Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread William Kenworthy
If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I always thought that if you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 January 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having a time getting ksh93 to install (build error at the end) USE='static' emerge -v ksh93 The only other use flag coming up was `nls' I wasn't real eager for `static' necessarily but without `static' had already failed and I saw it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 January 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 7 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I have compiled them directly into the kernel? Well, this is usually a matter of debates. For iptables stuff, I generally compile everything into the kernel, but I'm sure there are

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Mick wrote: It's now 48 hours and my old address hasn't been unsubscribed yet. Anyone have an address for a list admin to investigate this further? I don't I'm afraid . . . but you may want to sent a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (substitute listname for user,

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 January 2008, Dale wrote: Randy Barlow wrote: Dale wrote: On my system hpijs was a blocker if I recall correctly. I read somewhere that hpijs was no longer being maintained and that hplip was the new thing to use. Not sure why tho. Also may be worth noting that hplip

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Jan 8, 2008 6:54 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Mick wrote: It's now 48 hours and my old address hasn't been unsubscribed yet. Anyone have an address for a list admin to investigate this further? I don't I'm afraid . . . but you may want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Wayn0
William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I

[gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the following: (1) echo media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.keywords // emerge -p

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, then copy

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the following: (1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Wayn0 wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA.

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/7/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I see that it's now stable, and I'm going to let the emerge go forward. However, I scrolled back my terminal to when I sent that message, and here's what eix gave me then (primarily the ~ in

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, then copy it to a local overlay. Portage will use your overlay in preference to the portage tree. You just have to then watch out for newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice :-) I would not have thought so because it's all done in cron jobs thrice per week, giving me reports via

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Wayn0
William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
BTW, which speed can be treated as not slow? hdparm for my SATA SAMSUNG HD401LJ shows ~60MB/Sec. Is it normal? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, then copy it to a local overlay. Portage will use your overlay in preference to the portage tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent extn. Drive setup ideas

2008-01-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, James wrote: I assume it has NTFS by default. I have all of the legacy doz file systems enabled along with idonify in the kernel. I want to use it on both gentoo and windows systems for a variety of tasks. What the best way to set it up (ideas) so as to ensure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-08 Thread TimeBreach
Grant a écrit : Yes i emerge it but after i've unmerged it. So probably was added during this install. What install do you think has added it? - Grant Yes i've the same: ls /lib/firmware/rt73.bin /lib/firmware/rt73.bin But i don't remember to setted up it. Well, it wasn't the

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Dale
Wayn0 wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-08 Thread BRM
--- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:16 -0800, BRM wrote: [snip] However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the long term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a lot of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 --snip-- Am I correct in saying you plan to emerge mplayer with a few extra params and not much else customizing? In that case the mods

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: (1) echo media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.keywords This just causes portage to use the testing, ~arch version of the program (2) echo media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 /etc/portage/package.provided This should be

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On January 8, 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 --snip-- Am I correct in saying you plan to emerge mplayer with a few extra params and

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-08 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
tor 2008-01-03 klockan 13:16 -0800 skrev BRM: I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near identical system that might get Gentoo 2007 installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:20:02 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Actually the changes I want to make are not so few. The whole story is that several days ago a friend of mine pointed me to a very cool front-end for mplayer: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately it can't be found in portage

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-08 Thread BRM
--- Per-Erik Westerberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tor 2008-01-03 klockan 13:16 -0800 skrev BRM: I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Jan 8, 2008 7:48 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice :-) I would not have thought so

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:30:51 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable that they got out of step somehow. I've unified them, and hope things go better now. [...] Any

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent extn. Drive setup ideas

2008-01-08 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: $ eix -l ntfs3g I have been using it for some time now on data (non-OS) partitions and had no problems. YMMV. Yep, same here ntfs3g is wonderful! Also, I'm thinking about a udev rule or fstab entry on the gentoo system to uniquely identify

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-08 Thread maxim wexler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv vanilla-sources These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.22.9 USE=-build -symlink 44,122 kB Use eix to search packages, it shows all

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
I think this is one of those multifactorial problems, and I'm unable to pin down the exact cause. I did several things that might have conspired to make printing stop working. I have a new motherboard, M2N-E, from ASUS, with a dual core AMD64-X2 processor (dual core), that has given me fits

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent extn. Drive setup ideas

2008-01-08 Thread Christopher Copeland
James wrote: Yes, some help with udev rules or a slick trick via fstab is what I was really after. Or maybe something cool related to the usb buss and a trick to *uniquely lable* usb devices. Would using the UUID for the partition work for you? vol_id /dev/sdXX You can use UUID=blah

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:03:00 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: Did a fresh emerge --sync emerge portage but: Did you run update-eix? Or use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync. -- Neil Bothwick Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
I went to rip a few CDs today. It used to work. It's always worked . It's worked for years it worked. Today it doesn't work First problem is apps don't see the CDs. Running sound-juicer in a terminal mentioned hald might not be running. I look in rc-update and find hald. I start it.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-08 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Can anyone interpret this emerge failure and have some educated guesses what I should do to get it to compile. That message follows the eix output below. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4210019.html?sid=a282fd302189d24b214267ec5b90

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Hal Martin
I have a Western Digital 250GB SATA-II drive on an NForce4 integrated SATA-II controller, here are my readings... hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i dma DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1646 MB in 2.00 seconds = 823.19 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/8/08, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:30:51 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable that they got out of step somehow. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
Hi! Hald is, if I'm not wrong, the daemon for HAL, Hardware Abstraction Layer, it's an interface used to ease communication between software and hardware of your computer. It keeps info from your hardware so it's easier to access/modify them at any time, including new devices that you might

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 8, 2008 12:53 AM, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma Yours should

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it. Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated. Good luck! On Jan 9, 2008 12:54 AM, Naiani Rosa de Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Hald

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:53:54 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (2) echo media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 /etc/portage/package.provided This should be /etc/portage/profile/package.provided man portage explains the location and function of these files. That was it.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Jan 8, 2008 7:13 PM, BRM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Per-Erik Westerberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tor 2008-01-03 klockan 13:16 -0800 skrev BRM: I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Dale
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it. Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated. Good luck! And if you are like me and don't reboot much,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-08 Thread BRM
--- Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 8, 2008 7:13 PM, BRM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Per-Erik Westerberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tor 2008-01-03 klockan 13:16 -0800 skrev BRM: I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeAgent extn. Drive setup ideas

2008-01-08 Thread James
Christopher Copeland chrcop at gmail.com writes: Yes, some help with udev rules or a slick trick via fstab is what I was really after. Or maybe something cool related to the usb buss and a trick to *uniquely lable* usb devices. Would using the UUID for the partition work for you?

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-08 Thread Randy Barlow
Alan E. Davis wrote: When attempting to boot to that kernel, or other gentoo kernels I have compiled around (I do not use initrd/genkernel), almost every time since the initial boot (that went ok), the machine locks up during boot. It might take three or four attempts, but the machine locks