev/sdc /dev/sr0 /dev/sdd

And this as well:

 1647 ?S  0:02  \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 
2 sec)
 1648 ?S  0:00  \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (every 
2 sec)
 1650 ?S  0:00  \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdc (every 
2 sec)

So I have hal and udisks polling the same three removable drives at the same
time, but they don't seem to interfere with each other.

I'm using gnome with automounting enabled, so I'm pretty sure it's gnome that
automounts those three removable drives, possibly with gdu-notification-daemon,
which is part of the gnome-disk-utility package.  A whole lotta guessing going
on here :)




[gentoo-user] Re: net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd

2011-02-20 Thread walt

On 02/20/2011 05:22 AM, Johannes Geiss wrote:

Hi Gentoo-users,

I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3 portage tells 
me

You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with:
saslpasswd2 cyrus

But when I try to do this, I get the following error:

Password: [password]
Again (for verification): [same password]
saslpasswd2: generic failure

and the syslog says

Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter 
supplied
Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on 
sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb
Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: sql_select option missing


I'm wondering about that last sql error message.  I notice that the cyrus-sasl
package has USE flags for berkdb, mysql, postgres, and sqlite.  Do you have at
least one of those flags enabled?





Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes:

> On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> Oh I see.  You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ?
> 
> If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version.

X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in
four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I
fear this will lead to trouble eventually.

I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with
it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just
give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does
not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X
since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when
X just worked.

Wonko



[gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow.  This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.

As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: 

KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", 
RUN+="/bin/mount -a"

and in /etc/fstab is:

/dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0

The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).

Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
recognition?

Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
what's happening would also be helpful.

TIA,

David

Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: new high speed USB device using 
ehci_hcd and address 25
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=154b, 
idProduct=0016
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, 
Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: Product: USB 2.0 FD  
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: Manufacturer: PNY 
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: usb 1-4.1: SerialNumber: 6E821D1300DE
Feb 20 10:18:22 osage kernel: scsi26 : usb-storage 1-4.1:1.0
Feb 20 10:18:23 osage kernel: scsi 26:0:0:0: Direct-Access PNY  USB 2.0 
FD   PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Feb 20 10:18:23 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] 15663104 512-byte logical 
blocks: (8.01 GB/7.46 GiB)
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write 
through
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write 
through
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sdc: sdc1
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write 
through
Feb 20 10:18:24 osage kernel: sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Feb 20 10:18:38 osage usb_id[16872]: unable to access 
'/devices/pci:00/:00:13.5/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1:1.0/host25/target25:0:0/25:0:0:0/block/sdc'

Feb 20 10:20:01 osage cron[17659]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && 
/usr/sbin/run-crons )
Feb 20 10:20:01 osage cron[17660]: (health) CMD 
(/home/health/bin/system_health.py --log --graph > /dev/null 2>&1)
Feb 20 10:25:01 osage cron[18431]: (health) CMD 
(/home/health/bin/system_health.py --log --graph > /dev/null 2>&1)


Re: [gentoo-user] After updating openldap today slapd won't start

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 20 February 2011 13.25:31 Dan Johansson wrote:
> Today after updating openldap from 2.4.23 to 2.4.24, slapd will not start.
> 
> # /etc/init.d/slapd start
>  * Starting ldap-server ...   
>   
>   [ !! ]
> 
> and I get the following in the log:
> 
> Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 
> (Feb 20 2011 12:20:51) $
> Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: slapd stopped.
> Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: connections_destroy: nothing to 
> destroy.
> 
> 
> If I start it "by hand" (with debug=1)  it looks like this:
> # /usr/lib64/openldap/slapd  -u ldap -g ldap -d1
> @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb 20 2011 12:20:51) $
> 
> @torsson:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.24/work/openldap-2.4.24/servers/slapd
> ldap_pvt_gethostbyname_a: host=torsson, r=0
> daemon_init: listen on ldap:///
> daemon_init: 1 listeners to open...
> ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///)
> daemon: listener initialized ldap:///
> daemon_init: 1 listeners opened
> ldap_create
> slapd init: initiated server.
> bdb_back_initialize: initialize BDB backend
> bdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
> hdb_back_initialize: initialize HDB backend
> hdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
> slapd destroy: freeing system resources.
> slapd stopped.
> connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
> 
> Here are slapd.conf (without comments):
> include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/authldap.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema
> pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid
> argsfile/var/run/openldap/slapd.args
> allow bind_v2
> databasehdb
> suffix  "dc=dmj,dc=nu"
> checkpoint  32  30 
> rootdn  "cn=myroot,dc=dmj,dc=nu"
> rootpw  {SSHA}x
> directory   /var/lib/openldap-data
> index   objectClass eq
> 
> 
> Any suggestion short of reverting to 2.4.23?
Don't bother... I found it my self. slaptest reported an error in one of the 
schemas, efter correcting this slapd starts perfectly.

