Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 01:13 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote: Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that nvidia has not released a driver yet

[gentoo-user] emerge hints needed

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Some time back I saw someone mention a way to get emerge to install an ebuild with a bad digest - man emerge shows nothing so can someone give me a hint. It was much easier than going down the ebuild path. Also, I am in the process of rescuing a system from the e2fs/util-linux/device-mapper

Re: [gentoo-user] remote distcc

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Yes, via an openvpn WAN link. It worked but the benefits seemed minimal due to the odd mix of fast/slow hosts I was using (tip: remove any slow/high latency hosts as it will slow the whole lot down). However, I might try again sometime using pump mode which wasn't available at the time. distcc

[gentoo-user] OO thesaurus

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
How does the thesaurus work for gentoo's version of (compiled) openoffice? I use en_AU and have no thesaurus, and from what I can find out oo3.1 works differently from older versions. Ever since gentoo decided to overide the OO supplied dictionaries its been very flaky. Properly tee'd off,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Google's public DNS service

2009-12-07 Thread Bill Kenworthy
looks interesting ... I think many ISP's use DNS to manage/direct traffic internally so will this bypass or break parts of their network for the google DNS user? off the top of my head, the explanations I have seen give a reasonable approach to security of your footprints as you travel the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. BillK On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file system. I've been looking at inotify, but

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.28

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Saw the news announcement that gnome 2.28 is stabilized - however looking at the header of gnome-base/gnome-2.28.2 (only 2.28 ebuild present) still shows ~x86 - do I have update problems or are there delays? Is this for amd64 only or has x86 just been overlooked? BillK KEYWORDS=amd64 ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.28

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:58 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 11.05.2010 03:58, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: Saw the news announcement that gnome 2.28 is stabilized - however looking at the header of gnome-base/gnome-2.28.2 (only 2.28 ebuild present) still shows ~x86 - do I have update problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.28

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:31 -0700, walt wrote: On 05/11/2010 12:53 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: ... I am at a point with evolution where I want 2.28 or 2.30 for exchange access so do I upgrade gnome to ~x86 (and work out any kinks that will involve), do evolution only or wait?... I can

[gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap. It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron but I cant find out how - anyone here done this? I have a 125GB scssi disk I would like as one large swap but after setup the kernel can only see 2G

Re: [gentoo-user] need more swap

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
ah, figured it out - had to be the whole disk, not a partition. BillK On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 08:48 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap. It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron but I cant find out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
-t doesnt work in this case as emerge wants xorg-server built with the kdrive flag before it will continue processing - which makes sense. BillK On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 15:55 -0700, walt wrote: On 05/15/2010 09:42 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 18:55 -0700, walt wrote: On 05/16/2010 06:26 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: -t doesnt work in this case as emerge wants xorg-server built with the kdrive flag before it will continue processing - which makes sense. AFAICT, the cost of enabling kdrive is trivial

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 21:53 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010 19:33:18 +0100, David W Noon wrote: I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is shared across all machines on the

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak

2010-05-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
espeak is not a pulse audio application but uses portaudio - something quite different. I dont have pulseaudio installed and seeing all the bad things people say about it on other distributions I am leary about installing it on an otherwise working system without good cause. Note that as

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 00:27 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Walter Dnes writes: I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:15 -0700, walt wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:54 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Before anybody asks... 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The

[gentoo-user] OT: lightspark flash player

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Just saw a mention about the lightspark flash player. Is any one using it and can comment on it being a viable replacement for adobe flash for general web browsing? There is also some comment here (http://lwn.net/Articles/389266/) on various linuc flash players. I can test specific sites but

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. ;-)

[gentoo-user] boot log

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find what they are. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors show 2 different temp. for my CPU

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 18:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/04/2010 02:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, after i setup lm_sensors on my gentoo amd64, i ran sensors, and got the below output coretemp-isa- Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +61.0 C (high = +74.0 C, crit = +100.0

[gentoo-user] laptop-mode

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
With recent update to laptop-mode I decided to rework the power saving on my sony vaio. Mostly ok, but it seems laptop-mode is exclusively grabbing acpi events somehow. I have modded /etc/acpi/default.conf to trap the function keys for screen brightness and then control the LCD. However

Re: [gentoo-user] boot log

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:10 -0400, Dakota wrote: On 8/4/2010 8:19 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find what they are. BillK /var/log/messages

Re: [gentoo-user] boot log

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:47 +1000, Rod wrote: On 5/08/2010 11:10 AM, Dakota wrote: On 8/4/2010 8:19 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find what

