ch resets after reboot. This wouldn't really be a problem if I
could get #1 fixed above because then I could use the Print dialogs
instead of lpr.
4. The printer feeds a lot of paper before it starts to print. Should
that be fixed in the .upp or .ppd?
5. Quality isn't great, but there's probably not much to do about that.
- Grant
lpr.
>
> 4. The printer feeds a lot of paper before it starts to print. Should
> that be fixed in the .upp or .ppd?
>
> 5. Quality isn't great, but there's probably not much to do about that.
>
> - Grant
I should include info about how I got it to work. Just follow
an't set master mode or other parameters. I think
hostapd is supposed to handle all of that except the IP configuration,
but /etc/conf.d/net wants to do more than just the IP configuration.
Does anyone know the right way to handle this?
- Grant
Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
them.
- Grant
ude the most written dirs? I thought SSDs were projected to
last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much
longer than MLC.
- Grant
>> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
>> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
>> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
>> them.
>>
>> - Grant
>
>
> app-
I
thought SSDs would be my way out. Is an HD the best choice for
reliability?
- Grant
>>>> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
>>>> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
>>>> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
>>>> them.
>>>>
&
. I seem to be getting more
> efficient at not needing them.
>
> Stroller.
Has anyone tried winbuilder:
http://winbuilder.net/
It's supposed to be great.
- Grant
hese backup systems in the next few weeks.
- Grant
push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The
>> actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user
>> has the necessary access.
>
> Sounds great. Is there any software that works this way?
>
> Ward
I'd like to know too. :)
- Grant
.
The problem is with system tray icons that are not panel plugins. For
example: wicd, twinkle, blueman, orage. The icons for those do not
appear at all except for the twinkle icon which appears right in the
center of the screen. All other icons work fine, and system tray
icons that are panel plugins such as xfce4-mixer and clipman work
fine.
Any ideas?
- Grant
eman, orage. The icons for those do not
>> appear at all except for the twinkle icon which appears right in the
>> center of the screen. All other icons work fine, and system tray
>> icons that are panel plugins such as xfce4-mixer and clipman work
>> fine.
>>
>> Any idea
I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff,
the intel-drivers, and firefox. Firefox is running really slowly now,
with kind of a lag to everything. Does anyone know of anything to try
in order to fix it? Do I need to disable or enable DRI?
- Grant
> did etc-update over write xorg.conf ?
I actually don't use an xorg.conf at all.
- Grant
>> I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff,
>> the intel-drivers, and firefox. Firefox is running really slowly now,
>> with kind of a lag to everyt
ver its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so)
Exactly.
> Grant, try to reemerge firefox (and if You haven't done it already the
> x11-drivers/*)
I re-emerged them with no change. I do think it has to do with
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel though. I've had this problem i
ld this be the problem?
# grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory
(EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master.
(EE) intel(0): Failed to initialize kernel memory manager
- Grant
m] set up 7M of stolen space
> [drm] initialized overlay support
> fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
> [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for :00:02.0 on minor 0
>
> If everything's working, you should have the following devices that the
> Xorg driver needs:
>
> platypus log # ls -l /dev/dri
> total 0
> crw-rw 1 root video 226, 0 Apr 20 13:11 card0
> crw-rw 1 root video 226, 64 Apr 20 13:11 controlD64
Ah, thank you so much. I needed to enable CONFIG_DRM_I915 in the kernel.
- Grant
tialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for :00:02.0 on minor 0
>>
>> If everything's working, you should have the following devices that the
>> Xorg driver needs:
>>
>> platypus log # ls -l /dev/dri
>> total 0
>> crw-rw 1 root video 226, 0 Apr 20 13:11 card0
>> crw-rw 1 root video 226, 64 Apr 20 13:11 controlD64
>
> Ah, thank you so much. I needed to enable CONFIG_DRM_I915 in the kernel.
>
> - Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the
keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that?
- Grant
>> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the
>> keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
> Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it).
> in kernel config You have multiple option for back
stick with hal until 1.8. Please let me know if that isn't
the case. I'm on udev-149.
- Grant
e main difference is how
> much manually configuration you need to do.
>
> The relative stability of using/not using udev with Xorg 1.8 have yet to
> determined.
Could switching to udev from hal fix my brightness adjustment keys?
- Grant
The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the
connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'.
Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and
restarting the interface does?
- Grant
T&T won't admit it).
>> The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the
>> connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'.
>> Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and
>> restar
tell modem (which is also a router although AT&T won't admit it).
>> >> The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the
>> >> connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'.
>> >> Does anyone know why reboo
tell modem (which is also a router although AT&T won't admit it).
>> >> The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the
>> >> connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'.
>> >> Does anyone know why reboot
>> >> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the
>> >> keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that?
