Re: [gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

2011-12-24 Thread Bill Longman
Merry Christmas all! Looks like it's about to officially start in about twenty seconds. -- Bill Longman Sent from my Galaxy S On Dec 24, 2011 12:49 PM, Andrés Becerra Sandoval andres.bece...@gmail.com wrote: Merry Christmas to all :) -- Andrés Becerra Sandoval

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] adding another terminal

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Longman
: X sessions through a silent 10W tray. It's very usable at 100Mbps. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Longman
is a useful method. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/06/2011 06:55 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Bill Longman wrote: is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) this application does not supprt audio

Re: [gentoo-user] Disappearing useflag hell

2011-11-27 Thread Bill Longman
On Nov 27, 2011 3:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: Somewhere deep in the bowels of portage my 'introspection' useflag is vanishing -- but on just one of my three machines. I set the introspection useflag on all three machines (two ~amd64 and one ~x86) but when I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/27/2011 12:41 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and I had 5 death stars failing on me. Darth Vader's death star failed, too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

2011-10-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/03/2011 10:54 AM, Allan Nielsen wrote: Hi First of all, sorry if this is not the right forum to post this question. I'm having a strange problem with urxvt on one of my computers. When I uses a command which type some text on the screen and then waits for input, the text does

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/03/2011 12:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.10.2011 20:40, schrieb Grant Edwards: Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with urxvt

2011-10-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/03/2011 12:26 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/03/2011 10:54 AM, Allan Nielsen wrote: I'm using gentoo, xmonad and urxvt I have a similar problem with xterm in KDE using radeon. Is that your environment, too, Allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant connect to local webserver - ICMP admin prohibited

2011-09-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/23/2011 10:06 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Will gig negotiate auto cross over on a straight cable? I have a cross over i can use, but since you mentioned gig Yes. GigE is always auto-mdi by definition.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cheapest dedicated gentoo servers?

2011-09-02 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/02/2011 06:41 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Gentoo and most importantly are reliable. Service should be stable. Isn't this an oxymoron?

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?

2011-08-26 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/26/2011 10:08 AM, James wrote: Hello, In /usr/portage/sci-chemistry, there are lots of software offerings. My son is new to Gentoo but now I let him go root and install packages. Does Gentoo maintain an online index with brief description of each so one can make a guess as to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/22/2011 01:41 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I don't think this is true - as long as the CHOST is identical, there should be no problem. CHOST defines the arch (i686, amd64, arm ..) whilst CFLAGS control gcc behavior and the binary code generation produced by compiler. in my case

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/22/2011 01:41 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I don't think this is true - as long as the CHOST is identical, there should be no problem. CHOST defines the arch (i686, amd64, arm ..) whilst CFLAGS control gcc behavior and the binary code generation produced by compiler. in my case

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2011 09:58 PM, Grant wrote: the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH keys. If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each system to be backed-up, allow root read access of each system via SSH +1 push. But my question is, Why do you

[gentoo-user] distccmon-gui red bars finally solved

2011-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
, for a given host. Once you fix those, the distcc works great. HTH somebody else. Bill -- Bill Longman Εν αρχη ην ὁ λογος

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/12/2011 07:10 AM, Alexandre Riveira wrote: Tanks Mick ! I ajusted /etc/conf.d/net resuts: localhost home # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:22:b2:64:44 inet addr:192.168.0.159 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Your broadcast is still

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing partition labels

2011-08-01 Thread Bill Longman
On Aug 1, 2011 7:13 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Greetings all, I'm probably in the situation where I can't see the wood for the trees so a bit of help would be appreciated. I've decided to go the LABEL route in fstab and have set the labels on my partitions a few days ago. I

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-07-31 Thread Bill Longman
On Jul 31, 2011 7:06 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go directly to `make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/21/2011 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Just trying to lighten the mood, don't take it the wrong way. So... why didn't he partition his wife if he didn't want her to be found? I think his fragment size was too large.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 07/21/2011 02:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Did Hans keep a journal? If so, maybe they can use it to recover his lost wife... Inode they

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/20/2011 11:49 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 09:30:27 Grant wrote: I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. Don't forget Tyan. The workstation board I have here has been rock-solid even in really bad atmospheric conditions (large

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/19/2011 07:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 July 2011 12:39:09 Stroller wrote: On 19 July 2011, at 00:36, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Unless there is some family or intimate connection the rest of us are unaware of, there are no grounds for you to be offended on behalf of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find reiser4 patch for kernel-2.6.39

