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I recently installed Guayadeque, and wanted to document some of the steps required to actually get sound to come out of the speakers... This info is not complete enough to post it to the wiki, so I'm posting it here in hopes it might help somebody. Install the music player: emerge guayadeque Guayadeque relies on Gstreamer plugins, but not the most current ones. So you must not only install the plugins you will need, but specify the correct slot. To get any sound at all to work on my system which uses alsa: emerge gst-plugins-alsa:0.10 For other sound systems, you may need to install one of these (which I have not tested): gst-plugins-oss:0.10 gst-plugins-pulse:0.10 gst-plugins-gconf:0.10 To play flac files: emerge gst-plugins-flac:0.10 To play ogg vorbis: emerge gst-plugins-ogg:0.10 gst-plugins-vorbis:0.10 To play mp3: emerge gst-plugins-mad:0.10 To enable transcoding files to removable media: emerge gst-plugins-gio:0.10

For the record, gentoo-sources-4.4.6 contains this driver (built with 'genkernel all'). I tested it and my sound card works.

So my problem with the missing clock driver is not likely to occur on older hardware? EDIT: It looks like this may have been fixed at one time in the past: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-391?jql=text%20~%20%22rtc%22

I successfully compiled my own kernel using: emerge gentoo-sources genkernel --menuconfig all It was quite fast compared to compiling debian-sources. Thanks for the tips, guys. I did have a small problem with genkernel, which I described here: http://forums.funtoo.org/topic/938-missing-devrtc-in-genkernel-of-gentoo-sources-446/

I ran the following: emerge gentoo-sources genkernel all This resulted in a kernel which was missing /dev/rtc, which caused the following message on boot: * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. * Failed to set the system clock [ !! ] I corrected this by running: genkernel --menuconfig all and enabling Device Drivers / Real time Clock. This got things working properly. So, is this a bug? Or just something I don't understand about genkernel? I would have expected the hardware clock to work without my manual intervention.

I tested debian-sources-4.5.2 successfully and updated the bug report. I'm also testing gentoo-sources, based on your and tmp-meteque's comments in http://forums.funtoo.org/topic/923-upgrading-debian-sources-requires-14-gb-in-vartmp Thanks!

This seems to be a known issue. My sound card requires snd-ice1712. It worked with debian-sources-3.19.3 but not with 4.4.6. ice1712.ko is missing when I run debian-sources-4.4.6. Can anyone recommend a current kernel which will enable this module? Or is there some way to enable it in the most recent debian-sources kernel? You can test whether your kernel includes this module by running 'modprobe snd-ice1712'. If you do not get a "module not found" error, please let me know!

Arg, I figured it out right after posting this. I specified my LVM root partition by two different paths, although both of them are valid. In boot.conf I had /dev/mapper/vg1-rootfs In fstab I had /dev/vg1/rootfs (which is a symbolic link to /dev/mapper/vg1-rootfs) Once I made them the same, boot-update worked. I realized two other mistakes I made, which I would like to point out. 1) In boot.conf I had this: kernel kernel[-v] initrd initramfs-genkernel[-v] This does not work because [-v] is not a wildcard like I had thought. It seems to be a variable which gets its value from the kernel line. On my system the kernel is 'kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1'. So I think [-v] equals '-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1'. Boot-update cannot find a match for my initrd line, which would be 'initramfs-genkernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1' -- that file does not exist. I thought my initrd line would match to initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-4.4.6-1, but I was wrong about that. The other mistake I made is that I do not need the genkernel initramfs at all. The debian one works fine for an LVM root filesystem. So my files now look like this, and my system is bootable. /etc/boot.conf: boot { generate grub default "Funtoo Linux genkernel lvm" timeout 3 } "Funtoo Linux genkernel lvm" { kernel kernel[-v] initrd initramfs[-v] params += dolvm real_root=/dev/vg1/rootfs rootfstype=ext4 resume=swap:/dev/mapper/vg1-swap /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/vg1/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/vg1/rootfs / ext4 noatime 0 1 boot-update configures grub.cfg with the following kernel and initrd: kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1 initramfs-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1 Sorry for the noise!

I have a new install using LVM for the root filesystem. When I run boot-update, I get: Copyright 2009-2015 Funtoo Technologies [use option "-l" for license info, "-h" for help] * Generating config for grub... * NOTE : Detected MBR boot. Configuring for Legacy MBR booting. * ERROR : (rootfstype=auto) - cannot find a valid / entry in /etc/fstab. * ERROR : No matching kernels or boot entries found in /etc/boot.conf. * Did not complete successfully. /etc/boot.conf looks like this: boot { generate grub default "Funtoo Linux genkernel lvm" timeout 3 } "Funtoo Linux genkernel lvm" { kernel kernel[-v] initrd initramfs-genkernel[-v] params += dolvm real_root=/dev/mapper/vg1-rootfs rootfstype=ext4 resume=swap:/dev/mapper/vg1-swap } Notice that boot.conf does not contain rootfs=auto, yet boot-update seems to think it does. Here is /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/vg1/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/vg1/rootfs / ext4 noatime 0 1 Any idea what is wrong?

