Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-29 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In 20101227175826.1bbaf...@karnak.local dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) writes: --Sig_/Hxy_r1egAtvobeT/s7/L0.O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100, John wrote about [gentoo-user] xorg-server: I have just

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 09:26:57 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: In 20101227175826.1bbaf...@karnak.local dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) writes: --Sig_/Hxy_r1egAtvobeT/s7/L0.O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 27 Dec 2010

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-29 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Other than setting up udev rules I have tried everything that I could think of. Based on the experiments I ran on two laptops I have come to the following conclusions (or should this be confusions? ha, ha): Option AllowEmptyInput off is necessary under Section

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? [SOLVED]

2010-12-29 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Am 27.12.2010 16:20, schrieb Marc Blumentritt: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: or something like this with star: star -copy -p -xdot -xattr -H=exustar -sparse -M -C /home . /mnt/new_partition (You can use -V -pat=File1 to exclude files or directories with star, use the -M option to avoid following mount points). star -copy by

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 27 December 2010 15:47:19 Dale wrote: Some people do use tar especially if it is over a network or something like that. I don't have the command tho since I never used it. Just for completeness: (cd [source] tar cpf - . | (cd [dest] tar xpf - ) ) (I think). Would someone here

[gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
I have a nagging problem that is driving me batty. I have a Dell Precision M4500: Linux m4500 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 29 07:57:47 PST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz and it even

[gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-29 Thread Tanstaafl
Greetings, I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in /etc/passwd... Can I just change it directly (by editing the file with a text editor) without worrying about anything breaking? Currently it is:

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: A strangeness I have noted is that /proc/cpuinfo has this for its power capabilities: power management: Nothing. FWIW I have Core i7 920, and it also has nothing in the power management in cpuinfo, but CPU frequency

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/29 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org: On Monday 27 December 2010 15:47:19 Dale wrote: Some people do use tar especially if it is over a network or something like that.  I don't have the command tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 27 December 2010 15:47:19 Dale wrote: Some people do use tar especially if it is over a network or something like that. I don't have the command tho since I never used it. Just for completeness: (cd [source] tar cpf - . | (cd [dest] tar xpf - ) )

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:50:08 Alex Schuster wrote: What Maciej said. Or, for greater security when the destination is outside the LAN: cd [source] tar xpf - . | ssh [us...@[host] 'cd [dest] tar xpf -' That's what I was looking for - a single command I can run on the source

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.12.2010 18:40, schrieb Paul Hartman: So it seems similar to yours except that your max_freq and min_freq are the same! Which matches what you say about it never going faster than the minimum speed. cpufreq-set -u ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:50:08 Alex Schuster wrote: What Maciej said. Or, for greater security when the destination is outside the LAN: cd [source] tar xpf - . | ssh [us...@[host] 'cd [dest] tar xpf -' That's what I was looking for - a single

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 29.12.2010 18:40, schrieb Paul Hartman: So it seems similar to yours except that your max_freq and min_freq are the same! Which matches what you say about it never going faster than the minimum speed.

[gentoo-user] emerge -k vs. useflags of the binpkgs

2010-12-29 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I do use --buildpkg to prebuild binaries for a few systems. However in some cases the useflags from the system where I build do not match the target system (eg X vs -X). Is there an option I haven't noticed yet to emerge that tells it only to binary merge, when the useflags of the system that

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 18:41:00 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:50:08 Alex Schuster wrote: What Maciej said. Or, for greater security when the destination is outside the LAN: cd [source] tar xpf - . | ssh [us...@[host] 'cd [dest]

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.12.2010 19:48, schrieb Bill Longman: 10:47:00# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_* 2667000 2666000 2533000 2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000 conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance 1199000 acpi-cpufreq

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
addition: some also point at enabling EIST in BIOS

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.12.2010 20:16, schrieb Mick: cd [source] tar xpf - . | ssh [us...@[host] 'cd [dest] tar xpf -' That's what I was looking for - a single command I can run on the source machine. Thanks Alex. Just one more thing - what if I only want to store the tar of the source directory as an

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-29 Thread kashani
On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Greetings, I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in /etc/passwd... Can I just change it directly (by editing the file with a text editor) without worrying about

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
Yeah, the cpufreq utils show all the relevant information. I use the acpi-cpufreq driver and when I didn't use it nothing happened. cpufreq-aperf shows each CPU at 1.2GHz. I'll look at the EIST in BIOS, too. Thanks for the pointers. Here's an interesting item: 12:41:00# cat

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in /etc/passwd... snip I would consider a plan to upgrade to 2.3.2, I guess I could

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-29 Thread kashani
On 12/29/2010 1:36 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in /etc/passwd... snip I would consider a

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, the cpufreq utils show all the relevant information. I use the acpi-cpufreq driver and when I didn't use it nothing happened. cpufreq-aperf shows each CPU at 1.2GHz. I'll look at the EIST in BIOS, too. Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 20:51:05 Bill Longman wrote: Yeah, the cpufreq utils show all the relevant information. I use the acpi-cpufreq driver and when I didn't use it nothing happened. cpufreq-aperf shows each CPU at 1.2GHz. I'll look at the EIST in BIOS, too. Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Just a wild guess: are you running some desktop applet that manages the cpu frequency and is stuck on manual with a low setting? I have the i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, which is supposedly go up to 2.8G with turbo boost, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Longman
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 29.12.2010 19:48, schrieb Bill Longman: 10:47:00# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_* 2667000 2666000 2533000 2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I think what Enrico is getting at is storing the new config files somewhere else, instead of the original path with the name prefixed by ._cfg. ACK. Such a move would break {etc,conf,cfg}-update for no real benefit. What is the point of including