[gentoo-amd64] weather.com video - realplayer within firefox-bin

2005-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've brought up an AMD64 system over the last week. I'm completely new to 64-bit and everything that goes with it so I hope I haven't missed somethign obvious. For the most part things are working very nicely with only a few little frustrations so far. One has to do with plugins within

Re: [gentoo-amd64] weather.com video - realplayer within firefox-bin

2005-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Simon. It's working now. Cheers, Mark On 9/8/05, Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/realplayer-10.0.5 -nsplugin 0 kB nsplugin is a use flag to enable the firefox (ns=netscape) plugin, so just

Re: [gentoo-amd64] weather.com video - realplayer within firefox-bin

2005-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/8/05, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:41:28AM -0700, Brian Litzinger wrote: I gave the URL a try and end up with Calling realplay playeripc: Got command Version 1 playeripc: Got command Embed

[gentoo-amd64] Yahoo news video

2005-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On the following link http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms Just below the main story on the upper right there is a link for some video. I am unable to play this video so far on my AMD64 machine. I haven't got access immediately to try one of my 32-bit machines to

[gentoo-amd64] Umlaut character handling...

2005-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On my AMD64 machine (and possibly my 32-bit machines also) I have a problem with handling of non-American characters. If I do an ls of a directory I don't see the character, but rather see something like this on the last entry: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/music/John Scofield $ ls -l total 20

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Umlaut character handling...

2005-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/15/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ben. That looks very helpful. Cheers, Mark On 9/15/05, Ben Skeggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: What is it waht effects this sort of thing and how do I make my system self

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Umlaut character handling...

2005-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/15/05, Ben Skeggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/15/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ben. That looks very helpful. Cheers, Mark On 9/15/05, Ben Skeggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14

[gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is there a simple document around that would tell me something about the differences between the Gentoo 64-bit kernel and the standard 2.6.13.2 kernel from kernel.org? I'm a audio user, live audio recording, etc., and use Jack all the time. My new AMD64 machine is giving me many xrun

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/19/05, P.V.Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Is there a simple document around that would tell me something about the differences between the Gentoo 64-bit kernel and the standard 2.6.13.2 kernel from kernel.org? I'm a audio user, live audio recording, etc

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/19/05, Tres Melton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The homepage for that is: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches Thanks. This is interesting. I See that one patch is for NVidia SATA DMA whic is important ot me. The patches are in /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/files/ Yes, this I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/20/05, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/20/05, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with the term xrun, so this may be entirely off the wall, but have you confirmed the hard drive is running DMA? If your

[gentoo-amd64] [Slightly OT] hard lock - AMD64/ck-sources/schedtool/qjackctl

2005-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This is AMD64, but more likely it's me doing something wrong. I'm posting this here as this list suggested I look at schedtool for running SCHED_FIFO on my jackd processes, so I tried it. Clamitous results! I'm guessing about how to run it so I tried like the example on the man page for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/21/05, Nicolas Sergent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, have you had a look at sys-apps/realtime-lsm ? ( http://www.joq.us ) I don't know if it's as performant as the rt-patches, but you can use this module with a gentoo-kernel. Cheers Khâpin Yes, thanks.I already run realtime-lsm.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a 32-bit kernel on my 64-bit kernel Gentoo machine?

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/26/05, Matt Randolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: So, to check how this hardware platform works in a 32-bit mode I guess I need to do a complete second install on a separate part of the hard drive as an Athlon. That's a big job that I'm not anxious to do. Cheers

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a 32-bit kernel on my 64-bit kernel Gentoo machine?

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/26/05, Daniel Gryniewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try sdparm. It doesn't give very much output on my SATA drive, but it's supposed to give more on others. Daniel I hadn't heard of this one. Thanks. It actually gives lots of output on my system. Use the --all option. However

[gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - 2.6.14-rc2-rt7 - great for real time audio

2005-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, For folks that are interested in this sort of stuff yesterday I built linux-2.6.14-rc2-rt7 on my NForce4/Gentoo AMD64 system. I've been running Jack and streaming audio for hours now at 128/2 with no xruns, all while browsing the web and doing emerges. So far the results are very promising.

