Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Robert Persson
On April 11, 2005 12:17 pm, quoth Pete Ezzo: > > >> Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a > > >> segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using > hope it helps Thanks everybody. Seems the problem was the eq-xmms plugin. Upgrading to 0.6-r2 (~x86 masked) got

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Veit wrote: >I've changed the access mode from "auto" to "lba". The same results. > >Then from "lba" to "large". Same results. > > Ok, thanks for trying. It was worth a shot. >>Also, it might be interesting to see the dmesg output for the IDE >>controller. >> >> > >With access m

Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Continued at Bottom... Nick Rout wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Gordon
Isn't that what the "-march=pentium-m" and "-mtune=pentium-m" flags are for in GCC 3.4? -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > >> Because I KNOW it works on AMD mobile chips, first hand. I've never >> even looked at Intel mobile processors Probably never will... > > > Don't disregard the Pentium M so quickly. The Pentium4 is a _horrible_ > architecture: Intel wanted a CPU t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update after emerging KDE-3.4.0 using ~x86

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Jamie Dobbs wrote: >At the moment if I do an emerge -uDpv world I can see it wanting to >downgrade a huge amount of packages whihc I obviously do not want to do. > > Add any packages that you want the ~x86 keyword accepted for to /etc/portage/package.keywords. Something like kde-base/kde-meta

Re: [gentoo-user] help! xorg doesn't recognise my pci-express card!

2005-04-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:44:41AM -0400, daniel wrote > On April 5, 2005 01:46 am, Walter Dnes wrote: > > What does Windows show it as in the system dialogue? Do you know how > > to use the "debug" command in Windows? > > nope. but it's ok, i figured it out after a great deal of googling.

Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Gordon
Jerry McBride wrote: Because I KNOW it works on AMD mobile chips, first hand. I've never even looked at Intel mobile processors Probably never will... Don't disregard the Pentium M so quickly. The Pentium4 is a _horrible_ architecture: Intel wanted a CPU that could be clocked _very_ fast (I th

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
>From the prompt enter : du -x -h | more and then page through the displayed screens (using the space bar) where you wil be shown the size of each directory which may help you find the culprit. > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > rapidly approaching 100% a

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:00 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:59 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: > > > > On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large

[gentoo-user] How to update after emerging KDE-3.4.0 using ~x86

2005-04-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I recently emerged KDE-3.4.0 using the command ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde-meta and so far so good, a few little errors such as juk crashing from time to time and k3b not working, but nothing I can't live through at the moment. The issue I now have is how can I apply any necessary updates

Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Gordon
Ow Mun Heng wrote: dir_index Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. Can you explain to me this feature? It's the first I've heard of it. I'm not an expert or guru, but I'll sure try. From what I understand, the filesystem normally stores the block and inode information

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:59 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: > > > On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files > > > (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. O

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 4:54 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:40:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > or "du /|sort -rn|less" for a global view, largest files/directories at > > the top! > > Or emerge filelight is you want a graphical view. > Yeah, I like fileli

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: > > On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files > > (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. On my notebook, I'm still > > using ext2 for power management rea

Re: [gentoo-user] getting sound to work with a new kernel and udev

2005-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:36:58 +0200, Antoine wrote: > I have upgraded to the latest ck and udev. Everything seems to be > working, except sound. I also compiled my soundcard as a module this > time, instead of right into the kernel. I didn't load it on boot, but a > modprobe doesn't seem to make an

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:40:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > or "du /|sort -rn|less" for a global view, largest files/directories at > the top! Or emerge filelight is you want a graphical view. -- Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ? pgpFl4NEDQa4R

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:44:20 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in > Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get > linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
If the difference is thought to be kernel configuration, what is wrong with: diff knopppix.config gentoo.config I know there might be some extraneious stuff there that is irrelevant, but this could narrow things down quite considerably. knoppix is debian based, and debian traditionally has the .

