Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: First off, I get the same behaviour this end. kwrite borks out on emerge.log which is about 8M. On a machine with 2G ram this should not happen. It does the same thing as a kpart in konqueror Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

2007-02-06 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +0300, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all emulated? I tried to recompile the kernel with the generic '386 CPU settings and removed all power mgmt etc, and the same issue happens. The host CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Dale wrote: I don't understand portage and ebuilds well enough to do that.  How about this.  Is there a way to just tell emerge to emerge each separate package and get rid of kde-meta?   kde-meta is, well, as meta package. All it does is tell portage to emerge all

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-06 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 06 Feb 2007 05:06:29 Thomas Lingefelt wrote: I've been using truecrypt between Windows and Linux for just this purpose and it works great. Not so sure about MacOS though. emerge app-crypt/truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

2007-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:03:16 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all emulated? I tried to recompile the kernel with the generic '386 CPU settings and removed all power mgmt etc, and the same issue happens. The CPU is not emulated, so if your

[gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are

[gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect to my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific subnet required for the VPN and the rest of my traffic goes through my router (192.168.1.1). I currently have

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Ric de France
Hi Gabriel, On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory,

[gentoo-user] Problem with udev

2007-02-06 Thread jcd
Hi. I read lot of articles about writing udev rules. But I don't know why my local rules don't work :(. I have Thomson LYRA mp3 palyer. Currently I have it like /dev/sdc (I don't know why, but there isn't any sdc(n) indicating partition. When I mount /dev/sdc to some mount point it works (vfat)).

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Ric de France wrote: Hi Gabriel, On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +0300, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all emulated? I tried to recompile the kernel with the generic '386 CPU settings and removed all

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udev

2007-02-06 Thread jcd
The first item should be SUBSYSTEMS, not SUBSYSTEM. The second should be ATTRS{model}; as in SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, ATTRS{model}==LYRA_MPHR2301_EU, SYMLINK+=lyra If you cut and paste from the udevinfo output to your rules file, you avoid such errors. Thank you very much. It is OK now.

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Ric de France wrote: Hi Gabriel, On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: If you run 'strings' on /boot/vmlinuz, is that really a 2.6.20 image? Did you verify that /usr/src/linux-2.6.20 really does contain a 2.6.20 tree by examining the actual files? Maybe you are not putting the kernel on the

[gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then

Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi

2007-02-06 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:51:09PM -0500, Henk Boom wrote: (I had some trouble posting this message the first time, so I apologize if it appears twice) Hi, last fall I spent some of my summer earnings on a ThinkPad X41 tablet, and have been loving it ever since I installed Gentoo on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi

2007-02-06 Thread YoYo Siska
YoYo Siska wrote: As for WPA you need additional software to do the encryption (well, to the key exchange and such stuff...). The best choice now is wpa_supplicant. In the /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 just put modules_eth0=( wpa_supplicant ) and relevant config_ESSID and probably routes_ESSID (for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udev

2007-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:13:04 +0100, jcd wrote: Thank you very much. It is OK now. However, I followed this documentation and there is described my approach (bad approach) http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html . Some of the sysfs naming has changed since that page was last

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Ric de France wrote: Hi Gabriel, On 07/02/07, Gabriel Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:09:44 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: Alternately, you could use an NFS share to make /usr/portage/distfiles shared with all the computers on your network. If you have more than one gentoo box, that is ; ) You don;t need to be running Gentoo on the distfiles host. It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:37:05 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you are not putting the kernel on the real /boot and your grub and kernel images are all... stored somewhere else, like the real /boot? Yes, /boot _is_ apparently on a single partition (see grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting drives, partitions udev, mtab fstab

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Linford
There are some basic configuration options in the Removable Drives and Media applet in Gnome, but not much else that I can see. But it is obviously Gnome Volume Manager that is doing some of the work that results in removable media drive icons that show up on my Desktop, as when I boot into xfc4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a

[gentoo-user] System Crash

2007-02-06 Thread Shawn Singh
Hello list, This morning I noticed that my machine was frozen (would not respond to keyboard or mouse, so couldn't ctrl+alt+func_key to a terminal or anything, I couldn't ping it either). I reset it and started chugging along... or so I thought. This machine is my firewall. Everytime a client

[gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the ether. I checked that I could email myself directly, so I don't think it's a problem on this side, but I sent a helpful reply about kde-meta and kate

Re: [gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:39:56PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:26 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the ether. I checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:26:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the ether. I checked that I could email myself directly, so I don't think it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 February 2007 22:41, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r2 [3.5.5-r7] USE=acl alsa arts cups doc fam jpeg2k spell ssl tiff -avahi -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr

Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi

2007-02-06 Thread Henk Boom
On 05/02/07, Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Review next section, after your WiFi card be right installed: nano -w /etc/conf.d/wireless.example If you follow that instructions as well as the provided by your school, It will be so easy to you. About Gentoo Networking please look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all

Re: [gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Are my mails to the list getting to anyone else? I'm not seeing them myself, and I wanted to make sure they weren't disappearing into the ether. I checked that I could email myself directly, so I don't think it's a problem on this

[gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi all, i have bought components to assemble a new PC by myself. This are the main components. Mainboard: ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 (Intel(r) 945P) CPU:Core 2 Duo E6600 (2400 MHz) RAM:Transcend DIMM 2x1 GB DDR2-667 (1024 MB) Harddisk: Western Digital Caviar SE

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 February 2007 21:31, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: On the other i recently recognized when i doing some video editing i.e. demultiplex the movie with projectx which shows the speed of writing video and audio to the disk. It writes about 200MB with about 25MB/s then it halts for about

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: Hi all, i have bought components to assemble a new PC by myself. This are the main components. that's very interesting. You seem to have exactly the same problem I posted one minute before you :) My machine is an amd64 3000, with via

[gentoo-user] Open Office 2.0.4 and fonts

2007-02-06 Thread Adrian
Greetings; I just upgraded Open Office from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (yes, I'm behind). Now, I can't use any of the fonts other than the ones which come with Open Office. All my existing fonts which I added were being substituted with other fonts. I emptied the directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Schreckenbauer schrieb: Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: Hi all, i have bought components to assemble a new PC by myself. This are the main components. that's very interesting. You seem to have exactly the same problem I posted one minute before you :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Pierre-Yves Rofes
On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi List, I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with each version. From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi List, I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with each version.

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Pierre-Yves Rofes: On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a single application shows any response to mouse and/or keyactions, sshing into it takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: From time to time my system comes to a complete halt, that means not a single application shows any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Ric de France
On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: From time to time my system comes to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/6/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so

[gentoo-user] Re: xmcd problem?

2007-02-06 Thread Bayrouni
Listscribbler a écrit : I have xmcd_2.6-19_i386.deb installed on an etch laptop. I cannot figure out how to use xmcd to rip ogg files off audio CDs. Use cdparanoia to rip from CD audio to wav and oggenc to encode from wav to ogg. Both cdparanoia and oggenc are easy to use after reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmcd problem?

2007-02-06 Thread Bayrouni
Bayrouni a écrit : Sorry, my post was destined to an other mailing list. It time for me to go to bed. Here it is 3:55 Good night. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: I don't think, swap is the cause of this. This system has 1,5GB Ram, swap is nearly never touched :) swap was only an example. Things that kill performance: big tar, big copy around, and everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread nick
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I feel like a newbie -- So do I, they are very tasty! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: I don't think, swap is the cause of this. This system has 1,5GB Ram, swap is nearly never touched :) swap was only an example. Things that kill

[gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

2007-02-06 Thread Ásgeir Halldórsson
Hi all, Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels. I read something about you need to put the /lib/firmware files into initrd. But I dont know how or where to put it in. My setup is IBM Blade Ceneter with HS20 blades (Intel Xeon cpus) with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

2007-02-06 Thread Jason Weisberger
Daevid, If your Gentoo installation was compiled with march=p4 or the like, your image will not work on an AMD machine. The way to have them interchangeable is to use march=i686 mtune=p4, that way there are no cpu-specific instructions compiled into your binaries. mtune will just adjust the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/6/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this