Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: … I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is something little bit

[gentoo-user] ff chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hello all, I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel with genkernel and Sabayon

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 04:04:05 Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: How hard is it to set up a 64 bit machine to compile programs for a 32 bit system? Dale :-) :-) It's actually quite easy. IIRC, when I did it last, the

Re: [gentoo-user] ff chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hello all, I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due to laziness) a gentoo-sources kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 05:47:16 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count

Re: [gentoo-user] ff chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/8/21 Maximilian Bräutigam max.braeuti...@googlemail.com: Hello all, I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki docs, I installed (due

[gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop immediately, but the machine continues to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Carter
creating the FS, you can't change the inode count dynamically. I've never run out of inodes, even on small partitions.  I just let ext4 make a fs with its default settings.  Is there a magic formula to determine how many inodes are optimal? Some FSes allocate inodes as required. I know btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
victor romanchuk writes: Both machines contain distcc in FEATURES. It's not using -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference in performance. -jN in make.conf's MAPEOPTS variable I assume, not as argument to emerge, which does something different. It also hides

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. Consider using reiserfs for /usr/portage. No real performance advantage over ext[234], but works well with lots of small files and there's no inode count to worry about. In

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 21 August 2011 11:13:53 Mick did opine thusly: On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 05:47:16 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 20 August 2011 21:21, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On 08/21/2011 09:00 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run

Re: [gentoo-user] ff chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 04:48:49 schrieb Dale: Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hello all, I recently bought a Zotac Barebone ZBOX HD-AD02 AMD E-350 and installed Gentoo on it, what is working more or less very well except the sound. I did everything according to gentoo and gentoowiki

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop

Re: [gentoo-user] ff chromium trapped in deafness or how to configure ALSA correctly

2011-08-21 Thread pk
On 2011-08-21 12:24, Leonardo Guilherme wrote: tried it gave me a big headache. My (totally biased and personal without any techincal background) advice is to stay clear of pulseaudio. +1 Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 12:19:40 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
(sorry for top-posting) Do the 1 GB pieces have the same timing values as the 0.5 GB pieces? Try slowing down the memory timing parameters in BIOS (should look like 8-5-3-3 or something like that; larger numbers are slower). Rgds, On 2011-08-21, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed things. Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM doesn't affect inode usage, does it? AFAIK you will gain

[gentoo-user] Re: Do you block outbound ports?

2011-08-21 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Do you block outbound ports with a firewall or only inbound? Logging outbound traffic, and then looking at (analyzing) the outbound traffic may be of interest to you. Two extremes are wildly unpredictable: human imaginations in a collective where outbound

[gentoo-user] Re: Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-21 Thread James
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: I wonder whether there is some way to connect my home Gentoo server to the telly? Is there any linux application/specific Samba configuration/...? Have anyone tried anything similar? Not yet. DNLA is rubbish Prophetic response. DNLA

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 Aug 2011 12:57:48 Pandu Poluan wrote: (sorry for top-posting) Do the 1 GB pieces have the same timing values as the 0.5 GB pieces? Yes, same timing values. When I bought the 1G modules I made sure that they were matched exactly in terms of specification with the 0.5G pieces

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 11:27:55 schrieb Mick: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: … I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local computers

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM doesn't affect inode usage, does it? LVM has nothing to do with inodes. Inodes are a filesystem concept, and filesystems do not really care about the kind of block device they reside on. Well, generally. AFAIK you will gain

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 21, 2011 10:41:56 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 21 August 2011 04:04:05 Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: How hard is it to set up a 64 bit machine to compile programs for a 32 bit system? Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread victor romanchuk
i had noticed that distcc is peevish about CFLAGS: these should be compatible on both client and server. in my case i made these similar on both machines (laptop is core2duo and desktop is core2quad; both are running amd64 arch) I don't think this is true - as long as the CHOST is

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health. CPU load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 18:12:00 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [11-08-21 12:32]: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 14:53:15 Joost Roeleveld wrote: That would help as I'm planning on setting this up myself as well for my netbook. Right. I have two Konsoles open on my workstation, which is the compilation host. In one I su - and in the other I ssh serv (this is the client Atom box,

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-08-20 22:54, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: As always when I want to do anything like this there comes something more important along and occupies all of my time. So migration to systemd is stoped for now. Hope I will come to it soon. Continued playing and learning and enabled it on my

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrea Conti writes: AFAIK you will gain more inodes when you increase the size. Only because by unless you specify a value mke2fs allocates a number of inodes proportional to the size of the filesystem, with the default being 1 inode every 16kB (see /etc/mke2fs.conf). But for ext[234]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: SNIP The meaning of all this is that if memtest can't find any errors after a full run (which can take an hour), the chances of getting an error that is really related to RAM under CPU stress are very slim. Which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 21 August 2011, 19:26:47 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:53:15 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Is there a way to automate the steps inside the chroot without having to have a script inside the chroot? This is the script I use. You can call it with ch hostname or symlink it to chhostname. That way I can use the same script for

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 21 August 2011 03:46, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. Consider using reiserfs for /usr/portage. No real performance advantage over ext[234], but works well with lots

[gentoo-user] Nedd help with udev-rules.

2011-08-21 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, I need some help with writing udev-rules for capi. After playing around some I decided to ask for help here as can't really get it to work. What I want ist the following: /dev/capi20 68,0 /dev/capi/capi# 191,# 68,0 = Major 68, Minor 0 191,# = Major 191, Minor 0 untill 31 If I have no

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

2011-08-21 Thread walt
On 08/20/2011 12:21 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: /usr/include/KDE/Plasma/../../plasma/service.h:321: error: previous definition of 'struct QMetaTypeIdPlasma::Service*' Hm, well purely a wild guess, but perhaps /usr/include/plasma/service.h is left over from an earlier plasma package and the compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, August 19, 2011 10:35:10 AM Grant wrote: I'm setting up an automated rdiff-backup system and I'm stuck between pushing the backups to the backup server, and pulling the backups to the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 1024 1024 0 100% /mnt /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 2048 1024 1024 50% /mnt Then I stand corrected. I guess that the man page for mke2fs saying that the inode count of a filesystem cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 August 2011 19:14:53 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: The X86 handbook doesn't have this text. Is ReiserFS on AMD64 really only for the adventurous? Certainly not. It's 100% stable as far as I know. Or should this warning be removed? ASAP -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290,

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 21 August 2011 21:23:15 Andrea Conti did opine thusly: Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 1024 1024 0 100% /mnt /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 2048 1024 1024 50% /mnt Then I stand corrected. I guess that the man

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't