Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Update Issue

2014-05-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:58:56PM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote > VIDEOCARDS equals "nouveauinin radeoninin vmwareinin" > media-libs/mesa-10.0.4 was built with the following: USE equals > "classic egl gallium gbm llvm nptl xa combindist comdebug > comgles1 comgles2 comllvm-shared-libs comopenc

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-27 Thread covici
Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:26:26 -0400 > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > But c because I am not very familiar with gdm, can you give me a key > > sequence after gdm is launched to emter my user id and password? > > Key sequence: [SHIFT+TAB][ENTER]username[ENTER]password[ENTE

[gentoo-user] Odd Update Issue

2014-05-27 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hi guys. I ran into this error while doing a full system update, and was wondering if there was a solution. -Begin Messajes Calculating dependencies .. .. done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/mesa-10.2.0.rcbled [10.0.4] USE equals "comdriblec% comopenmax%was VIDEOCARDS equals "nouveauinin radeoni

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-27 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:26:26 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > But c because I am not very familiar with gdm, can you give me a key > sequence after gdm is launched to emter my user id and password? Key sequence: [SHIFT+TAB][ENTER]username[ENTER]password[ENTER] The first part selects "Not lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2014 18:20, Time Lucky wrote: > > ​ > VIDEO_ > ​​ > ​​ > CARDS="intel radeon -freedreno -i915 -i965 -ilo > > ​​ > -nouveau -r > ​​ > 100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeonsi -vmware" > ​ > ​ > Solved! > > I realized that your VIDEO_CARDS was "-i915" > then I removed "i915"

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is > against > the most recent one of itself or longer period. > That means having to keep multiple snapshots active, which I prefer to avoid. > > But, it is a good idea for backing up

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:32:22 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Oh, one other tip if you use btrfs - be sure you have a rescue disk > that supports it. Hint, the old Gentoo install CD I had lying around > didn't. You'll probably want to keep a rescue CD with a recent kernel > and btrfs-tools handy at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Smart Label Printe SLP 650

2014-05-27 Thread Joseph
On 05/26/14 15:38, walt wrote: On 05/25/2014 03:47 PM, Joseph wrote: Is anybody using Smart Label Printer SLP-650 with Gentoo? The cup driver recognized the printer and install it but it is not printing anything, I'm getting: SII_SLP650SII SLP650officeSII SLP650/SLP650SE, 1.8 Idle

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-27 Thread wireless
On 05/27/14 00:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site. I run lxde on one desktop; and my experimental results are nothing short of fabulous. A while back they (LXDE

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero > information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site. > > I see many blockers in the "[TRACKER] Qt5 in portage" bug [0]. I do believe the KDE proje

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Time Lucky
> ​ > VIDEO_ > ​​ > ​​ > CARDS="intel radeon -freedreno -i915 -i965 -ilo > ​​ -nouveau -r ​​ 100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeonsi -vmware" ​ ​ Solved! I realized that your VIDEO_CARDS was "-i915" then I removed "i915" from make.conf # emerge -avtuDN world ​​ N ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ow ​ ​It detects Intel® S

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Does anyone know how these will handle (and perform) with a possible 300+ > snapshots per filesystem (or volume, as I think it's called)? I can't speak for zfs. I had upwards of 1000 snapshots on my system before I stopped creating them hou

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: >> btrfs wouldn't have any issues with this at all. You'd have an >> advantage in that you wouldn't have to unmount the filesystem to >> cleanly create the snapshot (which you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 05:12:50 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Forgot to add: For fileservers, I am starting to feel that ZFS or BTRFS snapshots are easier to work with as it makes r

[gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I am still happily using LVM with snapshots. Those are instantaneous as > > well and I can then backup the snapshot, which on my server takes between > > 2 hours (incremental) and 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2014 15:23, Time Lucky wrote: > My USE in make.conf is > SE="bindist mmx mmx2 sse sse2 gnome gtk dbus systemd -consolekit -kde > -qt4 X acpi bash-completion bluetooth cjk unicode ipv6" At a hunch, I would say your USE for mesa is incorrect, possibly you have classic enabled and gallium

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I am still happily using LVM with snapshots. Those are instantaneous as well > and I can then backup the snapshot, which on my server takes between 2 hours > (incremental) and 3 weeks (full) > When a snapshot is backed up, it is removed. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:57:58 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 27.05.2014 09:59, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > So far, btrfs looks good on my laptop - time to think about putting > > it on my desktop. > > Yeah, good luck with that. I am quite happy with btrfs so far ... no > problems or disadv

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 27.05.2014 14:12, schrieb Rich Freeman: > >> There is snapper, which is even in the tree now. It isn't 100% >> flexible but supports any number of hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly >> snapshots, with retention policies for each. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-27 Thread covici
Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:07 AM, wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 27 May 2014 01:37:17 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >> > >> > OK, thanks, I have no /etc/adjtime at all, and I have two files, > >> > /etc/localtime (not a link) and /etc/timezone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Time Lucky
My USE in make.conf is SE="bindist mmx mmx2 sse sse2 gnome gtk dbus systemd -consolekit -kde -qt4 X acpi bash-completion bluetooth cjk unicode ipv6" 2014-05-27 21:21 GMT+08:00 Time Lucky : > "intel vesa fbdev" comes from " > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Gentoo_on_a_ThinkPad_X220"; >

