[gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( I found http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_guest_tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( [...] > I don't know where to start. Another fact: When I access the guest via RDP, it is slower than when I access it via the libvirt-console (which in fact is VNC, right?) hmm

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, > > does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? > > I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. > > Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( > > I found > > http://docs.fedoraprojec

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: > I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows > guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue > might be with localtime, so you could try using "-rtc base=localtime" > parameter with starting the windows ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: > I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows > guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue > might be with localtime, so you could try using "-rtc base=localtime" > parameter with starting the windows ho

[gentoo-user] using meld with cfg-update -u

2011-02-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have been using cfg-update quite happily for a good while. I appreciate its automatically doing "simple" updates. For any that it can't do automatically, I have done them manually (using emacs/ediff). I decided to try meld instead (I use gnome). It does make everything clear, but something see

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 01:00:11 Keith Dart wrote: > That really sounds like flaky hardware, possibly bad memory. try > running memtest86+. Let it run overnight. That's what I thought. I have run memtest86+ overnight, but of course it didn't find anything. As Gentoo seems to be immune to th

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 10 February 2011 18:24:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:10:06 -0800 (PST), Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > The trouble is that binpkgs keep a copy of the ebuild in them, so > > > even if you remove the downgrade check fro the in-tree ebuild, it > > > still fails. That

[gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter to an USB-port of my ASUS Corsshair IV formula board. When Linux is running I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) > > I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- > keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse > Adapter > to an USB-port of my ASUS Cor

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [11-02-11 19:24]: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) > > > > I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- > > keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 11:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > The logo stays there for about 10 sec or so ... and the clock gets slooower. It *seems* solved now. Enabled high res timers in host-kernel and DISabled "internet time" (=ntp-client) in Windows7-guest. Now it is quicker and no drifting clock (w

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) > > I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- > keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse > Adapter to an USB-

[gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread James
Hello, I have nptl and nptlonly set in my make.conf file. I thought that was the best setting for threading. Now, I want to install the Chromium web browser. It is asking me to the set the +threads flag for ffmpeg, before www-client/chromium can be installed. OK no problem on a per package basis

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann [11-02-11 19:56]: > On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) > > > > I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- > > keyboard is connected via a Chesen Elec

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:56 on Friday 11 February 2011, James did opine thusly: > Hello, > > I have nptl and nptlonly set in my make.conf file. > I thought that was the best setting for threading. > > > Now, I want to install the Chromium web browser. > It is asking me to the set the

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 11 February 2011 20:15:56 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [11-02-11 19:56]: > > On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) > > > > > > I have an old PS/2 keyboard,

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert > a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =)

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert > a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? > > Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills > (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I > dr

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann [11-02-11 21:20]: > On Friday 11 February 2011 20:15:56 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann [11-02-11 19:56]: > > > On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a problem here...(as you may have already gue

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to > > convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? > > > > Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills > > (they're replaced by bitmaps) which res

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:56 PM, James wrote: > But, this has made me think. Is setting nptl and > nptl globally (in make.conf) the best idea? > > Should the threads flag also be set globally, or just > on a per package basis? Maybe nptl and threads > and not set nptlonly? > I have threads set gl

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert > a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? > > Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills > (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big f

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Matthew Summers
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert >> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? >> >> Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2->USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 11 February 2011 22:04:22 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [11-02-11 21:20]: > > On Friday 11 February 2011 20:15:56 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann [11-02-11 19:56]: > > > > On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:32:20 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > no, the 2.12.1 binpackage does not know which versions are installed. > It just includes a version check. > If no glibc is installed (and removing > the /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.13 directory = no glibc installed) > then you are

[gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-11 Thread walt
I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much floundering I fi

Re: [gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-11 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 02/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: === > As Gentoo seems to be immune to this problem, I assume that other > kernels are setting some parameters that push the hardware to its > limit, so the next thing I'll try is to detune the performance > somewhat. Trouble is, the BIOS setup screens have s

Re: [gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
walt schrieb am 12.02.2011 00:15: > I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP > multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of > you the same trouble. > > My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which > has been working very well for y