[gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-06 Thread walt
On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: mega-snip What happens is that when I (cold) boot my desktop, my external Toshiba 3TB drive (which is always connected via USB3) is detected, but cannot mount. It *does* work once I unplug the USB3 plug and plug it back in. I once hated replies

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/15 00:42, Grant Edwards wrote: What is a good acroread replacement? Not sure if it's a good replacement, but I'm using Google Chrome. It has a built-in PDF viewer. (I just dragdrop PDF documents into an empty tab.) It can also print. It might be worth checking out.

[gentoo-user] Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
What is a good acroread replacement? I'm not sure what changed, but as of a few weeks ago I can no longer install acroread on my AMD64 system (something to do with x86 emulation librarys being blocked by something in the Xorg server). I decided to try to live without acroread. I've been using

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread wabenbau
Am Freitag, 06.03.2015 um 22:42 schrieb Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: What is a good acroread replacement? I use qpdfview. I like it because of it's bookmarks, tabs and rendering quality. If you don't want QT stuff then you can try atril instead. It is a very simple but also very

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +, James wrote: For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: http://www.alpinelinux.org/about Why would that be better than putting lilblue (gentoo) on the board. Maybe somebody who has success with booting off of usb (and that definitely is not

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox-guest-additions-4.3.24 breaks 3D acceleration in linux guests (?)

2015-03-06 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Downgrading Virtualbox to 4.3.20-r1 fixes the problem on one ~amd64 machine but, of course, not the other one sigh. (not the xf86-* File a bug at b.g.o. what you describe has much potential to trip up many people Well, I have to

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread James
Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net writes: For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: http://www.alpinelinux.org/about Sorry, I can't. I don't have them anymore while I'm sure they are still used in production. It's something easy to do, though. The scripts themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Grant
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to back up. Any ideas? Rewritable Blu-Ray? It would seem that this is a backup to a backup. I think I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reliable USB extender?

2015-03-06 Thread Grant
I need to connect a Zebra LP2844 USB label printer at about 35 feet from a Gentoo machine. I got this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L14ZTC but it is proving to be unreliable. The printer stops responding many times per day and needs to be power cycled. Is there a reliable way to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Grant
I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to back up. Any ideas? Rewritable Blu-Ray? It would seem that this is a backup to a backup. I think I read earlier that the OP already has backups but just

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread wabenbau
Am Freitag, 06.03.2015 um 09:10 schrieb Grant emailgr...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to back up. Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 06.03.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Grant: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I'm not sure the arch of a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800; isn't that compatible with i686 binaries? I found this: The Geode LX800 is more like an i486. I used to use a box based on one (not as a router) in the days before the Raspberry Pi. I used to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.03.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Grant: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to back up. Any ideas? Rewritable Blu-Ray? It would seem that this

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that appear to have worked around whatever the issue is. I don't fully understand the error analysis (something to do with the DHCP

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/03/2015 20:45, Marc Joliet wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that appear to have worked around whatever the issue is. I don't fully understand the

[gentoo-user] External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi again This has been frustrating me ever since I bought the drive, but I have pushed off looking into it for a while. Part of the reason is that my desktop used to run pretty much 24/7 before I moved, so I rarely had to deal with this issue. However, now I'm more interested in not pointlessly

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:35:45 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 06/03/2015 20:45, Marc Joliet wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:37:38 + (UTC), James wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j16 -l10 Might not be the best settings? [1] Look for these lines in the reference thread and translate to a makeopts syntax? Interesting discussion. There was also a discussion on this list a year or two ago, where

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/06/2015 11:57 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: I wasn't aware you had e1000e hardware - those are about as reliable as they come. I've used many of them and never had the slightest trouble at all. By all means study up on firmware and driver options - if you don;t know much about that area it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:03:48 + (UTC), James wrote: I'm not sure the arch of a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800; isn't that compatible with i686 binaries? I found this: When it comes to compiling, just compile with -march=geode. That option is defined on any i386/x86-64 gcc, so no real need to