[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
meino.cra...@gmx.de: > it seems you - as myself - not such a great fan of fireworks an endless > parties at Sylvester ??? That's of no interest for me. ;) > Is "Option-wise" the 1.8 upgrade guide complete or is it a list > of "commonly used" settings... ? Ask others. *g* -- Hartmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hartmut Figge [11-01-01 06:04]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > > 1.) gpm and copy'n'paste on the console and under X11 works for me. > > I need to emulate the middlemouse button by simultaneous pressing the > left and right mouse buttons. That stopped working under X11 and i had > to figure out a so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications

2010-12-31 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:06:51AM -0800, walt wrote: > On 12/31/2010 08:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +, Stroller wrote: > >> > >> On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > >>> ... > >>> I'm looking for a lightweight calendar applica

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Carter
. > > Total corruptions in 5 years with reiserfs-3.6 and NO ups in that > environment > = zero. > > > Same - havent moved from reiser3 for ages. Originally I used ext2 then reiser3 then started trying out ext3, but after a failure to come up clean with ext3 i just went back to reiser3 and stayed.

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
meino.cra...@gmx.de: > 1.) gpm and copy'n'paste on the console and under X11 works for me. I need to emulate the middlemouse button by simultaneous pressing the left and right mouse buttons. That stopped working under X11 and i had to figure out a solution. > 2.) my 10-evdev.conf is located unde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hartmut Figge [11-01-01 02:15]: > Hartmut Figge: > > meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > >> Unfortunately I could not find any option to get back the nodead-keys. > > > > That one i will need also. > > The main problem was that after upgrading there was a pointer to > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Duong "Yang" Ha Nguyen wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I'm not subscribed to one and didn't know it had one. I just get conflicting comments. Some say it is active, some say it is not. I'm sure Hans, or whatever his first name is, isn't doing much wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Duong "Yang" Ha Nguyen
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I'm not subscribed to one and didn't know it had one. I just get conflicting > comments. Some say it is active, some say it is not. I'm sure Hans, or > whatever his first name is, isn't doing much work on it although he has a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 31 December 2010 19:15:49 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Friday 31 December 2010 16:27:02 Dale wrote: > >> I'm not sure I EVER saw a update to reiserfs. I was hoping it was > >> just > >> that good. lol > > > > you are obviously not subscribed to the reiserfs ml. Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Dale wrote: Hi, I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long. I know there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal experience information on this. My brother does not have a UPS. I may can talk hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Jacob Todd
On Dec 31, 2010 8:18 PM, "Dale" wrote: > I'm not subscribed to one and didn't know it had one. I just get conflicting comments. Some say it is active, some say it is not. I'm sure Hans, or whatever his first name is, isn't doing much work on it although he has a lot of time on his hands to do i

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 31 December 2010 16:27:02 Dale wrote: I'm not sure I EVER saw a update to reiserfs. I was hoping it was just that good. lol you are obviously not subscribed to the reiserfs ml. There are the occasional fixes and lately even some (minor) updates.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:27 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Dale did opine thusly: It's my opinion that reiser is in security-fix-only mode from whoever is maintaining it. If everything else around it stays the same, the fs will obviously continue working just a

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: > meino.cra...@gmx.de: >> Unfortunately I could not find any option to get back the nodead-keys. > > That one i will need also. The main problem was that after upgrading there was a pointer to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.9-upgrade-guide.xml which was

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 31 December 2010 16:27:02 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > When was the last time portage offered you a reiser update? > > > > The reiser4progs ebuild has 13 Changelog entries in 2.5 years, 8 of them > > are stabilisation toe various arches. Current version is 1.0.7 and has > > bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:27 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > > It's my opinion that reiser is in security-fix-only mode from whoever is > > maintaining it. If everything else around it stays the same, the fs will > > obviously continue working just as it always did

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: When was the last time portage offered you a reiser update? The reiser4progs ebuild has 13 Changelog entries in 2.5 years, 8 of them are stabilisation toe various arches. Current version is 1.0.7 and has been there for 23 months. reiserfsprogs is similar, on 3.6.21 for 23

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:18 on Friday 31 December 2010, Mark Knecht >> >> I will say that the install on this 5-disk RAID6 running ext4 seems >> speedy compared to the 3-disk RAID1 running ext3 that I'm currently >> using. Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
reiser4 is fully atomic. A transactions happens completely or it doesn't. Unlike ext4 or btrfs or xfs. reiser4 also uses barriers (the others use them too, but), when barriers are not available for some reason or another, it complains in dmesg and goes into sync mode. This combined makes it p

