[gentoo-user] change raid device for existing array

2008-01-27 Thread Thanasis
I have an existing software raid1 array of two disks, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, which has always been /dev/md0 until now. In the same way there is another device (/dev/md1) also raid1 for /dev/sda6 and /dev/sdb6. I want to repartition the disks, without booting from livecd, so I will do it a disk

[gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ?

2007-09-11 Thread Thanasis
we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid? Thanasis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ?

2007-09-11 Thread Thanasis
on 09/12/2007 12:32 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: Hello Thanasis, Why does emerge --update suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid? emerge --update doesn't remove anything. Post your emerge command and the output of it with --pretend added so that we may understand what you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ?

2007-09-11 Thread Thanasis
on 09/12/2007 01:34 AM Jesús Guerrero wrote the following: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:25:36 +0300 Thanasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge -pve gnome gnome # grep -i acpi gnome [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 USE=acpi crypt disk-partition -debug -dell -doc -pcmcia (-selinux) 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ? RESOLVED

2007-09-11 Thread Thanasis
on 09/11/2007 11:36 PM Thanasis wrote the following: uname -r 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel: grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\# CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m

[gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-28 Thread Thanasis
How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes (during the boot phase)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Thanasis
I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them. Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces): mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/dst mount -o bind / /mnt/src cd /

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread Thanasis
on 12/24/2007 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following: I would first create the new partitions on the new disk keeping the same sequence (and increasing swap partition to 1GB), and then format them. Say the new drive is /dev/sdb. I would go like this (mind the spaces): mkdir /mnt/dst /mnt/src

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-27 Thread Thanasis
on 12/27/2007 11:05 PM Matthew R. Lee wrote the following: On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote: It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-12 Thread Thanasis
on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following: I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-12 Thread Thanasis
on 03/12/2009 11:54 PM Justin wrote the following: can you provide us our kernel config? Attached it. (Acer Aspire ONE A110L Atom 1.6GHz/512 MB/8.9/8GB) # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 # Thu Mar 5 23:20:28 2009 # # CONFIG_64BIT is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-13 Thread Thanasis
on 03/13/2009 07:52 AM Thanasis wrote the following: on 03/12/2009 11:54 PM Justin wrote the following: can you provide us our kernel config? Attached it. (Acer Aspire ONE A110L Atom 1.6GHz/512 MB/8.9/8GB) In the header it says version: 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 but it's actually -r3

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-14 Thread Thanasis
on 03/14/2009 12:43 PM Florian Philipp wrote the following: 7. deactivate DRI 7. still holds. What's wrong with DRI ?

[gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Thanasis
Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse?

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Thanasis
on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Thanasis
on 03/26/2009 02:22 AM Jerry McBride wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-03-26 Thread Thanasis
on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? Dale You can also use the unalias command, eg: $ alias ls='ls -la' $ unalias ls (then it stays unaliased for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-04-02 Thread Thanasis
on 03/27/2009 07:32 AM Dale wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? Dale You can

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords syntax

2009-04-14 Thread Thanasis
Suppose I want to set the series of kernel sources: gentoo-sources-2.6.28* with the ~x86 keyword. What should I write in /etc/portage/package.keywords ?

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords syntax

2009-04-14 Thread Thanasis
on 04/14/2009 04:04 PM Justin wrote the following: Thanasis schrieb: Suppose I want to set the series of kernel sources: gentoo-sources-2.6.28* with the ~x86 keyword. What should I write in /etc/portage/package.keywords ? =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.28* ~x86 I

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords syntax

2009-04-14 Thread Thanasis
on 04/14/2009 04:08 PM Saphirus Sage wrote the following: Justin wrote: Thanasis schrieb: Suppose I want to set the series of kernel sources: gentoo-sources-2.6.28* with the ~x86 keyword. What should I write in /etc/portage/package.keywords ? =sys-kernel/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords syntax

2009-04-14 Thread Thanasis
on 04/14/2009 11:09 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:01:23 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Suppose I want to set the series of kernel sources: gentoo-sources-2.6.28* with the ~x86 keyword. What should I write in /etc/portage/package.keywords ? ~sys-kernel

[gentoo-user] gnome-keyring-daemon log

2009-04-15 Thread Thanasis
/var/log/messages is full of the following type of messages: Apr 16 00:56:27 laptop sshd[19430]: gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup keyring component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.keywords syntax

2009-04-15 Thread Thanasis
on 04/15/2009 10:23 AM Jorge Morais wrote the following: snip MYEMPHASIS ~ means match any revision of the base version specified. So in the above example, we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... /MYEMPHASIS A

