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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card: 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 248 (750ns min, 2000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Kernel driver in use: 3c59x Kernel modules: 3c59x 12:47 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:~/tmp sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 3.27MB/s 0:00:16 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 3182426.17 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card. I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] CD / DVD Drive - Issues and a really sloppy solution
by Zanterian 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hello fellow arch enthusiasts, I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare. I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster, and nothing would get written. Then it would give me a log saying could not find burn:// directory After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd Finding that strange, I did the command dmesg | grep ide with this as the result [ 5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray So this is where I made the sloppy solution: I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks. So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug? I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with my fingers crossed. My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing] repositories. Thanks, - Eric

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.07.1-1
by Damjan 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Evangelos Foutras: > I'd say in initscripts, because before that only the kernel prints > messages. When initscripts kicks in, its output gets combined with the > kernel messages and creates a visually unappealing result. :p You should also be aware of this development: http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2011/07/dmesg1-changes-for-util-linux-220.html there are new features in dmesg that'll help you filter out (or in) needed information. -- дамјан

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[arch-general] X terminal redraw problem
by Jon Gjengset 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hi fellow archers! This is my first post to this mailing list, so please excuse my behavior if I have picked the wrong list =) For a couple of months now, I have been experiencing occasional "flickering" in my terminal emulator (urxvt, but also happens with xterm, roxterm and gnome-terminal). There are several forum threads on the same issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118648 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117202 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117423 The latter seems to be the biggest one... The problem is that every now and then, the terminal seems to "forget" to draw some of the text on the screen, leaving a mangled output consisting of some stale text cells (as in the character that was previously in that position is still visible) and some empty cells (the previous character was a space, and the new character was not printed). The problem seems to occur sporadically, but happens often enough to be a real nuissance. Highlighting any text in the terminal window causes the text to be immediately corrected. The problem also appears when using vim or terminal-based emacs (i.e. curses interfaces). Seems the problem is quite widespread, and affects both nVidia, AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers.. A bug in X perhaps? Could someone with a bit more know-how than me please have a look? Any help is greatly appreciated, Jon

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] texlive-bin 2011.1-1 and texlive-* 2011.*
by Calvin Morrison 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

> On 24 July 2011 20:37, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, >> > TeXLive 2011 has been officially released. Packages in [testing] have > been updated to reflect this. Hey, While updating I got some weird output from texlive updating. here is the terminal output: >>> texlive: updating the filename database... mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. recreating all formats...Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed done. (logs are under /var/lib/texmf/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log) (11/12) upgrading texlive-core [################################] 100% >>> texlive: saving updmap.cfg as /tmp/tmp.KZ3lzxKsIJ... >>> texlive: regenerating updmap.cfg (custom additions shoud go into /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg >>> texlive: updating the filename database... Anyone have an idea about this? also, does it matter? Calvin Morrison

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Re: [arch-general] Panic - no sound devices after upgrade
by Fons Adriaensen 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:14:30AM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > > > Fons (or anyone else who could reproduce the problem), > > > > > > If you want to try out Adrian's patch, I uploaded a kernel with the > > > patch applied here: > > > <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel26-2.6.39.1.3-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz>. > > > > Installed on two machines so far, more tomorrow. > > Seems to have solved the problem :-) :-) > > Good to know. I'll wait for your final confirmation and then commit it. More news, not all good. After trying out all combinations and doing it again to be sure it seems that: * kernel26-2.6.39.1.3-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz and its hdspm driver work well on the five machines that have cards with firmware revision CC. * With newer cards (they arrived just two weeks ago) with revision CF things seem to work but there are crackles in the sound - not loud but clear enough. Sounds like single samples being modified every now and then. - Older cards on the same machine with the same kernel work fine. - Kernel 2.6.37 on the same machine with the new cards works fine as well. So there must have been some regression. For now I have to revert two machines (those using the new cards) to 2.6.37. Ciao, -- FA

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[arch-general] Note: WDC Carvair Black 6 Gbps drives require jumpers on pins 5-6 to be recognized as SATA-II
by David C. Rankin 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Guys, Just a note. The newer Carvair Black 6.0 Gbps drives do not come with jumpers. However, in order for the drives to be recognized as SATA-II on some controllers (the default is SATA-I at 1.5 Gbps), you must install jumpers on pins 5-6 for the drives to initialize at 3.0 Gbps: 13:23 nirvana:~> sudo dmesg | grep ata <snip> [ 1.363358] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.370543] ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133 [ 1.372815] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.380018] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.386960] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST3750528AS, CC35, max UDMA/133 [ 1.389290] ata3.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.389303] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.406937] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.853354] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.860937] ata2.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133 [ 1.863299] ata2.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.877002] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Without the jumpers, the drives are limited to SATA-I -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 enters testing
by Matthew Monaco 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

On 07/24/2011 04:34 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > first try with 3.0 kernel, > nvidia legacy is not building, due to some makefile conftest > restriction, patches are welcome. > > Have fun and find issues. > > greetings > tpowa I have no sound out of the hdmi cable with a radeon card. radeon.audio defaults to 0. When I set it to one manually, still no sound.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 enters testing
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

On 07/24/2011 05:34 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > first try with 3.0 kernel, > nvidia legacy is not building, due to some makefile conftest > restriction, patches are welcome. > > Have fun and find issues. > > greetings > tpowa I dislike with the kernel image filename "vmlinuz-linux". Is not friendly for plain ISO 9660 filesystem. Of course is not a big issue, should be referenced as "vmlinuz_linux" in config for isolinux. Maybe the same applies for grub2 (if them does not support Rock-Ridge or Jouliet extensions) -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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