Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid
Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: Hi, I bought a new 1T harddrive which is exactly the same as my previous harddrive. So I'm planning to make a Raid-1 layout(for security reasons). But here's the problem: I've already setup LVM2 on the existing harddrive and I don't want to destroy the existing LVM volume groups. I tried to google it, but I'm not sure which is the right keyword. Could you guys help me out? Thanks in advance:) -- Best Regards, Einux 1. Create a degenerated RAID1 with your new disk mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb 2. Partition the raid device 3. Add one of the partitions to your LVM volume group. pvcreate /dev/sdb2 vgextend volume_group /dev/sdb2 4. Move everything from the old physical volumes to the new pv. pvmove /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb2 5. Remove the old and now empty physical volume vgreduce volume_group /dev/sda3 6. Move everything else which is not on LVM to your new raid. Guess you need to go to single user mode to do this safely. 7. Grow your raid to also contain the old disk. mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda No, I have not tested this and you should double-check everything. No guarantees, etc. One warning, though: pvmove is known to create problems from time to time. Leaking memory, bogging systems with infinite system load and so on. If it gives you trouble, you can abort it with `pvmove --abort` and try it again later by calling `pvmove volume_group` (without physical device specified) to resume it. It SHOULD survive system crashes. Trying another kernel version sometimes helps when pvmove gives you trouble. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid
Am 30.03.2011 07:28, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: Hi, I bought a new 1T harddrive which is exactly the same as my previous harddrive. So I'm planning to make a Raid-1 layout(for security reasons). But here's the problem: I've already setup LVM2 on the existing harddrive and I don't want to destroy the existing LVM volume groups. I tried to google it, but I'm not sure which is the right keyword. Could you guys help me out? Thanks in advance:) -- Best Regards, Einux 1. Create a degenerated RAID1 with your new disk mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb 2. Partition the raid device 3. Add one of the partitions to your LVM volume group. pvcreate /dev/sdb2 vgextend volume_group /dev/sdb2 4. Move everything from the old physical volumes to the new pv. pvmove /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb2 5. Remove the old and now empty physical volume vgreduce volume_group /dev/sda3 6. Move everything else which is not on LVM to your new raid. Guess you need to go to single user mode to do this safely. 7. Grow your raid to also contain the old disk. mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda No, I have not tested this and you should double-check everything. No guarantees, etc. One warning, though: pvmove is known to create problems from time to time. Leaking memory, bogging systems with infinite system load and so on. If it gives you trouble, you can abort it with `pvmove --abort` and try it again later by calling `pvmove volume_group` (without physical device specified) to resume it. It SHOULD survive system crashes. Trying another kernel version sometimes helps when pvmove gives you trouble. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp Argh, of course a partition on md0 is not called sdb2. Just if that got you confused ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid
On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:28:40 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: Hi, I bought a new 1T harddrive which is exactly the same as my previous harddrive. So I'm planning to make a Raid-1 layout(for security reasons). But here's the problem: I've already setup LVM2 on the existing harddrive and I don't want to destroy the existing LVM volume groups. I tried to google it, but I'm not sure which is the right keyword. Could you guys help me out? Thanks in advance:) 1. Create a degenerated RAID1 with your new disk mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb 2. Partition the raid device 3. Add one of the partitions to your LVM volume group. pvcreate /dev/sdb2 vgextend volume_group /dev/sdb2 4. Move everything from the old physical volumes to the new pv. pvmove /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb2 5. Remove the old and now empty physical volume vgreduce volume_group /dev/sda3 6. Move everything else which is not on LVM to your new raid. Guess you need to go to single user mode to do this safely. 7. Grow your raid to also contain the old disk. mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda No, I have not tested this and you should double-check everything. No guarantees, etc. One warning, though: pvmove is known to create problems from time to time. Leaking memory, bogging systems with infinite system load and so on. If it gives you trouble, you can abort it with `pvmove --abort` and try it again later by calling `pvmove volume_group` (without physical device specified) to resume it. It SHOULD survive system crashes. Trying another kernel version sometimes helps when pvmove gives you trouble. To avoid that, with large moves, do the following: # pvmove -i 600 /dev/sda3 The -i 600 means, only report every 10 minutes. It's the reporting that causes the memory leak. Also, when just wanting to empty one physical volume, it is not necessary to specify the target. It's a good idea to mark the PVs on the existing drive non-allocatable. Then LVM won't try to move anything to that PV: # pvchange -xn /dev/sda3 The rest of the steps read correct. It's how I did a similar operation, but still double-check all the parameters and when in doubt, read the manual and/or ask on the list. -- Joost Roeleveld
