[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article "info" question

2008-12-26 Thread Remy Blank
Grant Edwards wrote: > On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info utility, > which doesn't seem to know anything about kqemu. What "info" > program is the Wiki talking about, and where does one get it? A shot in the dark: qemu has a console that can be reached with Ctrl+Alt+2. I would assu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article "info" question

2008-12-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 26 Dec 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > Both the kqemu and qemu packages are installed. > > Apparently "run info kqemu" refers to somthing other than the > Gnu info program, but I don't know what. You should switch to the Qemu monitor (Ctrl-Alt-2) and then you can run the info and other co

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki Gentoo article "info" question

2008-12-26 Thread Steven Susbauer
Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> The Wiki page on Qemu says >> >>"To test if kqemu is correctly installed, run info kqemu. If >> it returns kqemu support: enabled for user and kernel code, >> your installation is correct." >> >> On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info ut

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> It's on the second page of the filter setup. Mine gives me these options: Skip the Inbox (Archive it) Mark as read Star it

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article "info" question

2008-12-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-26, Remy Blank wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info utility, >> which doesn't seem to know anything about kqemu. What "info" >> program is the Wiki talking about, and where does one get it? > > A shot in the dark: qemu has a console that ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article "info" question

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-12-26, Remy Blank wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info utility, >>> which doesn't seem to know anything about kqemu. What "info" >>> program is the Wiki talking about, and where does one get it? >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: [...] what would be the best way to defrag it? By not defragging it. [...] I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I copy the whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation (ext3) and the sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:01:03 -0800, Grant wrote: > I think I'm getting system included within world too. Check /var/lib/portage/world_sets -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 41: Good grief signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:54:12 -0600, Dale wrote: > I was sort of in the discussion on -dev about this one. From my > understanding, world and system works like it used to. @system and > @world works the new way. However, when I type in emerge -ep world and > then do emerge -pv @world, I get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan packages

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:17:16 +0200, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed > packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to > have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that > belonged to that overlay ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> [...] what would be the best way to defrag it? > By not defragging it. > [...] I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I copy the whole HD to another one

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-26 Thread Grant
>> I think I'm getting system included within world too. > > Check /var/lib/portage/world_sets That file doesn't exist on my system. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time I did this (over 8 months ago): emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 26 December 2008 21:49:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue > even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had > to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time > I did this (over

[gentoo-user] Certain network activity stops the network

2008-12-26 Thread Grant
I have 3 Gentoo systems on a wireless network, one of which is the firewall/router. Sometimes any traffic to one of the systems effectively freezes traffic on the whole network. Does anyone know what might cause that? It's tough to investigate because it doesn't happen all the time. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 26 December 2008 21:49:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2008/12/26 Dale : > Sorry to say but I'm back. I set up that filter and checked the spam > bucket on webmail today. It had over 800 messages and some of them are > not spam. This is not an answer to your question below but I wanted to mention a few things that might help you (if you decide to st

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2008/12/26 Dale : > >> Sorry to say but I'm back. I set up that filter and checked the spam >> bucket on webmail today. It had over 800 messages and some of them are >> not spam. >> > > This is not an answer to your question below but I wanted to mention a > few th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue >>> even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had >>> to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last >>> time I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Friday 26 December 2008 21:49:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue >>> even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had >>> to rsync, format and rsync back.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ Dale :-) :-) Hey, I've been follo

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I already did the rsync/format thing a few times over the last years, and the results are always the same: very fast filesystem for about a month, then it starts getting slower over time. I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2008/12/26 Dale : > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> 2008/12/26 Dale : > Well, I'm on dial-up and that thing doesn't like my slow as crap > connection. Thanks AT&T for keeping your promise on getting use DSL. > Bit of sarcasm there in case you can't tell. Very few things are on my > crap list but they a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Matt Harrison wrote: > Dale wrote: >> I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one >> second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, >> portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. >> >> We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> I already did the rsync/format thing a few times over the last years, >>> and the results are always the same: very fast filesystem for about a >>> month, then it starts getting slower over time. >> >> I have to say that after m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2008/12/26 Dale : > >> Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> >>> 2008/12/26 Dale : >>> > > >> Well, I'm on dial-up and that thing doesn't like my slow as crap >> connection. Thanks AT&T for keeping your promise on getting use DSL. >> Bit of sarcasm there in case you c

[gentoo-user] Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
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] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: But if we learned to much, we may be dangerous or something. Sometimes to much knowledge can be bad. lol I !think! I tried XFS once. If it was XFS, you need to have a UPS for sure. Every time the system crashed I had to re-install. I never got it to recover even once. I have he

Re: [gentoo-user] kqemu with 2.6.26 causes qemu segfault

2008-12-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:58:26AM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards squawked: > AFAICT, kqemu 1.3.0_pre11 is not compatible with 2.6.26 > kernels. It seems to work fine with 2.6.25, but with 2.6.26 it > causes qemu to crash with a segfault. I've seen other reports > of similar problems on other

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Steven Susbauer
Dale wrote: > If you have no ideas on how to disable, what are some free email > servers that allow pop access? > > Ideas? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > I use the Webmail extension for Thunderbird (I don't know if it works in Seamonkey), it supports quite a few webmail interfaces and lets Mozilla

[gentoo-user] Sound driver not found with kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r7

2008-12-26 Thread Mick
Hi All, I just upgraded my kernel with make oldconfig and noticed new options for sound. Other than taking in excess of 50 seconds looking at the penguin before the kernel starts booting up I found out upon bootup that alsasound fails to find the kernel driver for my sound card: ==

Re: [gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?

2008-12-26 Thread Gregory Shearman
Marc Blumentritt wrote: > I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is > working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are > written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When > the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dale : Thought about marking them ALL as "not spam" and just screwing their spam filter right up. Sort of a get even thing there. :-@ I did that many many many many times. I hate google for not let me disable the stupid spam filter. **BUT** I found a workaround: Ideas? I down

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:02:38 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Well, instead of "yesterday" let's just say "the past 5 months". I > already did the rsync/format thing a few times over the last years, and > the results are always the same: very fast filesystem for about a > month, then it starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:32:36 -0800, Grant wrote: > > > > Check /var/lib/portage/world_sets > > That file doesn't exist on my system. Which version of portage are you using? Sets are a feature of the 2.2 branch, as is the separate @system and 'world. -- Neil Bothwick ... Never say anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
This is OT but here I am anyway: Quoting Hilco Wijbenga : When you see spam in your inbox do you use "Report spam"? When you see valid email in your spam do you use "Not spam"? I found it learns very quickly what I consider spam and what not. I also tend to go through the spam folder whenever t

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

2008-12-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Mark Kirkwood : 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 :-( At work we abuse Ubuntu and that means I need to know it by heart, but I didn't