[gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Myers
of Gentoo's nicest features; constantly being up to date. In contrast to Gentoo, most distros have a new version released every year or so which includes major updates like new kernels, sound drivers, updated software, etc. In Gentoo, the system is updated while you are using it. This causes us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-01 Thread Aniruddha
asking for a relief from having to constantly worry if updating something out of the 300 packages that need updated is going to break something, and not having to make sure etc-update isn't going to destroy my custom configs afterwards. If it wasn't for that, Gentoo would be perfect. I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:01 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: The only last thing I could suggest is running lsof to see what files are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. I tried lsof, but is there a possibility to run it constantly or for a specified time to catch

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
I'm trying to make, and everybody else seems to be missing, is that *THE DEFAULTS ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING UNDER OUR FEET*. Several weeks ago, I didn't have to put -gnome in USE in /etc/make.conf. Now I do. Several months ago, I didn't have to put -ipv6 in USE. Now I do. What's going

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-11 Thread Ian K
that my laptop cooling fans are on (probably about mid-speed) *constantly*. I'm looking over, and seeing my computer idling at 0% CPU usage. Its fans are blasting cool air through it, and its running a lot less hot. Looks like you solved the problem. Heck, it doesn't matter if its the CPU or GPU warming

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available

2005-08-19 Thread Willie Wong
emerge ... to not constantly worry about the up-and-down jumpiness of updates. Best, W -- `You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' `Yeah,' said Zaphod, `but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' `THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' `No, just A Zaphod Bebblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' `But sir

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Crute
loop of the radar. Click on Stop to stop the loop, and the log stops growing. This is another issue that seems related to the xorg update, as I usually have that page running constantly (with AutoUpdate is ON). Any ideas why this might be happening? This sounds like a font issue. I am running

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-07 Thread Devon Miller
An option for ports that don't need to be open constantly (like 80 443) is to use net-misc/knockd.Portknocking allows a port to be opened on demand in response to a series of attempted port opens.There's a wiki page on it here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking.Note, if he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found

2009-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
, Mark yes, you 'need' mtrr. Not having working mtrr is like driving a car while constantly stepping on the brakes and gas at the same time. There is lots of stuff about that in Documentation/ - use grep to find it.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Arttu V.
trudging through that you might understand why Gentoo Java team has constantly several dev positions advertised on help wanted. Some of Java's ways don't mix that well with Gentoo's approaches, especially with compiling and packaging (installations). If you are in a hurry of some sort, you might

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
After trudging through that you might understand why Gentoo Java team has constantly several dev positions advertised on help wanted. Some of Java's ways don't mix that well with Gentoo's approaches, especially with compiling and packaging (installations). If you are in a hurry of some sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange iwl3945 behavior (possibly wpa_supplicant related?)

2009-11-07 Thread Mike Edenfield
and/or wpa_supplicant, but I have no idea what that difference is. (Also, to head off the upcoming just don't use NetworkManager: this laptop is eventually going to someone who'll be roaming a lot more than I do, for whom constantly editing wpa_supplicant.conf isn't really an option. Wicd doesn't support

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

2010-02-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
that they don't have a connection to the internet. If you're offline often you will know it, and if not you have something to look into. oh yeah, it is just a great thing that the mail app constantly tries to reach servers and then throws errors. Not like this needs zero cpu cycles and zero ram. It is so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
and playing Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly watchable. I'm using a dual-core 3.1Ghz CPU and one of the cores is only taxed up to 60% during playback, but frames are still being dropped constantly. Does anyone know where the bottleneck might be? Not sure. Could be wrong CPU load display; which

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
and playing Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly watchable. I'm using a dual-core 3.1Ghz CPU and one of the cores is only taxed up to 60% during playback, but frames are still being dropped constantly. Does anyone know where the bottleneck might be? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

