gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64

Drivers For USB HDD

Frank Peters — 2012-05-06T18:29:20

Hello,

I recently acquired a Seagate USB external HDD but could not get it
to function on my Gentoo Linux.  Specifically, the drivers and commands
that I used were as follows:

modprobe sg
modprobe usb-storage
mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb

At this point, according to the kernel log, the drive was recognized
but there were errors in reading and so I could not finally mount
the NTFS file system that the drive contained.  Fdisk could not
recognize the drive.

Using a Gentoo Live DVD to boot Linux, the drive was recognized without
any read errors.  In this case fdisk could recognize the drive.  I then
attempted to reformat the drive with an ext2 file system but the format
failed.

After reading bad on-line reviews for this particular Seagate USB HDD,
I returned it for a refund.  Now I want to try a Western Digital USB HDD
but I need to know exactly what drivers and commands can be used to 
successfully recognize and mount the WD drive.

My USB thumb drives can all be successfully recognized with the sg and

Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers

Frank Peters — 2012-03-19T16:12:29

Linux-3.3.0 is released and, as is my usual habit, I downloaded and compiled
the plain vanilla source.

After rebooting to the command console, and before starting X, I needed
to re-install the nvidia-driver module for the new kernel.  Doing
"emerge nvidia-drivers" gave me the following error (the entire build log
is attached):

Preparing nvidia module
make -j9 HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- 'LDFLAGS=-m elf_x86_64' IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/lib/modules/3.3.0/build CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module 

*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***

make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1
emake failed
ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 failed (compile phase):
  Unable to emake HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS=-m elf_x86_64  IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/lib/modules/3.3.0/build CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module

Call stack:
    ebuild.sh, line   85:  Cal

fan control

Mansour Al Akeel — 2012-03-10T20:28:23

My laptop started getting hot recently. There is no dust issue. The
fan just doesn't seem to start at all.
I tried to use lm_sensors and sensor-detect, but it's not detecting
any sensors. I tried to recompile the kernel, enabling
all the sensors but no luck. using acpi woks in reporting some values:

acpi -V
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 58.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 103.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 105.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: LCD 0 of 10
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 7
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 7
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 7
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 7

 lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor
Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI
Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corpor

PC not printing from gnome

Clemente Aguiar — 2012-03-02T15:59:42

At the office I have a couple of printer, an OKI c7500 and a Canon
iR5055).

Since the end of January that my machine has stopped printing from gnome
applications to the Canon iR5055.

For example, I am able to print from Firefox and Libreoffice, however I
cannot print from Gnome applications (i.e. gedit, evince or evolution).

The strangest thing is that CUPS reports the jobs as being completed,
traffic between the PC and the printer is detected (with tcpdump), even
when I print from Gnome applications, but on the print nothing happens.

Can anybody help how to go about finding out what the problem is?

Clemente

Nvidia Update Problem

Frank Peters — 2012-02-16T00:06:58

After updating nvidia-drivers from 290.10 to 295.20-r1, I cannot start X
and the log files contain this message:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[  3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[  3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[  3482.609] (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
[  3482.609] 

NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 295.20, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 290.10.  Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.
NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 295.20, but
NVRM: this kernel module has the version 290.10.  Please
NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
NVRM: components have the same version.

What could be the problem?  I've seen no other reports of
this issue.

Frank Peters

Shift + Fn Keys Suddenly Don't Work

Frank Peters — 2011-10-09T17:45:07

Hello,

On an ordinary keyboard, the extended function keys, F13 to F24, should
be accessible as Shift + Fn, where Fn are the keys F1 to F12.

Well, up until a few days ago, the Shift+Fn combination was working as it
should.  Then suddenly, Shift+Fn stopped working correctly.  I noticed
it when using the Midnight Commander (MC) file manager where I extensively
use Shift+F5 and Shift+F6 to conveniently rename and copy files.
MC is a terminal program but the problem also shows up in some X programs
that use Shift+Fn combinations.

Because I have no need to closely monitor changes on my system I can't
actually pinpoint any new install that may be responsible.  My first
guess would be a new version of xorg-server-1.11.1 that was emerged
on October 2.

