[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: I switched to the Nvidia video driver

2012-04-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/04/12 09:39, Walter Dnes wrote: A couple of booby-traps for the unwarey... 1) There seemes to be a colour translation bug in recent versions of Flash that only shows with the Nvidia video drivers. Red and blue are swapped in Flash. If you see people with blue faces, and you're not wat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:12:55 -0700, walt wrote: > >> That seems like a (possibly) helpful clue. When you downgraded, > >> did you do etc-update again, or were you asked to? Did you run > >> it after the original upgrade? > > > > No, no and no. > > Just to confirm, are you saying that you d

[gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. I've now successfully installed a new one, but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk ("803 etc"). The problem seems to be that the kernel has AHCI enabled, which was necessary for the old mobo, but the new one's BIOS doesn't have an

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote: > The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you > get a handle on it. Which package is it in? -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] having problems installing vmware-tools-8.8.0.7367 in gentoo guest

2012-04-20 Thread covici
Hi. I have a gentoo guest under vmware fusion and it asked me to upgrade vmware tools and I am trying to install and configure vmware-tools. However, I get the following when I try to configure: Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed... make gcc kernel headers

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote: > > > The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you > > get a handle on it. > > Which package is it in? sys-apps/iproute2 Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 19, 2012 04:12:35 PM Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Michael Mol writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster > >> > >> wrote: > >> > New output: > >> > eth0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 > >> >inet 192.168.2.42 ne

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. > I've now successfully installed a new one, > but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk ("803 etc"). > > The problem seems to be that the kernel has AHCI enabled, > which was necessary for the old mobo, > but t

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau driver turns off video when I start X

2012-04-20 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> revdep-rebuild # mplayer locking up the entire system is unusual, to >> say the least. >> >> The nvidia-drivers build should have screamed bloody murder if you had >> any incompatible kernel options set (or requi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: I switched to the Nvidia video driver

2012-04-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Hmm. Xv is the most stable option for most users. > I had the same issues with xv set in smplayer. It would work but it caused issues for me. It would pause a lot and the sound would be way off but all works fine when I switched to "gl (fast)". Since my DSL is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:56:48 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'll run the update again today, paying more attention, and see what > happens. What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the cause. conf-update reported only trivial changes to three files. % su su: Authentication failur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I'll run the update again today, paying more attention, and see what > > happens. > > What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the cause. > conf-update reported only trivial changes to three files. I've just tried it

[gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-04-20, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, April 19, 2012 04:12:35 PM Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> > Michael Mol writes: >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> > New output: >> >> > eth0: flags=41

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs with lvm

2012-04-20 Thread 林守磊
I miss the USE device-mapper, that is my fault. now I install the dracut completely. Thank you! 2012/4/19 Canek Peláez Valdés > 2012/4/19 林守磊 : > > yes. i already have lvm2 installed. The problom is dracut depend device > > mapper > > Which version of LVM2? Do you have device-mapper on USE in /

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 20. April 2012, 05:25:58 schrieb Philip Webb: > My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. > I've now successfully installed a new one, > but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk ("803 etc"). > > The problem seems to be that the kernel has AHCI enabled, > which

[gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread James
Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24 might be of interest too, ymmv, James

[gentoo-user] Re: My printing's not working. Help, please!

2012-04-20 Thread James
Alan Mackenzie muc.de> writes: > I'm glad I wrote down my about-to-be-deleted config first. An an upgrade to anything that want to modify *.config, I so to the dir and save about-2-be-deleted version of all config files. For example in /etc/cups/ printers.conf printers.conf.31aug11 printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: I switched to the Nvidia video driver

2012-04-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:09:37AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > On 20/04/12 09:39, Walter Dnes wrote: > > 2) Nvidia drivers do not like the mplayer "xv" video output option at > > all. It hangs my machine, requiring Magic-Sysrq to shut down > > semi-gracefully. Don't use that option with Nvi

Re: [gentoo-user] pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 08:46:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > I upgraded to sys-auth/pambase-20120417 and sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 and > found I couldn't login to a new session or use su. Rebooting only made > the problem permanent, I had to SSH in to revert to > sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My printing's not working. Help, please!

2012-04-20 Thread Dale
James wrote: > Alan Mackenzie muc.de> writes: > > >> I'm glad I wrote down my about-to-be-deleted config first. > > An an upgrade to anything that want to modify *.config, > > I so to the dir and save about-2-be-deleted version > of all config files. For example in /etc/cups/ > > printers.c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 April 2012 11:11:08 Alex Schuster wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > Which package is it in? > > sys-apps/iproute2 Of course. I should have thought of that - thanks. -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] MAC from IPv6 address. WAS: Re: How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, April 19, 2012 04:12:35 PM Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> > Michael Mol writes: >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> > New output: >> >>

[gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, on one of our students' lab the home directories of the students are mounted via NFS. Our main application (www.codelite.org) seems to write a lot of small chunks to files in the students' home directories. Thus, just finishing Codelite takes 100 seconds while the same version on a pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 Apr 2012 16:22:10 James wrote: > Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? > > nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24 > > might be of interest too, > > ymmv, > James Hmmm ... current versions use -sn instead of -sP for no port sc

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Scherer
which motherboard did you buy? it might be interesting to search for other users' experiences. michael -- Michael Scherer Univ.klinik f. Psychiatrie email: michael.sche...@meduniwien.ac.at phone: +43 6991 941 22 54 - Original Message - From: "Philip Webb" To: "Gentoo User" Sent: Fri

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Dale
Michael Scherer wrote: > which motherboard did you buy? it might be interesting to search > for other users' experiences. > > michael > I didn't think about it earlier but this site may help the OP: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ You can post the results of lspci or just use the list on the left

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Robert David
Hi Helmut, this is common problem with nfs. I would suggest investigate more about nfs4 (better caching). And try to play with mount options rsize=1024,wsize=1024. I think default is 8k. Robert. V Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:29:57 +0200 Helmut Jarausch napsáno: > Hi, > > on one of our students' lab

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > on one of our students' lab the home directories of the students are mounted > via NFS. > Our main application (www.codelite.org) seems to write a lot of small chunks > to files in the > students' home directories. > > Thus, just fi

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs with lvm

2012-04-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/19/2012 03:56 AM, 林守磊 wrote: > I get problom with my initramfs.: > > 1. I used to boot my kernel with genkernel-initramfs, but I must > genarate the initramfs again by genkernel. when I change the kernel > vernsion. > 2. I have the '/' partition created with lvm, when I use genkernel to > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 20 Apr 2012 16:22:10 James wrote: >> Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: >> > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? >> >> nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24 >> >> might be of interest too, >> >> ymmv, >> James > > Hmmm .

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Matthew Marlowe
the biggest things to think about: - nfs versions (some work better or are more compatible with others) - nfs write/read cache settings - use nfsstat to get an idea of what the nfs traffic is like - is filesystem constantly having locking issues or refreshing file attributes? might need to change m

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
120420 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. April 2012, 05:25:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >> My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. >> I've now successfully installed a new one, >> but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk ("803 etc"). >> >> The problem seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread pk
On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: > It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : Hm... the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. Sorry... Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user]How can i remove the xfce clearly?

2012-04-20 Thread 赵佳晖
I just install the xfce a few days ago, But i find i didn't like it . So i want to remove it and install the Gnome . How can i remove the xfce clearly ? -- 好好学习,天天向上!!!