Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Anything in there show network through-put per process? I've been looking for a way to monitor what's going to each of my VMs? net-analyzer/nethogs does that. Wonko

Suspend to {RAM,Disk] (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background)

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial services are being started I can barely remember when I was young enough to care about saving a few seconds. (But, good for you :) Isn't rebooting uncool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to {RAM,Disk]

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Ignas Anikevicius writes: On 18/05/12 20:59, Alex Schuster wrote: Suspend to ram (using the hibernate-ram command from sys-power/hibernate-script) seems to work better. What about pm-utils? Does it work better or worse than hibernate-script. I had 0 problems with it during entire usage

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [about showing which processes use how much swap] Michael Mol writes: [...] sys-process/htop Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per process. Hit F2, and go

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Scherer writes: 1) make output: CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h LD init/mounts.o ls -Al -m elf_x86_64 -r -o init/mounts.o init/do_mounts.o

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. This has never failed me. For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: unset path. Libtool uses this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: I wrote: Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415241 I just found out it only happens when I start the video from within Dolphin, and as my user. From the command line, or as another user

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the same time you're

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. This has never failed me. For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition. How do you create your initramfs? The new udev (= 182, I believe) requires the use of an initramfs if you have a separated /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: 120513 Alex Schuster wrote: I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition ... after an unclean shutdown -- reading files in /proc/pid/ was not a good idea -- /usr wants to be fsck'ed. But it is already mounted at that stage. Maybe I should just enlarge my

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:11:55 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: # copy data over rsync -ax /usr /tmp/bindroot/ It would be wise to remount /usr read-only before doing this. Yes, as written a few lines above what you quoted :) No need for downtime except for the reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Norman Invasion writes: On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, Which was quite long ago :) but do you have any advanced power management features enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: I want to view the html source of a webpage. When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the source. It is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less. `more file.html` and `most file.html` both work fine, but this is annoying - it takes an effort

Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 12 May 2012, at 22:49, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] How do I disable less from parsing html source, please? You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by the lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input file before giving

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower than ram. I have always wondered how to find this out myself. Me too, so when I had this sudden swap problem for the first time, I

[gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition. It was encrypted, and it seems there is no solution yet for this, so I moved it over to an unencrypted volume - no problem, /usr is one partition where encryption does not make that much sense anyway. Works, but after an unclean

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Dale writes: Is there a way to find out what is using swap?  Maybe something related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower than ram. I have always wondered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 11/05/12 03:06, Alex Schuster wrote: Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415241 I just found out it only happens when I start the video from within Dolphin, and as my user. From

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I get about 15 interruptions, some for

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. There

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I realize this thread is bigger than an encyclopedia by now, so I apologize if this has already been suggested. :) Well, I'm happy for any input on this :) This problem is really annoying. I'm curious if you look at /proc/interrupts if the disk with I/O problems is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/05/12 14:31, Alex Schuster wrote: When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process also use 100% of one of your cores? Nope. Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https

[gentoo-user] mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process also use 100% of one of your cores? I think this is weird. I'm switching back to mplayer. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/05/12 14:31, Alex Schuster wrote: When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process also use 100% of one of your cores? Nope. Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Mark Knecht writes: OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top, hit 1 z so you see all your CPUs and then watch CPU usage. In the second terminal su to root and run iotop -o. Now, watch for a few minutes and get a feel for what's going on when video is not running. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I finally have to actually do some work. I recently experienced

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M ] Urs Schutz writes: Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... [...] I had a bad disk here, which resulted in slow IO, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Hampicke writes: Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster: Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos. I have cache = 131072 and cache-min=20.0 in .mplayer/config. That's 128MB, this

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M ] [...] OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults [...] Yet when I log in, these environment variables are not set. The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the execute bit (`chmod +xxx`). It needs to be readable by your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to check what cause a use flag

2012-04-29 Thread Alex Schuster
AleiPhoenix (A.K.A Areverie) writes: Hi, all Recently when I'm trying sync and upgrade the whole system with emerge -DNnav --with-bdeps=y @system @world I've got erlang with wxwidgets use flag. On my another gentoo box, uprading erlang didn't build with this flag. emerge --info shows

Re: [gentoo-user] per-package CFLAGS?