I need to know how I can debug this situation further.  Using xev
to record key presses gives the following output when using
Shift+F1:

KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0x121, subw 0x0, time 6919279, (23,152), root:(463,411),

Network adopter driver

Mansour Al Akeel — 2011-09-08T12:12:08

I am trying to install the driver for the wireless adopter. It looks
like it's Intel based:


lspci 

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1c12] (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:1c16] (rev b5)
00

keymap broken

Mansour Al Akeel — 2011-09-07T02:21:52

I got a newer laptop, and rather than installing gentoo, I just
swapped the hard disks. Now when I boot into the new one,
it works up to the level I am expecting (still need some drivers), but
the keyboard act wierd. When I press "m" it types "0",
and some other keys don't send anything at all.
This issue starts when I start my xdm (configured to start slim). With
the text run level (console), there's no issues until I start and stop
xdm.

I am not sure if I modified something long time ago in the config, to
use different keymaps, but this issue didn't exist on the older
laptop.
What files could have such a configuration, that I need to look into ?

Thank you.

Can't Emerge Thunderbird-5.0/6.0

Frank Peters — 2011-08-23T18:47:42

When attempting to emerge either thunderbird-5 or thunderbird-6
the build fails.

The build log, in both cases, shows this at the end:

rm -f libxul.so
/usr/bin/python2.7 [...] -Wl,-h,libxul.so -o libxul.so [...]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1

Is it strange that libxul should be removed and then used immediately
afterward?  

Currently I am using thunderbird-3.1.10 which builds using the
same USE flags and other options.

Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade

Frank Peters — 2011-07-06T01:31:48

Hello,

Today my system automatically updated glibc from 2.12-rc2 to 2.12-rc3.
Shortly afterwards I tried to start OpenOffice and it would not start.
The error message:

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-deps.c: 622: _dl_map_object_deps: Assertion `nlist > 1' failed!

(The same problem is reported here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6744468.html)

Apparently this is due to the glibc update.  A quick fix (since I need
OpenOffice) would be to simply downgrade back to glibc-2.12-r2, but
emerge will not allow me to do it:

 * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
 *  Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 failed (setup phase):
 *   aborting to save your system

I'm not going to break my system.  How do I override this?

Note:  I am not using the compiled Gentoo version of OpenOffice.
My installation is the binary version from the OO web site.
Also, LibreOffice, which I installed (from binary) as a possible
fix, gives the same error

GCC-4.5.2 Has Serious Problems

Frank Peters — 2011-06-30T21:45:30

Hello,

After banging my head for a while over some strange results, I began
to suspect GCC-4.5.2, the latest version in portage, was creating
faulty code.

It seems to a correct suspicion.

What follows is a short C program that reproduces my particular problem,
but there are likely many other situations where GCC could fail.  The code
may be a difficult for some people to follow but only the output is what
actually matters.  Simpler examples will certainly exist but I have not
had the chance to develop them.

The program is included here as both in-line text and as a file attachment
(gcc_test.c).  The problem is described below.

------------------------------------

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
int n;
double x;
unsigned long int arg;
unsigned long int *px = (unsigned long int*)&x;

x=0.0; n=0; arg=0x4010000000000000;
while(n<5)
{

printf("%lx %g\n",arg, x);

*px=arg;

printf("%lx %g\n\n",arg, x);
n++; arg=arg+0x0010000000000000;
}

exit(0);
}

-------------------------

What th

eix-test-obsolete

Thanasis — 2011-06-30T09:10:37

When I run eix-test-obsolete it reports a strange package:

...
The following installed packages are not in the database:

sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources
sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources

Possible Math Problem - Request For Verification

Frank Peters — 2011-06-25T17:41:11

Hello,

Believe it or not, at the very beginning, Linux/GNU had some math problems.
In particular, it would do somewhat poorly on various floating point tests
that are available on-line.  Because I do mathematical work on my machine,
I used to regularly evaluate my software using these tests.

However, for the past several years Linux/GNU has gotten nearly perfect
scores on these same tests and it seemed that glibc and/or gcc had finally
gotten the math code right.  As a result of this, I stopped my regular
evaluations of the software.

Just recently I decided to run these tests again.  I expected to see the
same nearly perfect scores but, to my surprise, a failure occurred in the
area of complex number operations.  This may not be a very serious failure,
but it was not present during prior tests and thus it should not be present
now.

