On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote:
I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo
Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the
radeon card which is now an older offering:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Studio_XPS_16
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Some time back I saw someone mention a way to get emerge to install an
ebuild with a bad digest - man emerge shows nothing so can someone give
me a hint. It was much easier than going down the ebuild
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of
symlinks to /usr/bin/q
like
qfile
qdepends
quse
and so on.
Often they offer similar tasks.
I wonder when
Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
After 5 minutes you will fight anyone who would try to take
it away again to the death.
Seconded. I moved a normal HD install to a 160GB G2, and, well, you just
don't imagine how much your day-to-day work is IO bound.
-- Remy
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21:02 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Also, I am in the process of rescuing a system from the
e2fs/util-linux/device-mapper snafu and find that now I have it booted
re-emerging util-linux wont overwrite the files I manually installed to
replace the missing ones -
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
so I try first emerge --pretend xorg-drivers and find it has ~50
various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
description? For example vmmouse, what is this USE flag good for?
Is it
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on
the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src
should be on a harddisk.
Thanks for the hint ...
2009/11/20 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote:
I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo
Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the
radeon card which is now an older offering:
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW: this may be caused by the fact that you did not simply add debug=2
but at the same time removed -V.
I have run the cdrecord command again, this time passing -V and debug=2:
$ script -f -c cdrecord -vvv -V debug=2 -sao -eject speed=8
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:36:27PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW: this may be caused by the fact that you did not simply add debug=2
but at the same time removed -V.
I have run the cdrecord command again, this time passing -V and
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW: this may be caused by the fact that you did not simply add debug=2
but at the same time removed -V.
I have run the cdrecord command again, this time passing -V and
Hi all,
finally I decided to upgrade from kde3 to kde4. All went well, but:
1 - I am not able to fix the frequency of the display, neither using
nvidia-settings nor throught System-settings-Dislplay. Every time a
session starts I have to set it again (and this both as root and as user);
As
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes:
since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on
the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src
should be on a harddisk.
I'd be curious to see a complete fstab with an SSD;
David W Noon a gentiment tapote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:03 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote about
[gentoo-user] [the end] icons missing in k3b:
Hi everybody,
Some news about k3b and its missing icons.
I looked at your useflags and changed mine.
So i had to re-build plenty of packages and
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
There was a report for broken Pioneer formware that hits in -v mode and
causes the firmware from the drive to through away the data before writing
it to the medium.
Do you mean a test without -V or -v ?
Without -v, as in this case
My interest is foremost trivial. Not necessarily related to the
application of such interrupts.
Nevertheless, with regards to the post:
* runscripts can (and AFAIK do) trap and handle SIGINT.
* the interactive mode is ok for interrupting the init process between
scripts. But I can't interrupt a
4. Should I be comfortable running the entire sync operation every
night, or am I jeopardizing the longevity of my HDs?
This is a joke.
I should apologize and explain this better.
If you bought a fancy expensive hard drive then it's probably designed
for extremely heavy use and comes
2. Some of the files I back up only allow root to read. I can run
rsync as root on each system, but I don't allow root logins. This
means in order to rsync the second sync system with the first sync
system, I must run the rsync command from the first sync system.
This means I have to run
On 11/19/2009 4:10 PM, Eray Aslan wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:49:19PM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I was just wondering if a package such as gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through
timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't
On 11/19/2009 6:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I was just wondering if a package such as gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through
timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out.
On 11/19/2009 6:45 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Better use the interactive init feature. Just hit 'I' when init starts
(init even tells you, that you can do it) and choose which services to
start by hitting 'y' and 'n'
(actually 1, 2, 3, and 4)
Marcus
On 11/20/2009 8:52 AM, econti wrote:
Hi all,
finally I decided to upgrade from kde3 to kde4. All went well, but:
1 - I am not able to fix the frequency of the display, neither using
nvidia-settings nor throught System-settings-Dislplay. Every time a
session starts I have to set it again (and
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of
symlinks to /usr/bin/q
like
qfile
qdepends
quse
and so
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/11/20 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote:
I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo
Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility,
On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of
symlinks to
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 19:19, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
BackupPC does look pretty good. Would anyone recommend I *don't* can
this whole thing and set up BackupPC instead?
I recommend you take a look at rsnapshot instead of pure rsync.
Ward
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 08:03 -0800, Grant wrote:
Thank you for the clarification. Which are the fancy expensive hard
drives?
The SAS drives that run at 15k RPM and cost $2-3 USD per GB. As opposed
to your run of the mill 7200RPM SATA drive that costs pennies per GB.
On Friday 20 November 2009 17:43:20 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/11/20 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote:
I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:38 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes:
since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on
the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src
should be
On 11/20/2009 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the other hand
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of
symlinks to /usr/bin/q
like
qfile
On 20 Nov 2009, at 10:05, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
so I try first emerge --pretend xorg-drivers and find it has ~50
various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
description? For example
cut
further
4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from
desktop) the answer is Only root can mount a device (all
permissions are the same as before)
I would check out groups username and see whether you are a member
of the plugdev group.
5 - I am not able to become
On 20 Nov 2009, at 17:33, J. Roeleveld wrote:
...
I've owned a couple Dell computers personally and overseen dozens of
them at work and they are generally good value and perform without
issues. Their business division's customer service (at least a few
years ago) was pretty good, they would
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:38:22 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 18/11/09 Mick said:
I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference.
Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless
configured and it does not need /etc/init.d/*net scripts to
On 11/20/2009 2:28 PM, econti wrote:
cut
further
4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from
desktop) the answer is Only root can mount a device (all
permissions are the same as before)
I would check out groups username and see whether you are a
member of the
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you mean a test without -V or -v ?
Without -v, as in this case cdrecord does not read the drives buffer fill
ratio.
It seems that there is a bug in Pioneer firmware that is triggered by
calling
SCSI get buffer cap (0x5C)and
Stroller wrote:
On 20 Nov 2009, at 10:05, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
so I try first emerge --pretend xorg-drivers and find it has ~50
various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:05:27 -0800, Grant wrote:
How is BackupPC to set up? Is it a whole new world to explore, or can
it be set up quickly and easily?
It takes a little while to get the hang of how the config files work, but
once you get it it takes no work at all. Restoring is as simple as
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:03 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact
that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is
certainly something to be said for using the most popular programs
since there will be faster support
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:02 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] [the end] icons missing in k3b:
David W Noon a gentiment tapote:
[snip]
This looks like your XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable might be
missing a directory or two. No amount of recompiling will cure that.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Space Cakex spaceca...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using xf86-video-intel - 2.9.1 ; xorg-server - 1.6.5 and
xorg-drivers - 1.6
My hardware :
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1
Thanks, yes I am aware of the caveats - but they dont really apply when
rescuing something as severely broken as this system was - I upgraded 3
machines without a problem, and this one died on reboot - badly :(
BillK
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 23:44 -0600, Dale wrote:
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Some
On 11/20/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:03 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact
that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is
certainly something to be said for using the most popular
I have a gentoo server running stable fully updated, and I share a folder
with samba on a gigabit network.
The client dual boots Gentoo (stable again) and Windows 7.
Under windows 7, getting a file from the server achieves around 70MB/s
Under Gentoo, using gnome gvfs, it can only achieve around
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