Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well? What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device? On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Today I've bought a new USB wi-fi adapter which has rtl8192cu chip. I've plugged it into my

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well? What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device? On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Today

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:36:08 +0200 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well? What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device? It works, so yes, firmare is installed. Module's name is rtl8192cu. It just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: crossdev setup questions for distcc usage

2015-03-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:02:19PM +, James wrote I'm interested in exactly what you are doing, plus extending the cross compile to arm architectures and running on top of clusters of gentoo systems; please continue to post back what you discover. For this sort of (cluster compiling)

[gentoo-user] Nouveau KMS Xorg-setup with multiple screens

2015-03-21 Thread Matti Nykyri
Hello I have problems. I'm migrating from nvidia proprietary driver to nouveau driver because I wan't utilize KMS. The server is connected to two separate displays in separate rooms. The first display is showing tv programs and mostly runs @50Hz frame rate. The second is displaying movies and

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Mar 21, 2015, at 12:06, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704045 I saw some recommendations on this one from people using linux The manufacturer doesn't support Linux officially. I would not buy a USB NIC unless that was the only

[gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth Input Devices

2015-03-21 Thread Thomas Mori
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:51:12 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:53:42 AM Thomas Mori wrote: Hi guys I have stumbled on the Bluetooth Input Devices section in wiki.gentoo.org [1]; however, I am not finding the Driver L2CAP

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:03:29 +0200 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: On Mar 19, 2015, at 20:46, Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de wrote: Hi, I had a rtl8192ce in my laptop. Nothing but problems with Linux. Don't know why, but the signal strength always was much better

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2015-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device? When I was using mdadm I would do it all the time. It is the easiest way to do RAID with devices of different sizes. You just set up multiple arrays

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Mar 19, 2015, at 20:46, Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de wrote: Hi, I had a rtl8192ce in my laptop. Nothing but problems with Linux. Don't know why, but the signal strength always was much better when using Windows. I've had nothing but problems with RTL-chipsets. But if you buy

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:00:24 -0400, German wrote: Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well? What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device? It works, so yes, firmare is installed. Module's name is rtl8192cu. It just drops the connection after a

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, Hi. In one of my earlier posts I mentioned I wasn't having any issues with systemd. Well, I guess I lied, although I didn't know about it at the time. My laptop works fine, no issues. My desktop, however, has

[gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread German
I am about to emerge Mutt and wanted to ask community what are the optimal USE flags for novice. I am going to use it with gmail. I am about to emerge it with the following USE flags: berkdb, crypt, gdbm, nls, ssl, gpg, imap, mbox, pop, sasl, sidebar, smtp. If anyone feel I should add or remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
150321 German wrote: I am about to emerge Mutt : what are the optimal USE flags for a novice ? I am going to use it with gmail. I've been a happy use of Mutt since c 1998 ; I don't use Gmail. I am about to emerge it with the following USE flags : berkdb, crypt, gdbm, nls, ssl, gpg, imap,

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: I also noticed this in the USE flags for systemd: - - sysv-utils : Install sysvinit compatibility symlinks and manpages for init, telinit, halt, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, and shutdown Should I enable

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 21 March 2015, at 6:03 am, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: I've had nothing but problems with RTL-chipsets. But if you buy ~10$ NICs they just don't work like 400$ ones. $10!?!? I paid $2 each, including delivery, for a couple of rtl8192cu / RTL8188CUS wifi dongles a year

[gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi list, In one of my earlier posts I mentioned I wasn't having any issues with systemd. Well, I guess I lied, although I didn't know about it at the time. My laptop works fine, no issues. My desktop, however, has an issue, but only while rebooting. I use mdadm to access my IMSM raid, and

[gentoo-user] Partitions

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device? I assume it would only include a single partition table, but it might prevent some programs from complaining they don't recognise the partition type. I have one such device for /boot and another for lvm2 volumes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=atom -mno-cx16 -msahf -mmovbe -mno-aes -mno-pclmul -mno-popcnt -mno-abm -mno-lwp -mno-fma -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mno-bmi -mno-bmi2 -mno-tbm -mno-avx -mno-avx2 -mno-sse4.2 -mno-sse4.1 -mno-lzcnt -mno-rtm

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 21 March 2015 11:18:44 Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device? When I was using mdadm I would do it all the time. It is the easiest way to do RAID with

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2015-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 21 March 2015 11:18:44 Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device? When I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Bach
In my system : root:518 ~ eix ^mutt$ [I] mail-client/mutt Available versions: 1.5.22-r3 1.5.23-r5 ~1.5.23-r6 {berkdb crypt debug doc gdbm gnutls gpg idn imap kerberos mbox nls nntp pop qdbm sasl selinux sidebar slang smime smtp ssl tokyocabinet} Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:34:51 +0200 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:26 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 3:26:56 PM German wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user? Thanks The command not found part is because /sbin and /usr/sbin and on gentoo it's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Jc García
2015-03-21 14:01 GMT-06:00 German gentger...@gmail.com: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:47:16 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: No, I am trying to shutdown from a console Well, the old answer would be that you need to

[gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread German
If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user? Thanks -- German gentger...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: No, I am trying to shutdown from a console Well, the old answer would be that you need to use sudo to run it, as shutting down is a privileged operation. I suspect that the new answer is that with appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: No, I am trying to shutdown from a console Well, the old answer would be that you need to use sudo to run it, as shutting down is a privileged

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:26 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:47:16 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: No, I am trying to shutdown from a console Well, the old answer would be that you need to use sudo to run it, as shutting down is a privileged

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2015-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:14:38 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from combining /dev/sd[ab]X If you're creating a RAID array from partitions, you don't need to create further partitions. The only time I would partition an md device is if it were

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:44:22 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150321 German wrote: I am about to emerge Mutt : what are the optimal USE flags for a novice ? I am going to use it with gmail. I've been a happy use of Mutt since c 1998 ; I don't use Gmail. I am about to

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:33:54 +0100 Jean-Christophe Bach jc.b...@schplaf.org wrote: In my system : root:518 ~ eix ^mutt$ [I] mail-client/mutt Available versions: 1.5.22-r3 1.5.23-r5 ~1.5.23-r6 {berkdb crypt debug doc gdbm gnutls gpg idn imap kerberos mbox nls nntp pop

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:26 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user? Thanks -- German gentger...@gmail.com poweroff(1) says: If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-21 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 8:46:10 AM Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=atom -mno-cx16 -msahf -mmovbe -mno-aes -mno-pclmul - mno-popcnt -mno-abm -mno-lwp -mno-fma -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mno-bmi -mno-bmi2 - mno-tbm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
150321 German wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down. When I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user ? I'ld say Don't : it's contrary to the principles of Unix, which separate the roles of sysadmin (root) from those of ordinary

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I'ld say Don't : it's contrary to the principles of Unix, which separate the roles of sysadmin (root) from those of ordinary users. There are a couple of schools of thought there. One that differs from what you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:32:25 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150321 German wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down. When I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user ? I'ld say Don't : it's contrary to the

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I was using genkernel, but it was whining about not supporting systemd, so I tried dracut for the first time. However, the initramfs created by genkernel has the same issue. I didn't do any special configuation of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:35:44 PM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:26 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I

[gentoo-user] systemd: incorrect behavior when doing poweroff/reboot

2015-03-21 Thread walt
I'd be 100% sure this is a systemd bug except that the problem is so obvious and (I think) so common that I can't believe I'm the only systemd user seeing it: I routinely share /usr/portage over NFS between several gentoo boxes on my wireless network. When I poweroff or reboot the NFS client

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Jc García
Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down? Strange It's not strange, `man 2 reboot`. It's a defined behavior.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Julian Simioni
I don't currently use Mutt with Gmail, but one common suggestion is to use an external program like offlineimap for handling syncing. I remember hearing that Mutt's IMAP support is not the best. The guide I followed to get set up initially is Steve Losh's The Homely Mutt, it's really quite good.

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/21/2015 10:27 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: So why does `systemctl reboot` not want to work? I'm a little confused. What kind of initramfs are you using? Supposedly, the only difference between poweroff and reboot is that the former turns off the machine and reboot does a reset. In

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:58:42 PM German wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:32:25 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150321 German wrote: If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down. When I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
Ctrl-Alt-Del can be set to do what you want. I have this in my /etc/inittab: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -P now This way Ctrl-Alt-Del calls power off instead of reboot. So to shutdown I just exit from Openbox and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. -- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:52:45 PM Emanuele Rusconi wrote: Ctrl-Alt-Del can be set to do what you want. I have this in my /etc/inittab: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -P now This way Ctrl-Alt-Del calls power off instead of reboot. So to shutdown I just exit from Openbox and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Lee
When I have a moment I'll send my Gmail enabled muttrc for u to ponder. Imap with Gmail on mutt is seamless ime. On Mar 21, 2015 3:42 PM, Julian Simioni jul...@simioni.org wrote: I don't currently use Mutt with Gmail, but one common suggestion is to use an external program like offlineimap for

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd: incorrect behavior when doing poweroff/reboot

2015-03-21 Thread Hans
On 22/03/15 08:44, walt wrote: I'd be 100% sure this is a systemd bug except that the problem is so obvious and (I think) so common that I can't believe I'm the only systemd user seeing it: I routinely share /usr/portage over NFS between several gentoo boxes on my wireless network. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 21 March 2015 21:01:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:14:38 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from combining /dev/sd[ab]X If you're creating a RAID array from partitions, you don't need to create further partitions. The

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: Hi, when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which