Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 20:03:33 schrieb 微蔡: 在 2012年11月11日 星期日 12:09:46,Volker Armin Hemmann 写道: Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 15:33:15 schrieb 微蔡: 在 2012年11月10日 星期六 20:56:45,pk 写道: On 2012-11-10 03:03, walt wrote: :) systemd is coming whether you or I like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 21:32:41 schrieb 微蔡: 在 2012年11月11日 星期日 07:22:41,Bruce Hill 写道: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 01:49:03PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: hate is a natural reaction if something you don't need and don't want is forced upon you. If it is also based on lies, hate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 09:35:35 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 23:46:52 schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: Oh, we like digressions :-) I recall that sometimes last year, Tom's Hardware tested running a system without heat sink

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 12:15:14 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and since baby oil is so great for the job we use it as lubcritant and for cooling in engines I was trying to overcome the problem that water causes things to short out when it leaks on a mobo, something

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg ?

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 20:02:55 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, after crosscompiling into a rootfs at /usr/armv7a-softfp-linux-gnueabi/. I want to quickpkg the results. How can I tell quickpkg to take the contents of that rootfs and not parts of the original rootfs? Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 15:06:12 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 12:15:14 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and since baby oil is so great for the job we use it as lubcritant and for cooling in engines I was trying

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new system hardware

2012-11-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 01:42:54 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 19:00:12 schrieb James: Time To build a new AMD system. What I'm sure of: FX-8350 Gigabyte GA-990-FXA-UD3 mobo Suggestions on these hardware: Blueray RW

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner: volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you do not know me. everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I average that one to 1/day. There are two ways to react if someone points out that

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 17:11:49 schrieb Keith Dart: Re 509D8E00.4030208@coolmail.se509D8E00.4030208@coolmail.sek7k1hn$ce6$1...@ger.gma ne.org, Dale said: I don't worry about boot up times much either. Here is why: I was thinking of converting to systemd on my Gentoo laptop. There I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new system hardware

2012-11-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 19:00:12 schrieb James: Time To build a new AMD system. What I'm sure of: FX-8350 Gigabyte GA-990-FXA-UD3 mobo Suggestions on these hardware: Blueray RW (Vendor ?) DDR3 OC 2000 ram (4x8gig, 240) (vendor?) ripjaw? Any fit or heat issues? CPU cooler

Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 15:17:26 schrieb 微蔡: On Saturday 10 November 2012 07:54:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 17:11:49 schrieb Keith Dart: Re 509D8E00.4030208@coolmail.se509D8E00.4030208@coolmail.sek7k1hn$ce6$1@ger.g ma ne.org, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, 16:23:08 schrieb mindrunner: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. that is just stupid. You copy the fragmentation, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2012, 17:03:17 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:06:37 + (UTC) Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-11-05, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: and my prized possession: a Dell-branded Model-M craftily lifted out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] (double)click

2012-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
And different evdev Versions react differently facing a bouncing Button Am 05.11.2012 14:10 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:53:51 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I face an annoying behavior on my main workstation and I can't spot

Re: [gentoo-user] (double)click

2012-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 5. November 2012, 19:39:17 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 05.11.2012 14:35, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: And different evdev Versions react differently facing a bouncing Button the two issues might somehow coincide here ... ;-) Gotta buy myself a new mouse then ... thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 27. Oktober 2012, 11:22:08 schrieb Tami King: Hello, I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut if off there

Re: [gentoo-user] Paranormal Gentoo?

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2012, 17:05:38 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: I have no clue how that can happens... probably kaffeine. Gets a notice that the device status changes and locks up until it is done. But why sudo? -- #163933

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

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2012, 22:04:12 schrieb Kerin Millar: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-25, Kerin Millarkerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: The comment you linked to was fairly bereft of technical content, That comment was from _Ted_Ts'o_ for pete's sake. I don't care it was from

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

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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 works and is not a serious security problem, just use it for a while. They will fix it

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

2012-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 19:20:25 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] (Well, I'm not certain that POSIX thinks of threads as parents to each

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

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 14:15:50 schrieb Timur Aydin: On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 Hello Mark, Thank you for the link to an excellent book. However, it seems the book is talking

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:40:43 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working : Gigabyte

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. I

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 16:40:45 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can

