Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I can pretty much promise you that one area likely to get LOTS of attention in this kernel series IS security updates, at least

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:31:10 PM IST, Mick wrote: I don't know if you have seen this.  Given that we're moving into UEFI boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to exclude other operating

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 26 Sep 2011 16:03:10 James Broadhead wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.com Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google (... )I didn't even know there was a better way of

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: [-- snip --] Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo

[gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant to connect to a WEP2 home network? If got the modules installed and the hardware telling me it sees all sorts of ESSIDs but so far I cannot figure out how to give it the password correctly. I've been trying to follow

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 25.09.2011 22:38, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi,    Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant to connect to a WEP2 home network?    If got the modules installed and the hardware telling me

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant to connect to a WEP2 home network? Do you mean WPA2 or WEP? AFAIK

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: Now that hal is out of he portage tree and uninstalled, I've noticed that the following occur: 1) no battery info (and other ACPI doesn't fare well too) 2) Suspend key is broken; must use $sudo pm-suspend instead 3)

Re: [gentoo-user] PacketShader - firewall using GPU

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Saw this on the pfSense list: http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/ anyone interested in trying? I see a lot of graphs touting high throughput, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm about to play with installing Gentoo on another system. Now, the ritual goes, grab the ISO, burn the ISO, grab the latest stage3, the latest Portage, and go to town. What I'd like to do is drop the stage3 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Yeah, I've got a coworker who's done slipstream install discs for our Windows VMs in the past. That got a little easier with VMWare templates, though. Cool. I haven't heard of these. Something new for me to check out.

Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/17/11, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 the SP 500 was within about .1% of where it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... You lucky and prosperous bastards! Take a look at some major European

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: SNIP ajglap gottlieb # revdep-rebuild; revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14' SNIP Is there no automated way to catch these? --library

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: SNIP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: On Monday, 19. September 2011 13:52:26 Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP /lib64/libncurses.so.5 /lib64/libncurses.so.6 could both exist on the system even if both version of the ncurses package don't. That's right. But keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Ah.  I see now.  So, it mounts proc and sys but that is in the init then it mounts the real root outside the init.  Then it umounts the proc and sys under the init and then switches to the real root and starts init

Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
when update from several (5) mnths: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror... Tell that to UBS... Don't go there!  I used to work for UBS, about 11 years ago.  I (and many others) was laid off when they lost

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK.  Sort of dealt with the LVM part so now to step two.  I'm trying to follow this: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs Then I get confused.  I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost here.  In there it talks about

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: OK.  Sort of dealt with the LVM part so now to step two.  I'm trying to follow this: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs Then I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: That's what I was thinking to.  I know busybox does a LOT of things but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Molmike...@gmail.com  wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dalerdalek1

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: While I was out walking my dog I sort of remembered that there are just a few apps I had to build static, or at least that I build static. One, I think was grub. The first and only time I did it I had to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 16 Sep 2011 05:13:02 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Sep 16, 2011 3:52 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info  wrote: Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up'

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:07:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: There's not point in doing the fetch first, portage has done parallel fetching for some time - it's faster to let the distfiles download while the first package

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:40:32 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: If fetch-only is done unattended, and there's a really slow mirror, the interactive emerge later will still be fast, where if using parallel-fetch and you hit a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:26:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I think you have a specific view that is likely the very best thing to do for your situation, what ever that is, be it work, office, server farm. I don't know. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:18:27 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:07:58 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: While writing this the 24th trade completed (a winner) and the 25th trade has

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those such as

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:03:34 -0500, Dale wrote: I agree with the other post about gcc but you should also update portage shortly after that.  The newer portage is able to handle more issues for you and may save you some

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:37:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 3) Do the rest of the work emerge -fDuN @world emerge -pvDuN @world Fix USE flag issues, if any 4) Do the build emerge -DuN -j13 @world There's not point

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk  wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:37:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 3) Do the rest of the work emerge -fDuN @world emerge -pvDuN @world Fix

Re: [gentoo-user] del.uged want to start on net.eth1, only eth0 is there

2011-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Lars Madson rwx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After upgrading world, I might have gone a bit fast on the last conf files that I update with etc-update. Now that I restart deluged, the init script brings up eth1 but I only have eth0 correctly setup. It should use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2

2011-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C? If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a dependency. Using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2

2011-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: It is time to remove dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 emerge --depclean -pv =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 Calculating removal order... These are the packages that would be unmerged:  

