[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-16 Thread Hal Martin
directories, is there anything else I can do to minimize the space needed? I'm not running anything terribly fancy. I have DR17/enlightenment and XFCE installed as window managers; along with some productivity applications. Thanks for your feedback, Hal Martin

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] NFS poor performance, high system load

2009-11-24 Thread Hal Martin
Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation

[gentoo-user] NFS poor performance, high system load

2009-11-23 Thread Hal Martin
Hello all, Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation: Gentoo box: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ Intel PCIe Gigabit Network adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-07 Thread Hal Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:36:54 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just about everything. Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after reading the fine manual I am no

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux -- IMO, it's horrific...

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Martin
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google

[gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux

2008-09-28 Thread Hal Martin
Hello all, I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google search results are, shall we say, biased, as many people who have perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] Privoxy log access rights

2008-09-21 Thread Hal Martin
Mick wrote: Hi All, Could you please tell me what is the access rights on the provoxy log file on your machine? For some reason mine look like this: # ls -la /var/log/ | grep priv drwxr-x--- 2 51 privoxy 408 Sep 21 07:40 privoxy Mine: drwxr-x--- 2 privoxy privoxy4096

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-16 Thread Hal Martin
Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:25:02 +0200 schrieb pat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Hi, I'm trying to setup virtualbox networking. I went through the tutorial at gentoo wiki, but I have troubles ... obvious :-( In the howto there's called /sbin/ip, but I have no idea in

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Hal Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 19:05:53 Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2008-07-03 Thread Hal Martin
Erik Ohrnberger wrote: help Certainly, where/in what do you require it? -Hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] (Recent) Locale problem

2008-07-01 Thread Hal Martin
Hi all, This has probably been mentioned before, but I can't find any mention of it in the list archive or any [gentoo] solutions on Google. Here's the problem, after a recent 'emerge -uNDav world' parts of my locale are now unset. Terminal output of 'locale' locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-17 Thread Hal Martin
James wrote: Platoali platoali at gmail.com writes: I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux? Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia? Just a suggestion, wait about a month before you buy, if you can. Both ATi and nVidia are poised

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hal Martin
Stroller wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, at 21:55, Thomas Pedersen wrote: Was thinking of buying the Western Digital' My Book® Home Edition™, specially because of the eSATA connection... I heard they have an internal USB-hub for making the capacity gauge working. I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hal Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: [snip] I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the above example mentioned qualifies as Thread Hijacking. He started a new thread to pose his question, and, if anything, was only being indirect in asking it. No, he did

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting Nikon D40 Camera, vfat FS issue?

2008-06-09 Thread Hal Martin
darren kirby wrote: Hello all, Trying for the first time to download images from a new Nikon D40 camera. libgphoto2 lists the camera as supported in PTP mode. I have tried using PTP mode with digikam (hooking up the camera directly), and also simply trying to mount the memory card using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard problems

2008-05-28 Thread Hal Martin
No, I've had the same problem, same symptoms, and the same solution fixed it. My assumption is that the kernel has some bug where the keyboard interface starts dropping data. I'm running 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 on an AMD64. -Hal ionut cucu wrote: While gracefully working on my computer out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Hal Martin
Arthur Britto wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:15 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the group recommend? I only need something that will give me about a minute's head start to safely turn of the box. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Hal Martin
I assume you want each piece of this file to be play-able? If you don't care about that, just use split to chop them up into your desired size and then use cat to reassemble them at the destination. *$ split –bytes=1m /path/to/large/file /path/to/output/file/prefix* 'man split' will also contain

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread Hal Martin
Is Mac OS X able to play the DVD? That should determine if it is hardware, not software. -Hal b.n. wrote: Albert Hopkins ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote: where could I look to understand what's different between the two systems? The DVD drive? :) I thought about

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem

2008-04-11 Thread Hal Martin
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:04:56 Amar Cosic wrote: Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... Could not find the root block device in. Is AHCI set up correctly in your BIOS? Try toggling it and see if that helps. On these lines, what CPU does

