Re: [gentoo-user] HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, why do you need to upgrade your lib in the first place? And why not ask HP about it? Maybe they can provide you with an updated binary. Last point: does it work at all? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-01-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: I recompiled nvidia-drivers, but when I tried running X, I got a blank screen. Couldn't get back to the console. I suspect this is something simple, but I don't know what it is. Any help is appreciated. any information is appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-01-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: -Original Message- From: Volker Armin Hemmann Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:42 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600... On Donnerstag, 31

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 1. Februar 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: I got home and realized that I don't know how to get the xorg.conf file off of that machine without running an email client from X, so I looked through the Xorg.0.log file and saw that it contained no errors, but it died trying to load glx. Do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? A GUY who lost his ` -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib which trouble? , chroot'ing, never needed. firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 2:22 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ By the way, *right now* I'm using Firefox in 64 bits, because YouTube now works with swfdec. emm, 'normal' flash does work

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 3:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 2:22 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [1] http

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: On Wed, 06. Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann spammed my inbox with snip not needed anymore either. flash does work in the 'normal' firefox just fine. Come again? I would be very glad to finally ditch the binary firefox, but using nspluginwrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: Yeah, it seems nspluginwrapper works better now. The time I tried it, it just crashed with a segfault and did nothing. But installing it again, it seems to work. Thanks for your suggestion^^ -- thenybble.de/blog/ -- four bits at a time I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. The light just stays on while loading everything up. do you use prelink? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: Now I remember why I stopped using prelink: The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable. I knew there was a reason I stopped. I never could remember to run it after I

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: I'm confused... what is the diff between pi-x pci-e and pci? The card that Neil pointed to is a PCI card. Is that what he wanted? pci is a parallel bus. 32bit, 33mhz pci-x is an 64bit, 66mhz enhancement of the pci bus - backwards compatible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Stroller wrote: PCI-express has _signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network card that onboard gigbit network ports are faster. PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision driving it, it will probably do what it's been doing for 18 months - going nowhere. that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would now it. And it's highly

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: If I recall correctly, he is accused of killing his wife. Since he was the one that was leading the project and he is well, busy, then things have sort of slowed if not stopped all together. Hans was never one of the programmers. He had the vision

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hans is accused of murdering his Russian bride wife. Without a body ever found. His son supporting his story (before he was brought to Russia by is grand mother - against court rulings). Oh, and Nina's lover is a serial killer. --

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision driving it, it will probably do what it's been doing for 18

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
So, you have the symlink useflag enabled? Just look into your old kernel-dir. And don't remove that stuff. You might also find the config in /boot. If you used make install to install your kernel. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] printer uses UHCI instead of EHCI. Why?

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Jens Krahe wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: Ehci module is loaded, all MB USB ports are USB 2 ports, printer is USB 2 (Full Speed) printer. And there is nothing wrong. EHCI handles only the High Speed mode of USB2! Low and Full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would now it. It's been languishing in -mm for ages, never mind any progress that namesys itself might make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:41:36AM +, James wrote: That's the whole rub (in essence) as to why reiser4fs will never make it into the kernel. Lots of kernel folks *do not trust Hans Reiser*... His abusive shenanigans are an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 17 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: So Hans and others could develop very cool features that 'plugin' to reiser4fs, but, if they choose, folks would have to *PAY* for these advanced features. That's the whole rub

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 17 February 2008, James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would now it. It's been languishing in -mm for ages, never

Re: [gentoo-user] printer uses UHCI instead of EHCI. Why?

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Jens Krahe wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Jens Krahe wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: Ehci module is loaded, all MB USB ports are USB 2 ports, printer is USB 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 17 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:41:36AM +, James wrote: That's the whole rub (in essence) as to why reiser4fs will never

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, KH wrote: James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I generate libguile-ltdl.so?

2008-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: I just updated portage and tried to update gnucash. The compile errors out trying to find libguile-ltdl.so.1 and libwthreads.so.12. I have tried to re-emerge guile, g-wrap and slib, none of them build the library that I need. (slib

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I generate libguile-ltdl.so?