[gentoo-amd64] Amazon.com music previews?

2005-10-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've not checked this on a 32-bit box. Is anyone running 64-bit able play the music previews at Amazon? For instance for this CD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007XT87G/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/002-3324812-2477650?v=glances=musicn=507846 even the real player ones don't work on

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: AMD64 - 2.6.14-rc2-rt7 - great for real time audio

2005-10-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/30/05, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tres Melton posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:11:37 -0600: You have had so many problems with the other kernels doing this stuff and now that you have found a good one I really think that you should compose

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Best Desktop Patchset for kernel

2005-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/4/05, Karol Krizka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been following the music with linux kernel thread and I started wondering what would be the best patchset for a desktop use. I have read the Gentoo Kernel Guide and from it seems to me that ck-sources are the best. What do you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] System died going from 2005.0 to 2005.1

2005-10-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system has developed serious problems related to the emul libs. The advice given as a reply to my bug has made the system impossible to upgrade using emerge. It is possible the problem dates back to the 2004.3-2005.0 upgrade, I don't

[gentoo-amd64] mtrr: base is not aligned

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is anyone else seeign these troubling messages from tie to time? mtrr: base(0xe802) is not aligned on a size(0x40) boundary mtrr: type mismatch for e800,800 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for e800,800 old: write-back new: write-combining

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: mtrr: base is not aligned

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/16/05, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:18:12 -0700: Is anyone else seeign these troubling messages from tie to time? mtrr: base(0xe802) is not aligned on a size(0x40) boundary mtrr: type

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/17/05, James Pattinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All If you have a mobo that you'd recommend for use with gentoo-amd64, could you please let me know? Things I'm looking for that are well supported on Linux * SATA 150 * Ethernet (don't like the sound of the forcedeth driver) * No

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/17/05, Marcus D. Hanwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 20:36, Chris Frederick wrote: James Pattinson wrote: snip Could some of you perhaps run hdparm -Tt on your root disk and let me know what you get? I get great performance off the disk but the cached

Re: [gentoo-amd64] HDParm recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Right. Try sdparm instead: lightning ~ # sdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA ST3250823AS 3.03 Read write error recovery mode page: AWRE1 [ sav: 1] ARRE1 [ sav: 1] PER 0 [ sav: 0] Caching (SBC) mode page: WCE 1 [ sav: 1] RCD 0 [

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrading from amd64 to ~amd64.

2005-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Yeah, it probably isn't much different from doing that. I run a sort of mixed environment - ~amd64 where I need it, along with ~x86 sometimes, and then amd64 everywhere else. I question whether you should look at it as an 'upgrade' though. I don't. I consider it sort of a 'side grade'. It's not

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mac-fdisk - anyone using it on AMD64?

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/19/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Probably no one has tried his but so far I cannot get it to build. It does build on one of my 32-bit Intel machines: this is a major hack. It compiles, but I don't guarantee that it won't eat your harddrive

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mac-fdisk - anyone using it on AMD64?

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Second - yes, I know it's not marked ~amd64 but I figured I could I wasn't saying you were doing anything wrong! That was just part of my Standard Disclaimer :) Oh yeah, I understood

[gentoo-amd64] build/link (Wine 32-bit) problems

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, There is a program I'm trying to build, located here http://galan.sf.net/xfst-0.4.tar.gz but it's apparently failing at a link stage with this message: winegcc -mwindows -m32 -o xfst.exe audiomaster.o fst.o fstinfofile.o gtk.o jfst.o vsti.o vstwin.o `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0`

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/26/05, Marco Matthies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Marco, I'm not finding wine-0.9 in portage at all. I guess my servers are just behind a bit. Guess I'll wait until tomorrow. You can check with 'equery list -p wine' (equery is part of gentoolkit) to see which

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/28/05, DR GM SEDDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I have just started using Gentoo and up-to-now am impressed. I have generated a kernel using 'genkernel' and the kernel is in /boot. However, I do not have 'initrd' but 'initramfs'. is this a problem or should I modify grub