2012-04-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: Am I understanding the docs correctly in that I can use /etc/portage/package.env to set per-package CFLAGS? Yes, and it's quite easy. Here is mine: app-emulation/virtualboxsafecflags.conf j1.conf app-office/libreoffice notmpfs.conf dev-lang/R

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: On 21.04.2012 17:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Apr 20 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] What happened is it broke again, with no obvious signs of the cause. conf-update reported only trivial

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Thursday 19 April 2012 20:56:59 Michael Mol wrote: The 'ip' command is far and away a nicer tool than ifconfig, once you get a handle on it. Which package is it in? sys-apps/iproute2 Wonko

[gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools, which brings back the old behaviour in order not to break old scripts, but I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: New output: eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST  mtu 1500        inet 192.168.2.42  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18  prefixlen 64

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:40:02 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) ~ here? Aaah! Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the MAC address

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Orlitzky writes: On 04/19/12 15:40, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? I used to call ifconfig and grep for HWaddr, but this does not work any more. I found the 'old-output' USE flag for sys-apps/net-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-04-17 12:21 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: So if it is the differing versions problem, the solution is to upgrade to the most recent (~x86) version of eix, currently

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that dev-libs/ppl-0.12. says to

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Friday 13 April 2012 15:51:07 Dale wrote: Here is grub: title=Initramfs-new_drive root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage-3.3.1-1 root=/dev/sdb2 init=/sbin/init nox initrd /initramfs-3.3.1-1-tmp.img Your init= parameter points to (hd0,0)/sbin/init because of your root

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still work? Of course

[gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, which needs alsa-plugins built

[gentoo-user] No ISDN CAPI with new udev

2012-04-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I can no longer connect to my ISDN peers. I think the reason is a recent change in the new udev. I have two rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-capi.conf: KERNEL==capi, NAME=capi20, SYMLINK+=isdn/capi20faxCAPI, GROUP=uucp, MODE=0666 KERNEL==capi*, NAME=capi/%n The first renames /dev/capi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers?

2012-03-30 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: On Tue, Mar 27 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: Move partitions after / on the disk out of the way creating enough free space to contain current / and /usr. Question. /dev/sda7 is LVM and that is used for /usr, /local, et al. How do I move an LVM partition? I could

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING latest lvm2 breaks systems with older udev

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefan G. Weichinger writes: Am 28.03.2012 12:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 27.03.2012 22:53, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: My system wouldn't fully boot this morning after updating lvm (~amd64). Fortunately a mount -a followed by emerge -1 lvm2-previous version has be

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING latest lvm2 breaks systems with older udev

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Schuster
I just wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger writes: I subsequently found the bug below. Thanks for being so kind of doing so! Whoops, I misread 'found' for 'filed'. But anyway, thanks for the information :) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor questions: binutils-apple upgrade; pango; geany; etc.

2012-03-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Ibn Zayd writes: 1) I installed portage according to the bootstrap instructions, setting binutils-apple to version 3.2 (now 3.2.6) according to my version of XCode. Nonetheless, doing a world update pretend run always gives me this: Code: [ebuild NS]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with printing

2012-03-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Алексей Мишустин writes: The printer is connected via USB. USB printers support is enabled in kernel. The HP PSC 1410 USB thread suggests to disable USB printer support in the kernel, and enable the usb USE flag for cups. But I think if this were the problem, you wouldn't even see the printer

[gentoo-user] Huh? udev-182 package collision with own files

2012-03-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! emerge --update --newuse @world wants to re-install sys-fs/udev-182 due to changed USE flags (static-libs), but this package just failed to compile because of file collisions. * package sys-fs/udev-182 NOT merged * * Detected file collision(s): * *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Eliezer Croitoru writes: i want to try this systemd thingy, where do is start at? http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just fine, as it does my media center. Genkernel doesnt, bugs and work arounds on gentoo bugzilla, with angry comments from a dev that

Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get activitymanager installed because the latest verion for that is only 4.7.4 and I get told kactivities-4.8.1 blocks activitymanager.. I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: An initramfs which does this is created by =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be sure any initramfs you create

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
José Romildo Malaquias writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:36:07PM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage The -f option from mke2fs is to specify a fragment size and expects an argument. Do you -F (which forces mke2fs to create a filesystem, even if the

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Recently, my sister could not log in to KDE after I had done some updates. X crashed when loggin into KDE. It turned out that x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4-r1 was the problem when compiled with explict CFLAGS, instead of just using -march=native. Her CPU is an AMD A6-3500 with three cores. As

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 03/12/2012 12:32:01 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: The command above does not tell about SSE stuff, so I used this one to find out about that: leela # echo | gcc -dME - -march=native | grep -Ei 'SSE|3DNOW|MMX' | Typo: The -E must be separate: gcc -dM -E - -march

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: and of course we all just use our crystal balls because it is so easy without the error message. Hmm, something about X shutting down in kdm.log. Can't check now because the system is down. But anyway, I don't think it matters, the problem is that the crash

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
YoYo Siska writes: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:35:05PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: I use an ext2 filesystem for portage, it's still the fastest out there. Journals are unnecessary because its such a small filesystem, and if it does get damaged I can just reformat and sync again. Replaying

[gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Is there an advantage in putting the portage tree on an extra partition? Currently, I'm using reiserfs, because I read that it is efficient when using many small files. On the other hand I also heard that it tends to get slower with every emerge --sync. Space is no longer an argument

Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt container file where I need to store the data into. This is sort of working, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: The performance is only impacted if the sector size is something other  than 512 bytes. The newer 4K sector size used by some higher density drives requires that you start partitions on a sector boundary or they will perform badly. There isn't an actually performance need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary. Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm doesn't try to start (Gentoo issue)

2012-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I have two hardware-identical laptops exhibiting different behavior WRT xdm. xdm doesn't try to start automatically on one of the laptops but does on the other. On the one that does not start xdm, I get this on startup: # rc-update -s | grep xdm xdm | default #

Re: [gentoo-user] Python update question

2012-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: root@fireball / # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.7 * [2] python3.1 [3] python3.2 root@fireball / # I ran --depclean and it wants to remove python 3.1. I ran python updater and recompiled the needed packages. Since python 2.7 is

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience? I use MySQL for an ld phpBB board and for Amarok, and do not now much about it. I never explicitely installed MySQL, I only have the mysql USE flag set for things like python or PHP. Somehow, dev-db/mysql was

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. Well I just hope

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. I can't see any material difference between the two links. Yes, there is none. This doesn't happen here,

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
trevor donahue writes: So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. I have a question

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you will get. Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I get Unrecognized command from savedefault in grub: grub savedefault --default=1 --once Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option I think. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Have a look at 'info grub', 'Booting' - 'Making your system robust', especially section 4.3.2 'Booting fallback systems'. That's what I used in order to test new kernels remotely.        Wonko I like that better. Where do you execute 'grub-set-default 0'? I had it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv compilation problems

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: I'm having trouble compiling mythtv-0.24.1. The build log is attached. Can anyone help me decipher what is going on? mythtv-0.23.1_p27077 compiles OK. Probably the same problem they are talking about here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Henson Sturgill writes: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am also logged in at Google when I using other tabs

[gentoo-user] local layman repository missing files

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I haven't been able to emerge sci-libs/dcmtk from the science overlay for a while, due to a missing dcmtk-asneeded.patch in the files directory. In fact, the whole /var/portage/layman/science/files directory was missing. I fixed this by removing and adding the science overlay again:

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: In Firefox you can create multiple profiles. Each profile will have its own set of cookies, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. To open 2 firefox windows with 2 different profiles at once, launch it with: firefox -P -no-remote Thanks Paul, that's what I am doing

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE=minimal in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I have a 1200 watt Corsair power supply and my temps are very low even during the stress test so I'm thinking bad (Corsair) RAM. I should remove modules one at a time and re-test to narrow it down? This sounds just like the right thing to do. Well, if you have four RAM chips,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Replace Kwin with something else

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Ignas Anikevicius writes: I was wondering if anybody knows what USE flag should I enable in order to have the option to change the default WM in KDE settings to something else. I want to run Awesome WM on top of KDE and currently I can not do it from the KDE System Settings. This has nothing

[gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am using all kinds of web browsers. Firefox for sites I always want to have open. Konqueror when I start a browser from scratch to look something up. Chromium is also running, Mainly because I had trouble with Firefox opening one window on another desktop. Now I'd also like to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: [... big linking being done ...] collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 [...] Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? The linking phase will need a lot of memory.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at all. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [12-02-18 14:40]: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: As this line in my previous posting states, museseq needs Qt 4.*, which is installed...: configure: error: need qt = 3.2.0 Um, huh? If it would need Qt 4.*, it would say that you need qt = 4.something. But it says you need qt = 3.2.0, so qt-meta 3.3.8b-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: So, if QT3 is removed from protage, and museseq which still is in portage seems only to build agains qt3, I see a contradiction here... No, it has already been removed from portage two years ago [1], because it still depends on Qt3. So your version probably comes

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound. There are error messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:44]: What about trying the new ebuild for musesq-2.0 [2]? [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/206852 [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/proaudio@lists.tuxfamily.org/msg04170.html Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:52]: I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: Please try: ~/.mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=2 # Use 128MiB input cache by default. cache = 131072 # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. cache-min = 20.0 Which should eliminate disk IO somewhat James, thanks for your input. I already

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 17:36]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: try (as root) fuser /dev/dsp to figure out, which task helds that device... I get no output at all. ?Hu? The access rights to that device are ok...? Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: If you're already building KDE, KMail was decent. Yes. It was. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Urs Schutz writes: Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... smartctl -t short /dev/sda and after some minutes smartctl --all /dev/sda If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could try the extended or long tests with smartctl. I have smartd

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. :) Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another

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