[gentoo-user] Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300, 1000). Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300, 1000). It is possible, but it's a bad idea because non-standard values can result in driver breakage. Some code

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300, 1000). It is possible, but it's a bad idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:50, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/10/2011 04:02 PM, c...@chrekh.se wrote: There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not present in older kernels. glibc

[gentoo-user] It *was* -r9 that's problematic... (was: wget killed -- wonder where I went wrong...)

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:24, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:24, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 20:11, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello folks! After installation and successful 1st reboot, all attempts at wget gets

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2011 10:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:27, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300,

[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38

2011-08-11 Thread che
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: glibc will use things in newer kernels anyway. You don't need to use NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in order for glibc to use 2.6.38 features; it will do that by default. NPTL_KERN_VER only omits fallbacks for older kernels. It's there to reduce the size of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Walt, Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 16:16:50 schrieb walt: On 08/10/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 14:40:31 schrieb walt: On 08/09/2011 08:34 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4 to 4.6, and I've run

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 03:02:33 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi Michael, thank you for your info ! :) What do I need for a midi connection (sorry, I am at the very beginning of exploring these kind of tools and jack is everywhere... ;) ) do you have midi-ports in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, I had * experiments with jack and nothing works... Sometimes there was no connection at all, sometimes after a short time rosegarden crashes and/or reports taht the connection has gone, and so on May be I has simply combined the wrong things... I have no midi hardware in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 11:13:21 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi Michael, I had * experiments with jack and nothing works... Sometimes there was no connection at all, sometimes after a short time rosegarden crashes and/or reports taht the connection has gone, and so on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, Thank you for your help ! :) Here are the versions: media-sound/rosegarden 11.02 media-sound/zynaddsubfx 2.4.1 media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit 0.118.0 I did a aconnect -lio, which says: client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce'

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 13:04:13 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi Michael, Thank you for your help ! :) Here are the versions: media-sound/rosegarden 11.02 media-sound/zynaddsubfx 2.4.1 media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit 0.118.0 looks ok to me. No idea, why it

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, I will try (again) to be a friend of Jack (NOT Daniels ;) )... What I dont understand: Why all this hassle with Jack if Rosegarden has the ability to connect directly to Zynaddsubfx without any other gadget (see Studio-Manage Midi Devices, start Zynaddsubfx first)??? And if

[gentoo-user] Evolution-Data-Server borked?

2011-08-11 Thread James
Hello, As part of a update @world, kde(meta) was upgraded to kde 4.6.5 A large compile ran overnight (using --skipfirst --resume) to complete. In the AM today, I rebooted and ran a revdep-rebuild to check what needs to be rebuilt. during revdep (error-typical of many) broken

[gentoo-user] Re: Evolution-Data-Server borked?

2011-08-11 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: [ebuild R] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.32.2-r1 but it fails Mo information: # equery depends evolution-data-server * These packages depend on evolution-data-server: app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1 (eds ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Evolution-Data-Server borked?

2011-08-11 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: [ebuild R] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.32.2-r1 but it fails # equery depends evolution-data-server * These packages depend on evolution-data-server: app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1 (eds ? =gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2)

[gentoo-user] cron.daily contents : must they be script?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
I am using sys-process/dcron-3.2.r1 The contents of /etc/cron.daily, must they be scripts? Can I just put a symlink to a binary there? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan

[gentoo-user] Re: cron.daily contents : must they be script?

2011-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2011 04:49 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: I am using sys-process/dcron-3.2.r1 The contents of /etc/cron.daily, must they be scripts? Can I just put a symlink to a binary there? They must be executable. That's the only requirement.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cron.daily contents : must they be script?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 20:56, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/11/2011 04:49 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: I am using sys-process/dcron-3.2.r1 The contents of /etc/cron.daily, must they be scripts? Can I just put a symlink to a binary there? They must be executable.  That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 15:06, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/11/2011 10:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:27, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer

[gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in 3.01 seconds = 83.63 MB/sec # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread covici
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in 3.01

