Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 22:28 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier a écrit : What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get

[gentoo-user] evince, MIME, and old user together make a strange bug

2006-07-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
I've got a strange bug, probably linked with the recent gnome-2.14 upgrade: Whenever I try to open a pdf file with evince (0.5.3 or 0.5.4), I have the following error message: Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-extension-pdf' However everything workd fine when I do one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-07 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 16:51 -0700, Ow Mun Heng a écrit : On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 01:43 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : Check your xorg.conf for the following: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-06 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: I installed ati-drivers and partially works correctly: As user nothing works: --- [...] direct rendering: No --- with root: --- [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 17:30 +0800, 张 韡武 a écrit : Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. I think the keyword to google at is

Re: [gentoo-user] Tomboy - Does it have Alerts?

2006-06-02 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 01 juin 2006 à 11:37 -0700, Ow Mun Heng a écrit : I just installed tomboy, seems nice. Is there capability to add in Alerts/alarms? Ther is the tomboy-reminder plugin, but I don't know it's current state (ant it's not in portage yet) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83060

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 20:18 +0200, Sascha Lucas a écrit : # lsattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint/a Same problem here. But man lsattr says it's for ext2fs only. However getfattr works well. Hope this helps,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), because it saves a lot of space. However, reiserfs suffers from fragmentation in the long term. A laptop (slow disk) with a single reiserfs partition and a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process logged.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 18:32 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is finished printed

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and untar it ... Fred --

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 19 avril 2006 à 10:41 +0800, David a écrit : On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:59:00PM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: I'll try when I'm back home (in may) If you are in Beijing, it is easy to do the test using an external usb hub with it's own power supply for free. Because Beijing

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 13:20 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : L Which in turn come from the table in /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h. Maybe you can try adding an entry for your device to that table? Something like: UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x1043, 0x8006, 0x0110, 0x0110

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/uba1 with Klingston usb disk.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . I've just tried the ub driver, and it's the same problem (/dev/uba node but no /dev/uba1), with the following dmesg output. usb 2

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:12 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:04, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Any other idea ? Never give up. That seems to be your moto :-) Try hexdump on the device above: hexdump -C /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Drive I'm currently

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 15:37 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : So my next steps are : 1. Switching back to usb-storage 2. Trying to dd the disk 3. That doesn't work, trying to get access to another computer and see if I can do something. Of course, I meant

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:37:54 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: There is indeed an encryption feature on this key. I've never used it (I haven't even downloaded the windows-only software allowing to use it). Can it be related

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk.[SOLVED (sort of ...)]

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . (snip) I finally managed to plug this disk onto a windows machine. Windows sees the disk, but can neither read it nor format it (as far

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 06:25 -0700, Richard Fish a écrit : On 4/18/06, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first time I saw those 32 MB (a few days ago, when the key worked and was almost empty), df -h told me there was 1006 MB left on the key. Wait, it worked before under

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 11:47 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:14, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Any idea left ? So, you definitely have a hardware problem. Digging for the id of your device 1043 8006 reveals a linux kernel mailing list archive thread: http

[gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . When I try to access /dev/sda, I've the following errors : sanduleak ~ # fdisk /dev/sda Unable to open /dev/sda sanduleak ~ # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null dd: opening

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Hi Jeff Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 10:52 -0400, Jeff a écrit : Is the USB key in question formatted with a FAT partition by chance? I think, if it was a format problem, I would see a /dev/sda1 node, but wouldn't be able to mount it. I don't even see that /dev/sda1 , and fdisk has no access to

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 17:26 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : On Monday 17 April 2006 16:24, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: This is a not an iCreate 32MB drive, but a Kingston DataTraveler Elite 1GB drive. I did some first tests with small files, and it worked OK. I Suddenly, I have so called

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 18:23 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : On Monday 17 April 2006 17:49, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 17:26 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : This is (sadly) consistent with the lack of /dev/sda1 device. So be it, let's suppose there is something wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 20:53 +0200, Regis Decamps a écrit : You should be able to mount /dev/sda directly fdisk /dev/sda will fail or displays a broken partition table. I think, /dev/sda1 has worked before anyway, mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk/ fails with the following error message : mount:

