Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:05 -0600, Dale wrote: So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop the ball here, KDE did. It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volunteer developers want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks it cannot read? That would explain the variable

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks it

[gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer once too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as off-line and inaccessible by his WinXP system. I'm trying to recover his data for him, which is mostly music files. Does anyone here know

[gentoo-user] xen-only-3GB-ram

2010-01-09 Thread lnx
Hello I would like to share my experience with ram issue on gentoo (1.12.13) I am running 64bit xen fedora kernel 2.6.31-6 (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps) Why? - because previous 2.6.31-r7 from http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list was unstable and also only

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 January 2010 11:48:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: Does anyone here know of a tool that can rebuild an NTFS directory structure? I've tried several tools I found with Google, but the only one that had any success has extracted hundreds of small text files and lots of mp3 and other

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:05 -0600, Dale wrote: So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop the ball here, KDE did. It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't matter how much you complain, if unpaid,

[gentoo-user] Virtual video card memory disabled

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
Any idea how I could enable the Region 2 shown below? Region 0: Memory at 4800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at 4020 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 4022

[gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-01-09, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR My cups printers are specified in /etc/cups/printers.conf. Does that file have

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jan, Michael Higgins wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR What am I missing?

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jan, Stroller wrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 20:10, Michael Higgins wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-09 Thread Grant
I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to yours, and they used to use a book to balance it at an angle to try get reception.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote: I have tried ntfsfix. That's a new one to me - thanks. It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into MSWindows it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this! The disk in question is an external USB disk. In your

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names -- SOLVED

2010-01-09 Thread felix
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:36:15PM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: No, that just might explain it. I'll reboot tomorrow under 2.6.31 That was it -- 2.6.32 does the right thing, but I was too used to the wrong thing. 2.6.31 with shortname=mixed duplicates 2.6.32 default behavior, and 2.6.32

[gentoo-user] Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware lspci shows 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) So I tried the i915 kernel driver

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2010, at 16:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote: ... It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into MSWindows it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this! The disk in question is an external USB disk. In your

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:13:06 -0200, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote: But, I'm thinking that the problem is with KNotify, because I use org.kde.VisualNotifications DBUS service to display notifications at KDE system tray. This service wasn't found on your system. I'm not sure, but I think

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:39:58 -0600, Dale wrote: No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X year support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to their customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid, who do you think pays the other 38%.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:49:50 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: Other than that I think we're into a file recovery mode involving tools like photorec and dd_rescue. Photorec is what I've used to extract a few thousand files - the ones I mentioned with the unhelpful names. The MP3 files

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-09 Thread walt
On 01/09/2010 07:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 8 Jan, walt wrote: On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR My cups printers are specified in

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread walt
On 01/09/2010 03:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer once too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as off-line and inaccessible by his WinXP system. I'm trying to recover his data for him, which

[gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread walt
On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list: I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware lspci shows 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list: I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware lspci shows 00:02.0 VGA compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:57:15 walt wrote: USB sticks are normally formatted with a FAT filesystem. Are you sure his is NTFS instead? It isn't a stick, it's an external hard drive of something like 220GB capacity.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:27:37 Stroller wrote: I _believe_ that if you leave the USB drive, with the corrupt filesystem, plugged in when the laptop boots, then during the boot process the `chkdsk` will be performed. Unfortunately not. I was hoping so too, but when I tried it I got the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). That's a good idea - thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:39:58 -0600, Dale wrote: No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X year support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to their customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid, who do you think

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved?] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:25:51PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list: I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte Netbook, model

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:57:15 walt wrote: On 01/09/2010 03:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer once too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as off-line and inaccessible by his

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

2010-01-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.comwrote: [snip] All I know is that at one time, the external drive was recognized on /dev/sda and at that time I formatted the drive for swap space and ran swapon /dev/sda1 Now for some reason it doesn't work. I want it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: [snip] in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescue is the better version - it was inspired by garloff's original work, and makes improvements, but it operates differently. Comment. Another reason I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2010, at 22:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... However you might use this as a backup image of your starting point, to give you multiple chances at repairing the fs using different approaches. Now I'm running out of space to store the data in. Invest in storage. Doing so will make