2011-07-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/18/2011 06:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 18 July 2011 14:30:28 Stroller wrote: On 18 July 2011, at 12:18, Mick wrote: Is it a matter of waiting a bit longer? Yes, I think he'll be eligible for parole beginning 2023. please refrain yourself from idiotic remarks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/13/2011 12:38 PM, Grant wrote: I suppose I could also do without the PXE layer and all of its requirements if I install some sort of minimal storage device (flash drive, SD card, USB key, etc.) into each workstation for the boot image. I could still push updates to the boot image over

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/11/2011 09:26 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb: I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept 'transportation'. It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'. If it is wrong, how would it be right? I'm not a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-05 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/04/2011 09:39 PM, pk wrote: On 2011-07-04 22:32, Grant wrote: That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com Yep. right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when it

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-02 Thread Bill Longman
Meino, I don't know fcron but I just put cron lines in a file and do crontab filename

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-02 Thread Bill Longman
On Jul 2, 2011 3:12 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [11-07-02 23:57]: Meino, I don't know fcron but I just put cron lines in a file and do crontab filename Hi Bill, sorry for the confusion, Bill, my English screws the things up. Problem has solved

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity

2011-06-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/23/2011 07:52 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Programming secure software is not the easiest task to master. It takes a lot of planning and enough knowledge about the components you're using to know exactly how they all work together, as well as how they are not supposed to be used. In many

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-settings over ssh sees my local GPU?

2011-06-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/23/2011 09:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Looking at the man page, it appears you need to use the -ctrl-display parameter or the $DISPLAY env var. The man page mentions that nvidia-settings queries the X server, which is running locally. It looks like this setting may force it to use

[gentoo-user] KDE text to speech and talkers

2011-06-14 Thread Bill Longman
this to work fine on my previous KDE 4 installs, but this is frustrating. Bill -- Bill Longman Εν αρχη ην ὁ λογος

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Modules

2011-06-09 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/09/2011 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: eselect OTOH, is something I always have to run bit by bit to recall the invocation. That's just way too much effort for this here old git Wasn't on this list that I saw the correct procedure for eselect? eselect eselect kernel eselect kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/06/2011 09:52 AM, Indi wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:42:01AM -0700, kashani wrote: I'd like to point out that the PEBCAK was on your end. Sorry, no. And you just used your one shot at trolling me. Do it again and it's the bozo bin for you. Well, Indi, you are now right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird fixed folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/06/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: Using seamonkey as the browser, you can just set your middle mouse button or wheel to roll up and down the size of the font for anything you see. Very convenient for folks that constantly need to adjust fonts sizes. I never tried to set this up for

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish!

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/06/2011 11:32 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. Just to say I'll be withdrawing from this list in a few days, unsubscribing actually, mainly so that I can go back to being an Emacs developer; the number of emails on both lists combined is just more than I can handle comfortably.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-03 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: There is a simple rule in computing: NEVER remove user created data That is utter rubbish. Obsolete data can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout2/OpenRC migration question - dispatch-conf vs etc-update

2011-05-28 Thread Bill Longman
Yes, absolutely. I use cfgupdate too. -- Bill Longman Sent from my Galaxy S

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Bill Longman
Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/18/2011 11:53 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have an xorg.conf? I suspect X has correctly figured out what you have and then you turn around and tell it something different. Whereupon it believes you. When I have NO xorg.conf file, KDE starts in clone mode. The 1280x1024 LCD wins and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them

2011-05-17 Thread Bill Longman
files to augment what kde knows about the display geometry? What's more annoying is that I have other machines that have no problem. What's the general consensus for configuring multiple heads? Just go with xorg.conf? Add Monitor sections in xorg.conf.d? -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Turning off WebGL support

2011-05-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/13/2011 11:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is WebGL an OS feature or a browser feature? I.e. can I block it in Is it a dessert topping or a floor wax? Certainly 'tis the latter. (Browser feature, that is. Not floor wax).

Re: [gentoo-user] Need more NFS help

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/10/2011 08:02 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: A couple of weeks ago I switched my gcc profile over and rebuilt everything with emerge -e system and emerge -e world. Now, when I restart the computer (any of the three on my LAN), the NFS shares listed in /etc/fstab are not automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/10/2011 08:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose this step-down-through-the-levels nonsense comes from flawed comparisons with combustion engines and turbines - it makes sense to ramp these up and down. It does not make sense to do this with a cpu as a cpu is a completely different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/10/2011 09:34 AM, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: otherwise. Just enable ondemand, disable everything else, and et the kernel get on with doing what it does best: So this is what you are saying? [*] CPU Frequency scaling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/10/2011 01:30 PM, Mick wrote: Same with the other virtual core, power management is blank. Am I missing something in my kernel or is my MoBo/CPU feature poor? cat .config | grep CPU_FREQ CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set

