Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread pk
On 2011-08-01 20:35, Grant wrote: Does anyone know if this is the case? Doesn't seem very Gentoo-like, although it should minimize package management for the devs which is good. I assume they're just following kernel.org; since the kernel devs (at least the ones that have to deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing partition labels

2011-08-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:12:33AM +0800, Andrew Lowe 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID-1 install

2011-08-02 Thread pk
On 2011-08-01 19:49, James wrote: Sorry for delayed response, I've been reading up on gpt-fdisk [1]. Interesting reading on gpt-patch-fdisk Thanks for the link; I haven't done such a thorough investigation as you seem to have done... :-) So parted 2.3 in on the minimal cd I'm using:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-08-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 August 2011, at 17:29, Paul Hartman wrote: ... You can also buy a hybrid hard drive, it is a traditional HDD with SSD built-in for caching. That is transparent to the operating system. I looked at these earlier this year. They seem a good compromise of price vs performance. They're

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread Grant
# ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/:04:00.0 broken_parity_status      device         irq            msi_bus  reset     resource2_wc  subsystem_device  vpd class                     dma_mask_bits  local_cpulist  net resource   resource4     subsystem_vendor config                    driver        

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread Grant
IIRC 'ifconfig -a' will show interfaces that are physically present, and the driver available. 'ifconfig' will only show those interfaces that are also activated or up, which means configured up - nothing to do with link. OK, with net.eth0 stopped and the cable unplugged, eth0 does appear

[gentoo-user] Nvidia kernel 3.0

2011-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
Has anyone else run into a problem trying to compile Nvidia with kernel 3.0 ? AFAIK I have the correct symlink to the kernel source root:601 src pwd /usr/src root:602 src ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 2 11:04 linux - linux-3.0.0-gentoo/ drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1648 Dec 14

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia kernel 3.0

2011-08-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:35:01AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone else run into a problem trying to compile Nvidia with kernel 3.0 ? AFAIK I have the correct symlink to the kernel source root:601 src pwd /usr/src root:602 src ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 2 11:04

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-08-02 Thread Sebastian Pipping
I played a bit more and found out a few bits: - Changing Style in XFCE's appearance switches the theme for both GTK+ 2.x and 3.x, no matter what key gtk-theme-name of /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini say though these files are read according to strace - The

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-08-02 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Update: I managed to get the light-themes (Ambiance and Radiance)[1] of Ubuntu running for both GTK 2 and 3. Their GTK 3 versions make use of the unico engine which requires rather recent gtk3 and glib. To get it running you need install x11-themes/light-themes from the betagarden overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread Adam Carter
so the question becomes why does eth0 appear under ifconfig on my laptop with net.eth0 stopped and the cable unplugged? I thought it could be wicd on my laptop but I shut down the daemon with no change. Try disabling the daemon from starting at boot 'rc-update delete wicd' and reboot, then

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-08-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the superblock on /dev/sda, at least. Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do anything at