Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.11.2010 01:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: I wouldn't unsubscribe myself. Duncan alone is well worth the price of admission as his help over the years rivals the very best anywhere and I don't think I've ever seen him post here. (yet!) Ok, so I look forward ... ;-) S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:06:44 +0800, sam new wrote: still do stage 1 installs? sounds good ,any guide or tutorial? Yes, don't do it :) -- Neil Bothwick Anyone able to feel pain is trainable. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:53:02 +, David W Noon wrote: Apparently it's not quite a full i686. The research I did at the time indicated that using anything higher than i486 was asking for problems. I am a little surprised by that. I ran a couple of K6-3 boxes for some few years using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:45:59 +, David W Noon wrote: This clearly will not work with a k6 processor or the Geode LX. Recall, I want one set of settings for the make.conf file That part of my follow-up was intended for Neil Bothwick, as I was replying to a message of his. In which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 11:23:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:53:02 +, David W Noon wrote: Apparently it's not quite a full i686. The research I did at the time indicated that using anything higher than i486 was asking for problems. I am a little surprised by

[gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: The Geode LX runs badly on i586 instructions. Take a look here: http://www.twam.info/hardware/chost-i586-vs-i486-on-amd-geode-lx OK, it is as I suspected, only use i586 in lieu of i486, but with this stage-3 file:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:52:19 + (UTC), James wrote: Take a look here: http://www.twam.info/hardware/chost-i586-vs-i486-on-amd-geode-lx So 486 is equal to 586 on most tests but better on some and worse on none. As far as the Geode LX is concerned, that makes the choice a no-brainer. On the

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 24.11.2010 01:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: I wouldn't unsubscribe myself. Duncan alone is well worth the price of admission as his help over the years rivals the very best anywhere and I don't think I've ever seen him

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:34 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 24.11.2010 01:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: I wouldn't unsubscribe myself. Duncan alone is well worth the price of

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 23.11.2010 23:54, schrieb Mark Knecht: I haven't seen any traffic on that list since late September. fits my looking-up-the-archives I

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of emerge -e @world. Why is that? If it's just

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.11.2010 16:32, schrieb Paul Hartman: He posts over in gentoo-desktop as well in case you're not a member of that list. :) Phew, do you recommend all those lists? I always *try* to keep numbers low, right I am in around 20 lists or so ... But gentoo-related only in -user and -amd64 so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-24 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:01 +0100, sam new wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486: still do stage 1 installs? sounds good ,any guide or tutorial? If you need a tutorial then you aren't ready for doing a stage 1. Do a few stage 3 installs first and you will get the hang of what goes into those

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:48 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] some two more rsync questions

2010-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/19/10 00:08:06, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two problems with rsync 1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c it looks as if a file which is more recent but different on the destination is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-24 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:10:02 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:14 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, David W Noon did opine thusly: Errm, not exactly. SCSI/SATAs are limited to 15

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/24/10 17:03:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:48 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Yang
Hi guys, Count me in the list! I've just successfully installed and configured Gentoo AMD64 for my Toshiba for a few weeks and I really really enjoy it. Recently, I had some problems installing ibus and some other related packages. I decided to get help from #gentoo and #gentoo-amd64 before

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 15:26:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: So he's worse than I? There just isn't any comparison. Your contributions are useful and based on experience; his are ... not. He's been in my killfile for years, ever since he adopted a superior, condescending, insulting tone. IMO,

[gentoo-user] Varying clocks freqs of CPU ?

2010-11-24 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, new features, new problems... Recent multi-core CPUs modify the clock freqs of their core if only a subset of all cores are used. Are their any CONFIGs need to be set in the linux kernel to guarantee a stable system running those kind of CPUs ? Thank you very much in advance for

[gentoo-user] kde-l10n-4.4.5 and en_GB?