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to merit switching. Mplayer2 installs in parallel, so try them both. I moved to mplayer2 some time ago, before the name-change to mplayer2. I've had fewer issues with it than with mplayer but your mileage may vary. After a quick comparison I'd say they use about the same amount of CPU but mplayer still has problems with fontconfig freezing the video for a few seconds whenever fonts change in subtitles. This can be a real problem when subtitles contain a lot of UTF8 extended characters not actually found in the selected font. You also see a lot of Glyf not found in font, choosing another font warnings. Mplayer2 doesn't have this problem as it shifts fontconfig into another thread. Mplayer itself isn't multithreaded yet, just ffmpeg. Mplayer2 also handles mkv chapters, which aren't really all that useful anyway. So I'd say just install mplayer2, add threads=5 to your config and try them both.
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to merit switching. Mplayer2 installs in parallel, so try them both. I moved to mplayer2 some time ago, before the name-change to mplayer2. I've had fewer issues with it than with mplayer but your mileage may vary. After a quick comparison I'd say they use about the same amount of CPU but mplayer still has problems with fontconfig freezing the video for a few seconds whenever fonts change in subtitles. This can be a real problem when subtitles contain a lot of UTF8 extended characters not actually found in the selected font. You also see a lot of Glyf not found in font, choosing another font warnings. Mplayer2 doesn't have this problem as it shifts fontconfig into another thread. Mplayer itself isn't multithreaded yet, just ffmpeg. Mplayer2 also handles mkv chapters, which aren't really all that useful anyway. So I'd say just install mplayer2, add threads=5 to your config and try them both. I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound
On 03/15/2011 08:42 AM, dhk wrote: On 03/07/2011 11:15 AM, Mick wrote: On 7 March 2011 12:41, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Here's an update. Yesterday morning I recompiled the kernel, but I took most everything out that didn't look like one of the three audio cards I've been trying to get working. I rebooted and tested the audio with the new kernel and it didn't work. Then I rebooted again before I went out for the day, the machine ran all day and all night without any activity before I logged in this morning. Now I have audio again. Now I think I have to pay attention as to whether audio begins working after a period of computer uptime. Does this sound plausible? I wouldn't think so. /etc/init.d/alsasound should run at default level, load modules and restore settings. Assuming that you have run the alsaconf command to unmute your channels, then you should have sound straight off the peg. However, I have an old laptop which always starts with the Master volume control muted. I have to press the special sound control buttons on the keyboard to unmute sound every time I reboot. I guess this is a hardware quirk of this MoBo and it is the only PC that I have come across something like this. Here's an update. The sound comes and goes. I've been leaving the sound on all the time now and not just when I need it. I test it frequently just to see if it works. I haven't found any pattern other than when I do a reboot or shutdown when the box powers up again sometimes I have the audio and sometimes I don't. However, even when there's no audio it looks like the modules load and alsasound starts. Another update. It seem all I need to do to get sound back is run alsaconf (take all the defaults) and reboot. I'm not sure why it stops working after two or three reboots, but if I run alsaconf again and reboot it's back. It never works right after alsaconf, it always needs a reboot. It would be nice if the sound state didn't get lost, but at least I can get it back. I'd also wouldn't mind knowing why it happens. Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
John Campbell wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I have it in the tree here: [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer2-2.0 (0) [-P-] [M ] media-video/mplayer2- (0) They are masked but it is there. Is that the same one? While I am at it, is the plain mplayer going to be phased out and the new mplayer2 take its place? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] What is with emerge after update world ?
