[gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too large for the available 1.44MB DOS boot disks. Apparently FreeDOS had a LiveCD available

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
flashrom can write to a growing number of BIOSes, did you try it already? It's in portage so you can just emerge it. Look at the use flag list, since you might need to enable support for something in there so it can see your chip(s). The exe file might be usable directly with it, or you might

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Markus Kaindl
Hi, did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops). Markus Grant schrieb: I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
flashrom can write to a growing number of BIOSes, did you try it already? It's in portage so you can just emerge it. Look at the use flag list, since you might need to enable support for something in there so it can see your chip(s). The exe file might be usable directly with it, or you

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops). Markus Sometimes it just doesn't pay to *not* come to the list *first*. I did get it working with unetbootin as mentioned in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Grant
Hi, did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops). Markus Now that I look more closely at that page, I've got to cast a vote for going the unetbootin way. It's really easy and

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: SNIPPED As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. Be careful here, not all

[gentoo-user] ATI-drivers 12.3 with Kernel 3.4

2012-04-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know about patches for the ATI-drivers 12.3 to work with git-sources 3.4_rc3 ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: SNIPPED As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. Be careful here,

Re: [gentoo-user] FFTOOLS flags?

2012-04-16 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:15:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: Does anyone know what these guys are and/or if they are documented anywhere? Ah, found it. What I was looking for and more are in the /usr/portage/profiles/desc/ directory. W -- Data aequatione quotcunque

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ath9k: can't authenticate

2012-04-16 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:44:25AM -0300, Penguin Lover Claudio Roberto França Pereira squawked: Anyway, does anyone with a similar setup had any problems with atheros nics? And how did you solve it? Does your problem happen with WEP or WPA networks? There is a known bug introduced in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey bookmarks file location

2012-04-16 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 05:28:12PM -0500, Penguin Lover »Q« squawked: That's true. There used to be a places.sqlite-journal file as well, which should be deleted from the profile a places.sqlite file is being copied to, but I don't see it any more in either Firefox or SeaMonkey. While I

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 16. April 2012, 03:14:15 schrieb Grant: I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too large for the available 1.44MB DOS

Re: [gentoo-user] Building the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers against the latest kernel.git

2012-04-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.04.2012 02:30, schrieb walt: For many years I've been testing kernels from Linus's git repository and I find that about twice a year the kernel devs do something evil that breaks proprietary video drivers. (I suspect they do it on purpose but I can't prove it ;) I have no idea how

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ath9k: can't authenticate

2012-04-16 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I'm using WPA2 but tried even with no authentication, without luck. The authentication always times out. I'll try your configurations Zhu. I've tried wpa_supplicant before with similar configurations, without luck. I'll look at this carefully. Thank you for all your feedback. I'll come back today

[gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Doug Hunley
I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that dev-libs/ppl-0.12. says to do, a recompile of gcc, or

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, whether it's the

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using ccache? nope. no ccache, no distcc -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd                                               Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using ccache? nope. no ccache, no distcc What are you using for CFLAGS? -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:39, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using ccache? nope. no ccache, no distcc What are you using for CFLAGS?

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:39, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you

[gentoo-user] Problem with eix-update

2012-04-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... problems arised with cachefile _var_lib_layman_zugaina.eix * Calling eix-update... * could not read all eix cachefiles of

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI-drivers 12.3 with Kernel 3.4

2012-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/16/2012 06:09 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, does anybody know about patches for the ATI-drivers 12.3 to work with git-sources 3.4_rc3 ? Well, patch is too formal for the ugly hack I use :) After building your new kernel you should patch one kernel header file before building

Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe

2012-04-16 Thread James Broadhead
On 16 April 2012 11:48, Markus Kaindl markus.kai...@stusta.mhn.de wrote: Hi, did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios? http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops). Markus Please link people to the maintained version

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that dev-libs/ppl-0.12. says to

CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update... WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eix-update

2012-04-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-04-16 2:38 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... problems arised with cachefile _var_lib_layman_zugaina.eix * Calling

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread walt
On 04/16/2012 10:14 AM, Doug Hunley wrote: I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update, dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile, whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:47, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Looking for ppl on bugs.gentoo org, finding bug #412117 [*], rebuilding ppl and cloog-ppl without -floop* CFLAGS, then again with floop* CFLAGS. damn, I searched, didn't see this. thanks -- Douglas J Hunley

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Doug Hunley
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 16:00, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:47, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Looking for ppl on bugs.gentoo org, finding bug #412117 [*], rebuilding ppl and cloog-ppl without -floop* CFLAGS, then again with floop* CFLAGS.

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: gnome-shell behavior

2012-04-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 12:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: ... it seems that the Gnome extension Journal triggers the crash. Disabled it now, gotta monitor things. Just to be correct on that one: removed Journal (and Jump Lists) completely, re-added it. It works fine now. Both the extension itself

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/bin/python???

2012-04-16 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:14:07 +0200 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/16/2012 04:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: As already mentioned in a previous mail of mine, the package is app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.5. The -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1032 2012-04-15 11:27

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey bookmarks file location

2012-04-16 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:30:47 +0200 Willie WY Wong wong...@member.ams.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 05:28:12PM -0500, Penguin Lover »Q« squawked: That's true. There used to be a places.sqlite-journal file as well, which should be deleted from the profile a places.sqlite file is being

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 17, 2012 3:23 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 16:00, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:47, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Looking for ppl on bugs.gentoo org, finding bug #412117 [*], rebuilding ppl and

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: SNIPPED As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is hot-plugin capable, you

[gentoo-user] Re: CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update...

2012-04-16 Thread Vaeth
I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve... Unfortunately, you have not written the actual error which should appear probably a few (probably one) lines before: problems arised with cachefile