Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel Cryptographic API

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 09/14/2010 12:17 PM, Frank Peters wrote: I wasn't sure if the Crypto API was purely for use within kernel space or if user space applications could have access to it in the same manner as with other kernel system routines. But I guess that the Crypto API is just for the use of the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Updating An Unconnected Machine

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Freeman
On 04/29/2010 03:09 PM, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: you can copy portage and distro files from connected machine (i.e it will just serve as your local mirror), but you need to run emerge -Du world on the unconnected machine, since it has different CFLAGS With portage (and not necessarily other

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: doomsday

2010-03-14 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/13/2010 11:04 PM, Chris wrote: World updates are rare for me (once every 6 months if that). I come from a slack distro and I'm accustomed to handling everything directly. So I haven't automated system updates in any sort of fashion either. As for this package I am currently in the beta

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/04/2010 08:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, that's interesting and to some extent anyway probably involved with why I'm getting a lot of the package I get. What I'm not understanding yet is what packages themselves are in @system. Where do those come from? I'm assuming that because of all

Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/26/2010 12:05 AM, Drake Donahue wrote: Alternate run: X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and a mouse cursor. Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X. If this actually works, you should be able to use ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever to get back to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/26/2010 12:05 AM, Drake Donahue wrote: Alternate run: X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and a mouse cursor. Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X. If this actually works, you should be able to use ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever to get back to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] FAT tools, where ?

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Freeman
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: I need vfat tools (mkfs.vfat, fsck.vfat...) and can't figure out the package to which they belong. Help welcome... dosfstools Maybe we should get flameeyes to re-implement portage file search since he's already building everything for the tinderbox anyway...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [Slightly OT]KDE hot key?

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: Probably not the right forum, but... Is it just me, or is the -amd64 list turning into the -desktop list? That list gets almost zero traffic and it seems like half the recent discussion here would fit in very well there. I'm not chasing anybody off - we're still

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: Personally, I'd just go with the default nr_inodes. People with 2 gig or less of real RAM may need to worry about it, especially if they do a lot of parallel makes (tho with 2 gig I'd crimp on parallel makes way more than I do, too, so may not have to, but as I've said before,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Richard Freeman
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 08 July 2009 14:51:04 Frank Peters wrote: Or is the system designed to extend the tmpfs through swapping? Sort of. If the tmpfs becomes full, part of it that isn't needed at the moment is swapped to disk, exactly as if it had been program space. This is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Why Is Gentoo So Far Behind?

2009-06-16 Thread Richard Freeman
Frank Peters wrote: Maybe I'll post some ebuilds for cooledit and nedit. These are two text editors for which I've filed bug reports and fixes, but there has been no action yet due to lack of maintainers. It may be a while though. After quickly looking through the developer's manual, I can

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amarok update failure

2009-06-12 Thread Richard Freeman
Paul Stear wrote: I should have thought of that, I am now updating 33 packages so hopefully amarok will install correctly after they have finished. Paul I'm attempting the lafilefixer solution listed in the libpcre install notes. However, I'm beginning to think I'd have been better off

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Managing CPU usage when doing emerges

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: I agree, I use /dev/shm (4gigs) for my portage tmpdir and it has had a bigger noticeable speed impact than ccache or niceness, and the silence of zero disk activity (other than reading the distfiles in the unpack stage and installing the compiled files) is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Managing CPU usage when doing emerges

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: So, does it sound like fun to anyone? For all I know someone's already tested it. I haven't been following ext4 development close enough to know for sure, if I didn't simply happen across it. I'd certainly be curious as to the results of such a benchmark. Maybe I'll try to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Managing CPU usage when doing emerges

2009-05-18 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: Is there another way to use nice, or to fix that problem? Or another way to manage CPU usage during an emerge? I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a tmpfs for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs

2009-05-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Paul Hartman wrote: If you view the reference .mov in a text editor you can see the URL of the actual video which you can download with wget or whatever... Your other option is the mplayer dump stream options. Those can be handy if a video is behind some streaming server (such as using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Bug in Cooledit-3.17.17 - Patch Included

2009-04-26 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: Long version: snip Duncan - are you sure you don't want to join the Gentoo Documentation Team? :) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unable to read PDF on amd64

