Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for xli?
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:25:57 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Is there any smallsized replacement for media-gfx/xli for loading pictures to the desktop background? xli breaks my update since it wants jpeg-6b-r8 (yes, I have jpeg-compat installed) -- may be hardcoded? xli-1.17.0-r4 has the fix for depending on jpeg-6b /Peter
[gentoo-user] vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
Hi, i have vmware-server 2.0 running on gentoo amd64, the guest os is windows xp. on another gentoo amd64 machine, i emerged vmware-server-console, and tried to connect to the guest os, but without luck. a vmware-server-console window popup, but with nothing in it. i am using awesome 3. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
[gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
btw, the 'vmware-server-console' program requires a -P (port) argument, but i do not understand what kind of port number should i give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with this port without luck. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Xi Shendavidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, i have vmware-server 2.0 running on gentoo amd64, the guest os is windows xp. on another gentoo amd64 machine, i emerged vmware-server-console, and tried to connect to the guest os, but without luck. a vmware-server-console window popup, but with nothing in it. i am using awesome 3. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84 -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization
On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest you fetch the latest stable binary package from: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads (choose the All distributions package) and run it, which will also build and install the vbox kernel modules automatically. It's very easy, quick, and simple. It even comes with an uninstall script if you don't like it. I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so I can't install a client. I may try installing it on my local server and see if that's any better. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it can't compare favourably with its predecessor, what's it doing there at all? Read the post again. I said nothing about favourable, unfavourable or anything else like that. I only said that KDE4 is not KDE3 (doh...) so if you run KDE4 thinking you are going to get something like KDE3 you are going to be disappointed. It is not like KDE3, it is not built on KDE3, it is not an evolution of KDE3. It is different, and stands on it's own. Comparisons with KDE3 are unfair, sort of like comparing you with your father is unfair. The way I read your words is equally valid. If I compare a later version with its predecessor I don't expect to be disappointed. I'm working quite hard at getting used to it (it's even the default grub choice), but it's uphill all the way. Um, dude grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE. The dm does that. Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I want with grub entries. -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild
Hi, when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename. could someone here fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
[gentoo-user] Merge svnroots
Hi all, Is there any way to merge a svnroot to another one? There are independent before. Regards, Zhiwei
Re: [gentoo-user] Merge svnroots
2009/9/7 Song Zhiwei son...@gmail.com Hi all, Is there any way to merge a svnroot to another one? There are independent before. Regards, Zhiwei Hi I've done this using the procedure describe in SVN manual http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5 The steps are : - Dump all your current svn roots with svnadmin dump myrepos dumpfile (One file for each root) - Create your new svn root - Load your dumps into the new root svnadmin load newrepos dumpfile Mickaël Bucas
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename
trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has
special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many
mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's
some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename.
could someone here fix this?
Either you made a typo or there's a typo in the ebuild somehow.
Looking at my copy of the ebuild (which I last synced, well, a while
ago. This is on a stable box that doesn't need much updating.):
# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/dmg2img/dmg2img-1.6.ebuild,v1.1
2009/05/24 10:33:28 ssuominen Exp $
EAPI=2
inherit toolchain-funcs
DESCRIPTION=Converts Apple DMG files to standard HFS+ images
HOMEPAGE=http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools;
SRC_URI=http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?${P}.tar.gz;
So your really should be trying to download
http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.1.tar.gz
Notice the .pl? The author has the downloads fed via some sort of perl
script... so the question mark '?' makes perfect sense.
W
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with this port without luck. VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Try connecting your web browser to https://localhost:8333
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild
No problems here, I've just installed and used dmg2img successfully. On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename. could someone here fix this? -- Massimo Gengarelli. Computer Science student @ http://www.unibo.it . http://massitm.sohead.org -- my personal, outdated, website. What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton on its peak.