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work nicely with third party tools without a lot of work. My fix was to manually configure each location (and a couple of general ones such as wifi hotspot, and basic wired dhcp) as I came across them and copy the resulting config

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
VPN over wifi with an OpenVPN running through it to my office connecting across a private addressed WAN to a asterisk VoIP. You can do almost anything ... BillK On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 20:17 -0600, Darren Kirby wrote: Hey Bill, On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au

[gentoo-user] openoffice and IDL

2011-02-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the build hangs. Anyone seen this before? - it is happening on only one of my systems and I google isnt showing me any similar situations. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice and IDL

2011-02-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 06:14 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Bill Kenworthy wrote: I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
what does lsmod say? This is on a jetway MB with an onboard nvidia chipset so not quite the same as yours (only sound and the nvidia module are modularised) - in particular make sure that you are building the Intel HD Audio codecs - it isnt immediately obvious that its required. BillK myth3

[gentoo-user] Mounting CD's etc

2011-03-07 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Typing id on a terminal on my gnome desktop gives the following - but when I insert a dvd I get not authorised to mount ... in a popup. What more do I need to do? BillK uid=1000(wdk) gid=100(users)

[gentoo-user] terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives. I just saw on the mythtv list about the sector size problem these drives have where they have poor performance unless you can map the partitions onto certain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:26 +, James wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives. H, I've been contemplating btrfs on some new installs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:26 +, James wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? Not once it has started,

[gentoo-user] No system list

2011-05-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have a few older systems (~6-10 years in use) that have no system list. Over the years there have been various disasters and methods of managing the software with the result that I have had to run regenworld amongst other things. So, how can I restore system? - the machine below has 115

Re: [gentoo-user] No system list

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 08:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 04 May 2011 08:43:17 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have a few older systems (~6-10 years in use) that have no system list. Over the years there have been various disasters and methods of managing the software

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 19:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:14 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Since I don't teach again until sept, this seems like a good time to try gnome 3. Before I do, I wonder how others have fared. This is gnome 3 vs gnome 2 (not kde). thanks, allan PS my system is ~amd64. I am in the same

[gentoo-user] python 2.7

2011-05-27 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Quick clarification on the python 2.7 update - do I eselect the new python version before running python-updater? The reason I ask is some of my machines seem to have auto-selected it, but what is probably the most important one at the moment didnt. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: DAle, Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my 6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed one restart where I got a window, any

Re: [gentoo-user] New computer and Gentoo

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 06:26 +0100, Mick wrote: On Thursday 21 Jul 2011 03:29:17 Adam Carter wrote: amd64 means any x86 64bit platform, so Intel too. march=native is good if you're not using distcc, or if you're only using distcc on core2 boxes. Otherwise be specific. I recommend using

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

2011-07-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:30 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Greetings, after the emerge -uDN world of today i proceeded with revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] CFlags for CPU

2011-07-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 14:58 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm wondering what kind of cpu-type I should use? cat /proc/cpuinfo [snip] model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L7100 @ 1.20GHz [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:10 -0500, Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:37 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Btrfs supports on the fly compression Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely, and the mount option for that is compress=zlib. Is it reliable? A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
2.6.37 on one machine, and 2.6.39 on the other - those two corrupted during bad shutdowns whilst writing to the FS (well, I am bad for triggering the remote power OFF :) Its not the corruption that was the issue, but that a wipe, reformat and reload was the only fix. Cant remember the exact

[gentoo-user] glibc memory corruption

2011-09-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
What would cause this? bunyip rpm # /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware *** glibc detected *** /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x09f35e80 *** ^C bunyip rpm # Ive tried doing a emerge -ep world glibc is * sys-libs/glibc Latest version available: 2.12.2

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384257 Search an ye shall find ... On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 04:42 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: === FLTK ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I set the resolution of console ?

2011-10-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 14:05 +0800, Lavender wrote: I edit the command line of grub at boot time . I passed some parametres to kernel like below: root=/dev/sda6 video=atyfb:1024x768@60m and I also tried another one: root=/dev/sda6 video=aty128fb:1024x768@60m Both of them didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 14:52 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: This issue seems to have come up with the latest update to 3.5.2.2. I ... Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice? ... always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then move it

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:40 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice? ... always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then move it back if thats not the problem. mv ~/.libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:20 -0400, Norman Invasion wrote: On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing these green drives that are

[gentoo-user] gnome3 weather applet

2012-05-29 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early gnome2 over 1.4 was :( Apparently 3.2 has a weather app available, but I cant find it or how to turn it on or add it to the desktop or panel. Can someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:21 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 23:16 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have an ancient system which was quite the bee's knees in its day 8 years ago, but is showing its age. I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display the disk size. Whether it is the size itself, or from

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 20:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that grub2 is coming soon. grub 2.00 has been released!

