[gentoo-user] removing an overlay

Hello, I've just sync'd my machine, and realized I'm pulling in a few packages from the devnull overlay that I would rather not. freetype / fontconfig / cairo for example and it's causing some conflicts when I try to update (-auvND world). I mainly use devnull for uzbl, dmenu, and my window

Re: [gentoo-user] removing an overlay

Excellent. thank you. Both responses are very helpful. Alan On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:25:12 -0500, Alan Warren wrote: I'm surprised packages in overlays take precedence over portage. Is there any way to get a single

[gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

Hello, I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc memory. On occasion (seems random so far) my system feels like a Pentium II trying to cope with Vista. For example, I was in the middle of

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

have yet to provide their patches to? ( I see vanilla sources has 2.6.35 .3) Thanks again, Alan On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a proper venu for debugging

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc memory. On occasion

[gentoo-user] thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

Hello, My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting with strange characters in it's name. I'm using pcmanfm inside of awesome wm. I have the latest stable xorg-server compiled with udev. My thumbdrive mounts as /media/ I can't copy+paste the symbols (although I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

Thanks for the info. I'm going to look into it. Just to illustrate a little better, this is what it looks like. http://www.alan-warren.com/images/strange_chars.jpg Thanks On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:32 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/30/2011 02:36 PM, Alan Warren wrote: Hello, My

Re: [gentoo-user] thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

Thanks Mike, this is exactly what I needed. I'm all set now. -Alan On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Mike Gilbert floppymas...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting

[gentoo-user] ata errors on startup (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)

Hello, I've recently made a few changes to my machine, and one of the unfortunate side effects is the following error. Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [7.396912] ata14.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [7.398906] ata14.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error,

[gentoo-user] Re: ata errors on startup (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)

I was able to stop the errors by disabling the Marvell controller from within my bios. Thanks, Alan On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:45:33PM -0600, Alan Warren wrote: Hello, I've recently made a few changes to my machine, and one of the unfortunate side effects is the following error

[gentoo-user] slow screen redraw in terminal windows after sync

I recently sync'd after not having done so in 36 days. Among the packages updated were firefox-bin and xulrunner. While using awesome wm, I first noticed firefox-bin wouldn't display, but it launched fine in gnome. I tried launching firefox-bin from a terminal, but got no errors. The