[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Dale
Howdy, I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that cause the issue: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12 =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17 =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.23 I'm currently using

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/05/2013 11:12, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that cause the issue: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12 =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I get a similar issue, my video card is an ATI and I use the radeon drivers. Same symptom as you - plasma stops updating it's widgets like clocks and stops responding to the mouse. Keyboard works. In my case, it's usually linked to nfs and smb mounts that went away (eg, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I get a similar issue, my video card is an ATI and I use the radeon drivers. Same symptom as you - plasma stops updating it's widgets like clocks and stops responding to the mouse. Keyboard works. In my case, it's usually linked to nfs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that krunner that has it now? Maybe it's time you used the thingy suffix a little less and the real

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/05/2013 13:03, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that krunner that has it now? Maybe it's time you used the thingy

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/05/13 12:12, Dale wrote: [...] The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K menu thingy either. Everything in the kicker

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/05/2013 13:03, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that krunner that has it now? Maybe it's time you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 26/05/13 12:12, Dale wrote: [...] The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K menu thingy

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/05/13 15:14, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 26/05/13 12:12, Dale wrote: [...] The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't

[gentoo-user] Re: IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Any different if the links are VDSL? I have little experience in working with DSL based connections, and was wondering what was possible in terms or bridging/bonding etc.. if anything. N. On 5/25/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: I missed out some crusial info in my last email. As

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Stroller
On 25 May 2013, at 22:26, Nick Khamis wrote: ... As mentioned this would be two separate DSL services, connected using separate bridges. I think I am describing more of a link aggregation or bonding Also assuming that the service providers support bonding of the links…. Here in the UK

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.05.2013 11:12, schrieb Dale: Howdy, I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that cause the issue: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12 =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 25 May 2013, at 22:26, Nick Khamis wrote: ... As mentioned this would be two separate DSL services, connected using separate bridges. I think I am describing more of a link aggregation or bonding Also assuming that the service providers support bonding of the linksÂ…. Here in the UK

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 May 2013 22:35:14 J. Roeleveld wrote: On 25 May 2013, at 22:26, Nick Khamis wrote: ... As mentioned this would be two separate DSL services, connected using separate bridges. I think I am describing more of a link aggregation or bonding Also assuming that the service

[gentoo-user] kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-26 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! When I merge large or big packages like firefox, thunderbird or chromium. The system hangsup with kernel panick and displays on the screen reboot after 30 seconds. What could it be?! For any help or advises, I would kindly thank you. Tamer

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-26 Thread Dale
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! When I merge large or big packages like firefox, thunderbird or chromium. The system hangsup with kernel panick and displays on the screen reboot after 30 seconds. What could it be?! For any help or advises, I would kindly thank you. Tamer Could be

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/05/13 02:15, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! When I merge large or big packages like firefox, thunderbird or chromium. The system hangsup with kernel panick and displays on the screen reboot after 30 seconds. What could it be?! Install sys-apps/memtest86+ make a bootloader entry for it

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Remaining independent from corporate bureaucracy or lack of support (ISP saying no to MLPP), and proprietary technology (our friends in blue, purple and green ;). What would be the best way to integrate it to my linux router to laod balance packets both up and down. And if not at the packet level,

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
Sorry for the top post. N.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-26 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Hey dude, some hints that should help you to discover why your system are freezing. First take a look in temperature of your system while compiling with watch -n 1 sensors. Some programs like atop and htop show me to be very useful too. Take a look inside make.conf and see how much you are

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Load Sharing - Per Packet Load Balancing (Linux router)

2013-05-26 Thread Nick Khamis
By downstream, I mean within our own network. Obviously downstream LB from the ISP's DSLAM would be impossible without MLPP, BGP support... N

[gentoo-user] OT: RST vs RST/ACK

2013-05-26 Thread Adam Carter
I am familiar with an RST response to a SYN hitting a closed port, however, I am also now seeing RST/ACKs. Is there any particular difference or it is merely dependent on how the OS vendor decided to code their TCP/IP stack? Google hits mention Windows 2008 a lot...

[gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-26 Thread Mr G
Am I correct that the xgetdefault use flag is needed for an application if I want it to read Xresources and Xdefaults? Does it enable anything else? I tried searching the forum and the web but there is too many false positive hits to sort through. Most references to it are very old so is it a

[gentoo-user] [OT] A free VPN server

2013-05-26 Thread walt
This company: https://proxpn.com sponsors my all-time-favorite podcast, which I heartily commend to you: http://twit.tv/show/security-now (the audio podcast is what I suggest, as the video adds very little) Anyway, you can get a free account from proxpn.com by giving them a working email