Re: [gentoo-user] Calendar applications

2010-12-30 Thread Stroller
On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > ... > I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following > things: > > Event handling (preferrably also a support for recurring events) > Notification of events > Handle several calendars at once (as in showing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 02:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman: >> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? >> >> Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to

[gentoo-user] Calendar applications

2010-12-30 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys, I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following things: Event handling (preferrably also a support for recurring events) Notification of events Handle several calendars at once (as in showing all calendars in one view and preferrably colour coded) Import o

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 19:43:06 Mike Edenfield wrote: > If you have a file of the same name in both directories, then the one > in /etc should override the one in /usr/share. But the names need to > match exactly. Yes, identical. I know this, because I copied the one from /usr/share to /

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman: > On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? > > Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to 2.67 > GHz.works great! good to hear. So it is solve

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:02 +, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: > > > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and > > > locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.co

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: > > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and > > locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have > > found all these back and forth changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 09:55 AM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote: >> On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote: >>> Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND >>> ? >> >> Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it >> wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Using lzma for emerge-webrsync

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Is this possible to happen automatically? I don't know the answer, but you may be interested in app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote: > On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote: > > Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND > > ? > > Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it > would behave at top speed if I set it to "p

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: > >> The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config >> for it: > > [..] > > Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? Well, if I change the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations > are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have found all > these > back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what have you, unnecessary > and an

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:21 AM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote: > > This is what my i7 Q is showing: > > Handle 0x0005, DMI type 4, 42 bytes > Processor Information > Socket Designation: U2E1 > Type: Central Processor > Family: > Manufacturer

[gentoo-user] Using lzma for emerge-webrsync

2010-12-30 Thread Jon Hardcastle
Is this possible to happen automatically? -- --- N: Jon Hardcastle E: j...@ehardcastle.com ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote: > Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND ? Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it would behave at top speed if I set it to "performance". No luck, though. And I can easily change the governor. It s

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: > >> The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config >> for it: > [..] > > Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? That's a very good questio

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a standard sysctl-like way to modify sysfs files at boot time?

2010-12-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Neat thing, after I finished my kernel compile and did a reboot, the /sys/fs/cgroup directory appears by default, so I don't need to mkdir and can directly just place it in fstab. With zen-sources, at least, but it sounds like what upstream behavior should do. -- This email is:    [ ] actionable 

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a standard sysctl-like way to modify sysfs files at boot time?

2010-12-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Monday 27 December 2010 19:37:29 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > I want to do this: > > http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/forget-200-lines-red-hat-speed. > > html > > > > in userspace, but automate it at boot time. it requ

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mick wrote: > > Just a wild guess: are you running some desktop applet that manages the > > cpu > > frequency and is stuck on manual with a low setting? > > > > I have the i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, which is su

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: > The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config > for it: [..] Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, kashani wrote: > On 12/29/2010 1:36 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: >>> On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user e

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-12-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Coert Waagmeester wrote: > >The _target_ kernel has to support the IA32 ABI. The host (building) > >might be better off w/o it (better detection of build errors). > > How would this work exactly? > 64 bit only installation with a 32 bit crossdev installation? Not sure on how gentoo builds the c

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 02:56:05 Bill Longman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman > > > In my kernel config on my i7, in the cpufreq sections I have this: > > > > # > > # CPU Frequency scaling > > # > > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y > > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y > > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_D