Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in make.conf correctly? Mine looks like this: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev I do NOT use hal so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing [TEMP SOLN]

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Walters
On 5/15/2010 11:06 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Argh. Just have to vent a little. Bring up a new install on a system whose system disk died and was replaced with an SSD. OS installed no problems. Recovered my RAID5 and LVM JBOD volume (a GIANT THANK YOU to the mdadm and lvm2 folks!). Then

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.8.1 random segfaults

2010-05-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Does anyone else get random segfaults all the time with xorg-server-1.8.1? Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x45cc28] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x59899) [0x459899] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x300100+0xf0d0) [0x300100f0d0] 3: /usr/bin/X (dixLookupPrivate+0xa) [0x42c5aa]

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:56:23 Alex Schuster wrote: Thanks, this made me install gutenprint which claims to support the printer directly. I thought I had to use the iP4200 driver and hope it would work. I think that gutenprint is the correct driver for your printer and this page also

Re: [gentoo-user] X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6) (was: xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline)

2010-05-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/14/10 00:47, walt wrote: On 05/13/2010 03:22 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so

Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive

Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread ich bins
Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for

Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:03 +0200, ich bins wrote: Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly!

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
[Replying to http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/229533/focus=229542 ] On 2010-05-05 08:00:43 GMT, Daniel Troeder wrote: On 05/05/2010 06:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 23:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: I'm using sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc1 since 02.05.2010 and

[gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-16 Thread Simon
Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... starting parallel fetching pid 6030 Emerging (1 of 2) dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 to / * Python-2.5.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 16 May 2010 15:10:16 Simon wrote: Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage [snip] Yea gods, the youth of today. In my day, when I was a little whipper-snapper, we actually read the ebuild. Why because? Because there was no-one else

[gentoo-user] Stuttering DVB-T video output

2010-05-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for watching DVB-T broadcasts on my PC I am using vlc, which is fed with an appropiate channels.conf file from the commandline. Everything is fine so far...but... The video output stutters, especially when switching desktops or when scrolling html pages in firefox or... often this happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuttering DVB-T video output

2010-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I am using dvb-s with kaffeine and ati and don't have any stuttering. Do you have effects turned on? Turn them off. Are you using the nvidia driver? Or nv? nouveau? Use nvidia. Do you have any stupid governor turned on - like userspace? Use ondemand.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in make.conf correctly? Mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 May 2010 16:43:48 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuttering DVB-T video output

2010-05-16 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-05-16 17:40]: Hi, I am using dvb-s with kaffeine and ati and don't have any stuttering. Do you have effects turned on? Turn them off. Are you using the nvidia driver? Or nv? nouveau? Use nvidia. Do you have any stupid governor turned on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mine has xf86-* drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing [TEMP SOLN]

2010-05-16 Thread Roy Wright
On May 16, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Chris Walters wrote: On 5/15/2010 11:06 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Argh. Just have to vent a little. So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check, openoffice check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the non-standard packages that includes

[gentoo-user] RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is actually RAID and more likely udev. I'm looking for some ideas on how to debug this. The hardware: Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel Core i7-980x 12GB DRAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 01:12 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Explicitly setting Driver to evdev (to both mouse and keyboard sections) doesn't fix the unexplained messages in Xorg.0.log. At least X manages to start, though. I'm expecting that your newest Xorg log will be different from the earlier

[gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 04:14 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:03 +0200, ich bins wrote: Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 16:43:48 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.8.1 random segfaults

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 12:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Does anyone else get random segfaults all the time with xorg-server-1.8.1? xorg-server-1.8.0 is working just fine. I'm on ~amd64 with x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 (also tried live ebuild from x11 overlay.) I just upgraded today to 1.8.1

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 10:56 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is actually RAID and more likely udev. I'm looking for some ideas on how to debug this. The hardware: Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: major snippage Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: major

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/16/2010 10:56 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is actually RAID and more likely udev. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: These are the only lines with the word mouse in them. Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES=evdev mouse in your /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally reboot. Unless your

[gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/15/2010 09:42 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuttering DVB-T video output

2010-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 May 2010, at 15:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... for watching DVB-T broadcasts on my PC I am using vlc, which is fed with an appropiate channels.conf file from the commandline. Everything is fine so far...but... The video output stutters, especially when switching desktops or when

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.commailto: michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, May 12,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: major

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 02:56 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/16/2010 10:56 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a newish high-end machine here that's causing me some problems with RAID, but looking at log files and dmesg I don't think the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:07 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Hm.  Is this your motherboard?: http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=W7i5W4Pw4fH22Mih Being a geek of a certain age, I find that products with names that invoke mega-dose anabolic steroids usually don't fit my lifestyle

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Re: Re: Gentoo decapitated

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 04:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just did the experiment of building xorg-server with the hal useflag *off*, and found that neither keyboard nor mouse worked until I restored the two InputDevice

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 01:35 -0700, scott n-h wrote: Have you checked to see if it is following symlinks? Possibly add a -l option to copy symlinks as symlinks good idea, I didn't have the -l option. Now I run rsync like this: sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAlx --exclude

[gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap. It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron but I cant find out how - anyone here done this? I have a 125GB scssi disk I would like as one large swap but after setup the kernel can only see 2G

Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
ah, figured it out - had to be the whole disk, not a partition. BillK On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 08:48 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap. It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron but I cant find out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
-t doesnt work in this case as emerge wants xorg-server built with the kdrive flag before it will continue processing - which makes sense. BillK On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 15:55 -0700, walt wrote: On 05/15/2010 09:42 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
So after I excluded distfiles from my rsync, I found that the two partitions had roughly the same free space... strange! How could excluding around 6G of distfiles make two copies of the same thing the same size? Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub

[gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread walt
On 05/16/2010 06:26 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: -t doesnt work in this case as emerge wants xorg-server built with the kdrive flag before it will continue processing - which makes sense. AFAICT, the cost of enabling kdrive is trivial. It compiles one more server /usr/bin/Xephyr, so I'd say just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 18:55 -0700, walt wrote: On 05/16/2010 06:26 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: -t doesnt work in this case as emerge wants xorg-server built with the kdrive flag before it will continue processing - which makes sense. AFAICT, the cost of enabling kdrive is trivial. It

Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 May 2010 01:55:23 Bill Kenworthy wrote: ah, figured it out - had to be the whole disk, not a partition. As far as I know you can define a partition, or even a file as swap space. You'll need to set a swap fs on them first before you can use them and then it is a matter of swapon