Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: price/performance still favours AMD. How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed) Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 234€ Intel® Core 2 Duo E4700 134€ (not boxed). --

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 22 March 2008, Max wrote: Hello Alan, thanks for your instant reply. Answers below the questions. Hi Max, Your settings seem sane, there's nothing outlandish in there. The cannot create executables error seems quite generic in practise - I've never had it myself but google shows

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Grant wrote: | I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating | AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much | faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys | think? | | - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-23 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:26:16PM -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have SSH to a server, two open ports for bit torrent connections and a few ranges for DCC transfers from irc. Torrents can sometimes open thousands of

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Gal', On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt' as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ? I

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-23 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Max [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, After updating gnutls revdep-rebuild would like to update an awfull lot of packages, including unixODBC. So far no problem but unixODBC does not compile. After a while it comes up with the following error message: Same here, except that rev-dep rebuild

[gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread pat
Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical drives. Which SW should I use to recover the original

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:01:08PM +0100, pat wrote: My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +0100, pat wrote: My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical drives.

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Walker
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed) Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 234€ Intel® Core 2 Duo E4700 134€ (not boxed). There is no equivalence there in terms of actual processing power. The best buy on the market for

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread pat
Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think - the original disk division was 120GB (NTFS) and 40GB (FAT32) - the fat was the first one - and now the sizes are different (the first one around 30GB and the rest) - is the photorec able to

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-23 Thread Max
Bonjour Alain, the first thing you should try, is to add the line media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa into your /etc/portage/package.keywords and maybe in your /etc/portage/package.unmaks file. For mor information go to this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_package.keywords I guess that should do

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: price/performance still favours AMD. How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed)

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-23 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:16:16 Dan Cowsill wrote:  I also understand that its maximum is something on the order of 65000 simultaneous connections. That's a significant understatement. The default limit is based on how much RAM you have, and is set very conservatively.

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-23 Thread Max
Hello Alan, thanks for the reply. I tried to compile it external and it worked after i deactivated the gui (--disable-gui). So i removed the gnome USE flag and was able to install it. Disabling the sandbox feature didn't lead to success. Thanks a lot for your help! cu Max On Sun, 2008-03-23

[gentoo-user] libgnutls.so.13 missing [SOLVED]

2008-03-23 Thread Max
Hello, I just resoved the unixODBC problem after the gnutls update yesterday, and got another problem now. gnome-extra/gnome-keyring-manager-2.20.0 failed to build because libgnutls.so.13 is missing. Of course i tried it with a symlink to the installed /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.26.1.3 and

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 23 March 2008, Max wrote: Hello Alan, thanks for the reply. I tried to compile it external and it worked after i deactivated the gui (--disable-gui). So i removed the gnome USE flag and was able to install it. Disabling the sandbox feature didn't lead to success. Thanks a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 23 March 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu gparted is always the first choice in situations like these.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

2008-03-23 Thread Galevsky
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would doubt that this is possible. I once feature-requested on the slim-dev mailing list [1] for the root password to be removed [2], but dunno if the devels took this into account. Since recently SLiM got back to

Re: [gentoo-user] libgnutls.so.13 missing [SOLVED]

2008-03-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
Max написа: Hello, I just resoved the unixODBC problem after the gnutls update yesterday, and got another problem now. gnome-extra/gnome-keyring-manager-2.20.0 failed to build because libgnutls.so.13 is missing. Of course i tried it with a symlink to the installed

Re: [gentoo-user] libgnutls.so.13 missing [SOLVED]

2008-03-23 Thread Max
Hi Rumen, I ran just revdep-rebuild and had the problem as soon as the gnome keyring app was compiled. The number of packages here is about the same (44 on a gnome only system). I can't find the meaning of -p in the man page. What does it mean? cu Max Hi, Maybe it's better to run

Re: [gentoo-user] libgnutls.so.13 missing [SOLVED]

2008-03-23 Thread Dale
Max wrote: Hi Rumen, I ran just revdep-rebuild and had the problem as soon as the gnome keyring app was compiled. The number of packages here is about the same (44 on a gnome only system). I can't find the meaning of -p in the man page. What does it mean? cu Max -p means pretend. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply Liviu. I am going to ask to the dev team :) I myself much hope that they react. :) Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-03-23 Thread Grant
Grant, On the previous machine where I gave you the modules.d/alsa file I use the onboard sound chip for most sound but my main card is a 26 input, 26 output RME HDSP 9652 card. On my wife's machine, and out MythTV backend server, we use the intel-hda oinboard sound chip for most

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux

[gentoo-user] Basic video editor in portage?

2008-03-23 Thread Grant
I have some video clips I'd like to trim the beginning and end from. Is there a simple tool that will do this? I'm emerging lives but I think it's overkill for this. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic video editor in portage?

2008-03-23 Thread Max
Hello Grant, I think Kino is what you want. I have cinellera here, but thats a bit of an overkill as well. A Gnome alternative is PiTiVi (http://pitivi.sourceforge.net/). cu Max On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Grant wrote: I have some video clips I'd like to trim the beginning and end

[gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

2008-03-23 Thread Grant
Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm using courier-imap and postfix. I'd like to keep the old stuff for longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic video editor in portage?

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Grant wrote: I have some video clips I'd like to trim the beginning and end from. Is there a simple tool that will do this? I'm emerging lives but I think it's overkill for this. - Grant You could use mencoder (part of mplayer): mencoder -ss 1:10

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic video editor in portage?

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:46 +0100, Max wrote: Hello Grant, I think Kino is what you want. I have cinellera here, but thats a bit of an overkill as well. A Gnome alternative is PiTiVi (http://pitivi.sourceforge.net/). cu Max On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Grant wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-23 Thread Max
Hello Alan, sorry for the delay, I wanted to finish the revdep-rebuild. Even on my fast P4D this took a while. Anyway, you where right, the unixODBC problem disappeared after fixing the gnome-vfs package. It merged well with the gnome flag this time. Thank you for your help. cu Max On Sun,

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

2008-03-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Grant wrote: Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm I didn't know courier does that. We used to have courier installed at work (I replaced it with cyrus) but it never deleted emails. Perhaps you have a cronjob? Regards, Norberto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

2008-03-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. März 2008 schrieb Grant: Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm using courier-imap and postfix. I'd like to keep the old stuff for longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this. Isn't this a feature of the _client_? Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Walker
Grant wrote: Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm using courier-imap and postfix. I'd like to keep the old stuff for longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this. Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole point of

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

2008-03-23 Thread Grant
Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm using courier-imap and postfix. I'd like to keep the old stuff for longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this. Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole point of

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread James
Chris Walters cjw2004d at comcast.net writes: As for the performance tests, they are not generally a very good measure of how well a processor will perform in the real world. AMD and Intel have been in competition for the #1 spot since AMD was formed, and for a long time AMD was ahead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

2008-03-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Mar 2008, at 22:10, Grant wrote: Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm using courier-imap and postfix. I'd like to keep the old stuff for longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this. Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience.

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Mar 2008, at 12:18, pat wrote: Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think Yes. - is the photorec able to search data in this partition table corruption level? Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just