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2

2011-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP Is there a better command/syntax to use to flush out what is still dependent on an old/slotted version of python. python-updater is periodically run on the system, just in case anyone thinks that is the issue. Sorry, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with KDE Flash after moving to dual adapter

2011-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Anyone? Thanks, Mark On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I'm wondering what experience (and hopefully guidance) others can provide to hopefully fix these new problems on my compute server. Thanks in advance.   OK, yesterday I added a second NVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2

2011-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 02.09.2011 18:09, schrieb Mark Knecht: I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C? If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a dependency. Using

[gentoo-user] Problems with KDE Flash after moving to dual adapter

2011-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering what experience (and hopefully guidance) others can provide to hopefully fix these new problems on my compute server. Thanks in advance. OK, yesterday I added a second NVidia adapter to my machine and used nvidia-settings to create a new xorg.conf file. (Both new and old

Re: [gentoo-user] Interface eth0 does not exist - e1000e/e1000

2011-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks John and Dale. udev was the culprit and everything is now fixed. Cheers, Mark On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:24 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I meant to do ifconfig -a or just ifconfig eth1 or eth2 and see if you get anything and change your link

[gentoo-user] Interface eth0 does not exist - e1000e/e1000

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been helping a friend over the phone who's trying to fix a networking problem. This machine was built a month ago running something like 2.6.39-gentoo-r2. Networking worked great. I do not know what driver it was using, but it worked great. Two weeks ago we updated the machine to

Re: [gentoo-user] Interface eth0 does not exist - e1000e/e1000

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:54 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    I've been helping a friend over the phone who's trying to fix a networking problem. This machine was built a month ago running something like 2.6.39-gentoo-r2. Networking worked

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

2011-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 August 2011 20:38, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   Can someone point me toward somehow enabling CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT? It is apparently a kernel config option no required by virtualbox

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

2011-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2011 10:55, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 August 2011 20:38, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

2011-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IOMMU_SUPPORT.html which seem to indicate that I should see an IOMMU option somewhere in the drivers

[gentoo-user] Any speed issues with dissimilar NVidia cards?

2011-08-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On one of my machines here I'm running an NVidia 465GTX card driving two 1920x1080 monitors in Twinview mode which for reference produces the following glxgears results: Default size - Approx. 10K fps 3840 x 1080 - Approx. 1500fps mark@c2stable ~ $ glxgears 39852 frames in 5.0 seconds =

[gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

2011-08-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, Can someone point me toward somehow enabling CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT? It is apparently a kernel config option no required by virtualbox-drivers but I'm not finding it in the 3.0.3 kernel. I suspect there's something else I need to enable before this option becomes available? Unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote:  I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: SNIP The meaning of all this is that if memtest can't find any errors after a full run (which can take an hour), the chances of getting an error that is really related to RAM under CPU stress are very slim. Which I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda*

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:27 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: SNIP What usb3 is supported by Linux?  Is it a pci card? -- Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is: How do you spend it?         John Covici         cov...@ccs.covici.com I have it on my Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing partition labels

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Greetings all,        I'm probably in the situation where I can't see the wood for the trees so a bit of help would be appreciated. I've decided to go the LABEL route in fstab and have set the labels on my partitions a few days

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go directly to `make

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 17:13:21 Kfir Lavi wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Andy Wilkinson  Another good trick I've found on the forums is

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm wondering what kind of cpu-type I should use? cat /proc/cpuinfo .. processor   : 1 vendor_id   : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model   : 15 model name  : Intel(R)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eclean-pkg

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP !!! Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/dev- lang/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2' eix doesn't show such a version of python, so where is it coming from? Cruft left over somewhere?

[gentoo-user] Virtualbox VMs not running under 3.0.0-gentoo

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I just got around to trying my Virtualbox VMs under the new 3.0.0 kernel and they aren't working. It says vboxdrv is not set up. I drop back to 2.6.39 and they run fine. Please note I really mean only the VMs won't start. The Vbox GUI runs fine but then cannot start the VMs. I used make

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox VMs not running under 3.0.0-gentoo

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:09:13 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    I just got around to trying my Virtualbox VMs under the new 3.0.0 kernel and they aren't working. It says vboxdrv is not set up. I drop back

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox VMs not running under 3.0.0-gentoo

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:09:13 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    I just got around to trying my Virtualbox VMs under the new 3.0.0 kernel and they aren't working. It says vboxdrv is not set up. I drop back

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox VMs not running under 3.0.0-gentoo