On Sunday 27 of March 2011 21:33:33 JM wrote: eselect list is not correct. Use: eselect *python *list (or whatever other app you wish to select a specific version of) Then: eselect python set (with the number of the option you want which was displayed from 'eselect python list'). Thank you again. The problem is resolved. Greetings, Andrzej
[gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe
Hello, I try today install Gentoo on my PC. Every thing go well until to install net-dialup/rp-pppoe then I got: =x11-libs/cairo-1.10.0 [-qt4] How to resolve. If I add the 'qt4' flag to USE in /etc/portage/package.use this not work. If I set it globally in make.conf USE=qt4 - still not work. What for is 'cario' and 'qt' needed if I install 'ppp' or 'rp-pppoe' in console. I will be later install whole KDE (and then maybe is needed) but not now, I think (?). I select profile for KDE, x86 machine. Greetings, Andrzej
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I only have 2, but I may try it anyway. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/30/2011 11:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? Other than what John said, if you're using SMPlayer, then the thread setting is in the config dialog: Options-Preferences-Performance (in the Threads for decoding spinbox.)
[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/30/2011 12:37 PM, Dale wrote: [...] I have it in the tree here: [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer2-2.0 (0) [-P-] [M ] media-video/mplayer2- (0) They are masked but it is there. Is that the same one? While I am at it, is the plain mplayer going to be phased out and the new mplayer2 take its place? It's not masked anymore. Also, mplayer2 is not a replacement for mplayer, it's a fork. I think mplayer still has the majority of the developers, so I don't think that it is in any danger of being phased out.
[gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?
Hi, gentoo! I'm trying to set up my printer (a Samsung ML-1450 (which looks like an HP Laserjet)) according to the Gentoo Printing Guide. There is no problem with the USB connection to it. I've got as far as printing a test page (in section 4). The page doesn't print. The error message in /var/log/cups/error_log is: Filter foomatic-rip for printer ML-1450 not available: no such file or directory The driver I've downloaded and installed is pxlmono (as recommended). I've tried emerge foomatic, to no avail. How do I get foomatic-rip and get it working? Thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?
rattus ~ # locate foomatic-rip /usr/bin/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/lib/foomatic-rip /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip /usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.bz2 rattus ~ # equery b foomatic-rip --- Invalid atom in /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise/profiles/package.mask: Slot deps are not allowed in EAPI 0: 'x11-wm/qlwm:3' * Searching for foomatic-rip ... net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20080507 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip - /usr/bin/foomatic-rip) net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20080507 (/usr/bin/foomatic-rip) net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20080507 (/usr/lib/ppr/lib/foomatic-rip - /usr/bin/foomatic-rip) net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20080507 (/usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic-rip - /usr/bin/foomatic-rip) ^C rattus ~ # On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:18 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, gentoo! I'm trying to set up my printer (a Samsung ML-1450 (which looks like an HP Laserjet)) according to the Gentoo Printing Guide. There is no problem with the USB connection to it. I've got as far as printing a test page (in section 4). The page doesn't print. The error message in /var/log/cups/error_log is: Filter foomatic-rip for printer ML-1450 not available: no such file or directory The driver I've downloaded and installed is pxlmono (as recommended). I've tried emerge foomatic, to no avail. How do I get foomatic-rip and get it working? Thanks in advance! -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:37:04 +0200, Andrzej Styczeń wrote: What for is 'cario' and 'qt' needed if I install 'ppp' or 'rp-pppoe' in console. I will be later install whole KDE (and then maybe is needed) but not now, I think (?). I select profile for KDE, x86 machine. The KDE profile sets the X USE flag, add -X until you are ready to emerge the desktop. -- Neil Bothwick There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] xml viewer?
