Re: [gentoo-user] Re: http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
the names of a couple of folks I was thinking about this last weekend. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: SNIP Turns out that it's a character in CJK. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 Installed bitstream-cyberbit. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com Glad it worked. PLEASE - trim your

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: SNIP... I don't think I have this problem here but I'd need to emerge a specific game that runs full screen to test. Could you please provide the name of something easy to emerge and test. I ran a game called 0ad a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:57 PM, james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: The other wiki has a page[1] about building an initramfs that includes a section on writing a linuxrc script to support exactly that. I have since switched to Genkernel, but I used to have a hand-built initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. HTH,

[gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't think this is likely to be a Gentoo issue but I figured I'd ask here first before going elsewhere. (LKML, linux-raid, elsewhere) Additionally it's not a critical problem at all but rather something I'd like to try and understand and then report if appropriate. On my main i7-980x

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Mark. I seem to remember that to be able to use LABEL for the root= line requires an init* as you need userspace utilities to read the labels. You could try the UUIDs

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label to read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there with UUID, but it works with LABEL as well, I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: SNIP Sorry for replying to my own; must have deleted OP. This morning's world update only wanted to rebuild gconf because they made the gtk dep optional and dropped the doc USE: [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools - can not download it

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Where is module-init-tools-3.16-r2? My system wants to upgrade it and it is mark stable but I can not download it at all. I know kmod is going to replace it eventually but it is not mark stable yet. -- Joseph I have

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools - can not download it

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Thaks Mark, yes your mirrors worked. It makes me wonder what is wrong with my mirrors (they all failed) :-/ GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 08:53:14PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Possibly related? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881 Indeed :-) The patch author directed me there, I've applied the 51881 patch to the 3.7.1 sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I think your analogy actually proves my point. Instead of just getting in the car and turning the key, they want to reinvent the engine and how it works. It doesn't matter that it is and has been working for decades, Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: At this point I don't know that 1) the image is actually in the kernel, or 2) that my init

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 1) initramfs. It's not that hard 2) early mount script. It's not that hard. 3) modify your udev ebuild to install to /. It's not that hard. If you'd read the thread (and/or related ones), you'd know he tried to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: At this point I

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: trying to emerge: gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 and I'm getting a strange error: SNIP -- Joseph Saw the same thing here this morning, and have seen it a couple of times in the past. My strategy is to sync tomorrow and try again or

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Yeah, bugs happen. Like I said, wait a day and try again.

[gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, OK, it's the day after Christmas and this little kid wants to play with the new toys Uncle Neil gave us yesterday - a copy of his well worn setup file for building an initramfs into the kernel - a copy of which I place here: [QUOTE] This is the file I use on a system that has / on a LUKS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Todd Goodman wrote: * Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com [121225 18:30]: Try reading the kernel Documentation. (e.g.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:58:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) Contained executables, as I understand them, either need to be built with the static flag or you have to include all the libraries. Static seems simpler so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One interesting small point I got out of the docs that Neil pointed me toward: That since linux-2.6 we're all using an initramfs The 2.6 kernel build process always creates a gzipped cpio format initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP One other question came up. So I build the kernel, and the kernel build creates the initramfs image and embeds it in the kernel. Is there a tool that would allow me to query the embedded image prior to booting so

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Actually, I think the initramfs wiki covers this, albeit it's 'not easy'. Their words. I think I'm covered for now. Cheers, Mark While extracting it from the kernel image may be involved, and for now using Neil's

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: At this point I don't know that 1) the image is actually in the kernel, or 2) that my init thingy ;-) image would work, but at least the process of putting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:19 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Finished the bisect between 3.6.10 and 3.7. Here's the log. The suspect patch has an interesting name: ahci: implement aggressive SATA device sleep support I'll send email to the patch author too. I should make it clear that

[gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. I'm just wondering if there's a better choice why. SNIP For your usage, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP With the previous local

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by hand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a plain text config file detailing the contents of the initramfs and set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a plain

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:35AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: snip, whack, d200d, cough, spit Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of attachments? pastebins? Felix,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to resize easily. If I put / on LVM, I need a init thingy. I don't want a init

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP One of the reasons I left Mandriva was because of the init thingy. If I wanted one and liked having one, I would have never switched to Gentoo. The init thingy was not the only reason but it was one of them. The reason I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic. Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram filesystem) became vogue