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:27 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: SNIP What usb3 is supported by Linux?  Is it a pci card? -- Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is: How do you spend it?         John Covici         cov...@ccs.covici.com I have it on my Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 11 August 2011, 10:12:54 schrieb Grant: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 11 August 2011, 10:30:04 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Simon
It is my opinion that benchmarks should be done with a real benchmark tool. Try with bonnie++ This will really show you the strengths and weaknesses of your setup. Good luck, Simon On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Donnerstag 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread pk
On 2011-08-11 13:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip How can I prevent to scratch my skin by the roses of this garden over and over again.? Quick question, have you tried this?: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK Disclaimer: I haven't used nor am I using Jack at the moment. Best

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seconds =  83.63 MB/sec # hdparm -tT

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seconds =  83.63 MB/sec # hdparm -tT

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seconds =  83.63 MB/sec #

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seconds =  83.63 MB/sec # hdparm -tT

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu 11 August 2011 11:50:17 Grant did opine thusly: USB 3.0 throughput is said to be 625 MB/s so I must be running up against the speed of the disk itself in USB 3.0 mode, correct? Here's what I get from my internal SATA hard drive, but it is surely a much faster disk: # hdparm -t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu 11 August 2011 11:27:13 Grant did opine thusly: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered

[gentoo-user] new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-11 Thread Alexandre Riveira
Good afternoon am a New User gentoo and I appreciate everyone's help. My problem is set up and dhcpcd with rc-update add dhcpcd default when I try to wget is always HTTP request sent, Awaiting Response ... 200 and not out of it OK if I put fixed IP it works normally. Interestingly, with dhcpcd

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing

[gentoo-user] Re: new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-11 Thread Alexandre Riveira
I discovery values from routes: dhcpcd Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 - 255.0.0.0 ! 0 -0 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 14:15:32 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi Michael, I will try (again) to be a friend of Jack (NOT Daniels ;) )... What I dont understand: Why all this hassle with Jack if Rosegarden has the ability to connect directly to Zynaddsubfx without any

[gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's one problem that I just can't fix or find relevant

[gentoo-user] Re: fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread James
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuknow at genestate.com writes: Hi list, I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. livedvd-amd64-multilib-11.2.iso 06-Aug-2011 07:12 2.8G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-11 Thread Mick
Hi Alexandre and welcome to Gentoo! :) On Thursday 11 Aug 2011 21:32:58 Alexandre Riveira wrote: I discovery values from routes: dhcpcd Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote about [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts: [snip] No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X stuff that well), I cannot get a decent keyboard layout in gnome. If you're using the evdev driver for

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:00:47PM +0100, David W Noon wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote about [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts: [snip] No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X stuff that well), I cannot get a decent

[gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello, I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: media-gfx/imagemagick. [ebuild N ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 USE=X bzip2 cxx jpeg openmp perl png svg zlib -autotrace -corefonts -djvu -fftw -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -jbig -jpeg2k -lcms -lqr -lzma -opencl

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
USB 3.0 throughput is said to be 625 MB/s so I must be running up against the speed of the disk itself in USB 3.0 mode, correct? Processing power of the external USB-SATA controller chip could also come into play. But in your case I think you're getting the maximum speed possible from the

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Carlos Sura writes: I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: media-gfx/imagemagick. [...] * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 failed (install phase): * emake failed * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0', *

[gentoo-user] Assigning an IP in AP mode

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to assign an IP address to a wireless interface in AP mode? It can't be specified in /etc/conf.d/net because /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 is not executed since hostapd handles the whole thing. 'ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1' works but I know I've done it before without issuing that

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 August 2011 20:07, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Carlos Sura writes: I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: media-gfx/imagemagick. [...] * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 failed (install phase): * emake failed * * If you need support,

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
pk pete...@coolmail.se [11-08-11 20:12]: On 2011-08-11 13:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip How can I prevent to scratch my skin by the roses of this garden over and over again.? Quick question, have you tried this?: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK Disclaimer: I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Assigning an IP in AP mode

2011-08-11 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to assign an IP address to a wireless interface in AP mode?  It can't be specified in /etc/conf.d/net because /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 is not executed since hostapd handles the whole thing.  'ifconfig wlan0