Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 November 2008 07:20:37 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and > >> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance > and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering > getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system > on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync command

2008-11-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:50:47 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I have a directory logfiles and inside it it has lots of sub > directories. Inside it there are lots of .gz, .txt and .sql files > I want only .sql files to be rsynced to the destination host > > is there a way to achieve it using rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote: > >> Sounds like you want ZFS. >> On Solaris. >> On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS. >> > > No can do :-) > > But I didn't give you the full story. Those 5TB are stored in a column-based > data

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread KH
Joerg Schilling schrieb: > Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance >> and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering >> getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system >> on it. There

[gentoo-user] Re: OSS4: no sound with 4GB RAM

2008-11-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
b.n. wrote: Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm on AMD64. I'm using OSS4 and sound doesn't work with 4GB RAM (silence or noise). Works fine with 2GB. Anyone encountered something like this before? OSS 4.1_rc2. Kernel 2.6.27.7 (2.6.27-gentoo-r4). Never mind, fixed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > [...] > > As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a s

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247685 You need to delete all broken symlinks followed by an 'eselect opengl xorg-x11'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Removeing packages

2008-11-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Nov 2008, at 02:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here again what I did: emerge -C syncing gives me this package as "N" (new). It's perhaps also a dependency of something else you've installed since. I don't care if you top-post, providing your reply makes sense. If someone replies to y

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Nov 2008, at 02:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of t

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft in /etc. How to clean in out.

2008-11-27 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag 27 November 2008 03:54:25 schrieb ext Jorge Peixoto de Morais > Neto: > >> By the way, I found it weird that git has a lot of git-* binaries in >> /usr/bin that are all 777 KB. > > Hardlinks? Check the link c

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Grant
>>> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance >>> and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering >>> getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system >>> on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it sounds like some >>> ar

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2008, at 02:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: >>> >>> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance >>> and even reduce noise. Has anyone trie

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: > >>> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance > >>> and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering > >>> getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system > >>> on it. There is a round

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

2008-11-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John covici wrote: on Thursday 11/27/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources > > 2.6.25. I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue > > persists. In my previous Gentoo install and other Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] qtiplot

2008-11-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/26/08, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > b.n. ha scritto: >> Hi, >> >> I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. >> Unfortunately: >> - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have both qwt-4 and qwt-5 installed, >> and when compilng qtiplot seems to pick invariably the qwt-5.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Grant
I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it sounds like some >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread KH
Daniel Troeder schrieb: > Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: > >> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread James
On Thu, November 27, 2008 11:05 am, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a round

[gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-27 Thread Thanasis
Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new .config I cannot find any PATA. # grep -i pata .co

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> I think my real reason for posting this is I'm unhappy with my IO > performance. I've got a 320GB Seagate SATAII drive. How much better > can I do with conventional hard disks? Is there a test I can run to > make sure my Seagate is performing as it should? How about you go to single user mode

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: >> >>> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance >> >>> and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering >> >>> getting the l

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-27 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but > the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on > an SIL680 controller. > In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL6

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? > cfdisk - 18mb/sec? You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. The OCZ SSD I tested last week gives 120 MB/s read and 82 MB/s write speed. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-1

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Nov 2008, at 16:37, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... I think the last anecdote I read on this subject was written by Trubox (Truebox?) on the Openmoko-community list a month or two ago. They sell Aserisk systems to small business (in my area, as it happens) and I would imagine that typically

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel, compiz, mplayer -fs file.avi freeze

2008-11-27 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008/11/24 Kacper Kopczyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a MSI Wind U100 netbook. I'm using xfce with compiz-fusion. > > When I try to start mplayer -fs file.avi the Xserver freezes. It also > freezes when the logout window of xfce, that gray "transparent" background, > tries to show 3 buttons (l

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? > > cfdisk - 18mb/sec? > > You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. > > The OCZ SSD I tested last week gives 120 MB/s read and 82 MB/s write sp

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? > > > cfdisk - 18mb/sec? > > > > You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. > > > > The OC

Re: [gentoo-user] qtiplot

2008-11-27 Thread b.n.
Arttu V. ha scritto: > On 11/26/08, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> b.n. ha scritto: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. >>> Unfortunately: >>> - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have both qwt-4 and qwt-5 installed, >>> and when compilng qtiplot seems

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? > > > > cfdisk - 18mb/sec? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread KH
> > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? > cfdisk - 18mb/sec? > > ssd in future might be a lot faster: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/BHzT0mM7DRw/article.pl kh

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:24 +0200, Thanasis wrote: > Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to > 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, > because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. > In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in th

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Thanasis wrote: > Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, > but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a > RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. > In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd won't restart on remote system

2008-11-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant wrote: > >>> >> If it doesn't start I'm locked out of the remote system. > >>> > > >>> > You may be interested in : > >>> > /etc/init.d/sshd reload > >>> > >>> I get: > >>> > >>> # /etc/init.d/sshd reload > >>> * Reloading sshd ... > >>> No /usr/sbin/sshd found running; none killed. [ ok ]