Re: [gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 29 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. > > KDE-4.5, I have a panel at the bottom with a systray over on the right > edge. I run konsole on the right half of the screen, and the plasmoid > notification popup is right above where the cu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-29 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in complete bafflement. Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of kde I decided I'd give it anot

[gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-29 Thread walt
On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in complete bafflement. Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of kde I decided I'd give it another go over o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /proc/cpuinfo

2010-11-29 Thread Stroller
On 29/11/2010, at 5:38pm, James wrote: > ... >> Without a doubt the result of that darn CPU throttling thingy (CPU >> frequency scaling). > > Well, I did not realize that /proc/cpuinfo was dynamically modified > every time a processor changes (power) states? > I thought it was a (static) maxi

[gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. KDE-4.5, I have a panel at the bottom with a systray over on the right edge. I run konsole on the right half of the screen, and the plasmoid notification popup is right above where the current command is being typed. So I want to move the popu

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Mick
On Monday 29 November 2010 15:17:42 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On 29 November 2010 13:41, Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> Ughh! Spoke too soon. :-( > >>> > >>> The older PIII machine still crashes in the same manner. This is what > >>> > >>> I have configured: > >>> $ cat /usr/src/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Should mysql crash sometimes?

2010-11-29 Thread kashani
On 11/29/2010 5:46 AM, Grant wrote: You can add it to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and restart. Remove it and restart again when you've finished. kashani That worked perfectly, thank you. I've run mysql_upgrade successfully and all of the warnings have disappeared from the mysql log file except the foll

Re: [gentoo-user] Should mysql crash sometimes?

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/29/2010 08:46 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I'm told I need to run mysqld with --skip-grant-tables. I'm used to >>> using Gentoo's mysql initscript. Should 'mysqld --skip-grant-tables' >>> work? >> >> You can add it to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and restart. Remove it and restart again >> when you've finishe

[gentoo-user] Re: /proc/cpuinfo

2010-11-29 Thread James
Kristian Poul Herkild herkild.dk> writes: > Without a doubt the result of that darn CPU throttling thingy (CPU > frequency scaling). Well, I did not realize that /proc/cpuinfo was dynamically modified every time a processor changes (power) states? I thought it was a (static) maximum) based

[gentoo-user] [OT] kvm monitor does not work

2010-11-29 Thread fei huang
hi: I have installed a windows xp guest using kvm, and trying to get my usb thumb drive working, I tried using "kvm -monitor /dev/ttyX" and "kvm -monitor /dev/pts/X“, but can't input anything, although I can see "qemu)" prompt right there. besides, I tried "ctrl+alt+2“ in vnc, the serial0 cons

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On 29 November 2010 13:41, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Ughh! Spoke too soon. :-( The older PIII machine still crashes in the same manner. This is what I have configured: $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i CONFIG_ATA # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Mick
On 29 November 2010 13:41, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> >> Ughh!  Spoke too soon.  :-( >> >> The older PIII machine still crashes in the same manner.  This is what >> I have  configured: >> >>  $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i CONFIG_ATA >> # CONFIG_ATALK is not set >> # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH

Re: [gentoo-user] Should mysql crash sometimes?

2010-11-29 Thread Grant
>> I'm told I need to run mysqld with --skip-grant-tables.  I'm used to >> using Gentoo's mysql initscript.  Should 'mysqld --skip-grant-tables' >> work? > > You can add it to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and restart. Remove it and restart again > when you've finished. > > kashani That worked perfectly, than

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Ughh! Spoke too soon. :-( The older PIII machine still crashes in the same manner. This is what I have configured: $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i CONFIG_ATA # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set CONFIG_ATA=y # CONFIG_ATA_NONSTANDARD is not set # C

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Mick
On 29 November 2010 10:30, Mick wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 09:01:37 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:30:46 +, Mick wrote: >> > $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i CONFIG_ATA >> > # CONFIG_ATALK is not set >> > # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set >> > CONFIG_ATA=y >> > #

[gentoo-user] Samba/Iconv

2010-11-29 Thread SpaceCake
Hi, I have some problem with accessing samba shares from my gentoo box. I'm not sure if the issue above is related to this, but do you have any idea how can I avoid these annoying error messages? /var/log/messages:Nov 29 11:07:53 brutal net: init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 29 November 2010 01:24:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > One thing I forgot to mention is that with the ck kernel, the number > of threads (like the -j option of make) must be exactly equal to the > amount of CPUs or cores, and *not* the usual cores+1. I'll try your suggestions, but it'll b

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Mick
On Monday 29 November 2010 09:01:37 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:30:46 +, Mick wrote: > > $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i CONFIG_ATA > > # CONFIG_ATALK is not set > > # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set > > CONFIG_ATA=y > > # CONFIG_ATA_NONSTANDARD is not set > > # CONFIG_A

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

2010-11-29 Thread Erik
2010-07-17 01:54, walt skrev: On 07/15/2010 11:03 PM, Erik wrote: You may know enough to help if you are familiar with Xorg, in particular the driver called NV I know a little about it. It is no longer maintained by xorg or nvidia, so that may be part of the problem if you are using recent

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:30:46 +, Mick wrote: > $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i CONFIG_ATA > # CONFIG_ATALK is not set > # CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set > CONFIG_ATA=y > # CONFIG_ATA_NONSTANDARD is not set > # CONFIG_ATA_VERBOSE_ERROR is not set > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y > # CONFIG_ATA_SFF is

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 06:42:26 Petri Rosenström wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Mick wrote: >> >> On Saturday 27 November 2010 17:53:21 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-29 Thread Mick
On Monday 29 November 2010 06:42:26 Petri Rosenström wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Saturday 27 November 2010 17:53:21 Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mick wrote: > >>> > On Saturday