Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-18 Thread Stroller
On 17/12/2010, at 10:56pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... an Atom N270 box ... server, but it's a bit slow compared with the other boxes on the network. A big bit, actually - 69 minutes to compile a kernel compared with less than 9 minutes on this workstation. 9 minutes!?!? I'm flabbergasted.

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these parts of the screen. Previously I fixed this for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-18 Thread Stroller
On 17/12/2010, at 5:58pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ... ps - You were bragging about the abilities of you KVM switch in the past thread... I didn't see it mentioned what switch that is. Also you mentioned accessing your KVM with a web browser... can you enlarge a few details on that? Let me

Re: [gentoo-user] possible udev problem?

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
Panics Robert wrote: Hello ! I have a problem, some days ago with the /dev directory. Some or all blocking devices despaired like /dev/vg/ /dev/loop/ /dev/sda and some others also. After a reboot I see that my server couldn't boot in, couse it try to find the root filesystem from

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-18 09:52]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, For my MSI GT430 (nvidia) graphics card I am using the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29. But there seems to be something wrong: When playing videos with faster movements I see heavy distortions around these

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-drivers: Sync problem ???

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, thank you for your in deep explanations ! :) The distortions I saw on my screen look identical to those I recognizeed with my old nvidia card before using the sync settings...so i /thought/ (read: dont know for sure ;) ) it would by a syncing problem again.

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:56:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've bought (against my better judgement) an Atom N270 box to be a LAN server, but it's a bit slow compared with the other boxes on the network. A big bit, actually - 69 minutes to compile a kernel compared with less than 9 minutes

[gentoo-user] install two releases of library in parallel

2010-12-18 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Hello I am writing to you in order to know if there's a way to install both 4.54 and 4.5.85 releases of kdelibs on the same computer. The problem is that : I want to use the last powerdevil, which enable better use and recognition of my laptop battery. It rely on kdelibs 4.5.85. But I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-12-18 Thread Mick
On 30 November 2010 11:11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 29 November 2010 18:20:56 Mick wrote: Will wait for 2.6.36 series to see if this old PIII will work. I'm running 2.6.36-r3 at the moment. You only have to add a keyword to gentoo-sources. Just compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + NetworkManager Applet + Modem ZTE MF180

2010-12-18 Thread Carlos Sura
On 17 December 2010 10:54, Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me wrote: Try option kernel driver. Can you see it with lsusb? Is there any /dev/ttyUSB* ? --- Gary Golden On 12/14/2010 11:03 PM, Carlos Sura wrote: Hello mates, I'm on a Gentoo Box (my laptop) and I have a usb modem (ZTE

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 18 December 2010 10:18:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: I've found there's just too much overhead with distcc, plus much of the work is still done locally. I expected that but I wanted to try it to see. I have a couple of Atom boxes, a server and a netbook, and I've set up a chroot for

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 17 December 2010 23:23:10 Jacob Todd wrote: Could you post your distcc config files? $ extract /etc/conf.d/distccd DISTCCD_OPTS= DISTCCD_EXEC=/usr/bin/distccd DISTCCD_PIDFILE=/var/run/distccd/distccd.pid DISTCCD_OPTS=${DISTCCD_OPTS} --port 3632 DISTCCD_OPTS=${DISTCCD_OPTS} --log-level

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + NetworkManager Applet + Modem ZTE MF180

2010-12-18 Thread Gary Golden
I'm not sure about Fedora, but since /dev/ttyUSB* doesn't exist then option driver isn't loaded. I have a ZTE device and did make it work with this driver. Try lsmod | grep option to make sure. It's there: Device Drivers - USB support (USB_SUPPORT [=y])│ - USB Serial Converter support

[gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I bought this router the other day.  I notice something that is a little weird. It seems like more of the computer and electronics problems I have (or that people bring to me) are related to power supply failures than any other

[gentoo-user] ARM Converts ?