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:09 AM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2012-12-21 at 14:26 Mark Knecht wrote: I managed to mount it successfully using jmtpfs from the poly-c overlay. thank you mark, i got it working now. i created an entry in fstab, and i can mount/umount it with simple

Re: [gentoo-user] disk accesses per subdirectory tree

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I'd like to put some subdirectory trees (of / and of /usr and of /home) onto an SSD. For that I'd like to count the disk accesses which go to a given subdirectory tree in some given time intervall. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:56 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device (samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS. as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device as a good old USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I noticed eudev has hit the tree. Has anyone used it yet? If so, any issues? Did you just uninstall udev and install eudev in one step or some other way? I'm thinking of switching and getting rid of the init thingy

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I noticed eudev has hit the tree. Has anyone used it yet? If so, any issues? Did you just uninstall udev and install eudev in one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Long live Dale. +1

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That's all true, hence my question. I'm not sure I want to use the very first version so I thought it worth asking first. Since it is a fork, one could think it would be safe enough but then again, it is the very first one.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm updating a system that's probably gone 2 or 3 months since its last update. !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel has

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: If you don't miss features I say good riddance to xorg.conf. Regards, Florian Philipp Yeah, I agree in general, but in this case how does one determine that on a remote machine? I run KDE, my dad runs Gnome. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Just Testing

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Not sure if you're looking for a response but the mail made it to the list. - Mark On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently, I cleared out some gentoo-user e-mail from Firefox and now it seems that Thunderbird is automatically deleting any

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP # BOOLEAN # This variable is only used for delayed substitution in COLORSCHEME{,_ALT}. # If true, the dark color schemes (for black background) are selected. DARK=true # STRING # If TERM_ALT does not match, this chooses

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, Sorry for going off-topic, but I can't see the answer on the KDE site and google hasn't helped. There is a KDE-Users list where this stuff gets addressed. However I asked the same questions the other

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 03 December 2012 13:59:49 Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Hope this helps, Certainly does - thank you Mark. I now have the service running with a wallet I can use (I hope). I'll try it again in the morning after

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2-3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: SNIP I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels That pretty much sucks. Is that configurable sowewhere? This is not my experience. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2-3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-12-02, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP /etc/init.d/numlock on/off will change the state of the lights on my keyboard. Have you tried that? On my system it's start/stop rather than on/off. You

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: --keep-going does not help you, if the emerge does not start because of missing dep/slot conflict/blocking/masking whatever... Though it would be nice if there

[gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

2012-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've sort of decided I like Chrome's UI better than others that I've spent time with (mostly Firefox Konqueror) but I'm constantly held up by leftover processes when Chrome is closed: mark@c2stable ~ $ ps aux | grep chrome mark 3206 0.0 0.0 292448 16064 ?S06:32 0:01

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

2012-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:12:16 -0500, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo? Yeah, it works for me: $ equery list google-chrome google

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

2012-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:38:48PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was just curious about finding some app that might receive text message sent from

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC update to 0.11.5 - safe if using older udev (pinned to udev-181)?

2012-11-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Anyone? I don't see any news blurbs warning about it, but with everything going on with udev, systemd, etc, I'm not risking updating unless/until I know it is safe. Tia... Charles I took one stable machine with

[gentoo-user] udev update changed cd/dvd device name

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Anyone else run into this problem with udev-171-r9? I updated yesterday and my CD/DVD, which has been /dev/cdrom1 since I built the machine 2 1/2 years ago, is now called /dev/scd0. Machine is x86_64, mostly stable. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] udev update changed cd/dvd device name

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:59:34AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Anyone else run into this problem with udev-171-r9? I updated yesterday and my CD/DVD, which has been /dev/cdrom1 since I built the machine 2 1/2

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:00 AM, mindrunner ker...@ccube.de wrote: someone calls me stupid and dumb, because i am sharing my opinion. this never happened to me on a dev-mailinglist. I came here to help out gentoo users. not to flame war. If I want this kind of conversation, i would sign in to

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 01 Nov 2012 03:53:44 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 23:12 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 121101 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +, Mick wrote: I was thinking of using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections

2012-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:21 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:07:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: that phone is the master base station for the other two slave

