[gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails
In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force OK, I did 'cd /var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.13/work/lcms-1.13' and ran 'libtoolize --copy --force'. When subsequent 'emerge lcms' commands failed, I read the emerge man page. It seemed that 'emerge --resume lcms' would be appropriate after doing the libtoolize thing again. However, it failed with the same output. How can I resolve this issue? And once resolved, is there anyway to resume the 'emerge --emptytree world' or should I just start over. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re:Pocket Outlook and IMAP - (Was re: Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?)
On 5/13/2005 9:55 AM Stroller wrote: On May 12, 2005, at 8:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have Postfix running and I happily read email on my server, but I'd like to read my email on my IMAP/SSL cellphone client. I've seen Courier, UW, and Cyrus, and perhaps there are others. Any recommendations, for or against? I really like Courier-IMAP, which is Courier without maildrop or the webmail. I installed maildrop separately, but use Squirrelmail for the latter. As a client I mostly use Apple's Mail.app, but have also used Entourage, kMail and Outlook Express happily. I've been accessing my Courier-IMAP mailboxes from the Windows Mobile client on my new phone sporadically for the past two or three weeks. It seems to work well, with the proviso that the client doesn't seem delete to messages from the server when I delete them on the phone's inbox, and that I can't view sub-folders. I suppose it's possible this is because I have something configured wrong, or because I've simply never waited for the 10,000 messages in my typical sub-folder to synchronise, but it doesn't matter to me, because I simply want to be able to access an up-to-date inbox on my IMAP server. I can move messages from my inbox to sub-folders, and this works perfectly, so I suppose you could delete items from your inbox by moving them to Trash. This is a known problem with the Windows Pocket Outlook email client and Courier IMAP (and probably most if not all IMAP servers). I don't quite get it but it has to do with the client not recognizing 'namespace'. For example, Pocket Outlook sees all my folders as "Inbox.folder". Thus 'Deleted Items' is seen by Pocket Outlook as 'Inbox.Deleted Items' . Since a "Delete" in Pocket Outlook is really a "move to Deleted Items" this fails because "Deleted Items" does not exist - only "Inbox.Deleted Items". The only workaround I have found is as you mention, move the item to the appropriate folder. If anyone has found another way, I'd be very happy to hear about it. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
On 5/13/2005 10:39 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the fine comments. You are the second to recommend courier-imap, and I'll probably go that route. Re the phone behavior, I wonder if the cause of yours is the same as mine: I just discovered that although my phone can talk to IMAP servers, it really only implements POP-like functions, so it does not delete messages on the server, nor does it understand subdirectories. You may check with your phone's email client's provider, perhaps you too have these limitations. Comments in my previous email are based upon my experience with both Windows Mobile 2003 regular and Phone Edition. Both had full IMAP function and both have the same namespace issue. Both see subdirectories but with the 'Inbox.subdir' format that I mentioned because of not understanding that 'Inbox' is the namespace and thus, can be removed. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails
On 5/14/2005 8:56 AM Tim Igoe wrote: Edit /usr/portage/media-libs/lcms/lcms-1.13.ebuild and change the line that says 'elibtoolize' to 'libtoolize --copy --force' and try again. That should fix it. A quick search of forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) and bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) would have given you the same answer. I found similar info and tried your suggestion. However then I got a message about the file size not matching. I don't remember exactly but I took it to mean that the MD5 checksums no longer matched. I didn't see anything in emerge man page about overriding the checksum check. Thanks, Drew Drew Tomlinson wrote: In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force OK, I did 'cd /var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.13/work/lcms-1.13' and ran 'libtoolize --copy --force'. When subsequent 'emerge lcms' commands failed, I read the emerge man page. It seemed that 'emerge --resume lcms' would be appropriate after doing the libtoolize thing again. However, it failed with the same output. How can I resolve this issue? And once resolved, is there anyway to resume the 'emerge --emptytree world' or should I just start over. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails
On 5/14/2005 8:59 AM Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In an attempt to "clean up" my newly installed and get everything back to "default" as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world". The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force OK, I did 'cd /var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.13/work/lcms-1.13' and ran 'libtoolize --copy --force'. When subsequent 'emerge lcms' commands failed, I read the emerge man page. It seemed that 'emerge --resume lcms' would be appropriate after doing the libtoolize thing again. However, it failed with the same output. How can I resolve this issue? And once resolved, is there anyway to resume the 'emerge --emptytree world' or should I just start over. Thanks, Drew Drew, There are reports on this in Bugzilla as well as a masked fix. I would have recommended ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv lcms but now that you've done the force step I'm not sure what you should do. In the future I'd recommend against anything that uses strong words like force just based on how much trouble that can cause on other distros. Maybe you can still add lcms ~x86 to package.keywords and be OK but you'll want someone better than me to tell you yes or no on that one. - Mark Thanks. I will try this as I don't think the "force" did anything because I continue to get the same message. Good advice about "force" language in the future. I'll think twice next time. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
On 5/14/2005 12:54 PM Richard Fish wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: insmod: error inserting 'advansys.ko': -1 Invalid module format So is this because the module really won't work with Gentoo 2005.0? Or does this have something to do with 'depmod'. I'm beginning to think that what I'm trying to do isn't possible, short of installing on my IDE drive and then building my own LiveCD with all the required parts. I can't believe it's supposed to be this hard. I must be missing the obvious. The problem loading the module is probably due to the difference in kernel versions or compilation options. I am not surprised that the module from 2.6.9 didn't work... You best bet may be to do an initial installation to the IDE drive, build a custom kernel there with the Advansys SCSI driver, then transfer the system to your SCSI disk. That should be faster than making a custom live CD. Thanks. I finally got the system installed via a Knoppix CD. Since Knoppix included the Advansys driver, I was able to install directly to my SCSI drives as I wished. Ironically, Knoppix did not see my IDE card attached to the PATA port on my Promise 150 SATA controller. :) But no matter, once I built Gentoo and used genkernel with slight modification (i.e. adding the Advansys support), everything is working fine. Now if I could just get MythTV running! :) Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Do I Need bttv?
I'm trying to build a MythTV box on Gentoo based upon snippets of various guides I've found on the web. My TV card is Hauppauge's PVR-250. From what I've gathered, ivtv is the appropriate software to use with this card. However, bttv is loaded on startup in addition to ivtv. So my questions are: 1. Do I need bttv? 2. If I don't need bttv, how can I prevent bttv from loading on startup? I never asked for to start but I assume it gets loaded because I used genkernel to build my kernel. I suspect it has something to do with either hotplug or coldplug? I've checked /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and rc-update and don't see bttv listed. Thanks for your help! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)
On 5/22/2005 6:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: Brett, Thanks for your help. One way or another it finally started working. I don't know yet whether it will survive a reboot. I'll probably do that test later this evening or tomorrow but at least I'm finally getting v4l devices. I think it was most likely a combination of not using the existing tarball (whatever and whereever that is!) and then running the right drivers. Even after rebooting the dev/v4l devices weren't there, but then when I started running some programs that try to use them they suddenly showed up. All I hope for now is that they don't suddenly disappear! Anyway, thanks for the ideas. cheers, Mark On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try the tarball no. It may be using the old devfs tarball. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what about the tarball? # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev do not handle/know about. # (ONLY used by UDEV enabled systems!) RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" # Set to "yes" if you want devfsd to start upon bootup. This is # the default for Gentoo. # Set to "no" only if you understand the full implications. A # number of files may need to be altered (i.e. /etc/inittab, # /etc/fstab, etc.). # Also note that it does _NOT_ start for UDEV enabled systems, # even if RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP="yes" ... RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP="no" Brett, My /etc/conf.d/rc file looks a bit different but good enough I hope. I do not have a variable called RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP. None the less I've rebuilt the kernel yet again (5th time today?) completely removing devfs and even with these settings I am not getting /dev/v4l devices: # Use this variable to control the /dev management behavior. # auto - let the scripts figure out what's best at boot # devfs - use devfs (requires sys-fs/devfsd) # udev - use udev (requires sys-fs/udev) # static - let the user manage /dev #RC_DEVICES="auto" RC_DEVICES="udev" # UDEV OPTION: # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" udev is starting and the messages at boot time look OK to me. I'm thinking I must somehow be barking up the wrong tree. I do not understand the udev language but it would seem that it cannot be that difficult. Why are there no v4l devices? # v4l devices KERNEL="video[0-9]*", NAME="v4l/video%n", SYMLINK="video%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="radio[0-9]*", NAME="v4l/radio%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="vbi[0-9]*", NAME="v4l/vbi%n", SYMLINK="vbi%n", GROUP="video" KERNEL="vtx[0-9]*", NAME="v4l/vtx%n", GROUP="video" The rules do not seem to be the problem. They are standard in the rules file. Therefore there must be something not happening to cause them to get invoked, or possibly something that did happen taht caused them to be invalid. Problem is I don't have a clude what makes this happen? Why do any of these get involed in the first place? Is there some caracter device I need to create to make them happen the first time? I haven't found evidence of that in the wiki's but maybe I've missed it. Thanks much, Desperately Mark I'm very new to both Linux and Gentoo and thus my input may be way off base. However I experienced a similar problem as you after following the udev guide on the Gentoo site. For whatever reason, after converting to udev only, ivtv no longer started by itself on boot up and thus, I did not have the /dev/video devices. I confirmed that ivtv was not loaded by using lsmod. After starting ivtv by hand, the /dev/video devices were created. Maybe this is what's happening to you? So now I am in the position of not knowing the proper way to start ivtv on boot. I checked the /etc/init.d for an ivtv script but did not find one. Should I make one and then use rc-update? Or is there another way I should do this in Gentoo? Hope you find something of use in my post. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)
On 5/25/2005 4:16 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:11:59 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So now I am in the position of not knowing the proper way to start ivtv on boot. I checked the /etc/init.d for an ivtv script but did not find one. Should I make one and then use rc-update? Or is there another way I should do this in Gentoo? If you only need to load a module, add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.X Thank you. That works!!! Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to Install Bacula Client Using Portage?
I'm new to both Gentoo and Linux so I apologize if this is a stupid question. I've used bacula on FreeBSD and would like to put the bacula client on a Gentoo box I have running MythTV. Is there a way to build the client only using portage? Or do I have to build the whole thing and then only start the client? I've read the handbook on gentoo.org but can not seem to figure this one out. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to Install Bacula Client Using Portage? -- SOLVED!!!