>> >>
>> >> - Grant
>> >>
>> > Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it)
I've been advised to harden my SSL in the following ways:
1. disable SSL 2.0
2. disable use of SSL ciphers which offer either weak or no encryption
3. disable anonymous SSL ciphers
Will some website users not be able to use https if I do this?
- Grant
>> >> >> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the
>> >> >> keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> - Grant
>> >> >>
>> >> > Please sh
>> >> >> >> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via
>> >> >> >> the
>> >> >> >> keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
address until the dhcp lease on the client has expired. To overcome
> this botched implementation the half-bridged modem has a short lease. This
> doesn't always work, as I suspect is the case here.
>
> HTH.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
Thank you Mick, I'm going to set that up ASAP.
- Grant
saned
to the lp group on the server before I could get remote scanning to
work (not required with the Epson), and I'm wondering if there could
be a similar detail I'm overlooking with remote printing.
- Grant
om gutenprint (I think) to hplip? I had to add saned
> to the lp group on the server before I could get remote scanning to
> work (not required with the Epson), and I'm wondering if there could
> be a similar detail I'm overlooking with remote printing.
>
> - Grant
I gue
I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open
display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as
the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does
anyone know why this is happening?
- Grant
ning?
>
> Is the user in the video group?
Yes, I should have said that.
- Grant
quot;file of stored file properties".
What do you guys think is going on? What should I do from here?
- Grant
from other domains I nmap.
Could my ISP have some kind of a weird environment set up that makes
it look like there are ports such as these open on remote systems?
Right now I'm on some kind of a shared connection where everyone has
their own modem or router or whatever it is, but I think everyone's IP
is the same.
- Grant
he above services run under. If indeed they are not
>>>> legitimate
>>>> and you confirm that they are not being run as packages that you
>>>> installed,
>>>> then I'm afraid the only sane option is to reinstall.
>>>>
>>>
&g
My bluetooth headset was working great with twinkle, but now it's out
of the tree and I can't find another SIP client that works with a
bluetooth headset. Does anybody know of one? linphone is said to
work, but I can't make it happen even after an exhaustive effort.
- Grant
> My bluetooth headset was working great with twinkle, but now it's out
> of the tree and I can't find another SIP client that works with a
> bluetooth headset. Does anybody know of one? linphone is said to
> work, but I can't make it happen even after an exhaustive ef
nvidia driver works great but I'd like to get nv
working too.
- Grant
y it (it even supports 3D):
>
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org
>
> It's better than the crappy "nv" driver by orders of magnitude.
That's great! I'll ask the Nouveau list about VDPAU support.
- Grant
dant options which is very long and very ridiculous.
Are those options the reason for the compile failure?
- Grant
module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
(EE) No devices detected.
The xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.15_pre20100213 ebuild only depends on
>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.18_pre so I installed those but I still get the
errors above when trying to start X.
Any ideas? Do you have nouveau working?
- Grant
t;>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.18_pre so I installed those but I still get the
> errors above when trying to start X.
>
> Any ideas? Do you have nouveau working?
>
> - Grant
I forgot to mention that I have CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU enabled in my
2.6.33 kernel and nouveau-firmware is loading successfully.
- Grant
the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] (not
> completely sure about the versions)
>
> Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm
>
> Hopefully it will be *very* temporary
Have you installed nouveau-drm? If so, do you get kernel config
warnings during the emerge?
- Grant
he API break:
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
(EE) No devices detected.
Google says the error can be due to disabling dri in xorg.conf, but I
don't have anything like that. Should CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y include
the dri or dri2 module?
- Grant
, or does anyone know what the problem
might be?
- Grant
0 Performance pending work
THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 6 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
MIS: 0
- Grant
> if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't.
Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the
BIOS and I can select either "Unassigned" or "Reserved" I think. What
affect will reserving an interrupt have?
- Grant
>> > if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't.
>>
>> Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the
>> BIOS and I can select either "Unassigned" or "Reserved" I think. What
>> affect wi
to software rendering
I see that xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.15_pre20100213 doesn't install that
file. It does install the following file, but they don't look
interchangeable to me:
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
Should /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so come from CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y in
the kernel (which I have defined)? Does anyone have this file?
- Grant
>>>> > if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't.
>>>>
>>>> Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the
>>>> BIOS and I can select either "Unassigned" or "Reserved" I
l at your own risk, they say, you need to run
> their latest development libraries from git. I don't do that, so I don't
> know if the gentoo packages include that stuff. Maybe someone else knows?
Thanks Walt. I don't need 3D so if that's what the error refers to I
won't worry about it. The system is running great on Nouveau now.
- Grant
24 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
>
> FWIW a grep of the nouveau source doesnt bring up any hits on MSI, so it
> looks like the driver doesnt support it yet. Likewise no hits for ath5k,
> however ath9k does support it.
