This isn't a showstopper, but has been really bugging me lately.

My package.use is a directory containing multiple files for easy sortability, has been for a decade or so with no issue, and they all have the same permissions:


# ls -la /etc/portage/package.use/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 124 ...

OK, well I'm fairly sure it's just proper crashing, not just screen freezing. At least, the network isn't working and I can't ssh into it either from anywhere.
And I'm also fairly certain that it's not a kernel-version either.
So far this morning I've tried 5.9.9 (latest~) and 5.4.72 (latest stable ...

OK, so up until last night I had a perfectly working system that I installed a year or two ago, on a Ryzen 2600, AMD X470, SataSSD. But somewhere in between 'I haven't emerged for 109 days', 'python2 is EOL', 'profile 17.0 is deprecated', and a thousand blocking packages, I managed to completely ...

well yes, I know I'm doing --emptytree
I want to rebuild the entire thing.
1 First I want to rebuild basic tools like gcc/portage, that's done.
2 Next I want to rebuild the rest of the basic system, sys-*/* and dev-python/* packages and whatnot
3 Only once that is complete do I want to even think ...

I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything (trying to search on oft-used words such as 'world' and 'system' is a recipe for thousands of irrelephant results).


What (or who) controls what goes in the '@system' list?
(and more to the point, where is it?)


The long story is, I'm ...

So I'm trying to follow this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/FFmpeg_-_Extract_Blu-Ray_Audio except for DVD-Audio because I bought an album on dvd and not cd.

Except that I don't have ffplay, even though I've got ffmpeg installed:
# equery f ffmpeg
* Searching for ffmpeg ...
* Contents of media ...

OK, so in the last few weeks I have:
- Unhardened everything
# cat /etc/portage/make.conf
...
-hardened -pax_kernel nopie nossp -pie -ssp

# eselect profile list
Available profile symlink targets:
[11] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib *

# eselect kernel list
Available kernel symlink targets ...

Just found that glmark2 benchmark is part of the x11 overlay.
I was actually expecting it to be in app-benchmarks :(
Well, I built and installed it with these USE flags:
app-benchmarks/glmark2-2014.03::x11 USE="X opengl -drm -gles2 -wayland"

and ran the executable in windowed mode:
user ...

So: it's not a kernel-module vs inbuilt thihng. It's not a permissions thing (unless root is also not allowed to use the card).
Just on the permissions, currently I've got
# ls -l /dev/dri/
total 0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 0 Jun 7 2015 card0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 64 Jun 7 2015 ...

ps, I don't normally watch movies on my computer, but I just did a test, and this has never happened before:
$ mplayer Movies/Eddie\ Izzard\ -\ Circle.mpg
MPlayer SVN-r37373 (Gentoo)-4.8.4 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team

Playing Movies/Eddie Izzard - Circle.mpg.
libavformat version 56.25.101 (external ...

OK, so a few more tests, even though I really should be studying for exams, but meh.

So I compiled Kernel 4.0.5-hardened-r1 last night. All config options the same, except that I put radeon and drm into the kernel, not modules as before:
$ grep -i radeon /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_EXTRA ...

As you are using make -j10 spotting the fist error in the log, the only one we care about, is difficult,
you need make -j1, for that.
I always thought that make -jx was related to the number of threads to simultaneously compile, ie number of cores in my cpu. I've got 6 cores, so I added another ...

I just picked a few huge packages at random for comparison, and there's really much of a muchness between them.
Firstly gcc 4.8.4 seems a lot faster than 4.8.3, with 4.7.3-r1 in between:
# genlop -t sys-devel/gcc
* sys-devel/gcc

Sun Aug 10 13:00:55 2014 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1
merge time: 28 ...

Dr Croubie,

If you keep the emotion out your your posts the technical issues will be easier to comprehend for your helpers.

You can build the radeon driver in two ways. Build into your kernel on as a module.
When you build it into your kernel, the firmware must be in kernel too.
As a module, the ...

I have no freaking clue what's going on, still. Something's happening, and yet nothing's happening.

I go to my kernel, make a new one WITHOUT the radeon firmware blobs.
grep -i firm /usr/src/linux/.config
# CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is not set
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE ...

So was there ever an answer to this? Because I'm getting the same thing.
* PHP_TARGETS seems empty, php.ini file can't be configure.[sic]
* Make sure that PHP_TARGETS in /etc/make.conf is set.

I got that:
- When first installing with nothing in make.conf.
- With PHP_TARGETS="5.6"
- With PHP ...

Yeah, now there's a strange thing.
For that whole list of recommended firmware to put in the kernel, which I did:
> grep -i radeon /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/verde_ce.bin radeon/verde_mc.bin radeon/verde_me.bin radeon/verde_pfp.bin radeon/verde_rlc.bin radeon/verde_smc.bin ...

Actually, just searching for 'ATOM BIOS: GV', I came across this guy
His problem is totally unrelated, but in his dmesg are the lines:
[ 15.249249] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (PITCAIRN 0x1002:0x6819 0x1458:0x2553).
[ 15.249279] [drm] register mmio base: 0xF7E00000
[ 15.249281] [drm ...

OK, so something interesting happened overnight.
I left it on, and when I woke up I just tried re-clocking it manually again, and it worked!
# echo "low" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info
default engine clock: 1020000 kHz
current engine ...

and furthermore:
> cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info
default engine clock: 1020000 kHz
current engine clock: 299990 kHz
default memory clock: 1125000 kHz
current memory clock: 148990 kHz
voltage: 1175 mV
PCIE lanes: 16

> cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_*
profile
default

> echo ...

OK, well that was a waste of a day (and a waste of half an hour writing a response that got lost, so writing it again).

I've been reading on Phoronix that there are newer AMD drivers coming out with newer mesa and kernels, so I've installed all the latest:
> cat /etc/portage/package.keywords ...

had a look at your older posts. looks to me as if you are not including the
newer firmware for the 250X. IIRC it was about including radeon/VERDE_mc2.bin
that made the difference.

edit: check firmware package emerge -pv linux-firmware

Thanks for posting back, nice to see that I'm not the only ...

Anyone?

Noone has a radeon here?

Does anyone here have a working system with a Radeon card who can spare 2 minutes and post the outputs of these?

> eselect qtgraphicssystem list
> eselect mesa list
> eselect opengl list
> grep -i radeon /usr/src/linux/.config
> grep -i radeon /etc/portage ...

Noone has a radeon here?

Does anyone here have a working system with a Radeon card who can spare 2 minutes and post the outputs of these?

> eselect qtgraphicssystem list
> eselect mesa list
> eselect opengl list
> grep -i radeon /usr/src/linux/.config
> grep -i radeon /etc/portage/make.conf ...

Does anyone here have a working system with a Radeon card who can spare 2 minutes and post the outputs of these?

> eselect qtgraphicssystem list
> eselect mesa list
> eselect opengl list
> grep -i radeon /usr/src/linux/.config
> grep -i radeon /etc/portage/make.conf
> equery u mesa
> cat /sys ...