On 7/8/2005 3:51 PM Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Drew, emerge -s bacula shows only one emerge candidate. Looks liek you have to build them both through portage. Hope this helps, Mark Thank you and Andrew MacKenzie for your replies. I found this site on the web: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-backup/bacula It seems to me that the newer 1.36.3 & -r1 ebuilds include a USE flag that will build just the client. I've added the appropriate "~x86" flag in /etc/portage/package.keywords to get version 1.36.3-r1. Then I added the following line in /etc/portage/package.use: app-backup/bacula client-only This seems to do it as emerge -pv confirms portage sees the flag: app-backup/bacula-1.36.3-r1 +X +client-only -gnome +mysql +ncurses -postgres +readline -sqlite -static +tcpd Thanks again! Drew On 7/8/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm new to both Gentoo and Linux so I apologize if this is a stupid question. I've used bacula on FreeBSD and would like to put the bacula client on a Gentoo box I have running MythTV. Is there a way to build the client only using portage? Or do I have to build the whole thing and then only start the client? I've read the handbook on gentoo.org but can not seem to figure this one out. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit "jumpy" as if the video hardware is not fast enough. Keeping the video smaller in a window produces much better results. As you might expect, the larger the video picture, the worse the jumpiness gets. Results are the same with both Totem and VLC. I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
On 12/25/2007 8:56 AM Stroller said the following: On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. You should demonstrate that your xorg.conf is referencing the appropriate ATi driver. Stroller. Thank you for your reply. I'm not sure how to demonstrate other that pasting the relevant section xorg log: (II) LoadModule: "fglrx" (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc." compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.43.2 Module class: X.Org Video Driver Is this sufficient? Thanks, Drew Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
On 12/25/2007 10:19 AM Grant Edwards said the following: On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit "jumpy" as if the video hardware is not fast enough. It's pretty hard to believe that the video hardware is the problem. I've played back DVDs on laptop ATI chipsets a decade older than yours and it worked fine. I've currently got a two year old ATI laptop chipset (X300?), and it has no trouble playing DVDs using either the Radeon or the fglrx drive. My guess is the optical drive doesn't have DMA enabled. DMA is enabled. If it were not, I would also expect to see the choppiness no matter what the video size. tagalong conf.d # hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: IO_support= 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) You may want to check to make sure the XV video overlay support is enabled, but even without it, playing back SD video purely in software shouldn't be a problem on anything with a CPU faster than 500MHz. How can I verify XV video overlay support? I'm sure my CPU is capable as its an AMD Turion dual core running at 1.6ghz. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?
On 12/25/2007 9:49 AM András Csányi said the following: 2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit "jumpy" as if the video hardware is not fast enough. Keeping the video smaller in a window produces much better results. As you might expect, the larger the video picture, the worse the jumpiness gets. Results are the same with both Totem and VLC. I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my xorg.conf if there's a possibility that some tweak will improve performance. Hi! I have this problem but i have another ATI inegrated card (01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]) The solution is the next: - use fglrx (you have to test the 3D rendering with fgl_fglxgears command) - use mplayer with -vo gl or -vo gl2 option (the gl and gl2 is opengl video output) I have fglrx and verified it works. I have not tried mplayer. Does mplayer work better than other players? I hope i can help you. András ps.: sorry my english :) Your English is good. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since. Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop. There is a unofficial hack discussed at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0&start=0. It has worked for many but not for me. If anyone knows any other tricks, I'd be happy to hear about them. I'm using a gentoo 2.6.23-r5 kernel with the Broadcom 4311 driver. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User
I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any suggestions on how to get this going? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any suggestions on how to get this going? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)
Philip Webb wrote: 080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu ? If the latter, check that the menu is using the correct command (eg use Kmenuedit). If the former, are there any error messages ? I have started it both ways as a user. As root, I start from the CLI after su to root from my user login. There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and then a progress bar at the bottom of the splash graphic progresses in about 10 seconds and OpenOffice starts. The progress bar never progresses when starting as a user. I have to kill oosplash.bin with signal 15 after starting as a user to return my system to normal. Some more Googling turned up this post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623771-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html?sid=1514fa8e48f6a12a86c6c66e920161e9 I found that when I su to root, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined. As a user, it is defined as: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and then a progress bar at the bottom of the splash graphic progresses in about 10 seconds and OpenOffice starts. The progress bar never progresses when starting as a user. I have to kill oosplash.bin with signal 15 after starting as a user to return my system to normal. Some more Googling turned up this post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623771-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html?sid=1514fa8e48f6a12a86c6c66e920161e9 I found that when I su to root, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined. As a user, it is defined as: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? See http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LD_LIBRARY_PATH So the question is one of hunting down where this variable is set. Your .bashrc? Perhaps grepping through /etc/env.d? Thank you for your reply. The culprit appears to be /etc/profile.d/ati-fglrx.sh. So if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not a good idea, why does the ATI driver do so? And more importantly, how can I workaround this issue? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth they are using... Ideally, I'd like to see a real-time list of the main bandwidth consuming communicators... So you want to monitor the traffic going through your router? I imagine that would be difficult to do from one of the endpoints in your LAN (your Gentoo box). The switch should only route to your machine traffic destined for it, so how to measure the bandwidth the other machines are consuming between themselves and the outside world? If there is a way to do this I'd be very interested :) Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need to make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the ADSL router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any one of numerous tools I concur with the above poster and use a FreeBSD machine as my gateway. There is a tool called 'trafshow' I use for quick real time traffic analysis which might be useful for you. I found it in portage: net-analyzer/trafshow Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?
For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? For me both work fine. Thanks. I'll keep checking on this end. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?
ionut cucu wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:23:05 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: === On Monday 14 April 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: === For the past few days, anytime I've attempted to get to gentoo-wiki or gentoo-portage, my browser just "sits". I connect to other sites just fine. It may be my firewall/IDS but I'm not sure. Are these sites still available? For me both work fine. Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Thanks. I suspect it's normally a good page. However when I attempted to open it, I got a page with this text: The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. :) Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? Thanks, Drew --- BEGIN Errors --- # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml" Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: EncryptedLocalStore database access error at flash.data::EncryptedLocalStore$/processErrorCode() at flash.data::EncryptedLocalStore$/getItem() at TweetDeck/init() at TweetDeck/___TweetDeck_WindowedApplication1_applicationComplete() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent() at mx.managers::SystemManager/preloader_preloaderDoneHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.preloaders::Preloader/displayClassCompleteHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/timerHandler() at mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/initCompleteHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.preloaders::Preloader/dispatchAppEndEvent() at mx.preloaders::Preloader/appCreationCompleteHandler() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/set initialized() at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation() at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply() at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2() at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher() -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I >> followed >> http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on- >> gentoo-linux to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. >> It starts but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this >> working? >> > > never heard of the product, but: > > >> # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl >> /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml >> /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": >> libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >> directory >> This file does not exist. I Googled in an attempt to find which port contains this library but was unsuccessful. However this bug report suggests this is a cosmetic error only. http://bugs.gentoo.org/217094 >> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": >> This is interesting: # find / -iname "libcanberra-gtk-module.so" find: ftsfind.c:475: consider_visiting: Assertion `state.type != 0' failed. Aborted # find / -iname "libcanberra-gtk-module.so" find: ftsfind.c:475: consider_visiting: Assertion `state.type != 0' failed. Aborted But I did find it here: /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so >> libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file >> or directory >> I/O warning : failed to load external entity >> "/etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml" >> Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. >> libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >> > > It's obviously complaining about missing libraries. Do these files exist > anywhere on your machine? > > You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. > What might I need to add? I looked in the directory and found lots of files. Thus I suspect I need to create a file and add the proper line. Would it be some sort of "LD_PATH=" line? > Looks like a classic case of Adobe *nix-cluelessness > Combined with my classic *nix-cluelessness regarding libraries and paths... :) Thanks for your help! Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] 32 Bit Libraries (Was Adobe Air and TweetDeck)
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I > followed > http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on-gentoo-linux > to get the SDK installed and attempted to run TweetDeck 0.25. It starts > but I get a lot of errors. Has anyone had luck getting this working? > > Thanks, > > Drew > > --- BEGIN Errors --- > > # /opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl > /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": > libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory > I/O warning : failed to load external entity > "/etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml" > Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml. > libgnome-keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > [snip] I've continued my search and think my problem is that I am running amd64 and Adobe Air is 32 bit. Thus I am missing 32 bit versions of libgnomebreakpad.so and libcanberra-gtk-module.so. Can anyone tell me how I might add these to my system? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] 32 bit Libraries on amd64
Is there some way to get 32 bit versions of libgnomebreakpad.so and libcanberra-gtk-module.so installed on my amd64 gentoo box? I'm attempting to run an Adobe Air application that requires these libraries. I can't seem to turn up anything on Google and am a total newb when it comes to libraries and such. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade
I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. Any suggestions on how to get things working again? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade
walt wrote: > On 08/03/2009 11:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I >> also followed the ATI Migration guide at >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. >> >> Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are >> unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically >> it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the >> guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to >> shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a >> slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 >> and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. > > Do you have the Windows vbox guest additions installed in the Windows > guests? If so, you should be able to resize the guest window just like > any other X window. Hm, not sure if the guest additions are available > for Win7 yet, but definitely are for XP. Worth a try, anyway. I know I installed them but maybe I did it when running Virtualbox 2.x. If I can't see the Virtualbox screens, how can I install/re-install the guest additions? Is there some way to do that from a command line? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED
Al wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. Any suggestions on how to get things working again? Thanks, Drew Hi I have the same problem however I have been able to start a machine from the comand line, ~ VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm < name of your machine> I also tried VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm < name of your machine> but this gave the same unreadable screen. The same results repeated with a new machine also. Installing the guest additions has no effect. Have not got around to investigating any further yet. I tried moving my old xorg.conf out of the way and running X without any conf. Then I started a Virtualbox machine and the display was fine. Must have been something in the old xorg.conf that didn't jive with the xorg 1.6. Everything else worked too except my synaptics touchpad. I killed X and ran X -configure and let it create a xorg.conf file for me. Then I cut an pasted the synaptics part from my old file into this new and restarted X. Everything now works. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading
Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue persists. In my previous Gentoo install and other Gentoo installs, autoloading modules worked. I do not know why they are not loading in this case. I have the following: mythfe01 mythtv # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 abituguru ftdi_sio lirc_i2c Yet on reboot, these modules don't load. Loading manually works fine: mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe abituguru mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe ftdi_sio mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c Can anyone tell me where my error may be? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading
