Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build nvidia driver on older Dell

2010-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 03:26:45PM +0100, Pint??r Tibor wrote resync and use the new version The solution turned out to be not so much resync as keywording the latest build in /etc/portage/package.keywords =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 ~x86 Another couple of days of trouble-free

[gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread John
Hi Gentoo Users I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout I have copied across use-estonian-layout.fdi.bz2 to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi and altered to gb. Rebooted etc but still keyboard is wrong. Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:14:53 +, John wrote: I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout I have copied across use-estonian-layout.fdi.bz2 to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi and altered to gb. Rebooted etc but

[gentoo-user] Is there a standard sysctl-like way to modify sysfs files at boot time?

2010-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
I want to do this: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/forget-200-lines-red-hat-speed.html in userspace, but automate it at boot time. it requires that I create and mount the cgroup subsystem in sysfs and sounds a lot like something that I'd do in sysctl for /proc/sys, but for sysfs

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread Dale
John wrote: Hi Gentoo Users I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout I have copied across use-estonian-layout.fdi.bz2 to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi and altered to gb. Rebooted etc but still keyboard is

[gentoo-user] [EXAMPLE] Configuring xorg without hal

2010-12-27 Thread walt
I just fumbled my way through converting my old hal mouse configuration to the new way of putting it back in xorg.conf (where it belongs :) Peter Hutterer gave me a link to his blog, which was very helpful: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html Turns out that the

[gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and /opt in lvm2 volumes and /boot on it's own

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread ich bins
Am 27.12.2010 16:20, schrieb Marc Blumentritt: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var,

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Lubos Kolouch
Marc Blumentritt, Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:20:55 +0100: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:20:55 +0100 Marc Blumentritt marc.blumentr...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Jarry
On 27. 12. 2010 16:20, Marc Blumentritt wrote: want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: ... cp -a /old/* /new Personally, I would use dump/restore (if you use ext3), and you do not need to worry about permissions, links, etc. Jarry --

[gentoo-user] 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I am waiting for a new PC... motherboard Asus P6X58D-E Intel Core i7 950 4Go DDR Gforce GT240 I use Gentoo for nearly 8 years, and of course, it will be Gentoo on that new pc. Besides desktop working, i am going to study and produce some image and video synthesis. I have some questions :

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:20:30 +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I'd just use rsync. +1 -- Neil Bothwick Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr wrote: Hi all, I am waiting for a new PC... motherboard Asus P6X58D-E Intel Core i7 950 4Go DDR Gforce GT240 I use Gentoo for nearly 8 years, and of course, it will be Gentoo on that new pc. Besides desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:20:30 +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I'd just use rsync. +1 What flags? - Mark

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: What flags? At least -avHAX -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and all those questions have been discussed to death on this mailing list and the gentoo-amd64 list. How about an archive plunge?

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you don't use them): cp -auv

Re: [gentoo-user] 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, I am waiting for a new PC... motherboard Asus P6X58D-E Intel Core i7 950 4Go DDR Gforce GT240 I use Gentoo for nearly 8 years, and of course, it will be Gentoo on that new pc. Besides desktop working, i am going to study and produce some image and video

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 16 December 2010 12:42:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. I'm not going to argue the point. All I know is this, the cable that came with the case will plug into any SATA connector on my mobo. There is nothing marking a

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you don't use them): cp -auv Maybe cp -auvx ? Just asking, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Jacques Montier
Thank you for your answers. Ok Volker, i am going to the archive ;-) Cheers, -- Jacques Site web https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Le 27/12/2010 18:27, Dale a gentiment tapote: Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, I am waiting for a new PC... motherboard Asus P6X58D-E Intel Core i7 950

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you don't use them): cp -auv The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av fixed it. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2010 12:42:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK.  I'm not going to argue the point.  All I know is this, the cable that came

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 27 December 2010 09:38:42 Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking about, you don't use them): cp -auv Maybe cp -auvx ? Just asking, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100, John wrote about [gentoo-user] xorg-server: I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout You have at least 2 courses of action: 1) Add a udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules # A rule to define

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Monday 27 December 2010 09:38:42 Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: if you don't use ACL (and if you don't know what I am talking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 27 December 2010 09:45:34 Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2010 12:42:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. I'm not going

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread John
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:58:26 + David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100, John wrote about [gentoo-user] xorg-server: I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout You have at least 2 courses of

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:45:01 -0600, Dale wrote: cp -auv The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av fixed it. Maybe it was a fluke but who knows. Also, if he is copying to a freshly

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:45:21 +, John wrote: Should we still be using xorg.conf as a few years ago or not using a xorg.conf file unless we have to? Or use files in xorg.conf.d, which makes maintenance easier. -- Neil Bothwick SCSI: System Can't See It signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

2010-12-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 14 December 2010 20:05:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 12/13/2010 07:17 PM, Stroller wrote: What do you get in log messages and dmesg when you compile CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589=m and run modprobe -v Exactly the same thing. If I `modprobe -v 3c589_cs lsmod | grep -i 3c` I can see the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 December 2010 19:20:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:45:21 +, John wrote: Should we still be using xorg.conf as a few years ago or not using a xorg.conf file unless we have to? Or use files in xorg.conf.d, which makes maintenance easier. The xorg 1.9 has not

