[gentoo-user] Laptop fails boot on battery
I have an Asus Z92F laptop - a modification of Asus A6F model ICH7 chipset CoreDuo T2250 1,5GB DDR2 Intel 950 graphics ATA100 HD 80GB My problem with it is that it fails to boot into linux when working only on battery. When I plug the power supply and do a fresh boot kernel loads properly. Boot proces freezes when kernel enumerates block devices, it is unable to identify my hard drive. I've been trying with different kernel versions (2.6.20 - 2.6.24), and kernel settings - no luck - the only way to boot into linux is to connect to power supply. I'll appreciate any advice -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?
Tweak below script a little and it should do the trick - should work the way it is - but I haven't tested it, it's a port of mine video encoder for multiple directories. #!/bin/bash new_files=$(find /path/to/input/ -iname *.ogg) inc=1 for x in $new_files do filename[$inc]=$x char_count=$(stat $filename[$inc]|wc -c) name_end=$(($char_count - 6)) out_name[$inc]=$(echo $filename[$inc]|cut -c 10-$name_end) ffmpeg -i $filename -vcodec mp3 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 256k /path/to/out/$out_name.mp3 inc=$(($inc + 1)) done Mark Knecht pisze: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory hierarchy is basically band/album/audio_files. Extra points I suppose if it can write the output to a different machine across the network - Windows XP or Gentoo - so that I don't have to deal with storage issues in this end. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?
There was a bug in my pervious script #!/bin/bash new_files=$(find /path/to/input/ -iname *.ogg) inc=1 for x in $new_files do filename[$inc]=$x char_count=$(stat $filename[$inc]|wc -c) name_end=$(($char_count - 6)) out_name[$inc]=$(*stat* $filename[$inc]|cut -c 10-$name_end) ffmpeg -i $filename -vcodec mp3 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 256k /path/to/out/$out_name.mp3 inc=$(($inc + 1)) done Mark Knecht pisze: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory hierarchy is basically band/album/audio_files. Extra points I suppose if it can write the output to a different machine across the network - Windows XP or Gentoo - so that I don't have to deal with storage issues in this end. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge ignore APACHE2_MPMS?
AFAIK only one mpm at once is valid regards dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: My make.conf has this line: APACHE2_MPMS=mpm-prefork mpm-worker which used to be good enough, but now emerge ignores it: emerge -ptuvDN world | grep apache [ebuild R ] www-servers/apache-2.2.8-r2 USE=doc ssl suexec threads -debug -ldap (-selinux) -sni -static APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias asis auth_basic auth_digest authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache dumpio env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config log_forensic logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack version vhost_alias -cern_meta -charset_lite -substitute% APACHE2_MPMS=-event -itk -peruser -prefork -worker 0 kB This worked fine for the previous build, which apparently was the same version. I thought -v was supposed to flag the reasons for the rebuild with '*' but don't see one. What is really annoying is that if this is done from an xterm with DISPLAY set, it pops up a series of GUI windows prompting for MPM config details. It seems rather out of place for a supposedly automated build system, and it is also a bit puzzling why it is important enough to interrupt a build under X but not without X. Here is that part of the log: checking for sys/times.h... (cached) yes checking for times... (cached) yes checking which MPM to use... worker Worker: Can't connect to X! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth-Hotspot
I've did this thing a while ago. Bluetooth router is a cool thing, unfortunatelly only in theory. To solve Your problem, look in /etc/bluetooth directory and check the manual of bluez - there are a couple of pre-up and post-up scritps that solve the problem. I did manage to get bt router working but my usb dongle was cousing a lot of problems - long story short - one dongle was not sufficient for more than two simultanous connections. Florian Philipp pisze: Hi list! I could need some help. Long story (if you don't want to hear, scroll down): For six months a year I'm attending a university of cooperative education and although I pay 1000€ a year for infrastructure and stuff like that its services for students are a big joke. Especially its WLAN-hotspot isn't nearly up to the job. Because I have an UMTS-card my idea was to set up a personal area network (PAN) via bluetooth and act as a router to support my friends during the WLAN-outages. Most of the job is already done but I have problems setting up a DHCP-server and the network configuration. Because the virtual ethernet interface only exists when a connection is established, dhcpd doesn't start from the init-script and, although I haven't tried it yet, normal network config shouldn't fare any better. When the last client disconnects, all the configuration is gone and when someone reconnects, I have to call ifconfig bnep0 192.168.4.1 again. Short question: How do I automate the configuration of network interfaces and related deamons when the whole interface keeps appearing and disappearing out of the clear blue sky? I don't think ifplugd will be up to the job (haven't tried it though). Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
Neil Bothwick pisze: On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:37:10 -0500, Dale wrote: Maybe it was in braille? o_O No, my screen was still smooth as well as blank :) I'd say the answer is a definite maybe. There is nothing to laugh about - it's M$'s new mail filtering system. if [ $user = $windows_live_user ] ; then do case $user_requested_action in linux_connected_activity) $user_data /dev/null activate_bsod(); ;; every_other_action) tail /dev/random $user_data echo Sending Your message - please wait sleep 10 activate_bsod() ;; done
[gentoo-user] ffmpeg ffserver problems