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread William Kenworthy
or "du /|sort -rn|less" for a global view, largest files/directories at the top! BillK On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:54 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: > On Monday 11 April 2005 23:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > > rapidly approaching

[gentoo-user] A couple of weird portage errors

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
Can anyone help me with the following? I have a machine that is giving me this error : emerge -upD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/pcmcia". !!! Problem with ebuild media-video/nvidia-g

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks all! so many great answers so quickly. Greatly appreciated. cheers, Mark On Apr 11, 2005 4:06 PM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) > > cd / > > du --max-depth=1|sort -n > > re-iterate by going into the next level you

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Woods
I had the same issue, tried re-emerging firefox, didn't help. What did help, however, was starting with a fresh firefox profile. A bit of a pain, but it worked. with Firefox not running, do: mv ~/.mozilla ~/mozilla.bak Then start firefox, which creates the new .mozilla/firefox directory. Quit fir

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly > determine where the disk space is getting used? > du -hs /* This will give you an easy

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n re-iterate by going into the next level you want to look at and doing the same On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:43:20 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread William Kenworthy
When I moved from 2.4 to 2.6, 2.6 was approximately 1/2 to 2/3 of the speed for on disk transfers for a 2 disk software raid0. Went from something like 70MB/s to 50MB/s. The only change before/after was those necessary to move to 2.6. Further tuning and 2.6 improvements gained a few MB/s back, b

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Marcell Mars
$ du /|sort -rn|less the biggest files/dirs will be on top... if you prefer to have this info in text file just do something like this: $ du /|sort -rn > hd_use.txt On Apr 12, 2005 12:43 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partit

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
as root... cd / du -csh *this gives you the starting points. Then, maybe from another console cd to, for instance, /var, and... du -csh *this gives you the next points assuming /var was big. Continue until you have the offending dir, back up until you find another one, and repeat as needed

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly > determine where the disk space is getting used? du -hcs /* >From there, you can do that in each subdirectory down the line to determin

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread William Kenworthy
It does actually: Ive suffered a lost/corruted (ext2/3) boot partition a few times when its been left mounted. Dont do that anymore! A simple script can handle the build process including mounting/unmounting /boot, without the complexities of genkernel. Also I stopped using genkernel some time b

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 11 April 2005 23:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly > determine where the disk space is getting used? du -hx --max-depth=1 / du -hx --max-depth=1 /usr du -hx

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Eric S. Johansson wrote: seriously, what does it protects you against when a compromise can probably also mount it then unmount it again as a courtesy What Mark said :: << Just the random rm / ... >> Also some *strange* internal errors I've seen over the years, and... if the computer is c

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 11 April 2005 23:18, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > ;);) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) > > I always leave it mounted since it makes little real difference security > wise.  seriously, what does it protects you against when a compromise > can probably also

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
I've saved your listing, & when I next boot to linux, I'll dif that against what I have (before W4L) & let you know *IF* I notice something meaningful -- kinda new to this part, too, me, but I'll try. Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only

[gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Richard Fish wrote: # time dd if=/dev/hda bs=64k count=16000 (time the reading of 1G of data from hda). Feel free to adjust count to your liking...although it should be at least twice memory. At 20M/sec you are looking at about 1G/min for reading. -Richard (And how many -- or rather how few! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 3:18 PM, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > Matthew Cline wrote: > > > >>> I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to > >>> deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile > >>> and moving

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Matthew :: Good thought! Florian :: Also quite possible! rgh. Florian Idelberger wrote: Furthermore, if you don't find anything misconfigured or anything possible to improve, it may just be that there was some change somewhere between 2.4.23 and 2.6.11. In that case it would probably be quite har

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Inlining... Justin Patrin wrote: On Apr 11, 2005 12:58 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find something that interacts with something else that you'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Matthew Cline wrote: I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile and moving the kernel around and such. What's wrong with make && make modules_install && make install? prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 11:59 AM, Alexander Veit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas how to get the same disk performance with Gentoo? > > Thanks in advance > Alex Alex, Does Knoppix enable /proc/config.gz? If so look there. Also, do you see anything much different about modules being loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] xine will not run

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
I believe this is caused by some library problem - have you recently re-compiled one of the libraries that xine depends on? If so you may need to re-compile xine. You could do more testing by running xine through strace emerge strace strace xine On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:44:05 +0100 Paul wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Richard Fish wrote: > The geometry line above not-withstanding, I think the 2.4 > kernel on your old Knoppix disk doesn't support lba48 > (disks >137GB) addressing, which is changing the equation > considerably on accessing the disk. > > Try going into the BIOS and change the disk access mode fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
> probably that you forget 50% of the times the > # mount /boot > ;) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I seem to recall that the make install script will spit out an error if it doesn't find grub or lilo in /boot, which wou