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-keyring-daemon log

2009-04-15 Thread Thanasis
on 04/16/2009 01:02 AM Thanasis wrote the following: /var/log/messages is full of the following type of messages: Apr 16 00:56:27 laptop sshd[19430]: gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup keyring component setting: snip Actually this happens whenever I login through ssh, either as root

[gentoo-user] Window borders in gnome desktop when maximized hide behind panels

2009-05-10 Thread Thanasis
After some recent update (~x86), windows in gnome desktop when maximized hide their borders/bars behind the desktop panels, which is really annoying. In the case of terminals, the prompt gets almost hidden, in the case of other applications, the file menu gets hidden, scrollbars etc... Has

Re: [gentoo-user] Window borders in gnome desktop when maximized hide behind panels

2009-05-11 Thread Thanasis
on 05/11/2009 10:34 AM Graham Murray wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: After some recent update (~x86), windows in gnome desktop when maximized hide their borders/bars behind the desktop panels, which is really annoying. In the case of terminals, the prompt gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig

2008-08-06 Thread Thanasis
on 08/06/2008 04:58 AM James wrote the following: Dale dalek1967 at bellsouth.net writes: Well, the reason I asked is for clarity. I found this gentoo doc, which seems a little dated: http://gentoo-wiki.com/ HOWTO_Detailed_Kernel_Configuration So what I gleen is that you run on a

[gentoo-user] strange messages from automount (net-fs/autofs-4.1.3-r7)

2008-08-06 Thread Thanasis
I get those reports in /var/log/messages: ... Aug 6 12:16:00 turion automount[14864]: failed to mount /mnt/auto/.Trash Aug 6 12:16:00 turion automount[14868]: failed to mount /mnt/auto/.Trash-1000 Aug 6 12:16:00 turion automount[14874]: failed to mount /mnt/auto/.Trash Aug 6 12:16:00

[gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-27 Thread Thanasis
Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new .config I cannot find any PATA. # grep -i pata

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 12:33 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:24 +0200, Thanasis wrote: Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/27/2008 08:47 PM Thanasis wrote the following: Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y

[gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, which is the best way to go: 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the sources would be upgraded whenever portage marks a newer version as stable (provided someone follows stable)? 2) Not

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 11:14 AM Justin wrote the following: Thanasis schrieb: Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 12:31 PM Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote the following: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Thanasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, which is the best way to go: 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel maintenance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 01:19 PM Dale wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, which is the best way to go: 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the sources would be upgraded whenever portage marks

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 10:53 AM Dirk Heinrichs wrote the following: Am Freitag 28 November 2008 09:41:55 schrieb ext Thanasis: Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, which is the best way to go: 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean

Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 11:54 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On Friday 28 November 2008 10:41:55 Thanasis wrote: Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, which is the best way to go: 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: best practice for kernel maintenance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 07:59 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: The question is: Am I supposed/ should I upgrade when a new source tree becomes stable? From a security point of view, you're supposed to upgrade the kernel as soon as a release is made upstream. When a security

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: best practice for kernel maintenance

2008-11-28 Thread Thanasis
on 11/28/2008 09:27 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: on 11/28/2008 07:59 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: The question is: Am I supposed/ should I upgrade when a new source tree becomes stable? From a security point of view, you're supposed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread Thanasis
on 12/14/2008 11:11 PM damian wrote the following: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote: rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ That will also backup virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Thanasis
on 12/15/2008 02:32 AM Grant wrote the following: On another system which must be about 10 years old, I'd like to replace the IDE hard drive with a high capacity drive. High-capacity IDE drives are pretty much non-existent on newegg.com, but I'd like to find one around 500GB. Is moving that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge svgalib (1.9.25) fails with gentoo-sources-2.6.28

2008-12-31 Thread Thanasis
OK, this seems to be an already filed bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252614

[gentoo-user] switching to tty[x] from gdm does not work

2007-04-05 Thread Thanasis
Cannot switch to any tty[1-6] from gdm (vt7) using control-alt-f[1-6] respectively. If I login (gnome session), then the above key combination works. But from the gdm/xdm screen (before login) it does nothing. Where should I start to look for the reason? gnome-base/gdm-2.16.4 x11-apps/xdm-1.0.5

[gentoo-user] Re: switching to tty[x] from gdm does not work [SOLVED]

2007-04-05 Thread Thanasis
on 04/06/2007 12:56 AM Thanasis wrote the following: Cannot switch to any tty[1-6] from gdm (vt7) using control-alt-f[1-6] respectively. If I login (gnome session), then the above key combination works. But from the gdm/xdm screen (before login) it does nothing. Where should I start to look