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Time Lucky
"intel vesa fbdev" comes from " http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Gentoo_on_a_ThinkPad_X220"; "i915" comes from gentoo forums. So VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915 vesa fbdev" # equery u x11-drivers/xf86-video-inte it tells the USE is "dri sna udev" ,while "debug glamor uxa xvmc" is disabled # equer

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2014 14:52, Time Lucky wrote: > Hey,guys. > > Anyone can tell me how to switch Gallium 0.4 to intel driver? > I dont know why it happened but now my computer is very slow when I use > gnome 3.10. > > $ /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper -v > libGL error: dlopen /usr/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.05.2014 21:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 26.05.2014 19:47, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> But I somehow think the performance is sub-optimal. > > virt-backup is slow as well (using dd and gzip or pigz in my own patched > version). Yes, that LVM stuff again ... > > I run 6 SAS

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.05.2014 14:12, schrieb Rich Freeman: > There is snapper, which is even in the tree now. It isn't 100% > flexible but supports any number of hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly > snapshots, with retention policies for each. no systemd-unitfiles yet, correct? I merged it and took a quick look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:07 AM, wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 May 2014 01:37:17 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> >> > OK, thanks, I have no /etc/adjtime at all, and I have two files, >> > /etc/localtime (not a link) and /etc/timezone. Should I delete the >> > later and

[gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Time Lucky
Hey,guys. Anyone can tell me how to switch Gallium 0.4 to intel driver? I dont know why it happened but now my computer is very slow when I use gnome 3.10. $ /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper -v libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so:

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I have zfs-snapshot making snapshots at 15 minute, hourly, daily, monthly > and weekly intervals - and it cleans up after itself. There isn't > anything quite like that for btrfs, so I'm knocking up a python script to > take care of it. I wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.05.2014 13:49, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > I have zfs-snapshot making snapshots at 15 minute, hourly, daily, > monthly and weekly intervals - and it cleans up after itself. There > isn't anything quite like that for btrfs, so I'm knocking up a > py

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 May 2014 07:38:01 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Snapshotting hourly would mostly be a convenience - in theory it > should get you time-machine-like functionality just like hourly > backups would, but with far less overhead and space use. > > In practice I stopped doing this, as btrfs ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:25:48 +0100, Mick wrote: > I recall that zfs needed a lot of RAM >= 8M, is it the same with BTRFS? If you means 8GB, it doesn't. I am/was using it on several systems with 4GB. you can control the amount of memory used for its caches. -- Neil Bothwick If you consult enou

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:57:58 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Trust me to overlook the easy way of doing things, I was looking for > > an equivalent to "zfs rename" and never considered mv. > > It feels somehow "wrong" to only mv them, right? ;-) It's just too easy, there must be a catch

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.05.2014 13:25, schrieb Mick: > I recall that zfs needed a lot of RAM >= 8M, is it the same with > BTRFS? I assume you mean ">8GB" ? As far as I know and researched: no, btrfs is less memory hungry and was designed to even work fine on small de

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Mick wrote: > > Also how big is each snapshot of / and why are these necessary on an hourly > basiszfs ? Btrfs is COW, so snapshots only consume space as files change. If you have a read-only filesystem and snapshot it hourly the only space consumed by a snapshot

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 11:57:58 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 27.05.2014 09:59, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> Alternative: mount the subvol via option "subvolid" etc in fstab > >> if you plan to mount different snapshots, for example. > > > > I went with set-default for the root subvolume, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.05.2014 09:59, schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> Alternative: mount the subvol via option "subvolid" etc in fstab >> if you plan to mount different snapshots, for example. > > I went with set-default for the root subvolume, if I need the root > vo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-27 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2014 01:37:17 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > OK, thanks, I have no /etc/adjtime at all, and I have two files, > > /etc/localtime (not a link) and /etc/timezone. Should I delete the > > later and change the former to a link? > > No. Gentoo copi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-27 Thread covici
wraeth wrote: > > > On 27/05/14 15:37, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Jonathan Callen wrote: OK, thanks, I have no > > /etc/adjtime at all, and I have two files, /etc/localtime (not a link) > > and /etc/timezone. Should I delete the later and change the former to a > > link? > > What's t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 May 2014 01:37:17 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > OK, thanks, I have no /etc/adjtime at all, and I have two files, > /etc/localtime (not a link) and /etc/timezone. Should I delete the > later and change the former to a link? No. Gentoo copies the correct file from /usr/share/z

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 May 2014 00:34:25 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I'm working on this btrfs malarkey and have a question about best > > practice. It is recommended to leave the root volume empty and > > create a subvolume for the root filesystem which is set with btrfs > > subvolume set-default

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2014 07:32, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's > zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site. > > > > Last I heard it was still in the kde overlay and when it moves to portage new categories qt-*