[gentoo-amd64] Crossover Office - icons in Quicken corrupted

2005-11-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, I loaded up Crossover Office Ver. 5.0 on my AMD64 machine so that I could move Quicken from Windows to Linux. It seems to be working OK, so far, except that all icons in the program show up as only black while blocks. They still looks sort of like the right icons. THey are readable, not

[gentoo-amd64] Wine 0.9 on Gentoo-AMD64 - all icons black white

2005-11-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry if this is a duplicate. I thought I sent a message about this earlier but I don't see one in GMail so I'll send a similar one again. Is anyone out there using Wine-0.9 on an AMD64 machine and getting good graphics? In both wine-0.9, using WinZip, and under Crossover Office using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine 0.9 on Gentoo-AMD64 - all icons black white

2005-11-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/7/05, Florian D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Sorry if this is a duplicate. I thought I sent a message about this earlier but I don't see one in GMail so I'll send a similar one again. Is anyone out there using Wine-0.9 on an AMD64 machine and getting

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New ATs

2005-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/9/05, Craig Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Nov 2005, at 20:01, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/9/05, Daniel Gryniewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please join me in welcoming our newest ATs Tres (riverrat) Melton and Patrick (chutzpah) McLean! Hey - big welcome! Now, stupid user

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ~amd64 vs. ~x86

2005-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/28/05, Harm Geerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 01:23, Mark Knecht wrote: On another list, music based, I was told by someone that using both ~x86 and ~AMD64 on the same system is incorrect by design. I have no reason to not believe him but I seem to have

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ~amd64 vs. ~x86

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/29/05, Jonathan Schaeffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: app-cdr/k3b ~x86 Why this ? According to http://gentoo-portage.com/app-cdr/k3b ~amd64 and ~x86 are pointing on the same version. Jonathan At the time I first built k3b on the system it seemed that ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ~amd64 vs. ~x86

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/29/05, Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:52 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: A questions though. Just because an app is not tested on AMD64, and hence not keyworded with amd64 or ~amd64, doesn't mean it has a problem, does it? It just means it's not tested, right

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Java problem

2005-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/1/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my AMD64 machine I have this Java installed: lightning ~ # cat /var/lib/portage/world | grep java dev-java/blackdown-jre lightning ~ # emerge -pv blackdown-jre These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

[gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more....

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My wife and I signed up for a class that is taught partially in person and to a great extent on the web. To use the material it's the usual set of requirements - Windows, IE or Firefox, Java, Flash, an audio player that plays stuff on the page, etc., or a Mac. My wife's 32-bit Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more....

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/7/05, Brett Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, 1) Yes, if you install x86 version of gentoo, it will be 100% functional as a 32 bit OS. 2) You can install a 32 bit choot version of gentoo under you 64 bit os and be able to run 32 bit apps in the chroot while still running the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more....

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/7/05, Daniel Gryniewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:35 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:44:01 -0600 (CST) Brett Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a good doc on how to set this up:

[gentoo-amd64] chrrot'ed environment not available to users

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Thanks for the help yesterday. I now have a partially populated chroot'ed environment that runs Firefox and a few other things. Unfortunately it's not available to users: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ linux32 chroot /mnt/gentoo32 /bin/bash chroot: cannot change root directory to /mnt/gentoo32:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chrrot'ed environment not available to users

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/8/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Billy Holmes wrote: (2) copy the patch to sys-apps/l32/files sorry for replying to my own message, but just to let you know.. files should be a directory: # mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/l32/files -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org

[gentoo-amd64] xine - Station Agent - libdvdcss

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm cross posting this to both gnetoo-user and gentoo-amd64. For the first time with a movie from Netflix I am unable to watch it on my AMD64 machine. The movie is The Station Agent circa 2003. It's been out on DVD for a while I believe, and it plays fine on my Mac Mini. When I try

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xine - Station Agent - libdvdcss

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
with it set to 'disc' or 'title'. I have got movies to play with 'title' when they wouldn't play with 'key'. Hope that helps! On Friday 09 December 2005 00:18, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm cross posting this to both gnetoo-user and gentoo-amd64. For the first time with a movie from

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chrooted environment not available to users