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Thanasis
43 , met with solaris on Dec. 1997, and started with mandrake and redhat around 1999, then added openbsd in 2000 and from 2003 I use gentoo (only)... and a bit of centos maybe :-) ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Thanasis
I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting from usb), but the installed gentoo linux reports only 904600 kB: # free total used free

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Thanasis
on 12/30/2009 01:08 PM Dirk Heinrichs wrote the following: Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Thanasis
on 12/30/2009 01:08 PM Dirk Heinrichs wrote the following: Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-31 Thread Thanasis
on 12/31/2009 04:59 PM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: I thought CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G had to do with more than 4GB of RAM. Now I can see that the associated help says it is for an amount between 1 and 4GB. Depends on the split used. With 2 GB : 2

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-03 Thread Thanasis
on 01/01/2010 03:38 PM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Depends on the split used. With 2 GB : 2 GB you can have all-lowmem 1.5 GB RAM, without CONFIG_HIGHMEM*. 2 GB of per-process address space is usually not a problem. How do you

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-03 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED just means don't touch these unless you really know what you're doing. BTW I remember using

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: 2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: 2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 07:51 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: 2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm

[gentoo-user] Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

2010-01-12 Thread Thanasis
Anyone knows whether such a keyboard would work out of the box ? http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/17587875/Logitech_diNovo_Keyboard_Mac_Edition.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Thanasis wrote: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/17587875/Logitech_diNovo_Keyboard_Mac_Edition.html Dont see why not. I have a rebranded logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo which uses a USB receiver

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
on 01/13/2010 05:15 AM Willie Wong wrote the following: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Thanasis wrote: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/17587875/Logitech_diNovo_Keyboard_Mac_Edition.html Dont see why not. I have a rebranded logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo which uses a USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
on 01/13/2010 03:47 PM Stroller wrote the following: On 13 Jan 2010, at 09:46, Thanasis wrote: on 01/13/2010 05:15 AM Willie Wong wrote the following: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Thanasis wrote: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/17587875/Logitech_diNovo_Keyboard_Mac_Edition.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
on 01/13/2010 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following: swapping keys I think I 'm in the right direction looking at KEYMAPS(5)

Re: [gentoo-user] remap console keys

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
on 01/13/2010 08:59 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/13/2010 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following: swapping keys I think I 'm in the right direction looking at KEYMAPS(5) Here is what I did: 1) chose a keymap file (/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/gr.map.gz in my case) 2

Re: [gentoo-user] remap console keys

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
on 01/13/2010 09:48 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/13/2010 08:59 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/13/2010 08:38 PM Thanasis wrote the following: swapping keys I think I 'm in the right direction looking at KEYMAPS(5) Here is what I did: 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Thanasis
on 09/03/2010 01:10 AM Peter Humphrey wrote the following: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked interface. Either enter info:grub in krunner (Alt+F2, fastest way) or as a URL in

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla search

2010-10-30 Thread Thanasis
on 10/30/2010 10:55 AM Iain Buchanan wrote the following: On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 10:13 +0300, Thanasis wrote: git-1.7.3.2-r1 prefix it with ALL, ie search for ALL git-1.7.3.2-r1. Because the bug is resolved it won't appear in basic searches. alternatively you could do an advanced search

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla search

2010-10-30 Thread Thanasis
on 10/30/2010 10:49 AM Fatih Tümen wrote the following: 2010/10/30 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: I was searching Bugzilla for a bug namely #342845, which I found via google (http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-vcs/git/git-1.7.3.2-r1.ebuild?view=markup), because

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks just because some of you might have missed it... Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives: SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4) SAMSUNG HD103SJ

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following: On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote: on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks just because some of you might have missed

Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/30/2010 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following: On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote: on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following: On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote: on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: http

Re: [gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/30/2010 07:23 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote the following: Hi. I have what seems to me a strange problem using samba. The version is 3.5.6. Now what is happening is that in certain directories if I try to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am coming in

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed monitor and even the BIOS screen doesn't show up.

2010-12-14 Thread Thanasis
Try using the same cable that works with the old monitor, to connect the new monitor.

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Thanasis
on 12/21/2010 01:15 AM Walter Dnes wrote the following: I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself. The local Walmart shows an interesting 17 Acer laptop at... http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook Reading the specs, it

Re: [gentoo-user] disk /dev entry

2011-01-02 Thread Thanasis
on 01/02/2011 12:22 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:38 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Daniel D Jones did opine thusly: This is more of a curiosity question than a problem. I just added a new diskdrive to my system. It's the same model as one I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
What happens if you give the command eject

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
Try the following and see if it resets time correctly date 0101010101 /etc/init.d/ntpd restart date

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/05/2011 09:39 AM Dale wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: date 0101010101 /etc/init.d/ntpd restart date I got this: Jan 1 01:05:16 localhost ntpd[5709]: time correction of 315880203 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. I was pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Thanasis
I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Thanasis
on 01/06/2011 07:31 PM Dale wrote the following: Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse than ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at a time. That's probably because you didn't put -s in the start up options in /etc/conf.d/ntpd: # See

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git?

