[gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hello all, I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel with genkernel and Sabayon linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 04:04:05 Matthew Finkel wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Dale wrote: > > How hard is it to set up a 64 bit machine to compile programs for a 32 > > bit system? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > It's actually quite easy. IIRC, when I did it last, the only diff

Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hello all, I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel wi

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 05:47:16 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > >> Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that > >> before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fix

Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/8/21 Maximilian Bräutigam : > Hello all, > > I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed > Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I > did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due > to laziness) a gentoo-sou

[gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop immediately, but the machine continues to ru

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Carter
>> creating the FS, you can't change the inode count dynamically. > > I've never run out of inodes, even on small partitions.  I just let ext4 make > a fs with its default settings.  Is there a magic formula to determine how > many inodes are optimal? Some FSes allocate inodes as required. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: > > Both machines contain "distcc" in FEATURES. It's not using > > -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference > > in performance. -jN in make.conf's MAPEOPTS variable I assume, not as argument to emerge, which does something different. It also h

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was > trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. Consider using reiserfs for /usr/portage. No real performance advantage over ext[234], but works well with lots of small files and there's no inode count to worry about. In

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 21 August 2011 11:13:53 Mick did opine thusly: > On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 05:47:16 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > > On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > >> Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run > > >> into tha

Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 04:48:49 schrieb Dale: > Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed > > Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I > > did everything according to gentoo and gen

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: > Here's a strange one: > > Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. > Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started > causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep > and the disk will sto

Re: [gentoo-user] ff & chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread pk
On 2011-08-21 12:24, Leonardo Guilherme wrote: > tried it gave me a big headache. My (totally biased and personal > without any techincal background) advice is to stay clear of > pulseaudio. +1 Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 12:19:40 Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: > > Here's a strange one: > > > > Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. > > > > Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started > > > > causing cra

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
(sorry for top-posting) Do the 1 GB pieces have the same timing values as the 0.5 GB pieces? Try slowing down the memory timing parameters in BIOS (should look like 8-5-3-3 or something like that; larger numbers are slower). Rgds, On 2011-08-21, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 12:19:40 Fr

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that > before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed > things. > > Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM > doesn't affect inode usage, does it? AFAIK you will

[gentoo-user] Re: Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-21 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > Do you block outbound ports > with a firewall or only inbound? Logging outbound traffic, and then looking at (analyzing) the outbound traffic may be of interest to you. Two extremes are wildly unpredictable: human imaginations in a collective where outbound traffic po

[gentoo-user] Re: Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-21 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > I wonder whether there is some way to connect my home > Gentoo server to the telly? Is there any linux > application/specific Samba configuration/...? > Have anyone tried anything similar? Not yet. > DNLA is rubbish Prophetic response. DNLA is ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 12:57:48 Pandu Poluan wrote: > (sorry for top-posting) > > Do the 1 GB pieces have the same timing values as the 0.5 GB pieces? Yes, same timing values. When I bought the 1G modules I made sure that they were matched exactly in terms of specification with the 0.5G pieces (

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 11:27:55 schrieb Mick: > Here's a strange one: > > Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then > around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing > crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: > > … > > I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is > connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local > computers using some Data Center feat

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
>> Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM >> doesn't affect inode usage, does it? LVM has nothing to do with inodes. Inodes are a filesystem concept, and filesystems do not really care about the kind of block device they reside on. Well, generally. > AFAIK you will gai

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 21, 2011 10:41:56 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2011 04:04:05 Matthew Finkel wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Dale wrote: > > > How hard is it to set up a 64 bit machine to compile programs for a > > > 32 > > > bit system? > > > > > > Dale > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread victor romanchuk
> >> i had noticed that distcc is peevish about CFLAGS: these should be >> compatible on both client and server. in my case i made these similar on >> both machines (laptop is core2duo and desktop is core2quad; both are >> running amd64 arch) > I don't think this is true - as long as the CHOST is

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health. CPU load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 18:12:00 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I wish yours it's not a RAM > > > > issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any > > load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread meino . cramer
Mick [11-08-21 12:32]: > Here's a strange one: > > Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then > around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing > crashes. > What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop > immed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: >> >>  I wish yours it's not a RAM >> issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any >> load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when >> i

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: [...] The RAM gets hot when there's

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 14:53:15 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > That would help as I'm planning on setting this up myself as well for my > netbook. Right. I have two Konsoles open on my workstation, which is the compilation host. In one I "su -" and in the other I "ssh serv" (this is the client Atom

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-08-20 22:54, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > As always when I want to do anything like this there comes something > more important along and occupies all of my time. > > So migration to systemd is stoped for now. Hope I will come to it > soon. Continued playing and learning and enabled it o

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrea Conti writes: > > AFAIK you will gain more inodes when you increase the size. > > Only because by unless you specify a value mke2fs allocates a number of > inodes proportional to the size of the filesystem, with the default > being 1 inode every 16kB (see /etc/mke2fs.conf). > > But for ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > The meaning of all this is that if memtest can't find any errors after a > full run (which can take an hour), the chances of getting an error that is > really related to RAM under CPU stress are very slim. Which I completely agree wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 19:26:47 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras > >>> > >>> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:53:15 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Is there a way to automate the steps inside the chroot without having > to have a script inside the chroot? This is the script I use. You can call it with "ch hostname" or symlink it to chhostname. That way I can use the same script for

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 21 August 2011 03:46, Andrea Conti wrote: >> If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was >> trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. > > Consider using reiserfs for /usr/portage. No real performance advantage > over ext[234], but works well with lots of small

[gentoo-user] Nedd help with udev-rules.

2011-08-21 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, I need some help with writing udev-rules for capi. After playing around some I decided to ask for help here as can't really get it to work. What I want ist the following: /dev/capi20 68,0 /dev/capi/capi# 191,# 68,0 = Major 68, Minor 0 191,# = Major 191, Minor 0 untill 31 If I have no u

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-21 Thread walt
On 08/20/2011 12:21 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > /usr/include/KDE/Plasma/../../plasma/service.h:321: error: previous definition of 'struct QMetaTypeId' Hm, well purely a wild guess, but perhaps /usr/include/plasma/service.h is left over from an earlier plasma package and the compiler really shouldn'

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, August 19, 2011 10:35:10 AM Grant wrote: > >> >> I'm setting up an automated rdiff-backup system and I'm stuck > >> >> between > >> >> pushing the backups to the backup server, and pulling the > >> >> backups to > >> >> the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 1024 1024 0 100% /mnt > /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 2048 1024 1024 50% /mnt Then I stand corrected. I guess that the man page for mke2fs saying that the inode count of a filesystem cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 19:14:53 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > The X86 handbook doesn't have this text. Is ReiserFS on AMD64 really > only for the adventurous? Certainly not. It's 100% stable as far as I know. > Or should this warning be removed? ASAP -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 19

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 21 August 2011 21:23:15 Andrea Conti did opine thusly: > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 1024 1024 0 100% /mnt > > > > /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 2048 1024 1024 50% /mnt > > Then I stand corrected. I guess tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I wish yours it's not a RAM > > > > issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting > > any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports > > error, but when it