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild
On 9/7/09, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename. could someone here fix this? So your really should be trying to download http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.1.tar.gz My guess was that OP meant that Gentoo Mirrors don't seem to carry the file, even if it is still directly downloadable? Over here portage tries downloading it from mirrors first (naturally), gets 404s and then goes for the real source. So, maybe OP has a gentoo mirror available nearby (in network topology) and just wants to reduce wasted international traffic? -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] Merge svnroots
Thanks 2009/9/7 Mickaël Bucas mbu...@gmail.com 2009/9/7 Song Zhiwei son...@gmail.com Hi all, Is there any way to merge a svnroot to another one? There are independent before. Regards, Zhiwei Hi I've done this using the procedure describe in SVN manual http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5 The steps are : - Dump all your current svn roots with svnadmin dump myrepos dumpfile (One file for each root) - Create your new svn root - Load your dumps into the new root svnadmin load newrepos dumpfile Mickaël Bucas
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)
I had a similar with the intel video driver, it took me some time to get it all working smoothly. First, read this wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA, and follow to the latter, including the specific versions of everything, and parameters that need to be passed to the kernel (yes, I know they say you should either set it when configuring the kernel, or when starting it. Do both!). It worked for me, and I had the same problems. On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Volker. I'm uncertain what did it: I have fluxbox working now. Many intervening steps, lots of error messages. Somehow, it just works. Thanks again. Alan On 2009-09-06, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another PC. I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I know this video adapter is supported. But various issues have ambushed me in trying to get this working. 1. On first install, the keyboard didn't work. I followed the instructions to the letter, the mouse even worked, but the keyboard didn't. I killed off the windows one by one with the mouse, and the machine was then stalled in that state. 2. I remembered a keyboard issue from my home machine, involving a new version of xorg, so I (unwisely perhaps) added the ~amd64 keyword to make.conf. Thereupon followed a series of issues, involving one hypothesis after another. I never saw a screen with the X cursor again. 3. There is an issue surrounding HAL. I added a hal keyword, recompiled, tweaked the kernel: no good. I got a black screen. Keyboard wasn't working, so I followed a few more hunches. I was unable to read the docs in a nice screen, as I was using links. 4. Eventually I decided to put the hal keyword back in, and recompiled. In the interim I had removed the ~amd keyword from make.conf, and I ran emerge -uDav --newuse world. Thinking better of it, a few merges into that, I replaced the ~amd64 keyword, and started the same process. I found along the way that I needed to serially recompile the kernel, re-merge xf86-input-*, etc., again. I then decided to enable evdev, even though I was intimidated by that from my earlier issue with an nvidia card. 5. I finally read some forum topics and mailing list threads. Apparently this is not uncommon at ALL. A gentoo wiki article about the Intel cards was referred to, but is unavailable. Interestingly, even the google cache is clear of these missing gentoo wiki articles! I've finally left the machine overnight to run it's course of re-installation etc. If that doesn't work, I have already copied over the grub.conf entry for the ubuntu install on the same disk, so that's an option. I guess my question is what is the correct way to go about installing gentoo on a machine with these on board Intel adapters? [I can reinstall the whole system once I figure out what's going on. I must have this machine working within 24 hours, though, hence Ubuntu looms on the horizon.] Alan Davis You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. Richard Feynman the same as always, You emerge your base system. Then kernel. Then X. X drivers. Graphics, Mouse, Keyboard. You can either use evdev or kbd for keyboard. I prefer the later one. Hal or not doesn't make much of a difference. The important thing is: after an X update you must reinstall the input drivers! -- Alan Davis You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. Richard Feynman
[gentoo-user] Re: After yrs of silence... I need sound
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: [...] Hoping some kind sole will take the time to provide a brief outline off the top of there head... how to get started and cut right to the chase in an hour or two. [...] Thanks too: Arttu V., Dale, Mick, Joshua Murphy That alsaconf is way cool...
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:53:05PM +0300, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked:
On 9/7/09, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote:
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename
trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has
special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many
mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's
some wrong on the author's server, which cause this wrong filename.
could someone here fix this?
So your really should be trying to download
http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.1.tar.gz
My guess was that OP meant that Gentoo Mirrors don't seem to carry the
file, even if it is still directly downloadable?
Over here portage tries downloading it from mirrors first (naturally),
gets 404s and then goes for the real source. So, maybe OP has a gentoo
mirror available nearby (in network topology) and just wants to reduce
wasted international traffic?
Ah, I didn't understand the OP correctly. I thought he was just
looking at the ebuild and trying to download the package manually.
Hum, it looks like that on the mirrors, the file is stored
as 'download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz', which may cause a problem. I
think you should file a bug! Maybe tell them to change SRC_URI to
something like
SRC_URI=http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?${P}.tar.gz
mirror://gentoo/download.pl%3f${P}.tar.gz
So the the link to the version on the mirror works.
Also... another thought. Don't know if it works:
I vaguely remember something in EAPI-2 that may fix this problem,
http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/eapi-2-src_uri-arrows/
It may not get acted on just yet, but it maybe better for the future.