2008-02-22 Thread volker . armin . hemmann
On Freitag 22 Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: I just updated portage and tried to update gnucash. The compile errors out trying to find libguile-ltdl.so.1 and libwthreads.so.12. I have tried to re

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 25. Februar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: as Alan wrote killall is your friend. It does not need a pid. pidof can tell you the name of an app. And with strace you can look for yourself where gnome-panel hangs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: maxim wexler ha scritto: Hi group, If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. New in Box! Don't buy it. You'll get the Dynex box alright and a new PS but

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I changed the monitor on a box that runs kdm/KDE and the fonts on KDE apps are giving me a headache from eye strain. This is particularly bad when working at a console (white letters on black background) and KDE text editors (with black letters

Re: [gentoo-user] what's PMS?

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: In GMN20080218, there is a section: EAPI=1 (Where is the specification?): The general agreement was that any new EAPIs should not be added until EAPI=0 is fully approved. However, there wasn't any consensus on changing anything about EAPI=1. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, maxim wexler wrote: well, I buyed hardware over 40 times on ebay - and I was always a very satisfied costumer. From mainboards, cpus to tapedrives and libs, I always got the right stuff. Me too. This has been my first experience of outright fraud. I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Mick wrote: oh god. I hate this automatically generated xorg.confs. They are filled with rubbish. *sigh* hm, could you try without this? DisplaySize 360 290 #digital, oh wait, you said that doesn't change anything. Hm. You can set your DPI with the nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. März 2008, Jamie Dobbs wrote: However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? security problems popping up always at the wrong time made it almost impossible. So they scrapped it and concentrated on doing the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. März 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the know

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the same address as what sent it. This is pretty usual behaviour for any list

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Alan Milnes wrote: On 15/03/2008, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the same address as what sent it. That's unfortunate as it screws up GMail's conversation feature - also the list email serves as

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: | Chris Brennan wrote: | How come I don't see my own posts to this list? | | You seem to be using google for mx... ;-) Indeed I am, appeears to be the only reliable free mail service I have access to at the moment

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 16. März 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t show anything thanks make sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 17. März 2008, cypherstrong wrote: ls -lh /var/db/pkg/app-crypt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 18. Jan 21:50 qca-1.0-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 29 10. Feb 19:09 qca-2.0.0-r2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28 10. Feb 19:10 qca-ossl-2.0.0_beta3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 10. Feb 19:02 qca-tls-1.0-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: 3/19/08, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean battery out and back in? Battery out, short-circuit it's contacts on the mobo while pressing the power button and then put it back and try to turn it on. But that is the raw way to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
every mobo manual I ever read (and I read a lot) said the same: set the jumper and don't turn on the box. Never turn on the box with the jumper set, or mainboard might be destroyed/rendered unbootable. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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

2008-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 22. März 2008, 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? price/performance still favours AMD.

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). -- gentoo-user

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: Hi! I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux. I'm planing to buy a

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I found the output crowded with puffy, oozing electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for Fuhjyyu on Google revealed

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 27. März 2008, Grant wrote: Whenever I unplug a USB wireless adapter I must reboot in order for it to be recognized again. Is there a way to avoid the reboot? - Grant making usb modular and unload/reload the modules? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-03-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm updating my newer machine (the hot-backup). Last time was in mid-February. After doing an emerge --sync and updating portage, I'm getting a mysterious message at the end of... emerge --pretend --deep --update --world x ...namely...

Re: [gentoo-user] memory upgrade

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: Hello, I want to buy additional memory for my computer. I would like to know how do I find the vendor/frequency etc of my currently installed ram module. lshal gives a lot of output. What should I look for? Is there another way? install

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, James wrote: hello, I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems: They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers. The Gf2 based

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:48:22AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote emerge unmerge openmotif emerge openmotif Thanks; it worked. Actually, I unmerged openmotif, and then went right to the update of world. I misread the diagnostic message

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Since I wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: Hi I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for it? or does where i read for it? it is in the cvs-tree (or is it subversion)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?

2008-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 9. April 2008, Grant wrote: I received my RMAed motherboard back from MSI today, and although it powered right on, the BIOS wouldn't post unless I disconnected the CDROM drive and used a different CPU. I had been overclocking an AMD64 X2 but luckily I had a Sempron to test with.