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/11 22:02, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Wagenerst...@gmx.net  wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:09:13 -0700 Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com  wrote: Hi,    I just got around

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I noticed the new kernel in the tree.  Anybody know whether make oldconfig will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel?  Since I'm having issues right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved, hopefully,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS. Can I be honest here?  My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere near on a par with most of the people on this list.  I've been using Gentoo since 2004

[gentoo-user] Need to turn on wireless

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, I haven't used built-in wireless on Linux in years but come Thursday I'll likely have to spend 12 or more hours waiting around in a hospital so I'm making an attempt to get it working. Can someone point me at instructions oriented toward sitting down in a place like Starbucks on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to turn on wireless

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:41 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2011-07-18 at 18:17 Mark Knecht wrote:   What sort of apps are available to discover a public network ESSID? Something GUI based would be appreciated if it's in portage. i got good results with wicd in the past. i got

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?

2011-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: A bit of a long shot, this, but has anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around, by any chance? Amazingly enough, I have portage.latest.tar.bz2 dated March 30th, 2010. Would that help? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm baakk.  Anybody want to guess why?  Come on, guess.  First one doesn't count. OK.  This thing ran for a while with no problems.  I'm downloading a video while I am watching TV.  I use Firefox for that because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how you've built

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2011 16:39:03 Mark Knecht wrote: I think it would be helpful at this point to see emerge --info and the sort of stuff I outlined earlier. What else can we do? There still exists

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: DAle,    PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html QUOTE Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:47:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: That is the latest for my card that is in the tree. No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The link I sent you clearly (!?) stated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 07/11/11 09:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as stable. This has no direct link to the usability of the software itself. Nuh uh. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: SNIP No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Yea, done tried that.  I tried different kernels, different nvidia drivers and all with no change. WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? I did but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Knecht
Sure sounds familiar to me... - Mark On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Yea, done tried that.  I tried different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple times, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: No worries.  Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you missed something.  I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think with no errors.  That takes a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I said earlier, I believe they will take you quite seriously. In general

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP It works as long as I don't open Firefox.  If I open Firefox, poof!!  No more trapped smoke.  lol Dale So I had suggested running it in gdb and someone else suggested running it in strace. Did you have a chance to try

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP A little more info.  After my last message, I opened Firefox.  It locked up.  That runs as a regular user of course.  So, I wanted to test a theory.  I logged into Fluxbox after my reboot.  I opened Firefox and it locked up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata 1.0 possible?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jens Reinemuth j...@reinemuth.info wrote: Hi everybody, i'm totally stuck with an installation of a server using SoftwareRAIDs (10) with an adaptec aic79xx Controller... I thought that perhaps the drivers must be corrupted, but i found some (older) howtos

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-07-07 09:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: Gentoo users have developed a certain expectation over the years, whereby devs will take user needs seriously and go to extra-ordinary lengths to support everything under the sun. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system.  I'm in the process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not holding my breath it will change anything.  So, I'm wanting to try a unstable version of both gcc and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2011 01:03:03 Dale wrote: I might add, the last time it locked up, I had a compile process running in a console.  I watched the hard drive light, it was blinking away. So, the root of the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: If I had to guess I'd say, since this followed a power failure where the machine was live and operating (if I've understood the thread through a quick scan) that some file on disk has gotten corrupted

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without actually emerging ? Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan Not sure what you mean by 'source URL' but you can get the homepage of a package using eix. That almost always

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have this strange problem for a few days: after normal updates (I think glib has been updated) I tried to run emerge --depclean (as recommended) but got these messages: --- obelix ~ # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you to be running xorg. KMS doesn't require X, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and some special kernel line stuff.  None of the X related stuff is necessary. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: The way I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: SNIP I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and not about any

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Hello, atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player that can not be disabled. #required by amarok (argument) =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player If this flag is required at all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP As a follow-up to your problems, and because I'm just plain interested in this /dev/null,console question, I decided to create a completely new Gentoo VM myself from scratch this morning. I'm going FAR more slowly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like init=/sbin/init 1 to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be instructive about where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: SNIP The boot process does get a little farther but comes to a halt at  Switching to clock source tsc And there it has sat for some time now.  Apparently is not going to continue. That EXACT symptom was EXACTLY what we

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: SNIP First, thanks for going well beyond the call of duty and showing the patience of Job. Gawd, you must not know about all the public help I've received here over the years? It's the LEAST I can do. Those files are

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