Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-24 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Jarry wrote: On 21. 4. 2010 9:43, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Jarry wrote: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes How can I control that respawn speed,

Re: [gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded

2010-04-24 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Steffen Loos wrote: > I'm not shure if you're running baselayout-2: The place for configuration of > autoload modules has changed to /etc/conf.d/modules. > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml for explanations in > more detail. > > regards, > Steff

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel, After a bit of messing around I have the following: In my home directory I can write to a 0664 file which is in the scanner group I can write to a file with the same permissions in /dev/bus/usb/005, however it does not have the c prefix in the stickybits like the device files do. I am def

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel, I have found the line which is at fault in xx-libsane.rules. Problem is, what we are doing is a work around: # Hewlett-Packard Photosmart C5100 series ATTRS{idVendor}=="03f0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5811", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV$ I have changed the group to lp from scanner so that I c

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-24 Thread AllenJB
On 22/04/10 18:01, laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: > Hi, > > I can't emerge php4 anymore: > > USE="cli apache2" emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' '=dev-lang/php-5*' > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/php-4*". > > Is there a new way to do so ? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:52:08 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I uses Option "TwinView" "0" under screen section and Option "DynamicTwinView" "FALSE" under device or xrandr gives the wrong refresh rate. I do not know if this will help you. > Oh! Yes! the other meani

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Daniel Pielmeier [10-04-24 18:44]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb am 24.04.2010 18:28: > > Volker Armin Hemmann [10-04-24 17:56]: > >> Oh - and the freqs of the current has nil influence at all. > >> > > > > Sorry for not understanding -- English is not my mothers tongue --: > > The last sentence

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb am 24.04.2010 18:28: > Volker Armin Hemmann [10-04-24 17:56]: >> Oh - and the freqs of the current has nil influence at all. >> > > Sorry for not understanding -- English is not my mothers tongue --: > The last sentence: "of the current" what? > I guess he is talking

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann [10-04-24 17:56]: > On Samstag 24 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Mick [10-04-24 17:20]: > > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Mick [10-04-24 16:56]: > > > > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
> Well, quite a few people *did* have elog issues recently here. > > I suppose you can be forgiven for making a perfectly reasonable assumption, > even if it was wrong in the end :-) Thanks again, Alan, I've been working with Gentoo for nearly 6 years now and try to resolve all my issues withou

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [10-04-24 17:20]: > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Mick [10-04-24 16:56]: > > > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > Not sure if it will help, but try setting your

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Mick [10-04-24 17:20]: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Mick [10-04-24 16:56]: > > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? > > > > - 300 is evenly divisible by

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [10-04-24 16:56]: > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? > > > - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was int

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Mick [10-04-24 16:56]: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > > Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? > > - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was introduced > > for this reason. > > Assuming your "jiffies" imply the ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? > - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was introduced > for this reason. Assuming your "jiffies" imply the kernel's setting of CONFIG_HZ_300=y, w

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:40:47 billyd wrote: > Thanks again Alan, > > No I don't have genlop installed but I will try that. > > In /var/log/portage, I didn't actually compare the contents of the > duplicates so maybe there is nothing wrong there. > > The elog/ directories on all three Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread William Kenworthy
Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was introduced for this reason. BillK On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 14:26 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > may be this is offtopic, may be it is not. Depends > on

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel - Issue (Non-issue) resolved.

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
Special thanks to Alan and Nikos for offering help. This morning I came up with a great idea for a test. I decided to re-emerge a package that I know always logs a message to /var/log/portage/elog. The package was nvidia-drivers, and after the emerge completed, I checked /var/log/portage/elog a

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel this for now.

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
On Friday 23 April 2010 22:02:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/24/2010 05:40 AM, billyd wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Alan. > > > > My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the > > partition where /var lives. > > Can you post the output of "df -i"? Free space is

[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
Thanks again Alan, No I don't have genlop installed but I will try that. In /var/log/portage, I didn't actually compare the contents of the duplicates so maybe there is nothing wrong there. The elog/ directories on all three Gentoo installs are empty. Once I review the messages and take necess

[gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, may be this is offtopic, may be it is not. Depends on whether gentoo-related software can do something for me in this case... I bought a LCD monitor as a replacement for my aging CRT one. It is a HP LP2475w which has a vertical refresh rate (sorry is this is a corrupted terminus te

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > The happy news is that nvidia released a driver with xorg-1.8 support > on 23 Apr: > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150325 Good news! Let's hope the upgrade is a simple one for the Gentoo devs to incorporate into an e

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Daniel Contents of /etc/udev/rules.d: 40-hplip.rules 70-persistent-cd.rules 56-hpmud_support.rules 70-persistent-net.rules 64-device-mapper.rules 77-nm-probe-modem-capabilities.rules 70-libgphoto2.rules 90-hal.rules 70-libsa

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:22:53 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 00:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > before getting into too much trouble better I aask: > > > > While updateing I got the following message: > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0',

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 24.04.2010 07:29: > why has moving /etc/udev/rules.d/40-hplip.rules to > /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hplip.rules and > /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud_support.rules to > /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hpmud_support.rules changed the group from scanner > to lp for file: /dev/bus/usb/005/005 and

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 04:40:55 billyd wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Alan. > > My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the > partition where /var lives. > > There are 2 versions of python installed but 2.6.5-r1 is the active one. > dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1, 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-24 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-23, piÄ… o godzinie 09:51 -0700, Grant pisze: > >> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the > >> keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). > > in kernel config You have multip