[gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/22/2011 09:50 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote: [...] And I thought there was something weird with me on this one. o_O I did switch it back to AHCI after I got done booting the CD thingy. I really can't tell any difference in speed between the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-22 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2011 09:50 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote: [...] And I thought there was something weird with me on this one. o_O I did switch it back to AHCI after I got done booting the CD thingy. I really can't tell any

[gentoo-user] Networkdriver for Intel 82579

2011-01-22 Thread Matthias Fechner
Dear list, I have here a brand new mainboard (Asus P8P67 Pro) with the new sandy chip on it. If I look into the manual it says there is an Intel 82579 Gigabit LAN chip on-board. I tried it with kernel 2.6.37 (from kernel.org) and dmesg tells me: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver -

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkdriver for Intel 82579

2011-01-22 Thread Dale
Matthias Fechner wrote: Dear list, I have here a brand new mainboard (Asus P8P67 Pro) with the new sandy chip on it. If I look into the manual it says there is an Intel 82579 Gigabit LAN chip on-board. I tried it with kernel 2.6.37 (from kernel.org) and dmesg tells me: e1000e: Intel(R)

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/21/2011 12:08 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com I am against hard limits on username

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com writes: I think the expression you're looking for is non sequitur. Meeku: It follows neatly and just because it is out-of-the-box spiritual philosophy does not mean it's non sequitur. I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare
I just think it goes too far for a description about the font, nothing specific against philosophy. Meeku: What tends to happen in font design that certain issues tend to be closed/buried or muted and thus I wanted to be open about it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem

2011-01-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/21/2011 10:14:33 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote: On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, using Python3.1, if I say import site I get File /usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py, line 472, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkdriver for Intel 82579

2011-01-22 Thread Matthias Fechner
On 01/22/11 12:12, Dale wrote: Just build it in or add it as a module. In case you are new, go to Device Drivers, Network Device support, Ethernet 1000 Mbit then look for Intel Pro/1000. Sort of lists it backwards up there. ;-) no it is not working (kernel 2.6.37). But I got the above

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 January 2011 05:45:27 Walter Dnes wrote: As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I launched the app. Somebody thought they were being helpful; then again, so did the designers

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkdriver for Intel 82579

2011-01-22 Thread Dale
Matthias Fechner wrote: On 01/22/11 12:12, Dale wrote: Just build it in or add it as a module. In case you are new, go to Device Drivers, Network Device support, Ethernet 1000 Mbit then look for Intel Pro/1000. Sort of lists it backwards up there. ;-) no it is not working (kernel 2.6.37). But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes, what is the best test of a hard drive's speed? By running a benchmark tool that does exactly this.  IOzone is a nice one:  http://www.iozone.org

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 22 January 2011 05:45:27 Walter Dnes wrote: As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I launched the app. Somebody thought they were being

[gentoo-user] More adventures with grub2

2011-01-22 Thread walt
Just finished using gdisk to convert my MSDOS partition table to a GPT. Worked perfectly on the first try (whew). Rebooted with grub2 to discover that grub2 couldn't see my shiny new GPT :( After holding my head in my sweaty palms for a few minutes, I finally realized that grub didn't

[gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! On my desktop PC, I have set up ssmtp with access data for my mail server, so things like smartmontools or portage can send me emails. This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one with root access

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-22 Thread kashani
On 1/22/2011 1:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! On my desktop PC, I have set up ssmtp with access data for my mail server, so things like smartmontools or portage can send me emails. This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:11:03 Nuno J. Silva wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 22 January 2011 05:45:27 Walter Dnes wrote: As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before

Re: [gentoo-user] NX, FreeNX, Neatx, x2go?

2011-01-22 Thread Stroller
On 21/1/2011, at 2:43pm, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I'm using various versions of NX to access remote servers. Normally I use FreeNX, but sometimes NX from nomachine.org, and I also gave Neatx a try, depending on which OS I am using - I do this with Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Stroller
On 20/1/2011, at 10:08pm, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com I am against hard limits on username lengths, but I think that uuencoding the

[gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-22 Thread dhk
Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? I've followed the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml and everything seems to be working, but there's still no sound. I've also swapped out the speakers, made sure they were powered on, and the volume turned up. Also I'm in the

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-22 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? What happens when you; modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; modprobe snd-seq-oss

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-22 Thread dhk
On 01/22/2011 08:51 PM, David Abbott wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? What happens when you; modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; modprobe snd-seq-oss After executing the

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-22 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:59 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: On 01/22/2011 08:51 PM, David Abbott wrote: On Sat,

[gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

2011-01-22 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the globe automatically? I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will respond: France, Paris I dont mean a tool, whose output I have interpret. I want this for batch processing... Thank you very much in