I'm trying to create a streaming server using ffmpeg, and I'm stuck, so please advise if You can. I've tested : * *ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326* * *ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616* Both versions behave the same way. This is my emerge -pv ffmpeg /media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326 USE=a52 aac amr bindist debug doc encode imlib mmx mp3 network theora threads x264 xvid zlib -X (-altivec) -hardcoded-tables -ieee1394 -ipv6 -sdl -test -truetype -vorbis/ This command: *# ffmpeg -r 25 -s 352x288 -y -f video4linux2 -vc 1 -i /dev/video0 -f oss -itsoffset 00:00:00.500 -i /dev/dsp -isync -vcodec wmv1 -acodec wmav1 /tmp/test.wmv *gives me a perfect wmv file created from bt878 card and audio card Unfortunatelly when I run: *# ffserver -f /etc/ffserver/ffserver.conf # ffmpeg -r 25 -s vga -y -f video4linux2 -vc 1 -i /dev/video0 -f oss -itsoffset 00:00:00.500 -i /dev/dsp -isync http://localhost:8090/feed.ffm* I get no viewable steam from ffserver, although everything is encoding like it should (at least that is what shell tells me) My ffserver.conf : (the important parts atleast) # Port 8090 BindAddress 0.0.0.0 MaxClients 1000 MaxBandwidth 2 CustomLog /var/log/ffserver/access_log Feed feed.ffm FileMaxSize 200K ACL allow 127.0.0.1 /Feed Stream stream.asf Feed feed.ffm Format asf AudioBitRate 64 AudioChannels 1 AudioSampleRate 22050 VideoBitRate 256 VideoBufferSize 400 VideoFrameRate 15 VideoSize 160x128 VideoGopSize 25 AudioCodec wmav1 VideoCodec wmv1 VideoQMin 3 VideoQMax 16 Preroll 15 StartSendOnKey /Stream ###
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
Hi In my system I didn't bother with any of embedded file systems - I've created 1 GB ext2 partition (journalising in ext3 increases read/write count), and it worked just like any other hard drive. Bios detected correct capacity - I was lucky with that, but in case where BIOS doesn't detect CF card properly google is Your friend. I don't have all doc I've used during setup but I remember reading this one http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-cf.html regards Stroller pisze: On 18 Mar 2008, at 10:33, Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:47 +, Stroller wrote: On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards talk IDE. Yes they are. Another thought crossed my mind today: Does wear leveling work if I create loopback devices (ext2-formatted) on FAT32? Surely so. In this case you would be writing to the flash device's FAT32 filessystem. It doesn't matter if you're writing a .RAW picture file, an .iso or your loopback fs. By the way: Why is wear leveling filesystem-dependent anyway? No idea. Please note that in this thread I have stated that I _understand_ wear-levelling to be filesystem-dependent - it is others who have made replies stating this more confidently. I would have thought it were working on blocks (like device mapper, cryptsetup, lvm and so on) and not on files. Ah! But here we come back to the problem of recording how many times a given block has been written upon, in order not to kill that block. Most filesystems don't have to do that. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] jffs2 on gentoo
Florian Philipp pisze: On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:27 +, James wrote: Hello, I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and and old 4 gig ide disk: /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104400244 81% / /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot I have a 4 gig Cf card (sandisk) and a ide-cf card that should make the CF card look like an ide hard drive. I've been searching for a wiki or something that describes the general sequence of events to migrate the existing gentoo system to the CF/ide disk, with no luck. I did find this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mounting_a_block_device_with_JFFS2 But it seems vague(outdated) and missing many steps. Or am I confused? I'm just looking for some outline or verbose steps to replace an ide drive on a system with a CF/ide drive and jffs2, as I have many systems that I'd like to do this with, for core reliability on minimalistic gentoo servers. I plan on having additional space on these systems (when needed) via NFS. Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. James As far as I know you won't need jffs2 (or any other fs for flash memory). It is meant to be used on embedded devices that directly access the flash memory. In your case, the CF-disk takes care of wear leveling. Just use ext2. However, you could still get problems because, as far as I know, wear leveling needs to be tuned for the FS and most probably no one tuned the CF-disk for ext2. Maybe you could use fat instead... I did this sort of system a while ago. I've used 1GB card with gentoo and cf-ide adapter. There are some tricky parts that nobody mentions. One of them is that I wasn't able to boot from my 1GB hard drive when it was connected via 80 pin ide cable, I've dig up some old 40 pin ata cable and it worked. Other things you have to remeber concern file system usage, you musn't create swap partition, disable local syslog, log rotation, turn everything except desired daemons etc. regards dexter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
Stroller pisze: On 15 Mar 2008, at 20:17, James wrote: dexters84 dexters84 at gmail.com writes: Other things you have to remeber concern file system usage, you musn't create swap partition, disable local syslog, log rotation, turn everything except desired daemons etc. Where did you get the idea not to use swap? Too many writes. (dexters writes disable local syslog, log rotation for the same reason) I believe the size of the writes can be relevant as well. In any case, swapfs was not designed for flash memory (see also Windows Vista's ReadyBoost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost). Stroller. That was exactly my point. Systems based on cf card as hard drive are usually small - one function focused devices, hence there is no need for swap partition. To extend lifetime of cf card you have to minimize all possible read/writes to card. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache 2 + portage
Hi I'm a little confused as long as new Apache use flags are concerned. With old Apache versions ( pre 2.2.6) all valid flags shown in *emerge -pv Apache* could have been set in /etc/portage/package.use in following format *www-servers/apache flag flag -foo -bar flag* and life was great :) Unfortunately with the new version the concept changed. Some flags contain *% *some contain* ** and some both (not sure what it is for) - I only know that flags enclosed like this *(flag) *are the one I have selected before. My main problem is that emerge apache command is not affected by flag settings in /etc/portage/package.use in any way. How do I properly set new apache flags ? Where do I define APACHE2_MODULES ? Where do I define APACHE2_MPMS ? regards dexter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
