Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks and bye for now

Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2008 01:19:11 Mark Kirkwood wrote: Due to a new work situation where extensive use is made of Debian, I feel the need to have a Debian-based play server. This unfortunately means my trusty Gentoo box is to be sacrificed

[gentoo-user] Thanks and bye for now

Due to a new work situation where extensive use is made of Debian, I feel the need to have a Debian-based play server. This unfortunately means my trusty Gentoo box is to be sacrificed :-( Thanks for the help I have received over the last few years (think I joined in 2005). I have enjoyed bein

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

Mark David Dumlao wrote: (snippage) Half the fun of Gentoo is knowing that you're kinda on your own. Hmm - I think the point of this community is that you are anything but on your own. The (many) other posters have been trying to help you realize that you are much more likely to discover

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

Dale wrote: D I thought gcp was the command, so I stand corrected on that part at least. I even thought maybe it was a GUI cp or something. I was curious as to how that would work. < scratches head > LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little different from t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. If the mouse not brand new, then it may be full of dust and dirt - assuming it has moving parts at all (i.e it's no

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:55:21 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Winner on what grounds? From the tone of the vast majority of his posts it would seem to be "he who posts in most vitriolic manner". Not commendable. I think you need to re-emerge life-humo

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

Davi Vidal wrote: Em Wednesday 17 September 2008, David Leverton escreveu: 2008/9/17 Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Actually I still don't think --resume --skipfirst can do big harm to my system. After all, my system have been running well for several years. If you get so many bu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

Joerg Schilling wrote: Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg, you have a certain opinion... and that is all it is! Other people, some of them Debian maintainers have a different one. This is a common situation, and it is allowed - in fact desirable in many situations. I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

Daniel Iliev wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:16:33 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: I am the author and I tell you that there is no problem. I am the only person who could sue you and I can't if I did tell you before that there is no problem. You may tell whatever you w

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Easy. In the abstract: person X performed action Y with regard to cdrtools for reason Z. I felt it important to understand Z in order to fully understand Y. Do you know what defamation and slander is? If people did n

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

b.n. wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why do you continue to attack me? Do you really believe that this helps? Repeat with me, Joerg. "No one is attacking me." Just because you did not re

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling wrote: Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - An enhanced cd with data tracks etc is not actually a cd according the Phillip spec... Well, it is on the Philips specs and is called CD+ or CDextra. Thanks Joerg - you are correct, I was not aware

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling wrote: sound-juicer has several problems: - it depends on gstreamer/libcdio which is not a logal code combination. - It uses libmusicbrainz to extract the TOC and gets wrong TOC information for CD-extra, then tries to "play" data tracks. No doubt true (as you c

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

I wrote: Not a console player, but totem plays cds and movies with minimum of fuss, and if you have the complete Gnome install then it is "just there". Actually, I am completely mistaken...it's sound-juicer that is playing the cd I'm listening to right now (I usually listen to streaming mp

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

John covici wrote: Can you recomend a console player with some features like rewind, fast forward, pause and title lookup, etc -- I don't mind changing if I need to change. Not a console player, but totem plays cds and movies with minimum of fuss, and if you have the complete Gnome install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-06-17, Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But now, it's not the same context. ATI specs are known and open source drivers coming. I'll believe it when I see it. It's definitely different of the "past few years". I doubt it. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

Alan McKinnon wrote: Personally, I just use a gmail account for all my mailing list needs. I got fed up having to change my subscribed address every so often so started using my gmail account instead. You always know exactly how it's going to want authentication, you can read mail in a browse

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

The machine I'm typing this on has 2 of these (Barracuda 7200.7's)- they are absolutely silent...so that machine's one might be ready to throw its bearings! Cheers Mark Alan McKinnon wrote: Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office sounded like it had a Boeing

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

I just use bind - setup to lookup from my ISP's nameservers and cache only. The main reason for this was my ISP's ones are very slow (sometime 0.5 s to resolve!) - turning on the cache made an enormous difference to the perceived performance. Cheers Mark Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm fed

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

Jonathan Haws wrote: On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this sort of stuff. The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Hence I was using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

Rasmus Andersen wrote: FreeBSD's softupdates should make filesystem state always consistent, metadatawise. Or so I think I remember, its been a while. That might aleviate some of the problems noted on the dump page I referenced. Freebsd's dump -L (live option) uses ufs2 snapshot capability

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

Rasmus Andersen wrote: If you do backup live filesystems/data then dump is on par with dd; both read from the underlying device and might bypass the kernel's page cache. Ie., there might be unwritten data cached thats not on disk yet. Tar/rdiff-backup/etc reads through the pagecache and avoids t