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Steven Lembark wrote: Works fine on x86, both with acroread-9.1; other files work here with 9.1 on AMD, so it may be this file... That file opens fine for me with kpdf (embedded in konqueror). I REALLY don't want to install acroread, but if you really need help I'll be willing to do it -

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-03 Thread Richard Freeman
Paul Hartman wrote: Should be as simple as copying the data files over to wherever they are stored for your user account, changing owner, and then opening it with the vmware GUI. Yup. Although I thought that vmware stuck all VMs in /var/lib/vmware regardless of who created them. Granted,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Wil Reichert wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch something first. I'll have to check into that. There's also Xen, right? Is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm now officially into #6 above and I don't have a clue where to go. ;-) (Of course, anyone here who has good info I'm up for receiving it. Drop me a note privately or post back on this list as long as folks subscribed here have an interest in watching me struggle a bit!)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-23 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: I'd blame that on your choice of RAID (and ultimately on the defective hardware, but it wouldn't have been as bad on RAID-1 or RAID-6), more than on what was running on top of it. Agree - RAID-6 would have helped in this particular circumstance (assuming I didn't lose more

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-22 Thread Richard Freeman
Beso wrote: 2009/1/21 The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net: Duncan wrote: and, if you have experiences with it, do you know what could happen without fsck on an unsafely unmounted luks partition? Luks I know nothing of. Someday when I get the appropriate round tuit... I'm using LUKS on a few of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-22 Thread Richard Freeman
Beso wrote: well, i think that the lvm2 layer is still good even when used on a single disk. especially when you don't know how the partitions would look like. i've had big time saves by resizing lvm2 array than copying, removing partitions, recreating them and then recopying files into the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to use

2009-01-04 Thread Richard Freeman
Maciej Kazulak wrote: That's how bash evaluates logic expressions. There's even a fancy word for it i think. Point is it will execute commands only to the point where it can determine the logic result. The fancy word for it would probably be short circuit evaluation:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: system broken?

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Freeman
Martin Herrman wrote: Of course (using Gentoo now for a month or so), I don't have buildpkg in my config. So I used the manual on the URL you provided. It says that one should emerge portage first to get a correct system first. But when I do that, I get an error: Yeah - once you break it you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: boottime

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: *snip the rest because it is too long to read and usual duncan talk*. Let's be nice. I'll confess I often don't read everything duncan types, but it isn't like he spams the list such that you can't easily hit delete if you're not interested in his two emails per

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Still unable to unmask KDE4.1.2

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: Well, after 2 weeks of fumbling and fidgeting, I still am unable to unmask KDE4.1.2. I really do not know now where to go from this point. Here's what Ive done. I've removed all KDE4.0.X packages. I've keyworded the KDE:4 packages (per the documentation) and I still do

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space?

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Freeman
Paul Stear wrote: Hello all, How do I list the contents of a disc in size order? I need to find out the largest files on a disc. It's my home dir which is 98% full, that's over 180GB used, normally its less than half of this. I just can't find anything that is very large. To add to the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space?

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Freeman
Paul Stear wrote: Hello all, How do I list the contents of a disc in size order? I need to find out the largest files on a disc. It's my home dir which is 98% full, that's over 180GB used, normally its less than half of this. I just can't find anything that is very large. To add to the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems configuring gentoo

2008-10-04 Thread Richard Freeman
Ben de Groot wrote: -Os optimizes for size, while -O2 optimizes for speed. There is no need at all to use -Os on a modern desktop machine, and it will run comparatively slower than -O2 optimized code, which is probably not what you want. There are a couple of schools of thought on that, and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: But you're correct about swap, at least if you have them set at the same priority. The kernel will automatically stripe across all swap partitions set at the same priority, so if you have multiple disks, put a swap partition on each and set the priority equal (in fstab if you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-31 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: I don't have a particular dog in this fight, but that's not the same thing. --skip-first allows the admin to react to whatever when wrong, try to fix it, and use the skip option only if he decides it's warranted. IOW, it's sort of interactive, tho over time. It appears this

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-30 Thread Richard Freeman
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: So, in my opinion, you are just a pro-paludis troll. And from what I can see, trolls are the prefered audience and power behind paludis. Guys - let's try to keep this civil! There are lots of folks who use and like paludis who aren't trolls. I'm among them.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT - Which is better CF or thumb drive?