John covici wrote: on Thursday 11/27/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources > > 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue > > persists. In my previous Gentoo install and other Gentoo installs, > > autoloading modules worked. I do not know why they are not loading in > > this case. > > > > I have the following: > > > > mythfe01 mythtv # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 abituguru > > ftdi_sio > > lirc_i2c > > > > Yet on reboot, these modules don't load. Loading manually works fine: > > > > mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe abituguru > > mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe ftdi_sio > > mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c > > > > Can anyone tell me where my error may be? > > I think I read something after one of my upgrades that said loading > modules was changing. If you keep your logs, check the messages that > appear when portage installs a package. I only use nvidia here as a > module so I didn't pay much attention after the reboot worked. > > I also checked emerge.log but I didn't recognize the package. Maybe > this will help tho. If you are using base layout 2.x then the name has changed along with a number of other things -- there is a migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml Hope this helps. Yes, I am using base layout 2. This nudge is what I needed. Thanks for all the replies! Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:11 +, Stroller wrote: > > >> So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd >> appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained >> the same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date >> immediately. >> > > ntpd will not change the time if the difference is too large, the man > page gives the limit. You need to run both at boot; ntp-client sets the > time immediately, no matter what the skew, then ntpd keeps the clock in > time. > To avoid running ntp-client and ntpd, look at the -g switch for ntpd. It will make the big jump once and then keep the clock in sync. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation
I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's very easy to choose between "low" and "high" bandwidth connections with the Windows version. I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation
David Negreira wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's very easy to >> choose between "low" and "high" bandwidth connections with the Windows >> version. >> >> I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not >> appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Drew >> >> >> > Hi, > > You could use grdesktop that has all that features. > Thank you for your reply. However grdesktop appears to be only for connecting to Windows Remote Desktop and NOT VNC. Am I missing something? I need to connect to VNC servers. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation
Aaron Clark wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's very easy to >> choose between "low" and "high" bandwidth connections with the Windows >> version. >> >> I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not >> appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. >> > > Did you check the version numbers for the two TightVNC clients? You > might need to switch to a ~arch version of Tight on Gentoo if the > stable version is too old. > > If you're running Gnome, you could also take a look at Vinagre as a > client. It does connection bookmarking, multiple connections on tabs, > etc. Thanks to all for the suggestions. My TightVNC on Linux is version 1.3.9 and is from net-misc/tightvnc-1.3.9-r2. As I am using Gnome, I've installed Vinagre and it appears to be what I need. I just wish there was some way to scroll in fullscreen mode. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient
I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do the same on a Gentoo client. I've Googled and found that pptpclient should do what I want. I've followed this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_VPN_client_setup_with_pptpclient I've also come across other guides that are very similar to the one above. After following the guide, I am still unable to connect. I see the following in /var/log/messages: (Please note that I have replaced the actual IP address with "") Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: pppd options in effect: Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: debug # (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: nodetach # (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: logfd 2# (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: dump # (from command line) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: noauth # (from /etc/ppp/peers/d ca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: name username # (from /etc/ppp /peers/dca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: remotename# (from /etc/ppp/peers/dca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]:# (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: pty pptp --nolaunchpppd --log level 2 # (from /etc/ppp/peers/vpn) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: ipparam # (from /etc/ppp/peers/dca) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: nobsdcomp # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: nodeflate # (from /etc/ppp/options.pptp) Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: pppd 2.4.4 started by tomlinson_dr, uid 0 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: using channel 12 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pppd[7781]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7782]: anon log[main:pptp.c:272]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7786]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7786]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:05 tagalong pptp[7786]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pppd[7781]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1] Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pptp[7788]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pptp[7788]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:06 tagalong pptp[7788]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:07 tagalong pptp[7790]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Feb 10 08:34:07 tagalong pptp[7790]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:07 tagalong pptp[7790]: anon log[pptp_read_some:pptp_ctrl.c:543]: read returned zero, peer has closed Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pptp[7782]: anon fatal[open_callmgr:pptp.c:439]: Could not launch call manager after 3 tries. Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Modem hangup Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Connection terminated. Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Script pptp --nolaunchpppd --loglevel 2 finished (pid 7782), status = 0x1 Feb 10 08:34:08 tagalong pppd[7781]: Exit. Here are the contents of my /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: # Secrets for authentication using CHAP # clientserver secret IP addresses #\'\' * \'\' usernameIP Address password * And finally, my connect script from /etc/ppp/peers/vpn: pty "pptp IP Address --nolaunchpppd --loglevel 2" name username remotename IP address file /etc/ppp/options.pptp noauth ipparam IP Address Any ideas on what I'm missing? I've been at this for two days but can not figure out my errors. In cases where the guide indicates using a VPN server name, I have tried with both a made up (but common) server name and the actual IP address as this VPN server does not have a resolvable name. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient -- SOLVED
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On > Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect > without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do > the same on a Gentoo client. > > I've Googled and found that pptpclient should do what I want. I've > followed this guide: > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_VPN_client_setup_with_pptpclient > Any ideas on what I'm missing? I've been at this for two days but can > not figure out my errors. In cases where the guide indicates using a > VPN server name, I have tried with both a made up (but common) server > name and the actual IP address as this VPN server does not have a > resolvable name. > > Never mind. I found the problem. The VPN concentrator still had a connection registered for my IP address. Once that was cleared, I was able to connect. Sorry for the noise. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP -- SOLVED!!!
On 07/03/07 06:17 Drew Tomlinson said the following: I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this card with dri enabled. I followed the guides at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml and I've also Googled for a week with no success. With the x11 drivers installed, I get this error message when starting X: (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I've emerged ati-drivers and set make.conf to include the fglrx driver as suggested in the ATI guide. However when loading the fglrx.ko module, I get an error about "...taints the kernel". Thus I suspect I have some option set in my kernel that conflicts with the fglrx module? I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? Seems the module was never loading due to a conflict because DRI was compiled into the kernel. I had read that I needed to disable that option which I did and recompiled the kernel (over and over again). However the one step I missed was copying the newly compiled kernel from the source directory to the /boot directory. Oh the answers are always so simple... It's finding them that's tough. :) Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?
On 8/3/2007 7:15 AM Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-08-03, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: Flashplayer 9 doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it in both Opera and Firefox, but for most videos (e.g. nytimes.com) it just sits there with the spinning "loading" arrow. Clicking play does nothing. Working here. I had a similar problem on a Kubuntu system, and it was audio related (disabling aRTs was the solution). Are you using aRTs, gstreamer or similar? No, and flashplayer doesn't have any problems with sound on videos from other sites or with videos using a smaller format on nytimes.com This may help: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=186198 Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched
I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't know much about how portage works so I am at a complete loss. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've included the emerge output below: >>> Emerging (3 of 10) media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 to / * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ] * You enabled the 'xvmc' USE flag, you must have a GeForce 4 or * greater to use this. Otherwise, you'll have crashes with MythTV * This ebuild now uses a heavily stripped down version of your CFLAGS * Don't complain because your -momfg-fast-speed CFLAG is being stripped * Only additional CFLAG issues that will be addressed are for binary * package building. >>> Unpacking source... * * ERROR: media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 1654: Called dyn_unpack * ebuild.sh, line 768: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_unpack * mythtv-0.20.2_p14357.ebuild, line 108: Called subversion_src_unpack * subversion.eclass, line 254: Called subversion_fetch * subversion.eclass, line 179: Called die * * subversion.eclass: ESVN_REPO_URI (or specified URI) and working copy's URL are not matched. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched - SOLVED!!!
On 8/31/2007 12:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:07:55 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an
error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't
know much about how portage works so I am at a complete loss. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I've included the emerge
output below:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188081
rm -fr ${DISTDIR}/svn-src/myth*
Thank you. This worked.
Cheers,
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[gentoo-user] VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 Bridged Networking w/Wireless Card
Is is possible to get VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 guest OSs to work via bridged networking on a wireless card? I've Googled and found threads regarding this issue. This one seems to be the most relevant: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0&start=0 My post is on the 3rd page as being from "imacamper". Basically from the guest OS (Win XP) I can ping the host but nothing beyond. My wireless card is a Broadcom that uses the BCM43xx kernel module. Bridging works OK with the wired Ethernet port that uses the sky2 driver. NAT works fine with both wired and wireless. I'm stumped. I've used VMWare with Windows as the host but this is my first attempt at installing on a Linux host. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I
can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other
than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory, Receiver
not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) > 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui
Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am unable
to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This is a
simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not find
anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have a
Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the same
problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it but no
luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211 stack.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
Thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25
On 6/6/2008 2:40 AM Mick said the following:
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25, I
can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device other
than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory, Receiver
not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send seq
43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) > 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui
Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am unable
to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This is a
simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not find
anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have a
Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the same
problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it but no
luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211
stack.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
How do you invoke tcpdump? Are you placing your interface in promiscuous
mode? If you iface is 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 which one is 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 ?
The router? Does setting -s 65535 provide more packet info?
As root:
tcpdump -i wlan0
My iface is 00:14:a5:fc:3b:b2 and is not shown in my log snippet. In
the log snippet, one MAC is my access point and the other is a Wii
gaming console.
Please note that this same command on this same network was just fine
when I was running kernel 2.6.23. Problems began when I upgraded to
kernel 2.6.25. Thus I suspect there is either some change with .25 or
more likely, I turned something on/off in my kernel config that I should
not have. I just don't know what that "something" might be.
Thanks for your reply.
Drew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25
On 6/5/2008 4:49 PM Eric Martin said the following:
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25,
I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device
other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send
seq 42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory,
Receiver not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send
seq 43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) > 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06
(oui Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am
unable to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This
is a simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not
find anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have
a Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the
same problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it
but no luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211
stack.
I don't have much help to offer than go with WPA over WEP (especially
WEP64). A guy at my LUG gave a presentation on hacking WEP and did it
in under 1 minute. I went home that night and got WPA to work.
Agreed that WEP is only marginally better than wide open. However I am
using an old Linksys ethernet/wireless bridge that does not support
WPA. Plus this is my small home network on property that is not that
close to others. Add to that MAC filtering (again, not hard to crack)
and I feel that the likelihood of someone seeking me out and cracking my
network is unlikely. And even if someone did, what are they going to
get? They'd still have to crack each system on my net before finding my
MP3s and family photos.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
Yes, turning on wep vs WPA ;)
For me, WEP isn't wrong. Just an educated choice based upon my hardware
capability and security needs. Yours may be different.