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=264045 Hello, The url above shows me a raw xml file. :-( I just tried the link with several different web browsers to no avail. I guess xml is not an official protocol for web browsers? Did I miss a configuration issue before trying a given web browser to view .xml files in their graphical form? What software do I use to view it in graphical form? Surely this is possible? ;-) Googling only showed commercial grade xml viewers James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: SNIP Another update. It seem all I need to do to get sound back is run alsaconf (take all the defaults) and reboot. I'm not sure why it stops working after two or three reboots, but if I run alsaconf again and reboot it's back. It never works right after alsaconf, it always needs a reboot. It would be nice if the sound state didn't get lost, but at least I can get it back. I'd also wouldn't mind knowing why it happens. Thanks, dhk Does it really need a reboot, or does (as root) /etc/init.d/alsasound restart get it going? - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] xml viewer?
Am 30.03.2011 15:40, schrieb James: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=264045 Hello, The url above shows me a raw xml file. :-( I just tried the link with several different web browsers to no avail. I guess xml is not an official protocol for web browsers? Did I miss a configuration issue before trying a given web browser to view .xml files in their graphical form? What software do I use to view it in graphical form? Surely this is possible? ;-) Looks like it is Gentoo-Guide XML. You need www-servers/gorg to transform it to HTML. BTW: Sure, XML is a web protocol, but not this kind of XML. ;) Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound
- Original Message -From: Mark Knecht Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:52 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No SoundTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgCc: dhk On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, dhk wrote:Another update. It seem all I need to do to get sound back is run alsaconf (take all the defaults) and reboot. I'm not sure why it stops working after two or three reboots, but if I run alsaconf again and reboot it's back. It never works right after alsaconf, it always needs a reboot. It would be nice if the sound state didn't get lost, but at least I can get it back. I'd also wouldn't mind knowing why it happens. Thanks, dhk Does it really need a reboot, or does (as root) /etc/init.d/alsasound restart get it going? - Mark It really needs a reboot. Bouncing alsasound doesn't do anything. Then it works for a day or two or a reboot or two and then nothing. Then I need to run alsaconf and just hit enter for the defaults and reboot to get it back. It doesn't take long and I can live with it, but it may indicate something else is wrong.dhk
[gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y
anyone know why i can't get the usb-usx2y flag to turn on in alsa firmware? i can't find any links to the firmware cutter either. i know most of the original tascam us122 interfaces suffered from the capacitor plague, i'm hoping to get at least a midi interface from it. USE=usb-usx2y emerge -a --newuse --deep alsa-firmware Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.23 ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 maestro3 ymfpci -aica -asihpi -darla20 -darla24 -echo3g -emi26 -emu1212 -emu1616 -emu1820 -gina20 -gina24 -hdsp -hdspm -indigo -indigoio -korg1212 -layla20 -layla24 -mia -mixart -mona -msnd-pinnacle -pcxhr -sb16 -usb-usx2y -vx222 -wavefront
