Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Android build error on Gentoo
On Friday 15 Jul 2011 12:05:22 AM James wrote: > randd <4randd gmail.com> writes: > > I am on Gentoo stable and in the past (Jun 9) I have built android > > (gingerbread) successfully. > > Hello Randd, > > Where did you get your sources/overlay/ebuild ? > > I have this cell phone (LTE 4G) on Verizon: > Samsung SCH-I510 is powered with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor > and runs on Android 2.2 Froyo OS > > > Any information on building and uploading Gingerbread > to this phone is of interest to me. > > Any details of your cross-compiling setup is of interest > too. > > Thanks in Advance, > James Hi James, I am not sure if you can upgrade your device's software yourself unless code is available (i dont think it is). You can check cyanogenmod website (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/) to check if your phone is supported or not. thanks, randd
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 802.11n PCI-E 300Mbps with AP mode?
>>> Thank you. It looks like you are using it in AP mode but in 802.11g >>> mode. Is that the case? I'm also curious if it can operate in both >>> the 2.4 and 5Ghz bands? >> >> Sorry - dont know how to tell if can use 2.4 and 5. > > It supports 2.4GHz only. Thanks, I went with a Ubiquiti SR71-E (ath9k) and miniPCIe->PCIe adapter. miniPCIe cards seem to be the only well-supported ones with a really full feature set. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Display corruption
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 01:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday, 15 July 2011 07:02:43 William Kenworthy did opine thusly: > > Hi, I have just "repurposed" a server to a desktop, added X/gnome > > and all the usual apps. However, the display is missing > > "characters" or parts of them as the png image shows. Video card > > is an inbuilt 82945G/GZ using the o915 driver on a 20" Hitachi CRT > > running 1600x1200. > > > > http://wdk.dyndns.org/Screenshot.png > > > > What setting have I missed? - appears not to be subpixel smoothing. > > I noticed it's only the b and m characters that are rendered wrong. > Does the problem persist if you use a different font? I assume this is > displayed in X and not on a text console. > Yes, its in anything X - the screendump was from evolutions text pane but literally any X text does it. But its just come good ... and I dont know why! After spending hours yesterday, and some time this morning on it went into work for a couple of hours, left it running (and nothing restarted/changed after doing the screen dump except the screensaver cut in) and its now good! gr! BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers
>> I gave it a try but there was no change. I tried plugging the TV and >> computer into a power strip and also into an isolation transformer. >> Any other ideas? > > I still think it's a driver problem. Again: it's *physically* impossible to > have these problems with the HDMI signal. At most you get "digital noise", > which means some pixels get stuck or are missing. But not what you get; > that's just something that can't be explained. > > I think it's worth reporting this as a bug upstream > (http://bugs.freedesktop.org). I've been working with a couple of devs: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39120 - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers
>> I gave it a try but there was no change. I tried plugging the TV and >> computer into a power strip and also into an isolation transformer. >> Any other ideas? > > Late to the party, but what kind of display? What connection are you > using to get from the card to the display? (i.e. I've got an LCD TV > which takes DVI, HDMI or VGA. I've got a few CRTs which only VGA...) It's a 47" LG LED HDTV connected via HDMI. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Display corruption
On Friday, 15 July 2011 07:02:43 William Kenworthy did opine thusly: > Hi, I have just "repurposed" a server to a desktop, added X/gnome > and all the usual apps. However, the display is missing > "characters" or parts of them as the png image shows. Video card > is an inbuilt 82945G/GZ using the o915 driver on a 20" Hitachi CRT > running 1600x1200. > > http://wdk.dyndns.org/Screenshot.png > > What setting have I missed? - appears not to be subpixel smoothing. I noticed it's only the b and m characters that are rendered wrong. Does the problem persist if you use a different font? I assume this is displayed in X and not on a text console. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Display corruption