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/9/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: (Pardon my butting in, Billy; I thought my experience might help Mark.) no worries! What you said is pretty much on target except for the distfiles, but as Duncan said, if you run a distfile cleaner it will clean out

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: chrooted environment not available to users

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/13/05, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:03:49 -0800: 1) Everything seems to work fine so far as root. I have Firefox, Java, Flash and mplayer all working nicely. I can browse the web pages I need

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chroot'ed Firefox died and now won't build

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/16/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Show me the error of my ways! that is very interesting. A bug? l32 should be suid root: ls -l `which l32` -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a Linux lightning 2.6.14-rt22 #1

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chroot'ed Firefox died and now won't build

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/16/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Show me the error of my ways! that is very interesting. A bug? l32 should be suid root: ls -l `which l32` -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] 64-bit blackdown-jdk java issue - no pulldown menus on certain java pages

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry to be flooding this list lately. Please excuse me as I work on multiple fronts here. For now this thread has nothing to do with the chroot problems, although the problem does appear in the chrooted environment also. OK, I have multiple machines here. All are Gentoo. One is the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Now I have a problem with l32 too

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/17/05, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Redl wrote: Actually, emerge doesn't care about what uname reports - only some broken ebuilds might. Emerge only cares about the architecture set in the make profile. Maybe so, but the l32 utility still isn't doing what it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/19/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/19/05, Drake Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usb2.0 external hard drive has to be feasible. less than a $100 for 80gb. nominal 60MB/sec. usb2.0\1394b external hard drive. less than $300 for 300 gb. nominal 60MB\80MB/sec. Using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/19/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/19/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there. However, faster 1394 performance is available in Linux. Here's my 1394b drive: Ah thanks, good to know. Making a mental note to make sure my next laptop has a 1394_b_ port

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Now I have a problem with l32 too

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/19/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: This happens whether I'm root or myself. I dare say I'm doing something stupid, but at the moment I can't see what. I made a mistake in the code. I was overzealous in commenting out lines. I have fixed it and added

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Now I have a problem with l32 too

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/19/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: If anyone sees the same thing or has some things I should try to get it working please write back when you get a chance. what does df show? Are you sharing your /tmp directory between the 64-bit and the chroot

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Now I have a problem with l32 too

2005-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/19/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: The tmp directories do seem to be shared at the moment. In 64-bit the results are below. I'm not sure how to check this in the 32-bit area but the presumption is that it's /tmp inside that environment. ah.. try sharing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox on same system

2006-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
One other strange one. I find that I can run either one locally and it works great, but if I shell into a remote machine and run it across the netowrk the remote copy picks up local bookmarks if the local copy was open first, but remote bookmarks if it's opened first. Sort of the same problem but

[gentoo-amd64] x11-drm-20051223 failure - `SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED' undeclared

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm running a non-Gentoo 2.6.15 kernel with realtime support. I ran into this problem with x11-drm: make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-rt2' CC [M]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11-drm-20051223 failure - `SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED' undeclared

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 1/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took a quick look at Bugzilla but didn't see anything that matched up. Does this work with the Gentoo kernel? Builds fine here against suspend2-sources-2.6.15 Interesting kernel choice

[gentoo-amd64] CXOffice/Wine audio problem on AMD64 only - not on Gentoo 32-bit

2006-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, The list has been a bit on the quiet side for awhile so hopefully this isn't a large interruption. Thanks in advance for any ideas. On my AMD64 machine I have a running copy of Crossover Office Ver. 5.0. It works great for the only two programs I use it for - Quicken and iTunes,

[gentoo-amd64] Recent clock problems

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, Just in the last week or so my AMD64 machine has started to exhibit problems with the clock. Maybe it's a hardware problem, or possibly it's some new ntpd issue after updates. At boot time it seems to be coming up with semi-random times. This is causing me to ask a few questions and try

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Recent clock problems

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/11/06, Bob Slawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, Just in the last week or so my AMD64 machine has started to exhibit problems with the clock. Maybe it's a hardware problem, or possibly it's some new ntpd issue after updates. At boot time it seems

[gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] Recent clock problems

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/11/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:41:20 -0800: Hello, Just in the last week or so my AMD64 machine has started to exhibit problems with the clock. Maybe it's a hardware problem, or possibly it's