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

2012-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2012, 16:24:59 schrieb Timur Aydin: Hi, I have done many tests on my ~x86 system to confirm that it is nptl based: - I have the nptl and nptlonly use flags in my make.conf and my system is up to date. - Running /lib/libc.so.6 shows: ta@bonsai ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU

2012-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012, 10:24:16 schrieb Alain Didierjean: - Mail original - De: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Envoyé: Vendredi 5 Octobre 2012 19:17:01 Objet: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU Alain Didierjean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU

2012-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012, 07:32:52 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012, 10:24:16 schrieb Alain Didierjean: Gigabyte 990DX from some experience I and a couple and friends had: you never go wrong buying Gigabyte. +1 Right now, Gigabyte has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU

2012-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012, 16:43:20 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012, 07:32:52 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012, 10:24:16 schrieb Alain Didierjean: Gigabyte 990DX from some experience I and a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] qcad

2012-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 28. September 2012, 14:16:00 schrieb Silvio Siefke: Hello, is there a way to install qcad? I have try the overlay, but want not work. Qcad need QT3 but i find not on the system. Has someone a idea? you could try freecad/free-cad. Also qt based. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] qcad

2012-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 29. September 2012, 18:51:31 schrieb Silvio Siefke: Hello, 2012/9/29 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: you could try freecad/free-cad. Also qt based. That i try at the moment, but i think my portage is not correct. Error's without end. And i understand nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012, 16:18:34 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012, 01:51:49 schrieb Dale: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: On 09/18/2012 11:03 PM, Dale wrote: And every day I hear about them finding more oil and gas that they didn't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012, 01:51:49 schrieb Dale: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: On 09/18/2012 11:03 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:53 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: When I moved in with my GF, her electric bill shoot up to the roof

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:57:49 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: The important part is about 'if you are unsure about this, say N here'. Well, I don't think I need USB remote wakeup or anything so I don't think I need

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

2012-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 18. September 2012, 04:50:30 schrieb Dale: One would think that modern stuff would have some sort of protection. Odd. indeed. The modern stuff with protection is called 'usb'. -- #163933

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

2012-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 18. September 2012, 13:03:15 schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: Howdy, I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or something going by. I used the elogviewer to go back and dig it out. This is what it says: Found sources for kernel version: 3.5.0-gentoo Checking for suitable

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 17. September 2012, 12:34:12 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012, 20:39:36 schrieb Dale: Howdy, I was doing a update a while back and noticed a ewarn, enotice or something going by. I used

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

2012-09-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. September 2012, 07:21:17 schrieb Michael Mol: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote The effect is quite bizarre it was the gods who saved me : if I hadn't happened to plug

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to newer kernel completely hoses suspend

2012-09-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 17:18:38 schrieb Daniel Frey: So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided to try to update it anyway, knowing there were problems with suspend and a few other

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

2012-09-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 12:03:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:43:09 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: When I wanted to install Linux on my new netbook 2008, I quickly found that the simplest way to get everything to work was to install Gentoo, using

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

2012-09-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 17:53:23 schrieb Chris Stankevitz: 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 and deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 12:53:41 schrieb Andrey Moshbear: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 15:19:38 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 09:23:58 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way.

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2012, 08:47:12 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 03:20:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I plan to partition + format the SSD in my new machine very soon. The Arch wiki has an article on the subject, which says that recent versions of Fdisk will safely align SSD

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 2. September 2012, 02:54:27 schrieb Dale: Howdy, I have this little weather applet thingy down at the bottom of my desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of KDE, reset the network

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 28. August 2012, 22:57:43 schrieb Alex Schuster: I wrote: Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Frank Steinmetzger writes: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Frank Steinmetzger writes: Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k boundaries (so really only one erase

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 18:14:51 schrieb Alex Schuster: Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Yes, I know that. But why

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 24. August 2012, 11:25:48 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mark Knecht writes: I'm currently just using a single large partition ext3. I didn't do anything special in fdisk so the partition might not be aligned

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012, 14:46:40 schrieb 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

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012, 22:16:19 schrieb Jorge Almeida: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 22.08.2012 20:52, schrieb Jorge Almeida: This should not happen, especially on such a small archive. I've tried `strace xz -t m4-1.4.16.tar.xz`

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive

2012-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 20. August 2012, 23:12:14 schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Aug 20, 2012 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Aug 20, 2012 8:51 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Aug 20, 2012 7:47 PM, Andrea Conti

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem

2012-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 20. August 2012, 01:00:34 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha: On 2012-08-19 at 01:02:24 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 19. August 2012, 00:37:36 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha: Hi, I'm using Gentoo for a couple of years and am quite amazed how good it works. So thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I bring back Konqueror as my man page viewer?

