Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 1:36 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config for it: [..] Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd?

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Just a wild guess: are you running some desktop applet that manages the cpu frequency and is stuck on manual with a low setting? I have the i7 Q 720 @

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a standard sysctl-like way to modify sysfs files at boot time?

2010-12-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Monday 27 December 2010 19:37:29 Mark David Dumlao wrote: I want to do this: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/forget-200-lines-red-hat-speed. html in userspace, but automate it at

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a standard sysctl-like way to modify sysfs files at boot time?

2010-12-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Neat thing, after I finished my kernel compile and did a reboot, the /sys/fs/cgroup directory appears by default, so I don't need to mkdir and can directly just place it in fstab. With zen-sources, at least, but it sounds like what upstream behavior should do. -- This email is:    [ ] actionable 

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config for it: [..] Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? That's a very good question,

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote: Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND ? Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it would behave at top speed if I set it to performance. No luck, though. And I can easily change the governor. It

[gentoo-user] Using lzma for emerge-webrsync

2010-12-30 Thread Jon Hardcastle
Is this possible to happen automatically? -- --- N: Jon Hardcastle E: j...@ehardcastle.com ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:21 AM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote: This is what my i7 Q is showing: Handle 0x0005, DMI type 4, 42 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: U2E1 Type: Central Processor Family: OUT OF SPEC

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have found all these back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what have you, unnecessary and

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config for it: [..] Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? Well, if I change the BIOS to

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:45:07 Bill Longman wrote: On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote: Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND ? Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it would behave at top speed if I set it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Using lzma for emerge-webrsync

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jon Hardcastle jonathan.hardcas...@gmail.com wrote: Is this possible to happen automatically? I don't know the answer, but you may be interested in app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have found all these back and forth changes to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:02 +, Mick wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +, Mick wrote: Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman: On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to 2.67 GHz.works great! good to hear. So it is solved?

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 December 2010 19:43:06 Mike Edenfield wrote: If you have a file of the same name in both directories, then the one in /etc should override the one in /usr/share. But the names need to match exactly. Yes, identical. I know this, because I copied the one from /usr/share to