[gentoo-user] kernel: conftest segfault error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading to glibc-1.22.1 I get this strange (non-fatal) error message in my /var/log/messages. Has anybody seen this as well or does anybody know where this comes from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University

[gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file directly to a USB / network printer. Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Mick
On 28 April 2010 06:35, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:02:53PM +0100, Mick wrote anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred.  There is one exception to that general rule.  If you divide the X and/or Y dimensions by a whole

Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:10:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto: I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file directly to a USB / network printer. Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Why do you need to bypass CUPS? If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Nils Larsson
måndag 26 april 2010 13:57:56 skrev Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting

Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Apr, David W Noon wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:10:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto: I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file directly to a USB / network printer. Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Why

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Keep in mind that my incremental power costs right now are $0.42/KWH. For monthly costs I use 24*365/12 = 730 hours/month. Wow, it is only $0.07 cents/kWh here (St Louis, Missouri, USA). The electric company wants to raise

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.04.2010 03:41, schrieb Iain Buchanan: Hi, A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. Since I go to weird locations with

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Keep in mind that my incremental power costs right now are $0.42/KWH. For monthly costs I use 24*365/12 = 730 hours/month. Wow, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-28 Thread Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there

Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes

2010-04-28 Thread Grant
I am not familiar with the modem in question, but if you are using your own router the modem should be set up in fully bridged mode and the PPPoE authentication will be managed by your Gentoo router. Thanks Mick.  The Westell does have an option to take PPPoE off of the device and I'd

[gentoo-user] Print server with hplip

2010-04-28 Thread Grant
I've been using a print and scan server with an Epson printer/scanner for a long time. I'm trying to set up the same thing with an HP and I've got everything working except remote printing. Local printing, local scanning and remote scanning work, but not remote printing. I have the client's IP

[gentoo-user] Multiple serial ports

2010-04-28 Thread Graham Murray
What is the current recommendation for handling multiple serial ports on a Gentoo server? In $dayjob we used to use Perl SX cards but recent kernels have marked the driver for these as 'broken'[1]. We have tried Digi Etherlite with the dgrp driver, but have had problems with write(2) blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e system - output info/errors to log

2010-04-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 1:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Understand what the gcc upgrade guide is: a quick simple guide for user who don't know tool chains inside out, that give the minimal sequence of commands that is GUARANTEED to NOT leave the user in the lurch. It's not the minimum possible

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e system - output info/errors to log

2010-04-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 2:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: My preferred approach is to add mail to PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM to get each elog message mailed to me. That's still separate message, but I think that's better as I can mark each one read as I've actioned it, leaving me with a clear list of what's left

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e system - output info/errors to log

2010-04-28 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 1:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Understand what the gcc upgrade guide is: a quick simple guide for user who don't know tool chains inside out, that give the minimal sequence of commands that is GUARANTEED to NOT leave the user in the lurch. It's not the minimum

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Iain Buchanan: Hi, A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. Since I go to weird locations

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Frank Steinmetzger skrev: Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. I've had the same problem on a high

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi thanks, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Can md use one internal and one external disk in a RAID 1 setup, with the external disk not always there? Any other suggestions? thanks :) md would be extremely slow because it has to rebuild/resync the complete

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 23:16 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: After I upgraded my laptop with an internal HDD of 500 GB, I started using my old external 500 GB drive as backup. Though of different dimensions and makers, they both have the same number of sectors. So I dd'ed the entire

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 23:16 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: rsync -aX --delete / /dev/backup root partition/ -a (archive) copies permissions, ownerships and the likes -X stops at file system boundaries, i.e. it will only backup the actual root partition, without other mounted file systems