2011-01-20 Thread Thanasis
on 01/20/2011 06:15 PM Mark Knecht wrote the following: Hi, I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible, as it is apparently the reason I don't have 3d rendering enabled on my HD5750 Evergreen card.

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git?

2011-01-20 Thread Thanasis
on 01/21/2011 09:07 AM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/20/2011 06:15 PM Mark Knecht wrote the following: Hi, I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible, as it is apparently the reason I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] The new guy

2011-01-20 Thread Thanasis
on 01/21/2011 04:46 AM Neal Hogan wrote the following: Am I missing something that indicates the OP is serious? If you mean the OP is probably *not* serious, I agree ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-17 Thread Thanasis
on 02/17/2011 09:05 AM Thanasis wrote the following: on 02/15/2011 05:54 PM Kfir Lavi wrote the following: I have just upgraded my laptop to 8GB (90$ ebay ddr3). I now use tmpfs on /var/tmp and /tmp/ and run catalyst with all sorts of experiments. Take care I needed to provide more inodes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-22 Thread Thanasis
on 02/21/2011 02:16 PM Mick wrote the following: On 21 February 2011 04:27, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried: CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-22 Thread Thanasis
on 02/22/2011 01:27 PM Mick wrote the following: 2011/2/22 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: How do we know which firmware file to load for which graphics card? (I have a Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5) I suspect it requires the JUNIPER_rlc.bin Check your dmesg/lspci/lshw for info

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-23 Thread Thanasis
on 02/23/2011 04:49 PM James wrote the following: Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes: How do we know which firmware file to load for which graphics card? (I have a Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5) Emerge the radeon-ucode package and it will list the firmware (/lib/firmware/readeon

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Thanasis
on 03/06/2011 07:07 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 You can check the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-10 Thread Thanasis
on 03/10/2011 02:29 AM sean wrote the following: thanks for the info. As I said I do not know how this happened, this system has been running fine for years with little effort to maintain. Perhaps /usr/src is/was a mount point?

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

2011-03-12 Thread Thanasis
on 03/12/2011 02:11 PM sean wrote the following: I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config. Not finding a .config is an indication that the kernel source may have never been touched (configured) so all

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install linux-gazette correctly?

2011-03-12 Thread Thanasis
on 03/12/2011 08:31 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote the following: same here...but did you /install/ the stuff and tries - as mentioned in my initial posting -- to use the index file to the table of contents? You are right, there is a bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358391 try:

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

2011-03-21 Thread Thanasis
on 03/21/2011 11:52 PM Dale wrote the following: snip If you use XFS, make sure you have a UPS to prevent hard power offs. I used XFS a good while back, every time the power would fail, it was toast. I second this. My experience with xfs: a good chance you will end up with empty (zero size)

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-09 Thread Thanasis
on 04/09/2011 04:33 PM Dale wrote the following: snip I'm just needing to find me a good LARGE drive to put in here. I'm checking out the reviews but it just seems most have issues. snip Thoughts? I think you should be safe with WD1002FAEX, WD1502FAEX and WD2002FAEX.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Thanasis
on 04/11/2011 04:59 PM James wrote the following: snip... Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda2 52633610573823

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-18 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-19 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 11:04 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Thanasis
on 04/19/2011 03:40 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote the following: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-20 Thread Thanasis
Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. I have postsync.d and don't know what is it about ... It contains a file named q-reinitialize : # cat /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize #!/bin/sh [ -x

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 01:01 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:23:01 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Thanks! Can you add some comments, like what the directories presync.d and postupdate.d are supposed to be ... as I don't have those. I have postsync.d and don't know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? The script could be stripped from these like so: Correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +0300, Thanasis wrote: So, I understand that normally (in my case) there is no need for these presync.d and postupdate.d directories, right? The script could be stripped from these like so: Correct. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/21/2011 04:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:57:40 +0300, Thanasis wrote: When i run it, I get a mail with an attachment named attachment.bin which is actually a text file. How can I make it appear inline (in the message body)? I'm guessing you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

2011-04-21 Thread Thanasis
on 04/22/2011 01:09 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:45:14 +0300, Thanasis wrote: % qfile -v Mail mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20050715-r3 (/bin/Mail) is what I use # qfile -v Mail mail-client/nail-12.4 (/usr/bin/Mail) There you go then, it's man page time

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