Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/22/2010 07:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: Latency is the delay between giving the order to play a sound and the sound actually being played. It's usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/21/2010 09:26 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: Then why does dmix lag? Then why does dmix lag? I don't know; I don't care. I don't use dmix, I use PulseAudio,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Grant wrote: if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't. Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the BIOS and I can select either Unassigned or Reserved I think. What affect will reserving an interrupt have? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Grant wrote: if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't. Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the BIOS and I can select either Unassigned or Reserved I think. What affect will reserving an interrupt have?

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuttering DVB-T video output

2010-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I am using dvb-s with kaffeine and ati and don't have any stuttering. Do you have effects turned on? Turn them off. Are you using the nvidia driver? Or nv? nouveau? Use nvidia. Do you have any stupid governor turned on - like userspace? Use ondemand.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's navigation bar I get an error message: Protocol not supported AudioCD What am I missing? multimedia-kioslaves?

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: On 14 May 2010 14:08, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's navigation bar I get an error message: Protocol not supported AudioCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 11 Mai 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:15:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I still have huge breakage with gnomecanvas and other things, meaning that lots of gtk apps are broken right now for me. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 machine I have both versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 08 Mai 2010, Crístian Viana wrote: hi everyone, something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it says No space left on device, but the disk has several gigabytes of free space! the output of df -h is: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug ridden zombie is still around? thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B? Plan Z

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : root:503 ~ emerge -Dup world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies | * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Petric Frank wrote: Hello, Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : root:503 ~ emerge -Dup world These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole refresh laggardly

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some content in the konsole to force it refresh.

Re: [gentoo-user] Package blocks

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, CJoeB wrote: Hi, First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really helped. The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked by lzma-utils. One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of eix

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 01 Mai 2010, Graham Murray wrote: Kraus Philipp philipp.kr...@flashpixx.de writes: Hello, I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run the 2.11.1 now but for one tool I need a previous version (2.6.1). How can I compile the glibc without changing my system

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 25 April 2010, Adam wrote: Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? look for a not contested channel?

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 25 April 2010, Adam wrote: Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? look for a not contested channel? I had assumed

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 17:20]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 16:56]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: Not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to ck-sources?

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, b the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls Advanced Format which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes. To use it, one

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use X configure or driver from Ubuntu

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø wrote: Dear all, I use a Compaq 7550 monitor. It's a CRT. Currently, I can not adjust the refresh rate under Gentoo, but it was adjustable when it was running Ubuntu. I think I may need to copy the X configure file or some sort of CRT

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use X configure or driver from Ubuntu

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø wrote: Thanks for your reply Hemman! I'm using HAL to configure X. Currently not xorg.conf is placed under /etc/X11. Shall I copy the xorg.conf file from Ubuntu to Gentoo? you could do that. But check for changes. You could also post it here

Re: [gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 April 2010, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm getting: md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect md: If you don't use raid, use

Re: [gentoo-user] cpufreqd cannot start

2010-04-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 April 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it fails to start. and the error message is: * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? no

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
5850 or 5870. You have a hard time to get anything besides a 250 from Nvidia (and Charlie predicted and explained that ...). And a 250 is just a twice rebranded 8800

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 14:08]: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, William Kenworthy wrote: My experience was with raid 0, while the higher raid redundancy will shift the reliability figures back the other way. wrong. Raid0 is meant for 0 redudancy and reduced reliability for more performance. Before you start talking about Raid

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks. Do you have something to back that up? You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more space

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using it for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array gives both security and flexibility

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact. Then why are you

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? and that was how many years ago? They also had no qualms

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 25 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 it looks like version

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system). yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact.

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 März 2010, Carlos wrote: Keith Dart wrote: === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in the softraid-fail.txt attachment. === That's most likely your disk starting to fail. How would I go

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz effects vs kwin

2010-03-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 März 2010, ubiquitous1980 wrote: The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less smooth than that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster in both kde4 and in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in speed) and wondering if this is normal, or something to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 02:21:39 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx. This is doing my head in ... fglrx won't have any influence on your INPUT DRIVER based problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't find the ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now comes up with this error: === (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't find the ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now comes up

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2010 18:43:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - if I could choose no-multilib now and change my mind using eselect later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the moment blow them away if I find I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. Is there something easier than eix --only-names -I 'kde-base/*' | xargs emerge -uv1 -j4 --keep-going Many

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 3 Mar, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.03.2010 14:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Does anyone know what I need to do to correctly adress such a drive? I have the modules usb_storage and st loaded but I don't get any /dev/(n)stX ... but you do get /dev/sgX

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Mick wrote: So how 'safe' is it these days to build a 64bit only system? Would you end up having to rebuild with multilibs because many apps which won't work on a pure 64bit build? no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs Konqueror - cpu goes to 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cpufrequtils needed these days?

