Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes

2007-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:20, Dave Oxley wrote: I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect to my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific subnet required for the VPN and the rest of my traffic goes through my router (192.168.1.1). I

[gentoo-user] x1300 and radeon opensource driver

2007-02-07 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i would like to use an x1300 video card with the radeon opensource video driver. Is it supported (at least for the 2d part)? Regards, m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 04:49 schrieb Norberto Bensa: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: I don't think, swap is the cause of this. This system has 1,5GB Ram, swap is nearly never touched :) swap was only an example.

[gentoo-user] Acecad tablet on gentoo

2007-02-07 Thread Radosław Grzanka
Hello, I have a tablet which is supposed to work with acecad driver. To be specific - it is Pentagram Quadpen tablet which seems to be simply rebranded acecad tablet (windows drivers come from acecad directly). I was able to (sort of) run the tablet but when I move the stylus over the

[gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi all, I have a quick question about my init scripts. I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the default runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some samba shares, and which is also started my init in the default runlevel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off)

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of course, your

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Mike
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: [snip] Thanks for your suggestions. As i have an SATA harddisk, can i use hdparm with it , i thought it

[gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, list -- I've been a happy claws user for a few years. I use postfix, because I like overkill, I suppose. I've barely touched the postfix config, so here's to the developers. ;-) Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which

Re: [gentoo-user] Acecad tablet on gentoo

2007-02-07 Thread Radoslaw Grzanka
Radosław Grzanka napisał(a): Hello, I have a tablet which is supposed to work with acecad driver. To be specific - it is Pentagram Quadpen tablet which seems to be simply rebranded acecad tablet (windows drivers come from acecad directly). I was able to (sort of) run the tablet but when

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mike wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: No other suggestions? The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage. And check you have HZ set to 1000. $ grep HZ /usr/src/linux/.config #

Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggests I need to use rcvstore command in a .forward file, etc. and to set up my delivery using nmh if I'm a sylpheed user.

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Naujokas
On 2/7/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No other suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Could your problem be similar to this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=114252338111258w=2 Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma=

RE: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:40:59 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Anyway, what I don't understand is the maildir, MH, mbox, qmail delivery thing. I followed a wiki[1] which suggests I need to use rcvstore command in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma=

[gentoo-user] vmware broken?

2007-02-07 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, my vmware doesn't work anymore :-( I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus? # vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware broken?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Sven Köhler schrieb: Hi, my vmware doesn't work anymore :-( I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus? # vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available

[gentoo-user] Error while compiling splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1

2007-02-07 Thread Konstantin S. Budylov
Hi, When I try to compile latest splashutils, I have folowing error: = [ebuild N]media-gfx/splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1 USE=png truetype -hardened -kdgraphics ... ... Source unpacked. Compiling source in ... In file included from

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while compiling splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Konstantin S. Budylov schrieb: Hi, When I try to compile latest splashutils, I have folowing error: = [ebuild N]media-gfx/splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1 USE=png truetype -hardened -kdgraphics ... ... Source unpacked. Compiling source in

[gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my request... It's extremely frustrating. [Bug 165709] When viewing emerge -avu world show which packages are stable (or ~x86)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daevid Vincent wrote: Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my request... It's extremely frustrating. Yes, the bug wrangler looks a bit overworked sometimes. :| Those bugs don't seem duplicates to me

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: Hi all, I have a quick question about my init scripts. I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the default runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some samba

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE4 Panel missing

2007-02-07 Thread Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.
No body knows how to fix this problem? This same problem happen with Gnome and weather Monitor Applet. Some one an help please? Sigfrido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. a gentiment tapote: Hi folks, Due to I have read here nice comment about XFCE4

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:19:53 Daevid Vincent wrote: Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my request... It's extremely frustrating. [Bug 165709] When viewing emerge -avu world show which

RE: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:19:53 Daevid Vincent wrote: Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my request... It's extremely frustrating. [Bug 165709] When viewing emerge -avu world show

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 08 February 2007 00:59:49 Daevid Vincent wrote: So... it will be a lot easier for me to tell you what your options are wrt. working around this bug if you post the output of: # emerge -Dup world --tree --verbose Thanks, but I don't have a bug to solve here. Just the feature

[gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm trying to use: _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); and supposedly I just #include linux/unistd.h but I'm getting these error from gcc: error: syntax error before ioprio_set warning: data definition has

[gentoo-user] Notices from portage

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to (briefly) get notices from ebuilds when I emerged them. Somewhere along the line that stopped, and I have forgotten where it was configured. Anybody got a quick hint? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
Yes, but then I have to manually, one at a time search eix and compare to the output of 'emerge world'. I use eix. That's actually why I suspect that the feature could be implemented fairly easily. Portage has all the info it needs. You do know that eix is not related to portage in

Re: [gentoo-user] Notices from portage

2007-02-07 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:58:57 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to (briefly) get notices from ebuilds when I emerged them. Somewhere along the line that stopped, and I have forgotten where it was configured. Anybody got a quick hint?

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 08 February 2007 02:13:10 Daevid Vincent wrote: Anyway, can you explain to me how this feature would help you at all. I really don't understand the use case for it. Only because you asked... And the short answer is [...] [SNIP] Hmm.. I guess that does make sense then. As you've

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
This makes (at least) two of us (me and the OP) who don't understand the relation between the request for indication if portage wants to install a stable or testing package and the bug where in some cases portage misses that some dependencies are already provided. The feature the OP requests would

[gentoo-user] Re: Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 08 February 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: I run a mixed environment of stable and testing -- as do most people. Often I run a testing (~x86) package b/c I need a feature that isn't available in the stable version. I would prefer to be all stable, but life is not so kind in the land

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office 2.0.4 and fonts

2007-02-07 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Adrian wrote: Greetings; I just upgraded Open Office from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (yes, I'm behind). Now, I can't use any of the fonts other than the ones which come with Open Office. All my existing fonts which I added were being substituted with other fonts. Have you tried deleting

[gentoo-user] Re: _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-07 Thread Christian Marie
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:23:09AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use: _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); and supposedly I just #include linux/unistd.h but I'm getting these error from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:10 +1100, Christian Marie wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:23:09AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use: _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); and supposedly I