Re: [gentoo-user] arts runs cpu overload and kills

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >You are not totally off base, but alsaplayer playes anything, aviplay will >play anything, just kplayer, or anything using kde (arts) won't it just >errors out with the cpu overload problem. I am trying what to re-emerge to >fix it. I already re-emerged kdemultimedia

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Veit wrote: >Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > >>I have >> >>readahead= 256 (on) >> >> > >readahead 8 is even slower (15.48MB/sec). In the meantime I wonder if the >buffered-read value reported by hdparm has any significance. Perhaps I >should run some real benchmarks. > > My ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Veit wrote: >Richard Fish wrote: > > > >>Alexander Veit wrote: >> >> >> >>>geometry = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0 >>>geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 4003776, start = 0 >>> >>> >>> >>Well, the obvious thing for me is the difference in the drive >>

[gentoo-user] getting sound to work with a new kernel and udev

2005-04-11 Thread Antoine
Hi, I have upgraded to the latest ck and udev. Everything seems to be working, except sound. I also compiled my soundcard as a module this time, instead of right into the kernel. I didn't load it on boot, but a modprobe doesn't seem to make any difference. Could someone tell me what I should put in

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Matthew Cline wrote: I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile and moving the kernel around and such. What's wrong with make && make modules_install && make install? probably that you forget 50% of th

RE: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > I have > > readahead= 256 (on) readahead 8 is even slower (15.48MB/sec). In the meantime I wonder if the buffered-read value reported by hdparm has any significance. Perhaps I should run some real benchmarks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Florian Idelberger
Furthermore, if you don't find anything misconfigured or anything possible to improve, it may just be that there was some change somewhere between 2.4.23 and 2.6.11. In that case it would probably be quite hard to do anythig about the issue.On Apr 11, 2005 10:06 PM, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Robert G. Hays wrote: > Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so > I am left suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the > best setup for the mobo, --or-- has something in there for > safety that has the effect of slowing the throughput down; > make [ menuconfig | xmew

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
> I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to > deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile > and moving the kernel around and such. What's wrong with make && make modules_install && make install? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I have readahead= 256 (on) Too big difference. Have you tried to play with this param? === On Tuesday 12 April 2005 00:01, Alexander Veit wrote: === /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off)

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread James
Mitko Moshev gmail.com> writes: > >>Calculating world dependencies ...done! > >>[blocks B ] >>x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) > >>What's the trick to do this update? > The newest ati-drivers are pmasked. That means they are st

Re: [gentoo-user] arts runs cpu overload and kills

2005-04-11 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
You are not totally off base, but alsaplayer playes anything, aviplay will play anything, just kplayer, or anything using kde (arts) won't it just errors out with the cpu overload problem. I am trying what to re-emerge to fix it. I already re-emerged kdemultimedia... Mike -- Michael W. Holde

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
> If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help > you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find > something that interacts with something else that you've already done > that makes "what you've already done" irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all > through

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread James
Mitko Moshev gmail.com> writes: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Justin Patrin
On Apr 11, 2005 12:58 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left > suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the > mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of > slowing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Richard Fish wrote: > Alexander Veit wrote: > > > geometry = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0 > > geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 4003776, start = 0 > > > > > > Well, the obvious thing for me is the difference in the drive > geometries > between the two systems...the 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of slowing the throughput down; make [ menuconfig | xmewnuconfig ] to fix, or maybe ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Mitko Moshev
James wrote: Edward Catmur catmur.co.uk> writes: emerge -u ati-drivers Yea, well just because there is a later version of the ati-drivers it will not let me update !!! Error: the emerge -p ati-drivers These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Tim Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It looks like portage might be trying to emerge an updated version of opengl-update which is a dependency of the new ati-drivers but the old ati-drivers you have are blocking the new opengl-update. You could try unmerging ati-drivers and opengl-update

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Veit wrote: > geometry = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0 > geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 4003776, start = 0 > > Well, the obvious thing for me is the difference in the drive geometries between the two systems...the 2.6 kernel is seeing the entire drive while

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Mitko Moshev
Edward Catmur wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) What's the trick to do this update? emerge -u ati-drivers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The newest ati-drive

[gentoo-user] proxy to hide redirects?

