Re: [gentoo-user] 10 G eth (10000) on Gentoo

2011-09-01 Thread Adam Carter
Nice - multi-queue was vapourware when i last looked. It would be worth checking the driver source/doco to see what's there. Looks like intel made multiqueue available in Nov. 2010. You can set up to 16 queues. http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14687/eng/README.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:37 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Btrfs supports on the fly compression Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely, and the mount option for that is compress=zlib. Is it reliable? A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Adam Carter
Is it reliable? So far so go for me. I'm using lzo on my main partition and zlib on /home and on an external drive i use for backup. A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of unfixable errors.  Initially I was quite impressed,  but until the tools catch up with

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
2.6.37 on one machine, and 2.6.39 on the other - those two corrupted during bad shutdowns whilst writing to the FS (well, I am bad for triggering the remote power OFF :) Its not the corruption that was the issue, but that a wipe, reformat and reload was the only fix. Cant remember the exact

Re: [gentoo-user] Important package blocked by another important package

2011-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:03:21 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I finally did this, but got further problems: solfire:/rootemerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-09-01 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 18.37.11 CEST, Pandu Poluan wrote: (Sorry for top-posting; Gmail java mobile client sucks) gid 0 should be the 'root' gid. Try 'grep -E root|wheel /etc/groups' and see if there is/are groups called 'root' or 'wheel' with gid==0 Also a question: Are you using

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire package around when I have another package installed that does what the first package is supposed to do? ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-01, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Does 'xset c' work for you? Well, it works as far as it sets the key click value successfully (if you xset q you can see if it's set) but there's no

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire package around when I have another package installed that does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it just sounds the system bell (or whatever you call it). No, it doesn't do that for me, and I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade Gentoo

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Edward Martinez edwardlo...@gmail.com wrote:   !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy dev-lang/php[cli,mysql,xml,session,sockets] has unmet requirements.   - dev-lang/php-5.3.8::gentoo USE=berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter gdbm hash iconv ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 01 September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the motherboard, and xset c still does nothing. not playing a custom sound file. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 01 Sep 2011 15:22:29 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it just sounds the system bell (or whatever

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-01, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: You guys are still re-inventing wheels. You keep saying that, and we keep asking what the simple solution is. Why won't you answer? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:13:53 +0200 Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: Alan McKinnon writes: On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly: On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it,

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:13:53 +0200 Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: Alan McKinnon writes: On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:32:11 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Happily, there was a nice pretty lady from Samsung in the office 3 months ago wanting to sell the 900X Macbook Air knock-off into the company. The IT manager didn't know what to do with the demo she left behind

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade Gentoo

2011-09-01 Thread Edward Martinez
On 09/01/11 08:35, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Edward Martinezedwardlo...@gmail.com wrote: !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy dev-lang/php[cli,mysql,xml,session,sockets] has unmet requirements. - dev-lang/php-5.3.8::gentoo USE=berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Well, tar is not a part of net-tools, so Doug shouldn't have any problems there ;) Rgds, On 2011-09-02, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: On Wed, Aug 31,

[gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-01 Thread BRM
I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge to get network access. /etc/init.d/net.wlan0