Nice, thanks Adam. Sounds like ath9k is the way out.
- Grant
gt;> 23: 3446 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3
>>> 28: 21524 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
>>
>> FWIW a grep of the nouveau source doesnt bring up any hits on MSI, so it
>> looks like the driver doesnt support it yet. Likewise no hits for ath5k,
>> however ath9k does support it.
>
> Nice, thanks Adam. Sounds like ath9k is the way out.
>
> - Grant
Ah nevermind, I guess ath9k is 802.11n only. Maybe they'll add MSI
support to ath5k.
- Grant
.
- Grant
also don't want to build and maintain another Gentoo system for
only firewall/router duties. Am I overlooking another option? I want
a "dumb" device to move the ethernet connection from one side of the
room to the other.
There may not be anything like that. I just thought I'd ask.
- Grant
except that I'm really
into audio and I don't want to increase the interference in my
apartment's electricity.
- Grant
s. I've
> got some DLink bridges that have a mode like that. You just set them
> up next to each other and powered them both up while holding a button
> down, and they'd find each other and pair-up.
I hadn't heard of a wireless bridge before. That sounds about right.
DD-WRT running as a wireless bridge wouldn't be so bad right?
- Grant
ng room.
>
> Do those not count as "non-Gentoo decision-making devices"?
When I said I didn't like to use non-Gentoo decision-making devices, I
was just trying to let everyone in on my mentality. It would be
ideal, but of course it means building and maintaining another Gentoo
system and I always seem to be short on time as it is.
- Grant
t;> down, and they'd find each other and pair-up.
>>
>> I hadn't heard of a wireless bridge before. That sounds about right.
>> DD-WRT running as a wireless bridge wouldn't be so bad right?
>
> I don't have any experience with DD-WRT. I use OpenWrt, bu
memory DIMM [empty]
/0/4 memory RAM memory
/0/1.2 memory RAM memory
/0/1.4 memory RAM memory
Does anyone know how to set the memory speed to 800 Mhz?
- Grant
memory RAM memory
>>
>> Does anyone know how to set the memory speed to 800 Mhz?
>
> DDR800 runs at 400Mhz, so everything is fine.
>
> For more details:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM#Chips_and_modules
Thank you Nikos.
- Grant
I need to install the google-api-adwords-perl library, and it requires
that SOAP-WSDL is patched with the soap_wsdl_patches.pl perl script.
Can I have SOAP-WSDL patched via the perl script in an ebuild?
- Grant
> I need to install the google-api-adwords-perl library, and it requires
> that SOAP-WSDL is patched with the soap_wsdl_patches.pl perl script.
> Can I have SOAP-WSDL patched via the perl script in an ebuild?
>
> - Grant
Here is the perl script:
http://pastebin.com/YM3G5sKn
Can a
eft
> in ~/.mozialla/plugins. After deleting the flashplayer plugin from
> that directory, FF then found the "officially" installed 10.x version
> and is now happy.
I'm having the exact same problem, except I don't have a
~/.mozilla/plugins directory at all. Any ideas?
- Grant (a different Grant)
>>> I need to install the google-api-adwords-perl library, and it requires
>>> that SOAP-WSDL is patched with the soap_wsdl_patches.pl perl script.
>>> Can I have SOAP-WSDL patched via the perl script in an ebuild?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>>
sier to use the perl patch in case a different version
is released so we don't have to re-create the patch each time. A
Text::Patch dep wouldn't be so bad. What do you think?
- Grant
| die "google patch failed"
> fi
> }
David, you mentioned in the bug that you couldn't get the patch to
work clean. I thought you got it working before when you posted the
patched Typemap for me to download. Did it work then but not now?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305621
- Grant
which is where the ebuild puts the file.
I did have an extra libflashplayer.so, I deleted it, I deleted
pluginreg.dat, I re-emerged adobe-flash, and I restarted firefox, but
flash still isn't working. It works in opera. Any ideas?
- Grant
re I'm confused because of my weak understanding of this. I
thought Typemap was a component of the downloaded SOAP-WSDL. If not,
what is Typemap and how did you patch it by hand?
- Grant
's name.
>
> --
> Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors
The google-api-adwords-perl ebuild in the bug works great for me so
far. I've only done basic testing with it, but it appears to be
working. I will be able to do more extensive testing hopefully over
the next few days.
- Grant
longer matches its content directory's name.
>>
>> --
>> Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors
>>
>>
> I don't think I will use the software, I was just helping to put the
> pieces together, Grant has been testing it as we move forward.
a 64 bit version. On amd64 you MUST use
> nspluginwrapper.
>
> Safest is to just remerge the thing and let it convert all your plugins - the
> command to do that is somewhat arcane and tedious but the ebuild does it all
> automatically.
Fixed by emerging nspluginwrapper. Thanks everyone!