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:18 on Friday 31 December 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, > > Stroller did > > > > opine thusly: > >> On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, M

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:22 on Friday 31 December 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Friday 31 December 2010, Dale > > did > > > > opine thusly: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long.  I know > there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal experience > information on this.  My brother does not have a UPS.  I may can talk him > into getting

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
meino.cra...@gmx.de: > after updateing to xorg server 1.9.2. first my keyboard layout has > gone, Same here. > which I got back via adding an appropiate option to 10-evdev.conf. Lucky one. *g* Googling shows that this file should be located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Well, i do not have such a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Friday 31 December 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Hi, I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long. I know there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal experience information on this. My br

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, Stroller did > opine thusly: > >> On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? >> >> Yeah, it seems pretty go

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Arthur Britto wrote: Hi, If you don't use a UPS, what you want is journaling file system that is configured to do a lot of syncing. However, the syncing will make writing really slow. Ext4 has the latest features. Especially, if you want to use an SSD. To really be reliable you must use a UP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, walt did opine thusly: > On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen > > I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of > > nvi

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? > > Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see > why it sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Friday 31 December 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > Hi, > > I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long. I > know there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal > experience information on this. My brother does not ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Arthur Britto
Hi, If you don't use a UPS, what you want is journaling file system that is configured to do a lot of syncing. However, the syncing will make writing really slow. Ext4 has the latest features. Especially, if you want to use an SSD. To really be reliable you must use a UPS which can signal when

[gentoo-user] xorg 1.9.2 and "nodead keys" ?

2010-12-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi after updateing to xorg server 1.9.2. first my keyboard layout has gone, which I got back via adding an appropiate option to 10-evdev.conf. Unfortunately I could not find any option to get back the nodead-keys. What do I have to add where for that? Thank you very much in advance for any he

[gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm planning to build a rig like mine for my brother before to long. I know there are lots of opinions on the net but want some personal experience information on this. My brother does not have a UPS. I may can talk him into getting one but not sure. What is a good file system that re

[gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications

2010-12-31 Thread walt
On 12/31/2010 08:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +, Stroller wrote: On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: ... I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following things: Event handling (preferrably also a s

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread walt
On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This is in spite of not having been ab

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? > > Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see > why it should be less so than ext3, now. Deletes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Calendar applications

2010-12-31 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +, Stroller wrote: > > On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > ... > > I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the > > following things: > > > > Event handling (preferrably also a support for recurring events) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Stroller
On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see why it should be less so than ext3, now. Deletes are *much* faster than with ext3. Stroller.

[gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? I have a new RAID6 I'm considering putting it on. I'd like to possibly make the partition /, copy the existing system there and then use an initrd to boot when I finally figure that out. (Never used one...) Anything specific about ext4

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge timeout

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 15:17:42 Jon Hardcastle wrote: > My proxy server at work scans all incoming files but only does so > once emerge things the file is 99% complete it then timesouts after > a bit as the scan has (presumably) not finished? If it could only > hang on in there for a while lon

[gentoo-user] Emerge timeout

2010-12-31 Thread Jon Hardcastle
Is it possible to increase the timeout on the downloads? My proxy server at work scans all incoming files but only does so once emerge things the file is 99% complete it then timesouts after a bit as the scan has (presumably) not finished? If it could only hang on in there for a while longer.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Therefore I'm going to mask this version of nvidia-drivers and revert > to the previous version. That made no difference. Nor did reverting to the previous kernel revision. I noticed that xdm-setup was being run even though I had rc_ho

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 I wrote: > When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a > blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. Of course that should have been the top-left. Sorry. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 11:56:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: > " x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 So'm I. Ever since I upgraded nvidia-drivers to 260-19-29 I've had to recompile it every time I boot the system. This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a bli

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:29:19 +0500, Gary Golden wrote: > I have no idea what that means. What should I do? > Read the list archives, this was discussed and solved less than two days ago. Hint: Look for the thread with the subject " signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2010-12-31 Thread Mick
On Friday 31 December 2010 01:22:11 Bill Longman wrote: > On 12/30/2010 02:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman: > >> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a > >>> live-c

[gentoo-user] Is metadata-transfer still needed when using overlays?

2010-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Back when I initially installed Gentoo for the first time, using: FEATURES="metadata-transfer" was imperative when using overlays that had eclasses. Is this still true?

[gentoo-user] nvidia update problems

2010-12-31 Thread Gary Golden
Merry Christmas! I'm trying to update system, but stuck with the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by x11-drive