Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
I remembered that i also had started having a problem with my intel wireless card, and it looks like both the intel and realtek firmwares are now in linux-firmware so try emerging that.

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
My laptop's Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller uses the r8169 driver.  On kernel 2.6.36 it works fine, but on 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 it doesn't work and continuously outputs eth0: unable to apply firmware patch to dmesg. I found this workaround:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.07.2011 20:18, schrieb Michael Mol: Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and you guys are probably the right ones to ask. I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about uses for them beyond using them for / or /home. 1) What about

[gentoo-user] fsck and mount by label

2011-07-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Hello list! I've noticed the following in my rc.log file: [file system mounting ...] opt: clean, 3127/6496 files, 108510/209920 blocks fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve »LABEL=backup« * Operational error The backup disk is the only one (besides boot and root) which is mounted by label. After

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 30 Jul 2011 01:32:07 Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ dcfldd has a progress indicator AFAIR. To make sure that your dd

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 install

2011-07-30 Thread pk
On 2011-07-30 03:04, james wrote: Ok so my first issue is the installation media and a lack of tools for GPT (GUID Partition Table). snip the 4k block (GPT) issue? Maybe I missed it on the minimal CD? If you're after GPT-able partition software you can use (g)parted, available on the

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 30 Jul 2011 01:32:07 Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ dcfldd has a progress

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread pk
On 2011-07-30 01:06, Dale wrote: I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ http://www.rootninja.com/dd-with-a-progress-bar/ (emerge sys-apps/pv) Disclaimer: I haven't used this myself... HTH Best regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netatalk 2.2 for Gentoo?

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 30.07.11 02:11, Manuel McLure wrote: FYI, netatalk 2.1.5 for AFP (I don't use anything else) is working for me here with OS X Lion. That's interesting, I can't seem to connect to Netatalk 2.1.5 with Lion. Would you perhaps share the contents of your /etc/netatalk folder? -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a kernel panic. This is plain weird. One

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: What could have caused this?  Could it be a file system problem?  I don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after giving it a fresh start.  I just

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a kernel panic.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck and mount by label

2011-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hello list! I've noticed the following in my rc.log file: [file system mounting ...] opt: clean, 3127/6496 files, 108510/209920 blocks fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve »LABEL=backup«  * Operational error The backup

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Dale
pk wrote: On 2011-07-30 01:06, Dale wrote: I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ http://www.rootninja.com/dd-with-a-progress-bar/ (emerge sys-apps/pv) Disclaimer: I haven't used this myself... HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always   -       0 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always   -       0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 30 July 2011 00:06:57 Dale wrote: I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ I'm in a similar process. I have an external disk which I use to back my boxes up. I need a bootable vfat partition for the

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your power incident doesn't happen to me too. :-) That would suck. I sure did hate to lose my videos. I bet ATT does to since I have to go find them and download them again. :/ Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-07-29, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I

[gentoo-user] Re: fsck and mount by label

2011-07-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/30/2011 12:42 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hello list! I've noticed the following in my rc.log file: [file system mounting ...] opt: clean, 3127/6496 files, 108510/209920 blocks fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve »LABEL=backup« * Operational error The backup disk is the only one (besides boot

[gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-07-30 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3 engines are there. My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly). If it is file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini then I haven't got that to work, yet. What's your

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-30 Thread Grant
I remembered that i also had started having a problem with my intel wireless card, and it looks like both the intel and realtek firmwares are now in linux-firmware so try emerging that. That fixed it. Thank you very much. I'm a little puzzled because I don't get the unable to apply firmware

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 30 July 2011 15:50:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your power incident doesn't happen to me too. :-) That would suck. I sure did hate to lose my videos. I bet ATT does to since I have to go find them

[gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-30 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I kinda feel I'm opening myself up for ridicule in asking this, but I'm on x86 stable (i.e. not ~x86) and this behaviour seems to have changed recently. During a recent `emerge --sync` I received the an update to portage is available - you're strongly advised to take it message. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
That fixed it.  Thank you very much.  I'm a little puzzled because I don't get the unable to apply firmware patch messages on my desktop which also uses the r8169 driver and doesn't have linux-firmware installed. Maybe you have an older firmware installed from a different package? Run emerge