[gentoo-amd64] Open Office / NFS write problem

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine. In all ways it seems to work fine when using local hard drives. However, if I try to write any file held on my file server then I receive a message that says: Error saving the document Untitled1: General input/output error while accessing

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/26/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine. In all ways it seems to work fine when using local hard drives. However, if I try to write any file held on my file server then I receive a message that says: Error saving the document

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Message -- Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem Date: Monday 27 February 2006 01:51 From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org On 2/26/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/28/06, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 04:22, Mark Knecht wrote: Excellent!! That seems to work very fine! Thanks very much! I guess that when new OO release come along you must remember to change this again? Alternatively, you might want

[gentoo-amd64] !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest.

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
clean: No packages selected for removal. emerge (4 of 6) sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r6 to / !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r2 lightning ~ # What's the proper way to take care of this? Thanks, Mark --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest.

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Redoing eix-sync a few times over the last couple of hours and now it's cleaned up. cheers, Mark On 3/2/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:24:07 -0800: emerge (4 of 6) sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r6

[gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, I've never used VMware but someone suggested I try their VMware Player app. Looking around I ran across info on the workstation version here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_VMware but nothing yet on the Player app. Is anyone using the Player? Does any of this work on the 64-bit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/9/06, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 03.45, Mark Knecht wrote: Thierry, Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't run complaining that I hadn't configured it. With no good instructions about to get me through

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/9/06, Nuitari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to run a configure script. I don't know exactly where player stores it, but the ebuild should contain/output the information. They indicate it in the ebuild at the end when the install is done /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl Note that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/9/06, Marco Matthies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thierry de Coulon wrote: I just came accross an article takling about a new program names parallels (www.parallels.com) that is supposed to do the same thing as vmware while being less expensive. You might also want to check out qemu[1],

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 15.30, Mark Knecht wrote: On 3/9/06, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 03.45, Mark Knecht wrote: Thierry, Thanks for the response. I tried the player. It emerged but didn't run complaining that I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 17.58, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Thierry, I'm looking at what to download right now. Did you use the 2.0 release or the 2.1RC? If it works I'll be doing a Win XP install within a chroot already

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Answering self: On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Does it matter? Yes. 2) Is it possibly because of my chroot? Most probably yes. I'll comtinue on and see how it goes. When you are running do you see new modules loaded? When I try to run insode the chroot I end up

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 19.57, Mark Knecht wrote: Answering self: On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Does it matter? Yes. 2) Is it possibly because of my chroot? Most probably yes. I'll comtinue

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/11/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:27:50 -0800: QUESTION: Should I not (somehow) be able to boot my chrooted 32-bit environment instead of 64-bit as a grub option? I've not tried to do

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/11/06, Antoine Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would I need to do to get the 32-bit area to build a 32-bit kernel? When I run make menuconfig and try to change the processor I'm only given 2 64-bit options. Have you tried: make ARCH=i386 menuconfig make ARCH=i386 Antoine

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 19.57, Mark Knecht wrote: Answering self: On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Does it matter? Yes. 2) Is it possibly

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Firefox Plugins

2006-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/26/06, Beso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any setup for amd64 users to be able to watch videos on the web? I also want to be able to watch videos on my computer as well as DVD's. Thanks, Jim -- Hi Jim, I'm only moderately successful watching web videos even on my Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] wrong order of soundcards

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-intel8x0 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 # Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=2 ## OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## #

[gentoo-amd64] nfs mount has now become read-only

2006-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, My AMD64 desktop machine mounts a directory over the network using NFS. The mount command in fstab on this machine looks like this: myth14:/video /video nfs auto,user,rw,_netdev,noatime,hard,tcp,wsize=32768,rsize=8192,nfsvers=3,async 0 0 This has always

Re: [gentoo-amd64] nfs mount has now become read-only

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/4/06, Jürgen Schinker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, April 4, 2006 02:11, Mark Knecht wrote: why do you mount with such large write buffer ? wsize=32768 Jürgen Hi Jurgen, It was suggested some long time ago, possibly on the Gentoo-users list or maybe a Redhat list. The little

