only occasionally
and never consistently.
Frank Peters
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:40:32 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
As I mentioned, a program restart usually fixes the problem. However, when
and if this problem will occur is not predictable. It happens only
occasionally
and never consistently.
I've discovered something
options may cause
problems.
Regarding LTO, I experienced a severe problem with ghostscipt due to
what I later traced to LTO:
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691768
Ever since that time I disabled LTO completely.
Frank Peters
wait until the isl problem
is sorted out.
Frank Peters
are others able to use gcc-5.1.0?
The only way to do so would be to install isl-0.14 in a different
slot but I don't think portage will allow this.
Frank Peters
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:02:17 + (UTC)
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
As I said, freedomware only, 64-bit-only is almost certainly easiest.
If, however, you're running servantware binaries of any sort, well, the
signature quote says it, you're effectively a slave to whatever whims
stuff still exists.
Frank Peters
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:29:02 -0400
Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote:
On 03/17/2015 10:55 PM, Duncan wrote:
(As for chrome, even if I could run closed source I'd not trust it.
Google is after all an ad/tracking company at core, which after
all does own the doubleclick
I
previous instructions
so only the highest X for a given processor would be appropriate.
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it wrong.
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someplace.
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instruction sets supersede MMX (and mmxext) and so the
mmxext flag is really unnecessary on Core i7 and many newer processors.
(Ffmpeg may have reasons for still using MMX but I don't know.)
Frank Peters
Windows so that *they* (RedHat) can be just
like MS Windows.
Let RedHat leave (fork) the Linux community and go their own separate
way.
Maybe it's time to begin shifting a lot more attention to Gentoo/FreeBSD.
Frank Peters
of my deliberate flaunting of convention in many
areas). Ordinarily I would prefer to avoid such contrivances and rely on
manual tweaking, but sometimes I just cannot do it all.
Frank Peters
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:56:40 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module;
It seems that the order of the module paths in xorg.conf
makes all the difference.
By placing the nvidia GLX directory before the xorg GLX
directory the problem
just move on
and not investigate further.
Frank Peters
-module-can-39-t-init-glx-driver-on-fedoracore-6/
I would doubt that this problem is really new, but it has never
affected me before.
Frank Peters
] nvidia *
[2] xorg-x11
Also, re-installing the nvidia-drivers, as the X log file suggests,
did not solve the problem.
Until I find a proper fix, I'll have to keep the xorg glx module
deleted.
Frank Peters
in
pinpointing the source of the problems. You may want to examine the
Chrome command-line options in detail to see if anything could help.
Does Google provide a debugging build of Chrome? If so then you my want
to use it.
Frank Peters
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:42:19 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
Are there command-line options to Chrome that would provide debugging
output?
After doing a quick check, I find that these switches may be helpful:
Force logging to be enabled. Logging is disabled by default
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:02:32 +1100
Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote:
So the problem seems to be java using the wrong card, how to I force
it to use the external speakers?
The application may have a configuration setting that specifies
the audio device to use. This would be found
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:59:54 +1100
Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote:
alsamixer shows 2 cards, 1 HDMI, so I presume I got the right 1.
What are your two sound cards? Do you have an NVidia graphics card
on your system? If so, then the HDMI may refer to the on-board NVidia
sound.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:35:29 +1100
Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote:
alsamixer shows 2 cards, 1 HDMI, so I presume I got the right 1.
linux # lsof /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p
linux # speaker-test -t wav -c 2
speaker-test 1.0.27.2
Playback device is default
The pcmC1D3p device refers to
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:34:10 -0400
Phil Turmel phi...@turmel.org wrote:
You may think its absolutely realistic, but the market doesn't agree
with you. Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, et al call their products
*distributions*, not *operating systems* because their customers don't
want to create
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:45:20 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
And when you look at stuff like Freedesktop the goal is for you to be
able to plug a USB headset in and have it suddenly usable for phone
calls, just like on any other modern OS.