So perhaps you can try mentioning it in your bug :)
W
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trim for ssds
On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:07, walt wrote: On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 ...How effective that is for extending the life of a SSD, I have no clue. Uh, extending the life of the SSD isn't the purpose. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531p=10 (you really need to read the whole, LONG, article, starting at http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531 to fully understand how SSDs work the point of trim) Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
On Monday 07 September 2009 15:20:50 David Snider wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with this port without luck. VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Oh no. Please tell me it isn't so. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it can't compare favourably with its predecessor, what's it doing there at all? Read the post again. I said nothing about favourable, unfavourable or anything else like that. I only said that KDE4 is not KDE3 (doh...) so if you run KDE4 thinking you are going to get something like KDE3 you are going to be disappointed. It is not like KDE3, it is not built on KDE3, it is not an evolution of KDE3. It is different, and stands on it's own. Comparisons with KDE3 are unfair, sort of like comparing you with your father is unfair. The way I read your words is equally valid. If I compare a later version with its predecessor I don't expect to be disappointed. I'm working quite hard at getting used to it (it's even the default grub choice), but it's uphill all the way. Um, dude grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE. The dm does that. Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I want with grub entries. Could you post your grub.conf? I'd like to see how you do that. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Oh no. Please tell me it isn't so. -- It's so, buut you can vnc in to all your machines to watch them boot, yadda yadd by adding the below text to the .vmx files... RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = 5911 RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = your awesome password here
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
On Monday 07 September 2009 17:39:06 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: Um, dude grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE. The dm does that. Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I want with grub entries. Could you post your grub.conf? I'd like to see how you do that. Well, I'd do it with a customized init that launches a dm preset to a specific xsession. Or selects a specific .xinitrc. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 17:39:06 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: Um, dude grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE. The dm does that. Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I want with grub entries. Could you post your grub.conf? I'd like to see how you do that. Well, I'd do it with a customized init that launches a dm preset to a specific xsession. Or selects a specific .xinitrc. It just seems like a hard way to do it is all. The login screens that I have seen allow you to just select which dm you want without even having to worry about it when you boot up. I would hate to know that he reboots to change dm's. That would be overkill. First time for everything I guess. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 03:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 02:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 00:48:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Also, have you considered that you got it all backwards? The kernel configuration tells you that for lower latencies, you should use 1000Hz and PREEMPT. It even says Desktop right there. Why should I take your word over that of the kernel devs who actually wrote that code? low latency means bad throughput and that hurts IO. The average desktop user on Linux needs low latency. To get that, one must sacrifice some throughput efficiency. and then complain, that IO hurts? No one complains that IO hurts. Perhaps you aren't even reading. The complaints are about GUI stalls. Not slow IO. yeah, and most GUI stalls happen with big io. ooops. btw, I think, I am an average user, doing the average stuff, and I am pretty happy with 'voluntary preemption'. We are not. 'we'. have you considered that there is a large population of users whose needs and workload are totally different from yours and therefore require something completely different to you? yes, but I consider my workload average. Surfing the web, watching tv, watching movies with xine/vlc/mplayer. Listening to music with amarok and alsaplayer. Typing stuff. Sometimes skype. Burning a dvd once in a while. vegastrike, ut2004, if I want to play a game. See? Average. Now 32 sound streams in ardour (or whatever tool you use for that), that is hardly 'average'. Doesn't matter if it's not average. What does matter is that Linux is not up to the task while Windows and OS X are. and windows has a completly different, gui centric architecture. Oh, and for serious audio stuff you need special low latency drivers. Humpf. So what was your point again? Windows needs special drivers for serious audio stuff - and people are complaining that they have to turn on rt in linux for the same tasks? I don't even know why I keep talking to you. You don't seem to *want* to understand. It's not about special drivers. Or specialized audio processing. It's about my 3D desktop cube getting skippy sometimes while video is playing. It's about the transparency effect applied while moving mplayer resulting in some frame skipping. It's about a slight pause while scrolling a web page if I have an emerge running. About the mouse freezing for about 0.1 seconds once in a while while doing the same. Can't you understand, or don't you want to understand? http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=125227082723350w=2 seems like BFS is even crappier than CFS. --- I saw really bad interactivity in the BFS test here - the system was starved for as long as the test ran. I stopped the tests at 8 loops - the system was unusable and i was getting IO timeouts due to the scheduling lag: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_TIMEOUT end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 81949243 Aborting journal on device sda2. ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only oh great. BFS really rocks! --- And unfortunately this is where it ends for now, since BFS doesn't boot on the two boxes I tried. It hard hangs right after disk detection. But the latency numbers look pretty appalling for CFQ, so it's a bit of a shame that I did not get to compare. I'll try again later with a newer revision, when available. sounds great. A system not booting is obviously a system not being laggy. And pissing of Jens Axboe? Really smart move. At least you posted your little success story. I hope, you will also be willing to test patches, if Ingo Molnar would ask for it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs
On Monday 07 September 2009 21:58:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I don't even know why I keep talking to you. You don't seem to want to understand. It's not about special drivers. Or specialized audio processing. It's about my 3D desktop cube getting skippy sometimes while video is playing. It's about the transparency effect applied while moving mplayer resulting in some frame skipping. It's about a slight pause while scrolling a web page if I have an emerge running. About the mouse freezing for about 0.1 seconds once in a while while doing the same. Can't you understand, or don't you want to understand? http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=125227082723350w=2 Maybe you fellows should stop the pissing contest. It's going nowhere. Con has identified a need that impacts his life and wrote some code that scratched his itch. So it's buggy - oh wow, glory be, like that has never happened before. The code probably ran on hardware Con doesn't own. Let's compare this state of affairs with Linux itself for the first week after it's first public release. See where this is going? Bugs happen, they get reported and often fixed. Code improves. These patches have been out there for 7 days. Leave them be and let them mature. Utterly and completely condemning a chunk of code that is 7 days old is just infantile and shows a lack of comprehension of the coding process. Or a hidden agenda. No-one here can possibly know what benefits BFS will bring as it matures. But utterly and completely dismissing it out of hand is just plain stupid. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization
On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest you fetch the latest stable binary package from: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads (choose the All distributions package) and run it, which will also build and install the vbox kernel modules automatically. It's very easy, quick, and simple. It even comes with an uninstall script if you don't like it. I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so I can't install a client. Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always just used an iso file 'mounted' on the virtual machine's CD/DVD player to install a guest. Most open-source OS's supply the install disk in the form of an iso file, and to install Windows I create an iso file from the original CD/DVD first.
[gentoo-user] Re: trim for ssds
On 09/07/2009 08:00 AM, Stroller wrote: On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:07, walt wrote: On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 ...How effective that is for extending the life of a SSD, I have no clue. Uh, extending the life of the SSD isn't the purpose. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531p=10 (you really need to read the whole, LONG, article, starting at http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531 to fully understand how SSDs work the point of trim) Great article(s), and a fascinating website. That makes two good sites I've discovered in this one short thread.
Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge
On 9/7/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. It finished recompiling boost and Scribus. Both hearts and mp3splt-gtk still fail with the same error as before. Any ideas? Ok, let's first take back the hearts compiles on amd64. It compiled. Once. On the absolutely-minimal, stable-only amd64 chroot I use when testing weird things (and then immediately roll back with emerge --depclean). On x86 and more usable amd64 desktop setup I get a similar error as you did. And I wouldn't be surprised if it is bug #273560 -- which will need a patch. mp3splt-gtk, however, compiles fine on two desktop amd64 setups. I cannot test it on x86 right now, hopefully tomorrow I'll again remember to reboot to 32-bits and try some more. Maybe even get something done for the hearts, if the hints in the bug report are sufficient for fixing it. -- Arttu V.
[gentoo-user] hal and keyboard layout switching
Hello, I want to setup hal to enable me switching between two keyboard layouts. My original configuration in xorg.conf is: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us,cz Option XkbOptions grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:num EndSection I've searched web and got some information, but I'm doing something wrong. I've created file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi and configure it like: device match key=info.capabilities contains=input.keyboard merge key=input.x11_options.XkbModel type=stringpc104/merge merge key=input.x11_options.XkbLayout type=stringus,cz/merge merge key=input.x11_options.XkbOptions type=stringgrp:shifts_toggle/merge /match /device I have installed hal and running hald. The xorg-server version is 1.5.3-r6. Thanks for help Pat
Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge
Arttu V. wrote: On 9/7/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. It finished recompiling boost and Scribus. Both hearts and mp3splt-gtk still fail with the same error as before. Any ideas? Ok, let's first take back the hearts compiles on amd64. It compiled. Once. On the absolutely-minimal, stable-only amd64 chroot I use when testing weird things (and then immediately roll back with emerge --depclean). On x86 and more usable amd64 desktop setup I get a similar error as you did. And I wouldn't be surprised if it is bug #273560 -- which will need a patch. mp3splt-gtk, however, compiles fine on two desktop amd64 setups. I cannot test it on x86 right now, hopefully tomorrow I'll again remember to reboot to 32-bits and try some more. Maybe even get something done for the hearts, if the hints in the bug report are sufficient for fixing it. Yea, hearts is already installed but if I needed to reinstall for some reason, I would be in a mess. I just hope they will fix it since it is KDE 3. I could send mp3splt-gtk to the dustbin for a while, I guess. Just hope no one else needs it. ;-) Thanks for the help tho. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? - Grant Can anyone offer advice for IMAP? I'm using Thunderbird and it's slow and data-heavy. - Grant Has anyone tried trojita (in portage)? http://trojita.flaska.net/ It says: Support for bandwidth-saving mode aimed at mobile users with expensive connection - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:12:21PM +0200, Jarry wrote: I'm just checking /var/log/messages and I have found a few entries like this: 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix sSMTP[7233]: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfn83HUEom007670 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix ) I suppose it comes from mail-mta/ssmtp, but I do not understand. Some persmission problem? Where does ssmtp want to write? Yes, it's a bit cryptic. I wonder if there is a bug in ssmtp itself. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?
