Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 June 2010 06:55:31 Nagatoro wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 14.35.28 Mick wrote: > > On Friday 25 June 2010 18:52:18 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > > my Atheros wlan (builtin, internal intenna) is regularily > > > loosing link. Reproducible in various differe

[gentoo-user] ext4 reserved space and defragmentation?

2010-06-27 Thread Shaochun Wang
Hi: I want to tune my ext4 filesystem of NAS data partition to free its reserved space by using "tune2fs -m0 ". By reading the manual of tune2fs, I observed the following words: "Reserving some number of filesystem blocks for use by privileged processes is done to avoid filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 reserved space and defragmentation?

2010-06-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.06.2010 09:52, schrieb Shaochun Wang: > Hi: > > I want to tune my ext4 filesystem of NAS data partition to free its > reserved space by using "tune2fs -m0 ". By reading the > manual of tune2fs, I observed the following words: > > "Reserving some number of filesystem blocks for use by

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-27 Thread Feifei WU
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 06:55:31 Nagatoro wrote: > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 14.35.28 Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 25 June 2010 18:52:18 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > > > > > my Atheros wlan (builtin, internal intenna) is reg

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 reserved space and defragmentation?

2010-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jun 2010, at 08:52, Shaochun Wang wrote: ... "Reserving some number of filesystem blocks for use by privileged processes is done to avoid filesystem fragmentation" It means that filesystem defragmentation need such reserved blocks to work properly, am I right? If so, c

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 reserved space and defragmentation?

2010-06-27 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: I'm pretty sure that just means that Linux will try to put files in contiguous sectors, so they're not fragmented, and that as you run out of space it's generally harder to do that. But I would imagine this is particularly the case with the occasional large file on a typical

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 June 2010 18:31:05 James Wall wrote: > You could also check out Pappy's Kernel Seeds at > http://www.kernel-seeds.org.org/ I will - thanks. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 25 June 2010 09:26:25 Stroller wrote: > I assume it has some electronics in there. These are exceedingly > common, however, and make the keyboard appear to the o/s (and BIOS) > as a standard USB HCI device. Aha! Could I then use one of these adapters and my PS/2 mouse and keyboard with

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels > or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed > this in the downward direction,

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 reserved space and defragmentation?

2010-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 June 2010 10:27:13 Florian Philipp wrote: > Besides, reserving some space for root can save your rear-end in case > some user fills up your root partition. As long as root's processes > still have a bit of disk space available, he can still log in and clean > up the mess. > > I agree

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 June 2010 11:12:53 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > > starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels > > or so until it (finallly) reaches the

[gentoo-user] Portage tree from git

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the long run (especially when syncing often). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service -

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. > > > X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, > > > like so... > > > > > > <*> Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-27 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 June 2010 11:12:53 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly)

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount without hal

2010-06-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 June 2010 21:03:45 Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:50:26 +0100 > > schrieb Mick : > > Any idea why hal is taken out from pmount? > > > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pmount-0.9.23 [0.9.20] USE="crypt (-hal%*)" 342 > > kB > > A quick look at the ChangeLog reveals: > > http:/

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-27 Thread rocwhite168
Dale gmail.com> writes: > > Do you have SATA drives or IDE? If you have IDE, try changing your > fstab and grub line from sda5 to hda5. That error is caused by that > pretty much every time. Keep in mind, it doesn't matter what the drive > reports itself as when booted off the CD, it only

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount without hal

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 June 2010 14:16:44 Mick wrote: > Better remember all this before I hastily pull out the USB stick and > corrupt the data on it! O_O I spent the whole of one long weekend trying to recover the files on someone's stick after he'd done that. He blamed his teenage son, of course. It

[gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working

2010-06-27 Thread dhk
Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm told that Adobe Flash is not installed or to download the plugin. In my /etc/make.conf I had to change ACCEPT_LICENSE to ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.1" and in /etc/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree from git

