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post #61 of 168
1/30/06 at 1:07am
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I found out what the gnome glitch is and why the system monitor is bringing down the system. It has to do with the 'nifd' process. After I killed that things went back to normal. So it's either that process or mDNSResponder that's causing the issues.

Now the trick is to find out why my network configuration is killing the monitors. I'm glad nobody said this would be easy...

BTW, doing an emerge world fixed my alsa issues in gnome (for the most part). I now have system sounds! (well sorta, I have to turn on the master and pcm channels first)
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post #62 of 168
1/30/06 at 8:16pm
Good to know you're making progress, BT. Oh and its the journey that counts, not the end result.
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post #63 of 168
1/31/06 at 12:41am
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Here's a screenshot of gnome:


Desktop stuff I'm working on:
- Getting Gdesklets working
- Conky monitor
- Getting network monitors stable
- Fixing xorg.conf to not scale un-antialiased fonts poorly

I'm gonna update my completion list with a bunch of stuff pretty soon.
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post #64 of 168
1/31/06 at 12:41am
w000t, i got my wifi working today. alsa is being a bitch though. i just cant figure it out. i have the driver compiled into the kernel but it wont recognize my card.
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post #65 of 168
1/31/06 at 12:44am
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Originally Posted by bigtrouble77
- Conky monitor
BUWAHAHAHAHHAHAH.

Any "Trailer Park Boys" fans around here? EDIT: LOL, looks like it was actually the reason for their name! http://conky.sourceforge.net/aboutconky.html


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Looks neat, BT, nice and simple.
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post #66 of 168
1/31/06 at 12:05pm
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Originally Posted by drizek
alsa is being a bitch though. i just cant figure it out. i have the driver compiled into the kernel but it wont recognize my card.
I just confirmed my alsa is working 100%. Got xmms up and running.

What card are you using? Do you know what kernel module it uses?
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post #67 of 168
1/31/06 at 12:58pm
And here I am about to repeat BT's questions on that ALSA setup. COmpiled into the kernel or seperate? Modules loaded?

Seablade
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post #68 of 168
1/31/06 at 12:59pm
Heh for the record I am currently in the middle of downgrading my setup as I managed to crash both Enlightenment and Gnome doing something stupid fairly permanantly, so I am trying to downgrade both of them for the time being, I may be forced to run with Gnome for a while unfortunatly. Sheesh downgrading is a pain. At least with portage it aint as bad as it could be, but its still a pain.

Seablade
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post #69 of 168
1/31/06 at 2:45pm
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Current Status:

[095%] Network Configuration- Downgraded. Need to find out why certain network monitoring services are causing sever performance issues in gnome.
[096%] X.org and Gnome- Base gnome system is configured. Getting some errors on exit to command line so it's not %100 yet. Need to understand the errors first.
[100%] ALSA- working.
[100%] Video Drivers- working.
[020%] MythTV- kernel modules loaded.
[000%] Mame- Need xbox drivers working.
[000%] US-122- Getting this usb sound device working.
[000%] Configure Grub to boot my windows drive- haven't started yet.
[070%] Multimedia- Got mp3 and ogg working. Need to get flac, dvd and ms codecs working.
[040%] MySql, Apache, Tomcat, Php, Java JDK- Installed, need to configure.
[050%] Desktop Enhancements- Gdesklets having compiling issues, need to install conky, need to get network monitors stable.
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post #70 of 168
1/31/06 at 7:03pm
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Seablade,
I'm tackling alsa/jack/ardour now.

I have a few questions...

- How do you execute jack? jackd returns 'cpmmand not found'.
- Gnome isn't recognizing my tascam card yet. It still only see's the onboard audio. The module is loaded in the kernel and lsmod confirms it's loaded. I really would like to set a second mixer in gnome to handle the tascam card.

Here's my alsa config:
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post #71 of 168
1/31/06 at 7:27pm
Heh believe it or not BT you are probably farther along in your work than I am in mine... in fact mine seems to have taken several steps backwards and fallen off a REALLY large cliff.....

Some of my modules went really screwy when I downgraded.