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2012, 01:34:35 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:10:17 -0500, Dale wrote: Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the kernel you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: SNIP Nice find, thanks. But the update to that article which gave a link to Theo T'so email is quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypothesis had not been proven and he himself is back in the dark. Not much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genlop and tab completion acts weird

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Kindle so very short response. Humor me. Create a directory, cd there and run the command.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genlop and tab completion acts weird

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Ok. Not what I reported and got fixed on eselect. Thought maybe there was a parallel. Back to silent mode. Good luck and out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about updating /etc/portage/package.use

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I ran emerge -p --deep --update world on a machine, and got... * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.use' needs updating. * See the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about updating /etc/portage/package.use

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I ran emerge -p --deep --update world on a machine, and got... * IMPORTANT

[gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd)

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I face a rather long delay once or possibly twice during boot. Basically, the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd)

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:38:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more lately where I have to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case, `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care to give it a try? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP We can only know seeing the code. Timur

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: SNIP If you use the nvidia-drivers package you should also emerge nvidia-settings, which has a nice GUI that will let you configure the multiple screens and decide how you'd like to treat them. Actually, I

[gentoo-user] MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, Are there any known tricks for auto-mounting an MTP device? I think this stuff is used on some newer Android phone so I'm hoping someone has a nice solution. My wife decided to buy the new Kindle Fire HD based on our good experience with the original Kindle Fire. The new device is

Re: [gentoo-user] MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:37:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules UBSYSTEM==usb, ATTR{idVendor}==1949, ATTR{idProduct}==0007, MODE=0666 mark@c2stable ~ $ Anyway, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-09-18, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:37:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 : I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works. Then I started looking a Udev in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP There have been good forums in the past. Even now. But forums have a massive problem, even the great ones: if they go down everything is lost. +1 NVidia had some really good forums. They got hacked,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfce-base/thunar: lobotomy needed

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: I installed xfce4-meta and was a little surprised to see it did not come with thunar. When I tried to install it, portage became upset. Question: is it normal that I would have to ~amd64 a bunch of packages

Re: [gentoo-user] make.{conf,profile} move to /etc/portage

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:59:41 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote: Just saw the eselect news item saying make.conf and make.profile are moving to /etc/portage next week. Unfortunately, there's no link to a page w/ more info in the

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3/handbook mismatch

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: That's a very new change just announced globally today and only for new installs. Take a look at eselect news for more info. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge. Supposedly

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfce-base/thunar: lobotomy needed

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: I installed xfce4-meta and was a little surprised to see it did not come with thunar. When I tried to install it, portage became upset. Question: is it normal that I would have to ~amd64 a bunch of packages

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3/handbook mismatch

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sep 11, 2012 5:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3/handbook mismatch

2012-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
That's a very new change just announced globally today and only for new installs. Take a look at eselect news for more info. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Pacific vs Pacific-New

2012-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
From kindle. I use America/Los-Angeles myself.

Re: [gentoo-user] static IP issue

2012-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:33 AM, pat p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hello, I've installed Gentoo into VirtualBox. I want it to has static IP address and I've followed Hand book instructions and the OpenRC/net.example. After reboot there's a warning: WARNING: net.lo has already been started and each

[gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm sort of glazing over falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel an initramfs for a root partition on RAID 1 and metadata 0.9. I've done this in the

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I think the only way we'lll see 500MB/sec on that SSD is to buy a motherboard which has a SATA3 controller as its primary on-board drive controller and plug it in to that. Look on the bright side, someday

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I think the only way we'lll see 500MB/sec on that SSD is to buy a motherboard which has a SATA3 controller as its primary on-board

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:57:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: This limitation is likely just a byproduct of using a 1 lane controller. If one was willing to spend a (fairly large) bit more one could get a 16 lane SATA3

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: SNIP If you want real performance from SSD, you ditch SATA altogether and use a drive on a dedicated card. Of course, you're talking real money now.

[gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Yesterday I got a new, but rather low-end, PCIe-2 SATA-3 6Gb/S adapter card and a reportedly high performance 128GB SSD drive. (Links below) Other than my swap getting messed up because it didn't use labels (who knew about swaplabel but didn't tell me? ;-) ) the adapter and drive are in

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