2008-05-27 Thread Richard Freeman
Florian Philipp wrote: BTW: UIDs and/or volume labels are the way to go if you want to avoid problems with changing device names. This won't help you much with booting but for any other partitions you can always use /dev/disk/by-uuid/ or one of the other directories under /dev/disk to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b and FLAC images

2008-04-29 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: I should be able to burn those flac files right? It could be the CUE files aren't right, but I'm not sure how I would verify that. Perhaps I'm just demonstrating ignorance here, but flac isn't an image format - it is a sound recording format. If you wanted to burn a

[gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23 panics/freezes/reboots?

2008-02-21 Thread Richard Freeman
Has anybody else been having trouble with the latest gentoo-sources since the vmslice fix? I've been having reboots a few times this week - almost always at the same time of the evening on my mythtv backend while watching TV from a remote front-end. Granted, that could be unrelated - mythtv

Re: [gentoo-amd64] tmpfs help

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008, Richard Freeman wrote: Do you have benchmarks to support this? which numbers? that swap is horrible slow compared to ram? No - that compiling in tmpfs is horrible compared to compiling to disk. Neither of us is proposing getting

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: tmpfs help

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008, Duncan wrote: removed lots of irrelevant 'my hardware is so cool' stuff'. You forget some (little) things. Not everything can be swapped out. How is this relevant? Some memory is locked or effectively locked. That limits

Re: [gentoo-amd64] tmpfs help

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: emm, no. Look, if you're not going to actually respond to something, then either don't reply or at least don't quote it. One-liners really aren't helpful - this isn't mean to be a flame-war over disk-fs vs disk-swap. I'm as interested as anybody to understand

Re: [gentoo-amd64] tmpfs help

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Freeman
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: with your small amount of memory tmpfs hurts you more than helps you. The small compilations might to be sped up. But what about the big ones? Slow downs, because swap is used. Big slow downs, because swap is horribly slow. Do you have benchmarks to support

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

2008-01-08 Thread Richard Freeman
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: locales are set either in /etc/env.d/02lang (mine looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINGUAS=de) Can you post the output of qfile /etc/env.d/02lang ? That is my one pet-peeve with gentoo - there is no easy way to find out where to get a file

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting will result in

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon?

2007-11-11 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard Auzinger wrote: Why do you compare two systems with a different number of cores? 2x2Core athlon64 versus 2x4Core Core2Duo. I'm not sure that equal number of cores is the appropriate benchmark to use. I'd focus on equal total system

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with pam-0.99 upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: OK, knowing as you all do that I'm a non-admin sort of person these sort of instructions - the 2 paragraphs at the end - scare me. I hate having to guess what anyone means. lightning pam.d # qfile -o /etc/pam.d/*

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with pam-0.99 upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Richard, Thanks for the response. I would have NEVER guessed that this qfile command was telling me the files that are no longer needed. I should have read the man page on that. Well, strictly speaking it points out files

Re: [gentoo-amd64] conversion sda to lvm2 questions

2007-10-13 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beso wrote: can i use raid even if i got a single hd and a non raid board?! i think i missed this thing. i knew that i could use raid on 2 separate disks of the same ammount and only if i had a raid compatible board (with hardware or software) but

Re: [gentoo-amd64] conversion sda to lvm2 questions

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beso wrote: second, i'd like to know if there's a need for a raid enabled motherboard and more than one disk to go on lvm. i only have a 100gb disk that i'd like to convert to lvm with no raid. I recommend using software RAID unless you go all

Re: [gentoo-amd64] conversion sda to lvm2 questions

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beso wrote: so if i understood right i have to go with /boot and a stripped / on normal disks, with / duplicated to avoid loss of startup. Uh - unless you don't have enough space on one drive I'd mirror root - not stripe it. Ditto for boot - if

Re: [gentoo-amd64] What should the swap size be for 4G ram?