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've built a new KDE system on my T61 Thinkpad, but I can't get kde-l10n to build. It fails with a loader parser error. These are the last few lines of the buildlog (sorry about the wrapping): ... [100%] Scanning dependencies of target blockdevices-handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 24.11.2010 16:32, schrieb Paul Hartman: He posts over in gentoo-desktop as well in case you're not a member of that list. :) Phew, do you recommend all those lists? I always *try* to keep numbers low, right I am

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.11.2010 18:03, schrieb Paul Hartman: But gentoo-related only in -user and -amd64 so far ... the -desktop and -amd64 lists have barely any traffic so they are not a big burden to me. It also depends on how you manage your lists. (I use gmail filters and labels.) server-based

[gentoo-user] Re: Varying clocks freqs of CPU ?

2010-11-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/24/2010 07:00 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, new features, new problems... Recent multi-core CPUs modify the clock freqs of their core if only a subset of all cores are used. Are their any CONFIGs need to be set in the linux kernel to guarantee a stable system running

[gentoo-user] CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-11-24 Thread Dale
Hi, Doing some research on building me a new rig. I have ran into sort of a hick up. The socket types are confusing me here. This is the mobo that I *might* be getting. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodmbspecmaincat_no=1cat2_no=171cat3_no=prod_no=1856 If that link don't work, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman

[gentoo-user] [OT] About devining file type when browsing

2010-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
It s a bit OT but at least I am doing this on a gentoo system. Does anyone here know if it is possible to determine the kind of video file a browser is visiting? Many are flash these days but I think some still newer stuff is showing up. Something in mp4 container perhaps. I'm hoping

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-l10n-4.4.5 and en_GB?

2010-11-24 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 17:02:45 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I've built a new KDE system on my T61 Thinkpad, but I can't get kde-l10n to build. It fails with a loader parser error. These are the last few lines of the buildlog (sorry about the wrapping): ... [100%] Scanning

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel

2010-11-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 16:42:51 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: FYI. If anyone understands the bash tweak, please explain :-) TIA 1. Original article: The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_2637_videonum=1 2. The alternative

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-l10n-4.4.5 and en_GB?

2010-11-24 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/24/10, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, I've built a new KDE system on my T61 Thinkpad, but I can't get kde-l10n to build. It fails with a loader parser error. These are the last few lines of the buildlog (sorry about the wrapping): ... [100%] Scanning

[gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
I need to get to the work CVS server from home. It's not exposed to the internet but never fear! we have ssh -L and a convenient sshd host that is on the internets. So, locally ssh -Llocalhost::cvs.example.com:22 a...@gateway.example.com and tell cvs that the server is localhost: I do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] About devining file type when browsing

2010-11-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/11/2010, at 9:03pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ... Does anyone here know if it is possible to determine the kind of video file a browser is visiting? Many are flash these days but I think some still newer stuff is showing up. Something in mp4 container perhaps. I'm hoping somewhere in

[gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module and then run one console-mode application. Instead of building something from scratch, I was hoping I might be able to modify an existing liveCD. There's no need for

Re: [gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 25 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module and then run one console-mode application. Instead of building

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] About devining file type when browsing

2010-11-24 Thread Adam Carter
Maybe some firefox addon or something similar. httpfox will show all the GETs/POSTs and URLs, so you can see the filenames with their extensions, and in the response-header window you can see the Content-Type header.

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: I need to get to the work CVS server from home. It's not exposed to the internet but never fear! we have ssh -L and a convenient sshd host that is on the internets. So, locally ssh -Llocalhost::cvs.example.com:22 a...@gateway.example.com and tell cvs that the

[gentoo-user] Re: On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 25 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module and

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Adam Carter
Hmm, I don't get it. Why would this .ssh/config not work? Host gateway Hostname gateway.example.com User alan LocalForward cvs.example.com:22 Host cvs Hostname localhost Port User alan You log in at

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: Hmm, I don't get it. Why would this .ssh/config not work? Host gateway Hostname gateway.example.com http://gateway.example.com User alan LocalForward cvs.example.com:22 http://cvs.example.com:22 Host cvs

Re: [gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:02:10 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I thought about using a customized systemrescuecd, but that takes ages to boot (almost 5 minutes). This CD is intended as something a customer can run to do a quick hardware test, and making them sit there for 5 minutes to see a

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/11/24 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-24 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:49, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/24 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.comfthtmn%2bgen...@gmail.com : On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com