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os. Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything disappeared in portage's world list. So whenever I run depclean it tries to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qemu not working on a P3M

2012-07-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 07:19 +0800, wdk@moriah wrote: if I try and use qemu-386 it has limited cmd line options according to -h, and barfs on any of the normal options such as -cdrom - hence my feeling its missing a wrapper. thanks, might have to do git to see if its different. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting samsung galaxy S III (android ics)

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 20:04 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just purchased a new smartphone (samsung galaxy S III), which runs android ice cream sandwitch 4.0.4). I would like to copy files I just treated it like another linux system ... connect to wireless (I presume you have that), install

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-24 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 18:36 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern features like reiser4 or xfs Unfortunately btrfs is still generally slower than ext4 for example. Checkout

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 15:31 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 18:36 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern features like reiser4 or xfs Unfortunately btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
If at all possible avoid it! I installed it awhile back for similar reasons ... I needed a BT headset that some programs could only use via pulse. Since then (and currently) audio only seems to work sporadicly with strange, and hard to trace problems - its reputation as a pita to work with is

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/snd/seq access mode and permission

2012-08-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Try this (my fix is in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-gentoo.rules): moriah ~ # equery f udev * Searching for udev ... * Contents of sys-fs/udev-171-r6: /etc /etc/conf.d /etc/conf.d/udev /etc/init.d ... /lib/udev/rules.d /lib/udev/rules.d/30-kernel-compat.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/40-gentoo.rules

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:37 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I found the problem: ulimit problem. Not the first time this crap

[gentoo-user] GUI for LVM?

2012-08-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Is there a GUI in portage for managing an LV? Fedora etc have system-config-lvm but I cant find anything for gentoo. (the commandline tools are good, but this is something where I want a visual check before in case I am assuming something thats wrong). BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for LVM?

2012-08-27 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 00:48 -0500, Dale wrote: Bill Kenworthy wrote: Is there a GUI in portage for managing an LV? Fedora etc have system-config-lvm but I cant find anything for gentoo. (the commandline tools are good, but this is something where I want a visual check before in case I

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for LVM?

2012-08-27 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 02:08 -0500, Dale wrote: Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 00:48 -0500, Dale wrote: Bill Kenworthy wrote: ... Dale ... Well, I recently bought a new 3Tb drive to replace a 250G and a 750G that was using LVM to make a 1Tb drive. I have deleted the stuff

[gentoo-user] mdev and lxde

2012-08-29 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am installing a new system and would like to go udev/systemd less. I have dumped gnome3 for lxde and find it a lot more usable and stable but I would like to know if anyone has gone down the mdev and lxde path? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] WM that does not require policykit, consolekit, and gudev

2012-09-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 00:20 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Select another WM that is more lightweight and doesn't require these USE flags. I'm leaning towards (3). Can you recommend a WM that will

[gentoo-user] udev not reading the rules files

2012-09-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I udev problems after updating to udev 191 on an almost fresh install, then downgraded to 189 in order to match a working system. This was working before the latest upgrade cycle. The problem is most (not all !) device nodes getting root/root owner/group. So /dev/snd, /dev/video belongs to root

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am currently fighting this on a macbook air ... efi is crap, at least the old grub was much easier to fix when it went wrong ... if you are using grub 2 (I tried refit/refind/grub2/efi kernel and finally settled on grub2) try: mount /boot mount /boot/efi `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 10:33 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.10.2012 03:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: I am currently fighting this on a macbook air ... efi is crap, at least the old grub was much easier to fix when it went wrong ... if you are using grub 2 (I tried refit/refind

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:53 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.10.2012 15:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Maybe I have to re-enable EFI for the hard-disk in the BIOS?? Update: no such feature there. See other mail, booting from stick now ;-) More on this later today, got to do

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 11:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-10-13 00:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: another feature is you have to be booted via efi so the variables are available so it can install itself - sorta catch 22 :( Yes, I know that. No problem, when I boot from

[gentoo-user] mount and exfat

2012-10-29 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp FUSE exfat 0.9.8 bunyip ~ # BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 06:40 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
outside interference? (usual is a microwave oven) - is there a device closer to the AP that stays in better lock because the signal is strong enough to override the interference? BillK On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 13:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, An old Pentium 4 machine which is refusing to die, is getting problematic running the full KDE desktop. I was thinking of using razor-qt which has a broadly similar look so as to not alienate the users (they mostly use KDE apps).

