Re: [gentoo-user] Which packages did I unmerge?

2010-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 09:20:15 Grant wrote: > Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with > depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but > apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging > them. > > - Grant app-portage/genlop

[gentoo-user] Which packages did I unmerge?

2010-02-15 Thread Grant
Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging them. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 02/15, walt wrote: === > The next step is to build a new kernel with nfs4 support and unset the > 'nonfsv4' flag, but at the moment I'm running a ver-r-r-y long > partition resize with gparted so that I can add more space to my > experimental lvm2 volumes. (Working great so far.) I th

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread walt
On 02/15/2010 12:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 21:23:54 walt wrote: Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. Strace shows that nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: > > Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just > > look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical > > sector size is? > > Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote: > > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The > > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is > > flagged as bootable. The

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 15 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/15/2010 2:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, > >>> why not just using the filesystem ? > >> > >> Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the > > weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. > > Because they startle me a li

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:28:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The USE flag changed at 1.1.6-r1 from nonfsv4 to nfsv4 so if you did > not change USE you will get the exact opposite support between the > earliest and most recent version in portage. > > > Don't you just hate negative USE flags on the

Re: [gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Hung Dang
Hi Boris and Alan, Thanks a lot for your quick reply. I have installed poppler and I could be able to use pdfimages now. Regards, Hung On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Boris Fersing wrote: > Hi, > > emerge app-text/poppler > > regards, > > Boris > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 22:09, Hung Dang wro

Re: [gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Boris Fersing
Hi, emerge app-text/poppler regards, Boris On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 22:09, Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > > I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does > anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed? > > Thanks in advance > Hung > > -- 42

Re: [gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:09:22 Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > > I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does > anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed? > > Thanks in advance > Hung It's part of poppler now, and things have been re-or

[gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed? Thanks in advance Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 February 2010 21:23:54 walt wrote: > Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? > > 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what > options I give it, including no options. > > Strace shows that nfs.mount is passing a weird-looking IP

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/15/2010 2:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status update to be written t

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread walt
Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. Strace shows that nfs.mount is passing a weird-looking IP address string to the 'mount' system call (man 2 mount), e

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
J. Roeleveld wrote: >> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, >> why not just using the filesystem ? > > Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you > don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem. > And with minima

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net tries to do too much

2010-02-15 Thread Grant
I configured my laptop as a wireless AP with hostapd. It works great as long as I 'ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1'. I can have /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 started automatically with hostapd, but I can't come up with an /etc/conf.d/net config that will work. It always fails by saying it can't set master mo

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, > why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status

Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

2010-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:34:42 -0500, CJoeB wrote: > I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and > copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the > unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I > am having trouble with the sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 February 2010 00:34:42 CJoeB wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and > copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the > unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I > am having tr