2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix sSMTP[7233]: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfn83HUEom007670 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix ) I suppose it comes from mail-mta/ssmtp, but I do not understand. Some persmission problem? Where does ssmtp want to write? You could try 'strace -p 7233' to see if it shows where the attempted write is occuring. Uid=0 means root and I don't imagine there's many places root cant write.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
yeah, i can connect to the web; but if i cannot connect to the vms through the console, i cannot see how they boot. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, David Sniderdsni...@thesniderpad.com wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with this port without luck. VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Try connecting your web browser to https://localhost:8333 -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm
i was just thinking that if i cannot get the console work, i will turn to use vnc. thanks for your tips ;) On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:36 AM, David Sniderdsni...@thesniderpad.com wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Oh no. Please tell me it isn't so. -- It's so, buut you can vnc in to all your machines to watch them boot, yadda yadd by adding the below text to the .vmx files... RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = 5911 RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = your awesome password here -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
[gentoo-user] mythtv w/ winTV 1600 (ATSC support)
I posted the stuff below on the mythtvtalk forum and it's been a few days and I've heard nothing. I've also searched for answers elsewhere, but no go. Since I'm running my setup under gentoo, I thought I try this list. I hope you don't mind. I recently acquired a new Hauppauge WinTV 1600 and have successfully gotten the analog side working with the analog channels (1-99). That is, I can plug my (Comcast) cable from the wall to the tuner card's analog input and get the basic cable channels. However, the whole reason for getting tv tuner card and mythtv was to record japanTV, which is beyond channel 99 and requires a set top box to watch it on the TV. I've read the installation instructions for the ATSC input of the card but I'm having problems and am aware of the IR blaster option. I suppose the main problem . . . the one causing the other problems like not getting any channels is that mythtv is not seeing my card. When I go to configure the capture card there is not DVB DTV card type offered, which suggests to me that card is not being seen. Suggestions? I have posted below some various info, but before that I want to ask one more thing, if all were fine, should it be the case that I plug the cable from the wall to the ATSC input (i.e., not through the set top box) and it just work (as if it were the set top box)? Thanks for your time. -neal russell ~ # uname -a Linux russell 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sun Aug 30 04:58:43 CDT 2009 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux russell ~ # dmesg | grep cx18 cx18: Start initialization, version 1.2.0 cx18-0: Initializing card 0 cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card cx18 :00:11.0: PCI INT A - Link[LNKA] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 cx18-0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) cx18-0: cx23418 revision 0101 (B) cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600 cx18-0: Simultaneous Digital and Analog TV capture supported IRQ 11/cx18-0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1) cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0) cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (64 x 32 kB) DVB: registering new adapter (cx1 cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered cx18-0: Registered DVB adapter0 for TS (32 x 32 kB) cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (16 x 128 kB) cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (20 x 51984 bytes) cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (256 x 4 kB) cx18-0: Initialized card: Hauppauge HVR-1600 cx18: End initialization russell ~ # dmesg | grep DVB DVB: registering new adapter (cx1 DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered cx18-0: Registered DVB adapter0 for TS (32 x 32 kB) lspci -v output: 00:11.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device 7444 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data ? Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: cx18 Kernel modules: cx18
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?
On 8 Sep 2009, at 01:00, Grant wrote: ... Has anyone tried trojita (in portage)? Someone here must be trying it! The official screenshot shows messages from this list: http://trojita.flaska.net/screenshots.html Stroller.