Re: [gentoo-user] Need more NFS help

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/10/2011 04:39 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Bill Longman writes: You're barking up the wrong tree. Show your rc-status -a and you'll see a few nfs-related services that you've not added to default run level. I don't say that's not true, but wouldn't this be a bug, and the nfsmount init

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-14 Thread Bill Longman
I just have a little script: $ cat /usr/local/sbin/up-x #!/bin/bash # # /usr/local/sbin/up-x # # Recompile X drivers etc. after kernel upgrade: # emerge  -1 --jobs=5 --keep-going `qlist -IC x11-drivers` \        echo \        sh /usr/local/src/VirtualBox*run \        echo Makes life

Re: [gentoo-user] GPU lockup with nouveau driver and accel on

2011-04-14 Thread Bill Longman
Sorry, Doug, I can't help you but FWIW, my eselect options on my NVidia laptop follow. I do not have gallium or nouveau use flags. 64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) 64bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) 64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) 64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) 64bit sw

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Longman
As I try to run as (normal) user -terminal-, does not show me any output, no errors, no message. What happens when you run X as the root user? Do you get the same error? That is, log into a regular system terminal, start X, and run LO.

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/11/2011 08:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/05/2011 12:55 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-04-05, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn caps-lock into a ctrl key: Here's what I use: screwdriver :-/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/05/2011 01:27 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: I bought a $5 keyboard that was not bad, but the layout had sleep, wake, power keys between the Del/End/PgDn row and the arrow keys. In Linux, of course, the keys didn't actually do anything, but physically they still annoyed me because there should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Longman
Maybe switch it to just a shift key? And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Bill Longman
! -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/01/2011 02:00 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: .. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and APIC: root@lilpenguin $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:18 4 13 0 0 1 -/+

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-26 Thread Bill Longman
compile. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: kashani wrote: On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. Dale Meh, boot a liveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 11:57 PM, Mick wrote: My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 machine: $ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/23/2011 11:23 AM, John Blinka wrote: Thanks for the color.map pointer. A web search turns up one person's solution: http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-portage-color-map-light-background-ftopict332304.html A /etc/portage/color.map file containing just this one line makes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). Thanks Jorge,

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: Hi, All, For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of the time. The colors that appear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 03:32 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: Bill Longman wrote: On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/17/2011 11:41 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP it would seem that the 32ul-11.0.iso version would be the one to run 32 bit software on? SNIP I cannot speak for the LiveDVD as I've not tried it but remember there

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding more than one static IP

2011-01-31 Thread Bill Longman
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Amar Cosic amar.co...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list My mind is just locked at the moment and I am trying to figure out what am I doing wrong here. I have 4 static IP's on server machine and I have something like this in /etc/conf.d/net : config_eth0=(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?

2011-01-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/27/2011 12:53 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: BTW, if - vim has access to X (you run it on your local machine or from ssh -X or something similar) - is compiled with X support (check with vim --version | grep +X11) - and you :set mouse=a then you can paste by middle clicking in vim (not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?

2011-01-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/28/2011 12:03 PM, kashani wrote: You might like one too. cmap w!! w !sudo tee % /dev/null When you forget to sudo vi you can use w!! which pipes writing the file though sudo. You get some term gunk, but it does work. That's what screen and PS1 are for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/27/2011 12:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Btw, if you're using more instances than the amount of CPUs, the result will be slow-down. With the default kernel scheduler, best if amount of CPUs + 1. (On a 4-core, that's -j5). And if you use emerge's --jobs 2, each of those jobs will

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/16/2011 01:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If its not set

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/21/2011 09:45 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I launched the app. Somebody thought they were being helpful; then again, so did the designers of Clippy.

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/12/2011 07:25 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 01/12/2011 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP If not BIOS then I'd look at kernel config next. - Mark If it helps here's my 2.6.36-r6 .config. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Web Server Memory Issues

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/13/2011 09:59 AM, Kaddeh wrote: I have a standard 2x RAM swap size of 4gb. The problem that I am seeing though is that the applications (MySQL and apache) are segfaulting -before- the system starts to swap, almost where they have an aversion to using swap. Are you running 32 bits?