2012-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. August 2012, 03:51:55 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: In KDE, I'm very used to simply type man:foo and have the man page of foo pop up immediately in Konqueror without having to open a terminal or anything. However, since I installed Chromium and making it my default browser, now

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem

2012-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 19. August 2012, 00:37:36 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha: Hi, I'm using Gentoo for a couple of years and am quite amazed how good it works. So thanks to all involved in its develpoment. However, after today's update, when I run revdep-rebuild, I get the message * Checking dynamic

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem

2012-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 19. August 2012, 01:20:05 schrieb Alan McKinnon: A few extra inline comments to reinforce what you just said: My propsal is to add a warning similar to that I get when portage updates are available, so that users know in advance that a particular update will break the

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 17. August 2012, 09:50:40 schrieb Alex Schuster: sounds like a power problem. Either psu is gone bad (get a new one) or your mainboard's power circuitry gone bad (if replacement of psu does not help, get a new one). But first thing first: disconnect your hdds! No reason to risk

Re: [gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu?

2012-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 17. August 2012, 22:34:45 schrieb Jorge Almeida: Does -march=prescott not ensure that the prescott will work even if unsupported flags are added? no every flag on its own. If you set a flag it is your responsibility to check that they actually work. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 13:21:35 schrieb Jason Weisberger: Sure, but wouldn't compression make write operations slower? And isn't he looking for performance? not really. As long as the CPU can compress faster than the disk can write stuff. More interessting: is btrfs trying to be smart

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2012, 00:05:40 schrieb Pandu Poluan: Are the support tools for btrfs (fsck, defrag, etc.) already complete? no -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 13. August 2012, 15:13:03 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Michael Hampicke mgehampi...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy gentooers, I am looking for a filesystem that perfomes well for a cache directory. Here's some data on that dir: - cache for prescaled images

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 13. August 2012, 20:55:23 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: Hey there As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after some convinction work done by the ML and a friend. In order to justify the switch for myself, I made some performance comparisons. So, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 01:18:20 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:20:04AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 13. August 2012, 20:55:23 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: Hey there As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 02:39:44 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:23:25AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so all in all you got performance improvements you had to spend several hundred of dollars for just through recompiling. Should give you food

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 7. August 2012, 01:02:29 schrieb Philip Webb: Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office Firefox this week, neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; the total time the HDD usage remained almost the same. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
What do you gain if you abuse your drive so hard that its lifetime is severly impacted? Am 06.08.2012 11:47 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right.

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 3. August 2012, 01:13:45 schrieb Philip Webb: 120803 Michael Mol wrote: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/solid-state-drives They have just 1 desktop at 128 GB it costs USD 230 ... ! I'm grateful to VAH for getting me to check out the OCZs, but I suspect he's shooting

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 15:57:25 schrieb Dale: I think memory is like hard drives, one or two people have something go wrong and they have to be all bad for everyone. no, it is like: no correct SPD rom ever. Just because most mobos work around it, is not an excuse. Or like an entire

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 16:33:21 schrieb Philip Webb: 120801 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Kingston is way too expensive for their low quality products. You can just buy some cheapo 'almost' noname brand and get better results. At my regular store (no, I'm not schlepping all over town

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Try Kernel 3.0.x. But I suspect hw is the cause. 8400 Bumpgate Material? Maybe Not but i would replace it. Send from phone. Nightmare. Am 03.08.2012 06:30 schrieb Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com: On 08/02/2012 05:26 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 08:33:39 schrieb Daniel Petre: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:25:10AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Eithout looking it up With that prize the case is crap. The psu even more so. And Kingstonugh... noname quality actually ValueRam is pretty decent

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Eithout looking it up With that prize the case is crap. The psu even more so. And Kingstonugh... noname quality Quoting will be shot, blame phone. Am 01.08.2012 05:52 schrieb Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: Thanks for all the advice so far. Here is the list of proposed pieces :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012, 10:08:24 schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/07/12 07:28, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] x32 ABI

2012-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012, 11:40:50 schrieb Alecks Gates: After a recent update to binutils 2.22 I started to look into the x32 ABI support. It looks very interesting and I am thinking about installing it via the experimental stage3[1], but I have some questions to ask first. What are the