Hi, I have just "repurposed" a server to a desktop, added X/gnome and all the usual apps. However, the display is missing "characters" or parts of them as the png image shows. Video card is an inbuilt 82945G/GZ using the o915 driver on a 20" Hitachi CRT running 1600x1200. http://wdk.dyndns.org/Screenshot.png What setting have I missed? - appears not to be subpixel smoothing. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale asks: While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and tried>= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my old rig, I want to mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I haven't had the light bulb moment and never can remember how to do this. This should do it:>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-174 Wonko I don't boot that machine often so it took me a bit to get around to testing it. This setting worked great. portage does what I want and we are both happy. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems
On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 21:51:52 Bill Longman wrote: > On 07/13/2011 12:38 PM, Grant wrote: > > I suppose I could also do without the PXE layer and all of its > > requirements if I install some sort of minimal storage device (flash > > drive, SD card, USB key, etc.) into each workstation for the boot > > image. I could still push updates to the boot image over the network > > almost as easily as updating the single boot image on the server. > > > > > It sounds like I should stick with ethernet for simplicity's sake. > > Yeah, PXE on the wire is the place to start if you want to boot across > the network. Start simple. Just get a handful of similar NICs and you > should be set. > > >> There's also the option of pre-made hardware thin clients that > >> typically boot from internal flash and simply provide a remote > >> interface to a central server (though most are geared towards RDP or > >> Citrix), and some are even WiFi capable. > > > > A pre-made thin client could be the way to go. Do you know of any > > that are geared toward open protocols? > > Quick query of "the oracle" yields: > > http://www.thinlabs.com/products/thin-clients/aden > > I have used AXEL thin client terminals and those require a VNC server > instance on your server per thin client, for the scenario that it sounds > like you're envisioning. It does RDP/VNC but you can get it to do > ssh/telnet on a green screen, with several sessions per seat. We've been using Neoware thin clients for a few years now. They run some HP cooked debian version. http://www.hp.com/sbso/busproducts_thinclient.html -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers
On 07/14/2011 10:44 PM, Grant wrote: I gave it a try but there was no change. I tried plugging the TV and computer into a power strip and also into an isolation transformer. Any other ideas? I still think it's a driver problem. Again: it's *physically* impossible to have these problems with the HDMI signal. At most you get "digital noise", which means some pixels get stuck or are missing. But not what you get; that's just something that can't be explained. I think it's worth reporting this as a bug upstream (http://bugs.freedesktop.org).
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Grant wrote: > I gave it a try but there was no change. I tried plugging the TV and > computer into a power strip and also into an isolation transformer. > Any other ideas? Late to the party, but what kind of display? What connection are you using to get from the card to the display? (i.e. I've got an LCD TV which takes DVI, HDMI or VGA. I've got a few CRTs which only VGA...) -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers
>> >> >>> When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of >> >> >>> fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers. xf86-video-nouveau didn't >> >> >>> have the same problem. Now I've switched to an ATI video card and >> >> >>> unfortunately I have the same problem with xf86-video-ati. I tried to >> >> >>> enable the new modesetting radeon driver in the kernel to see if that >> >> >>> would help but it doesn't work with my HD4250 card yet. Does anyone >> >> >>> know how to fix this? Here's a photo of the effect around the mouse >> >> >>> cursor: >> >> >>> >> >> >>> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/804/cursor.jpg >> >> >>> >> >> >>> - Grant >> >> >> >> The image looks to me as thos would be an analog instead of >> >> >> an digital problem. >> >> > Put all mains connectors of you PC rig into ONE wall connector >> > with something like this (ok I miss some words here again and >> > since a picture says more than even thousands of /missing/ words >> > here comes an image of what I mean:): >> > http://www.reichelt.de/Steckdosenleisten-ohne-Schalter/6-FACH-DOSE-WS-5/index.html?;ACTION=3;LA=2;ARTICLE=108651;GROUPID=4281;SID=11Thz@On8AAAIAABaBBrE9f5418078c2ea9fe6608e9765d978595 >> >> Thank you for taking the time to explain. So I'm sure I understand >> what it is I should try, I should connect my computer's power cable >> and monitor's power cable to a power strip and plug that power strip >> into an outlet? >> >> - Grant >> > > Yepp! 100% correct! :) > > Good luck! :)) > > Best regards, > mcc I gave it a try but there was no change. I tried plugging the TV and computer into a power strip and also into an isolation transformer. Any other ideas? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: > > > While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for > > my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported > > Broadcom 43xx card that generally works, but is also a pain to keep > > working. > > [snip] > > > So that leaves me with using one of the open PCMCIA card slots. I have > > two wired PCMCIA adapters, useful mostly for multi-network and > > diagnostics; so the slots are open. > > What format is the internal card? If it's mini-PCI, a standard Intel card > may be a better choice. Yes, I believe it's mini-PCI - two slots; only one used that I'm aware of. Ok, for 802.11a/b/g; not sure how well it would be for 802.11n. Ben
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2011 16:39:03 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I think it would be helpful at this point to see emerge --info and the >> sort of stuff I outlined earlier. What else can we do? >> >> There still exists the possibility of a bad piece of hardware. A >> defective GPU, thermal issues on a motherboard in a system built at >> home, etc. >> >> I also think that a network debug console of some time might be >> instructive if Dale is up to getting it operating. > > I think it would be a good idea to start a new thread, Dale. It's long since > the tree disappeared off the right side of the kmail window. > > -- > Rgds > Peter > I tend to agree.Time to start over, from the beginning, which new clean data. Machine hardware, full Gentoo configuration, xorg.conf files, etc., along with the problem statement, so that we can get a clean view of what's what. (As if we don't know...) ;-) A side note... A friend just built his first new Gentoo machine based on the Sandy Bridge processor. To get it to work it turned out we had to choose specific CFLAGS due to problems with gcc on that processor. Dale's problems might be of that nature - new hardware and very slight incompatibilities causing fairly major problems... Cheers, Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: Android build error on Gentoo
randd <4randd gmail.com> writes: > I am on Gentoo stable and in the past (Jun 9) I have built android > (gingerbread) successfully. Hello Randd, Where did you get your sources/overlay/ebuild ? I have this cell phone (LTE 4G) on Verizon: Samsung SCH-I510 is powered with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor and runs on Android 2.2 Froyo OS Any information on building and uploading Gingerbread to this phone is of interest to me. Any details of your cross-compiling setup is of interest too. Thanks in Advance, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:28, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:31:00 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >> >>> * Searching for nvidia* ... >>> [IP-] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-**260.19.29:0 >>> [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-**275.09.07:0 >>> root@fireball / # >>> >>> >> >> >>> I'm on the latest of everything that is in the tree. >>> >>> >> No you're not. You are mixing ~amd64 drivers and amd64 settings. It is >> unlikely to be the cause of your crashes, but you've tried all the likely >> causes. >> >> >> >> > > I agree. I don't think it is the settings one either but guess what, I'm > going to try them too. I did nvidia for the drivers but never checked the > settings part. Thanks for pointing that out. > > I'm going to beat this dead horse a little more. BRB > Have you tried a generic video drive to see if the problem is really related to video/kernel? Whenever the video was going crazy because kernel modules/settings/xorg and driver change, I just switch to VESA and see if it works as it should. Then I can blame video drivers. VESA and no xorg.conf was my way of testing it. -- Daniel da Veiga
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: > While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for > my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported > Broadcom 43xx card that generally works, but is also a pain to keep > working. [snip] > So that leaves me with using one of the open PCMCIA card slots. I have > two wired PCMCIA adapters, useful mostly for multi-network and > diagnostics; so the slots are open. What format is the internal card? If it's mini-PCI, a standard Intel card may be a better choice. -- Neil Bothwick Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...
