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

2012-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 17:33:58 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote In my humble opinion, you should use whatever

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

2012-06-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2012, 23:12:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/06/12 21:27, walt wrote: I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon and their customer base will vanish unless they capture

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

2012-06-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2012, 19:06:30 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2012, 23:12:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI - time to mask ati-drivers above 12.4 if you're Radeon 5400

2012-06-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 11. Juni 2012, 13:04:14 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: On 06/11/2012 11:26:56 AM, Adam Carter wrote: 12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series, so if you're using them you probably want to; # echo x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4 /etc/portage/package.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Oh no! My raid5 is not assembled, and how I fixed it.

2012-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 9. Juni 2012, 10:21:51 schrieb Walter Dnes: Are you using sys-fs/mdadm-3.2.4 or sys-fs/mdadm-3.2.5? If so see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/255107 (Gentoo Dev list) and bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416081 yeah, saw similar for a while. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012, 00:27:09 schrieb Michael Sullivan: =x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.6.3:4[accessibility,kde] required by (net-wireless/bluedevil-1.1-r2::gentoo, installed) I think that is your culprit. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012, 12:51:37 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On 06/03/12 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: But his emerge wants to install qt-4.8.1, added to the tree 29 Mar 2012 and 4.8.1-r1 went stable 20 May 2012. So while I agree he should sync a tad more often, I don't think that is his real

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 29. Mai 2012, 08:58:52 schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:30 AM, microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 2012/5/29 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] I'm mostly looking forward to Bulldozer support and RDRAND. LOL I thought no one buys it The

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2012, 09:09:26 schrieb Grant: I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie manager should follow? seriously? asking

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012, 16:37:01 schrieb walt: I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's

Re: [gentoo-user] skype package changes I don't understand

2012-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 21. Mai 2012, 08:55:25 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I love my Gentoo-devs, but what is the train of thought here? skype-2.2.0.35-r1 was

Re: [gentoo-user] skype package changes I don't understand

2012-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 21. Mai 2012, 10:54:08 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP if you use testing, you have to deal with such kind of situations. Using a known broken version is just stupid. There isn't a choice between those two.

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?

2012-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2012, 17:11:20 schrieb Matthias Hanft: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all? At least, equery uses package *does* work with uninstalled packages. because you just need to look at the useflags and ?DEPEND

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to {RAM,Disk]

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 18. Mai 2012, 22:42:59 schrieb Ignas Anikevicius: On 18/05/12 20:59, Alex Schuster wrote: Suspend to ram (using the hibernate-ram command from sys-power/hibernate-script) seems to work better. What about pm-utils? Does it work better or worse than hibernate-script. I had 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to {RAM,Disk]

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 18. Mai 2012, 17:26:10 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Mai 2012, 22:42:59 schrieb Ignas Anikevicius: On 18/05/12 20:59, Alex Schuster wrote: Suspend to ram (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2012, 05:19:21 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, how can I list all files of packages which is installed cat /var/db/pkg/[CATEGORY]/[PACKAGE]/CONTENTS and which is not installed not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all? maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 14. Mai 2012, 19:46:39 schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters on this list. Yo Dale, You might want to re-calibrate your stats

Re: [gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012, 20:58:51 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: Hi, I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile during a world update. I reverted back to 4.8, but now certain applications complain about .49 missing. revdep-rebuild isn't able to detect breakages and neither

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012, 13:28:45 schrieb walt: I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't understand: #hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.00 seconds = 88.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 268 MB in 3.01 seconds =

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2012, 10:34:12 schrieb Mick: On Thursday 10 May 2012 19:51:14 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 May 2012 14:01, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012, 03:47:09 schrieb Dale: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing these green drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. When comparing them to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 16:56:43 schrieb walt: On 05/07/2012 04:13 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And vanilla-sources just work. Stable. Even with suspend to ram and ati drivers. That confuses me. Are you saying the gentoo-sources don't 'just work'? I don't know, haven't used gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster: Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M ] Urs Schutz writes: Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk...

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt nice idea -

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 19:25:29 schrieb Michael Hampicke: nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now? The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays keyboard input? That is just idiotic. It was just an idea, but maybe there's something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 15:56:20 schrieb walt: On 05/07/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt # /usr/src/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Backscatter and nikko

2012-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012, 16:36:14 schrieb Michael Mol: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 03.05.2012 18:08, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else getting a

Re: [gentoo-user] printer

2012-04-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 29. April 2012, 21:55:08 schrieb Stephane Guedon: Hi everyone I am now forced to replace my epson printer. Anyone think of a printer for which ink is quite cheap (contrary to the epson) and that allow to have status not only in windows ? Epson as an utility to have ink

Re: [gentoo-user] printer

2012-04-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 29. April 2012, 21:55:08 schrieb Stephane Guedon: Hi everyone I am now forced to replace my epson printer. Anyone think of a printer for which ink is quite cheap (contrary to the epson) and that allow to have status not only in windows ? Epson as an utility to have ink