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In linux.gentoo.user, it is written: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline - Original Message -From=3A Mark Knecht=A0Date=3A Wednesday=2C M= arch 30=2C 2011 9=3A52 amSubject=3A Re=3A =5Bgentoo-user=5D Re=3A ALSA=A0= - Still No SoundTo=3A gentoo-user=40lists=2Egentoo=2EorgCc=3A dhk=A0=3E = On Wed=2C Mar 30=2C 2011 at 2=3A37 AM=2C dhk=A0 wrote=3A=3E =3E =3E=3E =3E= Another update=2E =A0It seem all I need to do to get sound back is run=3E= =3E alsaconf=A0(take all the defaults) and reboot=2E =A0I=27m not sure = why =3E it stops=3E =3E working after two or three reboots=2C but if I r= un alsaconf=A0=3E again and=3E =3E reboot it=27s back=2E =A0It never wor= ks right after alsaconf=2C it =3E always needs=3E =3E a reboot=2E =A0It = would be nice if the sound state didn=27t get =3E lost=2C but at=3E =3E = least I can get it back=2E =A0I=27d also wouldn=27t mind knowing why =3E= it happens=2E=3E =3E=3E =3E Thanks=2C=3E =3E dhk=3E =3E Does it really = need a reboot=2C or does (as root)=3E =3E /etc/init=2Ed/alsasound=A0rest= art=3E =3E get it going=3F=3E =3E - Mark=3E =3EIt really needs a reboot=2E= =A0 Bouncing alsasound doesn=27t do anything=2E=A0 Then it works for a d= ay or two or a reboot or two and then nothing=2E=A0 Then I need to run a= lsaconf and just hit enter for the defaults and reboot to get it back=2E= =A0 It doesn=27t take long and I can live with it=2C but it may indicate= something else is wrong=2Edhk --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline =3Cbr=3E=3Cbr=3E- Original Message -=3Cbr=3EFrom=3A Mark Knecht=26= nbsp=3B=3Cmarkknecht=40gmail=2Ecom=3E=3Cbr=3EDate=3A Wednesday=2C March = 30=2C 2011 9=3A52 am=3Cbr=3ESubject=3A Re=3A =5Bgentoo-user=5D Re=3A ALS= A=26nbsp=3B- Still No Sound=3Cbr=3ETo=3A gentoo-user=40lists=2Egentoo=2E= org=3Cbr=3ECc=3A dhk=26nbsp=3B=3Cdhkuhl=40optonline=2Enet=3E=3Cbr=3E=3Cb= r=3E=26gt=3B On Wed=2C Mar 30=2C 2011 at 2=3A37 AM=2C dhk=26nbsp=3B=3Cdh= kuhl=40optonline=2Enet=3E wrote=3A=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =3Csnip=3E=3Cbr=3E=26= gt=3B =26gt=3B=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B Another update=2E =26nbsp=3BIt s= eem all I need to do to get sound back is run=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B a= lsaconf=26nbsp=3B(take all the defaults) and reboot=2E =26nbsp=3BI=27m n= ot sure why =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B it stops=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B working a= fter two or three reboots=2C but if I run alsaconf=26nbsp=3B=3Cbr=3E=26g= t=3B again and=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B reboot it=27s back=2E =26nbsp=3B= It never works right after alsaconf=2C it =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B always needs=3C= br=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B a reboot=2E =26nbsp=3BIt would be nice if the sou= nd state didn=27t get =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B lost=2C but at=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26= gt=3B least I can get it back=2E =26nbsp=3BI=27d also wouldn=27t mind kn= owing why =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B it happens=2E=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B=3Cbr=3E= =26gt=3B =26gt=3B Thanks=2C=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =26gt=3B dhk=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B= =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B Does it really need a reboot=2C or does (as root)=3Cbr= =3E=26gt=3B =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B /etc/init=2Ed/alsasound=26nbsp=3Brestart=3C= br=3E=26gt=3B =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B get it going=3F=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =3Cbr=3E=26= gt=3B - Mark=3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B =3Cbr=3E=26gt=3B=3Cbr=3E=3Cbr=3EIt really n= eeds a reboot=2E=26nbsp=3B Bouncing alsasound doesn=27t do anything=2E=26= nbsp=3B Then it works for a day or two or a reboot or two and then nothi= ng=2E=26nbsp=3B Then I need to run =3C/snip=3E=3C/dhkuhl=40optonline=2En= et=3E=3C/dhkuhl=40optonline=2Enet=3E=3C/markknecht=40gmail=2Ecom=3Ealsac= onf and just hit enter for the defaults and reboot to get it back=2E=26n= bsp=3B It doesn=27t take long and I can live with it=2C but it may indic= ate something else is wrong=2E=3Cbr=3E=3Cmarkknecht=40gmail=2Ecom=3E=3Cd= hkuhl=40optonline=2Enet=3E=3Cdhkuhl=40optonline=2Enet=3E=3Csnip=3E=3Cbr=3E= dhk=3Cbr=3E=3Cbr=3E=3C/snip=3E=3C/dhkuhl=40optonline=2Enet=3E=3C/dhkuhl=40= optonline=2Enet=3E=3C/markknecht=40gmail=2Ecom=3E --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg)-- Here's a good example of the mess I was describing earlier. Doesn't appear to be using kmail thouogh. -- ...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it. I decided, this is the person I want to sit next to.
