Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player w/ linux-2.6.39
Am 19.05.2011 23:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Just wanted to point you vmware-users to a patch for vmware-modules: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/ Built my own little ebuild in an overlay, now vmware-player runs fine w/ fresh new gentoo-sources-2.6.39 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368139
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?
Hello, Is it true that tgt will replace IET? Last time someone asked that question on the IET mailing list the answer was no. I can't find the relevant thread right now but I think the general idea was that IET concentrates on code stability (thus no inclusion in the kernel sources) and enterprise-oriented features, while STGT follows kernel development and supports lots of fancy things. Also, I think there is/was at least a partial overlap in the developers behind the two projects. If true, are there any links/howtos/tutorial on using tgt? And tuning it? I would start from the project home page, http://stgt.sourceforge.net/ HTH, andrea
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?
There is a profile for gnome I believe. Try eselect profile list which should list available profiles including a gnome. You will need symlinks in USE flags in make.conf to get eselect to work and reemerged world. Not sure how good profile is but sure some gnome users should be able to help. --Original Message-- From: Felix Leif Keppmann To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags? Sent: 19 May 2011 19:58 Hey Alan, to get the current USE flags use emerge --info and look at USE=... This does not include local use flags, for those you should check your files in /etc/portage/package.use or /etc/portage/package.use/ Cheers Felix Leif On Thursday 19 May 2011 18:45:41 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. JDM
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 14:45, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, Is it true that tgt will replace IET? Last time someone asked that question on the IET mailing list the answer was no. I can't find the relevant thread right now but I think the general idea was that IET concentrates on code stability (thus no inclusion in the kernel sources) and enterprise-oriented features, while STGT follows kernel development and supports lots of fancy things. Also, I think there is/was at least a partial overlap in the developers behind the two projects. If true, are there any links/howtos/tutorial on using tgt? And tuning it? I would start from the project home page, http://stgt.sourceforge.net/ HTH, andrea Ahh, thanks for the explanation. I'd go the IET route, then; I value stability over features. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?
Hi, Bill. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and which package uses them. It doesn't accept ctrl-C. ;-( Typically, though, you would use: euse -i dhcp to see what the dhcp use flag does. OK, thanks for telling about euse. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?
Hi, Alan. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE Thanks! The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel
On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Hi, there are always the open drivers x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati and x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd If that is not a choice for you then you have to wait for an (in-)offical patch or a version that works with .39 Do you really need .39 now? Living on the bleeding edge comes with problems of its own. No, I don't NEED the 2.6.39, but I'll want to aid in testing and this version promises far better performance - on the file system as well as for concurrent processes since the big kernel lock has gone. The patches which have been posted recently, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 seem to work (I'm just writing on a machine running 2.6.39 with 4 cores and the patched ati-driver) Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Re: How do I dump use flags?
Alan Mackenzie: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and which package uses them. It doesn't accept ctrl-C. ;-( Have noticed that also. *g* Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick
On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. -- Valmor +1 I use it for all my gentoo installations as well. Have even removed windows viruses from windows boxen with it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Hi, there are always the open drivers x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati and x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd If that is not a choice for you then you have to wait for an (in-)offical patch or a version that works with .39 Do you really need .39 now? Living on the bleeding edge comes with problems of its own. No, I don't NEED the 2.6.39, but I'll want to aid in testing and this version promises far better performance - on the file system as well as for concurrent processes since the big kernel lock has gone. The patches which have been posted recently, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 seem to work (I'm just writing on a machine running 2.6.39 with 4 cores and the patched ati-driver) Thanks for that info, Helmut. Later today I'm going to give 2.6.39 a shot then (I'd masked it because of my ATI card). -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
[gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow
Hi All, I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine. For a few seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the point of seeing the image being rendered in slow motion, a row at a time if e.g. I scroll up or down the page. Only 20% of RAM (of 3G total) is being used at the time, so I'm guessing this could be something to do with the ATI video card? Other graphics apps open at the same time (e.g. Gimp) do not have such problems rendering graphics (albeit not svg). Before I post loads of info which may be unnecessary, have you come across anything similar and how can I troubleshoot it? PS. I unmasked 0.48.1-r1 because 0.48.0 was even worse. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups
On 19/5/2011, at 11:05pm, Mick wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 23:03:10 Mick wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:28:21 Stroller wrote: On 18/5/2011, at 5:57pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) Why do you bother at all, then? Use get_iplayer: http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git ... I see they have a cgi now ... how is that supposed to work? Ah! Found it a second later: http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/blob/a3ab6296f6952d2528252313fc9730026f42759c:/README- get_iplayer.cgi.txt I wouldn't rely on it being supported. You should certainly demonstrate the problem on the command-line using the regular get_iplayer before reporting it to the mailing list. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5
I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here. For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 installed on your machine. A gentoo bug report was filed by our own Nikos Chantziaras -- who did not post a headsup to this list :p The fix is to downgrade bison to the 'stable' version 2.4.3, as stated in Nikos's bug report. Happy week-end to all :)
Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here. For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 installed on your machine. A gentoo bug report was filed by our own Nikos Chantziaras -- who did not post a headsup to this list :p The fix is to downgrade bison to the 'stable' version 2.4.3, as stated in Nikos's bug report. Happy week-end to all :) Thanks for that. I upgraded my ~x86 laptop today and a bunch of things did break but revdep-rebuild appears to have handled it. I have bison-2.5, but am using libreoffice-bin which seems fine. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
[gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend
Hello list! Due to the increase of spam/phishing emails received by my office, I decided to explore the idea of implementing a spamfiltering 'frontend' in front of my email server. Here's how I plan to do it: fetchmail (G) -- postfix (G) -- amavisd+spamassassin+database (G) -- postfix (G) -- current email back-end (WS) -- clients (W) (G) = the single Gentoo server working as mailfilter (WS) = mail server on Windows Server (W) = various Windows clients (XP and 7) I need fetchmail because currently we still use a hosting company, at least until August when we host everything on our own. Then, we'll drop fetchmail and expose postfix for the world to deliver the mails to. I also want to use amavisd's 'pen pal feature', so the outgoing emails will take this route: clients -- mail back-end -- postfix -- amavisd -- postfix -- ISP mail-relay server Now, did I plan right? Can anyone poke any holes in my plan before I tie a 'ganbatte!' headband and study hard to implement the system successfully or die trying? Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