Here is where I, among many others I
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 22:28:58 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
You're basically arguing that if somebody putting together an OS has a
working solution for something, they should spend just as much effort
maintaining 3 other solutions for that something ...
No. I am simply stating
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:25:34 + (UTC)
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Have you tried the kernel's own devtmpfs? How well does it work compared
to a static dev, etc?
No, I have not tried devtmpfs.
The reason for devtmpfs is to allow faster boots by not having udev
need to parse the
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:14:11 + (UTC)
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Again, bottom line, report kernel breakage of userspace, the same kernel
cycle that breakage happens if at all possible, which means testing an
early enough kernel rc (rc3 is good)
That certainly is good advice
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:00:20 + (UTC)
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
As for the loss of the usb static device nodes, did you (Frank) file a
bug about it breaking your userspace? That's one of Linus' most firm
kernel rules -- you do *NOT* change the userspace/kernelspace API/ABI and
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:47:30 -0400
Harry Holt harryh...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's another take from Christopher Barry, in a mailing list post from
just last month:
systemd is a coup. It is a subversive interloper designed to destroy
Linux as we know it, foisted upon us by the snarky
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:11:42 +1000
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's make ten different electric sockets, twenty different way to
calculate version number for softwares, thirty software licenses, and
don't forget to make at least five mutually-incompatible APIs for
every browser
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:04:10 +1000
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are not contributing to the solutions I use then don't be
surprised if my software goes to directions that do not accomodate
your own in-house stuffs. There are thousands of people with their own
in-house stuffs
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:58:46 -0500
Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
‘Diversity’ here is deviation from established Unix/POSIX philosophy
in system design. Years of effort to simplify programming are being
thrown away on grounds that resemble common arguments in favor of
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:22:28 -0500
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
As a professional programmer, I completely disagree with any dogma
based on philosophy rather than technical merits.
So I think many of the original ideals of UNIX are these days more
of a mindset issue than
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:24:39 -0500
Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
Someone has to write an apocalyptic novel about Linus Torvalds being
assassinated and his role taken over by the evil figures from ???.
I’m simply concerned that one day he will retire.
We are
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:48:46 -0500
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
I just said that this thread has *seriously* lacked on technical
arguments. I haven't made almost any technical argument, because
basically all the discussion has been around conspiracy theories
...
*You* call
For any who need opposing information on systemd, check out the
following web page:
http://boycottsystemd.org
This page was referenced on Slashdot recently and contains
a good overview of the undesirability of systemd. Of course,
Gentoo is mentioned as one of the few remaining distributions
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:22:38 -0500
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Barry Schwartz
chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
The words ‘Red Hat’ have put a chill down my spine for nearly 20
years.
I know, right? A company that actually pays money
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:04:32 -0500
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't *have* to use systemd; but if you *want* something
different, then you *should* contribute to the alternatives. Otherwise
people (starting with me, for what it matters) will start ignoring
you. Oh,
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:45:17 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
You can create device nodes using mknod, and I'd be
shocked if that ever went away.
But now certain static USB nodes, in particular those for
scanners, have been removed in favor of dynamic allocation
using udev or its
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:04:12 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
then how do I know that the
source code I build on my Gentoo machines hasn't been modified by someone
to provide access to my machine, networks, etc.?
There are two approaches to system development that tend to
permissions) but yet it makes
perfect sense for my situation.
Are single desktop users that much of a minority? I would hope not.
Frank Peters
?
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be irrevocably disabled for everyone whether they want it or not.
An option should never become a law.
Frank Peters
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:29:40 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
so make yourself an overlay, put an ebuild with apropriate patches there
and be happy.
Now that is excellent advice.
I've got to get working on this for myself ASAP.
Frank Peters
frame which is costly enough already.
With SSP every subroutine call will require an additional reading from
/dev/urandom to set up the canary value. This my also deplete the
kernel entropy pool.
If you want it take it but please allow me to opt out.
Frank Peters
of object oriented languages.
Indeed, a good deal of computing power today is used to support the massive
layers of abstraction that obliterate a sense of hardware and make life
easy for the programmer.