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 P.V.Anthony wrote: If following the old rule, 8G should be allocated for swap. I feel that is too much. Does 2.6 kernel really need so much of swap with 4G of ram? Was thinking of just using a 1G swap file for safety. Please share some thoughts

Re: [gentoo-amd64] What should the swap size be for 4G ram?

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: why? zfs is slow and is mixing things that should be in different layers. One argument against reiser4 always was 'it violates the layering' - well this is even more true for zfs. If you can suggest a filesystem

Re: [gentoo-amd64] qt compile problem

2007-08-15 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Haney wrote: Sadly the revdep rebuild didn't work on my apps. In fact just manually emerging the apps I need NOW still bomb looking for libexpat.so.0. I'm lost. I must admit that revdep-rebuild is one of gentoo's weak points. Ideally non-security bumps would just leave the old so

Re: [gentoo-amd64] I need some help...

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Lorenzo Milesi wrote: slowliness and memory leaks: taking ages to load pictures, filling my 500mb ram quickly. It's really weird! What exactly is filling up memory? Try running top and sorting by memory use (shortcut key M). 500MB of RAM isn't a huge amount - certainly plenty for ordinary

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: System becomes almost unusable when compling c++ code

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard Auzinger wrote: Yes you are completely right, but that is not the point I wanted to make. I just think avoiding any unnecessary disk access is the best solution as long there will be the bottleneck. Agreed - spending more money on

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: System becomes almost unusable when compling c++ code

2007-08-03 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: where is the difference between 'app syncs its files to disk' and 'kernel swaps app to disk, than decides to swap it in, so app can decides which files it wants to sync to disk, then swap it out again'? oh, more

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard Auzinger wrote: Just for the record. I decided to go LVM2 :). It runs since 10 days and I'm very happy with it. The setup was very quick and easy. For a few seconds I thought of buying a few more harddisks. Not because of the space,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-07-23 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: I keep my keys on an encrypted partition, /etc/conf.d/cryptfs prompts for the key for that partition at boot. Then the keys on that partition are used to set up swap and /home before the partition is unmounted, so the keys

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-07-20 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard Auzinger wrote: My question is if it makes sence to move these partitions to another harddisk? Others have responded to this well already - one thing I might add is to check out lvm if you have so many drives. Once you've used it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-07-20 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Freeman wrote: full redundancy on everything but swap (I could run swap on my RAID-5 lvm partitions, but you take a performance hit there - and I don't care about a possible crash so much as the loss of lots of data). Ok, here

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-07-20 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: Use cryptsetup-luks to set up encrypted swap partitions and use /etc/conf.d/cryptfs to manage it. If you use a different key for swap, there's no risk of it unlocking the wrong partition and formatting it. Hmm - not

[gentoo-amd64] having trouble running root off raid

2007-06-30 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I've been steadily migrating all my data to a raid array. I have everything running under raid5+lvm2, except for my root partition, which is 1GB and running raid1 (no lvm). On the root partition are: bin, sbin, lib32, lib64, root, etc I think

Re: [gentoo-amd64] having trouble running root off raid

2007-06-30 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Freeman wrote: Am I missing something obvious? It turns out it wasn't obvious, but I was missing all my device nodes in /dev. Apparently even with udev you need some stuff in there to get started. However, I'm still getting stuck. Now I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] having trouble running root off raid

2007-06-30 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Freeman wrote: However, I'm still getting stuck. Now I get an error from rc telling me that the system doesn't support UDEV. I'm using the EXACT same kernel as the one that works fine on a different root. Not quite sure what

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 3200+ - X2 4000+

2007-06-28 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dieter Ries wrote: BTW, what is NUMA exactly? And when should one use it? I don't know the details for linux support for NUMA, but it means non-uniform memory architecture, as opposed to symmetric multi-processing (SMP). In an SMP box all CPUs

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-17 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: The kernel includes three schedulers: anticipatory, deadline and (the default) CFQ, whereas the author refers only to old and new schedulers. I wonder which of the features he describes are common to all three. I also