2010-09-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Bach
to put it on Linux. However, its downloads are for Fedora and Ubuntu, or a source file which requires Nautilus. Also, I don't want its daemon running constantly, altho that feature is part of what makes it interesting wth the laptop and phone. Searches bring up various pages, but nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
. Best practices for batteries (any type, apart from Lead Acid ;) ) is to take them out of the laptop when running for long periods from the mains. This is to prevent the batteries from being constantly charged. Now, since this is an old laptop (6 years) I am skeptical about buying a replacement

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation

2010-11-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
right now is http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/packaging/gentoo vapier's overlay was out of date, is now being updated and is in a state of flux, i.e. constantly breaking and changing. I've never heard of the overlay on the gentoo-wiki page. To use the e17 window manager

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread Mick
to go dark background. And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so I'm constantly have to do :set bg=light. I use xterm. Sorry I don't have an answer to the OP, although Neil's suggestion should allow him to get rid of yellow fg colour. @Bill: Is colordiff any

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting OpenLDAP

2011-03-23 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 22:00:21 Johannes Geiss wrote: Hi there, I try to start an LDAP-service for managing by eMail-Addresses centralised on my server. Unfortunately I constantly fail to start slapd. Are you trying to start is using the init-script? I tried a lot of documentations I've

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
. Constantly freezing UI, flash video still showing when when window is closed, etc. With earlier 10.x series it was (mostly) okay, it was definitely usable. With 10.3 so far it is basically a waste of time to try loading any flash objects. Noscript/adblock to the rescue. ;) [I] www-plugins

Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

2011-07-21 Thread Grant
? Is this coming from someone who uses Gentoo linux, which is constantly downloading/compiling/linking object files?   Syslog and other loggers writing everything under the sun to a log file.  Backups, journal writes, database transactions, etc.  Compare how many disk transactions take place

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Reset of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-17 Thread meino . cramer
and everything typed then is typed as if the CTRL-Key constantly locked (I am using the X-window-system with openbox as windowmanager. There is no session management.) It is possible to revert back to normal when I switch from X-windows to the Linux console (CTRL-ALT-F1) and back to X (CTRL-ALT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
of SCSI. IIRC USB3 is interrupt-driven instead of constantly polling the device.

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

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
is a good thing, but you need to get past that initial hurdle before you're ready to tackle it, and Ubuntu handles that initial hurdle quite well. Give a user six months to a year, and they'll grow tired of Ubuntu constantly breaking their customizations, and they'll probably switch to Debian

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

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Mol
that you're doing something exotic. Once you find out, you generally have two options: Follow the route most people go (such as is happening with udev), or help fix the system so that your desired approach still works (such as the fellow who's been working with mdev). If you're constantly exploring

[gentoo-user] For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
For those who complain about default portage behavior: It changes constantly. If you can't accept the bleeding edge behavior, you're probably using the wrong distro. There are always going to be changes. Some you don't like, some you say oh gosh, finally!. For the latter, I cheer, for former, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-07 Thread Julian Simioni
, it will be cleaned up, so the contents are constantly changing during an emerge, and it may not be easy to track down after the fact.

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-07 Thread Julian Simioni
megabytes as packages are compiled. Once the compilation finishes successfully, it will be cleaned up, so the contents are constantly changing during an emerge, and it may not be easy to track down after the fact. And only after hitting send to I register the line where you mention that you do

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Matthew Marlowe
the biggest things to think about: - nfs versions (some work better or are more compatible with others) - nfs write/read cache settings - use nfsstat to get an idea of what the nfs traffic is like - is filesystem constantly having locking issues or refreshing file attributes? might need to change

[gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
, obviously b/c the cache is constantly being changed. It's just not suitable for little Atoms. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. The duration of a minute is relative. It depends on the side of the toilet door you are standing

Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Walker
chain-load the iso image or extracts the necessary files (using rsync) from the iso image. Basically you can multi-boot of a single USB partition. They do the heavy lifting for you by constantly updating the back-end code for each Distro release (as things to change with how distros boot). Doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
with the udev machinations - I have maybe 15 machines and vm's running eudev, no udev ... :) nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: the only real different is USE=rule-generator and that's it and sys-fs/eudev is constantly

