Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i also have a thinkpad, X30

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete problem

2008-03-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:50:57 +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote: It seems that there is no cache in the portage overlays, so update-eix can't get the package information in these overlay. That's normal. eix still gets the information, by reading the filesystem. The cache is simply a way of speeding u

[gentoo-user] torrent/mkv

2008-03-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi ctorrent produced the trilogy in mkv format, as far as I can tell this needs modifying before I can burn. What's the best way todo this pls? GAVIN -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent/mkv

2008-03-07 Thread KH
Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi ctorrent produced the trilogy in mkv format, as far as I can tell this needs modifying before I can burn. What's the best way todo this pls? GAVIN What do you want to tell me with this. Torrent is a software for p2p. When you choose to download an mkv file you will

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread Mark David Dumlao
maybe your partitions are near full? -- thing.

[gentoo-user] where is amd64 list?

2008-03-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, For the best part of the week I have not received any mail from the amd64 list. Is there a problem? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers == Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-07 Thread andrea
I'm using a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D laptop with nvidia GeForse Go 6800: | 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41.8 [GeForce | Go 6800] (rev a2) Latest available version of nvidia-drivers | [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/02/2008): NVIDIA X11 driver | and

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find out? Thanks, festus -- Alan McKinnon alan

Re: [gentoo-user] where is amd64 list?

2008-03-07 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:26:38 + schrieb Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, For the best part of the week I have not received any mail from the amd64 list. Is there a problem? Paul Not as far as I can tell, the last message I got was from this Wednesday. And there was a smallish thread

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 March 2008, John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find

Re: [gentoo-user] The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2

2008-03-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Mar 2008, at 02:29, Daevid Vincent wrote: ... When I startup my notebook, I see this message: * The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2 * Please do not use it with baselayout-1 locutus ~ # eix baselayout [I] sys-apps/baselayout Available versions: 1.11.15-r3

Re: [gentoo-user] The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2

2008-03-07 Thread cypherstrong
I do equery b device-mapper: I found this: sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.22-r5 (/etc/init.d/device-mapper) sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.22-r5 (/etc/conf.d/device-mapper) Le Friday 07 March 2008 13:51:04 Stroller, vous avez écrit : On 7 Mar 2008, at 02:29, Daevid Vincent wrote: ... When I startup

[gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using mouse middle click, Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert makes no difference. Can anyone either confirm or contradict this strange

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel Beecham
On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Ale
2008/3/7, Daniel Beecham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards --

Re: [gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Philip Webb
080307 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using middle click, Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert makes no difference. Confirmed in Kwrite, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-07 Thread Johan Blåbäck
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote: Hi. Recently I got tired of my touchpad being too sensitive, and I decided to try the synaptics-how-to on the gentoo-wiki. However, when starting X I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel Beecham
On 3/7/08, Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/3/7, Daniel Beecham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete problem

2008-03-07 Thread Vaeth
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): [I] app-misc/beagle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/27/08) ^ This is your problem: eix is not able to detect from which repository this version was installed. The reason is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent/mkv

2008-03-07 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:00 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi ctorrent produced the trilogy in mkv format, as far as I can tell this needs modifying before I can burn. What's the best way todo this pls? GAVIN I suppose you want to create a video DVD (Mpeg2), or do you want a divx DVD? In any

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:52:09 am Daniel Beecham wrote: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards --

[gentoo-user] CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It does not offer me a parallel port choice for the device. My kernel is built

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Andrey Falko
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 10:52:09 am Daniel Beecham wrote: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think?

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 07 March 2008 10:52:09 am Daniel Beecham wrote: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may

Re: [gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using mouse middle click, Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert makes

Re: [gentoo-user] The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2

2008-03-07 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Stroller, on Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:51:04PM +, you wrote: Since I'm not real sure what this package does, I am unsure if I should just unmerge and re-emerge it (perhaps at one time I ran the ~x86 version and so I have a mixture?) I'm not sure what this does, either. Someone may come

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
well revdep-rebuild -p gives no errors...i still reemerged krusader with the useflag debug and when i run it from konsole it gives the following output jrn23@ ~ krusader krusader: Initialisising useractions... krusader: 10 useractions read. still when i try to open a directory from the desktop it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer [SOLVED, but new problem now]

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:17 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:25 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point where one sets up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer [SOLVED, but new problem now] [SOLVED]

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:26 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:17 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:25 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer

2008-03-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 March 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It does not offer me a

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS: Need help setting up my parallel port printer [SOLVED, but new problem now]

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:25 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It does not