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012, 16:24:42 schrieb Philip Webb: 120725 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012, 16:05:29 schrieb Philip Webb: I've listed what's available at the local store, which I trust to stock reliable items, tho' I wouldn't ask their advice. All the AMD's

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012, 16:05:29 schrieb Philip Webb: I've listed what's available at the local store, which I trust to stock reliable items, tho' I wouldn't ask their advice. All the AMD's are 32 nm , while the Intel recommended by one commenter -- Core i5-3570 4-Core Socket LGA1155,

Re: [gentoo-user] eix needs GLIBCXX_3.4.xxx

2012-07-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 22. Juli 2012, 09:52:06 schrieb David Relson: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 how about moving that stuff away and creating a symlink to the correct version? -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot set an icon theme for the kde apps

2012-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2012, 16:59:11 schrieb ivan ivanov: Hello, list. I just installed gentoo for the first time. I am using openbox wm and some kde apps within it (krusader, for example). I installed the systemsettings package(4.8.3) to configure the kde apps. The problem is that i cannot set

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (2) HDD or SSD ?

2012-07-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2012, 03:31:44 schrieb Philip Webb: My regular machine has a Seagate SATA 320 GB ( 3 Gb/s 16 MB ). Have SSDs reached the point where they are reliable long-lasting ? Should I perhaps install an SSD for some uses + an HDD for others ? Is it viable to use an SSD for

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012, 05:57:51 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:34 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2012 8:49 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIPPED = = Requested

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
There is no reason to use 32bit. Am 17.07.2012 04:28 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com: So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2012, 07:52:08 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or = 4 GB, even there 32bit is

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2012, 19:34:32 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: Is it only me or the ~amd64 branch has become really unstable in the few days? (Yeah I know ~amd64 can be unstable to any extent it wants to, but just a qualitative question) It is you. Some gnome/freedesktop/whatthehell stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] consolekit is not active in awesome.

2012-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 14. Juli 2012, 19:07:09 schrieb Leiking: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-930032.html?sid=5c01cd2a5c1d5d0da75c6ac 01abf04a0 next time post something more than just some link I am way too lazy to click. Since it is not clear from your subject I have a question: are you glad and

Re: [gentoo-user] /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 16. Juli 2012, 19:20:55 schrieb Silvio Siefke: Hello, all is done. Now the /home is in other Partion. Sometimes make self trouble where is no trouble. Thanks at all. Regards Silvio could have been so simple... just create partition, mount somewhere, cp -a, clean /home,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 SSD?

2012-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 18:34:01 schrieb Jarry: On 11-Jul-12 18:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Does anyone have any experience with SSD in raid (SW or HW)? Is it safe to use it on server? just ask intel support. Really. quote Dear Mr..., Thank you for contacting Intel® Technical

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 14. Juli 2012, 13:28:32 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP testing, kde, + kde-testing overlay but: /var and PORTDIR not on ssd. So you have these on a HDD? /var for large write count

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run stable to limit compiles I would still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 16:44:57 schrieb walt: On 07/13/2012 01:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 SSD?

2012-07-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2012, 19:26:27 schrieb Jarry: Hi, I'm building small server for VPS-hosting purpose (not decided yet, probably KVM or ESXi). Althought it is non production, reliability is still issue for me. I'm considering using two small SSD (ie. Intel 313, 24GB, SLC) in hw-raid1

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0: Use flag udev seems compulsory.

2012-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2012, 10:40:23 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo. I've just emerge --sync'd, and there's a massive amount of X server updates. When I try emerge -auND, I get told: The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

2012-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

2012-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again now and see what it says about this. protipp: in local.start: dmesg /dmesg.out On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

2012-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Noisy dd operation

2012-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 19:27:36 schrieb Michael Mol: So, I'm using dd to write the Gentoo LiveDVD ISO directly to an SDHC card. I was wondering why the transfer rate had slowed from 20MB/s to 6MB/s, so I ran 'sudo tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if there were I/O errors slowing things

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2012, 23:57:26 schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just in case anyone missed it: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4I Rgds, reeading that and this thread: as a kde user it is refreshing to see that gnome3 is worse than KDE 4.0 I hope all those arrogant

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment

2012-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 11:52:48 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: So, while we're meta-discussing Linus' rant on Gnome3, here's an article from TechRadar exploring the usability of the leading Linux desktop environments.

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