Sorry for the noise,
-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb:
> I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security.
> I also start my Internet connection by hand after logging in:
> this is to avoid the jam which arises if it is included in the runlevel
> but for some reason the physical Net connection isn't functioning,
> when Dhcpcd sits there & can't be killed via Control-C.
> Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs
> before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection
> -- it depends on when the start-of-minute falls -- ,
> which results in a file  ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted
> (the sequence of commands is clear from the Syslog file).
> 
> Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script
> which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron',
> while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel.
> 
> Does anyone have useful suggestions ?
> 

When dhcpcd runs, there should be the following files:
/var/run/dhcpcd.pid
/var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid

Just change your cron job to look like
test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail

You can also do something like parsing the output of `/sbin/ifconfig
eth0` with grep -q to see whether it has an ip address so that your cron
job also works when you configure your address statically.
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep -q '\

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Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Mick  wrote:
> > On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > Mick  wrote:
> > > > On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > > > Hi.  I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text
> > > > > console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start
> > > > > gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. 
> > > > > It works under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the
> > > > > monitor is OK, but I don't understand what happens when gdm
> > > > > starts.  I have
> > > > > Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give
> > > > > the same result.  Is my card going or what?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > Have you followed this?
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> > > > 
> > > > and are you using KMS?
> > > 
> > > I have not changed the config from working to non-working -- if it will
> > > help I can post it.  I am not sure what kms is -- I use gnome as the
> > > desktop.
> > 
> > Have a more considered look at the link I've given.  Check the kernel
> > settings proposed there and take note of the disabling of u/vesa
> > drivers.
> 
> I cannot do what the guide says -- I have no Nouveau in staging drivers
> or anywhere it seems.   Maybe in newer kernels than the one I am using,
> but I want to get this one back to working first.
> 
> One thing that I found in  my logs which might help is the following:
> 
> Feb 17 22:29:07 ccs kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 53, CMDre 
> 0080  0005 0005
> Feb 17 22:29:49 ccs last message repeated 7 times

Oh I see.  You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ?

If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 00:25:24 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad
> > and second language selection for the keyboard.  I *have* to use the
> > synaptics and keyboard input drivers.  I'm also using mouse (because it
> > doesn't hurt I guess).
> > 
> > I tried of course to remove them all and leave evdev initially, but it
> > all went horribly wrong.  Perhaps evdev will catch up eventually, I just
> > hope synaptics and keyboard don't default into being deprecated before
> > then.

I think I should at least partly retract some of the above statement - with 
x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 I have managed to unmerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-
keyboard and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and evdev seems to still pick up my 
mouse and keyboard.

I had to comment out the following three entries first in my xorg.conf:
#
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
#   InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#   InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#   Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
EndSection
#

and also added appropriate Section "InputClass" parts for mouse and keyboard 
in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but commented out similar parts in 
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf.

> I am using evdev and synaptics only on a thinkpad t201. Without an
> xorg.conf, all works including when I connect an usb mouse. However I am
> trying to configure the touchpad, trackpoint and extended buttons to
> work as left-hand; that is I would like to have the 3 buttons reversed.
> 
> I have not been lucky so far. In fact I've read on the web about some
> new (relative to xorg 1.7) syntax for the xorg.conf file. Does anyone
> know about a site with humanly friendly information on how to write a
> modern xorg.conf file? 

Have you had a look at:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml

Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in 
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.


> In addition to the devices I mentioned above I am
> also trying to setup an external monitor as a hotplug virtual screen.
> 
> For instance, things like this do not work:
> 
> 
> Section "InputClass"
> Identifier "TouchPad"

Change this line to:

Identifier "touchpad catchall"

Or, you can also try:

Identifier "synaptics touchpad catchall"

> MatchIsTouchpad "on"
> Driver "synaptics"
> #Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
> EndSection
> 
> In the past I used
> 
> Option "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1"

Do you want this to work for your touchpad with the synaptics driver, or do 
you want this to work with any physical buttons on the laptop, or even an 
external (e.g. USB) mouse?