Re: [gentoo-amd64] nfs mount has now become read-only

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Sami! On 4/3/06, Sami Samhuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, [...] There have been no changes or updates of any kind to the remote machine that has the NFS directory exported. Normal updates have been occurring on my AMD64 machine so presumably the problem

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Giving up 64 platform

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks on list. I don't know if I am the only one on the list having dificult with gentoo amd64 stability. Most of the internet and graphic world is beyond my command, like firefox and java ( always crash firefox ) or flash player, or

Re: [gentoo-amd64] catch 22 with realtime-lsm and commoncap (capability dependency) modules

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
The capabilities module was for 2.4 series kernel only. To get realtime performance with 2.6 you only need realtime-lsm. Load realtime-lsm then, with a user account that is part of your realtime group, start Jack using qjackctl with realtime enabled on the setup page. Hope this helps, Mark On

Re: [gentoo-amd64] catch 22 with realtime-lsm and commoncap (capability dependency) modules

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/23/06, Kyle Lutze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: The capabilities module was for 2.4 series kernel only. To get realtime performance with 2.6 you only need realtime-lsm. Load realtime-lsm then, with a user account that is part of your realtime group, start Jack using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] catch 22 with realtime-lsm and commoncap (capability dependency) modules

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/23/06, Kyle Lutze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 re-emerging jack-audio-connection-kit with -caps did the trick, go figure. everything else was perfect on a side note, if capabilities was replaced by realtime and lsm, why is capabilities still

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: catch 22 with realtime-lsm and commoncap (capability dependency) modules

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/23/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:27:17 -0700: Just keep in mind that LSM **IS** going away. It's not an IF, it's a WHEN. ?? LSM -- the kernel Linux Security Module framework, or realtime-lsm

[gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My Gentoo AMD64 machine is the only machine in the house with a video card capable of running a Windows game my teenage kid got for his birthday. I checked Cedega and unfortunately they don't support it yet. This has raised the spectre of possibly adding Windows to this machine so that he

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/30/06, Christian Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, My Gentoo AMD64 machine is the only machine in the house with a video card capable of running a Windows game my teenage kid got for his birthday. I checked Cedega and unfortunately they don't support it yet

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/1/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Humphrey posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 01 May 2006 11:41:50 +0100: On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:51, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) When I built the machine I had 512MB in the machine so a 1GB swap seemed fine. I have since updated

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/1/06, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: Is there no better way with this stupid M$ operating system? Starting around Win2K, all that is needed is a small DOS/FAT partition at the beginning of the disk - 128 MB or so. And a suitable primary

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Late in the game Windows dual-boot question

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/1/06, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: Is there no better way with this stupid M$ operating system? Starting around Win2K, all that is needed is a small DOS/FAT partition at the beginning of the disk - 128 MB or so. And a suitable primary

[gentoo-amd64] gnome-2.14.0 masked while gnome-session-2.14.1 is not

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
I was checking out a possible emerge world and noticed that while most parts of gnome-2.14 are masked gnome-session-2.14.1 is not. Is this an error? Thanks, Mark lightning ~ # eix -I gnome-session * gnome-base/gnome-session Available versions: 2.10.0 2.10.0-r3 2.12.0 2.14.0 2.14.1

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gnome-2.14.0 masked while gnome-session-2.14.1 is not

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/06, Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: lightning ~ # eix -I gnome-session * gnome-base/gnome-session Available versions: 2.10.0 2.10.0-r3 2.12.0 2.14.0 2.14.1 Installed: 2.12.0 Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/ Description

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: [ardour-users] Tranzport

2006-05-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/19/06, Michal Žeravík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett McCoy wrote: Not sure what gtk+ version I have... whatever the latest is in Gentoo, I guess. :-) I haven't built 2.0 in a while nor even tried doing any recording with it yet but it looks so slick! -- Brett anyone knows about

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Does layman actually work?

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/23/06, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, after three weeks' pain or more. I see from the GWN that layman is out. I tried it, but it complains about my proxy server, thus: # layman -f * Fatal error: Failed to fetch overlay list! * Fatal error: Error was: Failed to fetch

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