[gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?
Hi, Currently I am setting up a new system on a new harddisc. I dont want the full blown KDE/GNOME as session manager -- I prefer a smaller solution: Openbox as windowmanager and using a handfull kde/gnome application where it is handy. Up to now I emerged this apllications -- namely k3b and kaffeine -- and thought everything needed would be pulled in also. But something seems to be wrong: kaffeine does not find my dvb-t device (which vlc finds and plays TV without problems) and k3b does not find any burner/reader-device, but they do exist (/dev/sr[01]). My userid are assigned the groups audio,video,cdrom,cdrw beside others. hald and dbus-daemon are running and X is using hald which success. Is there any other things I need to emerge additionally? Any kde-daemon or such? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekend ! :) Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Re: [gentoo-user] Slim hassle...to login or not to login
On Saturday 29 May 2010 17:20:48 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dru Kargin drukar...@gmail.com [10-05-29 18:08]: Hi, while installing a new system from ground up on my new harddisc I came accross a silly problem: I have setup X and slim as login manager. I installed openbox (no kde/gnome) as session manager. Slim starts...and: The keyboard and the mouse are not responding... Same happens when I start plain X as root. Screen remains black and I have to use the sysreq-keys to get my box back to normal... The X-logfile shows as only Error, that the GLX-module could not be found. I am using nvidia-drivers and reinstalled them as adviced but the effect remains the same. hald is running. fonts are installed (at least the default ones). Also installed are: x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev Generic Linux input driver x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard Keyboard input driver x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse X.Org driver for mouse input devices eselect opengl set nvidia is done. What is missing? Why dies this not work (my old system running on the same hardware using the same setup in principle has no problem at all with X/Openbox. Why does X only half??? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc Are your keyboard and mouse InputDevices in xorg.conf configured to use the evdev driver, and does your ServerLayout section contain InputDevice lines to correctly point to those devices? I have had some weird problems with slim, but never trouble like you describe with plain X/twm. -Dru I copied the working xconf from my old system to my new one and had never modified/hacked the installation paths of those applikations. So I exspect that at least X will give me that greyish screen with an moveable X as cursor (was it that way...its lon ago that I need to call X the plain way.). Why could the GLX module not found??? Have you installed mesa? Otherwise I suspect an nvidia issue - but I have never used nvidia to know what to look for. PS. Make sure you reboot or restart dbus/hald after you finish emerging and configuring xorg and x11-drivers. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Any suggestions for a good command line tool to manage PDFs like pdftk (split (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/26/pdf-linux Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick
On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 years of backups. 10,000 writes would be 30 years. Of course if you backup every hour, 10,000 writes is a year (or so). You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated for every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands of writes to the same location. -- Neil Bothwick Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:48:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 years of backups. 10,000 writes would be 30 years. Of course if you backup every hour, 10,000 writes is a year (or so). You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated for every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands of writes to the same location. -- Neil Bothwick Neil, Correct -- if the USB is mounted synchronously. Normally Linux uses asynchronous writes (caching), so will hit the FAT much less often. I've tried synchronous writes and it's a real performance killer. However for a DOS formatted stick (which is the norm) the FAT does seem to be the week link. David
Re: [gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?
On Sunday 30 May 2010 08:48:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Currently I am setting up a new system on a new harddisc. I dont want the full blown KDE/GNOME as session manager -- I prefer a smaller solution: Openbox as windowmanager and using a handfull kde/gnome application where it is handy. Up to now I emerged this apllications -- namely k3b and kaffeine -- and thought everything needed would be pulled in also. But something seems to be wrong: kaffeine does not find my dvb-t device (which vlc finds and plays TV without problems) and k3b does not find any burner/reader-device, but they do exist (/dev/sr[01]). My userid are assigned the groups audio,video,cdrom,cdrw beside others. hald and dbus-daemon are running and X is using hald which success. Is there any other things I need to emerge additionally? Any kde-daemon or such? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekend ! :) Try this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/229844 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick
On 2010-05-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 years of backups. 10,000 writes would be 30 years. Of course if you backup every hour, 10,000 writes is a year (or so). You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated for every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands of writes to the same location. And you're assuming that the flash controller chip in the USB drive doesn't do wear-leavelling. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?
Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: But something seems to be wrong: kaffeine does not find my dvb-t device (which vlc finds and plays TV without problems) and k3b does not find any burner/reader-device, but they do exist (/dev/sr[01]). My userid are assigned the groups audio,video,cdrom,cdrw beside others. What others exactly? I’m thinking of plugdev here. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I decided to go on a strict diet. I cut out alcohol, all fats and sugar. In two weeks I lost 14 days. - Tim Maia signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] zfs-fuse
Anyone using this ebuild? I'd love to hear some feedback as the development on zfs-fuse.net goes on. I think they could need some more testers as they have a new beta out these days. Have a look ;-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291540 Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:20:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-05-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 years of backups. 10,000 writes would be 30 years. Of course if you backup every hour, 10,000 writes is a year (or so). You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated for every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands of writes to the same location. And you're assuming that the flash controller chip in the USB drive doesn't do wear-leavelling. FWIW, I have enabled synchronous writes for a Disk-On-Module (SSD) formatted ext2. It makes writing take significantly longer and I have had a DOM go bad (become unusable). Admittedly, I don't know whether the DOM does wear-levelling and I don't know the underlying cause of the failure. In any case it was Not Good (tm) ...