If the former, then have a look at the NOTES at the end of the man synaptics 
page, where it mentions button mapping.

For non tap buttons you can try setting this option in an InputClass section 
in your xorg.conf for an InputClass device mouse:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier  "mouse catchall"
Driver  "evdev"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1"
EndSection

> which apparently does not work here. Last but not least, how do I get
> the good old  ctrl-alt-backspace  keybinding to kill X?

You'll need to define this in the InputClass that deals with the keyboard:

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier  "keyboard catchall"
   Driver  "evdev"
   MatchIsKeyboard "on"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
   Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread covici
Mick  wrote:

> On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Mick  wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > > Hi.  I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text
> > > > console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm,
> > > > the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether.  It works
> > > > under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the monitor is OK, but
> > > > I don't understand what happens when gdm starts.  I have
> > > > Nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 but even some earlier versions I try give the
> > > > same result.  Is my card going or what?
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Have you followed this?
> > > 
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> > > 
> > > and are you using KMS?
> > 
> > I have not changed the config from working to non-working -- if it will
> > help I can post it.  I am not sure what kms is -- I use gnome as the
> > desktop.
> 
> Have a more considered look at the link I've given.  Check the kernel 
> settings 
> proposed there and take note of the disabling of u/vesa drivers.
I cannot do what the guide says -- I have no Nouveau in staging drivers
or anywhere it seems.   Maybe in newer kernels than the one I am using,
but I want to get this one back to working first.

One thing that I found in  my logs which might help is the following:

Feb 17 22:29:07 ccs kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 53, CMDre 
0080  0005 0005
Feb 17 22:29:49 ccs last message repeated 7 times

Thanks.


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[gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security.
I also start my Internet connection by hand after logging in:
this is to avoid the jam which arises if it is included in the runlevel
but for some reason the physical Net connection isn't functioning,
when Dhcpcd sits there & can't be killed via Control-C.
Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs
before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection
-- it depends on when the start-of-minute falls -- ,
which results in a file  ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted
(the sequence of commands is clear from the Syslog file).

Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script
which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron',
while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel.

Does anyone have useful suggestions ?

-- 
,,
SUPPORT ___//___,   Philip Webb
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT`-O--O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca




[gentoo-user] net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd

2011-02-20 Thread Johannes Geiss
Hi Gentoo-users,

I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3
portage tells me

You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with:
saslpasswd2 cyrus

But when I try to do this, I get the following error:

Password: [password]
Again (for verification): [same password]
saslpasswd2: generic failure

and the syslog says

Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter
supplied
Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on
sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb
Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: sql_select option missing
Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error no mechanism
available
Feb 20 14:04:10 polaris saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on
sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql

What could be wrong?

Thanks for any help
Johannes
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[gentoo-user] After updating openldap today slapd won't start

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Johansson
Today after updating openldap from 2.4.23 to 2.4.24, slapd will not start.

# /etc/init.d/slapd start
 * Starting ldap-server ... 

  [ !! ]

and I get the following in the log:

Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb 
20 2011 12:20:51) $
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: slapd stopped.
Feb 20 13:17:01 torsson.dmj.nu slapd[22578]: connections_destroy: nothing to 
destroy.


If I start it "by hand" (with debug=1)  it looks like this:
# /usr/lib64/openldap/slapd  -u ldap -g ldap -d1
@(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.24 (Feb 20 2011 12:20:51) $

@torsson:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.24/work/openldap-2.4.24/servers/slapd
ldap_pvt_gethostbyname_a: host=torsson, r=0
daemon_init: listen on ldap:///
daemon_init: 1 listeners to open...
ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///)
daemon: listener initialized ldap:///
daemon_init: 1 listeners opened
ldap_create
slapd init: initiated server.
bdb_back_initialize: initialize BDB backend
bdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
hdb_back_initialize: initialize HDB backend
hdb_back_initialize: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (2010-08-05)
slapd destroy: freeing system resources.
slapd stopped.
connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.