Thanks,
Drew
Sorry the only answer is do it totally differently but nobody else
replied so I figured I'd chime in.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Drew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
Eric Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: Josh Cepek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry Putnam wrote: David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it, but I do remember that it worked. Well at least that sounds promising. I did see mention of that in some of my google searches but I wondered, If I had to use ssh, why wouldn't I just pull the X session on linux across with ssh alone. And forget about VNC. Session persistence. [1] With VNC I can create a full desktop session (I use Fluxbox because it's lightweight) and connect to it as needed from any system with network access. This is great for my IM app. I lock my firewall rules down to allow VNC only from localhost and ssh tunnel all my connections (even on the LAN) because VNC's auth scheme is dreadfully insecure. [...] I had expected to be able to connect to the running X desktop but apparently that isn't going to happen. In other words I cannot view the running desktop from a remote machine but am forced to view a new or different desktop where none of the things I have running on :0 are available. I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that. I do know there's a vnc server that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. I can confirm that x11vnc is the one. I use it often. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues
Miernik wrote: list-catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my install. What sort of ebuilds/apps should I be looking at to solve the problem? I don't mean to be insulting but are you sure you were "compiling" under Vista? Typically, most users of Windows systems don't "compile". They just install pre-compiled binaries or "packages" if you will. But maybe you are a developer who actually compiles software under Windows... Anyway, the reason I ask is because unless your were actually running your CPU at full load under Windows, it's normal to have your system become warmer while emerging packages on Gentoo because you are actually "compiling" instead of just installing. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Mouse Quits After Gnome Login
I have a laptop that has been working fine until my last world update yesterday. FWIW, it's probably been at least 3 months since the last update. I'm running the 2.6.25-r4 kernel from gentoo sources. Gnome version is 2.22. Xorg version is 7.3. Mouse is actually a Synaptics Touchpad on the laptop. xorg.conf file has not changed and uses synaptics driver and evdev. The symptom is that X starts and gdm loads. Touchpad mouse still works. However after logging on and somewhere during the Gnome splash screen, the mouse stops responding. Any ideas on what might cause this behavior? Thanks, Drew
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Alan E. Davis wrote: Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main drive is a 1 RPM faster drive, and I'd like to keep the partitions or directories that are mainly for storage separated. I really do notice a difference in the performance of the drive. this is somewhat of a conundrum: how to keep the current projects focused on the faster drive. Interestingly (to me) while I carefully planned for swap on the faster drive, since I moved to 2GB of RAM, I think I've only touched swap two or three times, and then only passingly! I definitely wouldn't want to put / into LVM. If I do LVM it will be the easy way, the most clearcut way. As one that's used LVM and other similar software in both Windows and the BSDs, be sure you understand the risk involved. While the idea of "one big drive" sounds appealing (which is why I used it), lose one drive and you lose everything in the LV unless you are mirroring, using parity, or some combination of both. I have been bit by this time and time again and have finally decided that LVM is not worth the hassle for me any longer, especially since a 1 TB drive can be found easily for less than $200 (US). Anyway, I'm not knocking those who use LVM. Just understand the risk. :) Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Help With Cron
My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format "%T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S" --link /tv/pretty However it fails to run and I get this error message emailed to me from cron: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:07:01 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format " X-Cron-Env: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file So I suspected the quotes in my command line might be the problem and I removed the '--format " ..."' part. Thus my command looked like this: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --link /tv/pretty But still I received email with the same error. I don't understand what cron doesn't like. The command runs just fine as the user from the command line. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With Cron -- SOLVED
On 4/10/2007 3:20 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: My cron program is sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and all cron jobs but one are running as I expect. Specifically, I want the following command to execute from cron: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format "%T %- %Y-%m-%d_%g-%i %A %- %S" --link /tv/pretty However it fails to run and I get this error message emailed to me from cron: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:07:01 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --format " X-Cron-Env: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file So I suspected the quotes in my command line might be the problem and I removed the '--format " ..."' part. Thus my command looked like this: /usr/share/mythtv/mythrename.pl --link /tv/pretty But still I received email with the same error. I don't understand what cron doesn't like. The command runs just fine as the user from the command line. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Never mind. Although I was editing the crontab with 'crontab -e', I wasn't exiting out of my editor between edits. I was only hitting the save button. Thus because I didn't actually exit the editor, the updated crontab was not getting installed. Sorry for the noise. Thanks, Drew P.S. Yes, the problem was with the quotes as I suspected earlier. Escaping the quotes (\") solved the problem. -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured
I have a Gateway 6454 laptop with 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 amd64 kernel running.
I am trying to set up the wireless network. I have never done this
before so I started with the Handbook's Wireless Networking section. I
begin by attempting to figure out what network card I have. lspci
reports the wireless network chip as:
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
mini-PCI (rev 01)
Thus it seems the bcm43xx driver is what I need. I selected it to
compile as a module with DMA+PIO transfer mode selected. Along with it,
I compiled:
Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack
--- IEEE 802.11 WEP encryption (802.1x)
IEEE 802.11i CCMP support
IEEE 802.11i TKIP encryption
Software MAC add-on to the IEEE 802.11 networking stack
I wasn't sure exactly what I needed so I compiled all as modules and
loaded all. My though was that once I had it working, I would remove
modules to see what I really needed.
Googling revealed something about cutting firmware. Thus I emerged
bcm43xx-fwcutter and followed some tidbits I found on the web about how
that worked. First I grabbed the latest Windows driver and copied
bcmwl564.sys (since I am using an amd64 kernel). When running
bcm43xx-fwcutter -i bcmwl564.sys, I got the following error/output:
*** WARNING ***
This file contains new version4
firmware. v4 firmware is _not_ supported by
the driver in mainline kernels. For v4 firmware
you need latest bcm43xx development version
(wireless-dev kernel tree). If you don't know what
this warning is about, use a 3.xx.xx.xx driver version
instead to extract the firmware.
Well I couldn't find a version 3 driver and I have no idea how to use
the "wireless-dev kernel tree" even after Googling for another hour.
However I did find a Linux driver for the BCM43xx named "wl_apsta.o" but
I really don't know much about it. Thus I extracted firmware from that
and copied it to /libs/firmware. An 'ifconfig eth1 up' and now I was
able to get the wireless card recognized:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:FC:3B:B2
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:29319 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:91345 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:184 (184.0 b) TX bytes:4141799 (3.9 Mb)
Interrupt:17
Anyway, next I continued following the Gentoo Handbook on Wireless
Networking
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4),
specifically the WPA Supplicant section. Here's the contents of the
files I created pursuant to that page:
tagalong ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
# From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4
# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
# It's important that we tell wpa_supplicant which driver we should
# be using as it's not very good at guessing yet
wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext"
tagalong ~ # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
# The below line not be changed otherwise we refuse to work
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# Ensure that only root can read the WPA configuration
ctrl_interface_group=0
# Let wpa_supplicant take care of scanning and AP selection
ap_scan=1
# This is a network block that connects to any unsecured access point.
# We give it a low priority so any defined blocks are preferred.
network={
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-999
}
network={
ssid="DrewNet"
key_mgmt=NONE
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0="ff" # not the real keys - but then it's WEP so
wep_key1="ff" # am I hiding them? :)
wep_key2="ff"
wep_key3="ff"
wep_tx_keyidx=0
priority=5
}
Now when I fire up wpa_supplicant, it seems to associate:
wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -ieth1 -d
Initializing interface 'eth1' conf
'/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default'
ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' ->
'/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
ctrl_interface_group='0' (DEPRECATED)
ap_scan=1
Priority group 5
id=0 ssid='DrewNet'
Initializing interface (2) 'eth1'
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf
capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
Own MAC address: 00:14:a5:fc:3b:b2
wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured
On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I don't think DHCP is at the TCP layer of your network, and so you shouldn't see packets for DHCP there. DHCP is a special protocol if I recall... That's correct, dhcp is an ethernet protocol, and tcp/ip are one layer above it. Drew should be able to see the packets with the 'proto ether' expression. man tcpdump for more info alan Thank you both for your ideas. I've tested and it seems that I should be able to see the packets without any special expressions. I've run tcpdump on my DHCP server and can see packets from other nodes on my network: Client IP: bigdaddy Client Ethernet Address: 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown) [|bootp] 15:39:48.229850 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 25950, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 328) bigdaddy.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown), length: 300, xid:0x7707a3b2, secs:768, flags: [none] When I run 'tcpdump -i eth1' on the laptop, I see no traffic whatsoever. I read the man page for tcpdump regarding the 'proto ether' expression Alan mentions. While it is true that this expression will limit the traffic captured, not specifying any expression will show all traffic. Plus DHCP works by sending UDP packets and thus 'proto ether' does not seem to be appropriate. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured -- SOLVED
On 6/27/2007 7:45 AM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 6/27/2007 1:12 AM Alan McKinnon said the following: On Wednesday 27 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I ran tcpdump on eth1 and no packets are leaving the interface. Thus I assume that's why I'm not getting an address. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I don't think DHCP is at the TCP layer of your network, and so you shouldn't see packets for DHCP there. DHCP is a special protocol if I recall... That's correct, dhcp is an ethernet protocol, and tcp/ip are one layer above it. Drew should be able to see the packets with the 'proto ether' expression. man tcpdump for more info alan Thank you both for your ideas. I've tested and it seems that I should be able to see the packets without any special expressions. I've run tcpdump on my DHCP server and can see packets from other nodes on my network: Client IP: bigdaddy Client Ethernet Address: 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown) [|bootp] 15:39:48.229850 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 25950, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 328) bigdaddy.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:50:8d:d7:8d:89 (oui Unknown), length: 300, xid:0x7707a3b2, secs:768, flags: [none] When I run 'tcpdump -i eth1' on the laptop, I see no traffic whatsoever. I read the man page for tcpdump regarding the 'proto ether' expression Alan mentions. While it is true that this expression will limit the traffic captured, not specifying any expression will show all traffic. Plus DHCP works by sending UDP packets and thus 'proto ether' does not seem to be appropriate. Thanks, Drew For the archives... Ditching wpa_supplicant in favor of iwconfig (wireless tools port) solved my problems. Only downside is that I am unable to use WPA-PSK authentication. Maybe a future version of wpa_supplicant will work? Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this card with dri enabled. I followed the guides at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml and I've also Googled for a week with no success. With the x11 drivers installed, I get this error message when starting X: (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I've emerged ati-drivers and set make.conf to include the fglrx driver as suggested in the ATI guide. However when loading the fglrx.ko module, I get an error about "...taints the kernel". Thus I suspect I have some option set in my kernel that conflicts with the fglrx module? I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the "taint" message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an "Operation not permitted error" (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted So, I am confused. What exactly should "VIDEO_CARDS=" setting be in /etc/make.conf? ="radeon"? ="fglrx"? ="radeon fglrx"? I think I need to be sure I have everything set right, be sure to un-emerge any conflicting ports, and then re-emerge the proper ports. Can someone please point out the steps? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the "taint" message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an "Operation not permitted error" (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the "operation not permitted" complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the "taint" message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an "Operation not permitted error" (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the "operation not permitted" complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that driver... That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 7:01 PM Drew Tomlinson said the following: On 7/3/2007 6:36 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I'm at a loss. Can some kind soul please point me in the right direction toward the steps needed to get 3D acceleration on my laptop? Should I be using x11 or ATI drivers? And if ATI drivers, any idea what is might be conflicting in my kernel? No conflict in your kernel - the "taint" message means that you have loaded a closed-source driver into your kernel - nothing to worry about (unless you are interested in running a completely free/libre system). Can you post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Thank you for your posts. OK, I tried starting over again as when I wrote the above post, I wasn't trying to use the ati-driver. So I emerged ati-driver. However, when attempting to load the fglrx I get an "Operation not permitted error" (I remember this now). I am logged on as root. Please see this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ndiswrapper 190528 0 arc42368 0 ecb 3328 0 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 0 pcmcia 32344 0 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ieee80211_crypt 5504 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Question: Is this a custom kernel build? If so, did you enable Yes. --- enable loadable module suppot -- module versioning support or -- source checksum for all modules I have these options: [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Module unloading [*] Forced module unloading [ ] Module versioning support (NEW) [ ] Source checksum for all modules (NEW) [*] Automatic kernel module loading If so, turn them both off and rebuild the kernel and try to load the fglrx module again... What happens is, your closed source, binary, module does not have the correct credentials for it to be installed... Thus the "operation not permitted" complaint... I just rebuilt the kernel again to be sure I really built it with those options. There was no change. See this output: tagalong ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by arc42368 2 ecb 3328 2 blkcipher 5316 1 ecb cryptomgr 2944 0 crypto_algapi 10432 3 arc4,ecb,cryptomgr ieee80211_crypt_wep 4864 1 ndiswrapper 190528 0 pcmcia 32344 0 bcm43xx 423008 0 ieee80211softmac 29248 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 29448 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 yenta_socket 24332 1 rsrc_nonstatic 10048 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core34276 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic i2c_piix4 9036 0 i2c_core 18880 1 i2c_piix4 tagalong ~ # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Any other ideas? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that driver... That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? I've done some more Googling. It would appear the Radeon Xpress 1100 is supported with ATI drivers. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_14603_14624%5E14627,00.html Now, how to get the fglrx module to load?... -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP
On 7/3/2007 7:14 PM Mark Knecht said the following: > >The only thing to consider then is that your hardware is not supported by that >driver... > That may be true. I have been unable to confirm or deny that. Anyone else? Thanks, Drew See if Michael can help you at the Phoronix forums: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/index.php He has been good at helping me with corner case issue on ATI drivers. Thanks. I'll try that. I also tried installing the ATI drivers directly from ATI's web site. Same issue. Can not load the resulting module. tagalong X11 # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.21-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Rx Errors on NIC
I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The "errors" and the "frame errors" matched exactly. I did the standard testing to try and isolate the problem. I tried known working patch cables and known working hub ports. Then when the errors persisted, I even moved the box to a known working cable run. The errors remained. So I figured that the actual port on the motherboard must be bad. I recompiled my kernel with 3Com networking support and began using the 3Com port but I am still getting errors. Here's my current 'ifconfig' output: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0C:60:8D inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:131785 errors:481 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:760 TX packets:168955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27189676 (25.9 Mb) TX bytes:169280962 (161.4 Mb) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000 The errors have changed a little in that now the "frame errors" exceed the "errors". How can that be? I must not understand the output. Anyway, I'm starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their defaults as far as I recall. Any ideas on what might be going on? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge is "Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed"
I've got some weirdness going on with my system after an upgrade. Seems that some things that were compiled with gcc 3.3 don't want to run with a kernel that was compiled with gcc 3.4. I'm not sure of this but that's my guess, especially after re-emerging a few packages (that one doesn't normally have to re-emerge after a kernel upgrade) and they suddenly stop seg faulting. So anyway, I thought I'd just re-emerge my entire system with 'emerge -vuDNe1 world'. It was chuggin' along fine until it hit app-misc/lirc-0.7.2. The build starts, goes through configure, and actually begins compiling, and then starts "waiting" here: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -c `test -f irxevent.c || echo './'`irxevent.c `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. source='xmode2.c' object='xmode2.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/xmode2.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/xmode2.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -c `test -f xmode2.c || echo './'`xmode2.c `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irw irw.o Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed mkdir .libs gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irw irw.o /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o mode2 mode2.o gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o mode2 mode2.o /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irsend irsend.o gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o irsend irsend.o /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o smode2 smode2.o -lvga -lvgagl Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o smode2 smode2.o -lvga -lvgagl /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o xmode2 xmode2.o -lSM -lICE -lX11 gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -o xmode2 xmode2.o -lSM -lICE -lX11 Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed sandbox: Caught signal 2 in pid 30088 I've stopped lircd, removed all lirc kernel modules, searched the entire file system for a file named "lirc_client.o.lock", searched Google for the same, even rebooted, and am still stuck at this point. I keep using 'emerge --resume' to retry as i don't want to rebuild the 130+ things that have already been built. I just want to continue with the remaining 250+. Any ideas on how to overcome this hurdle? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge is "Waiting for lirc_client.o.lock to be removed"
On 1/12/2006 10:59 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:45:30 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've stopped lircd, removed all lirc kernel modules, searched the entire file system for a file named "lirc_client.o.lock", searched Google for the same, even rebooted, and am still stuck at this point. I keep using 'emerge --resume' to retry as i don't want to rebuild the 130+ things that have already been built. I just want to continue with the remaining 250+. Any ideas on how to overcome this hurdle? The short term fix is to use emerge --resume --skipfirst to continue with the next package in the list. It (probably) won't help fix the lircd problem, but it will let you emerge everything else. Cool. Thanks for getting me going again. lirc is working anyway and probably doesn't need rebuilding. Wonder why I didn't see "skipfirst"? Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)
On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The "errors" and the "frame errors" matched exactly. I did the standard testing to try and isolate the problem. I tried known working patch cables and known working hub ports. Then when the errors persisted, I even moved the box to a known working cable run. The errors remained. So I figured that the actual port on the motherboard must be bad. I recompiled my kernel with 3Com networking support and began using the 3Com port but I am still getting errors. Here's my current 'ifconfig' output: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0C:60:8D inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:131785 errors:481 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:760 TX packets:168955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27189676 (25.9 Mb) TX bytes:169280962 (161.4 Mb) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000 The errors have changed a little in that now the "frame errors" exceed the "errors". How can that be? I must not understand the output. Anyway, I'm starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their defaults as far as I recall. Any ideas on what might be going on? I'm still having this issue. A networking guy told me that framing errors can typically come when the two ends of the connection (card and switch) are not set to the same parameters such as half-duplex vs. full-duplex. He suggested I try forcing both ends to be the same and see if the errors go away. However this is just a cheap 8 port TrendNet switch that doesn't have any management capability. Thus I thought I'd try forcing the NIC to one way or the other and see if the errors are resolved. I've Googled for information on how to (a) find out the current setting and (b) change the setting but have been unsuccessful. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To Set NIC? (Was: Rx Errors on NIC)
On 1/19/2006 11:37 PM Rumen Yotov said the following: On (19/01/06 18:15), Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/29/2005 3:33 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 2800+ processor running on a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard uses the Nvidia NForce2 chipset. It has both an Nvidia and a 3Com 100 mbps network adapter integrated. Initially I used the Nvidia network adapter but noticed a lot of Rx errors. The "errors" and the "frame errors" matched exactly. I did the standard testing to try and isolate the problem. I tried known working patch cables and known working hub ports. Then when the errors persisted, I even moved the box to a known working cable run. The errors remained. So I figured that the actual port on the motherboard must be bad. I recompiled my kernel with 3Com networking support and began using the 3Com port but I am still getting errors. Here's my current 'ifconfig' output: eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0C:60:8D inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:131785 errors:481 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:760 TX packets:168955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27189676 (25.9 Mb) TX bytes:169280962 (161.4 Mb) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xb000 The errors have changed a little in that now the "frame errors" exceed the "errors". How can that be? I must not understand the output. Anyway, I'm starting to think I may have some configuration issues as I find it hard to believe that both ports are bad. I'm a Gentoo newbie and started with kernel 2.11. I've upgraded once to 2.13-r5 which is where I'm at now. I have not changed any networking parameter from their defaults as far as I recall. Any ideas on what might be going on? I'm still having this issue. A networking guy told me that framing errors can typically come when the two ends of the connection (card and switch) are not set to the same parameters such as half-duplex vs. full-duplex. He suggested I try forcing both ends to be the same and see if the errors go away. However this is just a cheap 8 port TrendNet switch that doesn't have any management capability. Thus I thought I'd try forcing the NIC to one way or the other and see if the errors are resolved. I've Googled for information on how to (a) find out the current setting and (b) change the setting but have been unsuccessful. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks, Drew Hi, For setting up NICs check: mii-diag or better ethtool (both are in portage). Read the corresponding man pages for needed options. HTH.Rumen Thank you. I installed ethtool. The output of concern is this: tv mythtv # ethtool -S eth1 NIC statistics: tx_deferred: 0 tx_multiple_collisions: 0 rx_bad_ssd: 47853 Does rx_bad_ssd mean "framing errors"? I Googled on the term and only came up with a bunch of ethtool patches. Here's some other output if that helps anyone know why I might be getting framing errors: tv mythtv # ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 2 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Current message level: 0x0001 (1) Link detected: yes tv mythtv # ethtool -i eth1 driver: 3c59x version: LK1.1.19 firmware-version: bus-info: :02:01.0 Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)
On 1/21/2006 2:44 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:08:29 +0900, Chris White wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. That's the most blatant start of a flamewar I've seen... Ok, let's sit here and ponder. People like KDE, people like GNOME, hell, people like fluxbox and xfce. Now to put this in perspective, basically there is no "right answer" to this question, and no matter how much someone suggests, there never will be. There is a right answer to this question, because it is simple numbers, which is most popular. Carry out a poll of Linux users to ask which is their favourite desktop and you have the answer. If you really want to start a flamewar, ask which is better. Better is not the same as most popular, unless you really believe that Windows is the best OS out there. LOL. This could be the start of another flame war especially since it could be argued that any OS is the "best" in specific situations. Cheers, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?