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

I wrote: If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dumpe2fs* etc or smart tar/dump based tools like Amanda. Hmm - dunno what I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 "Ritesh Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

Jonathan Haws wrote: I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 filesystem is corrupt and had errors and I would hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

I wrote: I think 64-bit 66Mhz PCI will actually do 526Mb/s theoretical maximum ... I can achieve 220Mb/s real I/O bandwidth (4 disk array) on my gear here. (old Supermicro P4TDER). Actually, doing the calculation properly gets 508 MB/s (532 MB/s is often quoted, but that is using 1000 inste

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a good chipset (ie not nforce). PCIE = 250mb/sec theoretical I think 64-bit 66Mhz PCI will actually do 526Mb/s theoretical maximum ... I can achieve 220Mb/s real I/O bandwidth (4 disk array) on my gear here. (old Superm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc problem

James wrote: Hello, Every seen this error? # gcc-config -l * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! [1] i586-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 the system will not compile anything? Ideas on fixing? James Try: $ gcc-config 1 This will tell the system that 4.1.2 is the guy to use (I guess your

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

Alex Schuster wrote: Um, system is up and running - as I wrote, I had a backup and just copied the missing files back, so the system came up again. I re-emerged baselayout then to make sure all is back in place. I just wondered how this could have gone wrong and thought I'd post what happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc

Alex Schuster wrote: Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some essential files were not. Looking at emerge.log, I see that I had th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

James wrote: In my mind I'm an accomplished person. In her mind I'm just another stupid EE, Hey James - Interesting post - this eludes me tho, what is an EE? Cheers Mark P.s: a beer should cure all women problems -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

I wrote: I have used xfs on 2 Gentoo servers for the last year of so - several power outages, no problems: $ df -m Doh! meant to type 'mount' not 'df': $ mount /dev/md/2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md/0 on /boot type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md/3 on /tmp type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/md/4 on /v

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

Mick wrote: Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these. Has anyone got a particularly good experience with XFS vs e.g. Reiserfs? What about JFS? I have used xfs on 2 Gentoo ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious Madness???

Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here noticed how badly Audacious 1.4.2 is? I get random crashes and a host of other problems... something never experienced with XMMS. I traded a few emails over Audacious and it seems as though it sports a new (improved) thread model. Once I humbly suggested the "n

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before ge

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

I'd use something like perl[1] to read (2 lines initially) and then each line of the original file, generate the intermediate lines by comparing each line to the one before... printing the new generated lines to stdout (or a specified file if desired). Cheers Mark [1], perl, php, python, awk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

Neil Bothwick wrote: All that would do is increase the number of disaffected users. You need to read the documentation and use the command line to use Gentoo effectively, hiding that behind a pretty pointy-clicky installer until the system is installed and then hitting the user with the truth c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

Daevid Vincent wrote: I've held off on doing this gcc update as I'm on an old P4 2Ghz notebook with 1G RAM (Dell i8200). Things are generally working okay (as well as any linux/gentoo system can be I guess). (Chuckles) you have a relatively modern system then :-) ... I run Gentoo on two of

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: - You loose bit performance, but not much, you won't feel it without benchmarks. I very much doubt this. LVM is one extra layer between the filesystem and the physical disk and it basically consists of a mapping b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

Francesco Talamona wrote: First of all, thanks for sharing. I used to think xfs was overkill for /boot, but the procedure described is quite straightforward. There are two things I don't understand: 1) why do you delete xfsdump and xfsrestore in /xfsrestore/usr/bin/ just extracted to link

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

Francesco Talamona wrote: Yes, please. I'm not completely new to dump, but I'd like to read about a complete dump-backup solution. Ciao Francesco Well - its not complete by any stretch of the imagination... but the attached (hopefully not striped off by the mailing list software

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

Personally, I find genkernel really nice (and yes I've got a raided setup)... but even if I didn't I'd still use it. As for those folks that don't like it, well ... it's optional! I guess if I were building kernels for Gentoo and (say) Centos systems, then I might want to use a method that wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her. Not having much luck, would anyone have any tips as to how I might be ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A friend of mine does this for his production servers: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules completely This is probably not suitable for some use

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be be

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Hi This is my first attempt on installing X so bare with me if my question is somewhat trivial. So...I emerge gnome... tried to start x and got the following error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/joe/.serverauth.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop

Colleen Beamer wrote: Following all the steps in the Handbook, I got no error messages. When I get to the part where I install the bootloader, it installs okay. I have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home. My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== I'm 44, started using UNIX in 1990 (Dynix and SunOS). Discovered Linux in 1997 or 1998 (Redhat 5.1). Moved to using FreeBSD as well as Linux in 2001 or s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorizedoutput?!?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found that people are fine, it is groups of people who cause the problems in the world. This is a interesting observation that I concur with in general - unfortunately you own attitude displayed in your previous messages pretty much provides a counter example

Re: [gentoo-user] TERM=Eterm unknown now?