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 01/12/2011 06:46 AM, Mark Knecht stated: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to build a windows 7 guest using virtualbox-ose-3.1.8. When starting the virtual machine to install the OS, I get the warning: VT-x/AMD-V hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] LANG, LC_*, and unicode

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Longman
. Recompile any nls-dependent apps and Bob's your uncle. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] LANG, LC_*, and unicode

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Longman
And make sure your /etc/locale.gen has the right locales

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2011-01-01 Thread Bill Longman
wrote: Am 2010-12-31 11:59, schrieb Mick: Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS? Are you running the latest firmware for it? Yes, that would also have been my next question. Maybe you even *find* a bug in that BIOS right now that should be corrected. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2011-01-01 Thread Bill Longman
to the kernel and I see some segfaults. I'll try another kernel tomorrow and see if tuxonice gives me anything different. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config for it: [..] Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? That's a very good question

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/29/2010 11:59 PM, Mick wrote: Did you try changing the default to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND ? Yes, Mick, that was my first governor. I thought I'd try to see if it would behave at top speed if I set it to performance. No luck, though. And I can easily change the governor. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:21 AM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:16:05 Bill Longman wrote: This is what my i7 Q is showing: Handle 0x0005, DMI type 4, 42 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: U2E1 Type: Central Processor Family: OUT OF SPEC

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 30.12.2010 04:16, schrieb Bill Longman: The only thing that runs at boot is cpufrequtils and here is the config for it: [..] Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a live-cd? Well, if I change the BIOS

[gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
* to enable and manage its power capabilities and I was completely successful. If I swap my disk and boot Windows 7, it behaves like a champ, so I don't think it's a BIOS issue. What else could I look at since I've been through all versions of kernels from 2.6.32 to today's 2.6.36? -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
1199000 1199000 unsupported See what I mean? -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
there are only five transitions. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
. Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Part Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Core Count: 2 Core Enabled: 1 Thread Count: 2 Characteristics: 64-bit capable -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 29.12.2010 19:48, schrieb Bill Longman: 10:47:00# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_* 2667000 2666000 2533000 2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [EXAMPLE] Configuring xorg without hal

2010-12-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/27/2010 03:52 PM, walt wrote: On 12/27/2010 06:03 AM, walt wrote: ... My new (post-hal) mouse config: Section InputClass - note the new word Class, not Device Identifier trackball - can be anything you want MatchProduct ImExPS -*new*. Matches the product name!

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-20 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/18/2010 07:15 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2010 10:18:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: I've found there's just too much overhead with distcc, plus much of the work is still done locally. I expected that but I wanted to try it to see. I have a couple of Atom boxes, a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/15/2010 09:35 AM, Jarry wrote: So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Uh oh..don your flameproof underwear and open the floodgates I've not used the new six-core AMDs but I love my XII 940. And with Intel's new

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised

2010-12-14 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/13/2010 07:17 PM, Stroller wrote: What do you get in log messages and dmesg when you compile CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C589=m and run modprobe -v Exactly the same thing. If I `modprobe -v 3c589_cs lsmod | grep -i 3c` I can see the module loaded, but I see exactly the same single line of text

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/12/2010 06:34 PM, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into the kernel, can I still use that or would they clash somehow? Also, this is a desktop not a laptop just in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox doesn't build - gcc compilers

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/13/2010 04:57 AM, dhk wrote: On 12/13/2010 07:50 AM, Xavier Parizet wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:34:16 -0500, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: You need to run: gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.4 source /etc/profile gcc -v If the above commande output gcc version 4.4.4, then you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/13/2010 02:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se mailto:pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is listening.

Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!

2010-12-05 Thread Bill Longman
, Florian. I didn't pursue it any further so I can't tell you any solutions. I do remember it though because it was quite frustrating. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 11/12/2010 09:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: There are quick'n'easy commands to goto the previous dir -- 'cd -' , which cb aliased as 'p' -- goto the next-higher dir -- 'cd ..' , which cb aliased as 's' -- , but is there a way to set up a qne command to goto a parallel dir, eg if you're in

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors of the USE flags in emerge --pretend

2010-11-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 11/10/2010 12:54 PM, KH wrote: Am 10.11.2010 21:37, schrieb Benyamin Dvoskin: Hi , When running emerge -p for some package , one gets for each dependency and package a list of USE flags at the end of the line. some are colored in red , some blue what are the differences ? Yellow means

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Longman
On 11/09/2010 06:04 AM, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi Everyone , I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question is a newbie one. anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl update = emerge cannot create executables

2010-11-08 Thread Bill Longman
On 11/08/2010 05:33 AM, Pau Peris wrote: Hi, yesterday i was updating some trivial packages when i noticed emerge got broken after updating perl (from [b]perl-5.12.2-r1[/b] to [b]perl-5.12.2-r2[/b]). I've also took a look at /etc/make.conf but i think i did not modify it and after checking it

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/25/2010 01:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know that he doesn't need sandbox. Once for fun I build a gentoo system in VirtualBox and left sandbox

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