[gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( [...] I don't know where to start. Another fact: When I access the guest via RDP, it is slower than when I access it via the libvirt-console (which in fact is VNC, right?) hmm

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Greets, does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue might be with localtime, so you could try using -rtc base=localtime parameter with starting the windows host.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue might be with localtime, so you could try using -rtc base=localtime parameter with starting the windows host.

[gentoo-user] using meld with cfg-update -u

2011-02-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have been using cfg-update quite happily for a good while. I appreciate its automatically doing simple updates. For any that it can't do automatically, I have done them manually (using emacs/ediff). I decided to try meld instead (I use gnome). It does make everything clear, but something

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 01:00:11 Keith Dart wrote: That really sounds like flaky hardware, possibly bad memory. try running memtest86+. Let it run overnight. That's what I thought. I have run memtest86+ overnight, but of course it didn't find anything. As Gentoo seems to be immune to

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 10 February 2011 18:24:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:10:06 -0800 (PST), Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: The trouble is that binpkgs keep a copy of the ebuild in them, so even if you remove the downgrade check fro the in-tree ebuild, it still fails. That one had

[gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter to an USB-port of my ASUS Corsshair IV formula board. When Linux is running I have

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter to an USB-port of

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-02-11 19:24]: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- keyboard is connected via a

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 11:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The logo stays there for about 10 sec or so ... and the clock gets slooower. It *seems* solved now. Enabled high res timers in host-kernel and DISabled internet time (=ntp-client) in Windows7-guest. Now it is quicker and no drifting clock

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- keyboard is connected via a Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter to an USB-port

[gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread James
Hello, I have nptl and nptlonly set in my make.conf file. I thought that was the best setting for threading. Now, I want to install the Chromium web browser. It is asking me to the set the +threads flag for ffmpeg, before www-client/chromium can be installed. OK no problem on a per package

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-02-11 19:56]: On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2 keyboard, which I do love a lot. This PS/2- keyboard is connected via

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:56 on Friday 11 February 2011, James did opine thusly: Hello, I have nptl and nptlonly set in my make.conf file. I thought that was the best setting for threading. Now, I want to install the Chromium web browser. It is asking me to the set the

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 11 February 2011 20:15:56 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-02-11 19:56]: On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem here...(as you may have already guessed...;) I have an old PS/2

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =)

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-02-11 21:20]: On Friday 11 February 2011 20:15:56 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-02-11 19:56]: On Friday 11 February 2011 18:59:39 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:56 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: But, this has made me think. Is setting nptl and nptl globally (in make.conf) the best idea? Should the threads flag also be set globally, or just on a per package basis? Maybe nptl and threads and not set nptlonly? I

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Matthew Summers
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2-USB-Keyboard and the BIOS

2011-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 11 February 2011 22:04:22 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-02-11 21:20]: On Friday 11 February 2011 20:15:56 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-02-11 19:56]: On Friday 11 February 2011

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:32:20 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, the 2.12.1 binpackage does not know which versions are installed. It just includes a version check. If no glibc is installed (and removing the /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.13 directory = no glibc installed) then you are free

[gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-11 Thread walt
I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much floundering I

Re: [gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-11 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years -- until now. After much

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 02/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: === As Gentoo seems to be immune to this problem, I assume that other kernels are setting some parameters that push the hardware to its limit, so the next thing I'll try is to detune the performance somewhat. Trouble is, the BIOS setup screens have so

Re: [gentoo-user] For net-print/hplip users

2011-02-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
walt schrieb am 12.02.2011 00:15: I've just spent an annoying two days trying to un-break my HP multifunction printer/fax/scanner, and I hope I can spare some of you the same trouble. My symptoms were that I couldn't send a fax using hp-sendfax, which has been working very well for years