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 June 2010 12:15:50 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? > > IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the > long run (especially when syncing often). I sometimes wonder whether I should file a feature request on rsync,

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working

2010-06-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 27 June 2010, dhk wrote: > Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it > stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm told that Adobe > Flash is not installed or to download the plugin. > > In my /etc/make.conf I had to change ACCEPT_LICENSE to > ACCEP

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working

2010-06-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 June 2010 16:00:04 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010, dhk wrote: > > Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it > > stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm told that Adobe > > Flash is not installed or to download the plugin. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount without hal

2010-06-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 June 2010 16:01:45 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 14:16:44 Mick wrote: > > Better remember all this before I hastily pull out the USB stick and > > corrupt the data on it! O_O > > I spent the whole of one long weekend trying to recover the files on > someone's stick a

[gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This is a mostly stable machine. Why is what I think is the stable version of libgnomecanvas-python failing to build? The newer version portage (2.28.1) requires masked packages so that's not a good option. What's a person to do? Thanks, Mark c2stable ~ # eix libgnomecanvas-python

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working

2010-06-27 Thread dhk
On 06/27/2010 12:03 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 16:00:04 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >> On Sunday 27 June 2010, dhk wrote: >>> Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it >>> stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm told that Adobe >>> Flash is not insta

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 June 2010 20:25:03 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This is a mostly stable machine. Why is what I think is the stable > version of libgnomecanvas-python failing to build? > >The newer version portage (2.28.1) requires masked packages so > that's not a good option. > >What's a p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 20:25:03 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    This is a mostly stable machine. Why is what I think is the stable >> version of libgnomecanvas-python failing to build? >> >>    The newer version portage (2.28.1) requires mas

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Different machine getting updated and for the same failure but it occurred on a different package. - Mark /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount without hal

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 June 2010 17:05:35 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 16:01:45 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I spent the whole of one long weekend trying to recover the files > > on someone's stick after he'd done that. He blamed his teenage > > son, of course. > > > > It was only partly successful too

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 June 2010 21:42:14 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >>> Failed to emerge dev-python/libgnomecanvas-python-2.28.0, Log file: > > The build error is before this. Please post that. > > > > Everything below is various elogs to tell you that an error occured, not > > what it is. > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 21:42:14 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >>> Failed to emerge dev-python/libgnomecanvas-python-2.28.0, Log file: >> > The build error is before this. Please post that. >> > >> > Everything below is various elogs to tell you th

[gentoo-user] vbox gentoo guest mac address issue

2010-06-27 Thread pat
Hello, I have running gentoo vbox guest image. I've made its clone using VBoxManage clonehd ... and setup new vbox guest using this system copy. Everything is same except MAC address. When starting system from this cloned image I've got an eth0 failure. It looks like the original MAC address is so

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] vbox gentoo guest mac address issue

2010-06-27 Thread pat
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:45:00 +0200, pat wrote > Hello, > > I have running gentoo vbox guest image. I've made its clone using VBoxManage > clonehd ... and setup new vbox guest using this system copy. > Everything is same except MAC address. When starting system from > this cloned image I've got a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild failure...

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > emerge @preserved-rebuild is now running again. I'll post back results later. > > Thanks, > Mark > So it seems that after a couple of times through each of these tools, and along with changes to firefox-bin to take care of new Flash conce

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-27 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:26:25AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote > Also, have you tried just using larger fonts on the console? If you > emerge sys-apps/kbd, there should be some fonts in > /usr/share/consolefonts. You can use "setfont " to test which > one you want to use (some of them are bigger font

[gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-27 Thread waltdnes
I have a 4-core Intel i3 (/proc/cpuinfo dump below) running 64 bit Gentoo. I want to try hosting 32-bit Gentoo and also OS/2 Warp 4 on it. What are people's experiences with different VM environments? Google searching turns up a lot of out-of-date blogs/wikis. My CPU... processor : 3 ve