GentooPlayer

[michaelvv]

1 hour ago, antonellocaroli said:

It's almost certainly a corrupt filesystem problem ... easy that happens with USB sticks

 

doing a test on the NEW properly defect usb-key

 

sudo badblocks -w -s -o /tmp/usbstick.log /dev/sdb

takes some time, if errors then I'll just trash it.

[michaelvv]

Hi Filippo.

 

Could this be added to the next image, need to have.

 

emerge sys-apps/usbutils

 

[antonellocaroli]

4 hours ago, Holzohr said:

 

Hmmm... gp-update doesn't work on ram mode and on non-ram mode I don't have that error message. Besides I gave the command gp-update and emerge-webrsync before alsa-dw. Option 1 of Ramsystem didn't help either.

 

sorry, if you can try again ...
exit from the rammode
gp-update
option 1 of the ramdisk
and again in ram

[Holzohr]

14 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

sorry, if you can try again ...
exit from the rammode
gp-update
option 1 of the ramdisk
and again in ram

 

Ciao Filippo, I have tried it again today and wow! Success! Grazie!

I guess I can play with selectkernel a bit now and priority things. 😃

 

Edit: hmm.. I noted the date is wrong.

 

[antonellocaroli]

25 minutes ago, Holzohr said:

 

Ciao Filippo, I have tried it again today and wow! Success! Grazie!

I guess I can play with selectkernel a bit now and priority things. 😃

 

Edit: hmm.. I noted the date is wrong.

 

the date, sometimes, must be synchronized:

/etc/init.d/ntp-client restart

[Holzohr]

@antonellocaroli Filippo, how to identify the version of RoonBridge? It seems it was updated with Roon 1.6, too.

 

Grazie.

Mario

[antonellocaroli]

1 hour ago, Holzohr said:

@antonellocaroli Filippo, how to identify the version of RoonBridge? It seems it was updated with Roon 1.6, too.

 

Grazie.

Mario

to check the version in the system:

cat /opt/RoonBridge/VERSION

cat /opt/RoonServer/VERSION

 

to update:

gp-update

emerge --ask RoonBridge

emerge --ask RoonServer

 

I've just updated the ebuilds, should install the latest versions (RB 1.0.169, RS 1.6.390)

[bodiebill]

On 1/20/2019 at 11:09 PM, bodiebill said:

thanks Filippo, I used gp-menu and it is recompiling now... 

 

After some hours of recompiling I got to the menu for chooising the videocard. I wanted to choose Intel gen 4-9, however that gave an error message; I could only choose nVida (option 1) or AMD (option 2). The by mistake I hit Ctrl-C and I exited to the GentooPlayer command line prompt. It appears all is working after a reboot. Did the recompile succeed or should I start again?

 

And another question: does recompiling make sense after a fresh install on the right HW?

[antonellocaroli]

3 hours ago, bodiebill said:

 

After some hours of recompiling I got to the menu for chooising the videocard. I wanted to choose Intel gen 4-9, however that gave an error message; I could only choose nVida (option 1) or AMD (option 2). The by mistake I hit Ctrl-C and I exited to the GentooPlayer command line prompt. It appears all is working after a reboot. Did the recompile succeed or should I start again?

 

no, it was not successful, or rather it was compiled (part of the toolchain).

can you post the contents of the make.conf file

wgetpaste /etc/portage/make.conf

and the result of

lspci -v

 

Quote

And another question: does recompiling make sense after a fresh install on the right HW?

 

recompilation is not necessary in most cases.
it's just a refinement of the system, that is, recompiled for that specific cpu ...
can it bring benefits? most likely yes .... but for our uses, perhaps it is superfluous ...

 

but on my systems I always do it ... and often I also compile the kernel for my specific HW .... but these are really advanced things ....

[bodiebill]

48 minutes ago, antonellocaroli said:

no, it was not successful, or rather it was compiled (part of the toolchain).

can you post the contents of the make.conf file

wgetpaste /etc/portage/make.conf

and the result of

lspci -v

 

 

recompilation is not necessary in most cases.
it's just a refinement of the system, that is, recompiled for that specific cpu ...
can it bring benefits? most likely yes .... but for our uses, perhaps it is superfluous ...

 

but on my systems I always do it ... and often I also compile the kernel for my specific HW .... but these are really advanced things ....

 

Thanks Filippo,

I am doing a new install now, because I also got some strange error messages at startup.

 

Anyhow, here is the output of

 

make.conf

CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="alsa icu -consolekit -libressl -bindist -qt3support -qt4 -qt5 -X -introspection -pulseaudio -xscreensaver"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
ALSA_CARDS="*"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"

 

and

 

lspci -v (ethernet part)

00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM (rev 31)
        Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
        Memory at df100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [e0] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel driver in use: e1000e
        Kernel modules: e1000e
 
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc I210 Gigabit Network Connection
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17, NUMA node 0
        Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        I/O ports at e000
        Memory at df080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Count=5 Masked-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Kernel driver in use: igb
        Kernel modules: igb

[antonellocaroli]

15 minutes ago, bodiebill said:

lspci -v (ethernet part)

I was actually more interested in the video part ...