Cardinal, thanks for all the info. I still have a lot to learn. For now, I have decided the easiest thing for me is to stick w/ debian-sources and do this: mkdir /home/tmp PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home/tmp emerge -av debian-sources It's currently compiling.

I guess I misunderstood what the USE=binary flag means. Is there a way to get a pre-compiled kernel using emerge?

When I installed Funtoo, debian-sources was included as a binary and did not need to be compiled. Now there is an upgrade available, and 'emerge -pv debian-sources' shows USE="binary". I assume that means I will get a binary kernel that does not need to be compiled (please correct me if I'm wrong). But when I try to do the upgrade, emerge fails with: "There is NOT at least 14 GiB disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/debian-sources-4.4.6/temp". That is a true statement, but I am wondering why I need that much space to install a binary kernel. Is that a bug in the ebuild?

Thanks Cardinal. I've got it working now. I'm going to start backing out all the changes I made so I can figure out which of the many changes I made were necessary. I will post back.

Is it definitely avahi that does the broadcasting? Or are there other methods that can be used? cupsd.conf had 'BrowseLocalProtocols' -- not sure if that's legitimate or not. I tried changing to 'BrowseLocalProtocols all' but didn't see any improvement.

I just replaced a Debian desktop in my home with Funtoo. The Debian desktop shared a printer with the rest of the network. The printer was seen by my Funtoo laptop. Since I replaced the Debian desktop with Funtoo, my laptop can no longer see the printer that is shared -- even if I use the same cupsd.conf file from the Debian system. I have researched this a bit and based on various advice on the internet I've enabled the zeroconf use flag for cups on both systems. I tried installing nss-mdns (and edited /etc/nsswitch.conf as suggested). I've made sure that both avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd are running (even though I'm not 100% sure this is necessary). So far nothing has worked. Does anybody have this working? Could you share your configuration with me? As I said, this worked when my Debian system was sharing the printers, so I don't expect to need to make any changes on the Funtoo laptop. But just in case, I have temporarily turned off the firewall. There is no firewall on the desktop system.

dansguardian can be used to block websites based on content. The problem I see with restricting software based on group membership is that 1) you need to know which binaries you need to chmod 2) permissions will probably revert to their defaults upon upgrade (though I've not tested this)

I think you might be better off with two systems for each kid -- one for work and one for play. Dual boot those systems so you don't end up buying 4 laptops. At school time, the kid chooses "School" from the Grub menu. After school, the kid reboots and chooses "Play" from the Grub menu. You can restrict the hours that users can log into the "Play" system by editing /etc/security/time.conf. In the School system, install only what they need to do school stuff. You could also set up routing so that there is no default gateway, but there is a static route to their school website. Of course, this solution will fail if the school website links to other school-related sites. While having two separate School and Play systems feels like overkill, I think it might actually be easier than getting the functionality you want out of a single system. The School and Play systems could/should share some partitions: /usr/portage, /var/tmp, /tmp. I wouldn't share /home because then the School system can be used to look at pictures, etc. that the kids downloaded during Play time.

This would have also worked, without unmerging oxygen-icons: emerge -DNu --keep-going @world That lets emerge continue after an error installing a package.

Is it possible to use some method other than ssl for emerge? I know git supports ssh, and maybe there are other solutions. Issues with a network that I don't control are making ssl connections problematic.

Actually, I use udevil and spacefm on a machine I use at work. But I find that music players such as Clementine, Quodlibet, and Guayadeque do not recognize a usb stick device as removable media if it's mounted in such a way. That means I can't drag/transcode songs to a portable player. Do you know any way of addressing that issue?

What's the recommended way to handle mounting of USB sticks and such? I'm running LXDE with the pcmanfm file manager. It asks for the root password any time I try to mount a USB stick. Do I need to create a rule for policykit, or is there some higher level setting I can choose?

Based on your suggestion I ran '/etc/init.d/netif.eth0 stop', then configured my ip address and netmask wtih ifconfig. I got the same results. So maybe it's got to do with my environment. I will try to test this on a different network this weekend and report back. As to your other questions: I am pinging a private IP address on the same subnet. No DNS, no routers/gateways.

When I run '/etc/init.d/netif.eth0 start', it immediately returns succcess and ifconfig confirms I have an ip address. 'rc-status' shows the netif.eth0 service is started. System logs show "e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx". But I find that the network is not usable for approximately 45 seconds after it is supposedly up. Any ideas what could be causing the delay? My test tries to ping another machine on the same network by ip address. So DNS and gateway should not be involved. Edit: By the way, I have a static IP address.

I found out the problem was not with LDAP at all. If a user tried to log in using the "Default" desktop, they could not log in. I am guessing this is because there was no .xsession or .xinitrc for those users. Although I would have assumed that there would be a system-wide default to handle this. If a user selected "LXDE" or "Fluxbox", login worked.

I've noticed the same thing. I've never gotten any results using the Forum's search tool.