Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:17:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: and now the preserved-rebuild info is gone. myth12 ~ # emerge -p @preserved-rebuild emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set expansion myth12 ~ # So I guess it's fixed. Right? Right... If emerge -uD world and revdep-rebuild complete without errors, yes. -- Neil Bothwick The people who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote:
Hi
This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work,
Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk
access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between
Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several
different kernel versions running.
[...]
It's a known problem. I have the same issue. But there is a solution:
start disk I/O heavy tasks with ionice -c3. For emerge, this can be done
automatically by putting this in your make.conf:
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}
ionice is in sys-apps/util-linux so it should be installed already.
Thanx, I don't have time at the moment to test it, but I will surely try
this.
Regards
Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays
2009/12/2 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several different kernel versions running. I also use the ntfs-3g driver for write access to a doze partition, but although the degradation in performance more severe with the ntfs-3g driver, access to the native (ext3) partition also drags the system down for a while. I checked obvious things like whether or not I enable SMP in the kernel. I tried changing the kernel pre-emption from low latency desktop to desktop, but the problem persist. The application that is mostly involved when I get these long delays is FireFox, VMWare and emerge (emerge --sync). Everything is compiled 64bit but I have the 32bit emulation libs. Can anyone point me into some direction? Regards Dirk I know I am hitting at the obvious, but I can't be sure you already checked that. Since the applications you are using can be quite intensive in memory usage, did you check whether you are hitting swap or not? -- Jesús Guerrero It's possible, but I don't remember running into swap that much. If I ran VMWare, I normally use a machine with 2GB memory. But still, my system at home which use to have 512mb didn't run into swap with firefox running a similar amount of tabs (I normally have about 12 tabs open of which most is static HTML - reference docs) I'll try to see if there is something else eating RAM and causing me to go into swap. Thanks Dirk
[gentoo-user] CONFIG_IDE is always set
hi, i am using genkernel to compile my kernel. i have CONFIG_IDE set to no, but after i boot my system, in the /proc/config.gz file, the CONFIG_IDE is still set to y. i have checked the file /etc/kernels and /usr/src/linux/.config, and the CONFIG_IDE is set to no. it looks like the genkernel is not using my kernel configuration file to compile my kernel, is it? how can i fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)
Am 02.12.2009 22:01, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I always think of the possibility to somehow bookmark a thread and to be able to quickcheck all these threads for replies, without the need of scrolling through miles of other postings (yep, I already sort mails into folders and use the threaded view). Thunderbird 3 can do something like that when combining search, virtual folders and the favorite folder view. So you just have to wait for TB3 to be ready or use the mozilla overlay and get the latest release candidate today. Greetings Sebastian
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...
On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey config_MYWLAN=( dhcp ) preferred_APS= ( myWLAN ) I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a more dynamic configuration. I've tried to setup WPA supplicant but haven't been able to get it to work. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but I had the exact same problem with the Dell bcm-based adapter in my Inspiron laptop. It would work fine for open wireless and WEP-secured wireless, but wouldn't associated with a WPA-secured access point. Eventually I spent about $30 to purchase an iwl3945 replacement from Dell, which worked fine, and never looked back. --Mike
[gentoo-user] X fails after new install
A couple of months ago when the new X came out I did an upgrade on my x86 box and all went well. Recently I reinstalled Gentoo on the same box because I wanted to repartition my hard disk, now I can't get X working. I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. My make.conf has INPUT_DEVICES=evdev and VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx. There isn't and xorg.conf file, but I don't think I need one anymore; also X -configure fails. It should work since everything worked after the upgrade, but the clean install fails. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IDE is always set
On Thursday 03 December 2009 13:21:35 Xi Shen wrote: hi, i am using genkernel to compile my kernel. i have CONFIG_IDE set to no, but after i boot my system, in the /proc/config.gz file, the CONFIG_IDE is still set to y. i have checked the file /etc/kernels and /usr/src/linux/.config, and the CONFIG_IDE is set to no. it looks like the genkernel is not using my kernel configuration file to compile my kernel, is it? how can i fix this? by not using genkernel, do it yourself and do it properly -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: emerge -C e2fsprogs-libs emerge -DuN @world? revdep-rebuild -i Hello Mark, My memory is not the sharpest these day, but, I thought I ran across a bug that posted this as part of the solution. I was updating 8 different systems, some not updated for 6 months, so it was a blur to say the least. If I recall correctly, I had a system with only reiserfs on it, still I need to follow these steps and install some package related to e2fsprogs to get past the complaints. The bug was interesting enough, but sorry I do not remember more specifics (aging brain syndrome) hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:17:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: and now the preserved-rebuild info is gone. myth12 ~ # emerge -p @preserved-rebuild emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set expansion myth12 ~ # So I guess it's fixed. Right? Right... If emerge -uD world and revdep-rebuild complete without errors, yes. -- Neil Bothwick The people who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed. They did. thanks!
Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo
I do have an NVIDIA card. Moreover, I have the very same version of wine on Ubuntu and all of the games are running with no problem. It is only on gentoo, where I have this problem. Kirill 2009/12/3 Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz === On Thu, 12/03, Kirill Lipatov wrote: === Any ideas? === There are many, many Windows applications that don't run under Wine. Especially games. That's probably one of them. Even if they do, they usually run only with certain video cards. Usually Nvidia. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ = -- Kirill Lipatov klipa...@ku.edu
Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. Please post the actual error messages. -- Neil Bothwick I can resist everything except temptation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: I do have an NVIDIA card. Moreover, I have the very same version of wine on Ubuntu and all of the games are running with no problem. It is only on gentoo, where I have this problem. Kirill That makes me wonder a bit... you might see if you can't compare the configuration you have for wine on both to see that they're the same, and the use flags you have on gentoo compared to the compile time options ubuntu used... but I'm not sure where to track those down. Beyond that... any errors on a terminal when the games fail to load? You might look into the WINEDEBUG variable to get a little more detail on what's happening, but just running winecfg for a few seconds with WINEDEBUG=all gives me about 45MB of output. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo
On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason Steam fails to start any games on my gentoo box. I am using wine 1.1.32 with the engine itself and the games all downloaded to gentoo's partition (not the ntfs3g problem). Steam itself loads fine, but when I click launch the game nothing happens. This is very said because Steam is the only reason why I still have to deal with Windows :( Any ideas? You have probably already seen this bug and checked if it matches your problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/230962 What a lucky discovery the last commenter made there. -- Arttu V.
[gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes, that has already been done. Maybe I should call it standardization or make up a new cromulent word. By which I really mean I am confused by a lot of advice I have gotten from USAians who get by with the good old 7 bit ASCII character set on a daily basis, whether it be written in Unicode or not. One of the puzzles to me is all the accented chars. Umlauts, etc. I am not trying to convert names for permanent purposes but for internal comparison. In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the unlauted u? French has the cedilla and acute and grave accents. Spanish has the tilde n. Scandinavian languages (all? some?) have the o with a slash. Or put another way, I don't know much about German, French, Spanish, etc keyboards. Do your keyboards have any of the extra keys, all of them? Are German keyboards and French and Spanish keyboards as restricted to their own languages as US keyboards are? If you have to hit two or three keys to keep the umlauts, accents, and tildes, do you get lazy sometimes and type the base character by itself? Is it even considered the base character, or is it considered lazy and sloppy, much as I get complaints about typing thru because through is too much trouble? I need something the equivalent of the C function strcasecmp() which not only ignores case, but all other differences without distinction, whatever they may be. If leaving off umlauts horrifies academics and purists but is what people do in the real world, I want to take that into consideration, so that if one person uses the ummlaut and another doesn't, it won't generated two separate entries. But if leaving off the umlaut or accent is a distinct place name, then I can't do that -- but if real world people do that and live with the confusion, then I guess I have to make a different choice. Yes, I am something of an ignorant American. I know some Japanese, French, and Spanish, but not the details of everyday usage. I'd like to learn. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the unlauted u? No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, drucken means to print, drücken (with an umlaut) means to press. In German you can exchange an umlaut with the combination base letter + e, i.e. ü -- ue, ö -- oe, and ß -- ss. There are words with the combination oe that is in that particular case does not mean ö. So it's not straight forward, especially with names. Those may have a rather odd spelling for historical reasons. Or put another way, I don't know much about German, French, Spanish, etc keyboards. Do your keyboards have any of the extra keys, all of them? Are German keyboards and French and Spanish keyboards as restricted to their own languages as US keyboards are? If you have to hit two or three keys to keep the umlauts, accents, and tildes, do you get lazy sometimes and type the base character by itself? Is it even considered the base character, or is it considered lazy and sloppy, much as I get complaints about typing thru because through is too much trouble? German keyboards have keys for all umlauts and 'ß'. You can google for pictures of different keyboard layouts. I need something the equivalent of the C function strcasecmp() which not only ignores case, but all other differences without distinction, whatever they may be. I'd suggest you use a unicode library. BTW, what about cyrillic letters or other alphabets? Those may have nothing to do with ASCII. Or is your project restricted to latin letters? Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:50:08PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: I'd suggest you use a unicode library. BTW, what about cyrillic letters or other alphabets? Those may have nothing to do with ASCII. Or is your project restricted to latin letters? The data is already in normalized Unicode. My problem is eliminating errors from near misses :-( Cyrillic doesn't look like the same problem -- no accents that I can see. Chinese, Japanese, etc, same as far as I know. Arabic has lots of tricks on combining letters and leaving out vowels, so it is probably an entirely different problem. One thing I did not make clear is that this is for place names only, like cities and whatever the equivalent of a US state or Canadian province is, such as Busingen. So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use it? My biggest annoyance is that a lot of the google results come from Americans full of theory about languages they only know from the W3C recommendations. Maybe email or real documents follow proper usage much more closely than addresses on a web form, but I don't care about them. Maybe web forms in Germany, where they want a district, do as many web sites do in English and have a menu of possible districts, in which case no one types in umlauts anyway :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use it? If you want to leave of the umlaut you have to be absolutely sure that there exists no other place with the spelling without umlaut. Otherwise you may have collisions sometimes. -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo
The disabling of the in-game chat unfortunately doesn't help my problem 2009/12/3 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason Steam fails to start any games on my gentoo box. I am using wine 1.1.32 with the engine itself and the games all downloaded to gentoo's partition (not the ntfs3g problem). Steam itself loads fine, but when I click launch the game nothing happens. This is very said because Steam is the only reason why I still have to deal with Windows :( Any ideas? You have probably already seen this bug and checked if it matches your problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/230962 What a lucky discovery the last commenter made there. -- Arttu V. -- Kirill Lipatov klipa...@ku.edu
[gentoo-user] Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some software mixer. I tried to follow information in the alsa wiki (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html#pcm_plugins_dmix) for setting manually dmix, but couldn't configure anything working. I could find any good documentation (and I don't have plenty of time to dig in it, it's the middle of the semester). Does anyone can help on the topic?
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the unlauted u? No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, drucken means to print, drücken (with an umlaut) means to press. In German you can exchange an umlaut with the combination base letter + e, i.e. ü -- ue, ö -- oe, and ß -- ss. There are words with the combination oe that is in that particular case does not mean ö. So it's not straight forward, especially with names. Those may have a rather odd spelling for historical reasons. and it is hilarious to see american media fuck that up almost every time ... ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Friday 04 December 2009 00:07:33 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the unlauted u? No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, drucken means to print, drücken (with an umlaut) means to press. In German you can exchange an umlaut with the combination base letter + e, i.e. ü -- ue, ö -- oe, and ß -- ss. There are words with the combination oe that is in that particular case does not mean ö. So it's not straight forward, especially with names. Those may have a rather odd spelling for historical reasons. and it is hilarious to see american media fuck that up almost every time ... ;) What's even more funny is hearing news readers on the South Africa public broadcaster try to pronounce regular *English* words... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...