Here are slapd.conf (without comments):
include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/authldap.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema
pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid
argsfile/var/run/openldap/slapd.args
allow bind_v2
databasehdb
suffix  "dc=dmj,dc=nu"
checkpoint  32  30 
rootdn  "cn=myroot,dc=dmj,dc=nu"
rootpw  {SSHA}x
directory   /var/lib/openldap-data
index   objectClass eq


Any suggestion short of reverting to 2.4.23?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 08:50:48 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote
> > 
> >> Ah ... mine have more.   in alsamixer brings up all these Capture
> >> devices:
> >> 
> >> Front Mic  67<>67
> >> Mic67<>67
> >> Capture80<>80
> >> Capture80<>80
> >> Digital61<>61
> >> Digital33<>33
> >> Input So   Digital Mic  (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
> >> Input So   Digital Mic  (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
> >> 
> >> There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the
> >> front left of the keyboard.
> >> 
> >   Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I
> > 
> > like it.  My card shows up in "lspci -v" as...
> > 
> > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev
> > 40)
> > 
> > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372
> > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
> > Memory at d040 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> > 
> > alsamixer shows...
> > Card: HDA ATI SB
> > Chip: Realtek ALC272X
> > 
> >   One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a
> > 
> > parameter.  Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and
> > I'm an absolute newbie on "alsa-driver".  alsa-driver is keyworded
> > ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it.  Maybe even desparate enough
> > to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS.
> > 
> >   If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have
> > 
> > to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in "make menuconfig"...
> >
> >< > Sound card support  --->
> >
> >   Is that correct?
> 
> I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the
> intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it
> was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it
> working without disabling audio in the kernel.
> 
> >Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in
> >
> > /etc/make.conf ?
> 
> ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"

Around a couple of years ago my alsa stopped working and was getting some 
errors about not finding the right modules or similar.  Until that moment I 
had it build in the kernel.  I remember raising a bug, only to be told that I 
should rebuild my kernel with alsa drivers as modules, because alsaconf should 
be able to probe them.

Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing:

"Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as modules. It 
is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the use of alsaconf which is 
a boon when you want to configure your card."

I've added some options for my alsa modules in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, 
e.g.:

  options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote
>
>> Ah ... mine have more.   in alsamixer brings up all these Capture 
>> devices:
>> 
>> Front Mic  67<>67
>> Mic67<>67
>> Capture80<>80
>> Capture80<>80
>> Digital61<>61
>> Digital33<>33
>> Input So   Digital Mic  (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
>> Input So   Digital Mic  (other options are: Front Mic, Mic)
>> 
>> There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the
>> front left of the keyboard.
>
>   Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I
> like it.  My card shows up in "lspci -v" as...
>
> 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
> Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372
> Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
> Memory at d040 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>
> alsamixer shows...
> Card: HDA ATI SB
> Chip: Realtek ALC272X 
>
>   One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a
> parameter.  Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and
> I'm an absolute newbie on "alsa-driver".  alsa-driver is keyworded
> ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it.  Maybe even desparate enough
> to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS.
>
>   If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have
> to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in "make menuconfig"...
>
>< > Sound card support  --->
>
>   Is that correct?  

I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the 
intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it 
was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it 
working without disabling audio in the kernel.

>Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in
> /etc/make.conf ?
>

ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-20 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dale  wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
>>>  wrote:
>>>

 On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:

>
> [...]
> I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight
> though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all
> that...
>

 Doesn't the Moonlight Firefox add-on work?

>>>
>>> What I've read is that moonlight doesn't handle the Netflix DRM
>>> issues. Does anyone know differently?
>>>
>>> I'm still using a Window VM to watch Netflix.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I use Firefox and the download manager.  I just download the video and watch
>> it with (s)(k)(m)player locally.  That also gives me the option of saving
>> them locally and not having to download them again if I want to watch them
>> more than once.  I'm sure AT&T likes that part.
>>
>> So far, I have not had much trouble with doing it this way.  Other than the
>> video being lost when changing tabs.  Well, I did have on download that
>> failed and only go the first part of the video.  I think my DSL modem did
>> its reset thingy.  It does that once a day.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
>
> Where are you finding links on Netflix pages that allows you to start
> a movie download? I'm not finding that at all using Firefox. Are you
> digging into page source or something?
>
> - Mark

Pretty sure he wasn't referring to netflix.
AFAIK no-one has cracked the DRM on silverlight streams 
yet, and microsoft has no plans to update moonlight.
Ironic that the excuse is "pirates!" -- their restrictive
policy has me downloading things I wouldn't bother with
otherwise, so I suspect the effect is the opposite of
what they intend. Whoever thought, "if it's not available
they'll just have to do without" was truly not very bright.

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