Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 22:19, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 18:09, Dale wrote: Sometime last night while I was sleeping, my network sort of hiccuped. If I went to a Konsole, I could ping google so it appears the network was working on the lower level but not one browser that was left

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 23:52, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:35:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote OHCI is a USB 1.1 implementation, I can't imagine why you have it loaded. Surely you do not have USB 1 only hardware? USB2 deals with that nicely. It is possible that you have a shit storm

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 22:53, Bruce Hill wrote: Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the primary high performance market - gamers. Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 22:19, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 18:09, Dale wrote: Sometime last night while I was sleeping, my network sort of hiccuped. If I went to a Konsole, I could ping google so it appears the network was working on the lower level but not one

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 23:52, Walter Dnes wrote: Do *NOT* remove lowspeed USB driver... unless you have a rescue USB stick boot handy. I tried that a few years ago and found that my USB keyboard and mouse stopped working. UHCI is used by Intel and VIA cpus, according to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming. What is the GPU capable of achieving when

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1 and two screens configured in xinerama

2013-10-05 Thread Andreas Prieß
On 04.10.2013 14:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 14:39, Andreas Prieß wrote: On 04.10.2013 13:20, Andreas Prieß wrote: Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here are the symptoms: Ever since media-libs/mesa = 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:06:57AM -0500, Dale wrote: Just remove ohci and uhci from the kernel config These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I'm not sure about my UPS. It could be old

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/10/2013 12:13, Dale wrote: Dale changed his motherboard recently, presumably he knows what his chipset offers This is the rig I built a few years ago. It has a Gigabyte mobo but it hasn't been changed yet. I was planning on it but family issues moved that from a burner to not even

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1 and two screens configured in xinerama

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/10/2013 13:32, Andreas Prieß wrote: This dual head setup - do you have one large desktop across two monitors, or two screens configured in xorg.conf? I can never quite remember what xinerama does (I think it's the first one) Can you reproduce the problem using just one configured

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Oct 2013 15:20:06 Bruce Hill wrote: There are 3 (or more) computers which sync (sometimes daily) on my LAN at work: server, router, and workstation. server has issues almost all the time getting a rsync server (for lack of better way to state it). All three comps have the exact

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On 04/10/2013 17:40, Alex Schuster wrote: Well. Sort of. Emerge also wanted to re-merge libreoffice, I have no idea why. The same happened yesterday when I upgraded portage. Whatever :) This time, I used --exclude app-office/libreoffice to avoid this. probably a

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:59:52PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge libreoffice, which I avoided. Next, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge libreoffice, which I avoided. Next, I updated

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge libreoffice, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/10/2013 18:22, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:59:52PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/10/2013 20:30, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 20:30:36 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: If portage believes LO needs to be rebuilt, it will try to do so whichever packages you are emerging, just let it happen. I already did that, twice, when updating portage and chromium. emerge still wants to remerge libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-05 Thread thegeezer
On 10/03/2013 08:27 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's say you wanted to configure routing of TCP packets based on destination port like in this example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.netfilter.html [which contains a series of 'ip' and 'iptables' commands to get packets

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemD + Gnome 3.8 I can log in as root but not as normal user

2013-10-05 Thread Carlos Sura
Hi, I do have -consolekit systemd policykit and yes, my kernel is properly configured. To avoid playing around I did reinstalled it again! and guess what? After installing gnome-tweak-tools and shell-extensions and use the tweak tools to do some changes, after reboot, again: blank screen trying

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemD + Gnome 3.8 I can log in as root but not as normal user

2013-10-05 Thread Carlos Sura
Update: I was desperate trying to rebuild everything or reinstalling or whatever idea I had. So, my logic said: if root works why others users wont?, then I decided to create another user, and guess what? it worked. So I removed my user and then created a new one and it worked. Yeah this is

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemD + Gnome 3.8 I can log in as root but not as normal user

2013-10-05 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 18:08:38 -0600 Carlos Sura carlos.su...@googlemail.com wrote: Update: I was desperate trying to rebuild everything or reinstalling or whatever idea I had. So, my logic said: if root works why others users wont?, then I decided to create another user, and guess what? it

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemD + Gnome 3.8 I can log in as root but not as normal user

2013-10-05 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Carlos Sura carlos.su...@googlemail.com wrote: Update: I was desperate trying to rebuild everything or reinstalling or whatever idea I had. So, my logic said: if root works why others users wont?, then I decided to create another user, and guess what? it