[gentoo-user] python wide-unicode problem
Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in setencoding sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build ! ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8 But emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows USE=doc gdbm ipv6
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails
On Thursday 20 January 2011 18:07:14 Matt Harrison wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:46:56PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 20.01.2011 15:23, schrieb Matt Harrison: I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a copy of all his mail, in the current folder
[gentoo-user] Question about network setup
Hi, I have a Xen host that uses quite a few bridges, that I would like to set up via /etc/conf.d/net. The bridges that are set up to contain a physical interface are easy as I use bridge_add_ethX for that. However some of the domUs shall comminicate internally so I have to set up bridges in the
Re: [gentoo-user] The new guy
Ease up,man,and welcome,Nils XD 2011/1/21 Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com Am I missing something that indicates the OP is serious? On 1/20/11, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Nils Andresen
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders
2011-01-21
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I think the expression you're looking for is non sequitur. Meeku: It follows neatly and just because it is out-of-the-box spiritual philosophy does not mean it's non sequitur.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID?
On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote: Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to find the rootfs? You have to use a initramfs, see: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID?
Nils Larsson nisselars...@home.se: On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote: Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to find the rootfs? You have to use a initramfs, see: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting Starting from
[gentoo-user] NX, FreeNX, Neatx, x2go?
Hi there! I'm using various versions of NX to access remote servers. Normally I use FreeNX, but sometimes NX from nomachine.org, and I also gave Neatx a try, depending on which OS I am using - I do this with Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE. This does not work too well. For example, I
[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting the rootfs by UUID?
On 01/21/2011 05:04 AM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Nils Larssonnisselars...@home.se: On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote: Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to find the rootfs? You have to use a initramfs, see:
[gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem
On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in setencoding sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build ! ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8 But emerge
Re: [gentoo-user] NX, FreeNX, Neatx, x2go?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: What would be the best solution? What do you prefer? I haven't tried FreeNX, x2go or NeatX or any of those, but I'm using nxserver-freeedition for years and using the official NX Client to connect from remote machines
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem
On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in setencoding sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !
[gentoo-user] Re: NX, FreeNX, Neatx, x2go?
On 01/21/2011 04:43 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] As FreeNX seems to be dead, I thought I'd give x2go a try. Did anyone have sucess with this? I don't even find proper documentation on how to actually use it. According to [1], the Gentoo documentation is [2]. The last comments state that there
[gentoo-user] Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to get ATAPI CDROMs to work. Are we all supposed to rip out the drives and replace them with SATA CDROM
[gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
On 2011-01-21, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to get ATAPI CDROMs to work. Are we all
[gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports either for IDE or AHCI or RAID. Forget RAID for a momen -- I dont use it (nothing against RAID ! ;) My box uses a linux 2.6.37
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Friday 21 January 2011 19:45:07 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports either for IDE or AHCI or RAID. Forget RAID for a momen -- I
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports either for IDE or AHCI or RAID. Forget RAID for a momen -- I
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, why are you doing soemthing incredible stupid in the first place? How about you go have some coffee, maybe have a banana to even out the blood sugar, take a walk around the block, and try this email again without being a complete ass?
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Friday 21 January 2011 11:08:39 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Friday 21 January 2011 11:12:34 kashani wrote: On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, why are you doing soemthing incredible stupid in the first place? How about you go have some coffee, maybe have a banana to even out the blood sugar, take a walk around the block, and
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess as to what you're seeing. you are confusing bios calls and bios programming chips as also - is there any good reason to use
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011 11:12:34 kashani wrote: On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, why are you doing soemthing incredible stupid in the first place? How about you go have some
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 20:16]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports either
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 20:36]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess as to what you're seeing. you are confusing bios calls and bios
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Mark, SNIP I thought (which implies I dont know for sure), that the BIOS do enable/disable certain features, the kernels reads that settings and act accordingly -- but definitely this is not true for all settings.