Possibly a fault has crept in somewhere either in glibc or gcc.  Because
I had stopped my regular testing I can't relate the failure to any specific
version change of either p

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Lost synaptics touchpad scrolling after kernel upgrade

Mansour Al Akeel — 2011-06-18T02:11:10

Hello all,
 
I upgraded from 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 to 2.6.38-gentoo-r6. I didn't change
anything in the config file, and used the old kernel config to compile
the new kernel. However, when I booted into the new kernel, I found the
scrolling in the touch pad is not working !
If I boot into the older kernel it works fine. I recompiled the
following Xorg drivers under the new kernel :

xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0
xf86-input-mouse-1.7.0
xf86-input-synaptics-1.3.0
xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2
xf86-video-intel-2.14.0
xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0

I tried to check the correct mouse device using:
cat /dev/input/* 

For all the devices, but none produced the expected output of
unreadable characters. 

For some reason, TouchPad is not found, as per  /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[    37.976] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[    37.976] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel Headphone (/dev/input/event7)
[    37.976] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[    37.984] (II) config/udev: Adding input device A

no sound in firefox java

Daiajo Tibdixious — 2011-06-17T23:25:40

If I use firefox-bin (32 bit) or firefox (64 bit) on youtube, I get
sound no problems.
If I run mplayer I get sound also.
If I use firefox-bin with a java applet that plays sound, I get no sound at all.
I can't load this applet in firefox, which is why I still use
firefox-bin for it.

Googling "no sound in firefox java" gives lots of hits, mainly from
people with the same problem.
1 solution was to "modprobe snd-pcm-oss" which did not help. I.m
fairly sure this is redundant with base layout 2.

I upgraded the kernel twice, from linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 where I
initially had the problem,
to linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8 and now on linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6 paying
careful attention to all the sound related configuration options. This
had no effect.

I've run out of things to try, so I'm asking the list.

I previously had a problem where the first firefox session would get
sound, but no subsequent application, including firefox would have
sound, in other words the first invocation of firefox would lock the
sound. I could l

restarting net.ppp0

Thanasis — 2011-06-07T15:49:46

On a system which serves a LAN as NAT gateway, when the ADSL (pppoe)
link dies or when I restart net.ppp0, a lot of services like named,
dhcpd, squid, samba, sshd, etc are also restarted, for which there is no
reason. This is very uncovenient because the LAN depends on the system's
services for name resolution etc.
Anyone else seeing this?

tcptraceroute have buffer overflow in ipv6

Benny Pedersen — 2011-04-14T03:35:43

tcptraceroute ipv6.google.com 80

shows me a nice buffer overflow, i like to camture it into a log file but
lost on how :/

tryed:
tcptraceroute ipv6.google.com 80 | less

and press s from less to save it, still no file content to save :(

No LibX11 Libtool Archive Installed

Frank Peters — 2011-03-28T02:16:40

Hello,

The latest GTK+-2.24.3 failed to build on my system because of the
following error:

/bin/grep: /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libX11.la' is not a valid libtool archive

The libX11.la that is missing should be in the x11-libs/libX11 package.
But why is libX11.la missing?

I can emerge libX11 using USE="static-libs" or USE="-static-libs"
but libX11.la is not produced in either case.

The emerge log when building libX11 always shows the following:

Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.la
Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11.la

So the .la files are being produced but are being removed afterwards.

Does anyone else have a missing /usr/lib64/libX11.la file?

Frank Peters

Dell Latitude E5410 laptop

Fernando Boaglio — 2011-02-12T19:55:01

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying a new  Dell Latitude E5410 laptop, I had to sell
my LG laptop because it has a proprietary video driver that makes Linux
unable to control brightness, resulting in laptop  battery did not last even
for an hour ... =/

Anyone have this laptop Dell Latitude E5410 ? Does it run  Gentoo smoothly ?

Found nothing in the forums or  wiki (
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Category:Dell_Laptops )

TIA

[]'s
Fernando Boaglio

audio device and alsa problem

Paul Stear — 2011-02-07T14:37:51

Hi,
Having change motherboard and processor I have 1 outstanding issue. I can't get 
sound to work in 6 channel mode.

If I do a lspci -v | grep -i audio I get 
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
This I think is a Realtek ALC883 2,4 or 6 channel
I could not find this in kernel config but some documentation lead me to believe 
that the driver I needed was hda-intel.
Alsa conf says  No supported PnP or PCI card found.
But I do get output on the line out socket (Lime)
the sound is capable of 2,4 or 6 channel configuration
Surrounf (light blue)
Front speakers (Lime)
Center/Bass (Pink)

Any experts out there --- please

Paul