[gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-06-23 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've been doing sort of regular syncs and emerge worlds, every couple of days, but not really paying attention to changes as they have happened. On the other hand I've read, or rather I think I have read, the news and comments/warnings that appear after the emerge world and can't reme

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-06-23 Thread Liam Symonds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/06/12 08:28, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've been doing sort of regular syncs and emerge worlds, every couple of days, but not really paying attention to changes as they have happened. On the other hand I've read, or rather I think I have re

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-06-23 Thread Liam Symonds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/06/12 10:36, Liam Symonds wrote: > > On 23/06/12 08:28, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been doing sort of regular syncs and emerge worlds, every couple > of days, but not really paying attention to changes as they have > happened. On th

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:28:15 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > 1) Hibernate has disappeared from the "Leave" option in the KDE menu It may or may not help, but I've just upgraded from KDE 4.8.3 to 4.8.4 and the hibernate option is still there. -- Neil Bothwick Kludge: (v., adj., or n.) to fix a pro

[gentoo-user] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0: Use flag udev seems compulsory.

2012-06-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. I've just emerge --sync'd, and there's a massive amount of X server updates. When I try emerge -auND, I get told: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0, required by x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.12[input_devices_evdev] >=x11-bas

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

2012-06-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-22 12:26 PM, Michael Mol wrote: OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? Only that I've never done that before with servers, and my only experience with netbooting at all was with LTSP about 10 years

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0: Use flag udev seems compulsory.

2012-06-23 Thread Richard Cox
Try putting the following line in your package.use: media-libs/mesa gallium g3dvl xa On 06/23/2012 06:40 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just emerge --sync'd, and there's a massive amount of X server > updates. When I try emerge -auND, I get told: > > The following USE changes

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0: Use flag udev seems compulsory.

2012-06-23 Thread Richard Cox
On 06/23/2012 06:40 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just emerge --sync'd, and there's a massive amount of X server > updates. When I try emerge -auND, I get told: > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > #required by x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0, required by

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0: Use flag udev seems compulsory.

2012-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2012, 10:40:23 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just emerge --sync'd, and there's a massive amount of X server > updates. When I try emerge -auND, I get told: > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > #required by x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-23 Thread walt
On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, walt wrote: >> FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) >> and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to >> catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much like >> a

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:28:11 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > protipp: in local.start: > dmesg >> /dmesg.out Or put log_dmesg="YES" into /etc/conf.d/bootmisc, which I think is there by default anyway. -- Neil Bothwick When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in? signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
I need to get a PCI-X SATA card. Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't fit 8 drives in the box. This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can only handle 100 Mhz or even less. My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz. They are 64 bit 3.3v slots. One thing I don't want is RAID; I will b

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, wrote: > I need to get a PCI-X SATA card.  Two drives is fine, or 8, even tho I can't > fit 8 drives in the box.  This is for bulk storage, so I don't mind if it can > only handle 100 Mhz or even less.  My mainboard can't go over 133 Mhz.  They > are 64 bit 3.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Dmitry Goncharov >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:52:12PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. > > They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only > wanted them as AHCI SAT

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: >> I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I >> picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. >> >> They were marked as RAID cards, but it's soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two > SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only > one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the do

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > >> There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two >> SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only >> one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. > > H

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > > How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? ..two... Botched that one! Well, doesn't matter; I ordered one, and it is what it is. I reckon it must be possible, and I don't think I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:13 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:00:01PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: >> > How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles? > ..two... > > Botched that one!  Well, doesn't matter; I ordered one, and it is what > it is.  I

[gentoo-user] Poor quality of wireless connection

2012-06-23 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
Hello. I have a notebook with an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 wireless card. In gentoo (kernel 3.4.3-gentoo) and also in Fedora 17 the connection through it is of poor quality. ping to the router is getting about 50% packet loss. With Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 the connection is ok, without pa