Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-29 Thread Dale
John Campbell wrote: On 11/28/2011 07:16 PM, James wrote: An old parallel port on an old pci card should do the trick, if all you needs is a parallel port. Some of those old Laserjet printer could be set up across a serial port, if nothing else works. I'd also check your computer's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.11.2011 04:16, schrieb James: Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3742 Does anyone use this USB-adapter-cable: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port Unknown. Look in the driver section of building a kernel for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 29. nov. 2011 06:03, skrev Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. Not me, but Tcl is one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l ... ? With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it too much (a new watercooler

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
28 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:17, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Since updating to Openrc 0.9.4 , I'm getting some opaque messages : (1) When starting eth0 : You are using a bash array for config_eth0. This feature will be removed in the future.  Please see

[gentoo-user] Re: Disappearing useflag hell [SOLVED]

2011-11-29 Thread walt
On 11/28/2011 05:38 PM, Dale wrote: I'm glad you got yours sorted out but I'm still curious as to how it is on in one place and off somewhere else. I know a dev has it set that way and I'm SURE he/she has a good reason for it. I just don't know where that is done. Have a look at the files in

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first inclination would be to raid

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.11.2011 12:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l ... ? With the cooling system I currently have, I don't

[gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I vaguely recall that ''

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first inclination would be to raid them and drop lvm on top.  I know lvm well enough,

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:47:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it too much (a new watercooler should arrive tomorrow), but MAKEOPTS=-j16 -l10 appears to be a definite improvement over the old -j8 with no -l. I have it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. At my workplace we use a commercial Tcl-based mail and web server for sending out

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in TCL.. and even had an API for the

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael,   Welcome to the world of what ever sort of multi-disk environment you choose. It's a HUGE topic and a conversation I look forward to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Andrea Conti
Oh, you just want to test the features *you* use, understood. Guys, I did not want to start a flamewar. I've been running ~arch for years and I've had my fair share of breakage, which I'm perfectly fine with (e.g. I'm not complaining that dev-lang/php-5.4.0._rc2 currently fails to compile with

[gentoo-user] Re: dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Jack Byer
Florian Philipp wrote: Another thing you can think of is whether you want encryption. I've done this for my laptop. The usual setup would by md-lvm-crypt. I've done it crypt-lvm (an LVM physical volume on top of an encrypted partition). This way, I only need to enter the password once. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, especially among the devs (as rc_parallel results in _very_ tangible time savings, especially on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 30, 2011 12:51 AM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, especially among the

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. Not me, but Tcl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread, especially among

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the

[gentoo-user] no keyboard activity in gnome

2011-11-29 Thread covici
Hi. I am having a problem where when I start gdm, I get no keyboard activity. I emerged @x11-module-rebuild which emerges the keyboard, mouse, evdev and diksplay drivers. I am using the latest version of gnome2 -- I got it before the big change. I have attached Xorg.0.log for further

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.11.2011 16:39, schrieb Neil Bothwick: The trouble with --load-average in emerge is that it is only checked as each ebuild is about to start, so you get the load explosion mentioned previously when many ebuilds start and once and then get into their compile phases. I'm using --jobs, with

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Jarry
On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes a terrible RAID unit? Some hard-drives are not suitable for raid at all. There are many reasons for that, one example is error-recovery. Check

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.11.2011 19:39, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 19:39, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes a terrible RAID unit? Some hard-drives are not suitable for raid at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes a

[gentoo-user] Re: Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Jörg Schaible
Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in TCL..

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 14:26:17 Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-11-29 Thread Samuraiii
No I know that Linux is casesensitve and in my USE is "bzip2" (as written here - I just used what is shown in gpg complaint) - so this is not obviously the problem. (my whole USE variable content is in provided bugreport...) And the preference of

[gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm wondering what the process is to switch the audio video output of my laptop the its HDMI port? I'd like to try using xine to play DVDs. I assume in Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 08:28:42PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote It had a little problem in resolving the dependencies of a newly introduced boot service that created a cycle and caused the boot process to hang (almost) forever with rc_parallel=YES. With 100% repeatability, mind you, which does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:15:14PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: Sorry to add more to the whining but... Yes, you are in the testing tree. Yes, as a member of testing, *you* expect things will occasionally break, and it is *your* job to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:28:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote I do that a lot at work too. Some days I can tell you I found and dealt with more than one issue or bug but can't recall afterwards what it was. I'm still undecided if this is a good thing, a bad thing, or neither They say

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tcl in your system...

2011-11-29 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 23:09 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: At a previous job we had licensed some software that was written in TCL.. and even had an API for the system. I can't recall the name of the software at the moment, but it was very specialized so not cheap. This was during the late

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-11-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 30, 2011 6:21 AM, Samuraiii samura...@volny.cz wrote: No I know that Linux is casesensitve and in my USE is bzip2 (as written here - I just used what is shown in gpg complaint) - so this is not ob viously the problem. (my whole USE variable content is in provided bugreport...) And the

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-11-29 Thread Samuraiii
No luck, grep didn't returned any results. S. On 2011-11-30 01:21, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 30, 2011 6:21 AM, "Samuraiii" samura...@volny.cz wrote: No I know that Linux is casesensitve and in my USE

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-11-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 30, 2011 7:37 AM, Samuraiii samura...@volny.cz wrote: No luck, grep didn't returned any results. S. Hmm... try remerging gpg? Rgds,

[gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome

2011-11-29 Thread walt
On 11/29/2011 10:40 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a problem where when I start gdm, I get no keyboard activity. I emerged @x11-module-rebuild which emerges the keyboard, mouse, evdev and diksplay drivers. I am using the latest version of gnome2 -- I got it before the big

[gentoo-user] binutils failed to compile

2011-11-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, after update binutil receives a patch from gentoo. The following compilations failes: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -march=native -O2 -pipe -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o size size.o bucomm.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard activity in gnome

2011-11-29 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/29/2011 10:40 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a problem where when I start gdm, I get no keyboard activity. I emerged @x11-module-rebuild which emerges the keyboard, mouse, evdev and diksplay drivers. I am using the latest version of

[gentoo-user] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

2011-11-29 Thread Shane Davidson
Hello all; I sent this same message to Gentoo-accessibility, but thought why not, let's get even more input and see if we can make this roll. I've been a Gentoo user for awhile, and installed a knew VM, using the latest available kernel, 3.1.1. When speakup attempts to install I get * ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

2011-11-29 Thread Vishnupradeep
You can get kernel 2.6.36 from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tags here you will find the tag for 2.6.34 version of kernel. Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at

[gentoo-user] ignore previous message re: speakup.

2011-11-29 Thread Shane Davidson
Hello all; I got an answer re: speakup from Gentoo-accessibility. Thanks all. Shane

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:17:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm wondering what the process is to switch the audio video output of my laptop the its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 29 November 2011 23:28:48 Walter Dnes wrote: There aren't enough developers on the planet to test every possible combination of testing ebuild, and non-recommended rc.conf option. Not only that, but once random timing is introduced, as in any system with a hardware clock interrupt,

Re: [gentoo-user] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

2011-11-29 Thread covici
Its now in the kernel itself, under drivers - staging. Shane Davidson gen...@shaned.net wrote: Hello all; I sent this same message to Gentoo-accessibility, but thought why not, let's get even more input and see if we can make this roll. I've been a Gentoo user for awhile, and installed

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 11:41:57 Philip Webb wrote: A further question: since I had previously updated /etc/conf.d/net , I was given a router by my ISP therefore started to use DHCP. The new net.example file suggests I might make further changes in 'net' simplify my configuration files.