Re: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:42:45 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, it is written: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline - Original Message -From=3A Mark Knecht=A0Date=3A Wednesday=2C M= arch 30=2C 2011 9=3A52 amSubject=3A Re=3A =5Bgentoo-user=5D Re=3A ALSA=A0= Here's a good example of the mess I was describing earlier. Doesn't appear to be using kmail thouogh. The mailer is irrelevant, this is a perfectly acceptable quoted-printable message that reads fine when sent from the list. It's clearly the mail2news gateway that is screwing things up by ignoring the MIME information in the mail and treating the whole thing as plain text. -- Neil Bothwick Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: kvm and libvirt
The 29/03/11, Coert Waagmeester wrote: At the moment I have a running install of kvm. I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and bridges. And I use LVM for the VMs disks. It is working very well, but to add a VM or to migrate it to another host is laborious. Now I have started playing with libvirt, and I would like to know if anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt? I do. Managing VM from libvrit works well for basic features. That beeing said, I had to manage snapshots outside of the provided features due to internal dependencies between qcow2 snapshots. I still have to test migration as it requires virtual disks shared over the network. What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup? I think the best alternative is to use a dedicated virtual bridging tool but virt-manager (so, libvirt I guess) already provide a network system (based on tun/tap AFAIR). -- Nicolas Sebrecht
[gentoo-user] How do I switch from jpeg to jpeg-turbo?
I unmerged media-libs/jpeg, and emerged media-libs/libjpeg-turbo. virtual/jpeg is installed. Everything seems to work fine, and revdep-rebuild is perfectly happy. But emerge -uDNt world wants to: [blocks b ] media-libs/jpeg:0 (media-libs/jpeg:0 is blocking media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0) [uninstall] media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0 [nomerge ] www-client/firefox-4.0-r2 [nomerge ] virtual/jpeg-0 [ebuild N] media-libs/jpeg-8c USE=static-libs I'm confused. :-/
[gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?
Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? Thank you for your assistance. Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
Re: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:10:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: The mailer is irrelevant, this is a perfectly acceptable quoted-printable message that reads fine when sent from the list. It's clearly the mail2news gateway that is screwing things up by ignoring the MIME information in the mail and treating the whole thing as plain text. I recompiled mutt with the nntp flag, re-emerged it, consulted google about muttrc and nntp, used a little foul language, and got mutt to read the usenet version of this list. It looks *way* better in mutt (via lynx for quoted printable or html). Would be nice if the mail2news gateway worked better, but this is an acceptable workaround for me. :) -- caveat utilitor
[gentoo-user] Re: xml viewer?
Florian Philipp lists at binarywings.net writes: Looks like it is Gentoo-Guide XML. You need www-servers/gorg to transform it to HTML. BTW: Sure, XML is a web protocol, but not this kind of XML. ;) thanks,, James
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I just tried it also. Some 720p videos were very slow to play with mplayer on my machine prviously, but now they are playing smoothly ;-) So mplayer2 show have some performance improvement. After switching to maplyer2, putting mplayer to package.provided seems to be able to avoid dependencies problem for smplayer and mplayer-plugin.. - du yang -- oooO: (..): :\.(:::Oooo:: ::\_)::(..):: :::)./::: ::(_/
[gentoo-user] usb media reader
Hello, lsusb shows: Bus 001 Device 035: ID 05e3:0710 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 33-in-1 Card Reader OK, so I plug in a CF card and run fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 995 cylinders, total 8027712 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 63 201599 100768+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 201600 709631 254016 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 709632 8023679 3657024 83 Linux Very nice Now I remove the CF card an put in a SD card. Tried several SD cards. Nothing. Knotify (I guess) pops up just fine with CF. SD... nothing.