2010-02-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: As I am working my way through this new box I am not sure if cpufrequtils is necessary for the kernel to manage the CPU. Is this still necessary, no. I have never needed it. or is the kernel itself clever enough to manage the hardware directly these

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, KostyaSha wrote: The same annoying thing. What is doing `kdebugdialog`? you can turn messages on and off. Turn all of them off (there is a switch for that) you are are spared all the crap.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the proper fstab line for shm memory (tmpfs)

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a number of systems with different shm lines in fstab - but which is correct? - I think they all work, but which is best (and why)? The main use I am concerned about is a PXE system with root over nfs where I am putting the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: The machine _mostly_ crashed while running badblocks. I say mostly because the mouse is still alive but I can no longer ssh in and cannot open a terminal on my wife's desktop or get to the console. because it is not crashed but waiting for the

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: The machine _mostly_ crashed while running badblocks. I say mostly because the mouse is still alive but I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start one from the terminal (be it Dolphin, Konqueror or whatever) the output generated is pretty much gigantic. It's stuff like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/26/2010 10:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start one from

Re: [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 27 Februar 2010, walt wrote: There's been some talk here recently about partitions versus cylinder boundaries, and when or even if they need to line up properly. I'm confused. For many years now I've ignored cylinders completely because I've read that modern disks are addressed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine it failed to do anything. (except

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Februar 2010, daid kahl wrote: On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Februar 2010, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: With the mouse. Must be something wrong. These panels that fire up are disfunctional. Cant move add or delete too them You might want to delete your ~/.kde4 folder instead to get back at the

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 Vs reiserfs for / on new Gentoo isntallation

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: I know that some of you have been using reiser4 for some years now. How does it compare in performance and reliability in terms to reiserfs and xfs? they don't even come close in performance. XFS sucks with files who are not multi megabyte in size. A

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge mldonkey?

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i got a wired problem. when i was trying to emerge net-p2p/mldonkey, the process hanged at this step: Checking Ocaml compiler. checking for ocamlc.opt...

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 Vs reiserfs for / on new Gentoo isntallation

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: On 21 February 2010 14:03, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: I know that some of you have been using reiser4 for some years now. How does it compare in performance and reliability

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge mldonkey?

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Crístian Viana wrote: then how was this ebuild (net-p2p/mldonkey-3.0.0) considered stable? a) LTQ b) read the ebuild thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 5.1 and Amarok

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 21 February 2010 11:44:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It's not possible to use Amarok with the embedded USE flag with the newly released MySQL 5.1. Why is that? Can we expect it to work at some point? Do you mean it doesn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge mldonkey?

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Stroller wrote: On 21 Feb 2010, at 14:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Crístian Viana wrote: then how was this ebuild (net-p2p/mldonkey-3.0.0) considered stable? a) LTQ Love that quiche, too, dude! b) read the ebuild Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Cyclic Link Detection

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, ubiquitous1980 wrote: I cannot log into my bank website (Westpac Banking Corporation) due to a Cyclic Link Detection in Konqueror. Any ideas on how to resolve? tell them their webpage is broken?

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 5.1 and Amarok

2010-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It's not possible to use Amarok with the embedded USE flag with the newly released MySQL 5.1. Why is that? Can we expect it to work at some point? you can use amarok with embedded useflag. just unmerge it and emerge it again - I just

Re: [gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1

2010-02-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 20 Februar 2010, Adam wrote: I tried 10.1 but just got a blank screen. The log file shows that xorg couldnt load libdri.so, and the file is missing under /usr/lib64/xorg. (its at /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so in 9.9-r2) So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report?

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 20 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 Februar 2010, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated (with no boot

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010, James wrote: Hello, hdparm -i /dev/hda Model=IBM-DJNA-371350, FwRev=J76OA30K, SerialNo=GM0GMGB6505 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1966kB,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010, walt wrote: On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? If so, wouldn't I use: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda According to the hitachi manual (who made this drive for

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:14 +0100, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks. When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense. With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing time puts a lot of stress on the body

Re: [gentoo-user] Rethinking binfmts [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: For example, debugging information doesnt need to exist within the binary itself. An external file would be fine, too, and allows removing them by standard file operations. man make.conf: splitdebug Prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: openoffice depends on libwpd libwpd depends on libgsf libgsf pulls gconf in. Hm. I actually have OO (non-binary version) installed althoughI dislike

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 16 Februar 2010, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD -- excluding the most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ? I'll be glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ? Is it safe to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 16 Februar 2010, Grant wrote: I thought SSDs were projected to last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much longer than MLC. It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1] [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: On Sunday 14 February 2010 12:40:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 14 February 2010 13:02:48 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I highly recommend drivers to gain the skill of driving a vehicle crash-style without a clutch. Comes in useful sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 15 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/15/2010 2:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks)

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints Run conf-update and press a then d :) But I'm a paranoid snarky old git and that doesn't work for me! But

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 13 February 2010 14:07:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I agree with the concept that people who don't want KDE dependancies, e.g. dbus, shouldn't use KDE apps. Therefore, I avoid amarok, kaffeine, kplayer, etc. What got

Re: [gentoo-user] how to add an ebuild

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Skippy wrote: Greetings; I'm needing to add an ebuild, but there is something I'm not doing right it seems. I have xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2.ebuild. The file that is. I place it in /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ you should place it in

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: However. ELF is analogous (with the exception that you don't have one or two binary apps), and nothing is stopping you from building everything statically, or still using .a Actually, if libraries hadn't been grown

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or mail app that they are offline? use the filesystem ? guess what: I've got a filesystem (a tiny 9p server) which even lets me control

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or mail app that they are offline? use the filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: BRM wrote: It does not exist so that Kmail can index all the files on the system but for the opposite - so that Kmail can participate in the search by allowing the system to be able to search _its_ data. Just to let me get the point

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: KDE apps use PHONON, so they don't have to deal with the underlying sound system. KDE apps use SOLID, so they don't need to care about hardware, hot plugin, etc. KDE apps use dbus so they can share code

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: startup time is not dependet on the size, harddisks are way Assuming you're using an harddisk (or another fast-enough medium) at all. too fast - but symbol resolution. More libs, more work to resolve them

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: don't waste your time - dbis is already there... dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? no, it is ported to different architectures.

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