But I've said enough already.
Frank Peters
.
But, as I already indicated, these things cannot be freely discussed.
People will react strongly and begin to adduce all sorts of reasons
why such behavior is dangerous. So, for me, it is always a case of don't
talk and don't listen.
Frank Peters
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:06:35 -0500
Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net skribis:
It's amazing how people become nearly apoplectic whenever they encounter
a case of a user running entirely as root.
It’s no worse than running MSDOS
?
Frank Peters
Reader,
and the Intel ICC compiler are still 32-bit. I wish these folks would
get with the modern trends.
Frank Peters
to be buggy in places.
AMD64 should be the standard but many projects refuse to update since
reliance on multi-lib is so much simpler. As a consequence we 64-bit
purists are at a disadvantage.
Frank Peters
that: optional.
Once it stops being a choice then we begin to deviate greatly from
the once sacrosanct principles of free software.
Frank Peters
like Linux
From Scratch, which purport to give the user total understanding
and control of his system, not including alternatives to udev I begin
to have serious doubts.
Frank Peters
[abi_x86_64(-)] required by
(media-libs/mesa-9.2.5::gentoo, installed)
This message only apears when I do emerge -pvDu world. If I do a direct
emerge -pvDu llvm then no conflict message will show.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Frank Peters
as everything worked.
This condition can only be temporary as future releases of mesa
will likely use llvm = 3.4. Since on my system llvm is not used for
anything else other than mesa gallum, I'll just leave things as they are.
Frank Peters
for many years to come.
This just underscores the difference between proprietary and open source
software.
Frank Peters
knowledge or approval.
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the comments).
Why would I want to replace that comfort and ease with the expansive cacophony
that is systemd?
The freedesktop folks can do as they please, but I will never want to
join that party.
Frank Peters
the Linux GE for all time.
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these node
constraints.
I wonder if I can determine the major/minor numbers in some other way.
Maybe the /sys tree has that information. If so, then I could
completely script the process without using udev.
Thanks to all for the contribution.
Frank Peters
daemon
gets the notice and then reads the new kernel device parameters
from somewhere. But from where? If this were known then any script
could read the same parameters.
In short, if udev reads data from the kernel then a simple custom
program or script could accomplish the same thing.
Frank Peters
.
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and sane?
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?
Or is the current Gentoo implementation just an incomplete step toward the final
wayland?
Frank Peters
.
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question then
is how much will Wayland be dependent on udev? Will it be an option
or mandatory?
Frank Peters
A new linux kernel, 3.11, is now released and, as expected, the
nvidia-drivers fail to emerge.
For the impatient, a patch is available:
http://pastebin.com/qV30u23p
Just drop the patch file into /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
and you'll be good to go.
Frank Peters
know the story behind this
elimination of the newer JPEG ABI's and the step back to .so.62?
Has any functionality, such as lossless cropping, been affected?
Frank Peters
There is no problem with the latest libjpeg-turbo-1.3.0-r2. I am
just wondering why the sudden drop of the ABI's. The legacy
libjpeg has gone on to ABI 9 whereas libjpeg-turbo is reverting
to the ancient ABI 6.
Frank Peters
I just couldn't see it. Maybe because
it was listed in Position Statements, which seems more political
than technical.
Frank Peters
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:02:50 -0400
Ryan Dagey d...@dagey.com wrote:
I can only describe my own experience which should not be considered
definitive.
I use Western Digital USB HDD's, 2 TB capacity, with great success
on my Linux system. For this, one needs usb mass storage enabled
in the kernel.
-attachment/58795/
As long as someone has a patch that's good enough for me.
Frank Peters
the newer Nvidia cards.
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the bash script in its parameter list. At this point is
it agetty, or the kernel, that is responsible for executing the
autologin script?
I need to study this more.
Frank Peters
wait for the eventual rapid fix, because this
error is a real show stopper, but I will make an inquiry nonetheless.
Has anyone on the list encountered this error with nvidia and kernel-3.10?
I hope it is not, again, some strange affliction peculiar to my machine.