- Grant
CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO with the same result. Does anyone know how to
fix this? I'm trying to use hardened-sources-2.6.34 from the anarchy
overlay on both systems.
- Grant
is nearly watchable. I'm using a dual-core
3.1Ghz CPU and one of the cores is only taxed up to 60% during
playback, but frames are still being dropped constantly. Does anyone
know where the bottleneck might be?
- Grant
on of mplayer so both CPU cores can do decoding. It's in
> the "multimedia" overlay. More details here:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673.html
I really don't think it's a CPU issue. What other factors could be at
play? Could it be my nouveau video drivers?
- Grant
ettings.
It's running from an internal HD.
> Try nvidia-binary. You'll get VDPAU in that case, which will result in
> about 5% CPU usage when decoding h264!
I'm trying to move away from VDPAU. It fixes the performance issue
but the extra layer creates a new set of problems.
- Grant
multithreaded version of mplayer "mplayer-mt" (in some overlay
> probably) with "lavdopts=threads=2" in mplayer config.
Does anyone know if mplayer-uau uses "-lavdopts threads=2" by default?
I tried with and without and there might have been a performance
increase with,
tch, mplayer-uau
> adds more patches.
Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt
patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? Do you know what other significant
patches mplayer-uau adds?
- Grant
ither do that
specifically, or to follow the latest mplayer version in the
multimedia overlay? The situation is a little tricky since there is a
version in portage that is newer than the newest version in the
multimedia overlay.
Also thanks to Stroller for clearing up the mplayer/mplayer-uau situation.
- Grant
ewtopic-t-789673.html
Got it, thanks. Hopefully that shows up in the multimedia overlay
soon. It's interesting that the mplayer-uau ebuild includes a threads
USE flag in addition to the ffmpeg-mt one.
- Grant
t;
> They compile if I disable DRM. I've tried with and without
> CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO with the same result. Does anyone know how to
> fix this? I'm trying to use hardened-sources-2.6.34 from the anarchy
> overlay on both systems.
>
> - Grant
Any idea on this guys?
- Grant
t;
> They compile if I disable DRM. I've tried with and without
> CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO with the same result. Does anyone know how to
> fix this? I'm trying to use hardened-sources-2.6.34 from the anarchy
> overlay on both systems.
>
> - Grant
This is fixed with hardened-2.6.34-r2 in the anarchy overlay.
- Grant
to
>>> manually create a patch for SOAP-WSDL.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Abbott (dabbott)
>>
>> I'm sure I'm confused because of my weak understanding of this. I
>> thought Typemap was a component of the downloaded SOAP-WSDL. If not,
>> what is T
I recently had the problem described here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70884
The solution worked. Now I'm being told the same system is having the
same problem, but I'm away from there. Is there a way to fix it
remotely?
- Grant
t; remotely?
>
> ssh in remotely and have a user log in to gdm locally.
>
> ps will show if xfce4-panel is running twice, so have the local user log out,
> you edit the session startup files and have them try again.
Do you know which file that is? I have:
# cat /home/grant/.
. Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for
some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to
access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone
know why this might be happening?
- Grant
t, Firefox periodically downloads a current list of
> malware addresses for its phising filter.
Thank you. Is this the checkbox: "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is
a suspected attack site."
- Grant
ck site."
>
> Two options, in the "Security" tab:
>
> "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries."
Thanks, you must be on 3.5.
- Grant
."
>
> Two options, in the "Security" tab:
>
> "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries."
BTW, Firefox asks Google for the lists right?
- Grant
>> [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip]
>
> Hi,
>
> does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds on
> the homepage?
Good question, I will test for that.
Does anyone know if Firefox downloads its website lists from Google?
- Grant
Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo?
- Grant
d some type of "copy protection" built in
in some way, so I was thinking it might not work with Linux.
- Grant
eo card and monitor/TV) support HDCP (=paid
> Intel for a license). HDMI is one of several connection formats that
> supports HDCP.
Exactly, that was it.
- Grant
Does anyone know of a self-powered external video card (USB, Firewire,
ExpressCard) that has composite/RCA output and works in Gentoo? I'd
like to use it to connect my laptop (VGA output only) to TVs while I'm
travelling.
- Grant
;ve used various widgets similar to that, and they work fine.
> but remember than you're not going to get much more than
> 640x480 resolution on a TV via composite video. Setting your
> desktop to 800x600 usually works OK, but things are going to be
> a bit on the fuzzy side.
&g
uch weaker specs.
I noticed the HD light comes on when the system is pausing in firefox
sometimes. I don't have any swap at all, I'm using the CFQ, and /tmp
is mounted on tmpfs. Can anyone suggest where to look?
- Grant
t; "EXA"
Thank you James and Paul. I read this:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/195836
and downgraded to xf86-video-intel-2.7.1 and all is well.
- Grant
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