- Original Message From: Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey config_MYWLAN=( dhcp ) preferred_APS= ( myWLAN ) I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a more dynamic configuration. I've tried to setup WPA supplicant but haven't been able to get it to work. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but I had the exact same problem with the Dell bcm-based adapter in my Inspiron laptop. It would work fine for open wireless and WEP-secured wireless, but wouldn't associated with a WPA-secured access point. Eventually I spent about $30 to purchase an iwl3945 replacement from Dell, which worked fine, and never looked back. Thanks for the heads up. At this point, I'll be happy if I can just get WEP working using WPA Supplicant/WiCD/etc. instead of a root user centric configuration file. Ben
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use it? If you want to leave of the umlaut you have to be absolutely sure that there exists no other place with the spelling without umlaut. Otherwise you may have collisions sometimes. What about a set of dictionaries? And also a library for mistyped word search? Francisco
[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some software mixer. I tried to follow information in the alsa wiki (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html#pcm_plugins_dmix) for setting manually dmix, but couldn't configure anything working. I could find any good documentation (and I don't have plenty of time to dig in it, it's the middle of the semester). Does anyone can help on the topic? I think all you need to do is to put the alsasound service in your default runlevel. rc-update add alsasound default At least that's what I remember doing when I tried ALSA a few months ago. You might need to reboot though so that the card is freed first.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On 12/3/09, fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I assume you have already removed the language problem from the equation? I.e., the fact that København, Copenhague, Kööpenhamina and Copenhagen all mean the same place, just in different European languages (Danish, Spanish, Finnish and English, in that order). If you have input in multiple languages then it is not just about umlauts or no umlauts ... -- Arttu V.
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM
Please ignore previous message ... I should have gone to bed by now because evidently I am too tired to think clearly! O_O I will try to boot up with a 64bit OS next. On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the CPU are recognised, so I think that the kernel is SMP enable. I attach the lspci output in case you see something that explains it. Unfortunately, hwinfo fails with an io segmentation ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM
On Friday 04 December 2009 00:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the CPU are recognised, so I think that the kernel is SMP enable. I attach the lspci output in case you see something that explains it. Unfortunately, hwinfo fails with an io segmentation ... I bet you used a 32 bit Knoppix -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:32:45PM -0200, Francisco Ares wrote: What about a set of dictionaries? And also a library for mistyped word search? Way too much effort for this. Nice idea, might even be fun, but it's just trying to avoid the common things, and I mainly wondered about how often people whose keyboards have accents etc skip them if they have the chance and what the repercussions would be. We have people already who enter Brooklyn for their city instead of New York, which might even be technically correct, but it doesn't match anything else and we don't correct it because it doesn't happen often enough. There may be people in Louisiana who use the original French spelling for all I know; we don't handle that either. Or ditto for Spanish names in the southwest that might have a tilde. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:38:34AM +0200, Arttu V. wrote: I assume you have already removed the language problem from the equation? I.e., the fact that K?benhavn, Copenhague, K??penhamina and Copenhagen all mean the same place, just in different European languages (Danish, Spanish, Finnish and English, in that order). We're trying to go by the name in the native language, but that might not be possible, in which case I guess we'll have to get all the possible translations. It certainly is messy. If you have input in multiple languages then it is not just about umlauts or no umlauts ... I've certainly learned a bit of that ... so far we only have to deal with country codes (no problem) and disticts (can't be t many, I hope). -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
[gentoo-user] KDE4 Device Manager Permissions
Hi there! When I plug in an USB stick (with a VFAT partition), the device manager plasmoid notifies me and allows to mount it. That's fine, but I would like the permissions to be different, so that another user is able to write to it. This user is using the same desktop, he is logged in via ssh -X in a konsole, then he starts dolphin. Is this configurable? I looked for HAL stuff, probably this can be set in a .fdi file, but I did not find what to specify there. This is not really important - I can let udev create a specific /dev entry for the stick, add it to fstab and mount it manually, with the umask set accordingly. But it would be nice if it could be done with KDE's builtin stuff. So if anyone knows a solution, I'd be happy to hear. If not, no problem. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync
Really late post on this, but an emphasis on march settings is warranted. This will totally bungle all kinds of compiling. Daid, thanks for your input. I keep an extra line of 'safe' cflags commented out, which saved the day in this case. If it helps anyone, here's what the [continuing] problem was: When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it out, but forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3. Hence some improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving my safe cflags a go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I realized that -msse3 didn't belong. Fixed it, emerge -uDNe world, and now emerge --sync works! Based on this experience, I would submit that if you're running Gentoo and seeing SIGILL, double checking your march and your cflags would be a pretty good place to start. Alexander Clark