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2012, 22:50:53 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I've had two segfaults I'd never seen before. One in sudo and one in rdesktop. Updates later when I get things better tracked down. I had a gcc segfault

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2012, 12:53:28 schrieb Michael Mol: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Qian Qiao qian.q...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26,

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Rebuilt everything. Congrats Am 23.04.2012 04:17 schrieb Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: On Apr 23, 2012 1:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag,... What about statically linked packages? Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Strange, never had problems in that regard. Am 23.04.2012 05:24 schrieb kwk...@hkbn.net: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:12:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 23, 2012 1:09 A... Bless those who keeps on telling people there is no need to rebuild packages after glibc upgrade, for they

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 23. April 2012, 06:31:31 schrieb Graham Murray: kwk...@hkbn.net writes: Bless those who keeps on telling people there is no need to rebuild packages after glibc upgrade, for they must have not used pam or any other packages that uses dlopen(). So which packages need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 22. April 2012, 19:52:16 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Just browsed the changelog of glibc-2.15: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg00836.html When I read the NEWS section there with all that optimized stuff I wonder if it makes any sense to rebuild packages here

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 20. April 2012, 05:25:58 schrieb Philip Webb: My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. I've now successfully installed a new one, but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk (803 etc). The problem seems to be that the kernel has AHCI enabled, which was

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu sched for bulldozer

2012-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 17. April 2012, 21:20:42 schrieb Andrey Moshbear: Which cpu scheduler would work best for AMD Bulldozer? The two-level (4 macro-cores * 2 semi-cores) system looks like BFS wouldn't work efficiently on it. the same that works best for everybody else. Default. bfs only works

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 16. April 2012, 03:14:15 schrieb Grant: I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too large for the available 1.44MB DOS

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 15. April 2012, 09:18:15 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:30:02PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 02:11:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: If it's PCIe, so be it. Actually, a post that prevents me wasting money is helpful G. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 15. April 2012, 16:44:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 15.04.2012 16:22, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 15.04.2012 15:18, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:30:02PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 15. April 2012, 16:54:58 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 15. April 2012, 16:44:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 15.04.2012 16:22, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:09 AM

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 02:11:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short of ripping most all the guts out and starting again). I know the industry has currently settled on PCIe,

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 13:51:28 schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Apr 11, 2012 1:15 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short of ripping most all the guts out

Re: [gentoo-user] FFTOOLS flags?

2012-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 6. April 2012, 12:15:05 schrieb Willie WY Wong: Hi list: emerge --pretend --update world today brought up a new version of ffmpeg. This time it has a new set of configuration options FFTOOLS [ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2 [0.10] FFTOOLS=-aviocat% -cws2fws% -ffeval%

Re: [gentoo-user] FFTOOLS flags?

2012-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 6. April 2012, 13:31:59 schrieb Willie WY Wong: On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:58:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: Am Freitag, 6. April 2012, 12:15:05 schrieb Willie WY Wong: emerge --pretend --update world today brought up a new version of ffmpeg

Re: [gentoo-user] FFTOOLS flags?

2012-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 6. April 2012, 14:23:18 schrieb Willie WY Wong: On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 01:53:22PM +0200, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: [ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2 [0.10] FFTOOLS=-aviocat% -cws2fws% -ffeval% -graph2dot% -ismindex% -pktdumper% -qt-faststart

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for saving power needed...

2012-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. April 2012, 17:04:58 schrieb Jarry: Hi, admin of a colo-center keeps complaining my server is going a little over power-limit (which they have set as ~120W per 24h/avg, while my server needs ~130-135W). So I need to find a way to save at least those 15W, or I will be moved to

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2012, 21:44:53 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 08:01:59 schrieb Bruce Hill, Jr.: On March 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :( -- :wq Works on my computers.

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 09:23:00 schrieb Bruce Hill, Jr.: On March 18, 2012 at 8:47 AM Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 08:01:59 schrieb Bruce Hill, Jr.: On March 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 13:14:48 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put sys-fs/udev-171-r5 in /etc/portage/package.mask ? I have masked 171 and everything above for a while now. So

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what? Put everything on one partition and go on. I will not use an initramfs if I can get away with it. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 17. März 2012, 20:40:02 schrieb pk: On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what? Put everything on one partition and go

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS problem

2012-03-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 12. März 2012, 12:32:01 schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! Recently, my sister could not log in to KDE after I had done some updates. X crashed when loggin into KDE. It turned out that x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4-r1 was the problem when compiled with explict CFLAGS, instead of just using

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. KDE System Settings has a menu for

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 07:44:37 schrieb Philip Webb: 120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, 21:14:21 schrieb Grant: [snip] I'm amazed but disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE and power cable fixed it. Which is your favorite tool for testing a HD's integrity with and without S.M.A.R.T. support? [I] gnome-extra/gsmartcontrol [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 21:03:47 schrieb John: Hi folks, I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. no problem. I've got ADD in the extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things 'UNIX' (command line and such) is just too difficult for