I'm using Gentoo kernel 2.6.13-r5 kernel on a box whose primary purpose is MythTV. After upgrading to this kernel and reading about periodically cleaning cruft from systems, I followed some advice about doing something along the lines of 'emerge -depclean'. I thought everything was fine but now I suspect I was wrong. Just the other day, my machine (which has been functioning just fine for several weeks) locked up. After rebooting, known good video files in Myth freeze on the first frame. Audio plays just fine. Previous experience has shown me that this is caused by ivtv not being happy. For example, this behavior will occur after a kernel upgrade and then is fixed by emerging ivtv again. So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists. Thus I suspect I deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'. Any suggestion on the best way to figure out what that "something" was and get things running again? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?
On 2/9/2006 12:37 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:07:39 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists. Thus I suspect I deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'. Any suggestion on the best way to figure out what that "something" was and get things running again? Running revdep-rebuild -p should identify the culprit. If not, look at the output from genlop -u to see what was removed by the depclean. Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. What ebuild does it come from? I seem to have resolved my problem. When I reinstalled ivtv, it picked up the newest version (0.4.2) since it was unmasked in my package.keywords. Reverting back to 0.4.0-r3 worked. I'm running 2.6.13-r5 kernel and maybe the newer ivtv isn't compatible with this kernel. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?
On 2/9/2006 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick said the following: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Thanks for your reply. revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv. I don't have genlop on my system. What ebuild does it come from? Err, genlop $ eix genlop * app-portage/genlop Available versions: 0.30.2 0.30.3 0.30.5 Installed: 0.30.5 Homepage:http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html Description: A nice emerge.log parser Thanks. I guess I missed the obvious... :) Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
I have Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel running and have used ntpd in broadcastclient mode to keep its time in sync on my home network. The other day, the system suffered and abrupt shutdown due to a power outage. Ever since then, the system clock gains about 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Also, I can't get ntpd to sync the clock. My command line is "ntpd -A -b -g -u ntp:ntp". I've included some output running the command with the debug switch below. I've also tried to gain more info with the ntpdc utility although I don't really know what I'm doing. However it appears that ntpd does see my FreeBSD time server even though it's not synced: ntpdc> peers remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp === =192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 2 647 0.00038 -9.600170 1.98438 The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am currently using this brute force method via a cron job as a temporary workaround. Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? Thanks for your help, Drew --- Begin debug output --- ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) addto_syslog: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 11 19:19:56 PST 2006 (1) addto_syslog: precision = 3.000 usec create_sockets(123) addto_syslog: no IPv6 interfaces found bind() fd 4, family 2, port 123, addr 0.0.0.0, flags=8 addto_syslog: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 bind() fd 5, family 2, port 123, addr 127.0.0.1, flags=0 addto_syslog: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 bind() fd 6, family 2, port 123, addr 192.168.1.6, flags=8 addto_syslog: Listening on interface eth1, 192.168.1.6#123 init_io: maxactivefd 6 local_clock: time 0 clock 0.00 offset 0.00 freq 0.000 state 0 bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr 192.168.1.255, flags=8 io_setbclient: Opened broadcast client on interface 2, socket: 8 io_setbclient: Opened broadcast clients addto_syslog: frequency initialized -36.958 PPM from /etc/ntp/ntp.drift local_clock: time 0 clock 0.00 offset 0.00 freq -36.958 state 1 report_event: system event 'event_restart' (0x01) status 'sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 1 event, event_unspec' (0xc010) auth_agekeys: at 1 keys 1 expired 0 timer: refresh ts 0 receive: at 15 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 5 Finding addr 192.168.1.2 in list of addresses key_expire: at 15 peer_clear: at 15 assoc ID 33252 refid INIT newpeer: 192.168.1.6->192.168.1.2 mode 3 vers 4 poll 6 10 flags 0x210 0x20 ttl 0 key receive: at 15 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 peer 192.168.1.2 event 'event_reach' (0x84) status 'unreach, 1 event, event_reach' (0x14) auth_agekeys: at 60 keys 1 expired 0 transmit: at 79 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.2 mode 3 receive: at 79 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 clock_filter: popcorn 7.896193 0.000960 receive: at 82 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 receive: at 82 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 auth_agekeys: at 120 keys 1 expired 0 transmit: at 143 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.2 mode 3 receive: at 143 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 clock_filter: n 2 off -9.600170 del 0.000386 dsp 3.937744 jit 1.703977, age 64 receive: at 148 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 receive: at 148 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 auth_agekeys: at 180 keys 1 expired 0 transmit: at 206 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.2 mode 3 receive: at 206 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 4 code 1 clock_filter: n 3 off -9.600170 del 0.000386 dsp 1.938216 jit 1.639332, age 127 receive: at 215 192.168.1.6<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 receive: at 215 0.0.0.0<-192.168.1.2 mode 5 code 6 --- End debug output --- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems
On 2/12/2006 8:01 PM Harry Putnam wrote: Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The time server is a FreeBSD 6.0 box on my network. My other FreeBSD box and two Windows boxes get time from it just fine. Even the Gentoo box will set its clock with "ntpd -gq". I am currently using this brute force method via a cron job as a temporary workaround. Any ideas on what might have caused this recent change in behavior? It might be that the clock got off by more than ntp is willing to adjust. As I recall there is a threshold above which ntp will not go. Hopefully someone more knowledgable might confirm that. Thanks for your reply. If I understand correctly, using the '-g' option will allow a one time clock adjustment of any size. To cure that sort of problem here I run ntp-client at boot. It sets the time by any amount I think. So time gets set right on boot then ntp will keep it in good order. Next boot up ntp-client comes in ahead of ntp and sets the clock before ntp gets to it, so the too-large discrepancy never occurs. I have used both 'ntpupdate' (the utility used by ntp-client) and 'ntpd -gq' (ntpd's way to mimic the behavior of ntpupdate) with successful results. However I still can not seem to get ntpd to sync when run in daemon mode. I seem to recall that the too-large discrepancy is not really that large. I remember thinking it seemed kind of small to be a problem. 1000 seconds according to my understanding of the man page. Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out that my recordings were off by over an hour and half. :) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems
On 2/13/2006 12:22 PM Mark Knecht wrote: On 2/13/06, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, I really appreciate your thoughts. Because this box runs MythTV, time is *VERY* important. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch the first day of the Olympics on to find out that my recordings were off by over an hour and half. :) Thanks, Drew Drew, Please excuse me jumping in here. I have seen no other emails in this thread so maybe I'm wasting time. I hope not. Thanks for jumping in. I'll try any suggestions at this point. :) I have a number of Gentoo machines. For some reason in the last week or 10 days my AMD64 machine stopped keeping time. I'd boot it in the morning and even the day would be off. It was horrible. With a little help from others I found that, at least in my case, I needed to start running ntp-client in the default run level. I never ran this before but there appears to have been change recently that has made it more important. Either that or I was just lucky before. This leads me to believe that your issues are related to the initial step being beyond the 1000 second limit by default. I thought about this and thought the '-g' switch would override any such limit. I have also tried your suggestion in my testing. Not specifically by enabling ntp-client but by running ntpdate from the command line and then immediately running ntpd -A -d from the command line. Still, no sync. I've since added ntp-client on all the machines and things are now dead on as far as I can tell. One other thing that was recommended to me was to remove the /etc/adjust file when doing this. I did that also. I don't seem to have one of these. Again, if all of this has already been covered I apologize for taking up too much time. No, this hasn't been covered and they're good suggestions. I have a bit of an update. In experimenting, I tried both "broadcastclient" and "server 192.168.1.2" (my time server machine) in ntp.conf. Neither worked. However, I read the man page for ntpd and came across the options of 'burst" and "iburst". I added both of these options so now my ntp.conf contains the line "server 192.168.1.2 burst iburst". This seems to work but I don't understand why. One thing I noticed is that 'ntpd -d' output shows a "burst" of many communications between my Gentoo box and my time server each time it communicates. This results in a sync most of the time. However my ntp.log file shows entries such as this: 13 Feb 19:11:20 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:12:10 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:12:24 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:13:13 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:13:27 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:14:16 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:14:32 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:15:22 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:15:36 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:16:27 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:16:41 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:17:31 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:17:45 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:18:34 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:18:48 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:19:39 ntpd[8830]: no servers reachable 13 Feb 19:19:53 ntpd[8830]: synchronized to 192.168.1.2, stratum 2 13 Feb 19:19:01 ntpd[8830]: time reset -52.104173 s The "no servers reachable" bothers me a bit. Is this indicative of a network issue and thus, the cause of my trouble? Both my Gentoo box and my time server are on a 100 mbps LAN and so there should not be a "reachable" issue. Just trying to understand... Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
On 2/13/2006 1:11 PM Nick Rout wrote: If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out then the compensation will be way out. Take a look at /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift, if its seems like a large figure, then zero it and start again from scratch. ie stop ntpd, set the clock with ntpdate, then start the ntpd service again (preferably not while recording with mythtv LOL). I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried "touch"ing it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. I'm by no means an expert but I don't get it. Thanks for your reply, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems