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Friday 04 December 2009 02:03:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue. Your name shows here in 7-bit ASCII: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com typo? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:03:23AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ?, ? or ?, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue. I'd like to find a program which would do that! Seriously. But anyway, the purpose of this is not to transform names so our antique ASCII-7 computers can store them, but to eliminate redundant records. For instance, we get data from vendors for all cities and states, geolocation data, which has its own redundancies, such as both FORT WORTH and FT WORTH, or SAINT LOUIS and ST LOUIS. But we have to convert to upper case, get rid of punctuation, get rid of extra white space, etc, and all that is independent of the locale. I want to do the same for unicode. If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes, then I'd like to standardize the data for lookup. This has nothing to do with converting people's names for storage. We don't even store the transformed place name. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 15:10:30 Willie Wong wrote: It is somehow worrisome that background IO like writing to the History file can lock up the UI...) Indeed. That does smell unwholesome. -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time... I hope Nikos's suggestion will help you, but just in case it doesn't: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. Do you have a special purpose in mind, such as mixing multiple sound tracks, professional-quality sound editing, film editing with special sound effects, or something similar? If you do, then you will be one of the very few people who actually needs to use pulseaudio, because it will allow multiple applications to use one sound card at the same time. That is the purpose of pulseaudio. But, as I said, very few people really need it. Can you explain more about what you are trying to do?
[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when someone talks to me while I'm listening to some mp3 and/or am playing a game.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time... I hope Nikos's suggestion will help you, but just in case it doesn't: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. Do you have a special purpose in mind, such as mixing multiple sound tracks, professional-quality sound editing, film editing with special sound effects, or something similar? If you do, then you will be one of the very few people who actually needs to use pulseaudio, because it will allow multiple applications to use one sound card at the same time. That is the purpose of pulseaudio. But, as I said, very few people really need it. Can you explain more about what you are trying to do? I'm not the OP, but it's been my experience that, when things aren't configured to handle multiple processes using audio, you can't even pause a movie in, say, mplayer to check out the youtube video a friend just pointed you towards... which nowadays, is far from an uncommon thing for a person to expect their computer to handle. Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... and it hasn't required any manual configuration of dmix or similar to function properly. Last time I used a separate sound daemon (aside from a short stent with Ubuntu on my netbook that, I think, had me using pulseaudio), I was running esound to manage audio from a headless box over my network... and ESD was playing nicely with other straight alsa apps on the same box. As a bit of a tip to the OP, since I'm going on about it all working, while for them it isn't... 1) make sure you're using the alsa drivers for your card and not oss (checking lspci -k) and 2) enable oss emulation in the kernel (makes even OLD oss based software work without much argument, in my experience). -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when someone talks to me while I'm listening to some mp3 and/or am playing a game. I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck. If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else. I couldn't hear Kopete if someone was trying to get me on messenger, couldn't hear the little bell when I got a new email or anything. To say that a person only needs to hear one sound at a time is like telling someone to close one eye. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM
On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:45:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 04 December 2009 00:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the CPU are recognised, so I think that the kernel is SMP enable. I attach the lspci output in case you see something that explains it. Unfortunately, hwinfo fails with an io segmentation ... I bet you used a 32 bit Knoppix Yep! It's surprising how after a good night's sleep the most complex problems suddenly solve themselves ... ha, ha! :-)) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM
Hi, You don't need to go to bed :) Just setup your kernel to use High-Memory: cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig; then item: Processor type and features - High Memory Support - 4GB And it's done, but keep in mind that userspace processes will still be limited to 3GB of memory use (AFAIK) (if someone would like to correct me, he is welcome). If you want your processes to use more than 3GB of memory, then yes, boot up with a 64bit OS (again correct me if i'm wrong) ;) HTH. Mick a écrit : Please ignore previous message ... I should have gone to bed by now because evidently I am too tired to think clearly! O_O I will try to boot up with a 64bit OS next. On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the CPU are recognised, so I think that the kernel is SMP enable. I attach the lspci output in case you see something that explains it. Unfortunately, hwinfo fails with an io segmentation ... -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :C7DC B10E FC21 63BE B453 D239 F6E6 DF65 1569 91BF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