Uwe Klosa wrote: You have to run emerge -av1 ncurses. This fixes the problem. Cheers Uwe Mark Kirkwood wrote: I've just run into this after an emerge: Using Eterm 0.9.4 from a remote host to my Gentoo box: $ clear 'Eterm': unknown terminal type. I can work around t

[gentoo-user] TERM=Eterm unknown now?

I've just run into this after an emerge: Using Eterm 0.9.4 from a remote host to my Gentoo box: $ clear 'Eterm': unknown terminal type. I can work around this by amending .bash_profile to set TERM to 'xterm' if it is currently 'Eterm' - but I'm curious as to why or what has removed 'Eterm' fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

Dale wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hmm, this is what I am getting on a x86 build. # ls -al /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS2 crw

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hmm, this is what I am getting on a x86 build. # ls -al /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 67 Mar 3 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

Dale wrote: Here is my question. What are the permissions supposed to be? I have it set to root:users right now. It was set to root:uucp which was not working. If someone has a modem and uses dial-up, can you reply with the output of ls -al /dev/ttyS* if you would. If anybody else knows th

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo and SW-RAID-boot-partition

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, gentoo-users. I have a lilo-related problem and can't find a solution on the net, so I ask you for ideas. This box should boot from SW-RAID-1, and it has also already done that. After editing a label inside lilo.conf I issued "lilo" and got this: # /etc/l

Re: [gentoo-user] what causes "HAVE_CONFIG_H not found"?

Denis wrote: Boy this one was messy, but I figured it out. It turns out that there's another "mcc" compiler from MatLab, and it was installed on my system in /usr/bin. Mathematica's "mcc" compiler/linker, which I needed to use with the Monte Carlo integration package, was linked to my PATH al

Re: [gentoo-user] what causes "HAVE_CONFIG_H not found"?

Denis wrote: Here's the output when I run "make": CC=gcc mcc -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./src/common -I. -I. -o Vegas ./src/vegas/Vegas.tm /usr/bin/mcc: line 1: exec: HAVE_CONFIG_H: not found make: *** [Vegas] Error 127 Lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

Grant Edwards wrote: If you want it to call itself "Firefox" add mozbranding to your USE flags. Thanks for bringing this up! My mother has been a little confused about this "Bon Echo" thing - and (re) emerging with USE="mozbranding" got Firefox "back" for her, along with its expected icon

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

Agg wrote: on 02/26/2007 12:58 AM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: No - I meant spam... off-topic in this particular case At last we agree - your spam is off-topic :-). On a more serious note, I've added both your email addresses to my "delete immediately" filter.

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:14 PM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: Agg wrote: All those that replied wouldn't reply if it were an actual "spam". An off-topic is not necessarily spam. And that's exactly the specific case. Spam with a valid reply-to address is still spam

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

Agg wrote: All those that replied wouldn't reply if it were an actual "spam". An off-topic is not necessarily spam. And that's exactly the specific case. Spam with a valid reply-to address is still spam. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

Mark Kirkwood wrote: given that it's list aimed at providing help to all users. Sorry - should read: given that it's *a* list aimed at providing help to all users. (I'm hoping for a grammar checker in Thunderbird) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

James wrote: Besides, Gentoo's greatest strength is the help the community provides to one another. +1 I think the friendly, helpful attitude of the list is exactly as it should be - given that it's list aimed at providing help to all users. It would be ok to be a bit rougher on a 'gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: While I generally agree, not *all* manufacturers provide rubbish for us... e.g in the current context Zalman PSUs are very good quality (robust and quiet), and if you hunt around a bit even some of the less spectacular

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would go with Hammann with "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an eff

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error

Patrick Holthaus wrote: KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4' And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:58, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore Pentium 4 is a joke (it performs horribly). A 2 GHz (Dothan

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old ima

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

Grant wrote: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Well - although says its passed - if you run any of the self-tests I would expect to see a change to 'failed'. You might want to run the 'short' or 'long' tests (-t short or -t long)

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

Grant wrote: >> >> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 >> >> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from >> scratch >> >> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? >> >> >> >> I would try putting it all back and

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

Grant wrote: >> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 >> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch >> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? >> >> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

Grant wrote: > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD -

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

Jakob Buchgraber wrote: The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it :-) ). Some more guesses that are not solutions :-) : Oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