2005-04-11 Thread Bryan Whitehead
At my job; we have a new application (j2ee) that is throwing redirects about 5 times for each normal page load. In other words, we have 5 302's for every 1 200. Sadly, there is nothing I can do to fix the application. However, I can put a proxy between the application and the outside. I want to

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread James
Edward Catmur catmur.co.uk> writes: > emerge -u ati-drivers Yea, well just because there is a later version of the ati-drivers it will not let me update !!! Error: the

RE: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Robert G. Hays wrote: > In the Gentoo manual, in the early stages, it mentions -tT; nearby & > below, it mentions another hdparm line to speed things up. > Did you try that line? I've tried it. The result is 19.11 MB/sec. But why are the values posted before so different? hdparm -vid /dev/hda

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Pete Ezzo
> >> Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a > >> segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using > >> xmms-1.2.10-r13. I've > >> no idea how long ago I emerged this version. Is this a problem with > >> this > >> particular ebuild/xmms release or is something else

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
In the Gentoo manual, in the early stages, it mentions -tT; nearby & below, it mentions another hdparm line to speed things up. Did you try that line? (At least, the version of the book on the 2004.3 universal CD had such a line.) rgh. Alexander Veit wrote: Hello, I've built Gentoo from stag

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robert G. Hays wrote: Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... But then you don't get the joy of trying to fix a problem... ;-) Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. Oh, it works fine now, since I removed the vo

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

2005-04-11 Thread Edward Catmur
> Right on, so I should be able to use nxclient and nxserver-freenx > then. The only thing is packages.gentoo.org describes nxserver-freenx > as: > > Windows Remote Desktop for X11 > > It would work for Linux to Linux right? Yes, that description is wrong: nxserver-freenx does X11 (and VNC) a

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Edward Catmur
> Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) > > > What's the trick to do this update? emerge -u ati-drivers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Hello, I've built Gentoo from stage 1 with the 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 kernel. The hardware is a VIA EPIA PD6000E board (Samuel 2 processor). hdparm -t /dev/hda reports slow buffered disk reads compared with values that were measured with Knoppix 3.4 (2.4.23 kernel). The file sytem is xfs. Gentoo root

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. luck, rgh Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a segmentati

Re: [gentoo-user] arts runs cpu overload and kills

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:11 am, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >> >> >>>Suddenly after a porwe-failure on my laptop and a reboot, with what seemed >>>successful restart now after starting kde-3.4 the cpu load is really high >>>untill I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

2005-04-11 Thread Grant
> > I'm working on getting NX set up, but I noticed the nomachine.com site > > lists a price for the NX Server Personal Edition. In a previous > > thread, Mike Williams mentioned: > > > > NX is a great product, and free to use for a single user (no licence > > required). > > > > Is that true? > >

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread James
Hello all, Updating my portable, with '-uDp world' gives me this: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ]

[gentoo-user] proving

2005-04-11 Thread sIbOk
Sorry for this bump mail, i'm doing some proves. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] LTSP gets stack when recieving vmlinuz

2005-04-11 Thread Sonrie Yo existo
Well i've followed the ltsp manual from www.gentoo.org. My problem is that my computer gets stack at this point: boot from (N)etwork or (Q)uit? (I press network boot) [dlink-530tx]rhine.c v1.0.1 2003-02-06 Enabling Sticky bit Workaround for chip_id: 0x3065 IO Address A800 Ethernet Address:

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using xmms-1.2.10-r13. I've no idea how long ago I emerged this version. Is this a problem with this particular ebuild/xmms release or is s

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It seems that suddenly, anything to do with downloading, or even viewing HTML source, is broken. I get a dialog box showing (for viewing source): XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://global/content/viewSource.xul Line Number 1, Column 1:

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Stephan Grein
Uhm, sadly re-emerging firefox doesn't work. For some people it works to change the theme... cheers. -- If gentoo would be a woman... ~x86 user. Kernel: 2.6.12-rc1-love1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Stephan Grein
Maybe starting with a new profile works as told on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86746 for you. Sadly it seems to work not for everybody. cheers. -- If gentoo would be a woman... ~x86 user. Kernel: 2.6.12-rc1-love1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Steven Susbauer
chrome is the guts of the browser, not really much for you to do with it anyway. I'd suggest reemerging firefox, if you haven't already. Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It seems that suddenly, anything to do with downloading, or even viewing HTML source, is broken. I get a dialog box showing (for viewing

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Stephan Grein
Hi. Having the same problem. It's a known issue. I hope there will be a fix in future. cheers. On Apr 11, 2005 7:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that suddenly, anything to do with downloading, or even > viewing HTML source, > is broken. I get a dialog box showing (for

[gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It seems that suddenly, anything to do with downloading, or even viewing HTML source, is broken. I get a dialog box showing (for viewing source): XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://global/content/viewSource.xul Line Number 1, Column 1: ; ^ Is this a known problem? Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to send {HTTP Post} messages to http server from bash ?

