Gentoo on PS3

[tokka]

[asong26]

I don't plan on using xine, so do I need ESD?, Do even need OSS? If I recompile KDE with oss and esd options taken out, would that make KDE a bit more optimized from audio stand point? When I say optimized, I mean reduction of potential driver conflicts.

The last build of kdebase from the GRP repository is the one that gave me the audio problem. Is there a way to find out what was enabled on those binary packages? I am very new at this, and read as much manuals I can on various sites including wiki on USE flags, and portage, but still confused... How do you know that the prebuilt binary is lean or not?

Also, what do you mean by giving OSS a wide birth? Do you mean available cache?

In my current KDE settings, ALSA cannot be used. It will not initialize. I get an error complaining about lack of capture device. Using Mplayer, OSS does not work. It complains about missing or not having access to /dev/dsp.

This is really frustrating. This is why I was thinking about compiling my own to disable all other audio devices except for ALSA, since ALSA offers other legacy audio emulations, and since VLC and mPlayer will access the audio device directly, I just didn't see the need for my use.

Please correct early and often. I am learning the pros and cons as I go along, and this thread, and your posts have been very helpful in understanding linux (gentoo)

[asong26]

[Crymson]

I'm having an issue installing Gnome on my PS3 - I've gotten to the firefox install, and it's looking for mozilla-firefox-2.0-patches-0.4 - which doesn't exist on any of the mirrors anymore.

I took out the portage overlay to try and just get the newest version, but that didn't work either - it simply won't compile.

Is there some kind of repository out there that holds all the older packages/ebuilds?
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[Crymson]

Nevermind, took me a bunch of mirrors to check that I found on google, but I got it.
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[jakep_82]

[asong26]

I just found another thread that's close to a year old. I am having the exact same problem:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gentoo-linux-help/56038-linux-alsa-problem.html

Based on my limited knowledge, the tarballs are pre-built kernels? If so, does anyone know how the latest 64-bit userland kernels are built? I mean, were they built ALSA and OSS together?

If I were to attempt to remove OSS, and anything else under PS3 Gentoo kernel, how would I do this? Can I make the modification as is installed on my PS3, and somehow use emerge to update / recompile my kernel and the rest of the install?

I can't use ALSA. It doesn't work with anything, including mplayer, and VLC. They were both compiled with alsa options defined in the /etc/portage/package.use.

Another indication is that in KDE, I can't even use ALSA. I get the same error in the above link's thread.

Please help!

[asong26]

[asong26]

Anyone??? I would really like to get ALSA up and running, but If I do module-update with those settings the whole system goes haywire. Nothing mounts after that. Please..., this is critical.

[rangerpb]

asong,

alsa, arts, and oss are all different things. ALSA does work properly. Try apps like audacious. Arts is what is in KDE and it does have 64bit issues. I didnt built or check anything related to oss, since alsa works fine.

Mplayer and xine do have have some issues, related to endianess or just 64bit, so dont use those as litmus tests for sound.

As for your modules_update issues, I will see if I can reproduce the problem
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[rangerpb]

I looked into the reported problems of modules_update causing failure upon reboot. I simply cannot replicate this on either 32bit or 64bit userlands. Furthermore, I'm beginning to speculate you are not using Gentoo media since you are trying to add also modules to the modules file. If you are, keep reading.

On the official stage4 for ps3 stages, the kernel is mostly monolithic and the alsa sounds modules are built-in to the kernel. There is no reason to try and add them to a modules file and you don't need to configure anything to get alsa to work.

As one of the prior posters said, don't confuse alsa and arts. Arts has been reported to be flaky on 64bit but many folks still use KDE and just use alsa in the applications.

If you are not using the Gentoo stages distributed on Gentoo mirrors, I suggest you do. And if your problem continues, seek me or others out on #gentoo-ppc64 on irc. We can actively be of some help then.
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[sub_zero]

This is a follow-up post for mythtv. I re-installed the ps3 with the 64-bit userland and installed mythtv. While the mythtv main package does have a ppc64 keyword, all the plugins for it do not. After I added all of them to portage.keywords with the ppc keyword, they installed fine and work as well. I also installed fceultra like this and got it to compile, but I haven't run it yet. I'm currently messing with getting the controllers to work. I can see their output through catting /dev/input/js0, but I can't configure them through jscal.

[asong26]

[jakep_82]

[jakep_82]

[asong26]

I thought playing DVDs on linux was legal? I thought this issue was settled. If it's so illegal, then why is portage allowing everyone to download libdvdcss? What's wrong with playing the DVD that I bought?

Why not use PS3 GameOS? Because there is no software scaling, and it looks horrible on my HDTV. I am not asking how to copy the DVDs on linux, but just want to play it if I choose to. What's wrong with that?

[jakep_82]

[clintar]

[boachan]

Why are you repeating?

[asong26]

How do you create your own stage 4 tar ball?

I found this file here: ftp://blinkeye.ch/gentoo/mkstage4.sh

The problem is, the script parameters on many points are not compatible with the official stage 4 releases (files and directory structures...)

Here's what I would like to do:

I would like to have a tar ball available on my USB drive with all of the modifications that are already made to files such as make.conf, fstab, including the samba installation as default. In case I have re-setup linux, it would be so much to have a restore point without having to go through all of the config file mods that I usually end up having to do... Any suggestions?

[jathan_nj]

Any chance on getting this kernel patch into the LiveCD?

http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/GO7007


I have that capture device and would love to give it a try with my ps3.



Thanks

Jim

[asong26]

Ranger,

Thanks for the new Stage4 release today. Downloading now.

I would still like to understand how to set make.conf CFLAGS. There are just way too many versions out there on the net. What settings are you running when you're compiling?

[tokka]

[asong26]

Thank you tokka.

Just want to clarify couple of things. But first, here are my mount points using liveCD

/dev/sda1 --- /mnt/gentoo
/dev/sdf1 --- /mnt/usb

name of the tar file to be created=== mystage4.tar.bz2

After the mounts are done and verified, is the the correct step?

cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -cjpvf /mnt/usb/mystage4.tar.bz2 .

Also, what's the follow up steps for restoring the partition with mystage4.tar.bz2? Do I still have to through the install steps as defined in Gentoo Wiki like mount -p /proc, etc.., and e2label steps? Or, can I just reboot and assume everything will work as it did before the archive was made?

[tokka]