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
, the bugs assigned to udev-bugs@g.o apply also to sys-fs/eudev and they have even more in their github ticketing system. And sys-fs/udev maintainers have to constantly monitor sys-fs/eudev so it doesn't fall too much behind, which adds double work unnecessarily. They don't keep it up-to-date

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
. Like said earlier, the bugs assigned to udev-bugs@g.o apply also to sys-fs/eudev and they have even more in their github ticketing system. And sys-fs/udev maintainers have to constantly monitor sys-fs/eudev so it doesn't fall too much behind, which adds double work unnecessarily. They don't keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
, in fact, less than what sys-fs/eudev has. Like said earlier, the bugs assigned to udev-bugs@g.o apply also to sys-fs/eudev and they have even more in their github ticketing system. And sys-fs/udev maintainers have to constantly monitor sys-fs/eudev so it doesn't fall too much behind, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
. And no, sys-fs/udev doesn't have issues, in fact, less than what sys-fs/eudev has. Like said earlier, the bugs assigned to udev-bugs@g.o apply also to sys-fs/eudev and they have even more in their github ticketing system. And sys-fs/udev maintainers have to constantly monitor sys-fs/eudev so it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] PMTUD

2013-09-01 Thread Grant
(squid) or if the problem remains would point to network configuration issues. How can I make this determination? I'm testing a 50MB scp over hotel wifi from my laptop to the remote proxy server now (with squid running in case it matters) and it seems OK. It oscillates constantly between 0.0KB/s

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
not change much, especially constantly grow over time (like requirements for /home can and will)- it may fluctuate (increase, decrease) *a little* over time, but it definitely should not grow substantially, so, if you had to resize it, most likely it is because you simply didn't allocate enough

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-30 Thread Joost Roeleveld
much, especially constantly grow over time (like requirements for /home can and will)- it may fluctuate (increase, decrease) *a little* over time, but it definitely should not grow substantially, so, if you had to resize it, most likely it is because you simply didn't allocate enough room

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 11/2/2013 07:04, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. These are good, thank you. Short answer here is no. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? At least one of my machines is constantly

[gentoo-user] Re: using eclipse with java

2014-04-17 Thread James
? wiki.eclipse.org but am not sure where to go to from here. Your not alone. Elipse is a constantly morphing ecosystem where billion dollar boys twist the future for their $elfish reason$. For example, TI installes Code Composer on top of eclipse for their internet of things embedded linux development ecosystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
and gnashing of teeth as stuff constantly *breaks* that *never* broke before. Nothing has been broken so far yet. People are just facing hard realities and noticing some packages have been abandoned for years, even before systemd became popular as it is now. You can't blame systemd, upower, and other

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater constantly rebuilds one same package

2014-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/08/2014 23:23, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/08/2014 18:09, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Сергей protsero...@gmail.com wrote: I have looked at dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r4 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Booted Gentoo the first time on the Arietta.G25...but...

2014-11-19 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 18:12, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip Hi Joost, I tried that for the Beaglebone Black I also use. It will not work constantly enough well to setup a complete system. There are two sources for trouble: The makefiles access meta-applications like moc fpr qt and either try to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-22 Thread wireless
of devs deciding to fork udev. Rich Not really. I think you misss my points and intentions exactly. Java is critical and growing. Folks are constantly knocking on the gentoo door with technologies, that are java centric. Here is the latest one, just posted to gentoo-dev: https://wiki.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-22 Thread Tom H
category. Phones actually have plenty of storage, RAM, and CPU by most embedded standards. The main issue is battery use, which is mostly about ensuring that your software isn't constantly waking up the CPU. If systemd is well-behaved in this regard I'd expect it to work on a phone just fine

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Mick
it /var/log/messages (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see what's going on it right now) I noticed the same on a recent installation. /var/log/syslog is not created by default any more, when installing syslog-ng. I haven't looked in the /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