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On 1/21/2011 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011 11:12:34 kashani wrote: On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, why are you doing soemthing incredible stupid in the first place? How about you go have some coffee, maybe have a banana to even out the
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 20:36]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess as to what you're seeing. you are confusing bios calls and bios
Re: [gentoo-user] Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
On 1/21/2011 1:07 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to get ATAPI CDROMs to work. Are we all supposed to rip
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 21:04]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Mark, SNIP I thought (which implies I dont know for sure), that the BIOS do enable/disable certain features, the kernels reads that settings and act accordingly --
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 21:04]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Mark, SNIP I thought (which implies I dont know for sure), that the BIOS do enable/disable certain features, the kernels reads that settings and act accordingly --
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: My ASUS board offers: RAID IDE AHCI The help to both kernel options mentioned above is saying (beside other things): If unsure, say N. Which kernel options are you specifically looking it? There isn't a single option that I see that
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-01-21, Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to get ATAPI
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Last thing which remains is: Why does the help of the kernel says to both AHCI-settings: If unsure, say N... ? Because if you're not sure you have SATA then you don't need the driver? :-) It could just as easily say Y or M
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org [11-01-21 21:28]: On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: My ASUS board offers: RAID IDE AHCI The help to both kernel options mentioned above is saying (beside other things): If unsure, say N. Which kernel options are you
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Last thing which remains is: Why does the help of the kernel says to both AHCI-settings: If unsure, say N... ? I just built a rig with a Gigabyte mobo. Mine has setting like yours. I asked on here and was told that AHCI is the new way to do things. So, I
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On 1/21/2011 3:05 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/rootdmesg | grep -i ahci ahci :00:11.0: version 3.0 *0* ahci :00:11.0: PCI INT A - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 *1* ahci :00:11.0: irq 78 for MSI/MSI-X *2* ahci :00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP hi Mike, I am talking about this two options: CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y # CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set Best regards, mcc From Niko a few months ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/217204 Cheers,
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.37 : MCE problem
110118 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I've just installed compiled gentoo-sources-2.6.37 am getting msgs in all my terminals Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ... localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: No
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On 1/21/2011 3:30 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org [11-01-21 21:28]: On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: My ASUS board offers: RAID IDE AHCI The help to both kernel options mentioned above is saying (beside other things): If unsure, say
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-01-21 21:44]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Last thing which remains is: Why does the help of the kernel says to both AHCI-settings: If unsure, say N... ? I just built a rig with a Gigabyte mobo. Mine has setting like yours. I asked on here and was
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Hi Mike, thank you for your explanations! :) But Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org [11-01-21 21:48]: On 1/21/2011 3:05 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/rootdmesg | grep -i ahci ahci :00:11.0: version 3.0 *0* ahci :00:11.0: PCI INT A - GSI 19 (level, low) -
[gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem
On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in setencoding sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:45:07 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I did an experiment an disabled AHCI in the kernel (to make the kernel settings consistent with the BIOS.) Result: The kernel did not find the root partition. You disabled the driver for your hard disk controller and you
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: SNIP You could also dig into the internals of the libahci.c driver to figure out what all of those display items mean. In this case, your seeing two different PCI busses with slightly different capabilities; just off
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:53 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Dale, *IDEA* Mark said, that the kernel alone is defining, whether to talk AHCI or IDE to the harddisk and there is not a single result here from my experiments, that makes me believe, that Mark is wrong with that...
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:45 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports either for IDE or AHCI or RAID. Forget RAID for a momen -- I
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Friday 21 January 2011, Dale did opine thusly: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Last thing which remains is: Why does the help of the kernel says to both AHCI-settings: If unsure, say N... ? I just built a rig with a Gigabyte mobo. Mine has setting
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Alan McKinnon wrote: My notebook works like that too. Hard disk works fine when everything is set to AHCI, but then the system won't boot from CD. So I enabled the IDE driver and the IDE driver for CD-ROMs. My take on this is that Dell had a vast stock of cheap-skate CD-ROM hardware and used
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Friday 21 January 2011 11:35:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011 11:12:34 kashani wrote: On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, why are you doing soemthing incredible
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Friday 21 January 2011 21:05:30 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 20:36]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess as
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
On Friday 21 January 2011 20:20:33 Dale wrote: lol You do like I do. I post then figure it out or find a workaround. lol Glad I am not alone on doing this. ;-) Very far from it! -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
[gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question
On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: My notebook works like that too. Hard disk works fine when everything is set to AHCI, but then the system won't boot from CD. So I enabled the IDE driver and the IDE driver for CD-ROMs. My take on this is that Dell had a vast stock of
[gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question
On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called SATA Configuration BIOS then gives me another choice Configure SATA as What was that programmer smoking? Some of the equipment I use at work offers choices that are that dumb, and the error messages
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called SATA Configuration BIOS then gives me another choice Configure SATA as What was that programmer smoking? Some of the equipment I use at
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-22 03:04]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: SNIP You could also dig into the internals of the libahci.c driver to figure out what all of those display items mean. In this case, your seeing two different PCI
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Mark, I got this (lspci -tv): -[:00]-+-00.0 ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part +-00.2 ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a23 +-02.0-[08]--+-00.0 nVidia
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:06:59PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote On Friday 21 January 2011 20:20:33 Dale wrote: lol You do like I do. I post then figure it out or find a workaround. lol Glad I am not alone on doing this. ;-) Very far from it! A couple of days ago I was writing up a
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-01-22 03:04]: On Friday 21 January 2011 21:05:30 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-01-21 20:36]: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP
[gentoo-user] How can I turn off xterm console restore?
As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I launched the app. Somebody thought they were being helpful; then again, so did the designers of Clippy. I don't know how many updates ago the behaviour
Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011 11:35:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011 11:12:34 kashani wrote: On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:06:59PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote On Friday 21 January 2011 20:20:33 Dale wrote: lol You do like I do. I post then figure it out or find a workaround. lol Glad I am not alone on doing this. ;-) Very far from it!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: My notebook works like that too. Hard disk works fine when everything is set to AHCI, but then the system won't boot from CD. So I enabled the IDE driver and the IDE driver for CD-ROMs. My take on this is