Re: [gentoo-user] python - *** glibc detected ***

2008-04-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 10. April 2008, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: Hello list, a few days ago my creative urge forced me to learn python. As a first step I wanted to control ecasound by script. What a pity that it doesn't work. kernel: It's a 64bit applepro with Linux 2.6.22-sabayon #16 SMP PREEMPT

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 7. April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: Maybe I have to set some USE flags? Thanks in advance! more likely that some lib used by the games needs to rebuilt. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating to a new box 2: Users

2008-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 11. April 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: I apologize for sending an email that was near 1MB; as I said this morning, I was panicking. The problem seems to be fixed now. As for the other users, how do I move them? Do I just copy over /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, or are there more

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] what 'hdparm -tT' is good for SATA HDD?

2008-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 11. April 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! I see, good tells nothing. I mean cases with most currently spreaded HDDs on workstations. Say, with SAMSUNG HD401LJ I have ~3700 MB/sec and ~65 MB/sec. Is it normal/expected? yes, its in the normal range. The first result is even pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both. Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space,

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 14. April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: vi is a sane program and will in all likelihood respect this almost-universal standard. If anyone wants different behaviour (can't think why...) then configure vi to use a different directory as a scratch pad it is not sane, but it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?

2008-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Bob Young wrote: I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going to bed I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the 82nd build (out of 162) had failed with the following error: 1450K .. .. .. ..

Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?

2008-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's very bad. It indicates file system corruption on the ReiserFS. In my experience, I have never seen this to be followed by a clean recovery. You can try reiser.fsck with --rebuild-tree (after suitably enough research and googling) and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: Roy Wright wrote: | Grant wrote: | An oc'ed cpu needs a lot more powergenerates a lot more heat. Both can damage | the CPU AND the mobo (too much power might fry a regulator, or cook a cap). | Or it might overload the PSU - and then

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: Has anybody else who recently posted to the list gotten an email bounce for a [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Overclocking when done properly, is very safe. There are TONS of sites out there to help with the research. I know that sites. And a lot of ocing results in strange and hidden problems. Add to that my hatred for people RMA'ing boards until

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:09 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: after upgrading to baselayout-2.0.0 ( and openrc ) I've got some unpleasant surprises. Because you didn't read the elog messages. it is still not ok to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: fsck runs with the -p option. -p for prune. But xfs does not now the -p option Just set fsck to 0 in fstab for xfs volumes. Bye... Dirk no, the thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/baselayout/baselay out-2.0.0.ebuild?r1=1.2r2=1.3 oh great, changes without a rX bump. I hate that. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: fsck runs with the -p option. -p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/baselayout/base lay out-2.0.0.ebuild?r1=1.2r2=1.3 oh great, changes without a rX bump. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Also this package is in ~arch and left package.mask recently, so it is under testing and you have to expect problems! problems, yes. The nuking of important config files and non-boot: no. That is complety inacceptable for something that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find anything in the logs. How could I troubleshoot it? lsof grep can tell you which files are accessed.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: How do you mean I need to run lsof? Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console quickly while KDE is shutting down and run it from there, exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Question: Is there a way to recover from this? you should have busybox installed. Just create a symlink for every tool needed. ln -s bb ls and something like that. If even ln is gone, do it from busybox itself - it has everything needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 20. April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: 3. external displays (VGA, DVI, LCD and TV-Out, one at a time would be enough) with different aspects and resolutions with 3D-acceleration on my Intel i945. don't put modes or modelines into your xorg.conf. Let X figure it out. --

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 2. Mai 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello Gentoo users, I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to install a very similarly named package to do this). But unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux

2008-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to install a linux based operating system or what ever it takes to play files. maybe. depends on the player. Also there is one really good project - 'rockbox' -

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: 080419 Volker Armin Hemmann Mick discussed: M a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time M to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. VAH lsof grep can tell you which files are accessed. VAH

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config? hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, David Relson wrote: On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:03 +0100 Neil Walker wrote: Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has support for it. I think it came

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: Too bloody smart for it's own good yeah. i can't burn dvd/cd anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into a myth

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, econti wrote: Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. ccache in make.conf is enabled and MAKEOPTS has a reasonable value

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: * app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008, David wrote: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to keep it updated. How do

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, David wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: +++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing wrong with tar. In fact tar is great for this job. dd not. Depends. If you backup to tape, like you do, then the Tape Archiver commonly called tar is the tool to use

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