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Mike Doty wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: so do I actually use +19? the latter Yes, a -19 would certainly make for a VERY unusable system! I'm running a myth backend and I've found a few useful tricks: 1. Myth itself is run at nice -10. This was accomplished by editing the init.d script. 2.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Time Drift

2007-06-09 Thread Richard Freeman
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, Richard Freeman wrote: Any advice? yeah, try removing /etc/adjtime first. What is /etc/adjtime used for as opposed to /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift? It looks like both have reasonably current modification dates, and I'm guessing that I

[gentoo-amd64] Time Drift

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Freeman
I just noticed that my time was off and after checking the logs I saw that ntpd was adjusting the time by 5 minutes several times a day for the last month. Searching around I found some hints that disabling apic might help. This is on a K8V deluxe motherboard and running 2.6.20-r7. Before I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL

2007-05-28 Thread Richard Freeman
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2007, Isidore Ducasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL': Or did you mean dual-licensing GPLv2 and GPLv3? Still, dual-licensing under incompatible licenses is fine and I think many (but maybe not most)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a complete desktop remotely?

2007-05-27 Thread Richard Freeman
Joerg Gollnick wrote: I played years ago with NX Server ( not FreeNX) over a WAN. It worked well and was fairly useable. They claim to be more efficient then VNC, as the NX protocol is interweaved with the X11 protocol itself. Best regards Jörg I gave up on freeNX on amd64 a while ago - it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a complete desktop remotely?

2007-05-27 Thread Richard Freeman
Mark Knecht wrote: What I want to do is actually log in as one of them, start a Gnome session and see their desktop as they would see it but displayed here 350 miles away in a window on my machine. Ah, what you want is remote framebuffer support. kde-base/krfb will do the trick, and I know

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mythtv

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gigli wrote: I used an ~amd64 profile 2006.1, xfce4, nvidia-drivers, Asus A8V deluxe, so the hardware is not exotic (and it works perfect in Xubuntu). Since i never did solve this issue i now use Xubuntu which works perfectly, but i do miss

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick grub question

2007-05-06 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian D. wrote: hello, the drive ordering thing is explained by Duncan already. I just want to point out that if you want to have your root partition on the raid too and if you are using the new superblock version(=1), you should be aware of

[gentoo-amd64] Quick grub question

2007-05-05 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I am trying to get my raid working. I have /dev/hda,b,c,d and /dev/sda,b,c. My boot partition is on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (mirrored). So, how do I set that up? Grub gives me: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) (hd3,0) (hd4,0) You can

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Hmm - I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Emerge libraries in /usr/lib32 too

2007-04-23 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian McCulloch wrote: If it is a one-off, and not many other people are likely to want to install it on a 64-bit gentoo, why not just compile and install a 32-bit freealut by hand? as in CXXFLAGS=-m32 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge libraries in /usr/lib32 too

2007-04-23 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Regis Decamps wrote: What do you mean by expand the tarball? If I merge the tarball in the / of my main amd64 system, then I'll lose my amd64 lib, won't I? On my system /use/lib points to /usr/lib64. Yup. I was thinking about stuff that just

Re: [gentoo-amd64] What happened to Simon Stelling (blubb)?

2007-04-17 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: [see subject] I see him listed as having retired in GWN, and no longer listed as a dev on amd64.gentoo.org, but I saw no resignation note on either dev or here, neither have I seen anything about it until reading it in GWN. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: And for some funny reason, loading something out of swap is much slower than loading it from the fs That seems odd. if you're talking about executables and other MMAP'ed objects the filesystem IS the swap (when

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Use of ionice

2007-03-11 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Speaking of ionice, did anyone notice the schedutils packge doesn't seem to install a manpage for it? I have too google for the man page any time I forget the command-line arguments. I did in fact notice that,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware-player fonts unreadable

2007-03-10 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael George wrote: BTW, I am googling and not finding anything immediately obvious. I'll keep looking... I had a similar problem recently with vmware-server-console - everything went to boxes. It went away when I emerged app-emulation/

[gentoo-amd64] Changes to device order

2007-02-11 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm - after a reboot yesterday the order of my various /dev/video#'s have changed. I'm guessing this was related to the recent baselayout update (one of those reasons I always reboot within a few days after a baselayout change - I want to make sure I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unmerging slotted group packages

2007-01-28 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 Jan 2007, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: I got rid of 3.3 by doing eix -I kde removing each sub-package manually, I just think I must be missing an easier way. Looks like you could just have waited for Paludis to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge world via ssh

2007-01-28 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dieter Ries wrote: how can i run emerge -vD world, when i only have the possibility to access the machine via ssh for a short time? emerge screen I use it all the time even in X-windows. It is exactly what you're looking for. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Flash 9?

