Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 18.06.2012 11:29, Philip Webb wrote: > I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 & it's working ok so far. Just wanted to let you know, that there is a bug that affects lots of people with 302.xx: X-console-switch and resume-from-suspend are broken. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:47:08 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:04:13AM -0700, walt wrote > > > I just did the same update. I thought at first everything was okay, > > then I ran glxgears, which runs at 1/5 normal speed. Going back to > > 295.59 fixed it. Very puzzling, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
120621 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 18.06.2012 11:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 & it's working ok so far. > that there is a bug that affects lots of people with 302.xx: > X-console-switch and resume-from-suspend are broken. > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showt

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Hartmut Figge
Philip Webb: >Commenting on the other msgs re Glxgears, (1) which pkg is it in ? hafi@i5_64 ~ $ equery b glxgears * Searching for glxgears ... x11-apps/mesa-progs-8.0.1 (/usr/bin/glxgears) Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

[gentoo-user] Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

2012-06-21 Thread Ezequiel Garcia
Hi folks, I had rough times upgrading my gcc. Finally, I did this: 1. Upgrade gcc in a chroot 2. Use quickpkg gcc to create binary package (inside chroot) 3. Use emerge -K to install the created package I read it here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-782003-start-0.html. I must say WOW, g

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Hi folks, > > I had rough times upgrading my gcc. Finally, I did this: > > 1. Upgrade gcc in a chroot > 2. Use quickpkg gcc to create binary package (inside chroot) > 3. Use emerge -K  to install the created package > > I read it here: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Hi folks, > > I had rough times upgrading my gcc. Finally, I did this: > > 1. Upgrade gcc in a chroot > 2. Use quickpkg gcc to create binary package (inside chroot) > 3. Use emerge -K  to install the created package > > I read it here: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 21 June 2012 04:28:35 João Matos wrote: > I've heard that this http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads > is a good option Portage includes app-benchmarks/phoronix-test-suite but it's keyworded. On this box 21 other packages need installing first, including PHP, MySQL and Apa

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

2012-06-21 Thread Ezequiel Garcia
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia > wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I had rough times upgrading my gcc. Finally, I did this: >> >> 1. Upgrade gcc in a chroot >> 2. Use quickpkg gcc to create binary package (inside chroot) >> 3. Us

[gentoo-user] gnome-3 extensions and portage

2012-06-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have merged gnome-shell-extensions and eselect-gnome-shell-extensions. There are of course many other extensions listed in extensions.gnome.org and they are easy to (un-)install. I was just wondering if any were packaged into ebuilds beyon gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions. thanks, allan

[gentoo-user] Re: Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?

2012-06-21 Thread walt
On 06/21/2012 08:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Now, the question is: > Do I need to re-emerge something due to having new gcc? > I'm pretty sure not, but just wanted to ask. Technically, you should re-emerge c++ apps because you are now using a newer version of libstc++. IRL I suspect that nobo

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread walt
On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 20/06/12 17:04, walt wrote: >> On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 2012/6/15 Philip Webb > after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. I can see that 295.53 and

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-21 Thread walt
On 06/19/2012 06:39 PM, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> (no, nobody really understands autotools) > > I do. Thanks for the excellent reply. Exactly what I needed to know.

[gentoo-user] Re: Any DSDT/AML gurus out there?

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > [ 6286.707038] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.PIB_.EC0_.SMWR] (Node 88007d028348), > AE_AML_INFINITE_LOOP (20120111/psparse-536) > [ 6286.707074] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.PIB_.EC0_.SM

[gentoo-user] Re: Any DSDT/AML gurus out there?

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > After much trial and error, Googling, reading DSDT for other laptops, > and traversing archive.org for old web pages that no longer exist, I > think I have figured it out. And also very helpful was the ACPI implementation guide I found here:

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-21 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or > SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the adapter), > then mirror those (in the BIOS), which would result in a total of FOUR CF > (or SD) redundant

[gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
In recent weeks, I've seen many instances of downloads of files coming in small segments, which seem to be the same for each server, but vary between different servers. Some Gentoo mirrors suffer this way -- not all -- & some general news sites, eg when delivering videos, which run for a few secs,

[gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 requires SIP v4.13.3 or later

2012-06-21 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm doing my KDE4 upgrades and ran into this: root@fireball / # cat /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/temp/build.log * Package:dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: q...@gentoo.org pyt...@gentoo.org * Upstream: p...@riverbankcomputing.com p...@riverbankc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:49:39AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > I don't suspend on my machines: Nvidia is running on my desktop PC. I live in a condo building, with a separate electric meter for each suite. I'm conserving a valuable resource, i.e. my bank account , by shutting down the machine o