Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?

2011-10-10 Thread Spidey
I ended up learning how to build my own kernel with Google, basically. I've learned about timers (HPET), chipset, sata controllers, the sata/pata drivers in linux, sound architecture (alsa/oss/pulseaudio), debugging file systems and messages, about the serial terminal (stty0), about kexec, DRM + KM

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Spidey
k-samba-howto.xml > > I don't remember why but I didn't have much luck with it. However it's > been updated and cleaned up a lot so maybe it's OK. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > Cheers, > Mark > > The easiest solution, most used, is probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-04 Thread Spidey
d). > That's my doubt. Last time I've read about, you needed some script to "load" the labels. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-03 Thread Spidey
your needs, or you emerge gnome and add gdm to your default runlevel, and forget about startx. About what kernel configurations you have to check and what you have to make sure to not have checked, you can see it here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx You'll want to disable everything related to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Spidey
7;d like to keep my setup simple, no initrd. --Spidey

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Spidey
need to setup correct kernel modules and disable conflicting ones when changing from fglrx to radeon, right? Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread Spidey
I guess emerge --changelog will print ebuild changelogs, right? I'll try /usr/share/doc, and if it's not enough, go for the package website and find it there. Thank you for the suggestions. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de

[gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-01 Thread Spidey
some tool to pinpoint redundant flags is not already done, one to echo my flags separated by it's source (profile, make.conf, package.use, ebuild) would help me a lot. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

[gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-01 Thread Spidey
27;m wrong. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (Spidey) @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [gentoo-user] PulseAudio 1.0-r1 + Skype ==> Garbled output sound

2011-09-29 Thread Spidey / Claudio
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 15:57, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Arun Raghavan > wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 02:56 -0300, Spidey / Claudio wrote: > > [...] > >> My bad, hadn't synced yet before that post. I'll test it throughly

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio

2011-09-29 Thread Spidey / Claudio
simple than that: if you see the bars movind in the mixer > >> application, some sound should be made. > >> > >>> Is there a way to find out which applications might make use of the > >>> soundcard right now?! > >> > >> Probably with strace or a similar tool; however, let me see first if > >> I'm understanding the problem. This is a laptop? > > > > A usual tower machine! Core2 DUO, nothing's special! > > > > If so, the sound > >> works without headphones? The internal speakers work? > > > > with the headphones all the time > > > > There are no internal speakers (not a notebook) > >> > >> Also, can you please post the output of "pactl list"? > > Yes of course, here it is: > > > > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wDgy3x64 > > OK, I'm back on my laptop. I would have told you yesterday the > commands, but using my phone keyboard make it slightly impossible. > > The problem (I think) is that your sound card has digital and analog > outputs. At some point in the future, the kernel drivers would be able > to auto-detect which output has a cable connected to it, but right now > (AFAIK) is not working, and for some reason in your machine pulse is > sending the output through the digital output: that's the meaning of: > > Aktive Profile: output:iec958-stereo > > the last line of your "pactl list". The profile you want is > "output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo", because (if I'm not > mistaken), that's the output that sends the sound to your speakers. To > select that profile, simply do (as your normal user, not as root): > > pacmd set-card-profile 0 "output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo" > > The 0 is the index of your card (you know is this for the line "Karte > #0" in the output of pactl list), and the profile is the analog one, > both for output and input. > > Please reboot your machine with the default config files in > /etc/pulse, and with your /etc/asound.conf, to make sure no other > setting is getting in the way, and try the pacmd command. Then try > again to play music with rhythmbox. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México > > Merge pavucontrol and use it to configure pulseaudio, it's a graphical "pacmd interface" (not exactly true). Also, you don't need to reboot, only if you updated pulseaudio itself, and even then, a logout-login should be enough. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

Re: [gentoo-user] Magic SysRq didn't work today

2011-09-29 Thread Spidey / Claudio
Deleting files were slow as hell too. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1 On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:39, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 29 Sep 2011 04:40:15 Spidey / Claudio wrote: >> I have lived through some

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:27, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:18, Dale wrote: >> Spidey / Claudio wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 00:34, Pandu Poluan  wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sep 29, 2011 9:51 AM, "Dale"  wrote:

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [gentoo-user] PulseAudio 1.0-r1 + Skype ==> Garbled output sound

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 00:44, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 00:20 -0300, Spidey / Claudio wrote: >> I haven't tried the masked version, but I follow the PA maillist and >> haven't seen anything like that. I'm forwarding this message to them, >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 00:34, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2011 9:51 AM, "Dale" wrote: >> >> Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >>> >>> On Thu 29 Sep 2011 06:42:42 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: That's debian HCL, what about Gentoo? We compile the kernel ourselves man.

Re: [gentoo-user] Magic SysRq didn't work today

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
I have lived through some lock ups in the recent past, but that's because I've disassembled my desktop from it's case and assembled it at my working table. Since both PS/2 ports of the mobo are on my mouse pad (yeah, short cables, tight space), I eventually pull some cable os slap my video card. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
Also, if flash didn't work previously, that's because it was not using PA (or alsa default device), it was hardcoded to use alsa device hw0, so they "forcefully" used to use ALSA. Since PA has control over the sound device (since PA is the mixer, not ALSA), flash couldn't use it, thus no sound. I

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
pavucontrol is your friend. It lets you configure your sound devices current profile, and also set the fallback (default) sink. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1 On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 21:58, Canek Peláez Valdés

Re: [gentoo-user] PulseAudio 1.0-r1 + Skype ==> Garbled output sound

2011-09-28 Thread Spidey / Claudio
I haven't tried the masked version, but I follow the PA maillist and haven't seen anything like that. I'm forwarding this message to them, let's see what they say about it. I'll be sure to replicate their messages here in the future. Claudio Roberto França Pereir

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-26 Thread Spidey / Claudio
Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up equally while home and whil