Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

John Campbell wrote: On 11/28/2011 07:16 PM, James wrote: An old parallel port on an old pci card should do the trick, if all you needs is a parallel port. Some of those old Laserjet printer could be set up across a serial port, if nothing else works. I'd also check your computer's innar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

Am 29.11.2011 04:16, schrieb James: > Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > > >> http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3742 >> Does anyone use this USB-adapter-cable: >> ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port > > Unknown. Look in the driver section of building a kernel > for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

Den 29. nov. 2011 06:03, skrev Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. Not me, but Tcl is one of the best-represented langauges on th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current > best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l ... ? With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it too much (a new watercooler shou

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

28 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:17, Philip Webb wrote: >> Since updating to Openrc 0.9.4 , I'm getting some opaque messages : >> (1) When starting eth0 : "You are using a bash array for config_eth0. >> This feature will be removed in the future.  Please see net.example >> f

[gentoo-user] Re: Disappearing useflag hell [SOLVED]

On 11/28/2011 05:38 PM, Dale wrote: I'm glad you got yours sorted out but I'm still curious as to how it is on in one place and off somewhere else. I know a dev has it set that way and I'm SURE he/she has a good reason for it. I just don't know where that is done. Have a look at the files in

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: >> I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. >> >> I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first >> inclination would be to raid them and drop lv

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Am 29.11.2011 12:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current >> best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l >> ... ? > > With the cooling system I currently have

[gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I vaguely recall that '' p

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. > > I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first > inclination would be to raid them and drop lvm on top.  I know lvm well > enough, but I don't rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

Michael Mol wrote: on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I vaguely

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:47:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it > > too much (a new watercooler should arrive tomorrow), but > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l10" appears to be a definite improvement over the > > old -j8 with no -l. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating > repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. At my workplace we use a commercial Tcl-based mail and web server for sending out millions of emails to o

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating > repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in TCL.. and even had an API for the sys

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > Hi Michael, >   Welcome to the world of what ever sort of multi-disk environment > you choose. It's a HUGE topic and a conversation I look forward to > having as you dig through it. > >  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

> Oh, you just want to test the features *you* use, understood. Guys, I did not want to start a flamewar. I've been running ~arch for years and I've had my fair share of breakage, which I'm perfectly fine with (e.g. I'm not complaining that dev-lang/php-5.4.0._rc2 currently fails to compile with

[gentoo-user] Re: dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

Florian Philipp wrote: > Another thing you can think of is whether you want encryption. I've done > this for my laptop. The usual setup would by md->lvm->crypt. I've done > it crypt->lvm (an LVM physical volume on top of an encrypted partition). > This way, I only need to enter the password once.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be > completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, > especially among the devs (as rc_parallel results in _very_ tangible > time savings, especially on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Nov 30, 2011 12:51 AM, "Albert W. Hopkins" wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be > > completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, > > especially among the devs (as rc_par

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: >>> I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. >>> >>> I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating >> repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. > > Not me, but Tcl is one of the best-represent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: >> I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be >> completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, >> especially among the devs (as rc_pa

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp >> wrote: >>> Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd

[gentoo-user] no keyboard activity in gnome

Hi. I am having a problem where when I start gdm, I get no keyboard activity. I emerged @x11-module-rebuild which emerges the keyboard, mouse, evdev and diksplay drivers. I am using the latest version of gnome2 -- I got it before the big change. I have attached Xorg.0.log for further informati

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Am 29.11.2011 16:39, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > The trouble with --load-average in emerge is that it is only > checked as each ebuild is about to start, so you get the "load > explosion" mentioned previously when many ebuilds start and once > and then get into their compile phases. I'm using --jobs,

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes a terrible RAID unit? Some hard-drives are not suitable for raid at all. There are many reasons for that, one example is error-recovery. Check

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

Am 29.11.2011 19:39, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp >>> wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: > I've got four 750GB drives in a

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 19:39, schrieb Michael Mol: >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp >> wrote: >>> Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.11.2011

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jarry wrote: > On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: > >>> 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. >> >> >> What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes a terrible RAID unit? > > > Some hard-drives are not suitable for raid at all. There

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jarry wrote: >> On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. >>> What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes a terrible RAID unit? >> Some hard-

[gentoo-user] Re: Tcl in your system...

Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., >> automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. > > At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:03:41AM +0100, Samuraiii wrote > As I have set BZIP2 USE as global in make.conf I don't see why is > not working Grasping a straws here... linux is case-sensitive. Did you really include "BZIP2" in USE, rather than "bzip2"? -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 14:26:17 Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > > on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and > > it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in > > the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge > > googletalk-plugin, an

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

No I know that Linux is casesensitve and in my USE is "bzip2" (as written here - I just used what is shown in gpg complaint) - so this is not obviously the problem. (my whole USE variable content is in provided bugreport...) And the preference of key

[gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

Hi, I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my laptop the its HDMI port? I'd like to try using xine to play DVDs. I assume in Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 08:28:42PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote > It had a "little" problem in resolving the dependencies of a newly > introduced boot service that created a cycle and caused the boot process > to hang (almost) forever with rc_parallel=YES. > > With 100% repeatability, mind you, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:15:14PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > > > Sorry to add more to the whining but... > > > > Yes, you are in the testing tree. Yes, as a member of testing, *you* > > expect things will occasionally break, and it is *your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:28:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > I do that a lot at work too. Some days I can tell you I found and > dealt with more than one issue or bug but can't recall afterwards what > it was. > > I'm still undecided if this is a good thing, a bad thing, or neither They say

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tcl in your system...

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 23:09 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: > > At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in > > TCL.. and even had an API for the system. I can't recall the name > of > > the software at the moment, but it was very specialized so not > cheap. > > This was during

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

On Nov 30, 2011 6:21 AM, "Samuraiii" wrote: > > No I know that Linux is casesensitve and in my USE is "bzip2" (as written here - I just used what is shown in gpg complaint) - so this is not ob viously the problem. > (my whole USE variable content is in provided bugreport...) > > And the preference

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

No luck, grep didn't returned any results. S. On 2011-11-30 01:21, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 30, 2011 6:21 AM, "Samuraiii" wrote: > > No I know that Linux is casesensitve and in my U

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

On Nov 30, 2011 7:37 AM, "Samuraiii" wrote: > > No luck, grep didn't returned any results. > S. > Hmm... try remerging gpg? Rgds,

[gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome

On 11/29/2011 10:40 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a problem where when I start gdm, I get no keyboard activity. I emerged @x11-module-rebuild which emerges the keyboard, mouse, evdev and diksplay drivers. I am using the latest version of gnome2 -- I got it before the big ch

[gentoo-user] binutils failed to compile

Hi, after update binutil receives a patch from gentoo. The following compilations failes: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -march=native -O2 -pipe -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o size size.o bucomm.o version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome

walt wrote: > On 11/29/2011 10:40 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I am having a problem where when I start gdm, I get no keyboard > > activity. I emerged @x11-module-rebuild which emerges the keyboard, > > mouse, evdev and diksplay drivers. I am using the latest version of > > gnome2

[gentoo-user] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

Hello all; I sent this same message to Gentoo-accessibility, but thought why not, let's get even more input and see if we can make this roll. I've been a Gentoo user for awhile, and installed a knew VM, using the latest available kernel, 3.1.1. When speakup attempts to install I get * ERROR: a

Re: [gentoo-user] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

You can get kernel 2.6.36 from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tags here you will find the tag for 2.6.34 version of kernel. Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:

[gentoo-user] ignore previous message re: speakup.

Hello all; I got an answer re: speakup from Gentoo-accessibility. Thanks all. Shane

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:17:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new > TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm > wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my > laptop the it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

On Tuesday 29 November 2011 23:28:48 Walter Dnes wrote: > There aren't enough developers on the planet to test every possible > combination of testing ebuild, and non-recommended rc.conf option. Not only that, but once random timing is introduced, as in any system with a hardware clock interrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

Its now in the kernel itself, under drivers -> staging. Shane Davidson wrote: > Hello all; > > I sent this same message to Gentoo-accessibility, but thought why not, let's > get even more input and see if we can make this roll. > > I've been a Gentoo user for awhile, and installed a knew VM,

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 11:41:57 Philip Webb wrote: > A further question: since I had previously updated /etc/conf.d/net , > I was given a router by my ISP & therefore started to use DHCP. > The new net.example file suggests I might make further changes in 'net' > & simplify my configuration fil