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 23:12 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 121101 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +, Mick wrote: I was thinking of using razor-qt From the Oct 20 automated package removal email you might want to investigate why before moving to it. x11-wm/razorqt

Re: [gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:59 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument It turns out the driver doesnt recognise the user or users mount option and gentoo wont let a user mount or

Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
There is a thermal safety setting in the kernel somewhere ... it used to do this to me when a cpu heatsink came adrift ... but the cpu had to get quite hot to trigger it (was on an Intel core2) so it was ok until it tried to do real work ... instant off. Try monitoring the temperature. Also, cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:29 +0800, microcai wrote: 2012/11/26 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive

[gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air

2012-12-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have a mouse issue with the trackpad on a late 2012 macbook air. In X I am seeing multiple mouse clicks similar to two drivers for the same event. i.e., mtrack is set to 3 zones for the pad but a right click shows (in xev) mouse button 3 down, then 1 down, then 1 up and finally 3 up which

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air

2012-12-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 13:59 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I have a mouse issue with the trackpad on a late 2012 macbook air. In X I am seeing multiple mouse clicks similar to two drivers for the same event. i.e., mtrack is set to 3 zones for the pad but a right click shows (in xev) mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air

2012-12-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 14:08 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 13:59 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I have a mouse issue with the trackpad on a late 2012 macbook air. In X I am seeing multiple mouse clicks similar to two drivers for the same event. i.e., mtrack is set

[gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
For years I have been using ifconfig and some simple shell magic to extract the ip address from the adsl ppp session when it changes. The latest update has changed the output format of ifconfig breaking things so if ifconfig cant be relied on, what's normally used to extract an interfaces IP

Re: [gentoo-user] yubikey

2014-06-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I went the google auth route for ssh with an app on a pebble watch - the watch is always with me :) Has an ebuild (keyworded), simple setup, just works. BillK On 18/06/14 20:54, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 26/06/14 06:16, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:44:48 +0100, Mick wrote: Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have all mails from cron and friends sent to your ISP mailbox. ... and when you find out please tell us: What I really need to do, set up a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: power requirement (WAS: smartctrl drive error @60%)

2014-06-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 27/06/14 01:05, Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/26/2014 09:19 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Gosh, power must be really cheap in your corner of the world (or is it just stupidly expensive over here?) I wouldn’t call 150 W “only”, especially for a 24/7 device. Or is that the maximum under load?

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB isn't working on SSD

2014-06-29 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 29/06/14 20:17, João Matos wrote: Dear list, After finishing the configuration, my gentoo was working very well. So, the last step was to create a stage4, and replace my old hd. I did it, installed grub lecacy in chroot. No error reported during the installation. My /boot isn't a

[gentoo-user] epson printer

2014-07-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, Ive just bought a new epson wf-3520 MFP and want to get it to print through cups over wifi for preference. Question 1 - do you have to be on the (same) wireless network to print if using wifi? (i.e., I have a complicated set of networks and want to print via a LAN to the printer on a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: epson printer

2014-07-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 19/07/14 02:19, James wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: Hi, Ive just bought a new epson wf-3520 MFP and want to get it to print through cups over wifi for preference. Question 1 - do you have to be on the (same) wireless network to print if using wifi? (i.e., I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: epson printer

2014-07-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 19/07/14 06:19, Mick wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2014 22:18:58 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 19/07/14 02:19, James wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: ... Thanks, now working. The socket interface works whereas my old printer used usb - wireless seems SO much nicer, and I don't

[gentoo-user] adobe flash

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have a couple of systems with flash that are always a pain to update because the checksums fail so you have to manually force a manifest rebuild first. As I have to update them anyway, is there a ways to override the portage checksums and say install anyway? Because this package always fails

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 22/07/14 19:03, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 05:05:43 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have a couple of systems with flash that are always a pain to update because the checksums fail so you have to manually force a manifest rebuild first. As I have to update them

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 22/07/14 19:48, Dale wrote: Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 22/07/14 19:03, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 05:05:43 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have a couple of systems with flash that are always a pain to update because the checksums fail so you have to manually force

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 31/07/14 04:22, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 30.07.2014 22:18, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: So now you know why ricers swear blind that -pipe in CFLAGS *doubles* the running speed, dude! It does! I enabled -pipe in my CFLAGS and all the software was running a lot faster on my new machine

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