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 18:51 +0100, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko a écrit : On the example of the SD card reader, when you insert the card, /dev/sdb appears, but not the actual partition (/dev/sdb1) So you have to do fdisk /dev/sdb, then quit, then the /dev/sdb1 is magically available for

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 20:22 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : Good. According to processed events, there is a raw disk dedected properly but no partition processed. If you still do not see /dev/sda, try to look for your disk at folowing locations: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*something* and

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . When I try to access /dev/sda, I've the following errors : [...] Thanks for everyone who has helped. To have more information, I

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 20:44 -0700, Richard Fish a écrit : On 4/17/06, Frédéric Grosshans This doesn't really matter. It comes from the database at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids OK. Thanks However, I think the kernel doesn't fully recognize your device. Your dmesg output seems

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice so I could nicely say `nice emerge -uD world` and it wouldn't take a whole lot of disk time away from

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 12:07 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice so I could nicely say `nice

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-23 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Question is, why other guys do not start a real open source project to make a phone application? tou mean like ekiga http://www.ekiga.org ? Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 16:14 -0500, Ernie Schroder a écrit : !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. I had the same problem yesterday, but it seems solved today after an emerge sync. Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 16 février 2006 à 16:32 +, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:50:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I found xdiskusage to be a very practical tool to findout where space is wasted on a disk. [...] Filelight is another useful program here... and with more eye-candy :)

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 17 février 2006 à 16:07 +, Neil Bothwick wrote, using Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) So do I, but I don't like GNOME SCNR :) But apparently, you like GTK+ software enough to use it to write this Gnome-bashing answer ;) SCNR ... Fred PS: I

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 04:42 -0800, Mark Knecht a écrit : OK, good info - but what can I remove? Or more important how can I find what's talking up too much space. I know you've already solved that problem, but I think the following might be interesting. I found xdiskusage to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick convert utility; latest version has problems

2006-02-10 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 10 février 2006 à 02:25 -0500, Walter Dnes a écrit : The latest unstable builds complain about not finding libMagick.so.6. More or less random guess : did you revdep-rebuild ? Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-25 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 09:39 +0100, Holly Bostick a écrit : I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the calendar application you are using. But here is what I found: I guess he speaks of the calendar which appears when you left-click on the clock-applet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Latex spacing problem

2005-10-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 04 octobre 2005 à 18:16 -0600, Joseph a écrit : Is there any Tetex/Latex guru on the list? I've tried to copy the formating string from invoice.tex form (that correctly wraps up the description column): [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}} The kind of column you want ar the X columns of the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Kernel

2005-05-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=7 To update a kernel configuration, copy the old .config file into /usr/src/linux and make oldconfig . hope this helps, Frédéric -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked GCC question.

2005-05-09 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
it? Is there a Gentoo-related guide to this somewhere? To unmask a package, the guide is here : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 But gcc is probably something special, and I never dared to touch it... Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
/etc/adjtime and see what it says... I've already played with it / deleted it and it doesn't seem to change anything. My current /etc/adjtime is 0.00 1113497480 0.00 1113497480 LOCAL and didn't prevent any drift -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 18 avril 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Richard Fish a écrit : Frédéric Grosshans wrote: I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? Well, from googling around, it seems that a few seconds per day of drift between

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 08:43 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? I don't think so (it's not a laptop). How do I check that ? In that case, activate

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
/patchlist.htm (the equivalence 11.09 - 11-r6 is guven here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-sources/releases.htm ) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Anyone knows how to avoid this ? (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Evolution 2.0.{3,4} crashes with aspell 0.60.3

2005-04-14 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
happening? And how I could have spell-checcking back in Tomboy without making evolution crash ? Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques UMR 7162, CNRS/Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7 - Case 7021 Couloir 24-25, 1er étage. 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris cedex 05 tel

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.0 (0) [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.1 (0) * overlay tree (/usr/local/bugzilla-portage) The interesting part is difficult to find in equery's output ! Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list