On 2/14/2006 6:32 AM Benno Schulenberg wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried "touch"ing it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. From 'man ntpd': "... After one hour the frequency file is created and the current frequency offset written to it." Right. I should have been more clear. Even after 2 hours, there was no file. I suspected file permissions which is I used chown to set the file to ntp:ntp. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD. Several people suggested Gentoo might be a better distro for what I wanted so I checked out the site and liked what I saw. So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives in the system as follows: 160 GB IDE drive attached to the PATA (or IDE) connector on a Promise 150 SATA controller. 18 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card 36 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card The only device I seem to have is /dev/sda1 which fdisk reports as a 163 GB drive. So I assume that this is my IDE drive seen as a SCSI device because it's attached to the Promise SATA controller? And if my assumption is correct, how can I enable the Advansys controller? If possible, I'd prefer to do it without rebooting because I won't be near the console for about 7 more hours. I'm at work. System is at home. Thanks for any advice or suggestions, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD. Several people suggested Gentoo might be a better distro for what I wanted so I checked out the site and liked what I saw. So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives in the system as follows: 160 GB IDE drive attached to the PATA (or IDE) connector on a Promise 150 SATA controller. 18 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card 36 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card The only device I seem to have is /dev/sda1 which fdisk reports as a 163 GB drive. So I assume that this is my IDE drive seen as a SCSI device because it's attached to the Promise SATA controller? And if my assumption is correct, how can I enable the Advansys controller? If possible, I'd prefer to do it without rebooting because I won't be near the console for about 7 more hours. I'm at work. System is at home. After spending most of the day Googling, it appears that I need a file called advansys.ko (that has been compiled appropriately) in /mnt/livecd/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi. Then I could load it with 'modprobe advansys'. Is this correct? If it is, can anyone tell me if the advansys module is available on older installation CDs? There is some indication that it used to exist. Also, I have an advansys driver disk I downloaded which worked when installing Fedora Core 3. I was able to extract the modules.cgz file on it and found an advansys.ko module that appears to have been compiled for kernel 2.6.9, judging from the directory structure. Any ideas on if this might work? I've tried loading it via wget but all the mounted file systems are read-only. I guess I might have to dig up a floppy drive and install it... Any help appreciated. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
On 5/6/2005 2:43 PM A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives in the system as follows: 160 GB IDE drive attached to the PATA (or IDE) connector on a Promise 150 SATA controller. 18 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card 36 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card The only device I seem to have is /dev/sda1 which fdisk reports as a 163 GB drive. So I assume that this is my IDE drive seen as a SCSI device because it's attached to the Promise SATA controller? Probably. And if my assumption is correct, how can I enable the Advansys controller? If possible, I'd prefer to do it without rebooting because I won't be near the console for about 7 more hours. I'm at work. System is at home. Try "modprobe advansys" to load the driver... Thanks for the reply. However been there, done that. :) It seems the advansys.ko is not on the 2005.0 CD. Maybe it's on an older one? And if so, which? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
On 5/6/2005 2:49 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD. Several people suggested Gentoo might be a better distro for what I wanted so I checked out the site and liked what I saw. So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives in the system as follows: 160 GB IDE drive attached to the PATA (or IDE) connector on a Promise 150 SATA controller. 18 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card 36 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card The only device I seem to have is /dev/sda1 which fdisk reports as a 163 GB drive. So I assume that this is my IDE drive seen as a SCSI device because it's attached to the Promise SATA controller? And if my assumption is correct, how can I enable the Advansys controller? If possible, I'd prefer to do it without rebooting because I won't be near the console for about 7 more hours. I'm at work. System is at home. After spending most of the day Googling, it appears that I need a file called advansys.ko (that has been compiled appropriately) in /mnt/livecd/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi. Then I could load it with 'modprobe advansys'. Is this correct? If it is, can anyone tell me if the advansys module is available on older installation CDs? There is some indication that it used to exist. Also, I have an advansys driver disk I downloaded which worked when installing Fedora Core 3. I was able to extract the modules.cgz file on it and found an advansys.ko module that appears to have been compiled for kernel 2.6.9, judging from the directory structure. Any ideas on if this might work? I've tried loading it via wget but all the mounted file systems are read-only. I guess I might have to dig up a floppy drive and install it... I'm starting to feel like I'm talking to myself. :) Seriously, I keep replying for the benefit of some other poor soul who may have the same problems I'm having. I finally figured out that when the livecd is booted, /tmp is writable. Thus I managed to copy the advansys.ko file I have to /tmp. But alas, modprobe doesn't see it because it's not in the normal module path. Ah, but more reading tells me that modprobe is the "smart" wrapper. insmod is the actual command that inserts the module. So I try 'insmod advansys.ko' but get: insmod: error inserting 'advansys.ko': -1 Invalid module format So is this because the module really won't work with Gentoo 2005.0? Or does this have something to do with 'depmod'. I'm beginning to think that what I'm trying to do isn't possible, short of installing on my IDE drive and then building my own LiveCD with all the required parts. I can't believe it's supposed to be this hard. I must be missing the obvious. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo.org Is Down?
Can anyone get to http://www.gentoo.org? I keep getting an "Internal Server Error" so I don't think it's just me. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
On 5/6/2005 4:31 PM Chee Ong Loh wrote: maybe u have to recompile your kernel and enable advancesys support before you can access to it. If u really rely on advancesys, you may try booting from knoopix livecd. I'm sure knoppix has wider range of drivers compile in their kernel. Thanks. Booted from Knoppix and am building now. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/6/2005 2:49 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/6/2005 10:39 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've used FreeBSD for about 4 years but am new to Linux. After starting with Fedora Core 3 two weeks ago, I quickly learned about "rpm hell" once I built a custom kernel to support my hardware. I missed the ports system with which I was familiar in FreeBSD. Several people suggested Gentoo might be a better distro for what I wanted so I checked out the site and liked what I saw. So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives in the system as follows: 160 GB IDE drive attached to the PATA (or IDE) connector on a Promise 150 SATA controller. 18 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card 36 GB SCSI drive attached to an Advansys card The only device I seem to have is /dev/sda1 which fdisk reports as a 163 GB drive. So I assume that this is my IDE drive seen as a SCSI device because it's attached to the Promise SATA controller? And if my assumption is correct, how can I enable the Advansys controller? If possible, I'd prefer to do it without rebooting because I won't be near the console for about 7 more hours. I'm at work. System is at home. After spending most of the day Googling, it appears that I need a file called advansys.ko (that has been compiled appropriately) in /mnt/livecd/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi. Then I could load it with 'modprobe advansys'. Is this correct? If it is, can anyone tell me if the advansys module is available on older installation CDs? There is some indication that it used to exist. Also, I have an advansys driver disk I downloaded which worked when installing Fedora Core 3. I was able to extract the modules.cgz file on it and found an advansys.ko module that appears to have been compiled for kernel 2.6.9, judging from the directory structure. Any ideas on if this might work? I've tried loading it via wget but all the mounted file systems are read-only. I guess I might have to dig up a floppy drive and install it... I'm starting to feel like I'm talking to myself. :) Seriously, I keep replying for the benefit of some other poor soul who may have the same problems I'm having. I finally figured out that when the livecd is booted, /tmp is writable. Thus I managed to copy the advansys.ko file I have to /tmp. But alas, modprobe doesn't see it because it's not in the normal module path. Ah, but more reading tells me that modprobe is the "smart" wrapper. insmod is the actual command that inserts the module. So I try 'insmod advansys.ko' but get: insmod: error inserting 'advansys.ko': -1 Invalid module format So is this because the module really won't work with Gentoo 2005.0? Or does this have something to do with 'depmod'. I'm beginning to think that what I'm trying to do isn't possible, short of installing on my IDE drive and then building my own LiveCD with all the required parts. I can't believe it's supposed to be this hard. I must be missing the obvious. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo.org Is Down?
On 5/7/2005 8:23 AM Jason Stubbs wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2005 00:15, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Can anyone get to http://www.gentoo.org? I keep getting an "Internal Server Error" so I don't think it's just me. Works fine here. Could you check the IP address that www.gentoo.org is resolving to please? There's several servers so there might only be one with issues. Regards, Jason Stubbs It started working again for me about 10 minutes after my post. Non-authoritative answer: Name:www.gentoo.org Addresses: 65.19.163.231, 66.219.59.46, 199.246.73.203 Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?
I'm performing my first Gentoo install. I booted from a Knoppix CD and am following the installation handbook. My /boot will be on a scsi disk attached to a Advansys controller. I'm at the point of configuring my kernel and want to be sure I enable Advansys support in the kernel. It seems to me that I should see such support as an option under 'Device Drivers -> SCSI device support' as that's where I see other similar drivers. However I do not. Can anyone please tell me what I might need to do to enable Advansys support? Do I need to patch the sources to get that option in the config menus? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?
On 5/7/2005 6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers->SCSI Device Support->SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you're booting off of it make sure it's in the kernel. Not there for me. I'm using gentoo-source I just got today per the instructions. It's kernel version linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. Maybe yours is an older version? Thanks, Drew On Sat, 7 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm performing my first Gentoo install. I booted from a Knoppix CD and am following the installation handbook. My /boot will be on a scsi disk attached to a Advansys controller. I'm at the point of configuring my kernel and want to be sure I enable Advansys support in the kernel. It seems to me that I should see such support as an option under 'Device Drivers -> SCSI device support' as that's where I see other similar drivers. However I do not. Can anyone please tell me what I might need to do to enable Advansys support? Do I need to patch the sources to get that option in the config menus? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?
On 5/7/2005 6:48 PM Mark Knecht wrote: Drew, It may depend a lot on whuch kernel revision you are configuring. I just looked in my current Gentoo-Sources kernel (2.6.11-gentoo-r6) and I don't see any Advansys. However I know there used to be some Advansys stuff because I used to have one. Which kernel are you using? This may be one of those cases where something useful has been left out, or maybe it was dropped for a reason. If that's the case then you may need ot go back to an earlier kernel for awhile. Is there any chance you can place the install on an internal EIDE drive, at least until you get this ironed out?Without any driver support it will be quite difficult to get this working. (Obviously...) - Mark Thanks. I just sent a note saying it's 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 but I haven't seen it echoed to the list yet. Can I specifically request a certain kernel version when emerging gentoo-source? I'll bet it's in some form of 2.6.9 as it was seen in Fedora with that kernel version. Thanks, Drew On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm performing my first Gentoo install. I booted from a Knoppix CD and am following the installation handbook. My /boot will be on a scsi disk attached to a Advansys controller. I'm at the point of configuring my kernel and want to be sure I enable Advansys support in the kernel. It seems to me that I should see such support as an option under 'Device Drivers -> SCSI device support' as that's where I see other similar drivers. However I do not. Can anyone please tell me what I might need to do to enable Advansys support? Do I need to patch the sources to get that option in the config menus? Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support? -- SOLVED!!!