Frank Peters
about this problem go back to 3.10-r1 and the nvidia project should have
become involved back then.
But I suppose my impatience is getting the better of me. I like to
put these new releases behind me as quickly as I can.
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the official fix.
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of the source code, but then why is it
failing only on my system?
I do have USE=-kdrive.
Frank Peters
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:25:29 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
But, I then installed gcc-4.7.3 in a different slot and tried again to
compile.
This also failed but the error seems to be a bit different:
common/.libs/libcommon.a(xf86Events.o): In function `xf86Wakeup
.
Frank Peters
systems. Why is it failing on mine?
Has anyone on the list experienced this failure?
I would like to remove the -Werror compile flag but without patching
the source I don't see how this could be done.
Frank Peters
://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_transparent_hugepagesnum=1
I think it would probably be best to enable THP in the kernel limited
to MADV_HUGEPAGE only.
Frank Peters
Hugepages or
does the allocation occur for all applications?
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of that memory at a time (e.g., virtualization
systems such as QEMU).
I wonder if image or sound processing applications are using MADV_HUGEPAGE.
Frank Peters
to not use that mess known as udev.
-- and I hope I will always have that choice.
Frank Peters
mode if I start
gpm the disconnects will stop. If I then stop gpm, the disconnects
start up again.
I'm reporting this behavior to the LKML. It should not be happening.
Frank Peters
) but
then why would the USB disconnects suddenly halt under X.
USB is built in to the kernel; there are no USB modules loaded.
Any comments on how I could investigate this further would be appreciated.
Frank Peters
was
producing those USB disconnect messages. If the mouse is not grabbed
by something it somehow disconnects.
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less about such things, but,
for me, the issue of choice is much more than just a philosophical rant.
It has significant practical consequences as well, but a discussion
of those would be too far off topic.
Thanks to all those who offered advice.
Frank Peters
(or any equivalent).
If others desire to have it, then that is their choice, but
I should never be forced to follow along.
Hopefully, Gentoo has not lost this understanding and will strive
to maintain the wisdom.
Frank Peters
, but, since things have
been working effectively -- and this is a late model Core i7
based system -- I felt no pressing need. But your argument
has convinced me to bring this task up a few notches in priority.
Frank Peters
.
The problem seems to coincide with one of the several nvidia updates, but
this is still a guess.
My system is updated daily and I use only the Fvwm window manager (no Gnome or
K).
How can I debug this further? Both the kernel log and the X log show nothing
whatever.
Frank Peters
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:31:50 -0200
Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com wrote:
What input drivers you're using?
xf86-input-mouse-1.8.1
xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.2
Also, I am not using the auto configuration but I have a custom X config file.
Frank Peters
downgrades and
comparisons. For the moment, at least, my solution will be to
stop and then restart X.
But if things do not clear up, I eventually will have to search for
a way to debug or get some sort of diagnostic output.
Frank Peters
no motivation to change. If it
ain't broke, don't fix it.
I can research what needs to be done to change over to using evdev.
But if the legacy keyboard and mouse drivers have been made obsolete
by evdev, then why are they still being distributed? Is it only to
accommodate older systems?
Frank Peters
(brand new) that I can attach. If the
problem persists then I'll have to switch over to evdev -- but
that won't be for a few weeks yet.
Thanks for all the responses.
Frank Peters
is basically write once, read many. Also, the drive has been
formatted into several smaller partitions. For this kind of use I don't
need the capabilities of ext4. In fact I don't even need a journal and
could probably use ext2 just as well.
Frank Peters
On Mon, 7 May 2012 09:34:58 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
The Seagate drive has already been returned to the seller.
I am expecting a Western Digital Elements 2TB USB HDD to
arrive in a few days. If this new drive also fails then I
will post more information.
I just
are the sg and usb-storage modules.
The Seagate drive has already been returned to the seller.
I am expecting a Western Digital Elements 2TB USB HDD to
arrive in a few days. If this new drive also fails then I
will post more information.
Frank Peters
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