Dale wrote: As someone who started out using Mandrake, I have to say that using Gentoo has been a LOT easier. Yea, I had to learn how to use Gentoo and it is different from Mandrake by far but it is a whole lot easier to manage. I have been using Gentoo for about 2 or 3 years for my desktop a

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

Mark Kirkwood wrote: # echo "INPUT_DEVICES=\"keyboard mouse\"" >> /etc/make.conf # echo "VIDEO_CARDS=\"radeon vesa\"" >> /etc/make.conf # VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge x11-drm # emerge xorg-x11 # env-update # source /etc/profile #

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

sean wrote: I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a reason why at this point. Hmmm - I notice from another email that you have lost your .so for radeon, so that might be an issue, so af

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

Sean wrote: I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more success using the open sou

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc slots

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:46:21 -0600, Dan wrote: Whether the reply text goes before or after the message to which it replies depends entirely on personal preferance. writer! the not reader, the of preference personal the on depends it but Yes, Top-post even Yoda wouldn't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

Mike Myers wrote: (snippage) I'm not trying to suggest that Gentoo should go to a binary distro or anything like that. I'm just wondering why there isn't some kind of update management system to like, differentiate minor updates like firefox 1.5.0.5 to firefox 1.5.0.7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

Mike Myers wrote: I just wanted to add something to the original post. I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating system is exactly like what I was asking about. Basically, there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it unreasonable for Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:00, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user': Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $

[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac running osx, so I want to make

[gentoo-user] sysctl/_sysctl breakage with 2.6.19

After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.18 -> 2.6.19 I notice that sysctl(2) seems to be - err - returning different (incorrect) data. for instance consider the simple test program to read kernel.shmmax (see end of mail): 2.6.18 -- $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 536870912 $ ./sysctltest sysc

Re: [gentoo-user] udev_run_{hotplugd,devd} failed

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:53:59 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: It thinks 50-udev.rules is owned by udev-103, but 50-udev.rules has the incorrect paths. If I edit it and change /sbin/xxx to /lib/udev/xxx then the errors vanish and all is good (there is a warning about using hard

Re: [gentoo-user] udev_run_{hotplugd,devd} failed

Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/06, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I notice that 50-udev.rules has references to /sbin/udev_run_devd|hotplug Nope, the helper programs moved to /lib/udev/ in udev-103. etc-update should take care of the files that udev currently supplies (l

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:13:01 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: An alternative is 'nohup' - if you know that you are gonna run a long task and wish to be able to shutdown your terminal window. e.g: $ nohup emerge kdelibs $ exit Shouldn't that be "

Re: [gentoo-user] udev_run_{hotplugd,devd} failed

Michael Gorden wrote: I think you should run etc-update once... I'm seeing this as well (udev-103 and have run etc-update). I notice that 50-udev.rules has references to /sbin/udev_run_devd|hotplug These files do not exist - however /lib/udev/udev_run_devd|hotplug do - is this just a set

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

Dale wrote: But can you go back to it like you can with screen? I mean if it fails or something how do you know what happened? I have never used nohup so maybe I need more info, hence the questions. It writes a file 'nohup.out' in your working directory with what you would have seen on

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

b.n. wrote: And screen is your second best friend ever (Google is the first). It's so useful you might consider putting it in your shell profile so you can't forget to use it Why is using screen so recommended? I never used it, but I'd like to know about. An alternative is 'nohup' - i

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

Ken Gypen wrote: I would assume that the two benchmark programs I am using to measure the drive performance under windows go through windows, and thus the NTFS interface. They are Dr. Hardware and FreshDiagnose. The second one showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 28

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits that caching can cause. While this is true, it also may dramatically lower the mean time to failure for your disk, due to increa

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs, as I've found both to be solid (I prefer xfs but that just my personal opinion). if you use XFS don't use 2.6.17 kernels. ... A good link that briefly

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

Dale wrote: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. Interesting - I'm running an xfs system that has been through several power failur

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

CapSel wrote: It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable file system. It doesn't matter if I have gentoo-sources or hardened-sources,

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

Daniel Barkalow wrote: xine ==> almost as bloated as Windows Media Player. I want a simple *AUDIO PLAYER* dammit, not some honking big "multi-media" package that takes forever to build. I've had problems building xine, and swear by mplayer. I'd sooner use mplayer than xine. amarok ==> E

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 10/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:10, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails': > Why is it that using some of the macros from ct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

Ryan Sims wrote: Nuts, ignore that. Just realized the optical drives will be PATA, which goes through the JMicron. Shoot. Looks like I'll have to give either kernelOfTruth's LiveCD a shot, or possibly roll my own. Or find a LiveCD for another distro that has 2.6.18 or so. Hmm. Yep - see

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