Re: [gentoo-user] usb media reader
Am 30.03.2011 19:52, schrieb James: Hello, lsusb shows: Bus 001 Device 035: ID 05e3:0710 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 33-in-1 Card Reader OK, so I plug in a CF card and run fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 995 cylinders, total 8027712 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 63 201599 100768+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 201600 709631 254016 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 709632 8023679 3657024 83 Linux Very nice Now I remove the CF card an put in a SD card. Tried several SD cards. Nothing. Knotify (I guess) pops up just fine with CF. SD... nothing. SD is another kernel module. There are different categories for SD and Memory Stick drivers in the kernel config. Look in the Device Drivers section. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/30/2011 08:47 PM, du yang wrote: On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I just tried it also. Some 720p videos were very slow to play with mplayer on my machine prviously, but now they are playing smoothly ;-) So mplayer2 show have some performance improvement. After switching to maplyer2, putting mplayer to package.provided seems to be able to avoid dependencies problem for smplayer and mplayer-plugin.. The version in portage removed multithreading support :-( The maintainer doesn't want the bundled, multithreaded ffmpeg that comes with mplayer2. That's a good thing in the long run, but I've no idea why they rushed it. They could wait till the in-portage libav or ffmpeg becomes multithreaded before they strip the bundled one.
[gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
my acer aspire 5740d has an ati card that works, a sunyin (or something) webcam that works, intel hda audio works (although i had to fight for the mic to work) and wifi works too (don't recall what card it has...) never tested hibernation or suspend though... D 2011/3/30 Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. I've always had the best luck with the hardware support for thinkpads (and dell inspirons, though they're kind of clunky and cheesy). Can't vouch for the new ones though, it's been a few years since I upgraded. -- caveat utilitor
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
I got a Toshiba Qosmio F50 series. Camera wireless and sound work fine (actually after one kernel upgrade some months ago even the woofer suddenly worked). I have not ever bothered with the TV card that it is provided though but it won't be a problem I think.
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
My Acer Aspire One worked with very few modifications. Picked up my wifi card and usb camera (the one in the lid is actually usb), sound card and intel graphics driver (though I haven't yet tried X, only framebuffer, but I get framebuffer in 1024 by 768 on it). Touchpad works fine with gpm mouse driver. Bit of a cheapo netbook but if flies under gentoo, while it was pretty slow under windows. dual core intel Atom. just out of curiosity I also tried the the pixielive cd which runs X for the intel gma graphics chip and is based on gentoo - it gave me full native res with little or now slowdown - I think it uses the poulsbo driver (or some similar name), overall, installing gentoo was painless - the worst experience I had was trying to map my windows key to CTRL-A for use in screen, still haven't managed it! On 30 March 2011 19:31, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?
On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? As I understand things, open-vm-tools is just an open-source version of vmware-tools, but uses the same code base and is managed by VMWare. Both of them should have the modules you want. Unless you have a compelling reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go with the open-vm-tools one. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:31:09 +0100, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. If you want a UK supplier of laptops guaranteed to work with Linux, try http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk -- Neil Bothwick A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. \xA0-- Joseph Campbell signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I switch from jpeg to jpeg-turbo?
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I unmerged media-libs/jpeg, and emerged media-libs/libjpeg-turbo. virtual/jpeg is installed. Everything seems to work fine, and revdep-rebuild is perfectly happy. But emerge -uDNt world wants to: [blocks b ] media-libs/jpeg:0 (media-libs/jpeg:0 is blocking media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0) [uninstall ] media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0 [nomerge ] www-client/firefox-4.0-r2 [nomerge ] virtual/jpeg-0 [ebuild N ] media-libs/jpeg-8c USE=static-libs I'm confused. :-/ Hello, Set the useflags for virtual/jpeg identical to media-libs/libjpeg-turbo ones and try again ... -- Andrés Becerra Sandoval
[gentoo-user] Re: How do I switch from jpeg to jpeg-turbo?