2016-06-15 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:41:07 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:42:45 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > > > But the manual and the html pages constantly talk about the gr

Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

2016-06-15 Thread covici
Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:41:07 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:42:45 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]: CH340 working/not working with ESP286 Node MCU

2016-07-08 Thread Corbin Bird
a specific database. The hardware ID's database may need to be updated ( or supplemented ). The package "sys-apps/pciutils" has the hardware database included in it. I have a 990FX chipset MB that is constantly ID as a 880 chipset board. No info on 990FX chipsets found in the hardware ID'

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
worse ext3 due to its journal) may very well destroy your thumb drive faster. I was once able to destroy a cheap thumb drive within two weeks by putting something else on it than FAT32, and wrote some multiple 10 GBs to it constantly in small blocks. Now it has unusable blocks spread all over its st

[gentoo-user] Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
t on the desktop. I don't even need the ability to use an image as my desktop "wallpaper": all I want is a user-configurable sold color. When I'm moving/resizing a window, all I want to see is a wireframe -- I don't need a window's contents being re-rendered constantly as I move or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage vs Qt

2016-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
, but it's brute >>> force. >>> >>> Portage sb able to resolve this kind of conflict for itself. >>> If not, then at least it should advise users intelligently >>> to do what I've just described. It can happen with other sets of >>> pkgs. >>> &

Re: [gentoo-user] disaster recovery - planning

2017-03-20 Thread Rich Freeman
erything and the rules are much more inclusive there. I just exclude things like /sys, /proc, anything with a bind mount (so as to not save it twice), /usr/portage (changes constantly, trivial to restore), all those .snapshots directories, and the same sorts of things in chroots (but not containers). As

Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?

2017-07-30 Thread Rich Freeman
if you occassionally do look at one, in order for it to be there you have thousands of them constantly being synced. The other challenge was that with the way rsync worked it greatly increases the bandwidth transferred if new entries are added to the top (if they were added to the bottom rsync woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype

2017-11-27 Thread Corbin
tting good information... > personal opinion/ It is the software author / maintainer being stupid. Two Possibilities : # 1 : They can't do it right the first time, so they get to constantly redo it. # 2 : Skype is a MS product. MS still ( on purpose ) breaks their software routinely so it will not work on other OS's. NOTE : Microsoft has a reputation for being a "feckless weasel" when it comes to what is supported and how it is supported. /personal opinion. Corbin

[gentoo-user] Re: A lawyer?!

2018-12-28 Thread vsnsdualce
w the answer to that: never. I notice that the nobles of europe, those that were not murdered, are still in the possession of their inherited lands, while you americans are poor as you constantly divide you wealth in your quest to be "real men". (You also murder anyone who likes cute youn

Re: [gentoo-user] Creative Sound Blaster Z 5.1 (CA0132)

2020-03-29 Thread Alexandru N. Barloiu
Now I kinda have to because the sound ain't right. But it's not my sound board. With ac97 you never notice stuff like this, and even if you do, you can't change anything about. this movie is too bass-ey. or too treble-ey. Now you constantly start alsa-mixer to adjust the controls to sound just right.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
en wrote: > >> [2021-09-26 11:57] Peter Humphrey > >> > >>> part text/plain 382 > >>> Hello list, > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >>> I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There > >>> are 35

RE: [gentoo-user] Iphone and transferring image files, pics and videos.

2021-09-28 Thread Laurence Perkins
but can seamlessly pull them back in should you want to look at them full-size. Plus it lets you synchronize notes for things like grocery lists at no extra charge. I know a few people who use iPhones with Linux. It can usually be made to work with some trouble, but Apple constantly tries t

Re: [gentoo-user] Iphone and transferring image files, pics and videos.

2021-09-28 Thread Dale
correctly, then when you run > low on space, you can tell it to remove the local copies of the older > pictures and it will keep only the thumbnails on the phone itself, but can > seamlessly pull them back in should you want to look at them full-size. > > Plus it lets you synchron

RE: [gentoo-user] Synchronous writes over the network.