At any rate, if Jackd is not recognized are you sure you installed the right ebuild? There is Jack(A CD program I think) and there is Jack-Audio-Connection-Kit(The one you want)

In as far as your tascam... hmm have you tried playing via alsaplayer to it? No problems on the module load I assume?

Seablade
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post #72 of 168
1/31/06 at 7:38pm
Wow it could very well be time for me to reformat and start from scratch...

Note: downgrading is a BAD idea apparently.....

Gonna try a few more things real quick, but then give up

Seablade
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post #73 of 168
1/31/06 at 7:54pm
Bah dont know wether it is a good thing or a bad thing... but I got an improvement and found out some of what happened...

While downgrading portage removed my old kernel src directory, I didnt notice because it was only a change in releases of a kernel source.

Of course now I have half those modules back up, and X up, but not a single WM as they all dont wanna work for me

I think I gonna take a nap, and decide wether I want to rebuild everything from scratch tonight... I dont want to, but it may just be easier. I need to find out how to use X sessions from a 32 bit chroot, and how to use prefix with portage.

You havin better luck than me I hope BT?

Seablade
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post #74 of 168
1/31/06 at 8:08pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
Bah dont know wether it is a good thing or a bad thing... but I got an improvement and found out some of what happened...

While downgrading portage removed my old kernel src directory, I didnt notice because it was only a change in releases of a kernel source.

Of course now I have half those modules back up, and X up, but not a single WM as they all dont wanna work for me

I think I gonna take a nap, and decide wether I want to rebuild everything from scratch tonight... I dont want to, but it may just be easier. I need to find out how to use X sessions from a 32 bit chroot, and how to use prefix with portage.

You havin better luck than me I hope BT?

Seablade
That really sucks. Well, I have some good news. I got ardour running with jack pretty well. Unfortunately, it's using my nforce audio, but it gets a respectable 24ms (respectable for an onboard audio controller). I didn't realize that you can launch jack from this version of ardour.

Unfortunately, you can't config jack through ardour so it only selects hw:0.

Anyway, it's a big step in the right direction. This is the first time i've been able to get any sound out of ardour.

The other good news is that I can see all of ardours log info so I have an idea where I need to change my alsa configs.

Good luck with your system. I feel your pain. I should probably go do a backup now.

BTW, would doing an 'emerge -U world' possibly fix things?
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post #75 of 168
1/31/06 at 10:22pm
Nope not really, that is what I had to do to downgrade

It obviously didnt go so well.

I think what caused the majority of my problems was the kernel switch, but Gnome is having some problems of its own and enlightenment is having its own share(Segfaults on startup) so it may just be easier for me now to restart from scratch rather than fix everything.

The fun thing is the few errors I was having from doing an emerge world, went away when I downgraded

Anyways, you still cant find jackd when you type it in on the commandline? If ardour can start it, it is obviously there. Something screwy in that, trying finding its physical location on the HD using slocate?

I am assuming you have emerged qjackctl? If not that is how I launch Jack and is highly reccomended.

Seablade
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post #76 of 168
1/31/06 at 11:11pm
Heh well I just removed my DNS resolution support by accident, not to mention I believe i also removed gcc on accident...

I would say my gentoo install is officially dead.

Lesson Learned? NEVER run emerge --depclean

That warning is entierly accurate, I somehow managed to miss those two in reading the list of things to be removed... so it is dead.

Ah well at least now I dont have to worry about wether or not I want to start from scratch

Seablade

Back to stage 1... literally.
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post #77 of 168
1/31/06 at 11:19pm
Hey Seablade, don't format just yet. Grab your LiveCD and bootstrap the system again. That will give you gcc back. Then you should be able to chroot into the system and bring all the packages up to speed with 'emerge -avuDN world'.

Mikhail
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post #78 of 168
1/31/06 at 11:45pm
Yea problem is I am still left with the problem of removing X and everything that is remotely dependant on it to start from scratch again

Seablade
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post #79 of 168
1/31/06 at 11:48pm
But yea that thought had occured to me as well, but thanks for the suggestion anyways.

Seablade
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post #80 of 168
2/1/06 at 12:36am
Holy crud a stage1 or stage2 install isnt supported anymore in gentoo?

Wow that one is news to me. I wonder why.

Seablade

Apparently glad he read the docs
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