2007-01-18 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andrew wrote: Jerônimo Backes wrote: I unmasked and emerged the flashplayer and nspluginwrapper. After nspluginwrapper is installed, you just have to execute: nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and fire up your 64-bit browser. It is working like a charm

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amarok plugin problem

2006-12-22 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Koltzau wrote: I had a similar problem, I found there were .la files in that directory but no .so rm /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/libamarok_void-engine_plugin.la rm /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/libamarok_xine-engine.la fixed it for me Thanks -

Re: [gentoo-amd64] fsck seems to screw up my harddisk

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Gabert wrote: from man mke2fs: -c Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If this option is specified twice, then a slower, read-write test is used instead of a fast read-only

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Using encrypted swap via cryptsetup-luks on amd64

2006-10-22 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Booth wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 00:21, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 07:16, Jason Booth wrote: I can't find which gentoo package contains uuencode(installed uucp,uulib,uudeview and googled to no avail). [08:19]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Using encrypted swap via cryptsetup-luks on amd64

2006-10-22 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Well, there's could, and there's groking what it's actually doing, in case there's a problem and to ensure it's actually encrypting it. (I /seriously/ hope that mention of uuencode doesn't mean they're using /it/ to encrypt, for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Using encrypted swap via cryptsetup-luks on amd64

2006-10-21 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: I'm not running encrypted swap tho I've always thought it'd be nice to setup /someday/, so I can't help directly. I just run the following script from local.start. I forget where I found it online. Obviously change the swapdevice

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: newcomer:

2006-10-11 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guerizec wrote: If you have a static IP, you can also buy a domain name (I'm personaly glad with gandi.net and wouldn't change for anything else). FYI - you can also do this with a static IP - you just need to contract with a DNS service

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: newcomer:

2006-10-09 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Davoust wrote: Well, that was also an enlightening e-mail. I just disabled and deleted all cookies in Firefox, and now I'm going to do as Richard described and setup my own e-mail account. Any good ideas/howto's about how to setup a mail

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Sylpheed-claws GPG S/MIME support

2006-10-08 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conway S. Smith wrote: Did you try changing those options in thunderbird at all? They didn't seem to do anything for me, but they are supposed to work, and I'd be interested in hearing if they work for someone other than myself. Ok, it turns

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Sylpheed-claws GPG S/MIME support

2006-10-08 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Freeman wrote: Oh, and the threading doesn't work if you have a partial thread. Ugh - hate to reply again on this off-topic thread, but it does work as long as you have enough references to reconstruct things. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: newcomer:

2006-10-08 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Davoust wrote: You bring up an issue I wanted to ask about: Why wouldn't you use gmail as your personal e-mail? For me it is a couple of things - one is that I prefer to have email addresses that I can keep that are not client-dependent.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: newcomer:

2006-10-08 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Davoust wrote: That's a good point, but I'm not really sure how to setup or even use an IMAP share. If you have your mail in a .maildir then it is as simple as emerging courier-imap. If not, it is still just as easy - just set up your IMAP

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Thread-hijacking

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 10/4/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About, oh, 99.9% of the world's email users wouldn't have any idea of what we're talking about. The notion that emails with different subjects would be part of the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Thread-hijacking

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Freeman
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:02:00 -0600 Conway S. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recently switched from using thunderbird to using sylpheed-claws, because I found this and a few other behaviors of thunderbird to not be to my liking. Hmm - doesn't seem too bad (gotta love IMAP - 10 minutes

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-10-01 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:39, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Young wrote: That being said, way less than 5 percent of the population has even the slightest bit of interest in learning the things that you and I have chosen to dig in to...Those people are no less free for using CSS, and the fact is,

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