2021-12-28 Thread Laurence Perkins
xpendable >> resources - and plotting Chia is actually a fairly ideal use case as you >> write a few hundred GB and then you trim it all when you're done, so the >> entirety of the drive is getting turned over regularly. People plotting >> Chia were literally going t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Miles Malone
threads very rarely makes sense for anything, btw. On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:41, Miles Malone wrote: > > Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things > globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage > them per-package... Cause there's far mo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

2022-01-19 Thread Robert David
does not work as expected, you may return to the previous BE (if you didnt remove it). Robert. On 1/9/22 12:47, gevisz wrote: I constantly have problems with updating/recompiling tensorflow. Sometimes, it compiles ok but most of the time it is not. The last time when it failed to recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
accept that your backups will run at maybe 25% of the speed of the scratch drive since it will be constantly seeking between writing new slices and reading old ones. Or if you have enough RAM you could use a tmpfs for that but that seems really cumbersome unless you use very small slices and have the shuffling scripted. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-12 Thread Rich Freeman
attle if you want to run stable. If you run LTS they just work. When I was running btrfs I wanted to stick to LTS mainly because btrfs was constantly breaking things in new releases, which like every other subsystem are introduced in new branches. That was a while ago and maybe btrfs is more

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-10 Thread William Kenworthy
(things ending in ~ which Emacs constantly makes). But my software builds and runs. It could have been a lot worse. Boys and girls, don't use $ find | xargs rm unless you really know what you're doing. And even then, it's probably better not to. ;-( It occurred to me fairly quickly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-09 Thread Walter Dnes
our case, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". > BTW I do recommend ca.inter.net (their name) for I/net + e-mail : > I've used them happily for 15 years ; they are in Waterloo, Ont. As an incentive to go fibre, EBOX/Bell is offering me somewhat faster fibre service for the sa

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
. Again, you're completely exaggerating - as usual. and have to be monitored constantly (f* /var is full, f* /tmp is full f* I have to remount /usr). What are you talking about? constantly? almost everyday, True. A df is really hard. Yes, sure. And almost everyday sounds VERY MUCH

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
. That's about all most people inspect. I think you misunderstand how Gentoo works. First of all, there's no such thing as the latest Gentoo version. What you do have is the current state of the portage tree and that is constantly changing. All that 2008 is, is a workable snapshot of a basic system

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Justin
on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. I think you misunderstand how Gentoo works. First of all, there's no such thing as the latest Gentoo version. What you do have is the current state of the portage tree and that is constantly changing. All that 2008

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
is to be honest, and not blame anyone else while you are the only guilty. believe me, all the guys constantly whining around on nvnews have shown nvidia already that there are people who care about this. This is not about old or new hardware, this is about getting a free driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Jil Larner
, and it does not result in decisions being made or solutions found. Ciaran Mcreesh - I am very specifically looking at you here. The council - I'm not up to date on that aspect so can't comment. When I read about current Gentoo politics I can't help but constantly think of just one word

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Dale
is constantly busy. Thus, no real extra cpu load is happening, the machine does not appear at all sluggish and the only harm is that it is annoying as hell. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Woah, now were getting somewhere. After reading that, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
(probably kdebase on my systems) when so many others depend on it. The original dependent package may not even be present, as with kdebase here. Really, I am constantly shocked by the blinkers some people wear: That's the way you're supposed to do it everyone else does. The quote should be that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread michael
as possible and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly. It's showing a pretty neat 35C right now, running Azureus

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
. This time I decided to keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread brettholcomb
. This time I decided to keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread michael
. This time I decided to keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly. It's showing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Jon Hardcastle
Jon Hardcastle wrote: Hi, i have spent the weekend trying to get my new Hauppage USB tv stick to work under linux. I have been constantly perplexed by references to compilable kernel modules I couldn't see! I assumed