[bodiebill]

28 minutes ago, antonellocaroli said:

I was actually more interested in the video part ...

 

oh of course...

 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=10 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc HD Graphics 530
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
        Memory at de000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
        I/O ports at f000
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled]
        Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: i915

[antonellocaroli]

what cpu do you have (how many cores)?
and how much ram?

[bodiebill]

2 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

what cpu do you have (how many cores)?
and how much ram?

 

intel i3 and 16GB RAM

 

cpu-info

Architecture |     x86_64
 Temp         |     28'c : 82'f  | Who put me in the freezer!
 Governor     |     performance

                 Current Freq    Min Freq   Max Freq
 CPU0         |      3199 MHz      800 MHz    3200 MHz
 CPU1         |      3199 MHz      800 MHz    3200 MHz

 

[antonellocaroli]

1 hour ago, bodiebill said:

 

intel i3 and 16GB RAM

 

cpu-info

Architecture |     x86_64
 Temp         |     28'c : 82'f  | Who put me in the freezer!
 Governor     |     performance

                 Current Freq    Min Freq   Max Freq
 CPU0         |      3199 MHz      800 MHz    3200 MHz
 CPU1         |      3199 MHz      800 MHz    3200 MHz

 

Hi Dennis,
for the recomupilation of the system you can proceed like this:
change the contents of the make.conf file

nano /etc/portage/make.conf

delete the content and copy it into this:

 

CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="alsa icu -consolekit -libressl -bindist -qt3support -qt4 -qt5 -X -introspection -pulseaudio -xscreensaver"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
ALSA_CARDS="*"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"
VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"

then give the command:

cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86 >> /etc/portage/make.conf

 

and then:

 

emerge -1 sys-devel/libtool

emerge -1 sys-devel/gcc

emerge -1 sys-devel/binutils

. /etc/profile

emerge -1 sys-libs/glibc

emerge -1 dev-libs/boost

emerge --exclude="sys-devel/gcc sys-devel/libtool sys-devel/binutils sys-libs/glibc dev-libs/boost" -e @system @world

[bodiebill]

Thanks a lot Filippo! I will try tonight or tomorrow...

[antonellocaroli]

EDIT:

 

Hi Dennis,
for the recomupilation of the system you can proceed like this:
change the contents of the make.conf file

nano /etc/portage/make.conf

delete the content and copy it into this:

 

CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="alsa icu -consolekit -libressl -bindist -qt3support -qt4 -qt5 -X -introspection -pulseaudio -xscreensaver"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
ALSA_CARDS="*"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"
VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"

then give the command:

cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86 >> /etc/portage/make.conf

 

and then:

 

emerge -1 sys-devel/libtool && emerge -1 sys-devel/gcc && emerge -1 sys-devel/binutils && . /etc/profile && emerge -1 sys-libs/glibc && emerge -1 dev-libs/boost

 

emerge --exclude="sys-devel/gcc sys-devel/libtool sys-devel/binutils sys-libs/glibc dev-libs/boost" -e @system @world

[bodiebill]

👍

[bodiebill]

5 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

emerge -1 sys-devel/libtool && emerge -1 sys-devel/gcc && emerge -1 sys-devel/binutils && . /etc/profile && emerge -1 sys-libs/glibc && emerge -1 dev-libs/boost

 

the above command results in this message:

 

setlocale: unsupported locale setting
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
!!! '-1' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

 

Or maybe better to continue this via PM's?

[antonellocaroli]

33 minutes ago, bodiebill said:

 

the above command results in this message:

 

setlocale: unsupported locale setting
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
!!! '-1' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

 

Or maybe better to continue this via PM's?

Have you already given emerge-webrsync?

[antonellocaroli]

On 1/19/2019 at 3:07 PM, Patatorz said:

Dont worry I will use previous versions as I can not connect to a monitor and keyboard as the pi is inside the streamer and no access to the usb and hdmi

I added an image that starts directly with the kernel for Rpi 3B +

[Patatorz]

Thanks a lot. I coming back from travel abroad. I will test this afternoon and let you know.

[Patatorz]

This version for the pi3b+ works like a charm at this stage

[michaelvv]

Hi.

 

A suggestion it there's time for that would be to add a new 4.20.XXX NONE Realtime Kernel. Would like to try it out

with NATIVE DSD.

 

I did the play entire file from separate flac files and used C-3PO to upsample to NATIVE DSD256. It's a little hard on my 

i3-4130 in my music server.

 

I bought a used Topping D50 Dac for this experiment and it's almost as fun to listening now , as with my much more 

expensive Chord 2Qute DAC which runs DOP as a joke.

 

Thanks for gentooplayer and keep up the good work 🙂

 

[antonellocaroli]

6 minutes ago, michaelvv said:

Hi.

 

A suggestion it there's time for that would be to add a new 4.20.XXX NONE Realtime Kernel. 🙂

 

Are you talking about the x86_64 system?
or rpi?

 

for the rpi I was thinking about these days...