2010-12-18 Thread James
Hello, I just thought I'd share ARM's vision of the future, Gentoo style, (excellent xmas presents) should anyone on this list be inclined to ARM (~4K bogomips) their way into the future. At $175 (US) this is the most outstanding bargain I've seen this Xmas: http://pandaboard.org/ digikey

Re: [gentoo-user] install two releases of library in parallel

2010-12-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 18 December 2010 11:27:06 Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello I am writing to you in order to know if there's a way to install both 4.54 and 4.5.85 releases of kdelibs on the same computer. The problem is that : I want to use the last powerdevil, which enable better use and

[gentoo-user] Re: install two releases of library in parallel

2010-12-18 Thread walt
On 12/18/2010 02:27 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello I am writing to you in order to know if there's a way to install both 4.54 and 4.5.85 releases of kdelibs on the same computer. The problem is that : I want to use the last powerdevil, which enable better use and recognition of my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install two releases of library in parallel

2010-12-18 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Saturday 18 December 2010 18:49:08, walt a écrit : On 12/18/2010 02:27 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello I am writing to you in order to know if there's a way to install both 4.54 and 4.5.85 releases of kdelibs on the same computer. The problem is that : I want to use the last

[gentoo-user] SIMH on AMD64

2010-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I know, the SIMH-packages are masked The only question I have is: Does SIMH simply does not run on AMD64 (or is it my fault, that trying to laod an old UnixV6 tape and booting resulting in a endless process eating up 100% of one core of my CPU...?) Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Which motherboard ?

2010-12-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 17 December 2010 22:52:30 Jacques Montier wrote: Le 17/12/2010 21:45, Dale a gentiment tapote: -- Jacques Site web https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Mark Knecht wrote: I have no real opinion on that MB. I've never owned a Gigabyte so I don't have a real point of

Re: [gentoo-user] Which motherboard ?

2010-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 17 December 2010 22:52:30 Jacques Montier wrote: Le 17/12/2010 21:45, Dale a gentiment tapote: -- Jacques Site web https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Mark Knecht wrote: I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install two releases of library in parallel

2010-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:20 on Saturday 18 December 2010, Stéphane Guedon did opine thusly: Le Saturday 18 December 2010 18:49:08, walt a écrit : On 12/18/2010 02:27 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello I am writing to you in order to know if there's a way to install both

Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Well so far it has been working. Maybe it got things worked out and DHCP is working it out. Maybe it needed a little training time. lol Both modem and router are set to use DHCP. I should know when I get some sleep next time. I'm not sure when that will be tho. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
James wrote: Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gentooat gmail.com writes: I bought this router the other day. I notice something that is a little weird. It seems like more of the computer and electronics problems I have (or that people bring to me) are related to power supply failures

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread David Abbott
Dale you still use att or bellsouth DSL ? I connect like this [10 port switch] = [linksys router running ddwrt] = [DSL modem westell 6100] I put the modem in ip passthru [1] to the router, the modem validates the connection with att and the router does every thing else. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
David Abbott wrote: Dale you still use att or bellsouth DSL ? I connect like this [10 port switch] = [linksys router running ddwrt] = [DSL modem westell 6100] I put the modem in ip passthru [1] to the router, the modem validates the connection with att and the router does every thing else. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I have it plugged up to the same UPS my puter uses.  I changed the battery about a year ago and it is plenty large enough.  It runs at about 40% load.   I doubt it is a power issue. Dale :-)  :-) Multiple people in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I have it plugged up to the same UPS my puter uses. I changed the battery about a year ago and it is plenty large enough. It runs at about 40% load. I doubt it is a power issue. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Multiple people in the Linksys forums seem to have the same problem: http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wired-Routers/BEFSR41-loses-connection/m-p/233266#M21765

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Multiple people in the Linksys forums seem to have the same problem: http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wired-Routers/BEFSR41-loses-connection/m-p/233266#M21765

Re: [gentoo-user] modem problem : Speedstream vs Zoom

2010-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:12:08PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote Thanks to both: you've solved my actual problem, but not the puzzle. I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dhcpcd' 'dhcpcd eth0' gets the I/net : clearly, this is a big step forward by ISPs since 2001 ! I can also get through this way using