On 03/30/2011 11:02 PM, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I unmerged media-libs/jpeg, and emerged media-libs/libjpeg-turbo. virtual/jpeg is installed. Everything seems to work fine, and revdep-rebuild is perfectly happy. But emerge -uDNt world wants to: [blocks b ] media-libs/jpeg:0 (media-libs/jpeg:0 is blocking media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0) [uninstall] media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.1.0 [nomerge ] www-client/firefox-4.0-r2 [nomerge ] virtual/jpeg-0 [ebuild N] media-libs/jpeg-8c USE=static-libs I'm confused. :-/ Hello, Set the useflags for virtual/jpeg identical to media-libs/libjpeg-turbo ones and try again ... That was it. Thanks. PS: The day portage will give useful output should be marked on all calenders as a holiday :-P
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
On 03/30/2011 02:46 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. I've always had the best luck with the hardware support for thinkpads (and dell inspirons, though they're kind of clunky and cheesy). Can't vouch for the new ones though, it's been a few years since I upgraded. I've been using a thinkpad X201; WiFi works well and audio too. Don't have a camera. There is a little problem configuring the touch pad buttons for a left hand but it does not bother me. All in all a very good machine under gentoo. -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?
On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? As I understand things, open-vm-tools is just an open-source version of vmware-tools, but uses the same code base and is managed by VMWare. Both of them should have the modules you want. Unless you have a compelling reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go with the open-vm-tools one. Teach me to read more carefully... The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon. Device Drivers -- [*] Misc devices --- M VMware Balloon Driver SCSI device support --- [*] SCSI low-level drivers --- * VMware PVSCSI driver support [*] Network device support M VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver (That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory management between host guest). --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
My thinkpad w510 'just works.'
Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid
thank you guys, you've been helpful :) On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:28:40 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: Hi, I bought a new 1T harddrive which is exactly the same as my previous harddrive. So I'm planning to make a Raid-1 layout(for security reasons). But here's the problem: I've already setup LVM2 on the existing harddrive and I don't want to destroy the existing LVM volume groups. I tried to google it, but I'm not sure which is the right keyword. Could you guys help me out? Thanks in advance:) 1. Create a degenerated RAID1 with your new disk mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb 2. Partition the raid device 3. Add one of the partitions to your LVM volume group. pvcreate /dev/sdb2 vgextend volume_group /dev/sdb2 4. Move everything from the old physical volumes to the new pv. pvmove /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb2 5. Remove the old and now empty physical volume vgreduce volume_group /dev/sda3 6. Move everything else which is not on LVM to your new raid. Guess you need to go to single user mode to do this safely. 7. Grow your raid to also contain the old disk. mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda No, I have not tested this and you should double-check everything. No guarantees, etc. One warning, though: pvmove is known to create problems from time to time. Leaking memory, bogging systems with infinite system load and so on. If it gives you trouble, you can abort it with `pvmove --abort` and try it again later by calling `pvmove volume_group` (without physical device specified) to resume it. It SHOULD survive system crashes. Trying another kernel version sometimes helps when pvmove gives you trouble. To avoid that, with large moves, do the following: # pvmove -i 600 /dev/sda3 The -i 600 means, only report every 10 minutes. It's the reporting that causes the memory leak. Also, when just wanting to empty one physical volume, it is not necessary to specify the target. It's a good idea to mark the PVs on the existing drive non-allocatable. Then LVM won't try to move anything to that PV: # pvchange -xn /dev/sda3 The rest of the steps read correct. It's how I did a similar operation, but still double-check all the parameters and when in doubt, read the manual and/or ask on the list. -- Joost Roeleveld -- Best Regards, Einux
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
thinkpad edge i5, intel gpu. x86_64 all good. On 03/30/11 14:31, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