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Am 27.12.2010 18:05, schrieb Remy Blank: Mark Knecht wrote: What flags? At least -avHAX I just run this as root (as a test while running my old system): rsync -avHAX --progress /home/ /new/ After a few seconds I canceled this with ctrl-c and got this result: hive new # ls -lah /home/

[gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hello everyone, it's two days i'm struggling to get a decent video quality on a fresh gentoo install. i have an ATI mobility HD5650 on a laptop. i've set VIDEO_CARD=radeon on /etc/make.conf and emerge xf86-video-ati and radeon-ucode i've also followed hints from here:

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Remy Blank
Marc Blumentritt wrote: Have a look at ownership an permissions of virtualbox! rsync sets the mtime and permissions of directories *after* recursing into them. So if you interrupted the process while it was copying the contents of virtualbox, the permissions of that directory haven't been set

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:45:01 -0600, Dale wrote: cp -auv The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av fixed it. Maybe it was a fluke but who knows. Also, if

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:30:01 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server: It seems that the settings in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf cause evdev to capture the touchpad and keyboard devices and leave no chance to synaptics and kbd drivers (there's also a bug with the

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, it's two days i'm struggling to get a decent video quality on a fresh gentoo install. i have an ATI mobility HD5650 on a laptop. i've set VIDEO_CARD=radeon on /etc/make.conf and

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
by decent video quality i mean, that i see the images with a very low resoution (pixelated) and i can't play a video (avi file) as the framerate is too low. also 3d programs doesn't work (i've tested only second life so far) i don't need anything funky, just a normal config. are you using the ati

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 27 December 2010 22:17:50 Davide Carnovale wrote: Hello everyone, it's two days i'm struggling to get a decent video quality on a fresh gentoo install. i have an ATI mobility HD5650 on a laptop. i've set VIDEO_CARD=radeon on /etc/make.conf and emerge xf86-video-ati and radeon-ucode

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com wrote: by decent video quality i mean, that i see the images with a very low resoution (pixelated) and i can't play a video (avi file) as the framerate is too low. also 3d programs doesn't work (i've tested

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
Volker, my card should not be supported by the ati-drivers package as it's too old. actually i tried emerging them and the xserver just hang on boot. are you sure that is the right way to go? can you link me the instructions i should follow please? Mark, i'm giving you're config a spin now,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 December 2010 21:39:42 David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:30:01 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server: It seems that the settings in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf cause evdev to capture the touchpad and keyboard devices and leave no chance to

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 27 December 2010 23:23:32 Davide Carnovale wrote: Volker, my card should not be supported by the ati-drivers package as it's too old. wtf? A 5650 is RECENT and well supported by the ati-driver package. actually i tried emerging them and the xserver just hang on boot. are you sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-12-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Activities. wtf are those? I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably never will. But I'm not the average user. I

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
Mark, your config didn't helped me, thanks anyway =) Volker, my bad, you're right, i misread the supported cards and i thought HD 6000 and above were supported, while it is R600 and above. So i'll go again into the process of installing the ati driver and will pay more attention to all the steps

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 00:10:03 Davide Carnovale wrote: Mark, your config didn't helped me, thanks anyway =) Volker, my bad, you're right, i misread the supported cards and i thought HD 6000 and above were supported, while it is R600 and above. So i'll go again into the process of

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
problem solved, hooray! thanks Volker for the guidance! it turned out to be a problem related to the kernel config, as i had ati dri built there, and possibly some framebuffer problems too. Thanks a lot! Davide 2010/12/28 Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com Mark, your config

[gentoo-user] Re: [EXAMPLE] Configuring xorg without hal

2010-12-27 Thread walt
On 12/27/2010 06:03 AM, walt wrote: ... My new (post-hal) mouse config: Section InputClass - note the new word Class, not Device Identifier trackball - can be anything you want MatchProduct ImExPS -*new*. Matches the product name! Clarification about that MatchProduct keyword:

[gentoo-user] Re: 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread walt
On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote: I went with 64 bit and used a miltilib profile. So far, everything is working fine. Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck runs out :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote: I went with 64 bit and used a miltilib profile. So far, everything is working fine. Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck runs out :) Why? Going with multilib means I can run either 32 or 64 bit code if

[gentoo-user] Re: 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread walt
On 12/27/2010 04:24 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote: I went with 64 bit and used a multilib profile. So far, everything is working fine. Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck runs out :) Why? Going with multilib means I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ?

2010-12-27 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 12/27/2010 04:24 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote: I went with 64 bit and used a multilib profile. So far, everything is working fine. Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck runs out :) Why? Going with

[gentoo-user] Kernel section mismatch(es)

2010-12-27 Thread Michael J. Barillier
I'm trying to compile a hardened kernel (linux-2.6.36-hardened-r6) and the build is generating thousands (literally) of section mismatch warnings. I've copied my old .config (2.6.31, non-hardened) to the root of the source tree and did a `make oldconfig' followed by `make

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/27/2010 10:20 AM, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel section mismatch(es)

2010-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/27/10 23:06, Michael J. Barillier wrote: I'm trying to compile a hardened kernel (linux-2.6.36-hardened-r6) and the build is generating thousands (literally) of section mismatch warnings. I've copied my old .config (2.6.31, non-hardened) to the root of the source tree and did a `make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:08 on Tuesday 28 December 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Activities. wtf are those? I tink