2005-04-11 Thread Stephan Grein
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ => Maybe you can look there up, IIRC there was an guide for doing this. cheers. -- If gentoo would be a woman... ~x86 user. Kernel: 2.6.12-rc1-love1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] arts runs cpu overload and kills

2005-04-11 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:11 am, Richard Fish wrote: > Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > >Suddenly after a porwe-failure on my laptop and a reboot, with what seemed > >successful restart now after starting kde-3.4 the cpu load is really high > >untill I get an error stating that there is a cpu overlo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to send {HTTP Post} messages to http server from bash ?

2005-04-11 Thread Christian Parpart
On Monday 11 April 2005 5:14 pm, Maxim Vexler wrote: > For the sake of example, lets assume I have this text inside a var in > the bash script. > > postmsg() { > local str1=${1) > } yes, is possible. I've once written a bash script that connects to my server (not HTTP) and it just works. http://

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to send {HTTP Post} messages to http server from bash ?

2005-04-11 Thread Kashani
Maxim Vexler wrote: For the sake of example, lets assume I have this text inside a var in the bash script. postmsg() { local str1=${1) } What I would like to do is take that string from str1 and post it to a thread in a phpbb forum. If you need a test place i've set up a test phpbb forum at the add

[gentoo-user] Is it possible to send {HTTP Post} messages to http server from bash ?

2005-04-11 Thread Maxim Vexler
For the sake of example, lets assume I have this text inside a var in the bash script. postmsg() { local str1=${1) } What I would like to do is take that string from str1 and post it to a thread in a phpbb forum. If you need a test place i've set up a test phpbb forum at the address : http://hq

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Hosting

2005-04-11 Thread Tim Igoe
Mark Brier wrote: > Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, my host doesn't seem to be available for reboots on the >> weekends so I'm going to switch to a company that is. I'm looking at >> these machines: > > > Why do you need someone on hand to reboot? I have a ded server (with > ctn1,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Hosting

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Brier
Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, my host doesn't seem to be available for reboots on the weekends so I'm going to switch to a company that is. I'm looking at these machines: Why do you need someone on hand to reboot? I have a ded server (with ctn1, good deals, check them out), and I rebo

Re: [gentoo-user] A Call for Testers [apache, mod_php, subversion, ...]

2005-04-11 Thread Christian Parpart
On Monday 11 April 2005 2:27 pm, Felix Tiede wrote: [...] > I'm also currently using mod_php-4.3.10-r1 with a "manual" installation of > Horde-3.x/IMP as a webmail-solution and had as yet no problems so far. I just rolled out mod_php-4.3.11-r1 containing security fixes of 4.3.11, btw. > > The

[gentoo-user] xine will not run

2005-04-11 Thread Paul
Hi, I am having trouble with xine, if I start it from the command line I get the following error:- xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. Aborted Any idea how to fix this? please Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A Call for Testers [apache, mod_php, subversion, ...]

2005-04-11 Thread Felix Tiede
Christian Parpart wrote: > Hi all, > > We (the gentoo apache team) is about to go stable. That is, marking current > testing-marked ebuilds as stable. This time, it's not just another revision > number changed, it's totally different behind. So, please take this serious. > > If you test any of

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

2005-04-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 10 April 2005 17:45, Grant wrote: > I'm working on getting NX set up, but I noticed the nomachine.com site > lists a price for the NX Server Personal Edition. In a previous > thread, Mike Williams mentioned: > > NX is a great product, and free to use for a single user (no licence > requ

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2005.0 and missing make.defaults

2005-04-11 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: what is happening and why isn't there a make.defaults for 2005.0 profile?? WIth this, euse isn't working see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75525 for the discussion (and a patch for euse). Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Robert Persson
On April 10, 2005 06:12 pm, quoth Jerry McBride: > On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:28 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > > Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a > > segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using xmms-1.2.10-r13. > > I've no idea how long ago I emerged this v

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