On 5/7/2005 7:19 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys goes away. That was it! Thanks, Drew On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/7/2005 6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers->SCSI Device Support->SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you're booting off of it make sure it's in the kernel. Not there for me. I'm using gentoo-source I just got today per the instructions. It's kernel version linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. Maybe yours is an older version? Thanks, Drew Drew, I think you and I are on the same kernel and neither of us see it. I think that (at least some time ago) Brett was using a 2.4 series kernel, but almost certainly it's older than the ones we are using. I expect that Brett will confirm that. As I say, I knew it used to be there. Googling around I get the feeling that the driver may have had some problems with new kernel stuff or new C compilers. Maybe no one is supporting it anymore? Just a guess. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
On 5/8/2005 2:48 AM neil wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: Try "modprobe advansys" to load the driver... Thanks for the reply. However been there, done that. :) It seems the advansys.ko is not on the 2005.0 CD. Maybe it's on an older one? And if so, which? I've never seen advansys.ko. I have always used the sym53c8xx driver for my Advansys card. Be lucky, Neil I guess I am unlucky. After booting I ran 'modprobe sym53c8xx'. Then I checked /dev for sda & sdb which are on that card. I saw sda and sda1 but when I mounted, I could tell they weren't my drive. Do I need to do something else? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password
I've followed the directions in the handbook and installed from a Knoppix boot. I've made it all the way to section 10.d (reboot). However upon reboot, I'm presented with a login prompt. I log in as root and enter the password I set in section 8.c but it tells me 'login incorrect'. I boot Knoppix again, perform the required steps and enter my chroot environment. I repeat section 8.c and reset the password. I also move ahead to section 11 and create a user account for myself, passing along '-G wheel', so I can su if necessary. I reboot again back to Gentoo but get the same problem when logging on as root. I can log on with the new user account I've created but 'su' does not work (can't setguid), probably due to the same password issue I have when logging on as root. Any idea? I'm almost there. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
On 5/8/2005 3:43 PM Peter De Zutter wrote: Add yourself to the wheel group, and then you'll be able to su to root. I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to enter a password after doing 'su'. How can I check to be sure I'm part of the wheel group? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com On 5/9/05, *Drew Tomlinson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I've followed the directions in the handbook and installed from a Knoppix boot. I've made it all the way to section 10.d (reboot). However upon reboot, I'm presented with a login prompt. I log in as root and enter the password I set in section 8.c but it tells me 'login incorrect'. I boot Knoppix again, perform the required steps and enter my chroot environment. I repeat section 8.c and reset the password. I also move ahead to section 11 and create a user account for myself, passing along '-G wheel', so I can su if necessary. I reboot again back to Gentoo but get the same problem when logging on as root. I can log on with the new user account I've created but 'su' does not work (can't setguid), probably due to the same password issue I have when logging on as root. Any idea? I'm almost there. Thanks, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password
On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to enter a password after doing 'su'. How can I check to be sure I'm part of the wheel group? You will still get asked. id OK, thanks. I have confirmed that I'm part of the 'wheel' group with both the 'id' and 'groups' command, thus my problems must be from not setting the initial root password properly. So any ideas on what I'm missing setting the root password in 8.c of the handbook? From the chrooted environment as 'root' I issued 'passwd' and then typed in my new password. I have also tried 'passwd root' with the same effect. Do I need to do something different since I booted with Knoppix? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password
On 5/8/2005 4:42 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to enter a password after doing 'su'. How can I check to be sure I'm part of the wheel group? You will still get asked. id OK, thanks. I have confirmed that I'm part of the 'wheel' group with both the 'id' and 'groups' command, thus my problems must be from not setting the initial root password properly. So any ideas on what I'm missing setting the root password in 8.c of the handbook? From the chrooted environment as 'root' I issued 'passwd' and then typed in my new password. I have also tried 'passwd root' with the same effect. Do I need to do something different since I booted with Knoppix? One more update. I found out how to boot in single user mode by adding 'single' to the end of the kernel line in grub. Booted to single user mode and issued 'passwd' command from there. It still doesn't work. My session goes like this: sh-2.05b# passwd New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word. Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully I get the 'BAD PASSWORD' message no matter what password I use. I tried this one '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' which I'm sure is not in the dictionary but still got that message. I don't know if that provides any clues or not. To test the various new passwords, I used this string of commands after each attempt to set root's password: sh-2.05b# su su(pam_unix)[1911]: session opened for user by (uid=0) bash-2.05b$ su Password: setgid: Operation not permitted bash-2.05b$ I repeated to two scenarios above with several different passwords. All attempts failed. So I have a bright shiny new system that I'd just love to be able to get in to. :) Any suggestions? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password -- Almost SOLVED!
On 5/8/2005 5:29 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:42 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to enter a password after doing 'su'. How can I check to be sure I'm part of the wheel group? You will still get asked. id OK, thanks. I have confirmed that I'm part of the 'wheel' group with both the 'id' and 'groups' command, thus my problems must be from not setting the initial root password properly. So any ideas on what I'm missing setting the root password in 8.c of the handbook? From the chrooted environment as 'root' I issued 'passwd' and then typed in my new password. I have also tried 'passwd root' with the same effect. Do I need to do something different since I booted with Knoppix? One more update. I found out how to boot in single user mode by adding 'single' to the end of the kernel line in grub. Booted to single user mode and issued 'passwd' command from there. It still doesn't work. My session goes like this: sh-2.05b# passwd New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word. Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully I get the 'BAD PASSWORD' message no matter what password I use. I tried this one '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' which I'm sure is not in the dictionary but still got that message. I don't know if that provides any clues or not. To test the various new passwords, I used this string of commands after each attempt to set root's password: sh-2.05b# su su(pam_unix)[1911]: session opened for user by (uid=0) bash-2.05b$ su Password: setgid: Operation not permitted bash-2.05b$ I repeated to two scenarios above with several different passwords. All attempts failed. So I have a bright shiny new system that I'd just love to be able to get in to. :) Any suggestions? OK, I've done some more reading and found that the reason I couldn't use 'su' as myself was because /bin/su didn't have the setuid bit set. So in all my fooling around, I have file ownership and modes screwed up from the default. What user:group should own all (or most) of the files after a install? What files should be setuid? Is there a list somewhere? Or will some incantation of 'emerge' fix all of this for me? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects
On 5/8/2005 6:59 PM Holly Bostick wrote: fire-eyes schreef: There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail a day. It might be interesting to many others too, but they end up deleting it because it's got no subject. Or at least respond to subjectless messages with a subject... Thanks! Thank you for saying; I thought it was just me. But what's weird is: 1) most of the time the subject appears in the headers when I select the message to read (in Thunderbird), and the messages are correctly threaded; the subject just does not appear in the folder list; 2) In my last reply to a message I specifically copied and pasted the subject (from an earlier message in the same thread which does have a subject) before sending, but having just gotten the message, my subject does not appear. So I don't know what's going on, but at least it's not some weird Thunderbird extension, or my ISP... Holly Same problems here. I suspect the list mail program is stripping something. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password -- SOLVED!!!
On 5/9/2005 4:17 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2005 17:53:26 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: OK, I've done some more reading and found that the reason I couldn't use 'su' as myself was because /bin/su didn't have the setuid bit set. So in all my fooling around, I have file ownership and modes screwed up from the default. What user:group should own all (or most) of the files after a install? What files should be setuid? Is there a list somewhere? Or will some incantation of 'emerge' fix all of this for me? # qpkg -f /bin/su sys-apps/shadow So "emerge --oneshot shadow" should restore things to their defaults. Setting the setuid bit on /bin/su and /bin/login fixed my login problems. I'm tried this suggestion and it worked. However I don't quite understand exactly what the "oneshot" option does. The man page says: Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world profile for later updating. So it rebuilds it but we don't add it to the world profile because it's part of the "base system" and we wouldn't want it upgraded unless we rebuilt everything else? I'm brand spankin' new to both Linux and Gentoo but I have experience with FreeBSD. In FreeBSD, I know one doesn't want to get his "kernel" and "world" out of sync. Is the idea behind "oneshot" similar to this? A big THANK YOU to all for helping this "noob" get up to speed. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage & Software Versions
I'm a brand new Gentoo user. This is my first Linux distro but I do have experience with FreeBSD so I'm not brand new to *nix. :) Anyway, how can I get newer versions of software from portage? For example, I know the current version of MythTV is 0.18. Yet 'emerge --search' shows me this: * media-tv/mythtv Latest version available: 0.16 Latest version installed: 0.16 Size of downloaded files: 13,181 kB Homepage:http://www.mythtv.org/ Description: Homebrew PVR project License: GPL-2 Is the newer version available via portage? Another example. The newest Nvidia driver is 1.0-7174. Yet portage shows this: * media-video/nvidia-kernel Latest version available: 1.0.6629-r4 Latest version installed: 1.0.6629-r4 Size of downloaded files: 16,116 kB Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA X11 driver License: NVIDIA Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage & Software Versions -- SOLVED
On 5/11/2005 5:36 PM Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/11/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a brand new Gentoo user. This is my first Linux distro but I do have experience with FreeBSD so I'm not brand new to *nix. :) Anyway, how can I get newer versions of software from portage? In general you'd do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv mythtv to get something newer. However I do not recommend you do this unless it is emerging just a single package. By using ~x86 this way it will also give you the testing versions of everything else it needs to update or install for the first time. You can also place a ~x86 in your /etc/portage/package.keywords file to relieve you of having to do htis every time you update the package. Thanks for your reply. You pointed me in the right direction and I did a little more reading. Please know that according to this post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1060314#1060314 the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS way of doing it is no longer recommended. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist
I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my mouse detected? I'm using 2.6.11 kernel with udev. Nudges to an appropriate web page are welcome. I have been unsuccessful with Google. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist
On 9/6/2005 1:24 PM Andreas Kerschbaumer wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my mouse detected? I'm using 2.6.11 kernel with udev. Nudges to an appropriate web page are welcome. I have been unsuccessful with Google. Thanks, Drew I got the same problem some time ago. Try /dev/input/mice insted of /dev/input/mouse0. Andy Thanks. I do have /dev/input/mice and putting that into xorg.conf solves the error. However the mouse doesn't work. Here is the relevant section of my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Please note I only have one mouse. It part of a wireless Logitec mouse/keyboard combo and plugs into the standard PS/2 mouse socket. Thanks for your help. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist
On 9/6/2005 6:08 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:11:44PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my mouse detected? I'm using 2.6.11 kernel with udev. Nudges to an appropriate web page are welcome. I have been unsuccessful with Google. Plan a) Does gpm work in text mode? If yes, "cat /etc/conf.d/gpm" and see what device it lists as being used. Thanks for your reply. I don't have gpm installed. Plan b) Start off with the command "ls -al -R /dev > list.txt" and view list.txt with your favourite editor or file-viewer. Look under "/dev/input". Also check for "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/mice" or "/dev/psaux" or "/dev/misc/". You should find something somewhere. I'm not exactly sure what I should be looking for. I use this box to run MythTV. I know /dev/input/mouse0 used to exist and work. I've been away for 6 weeks. At one point while I was gone, the power went out at home. However today when I tried to get the system up and running, I booted, Xorg started, and MythTV started. I used a utility (as I have in the past) called nvtv to adjust the screen position. When using this, I set something wrong (as I have in the past) and the screen was no longer viewable via SVGA on my TV. As I've done previously, I used ssh from another computer and issued a 'shutdown -r now'. Ever since that reboot, xorg complains about /dev/input/mouse0 not being there. Here's the items I have from your suggestions: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 6 06:16 /dev/misc crw-rw 1 root root 10, 1 Sep 6 06:16 psaux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 6 06:16 /dev/input crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Sep 6 06:16 mice lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 6 06:16 /dev/psaux -> misc/psaux Does any of this make sense? Thanks for your help. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