[gentoo-user] Konsole + zsh ctrl-c does not work anymore as expected

2012-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hello everybody, since upgrading zsh to 4.3.17 I have a problem with Konsole 4.8.0. ctrl-c does not quit a running program. It ends su -/sux - sessions. log in as user start konsole su - ping www.google.com hit ctrl-c su-session quit. user again, ping still running. Before I open a bug, has

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole + zsh ctrl-c does not work anymore as expected

2012-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, 21:08:50 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:54:06 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: since upgrading zsh to 4.3.17 I have a problem with Konsole 4.8.0. ctrl-c does not quit a running program. It ends su -/sux - sessions. log in as user start

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] KDE Replace Kwin with something else

2012-02-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 02:14:01 schrieb Ignas Anikevicius: On 24/02/12 02:01, Alex Schuster wrote: I find metacity.desktop and openbox.desktop in /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/windowmanagers/, so I guess you have to find awesome.desktop, and put it there. Or create such a file yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell 9128 controller and SSD in Gentoo

2012-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 01:25:24 schrieb Paul Hartman: Hi, I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3 chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always exclusively from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky:

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:39:27 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 12:41:25 schrieb Grant: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? - Grant konqueror or chromium. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

2012-02-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to version 4.4.11.1.

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:06:41 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, beware of installing postfix-2.9.0 When started it tries to access /usr/lib/postfix but files have been installed into /usr/libexec/postfix postfix 2.9.0 works fine for me. But I also run cfg-update after the update and

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:47:45 schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.02.2012 18:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:06:41 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, beware of installing postfix-2.9.0

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:05:38 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:47:45 schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Another issue/questions updating udev from 164-r2 to 171-r5

2012-02-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2012, 12:34:56 schrieb Tanstaafl: I just updated these, and am unsure how to deal with the issues... First issue: *** Found sources for kernel version: 3.0.6-gentoo Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... ERROR: setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine jack anyone?

2012-01-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2012, 20:02:44 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [12-01-30 19:40]: Am 30.01.2012 19:10, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, is there any way (and if yes: how?) to convince kaffeine to connect to jack? Thank you very much in

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, have you read googles privacy changes yourself? I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.

Re: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
last time I played with that I had to pretty much rebuild the system because nothing worked anymore. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice : solved

2012-01-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2012, 00:25:47 schrieb Philip Webb: Thanks for the 2 responses, which are useful. For export, 3.5.0.1 does the job without any problem, so it was something wrong with 3.5.0.0, which got pulled very quickly. For import, I was expecting something more complicated

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2012, 19:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 is now testing, while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in stable. I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago, but PDF export was not working. Has

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2012, 12:20:08 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 10:11 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: What am I missing? have you set the type to linux raid autodetect? have you tried mdadm --assemble? mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2012, 13:27:04 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: I tried changing the type of each array element in fdisk to fd (linux raid autodetect. The array is still not being recognised at boot, with the same 'cannot read superblock' error. I also tried re-running mdadm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 23:44:10 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: in your case sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc of course ;) One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able to get rid

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 22:45:45 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: the short one: partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition scheme to the other disks. run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 20:13:04 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 22:45:45 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: the short one: partition one

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 20:13:04 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 22:45:45 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: the short one: partition one

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 21:28:32 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 11:26:54 schrieb Lorenzo Bandieri: emerge smartmontools then when that is done, do this: smartctl -t long /dev/sddrive letter here When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will complete. It is usually a 24 hour format

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 14:36:08 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: The 03/01/12, Alan McKinnon wrote: If you go back through the list archives you will find the enormous thread that caused Walter to start down this road in the first place. His efforts are an attempt to deal with the gigantic

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 2. Januar 2012, 14:22:05 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: snip Reading back through this thread I don't see

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: What happens if you run xterm? In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a command prompt and everything. I had to install xterm, but on install I could run xterm and it provides me with a command prompt.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: What happens if you run xterm? In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a command prompt

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: What happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sending my first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. Colleen

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:10:25 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Sun, Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:01:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 19:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:10:25 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

2011-12-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
onomatopoeia gentoo linux in named after gentoo penguins. Those are small and fast. They are named after the sound they make if you bring one to Tour d'Argent and put it into the duck press. -- #163933

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Why I asked to just know if Gentoo is better or openSUSE is better for a novice who want to learn Linux, just coming directly from Windows...that's why...However, I have liked the Ubuntu (since it is easy and nice) but don't know about all Linux in generalis Gentoo is also using the same Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade

2011-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
2011/11/25 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, 微菜 micro...@fedoraproject.org mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道: On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, After

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
2011/11/25 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is highly-partitioned, like this: / /boot okay /usr why? just makes your life harder. /tmp okay /usr/portage == via NFS if it makes you happy... /var okay

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

2011-11-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 20 November 2011, 11:09:05 schrieb v...@ukr.net: Hello! I decided to upgrade LibreOffice this week to the verstion 3.4.4. Before trying to build this package, emerge performed the pre-check of available space on my hard disk - 9GB. I did have this amount of free space on the

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