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-16 Thread A. R.
, -AR On 5/16/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using gnome with gentoo, but i have a major bug with nautilus which results in it constantly crashing. Whatever I click on a file nautilus crases and asks to be reloaded, I have tried remerging, updating, uninstalling

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
freebsd machine. I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, maybe shrink a few mb. I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread David Grant
On 4/16/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/4/16, David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem with the drive although it might be. I have seen hard resetting port messages through my google searches but often

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed

2006-03-14 Thread Justin Krejci
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:08 am, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Barkalow
to constantly worry if updating something out of the 300 packages that need updated is going to break something, and not having to make sure etc-update isn't going to destroy my custom configs afterwards. If it wasn't for that, Gentoo would be perfect. I'm sure there's got to be others

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Fish
) I notice that my laptop cooling fans are on (probably about mid-speed) *constantly*. I'm looking over, and seeing my computer idling at 0% CPU usage. Its fans are blasting cool air through it, and its running a lot less hot. Looks like you solved the problem. Heck, it doesn't matter if its the CPU

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
are released every day. I can't remember a single day in the last month where emerge -uDp reported no packages to update. So if you run a few days and constantly see emerge -uDp reporting no packages, there's probably a sync problem. Well 2 things. I'm going to implement your scripts now. And I shall

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-07 Thread motub
for that case. But not for every case that this might occur, and frankly, it's a losing proposition (either you have to be constantly on the ball as to how much space every program you want needs to emerge, or you have to give up some stuff). Less than 5GB is really not enough for a Gentoo install

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Holly Bostick
for a couple of months (had to hack the ebuild to get it to compile). I'm looking forward to upgrading to the new ebuild to see if all of the kinks have been ironed out. Almost all Linux software is a constantly-evolving WIP, and conforming a WIP to a distribution which itself is a WIP is a big

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
'Just Work'. Unfortunately for folks like me portage keeps me far more updated than I really think I need to be. All my desktop and laptop machines (5 PCs) are almost constantly doing compiles. On the other hand my 4 MythTV frontend machines haven't been touched in 1-2 months. Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
think I have 30 tabs open constantly? Of *course* I use Session Saver to maintain them, usually in groups of tabs related to whatever projects I'm working on at the moment, atm it's subtitling, Morrowind, fvwm, and a bunch on css and web page design, plus a couple extra for random things like reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Outputing 15.9kHz?

2006-09-12 Thread Grant
InputDevice mouse1 CorePointer InputDevice keyboard1 CoreKeyboard EndSection When I try to open an xfce4 desktop like this, the image is somewhat scrambled and constantly rolls on the TV. It looks normal on a monitor with the same settings. /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports this: (II) I810(0

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-04 Thread Grant
there's a rhythmic grinding sound when miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now.  Could shake help with this?  To find out, should I be running it on the partially downloaded torrents? Well, bittorent does not download in sequential order, so it is constantly doing random reads

Re: [gentoo-user] running e2fsck pre-mount

2009-09-09 Thread Willie Wong
should consider it, your data on the harddrive should be worth your time. W -- There was a man in a nuthouse who constantly scared off all the newcomers with a menacing smile and the dreadful-sounding phrase, I differentiate you! I differentiate you!--invariably the newcomer would cower

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-08 Thread Stroller
to assess proper benchtests. I cannot believe that in a day you could study this subject sufficiently to have any reasonable competence on the matter. And thus if you do spend only a day, that's wasted time. I would add that the kernel is evolving constantly, and in a year's time your knowledge

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-16 Thread dhk
Aug 16 20:15 /var/log/messages It seem to be constantly written to and growing. # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986603021 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 11986687279 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-07 Thread Dale
in this situation? When it gets very slow start up top and see what's using the CPU. My bet is the Xserver. I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Robin Atwood
constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy. HTH -Robin Nope, it wasn't that here. This is what top says: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17995 root 20 0 45360 15m 3360 R 89.6 0.7 0:35.72

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