After several years, I am not getting around to upgrading my wireless router - from a Linksys WRT54G to a Cisco Linksys E4200. While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported Broadcom 43xx card that generally works, but is also a pain to keep working. While it's easy to find a USB Wireless card, I'm not really interested in them - the form factor is generally prone to breaking and my D600 laptop only has two USB-ports (its main flaw), one of which I use for a USB mouse when its not in the docking station - when it is, I can't use either as they are both in the back and blocked by the docking station - so a USB wireless is kind of problematic as I would then have to take it out to dock the laptop (undesirable to say the least). So that leaves me with using one of the open PCMCIA card slots. I have two wired PCMCIA adapters, useful mostly for multi-network and diagnostics; so the slots are open. I'd like to keep the cost down - $50 USD or less; and am pretty open to different brands. However, I've found the lookups - at least linuxwireless.org - to be a little troublesome in identifying to actual cards, so I'm looking for some good recommendations. Thus far I've looked at: Cisco-Linksys WPC600N Cisco-Linksys WEC600N Cisco-Linksys WPC300N But I haven't been able to determine if they are supported under Linux. Open to other suggestions too - so long as PCMCIA compatible. Thanks, Ben
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thursday 14 July 2011 16:39:03 Mark Knecht wrote: > I think it would be helpful at this point to see emerge --info and the > sort of stuff I outlined earlier. What else can we do? > > There still exists the possibility of a bad piece of hardware. A > defective GPU, thermal issues on a motherboard in a system built at > home, etc. > > I also think that a network debug console of some time might be > instructive if Dale is up to getting it operating. I think it would be a good idea to start a new thread, Dale. It's long since the tree disappeared off the right side of the kmail window. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thursday 14 Jul 2011 10:09:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:28:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I'm going to beat this dead horse a little more. BRB > > You could try switching to Chromium ;-) Is that much different (other than the GUI) from running Konqueror with the WebKit browser engine? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong >> address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how >> you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. > > If this is a continuation of Dale's previous problems, it is most > likely that the reboot is caused by him having enabled the kernel > option to reboot on panic. The question then is, what is causing the > kernel to panic? > > W Ah, yes. I forgot that he talked about turning that on. I've never used the option myself so it didn't enter my thinking. OK, so I guess we're down to thinking this is just the same old problem with this machine? What a drag to do all this stuff and then make no headway! I think it would be helpful at this point to see emerge --info and the sort of stuff I outlined earlier. What else can we do? There still exists the possibility of a bad piece of hardware. A defective GPU, thermal issues on a motherboard in a system built at home, etc. I also think that a network debug console of some time might be instructive if Dale is up to getting it operating. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. If this is a continuation of Dale's previous problems, it is most likely that the reboot is caused by him having enabled the kernel option to reboot on panic. The question then is, what is causing the kernel to panic? W This is correct. When the kernel panics, it waits 10 seconds or so then reboots itself. I was concerned that whatever locks it up may make the CPU run at 100% or something and cause damage down the road. So, when Neil posted how to set it to do this, I set it up. It works. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong > address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how > you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. If this is a continuation of Dale's previous problems, it is most likely that the reboot is caused by him having enabled the kernel option to reboot on panic. The question then is, what is causing the kernel to panic? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Dale wrote: > I'm baakk. Anybody want to guess why? Come on, guess. First > one doesn't count. > > OK. This thing ran for a while with no problems. I'm downloading a video > while I am watching TV. I use Firefox for that because it has that download > helper tool and I like it. I couldn't find it for Seamonkey. Anyway, I'm > watching TV when I here my puter beep like it does when it is booting up the > BIOS. I look over and sure enough, it was rebooting. This is what I am > using at the moment: > > root@fireball / # equery list *xorg* firefox nvidia* > * Searching for *xorg* ... > [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.10:0 > [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.3:0 > > * Searching for firefox ... > [IP-] [ ] www-client/firefox-3.6.17:0 > > * Searching for nvidia* ... > [IP-] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29:0 > [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0 > root@fireball / # > > > There was a bump in xorg-server so I let it upgrade. I also noticed the > nvidia and updated it as well. I don't recall seeing that the last time I > looked. Anyway, Could this be xorg, Nvidia, Firefox or something else or a > combination of a couple of them? I'm on the latest of everything that is in > the tree. I'm thinking about going back to the older xorg, just to test. > > While I am at it, it ran fine before I let it upgrade xorg. Maybe I didn't > let it run long enough or something but it never crashed on me. > > Any more thoughts on this mess? > > Dale A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. KDE & Firefox are very widely used. Why should you hit this bug and not everyone else? None the less publish everything required for people to hep, emerge --info, contents of all /etc/portage/package.* files, /var/lib/portage/world, rc-update show results, etc. Maybe someone will see it when you haven't. I don't think it's the nvidia-settings stuff if you haven't run nvidia settings. On the other hand, it's new hardware which is where I'd put my bet. A flaky power supply. A funky motherboard. Bad CPU cooling causing overheating. Memory problems that are as of yet uncovered by memtest86. Bummer... - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
On Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:56:46 Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: > Another question: > > How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? It remembered what it did when it merged them originally > I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, > and I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added > (if necessary) You do not need to do this. I've never seen an ebuild in the tree that does this. If it's clobbering you are worried about, check COLLISION_PROTECT in make.conf -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 19:24, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: > >> One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2: >> >> What's the purpose of setting rc_sys? >> >> (In my case, to "xenU")l >> >> Rgds, > > > Just briefly looking at the sources... > > * It affects when some filesystems are mounted (e.g. xenfs). > * It determines if dmesg is written to /var/log/messages on boot. > * For openvz it writes a "halt record" on shutdown/reboot. > * For FreeBSD it does something with sysctl > * Probably some other stuff > Ah, so it's truly useful then ;-) Thanks for the answer! Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
[gentoo-user] Re: How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
Everyone, Thanks for the clear explanation! Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
Pandu Poluan asks: > How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? The list of files belonging to a package can be found in /var/db/pkg//-/CONTENTS. > I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and > I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if > necessary) That's not necessary, the CONTENTS file is being generated automatically from the contents in /var/tmp/portage//-/image directory. That's where packages are being installed into, and then portage copies them into the live file system. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
On Thursday, July 14 at 19:56 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: > Another question: > > How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? > > I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and > I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if > necessary) You don't tell emerge. Emerge already knows. It keeps a manifest in the package database (/var/db/pkg) and that's how it knows what to delete. Most package managers work similarly.
Re: [gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
On 07/14/2011 02:56:46 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Another question: > > How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? > > I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, > and > I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if > necessary) > emerge saves a list of all installed files. This is independent of any ebuild file. It works even if the installed version doesn't have a corresponding ebuild anymore. You can try qlist to see which files belong to that package and qfile to see the package this file belongs to. Every thing is fully automatic. That's one of the biggest advantages of Gentoo in comparison to LFS. Helmut.
[gentoo-user] How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
Another question: How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge? I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if necessary) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?
On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: > One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2: > > What's the purpose of setting rc_sys? > > (In my case, to "xenU")l > > Rgds, Just briefly looking at the sources... * It affects when some filesystems are mounted (e.g. xenfs). * It determines if dmesg is written to /var/log/messages on boot. * For openvz it writes a "halt record" on shutdown/reboot. * For FreeBSD it does something with sysctl * Probably some other stuff
[gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:28:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > I'm going to beat this dead horse a little more. BRB You could try switching to Chromium ;-) -- Neil Bothwick "Self-explanatory": technospeak for "Incomprehensible & undocumented" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:31:00 -0500, Dale wrote: * Searching for nvidia* ... [IP-] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0 root@fireball / # I'm on the latest of everything that is in the tree. No you're not. You are mixing ~amd64 drivers and amd64 settings. It is unlikely to be the cause of your crashes, but you've tried all the likely causes. I agree. I don't think it is the settings one either but guess what, I'm going to try them too. I did nvidia for the drivers but never checked the settings part. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to beat this dead horse a little more. BRB Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:31:00 -0500, Dale wrote: > * Searching for nvidia* ... > [IP-] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29:0 > [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0 > root@fireball / # > I'm on the latest of everything that is in the tree. No you're not. You are mixing ~amd64 drivers and amd64 settings. It is unlikely to be the cause of your crashes, but you've tried all the likely causes. -- Neil Bothwick "There are some ideas so idiotic that only an intellectual could believe them" George Orwell signature.asc Description: PGP signature