[gentoo-user] x264 encoding Cache64

2008-04-05 Thread Hal Martin
Hello all, I recently upgraded HandBrake on my mythbackend server to 0.9.2. One thing I noticed that I thought was strange was that this new version used something called Cache64 when encoding x264 video. Trusty Google was... not so helpful in finding out what this is. The only reason I'm asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Hal Martin
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Hal Martin
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi All , I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the system are not acceptable ) So ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-28 Thread Hal Martin
Michael Schmarck wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very little useful

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-18 Thread Hal Martin
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Hal Martin
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit machine I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install CD 2008.Feb.08. minimal i686

2008-02-10 Thread Hal Martin
Can I have a copy of the torrent? I have ~3Mbit up. -Hal Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 19:21 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: 2008. 02. 9, szombat keltezéssel 22.01-kor Iain Buchanan ezt írta: On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:22 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: Ladies and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-09 Thread Hal Martin
Perhaps you need a cross over cable between the modem and the router? -Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT, but unable to raise anyone at comcast right now. I think I recall having read somewhere that one can do something to discover what devices are on a network (Home lan). And

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install CD 2008.Feb.08. minimal i686

2008-02-08 Thread Hal Martin
Any chance there will be an x86_64 CD? -Hal Pongracz Istvan wrote: 2008. 02. 8, péntek keltezéssel 21.35-kor Erik ezt írta: Pongracz Istvan skrev: Before somebody starts a new email-war, I want to tell you, I know, this kind of nearly-official live install CD is not really

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-02 Thread Hal Martin
Emerge recommends that you run 'etc-update' and 'revdep-rebuild' after updating. -Hal maxim wexler wrote: Don't forget: etc-update, revdep-rebuild tools. HTH. Rumen At the end of an emerge process I saw two recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact name escapes me and I

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-30 Thread Hal Martin
Re-emerge shadow and you should be able to login. After that you'll need to reinstall services like sshd that have files in /etc/pam.d/ -Hal maxim wexler wrote: Did you log out and back in again first? Well, I just did and now I can't log back on. I enter my user name, hit enter and

Re: [gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread Hal Martin
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml Yeah, that guide is useless. I'm assuming that you're trying to update PAM from 0.99.8.1-r1 to 0.99.9.0? Here, among other things, it says to

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hal Martin
Well this machine supposedly supports up to 8GB of RAM so I can only assume that it doesn't map the pci-space to there. But I wonder, will enabling the higher RAM limit really open up more RAM? The BIOS detects all 4096MB, but Grub only lists 3.6GB. AFAIK your machine can only use as much RAM as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Hal Martin
If you need another firewall in the interim, I would suggest giving IPCop a try. I've been using it as a gateway OS for 5 years now and it's been solid for the entire time. Or, if you'd really rather stick with Gentoo, you could run IPCop on another of your K6 machines until you rebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Hal Martin
Ahh, but it won't last... $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 20598242044512 15312 0 37636 50868 -/+ buffers/cache: 1956008 103816 Swap: 428930812290243060284 Now this I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Via vb70001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo

2008-01-20 Thread Hal Martin
IF the BIOS gives you the option of changing the RAM timings, I would make them all as large as they can go (slowest timings for RAM.) I'm assuming that your RAM timing is done by default now, and while that is right most of the time, you can't go wrong with setting them up manually. If memtest

Re: [gentoo-user] Via vb70001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo

2008-01-20 Thread Hal Martin
, worst thing ever... So I got rid of that and went for a board with an NVidia chipset :) -Hal Neil Walker wrote: Hal Martin wrote: IF the BIOS gives you the option of changing the RAM timings, It's got nothing to do with RAM timings and everything to do with the fact that VIA couldn't care less

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-19 Thread Hal Martin
An alternative to running memtest (which is quite easy to do, I might add) would be to remove the original RAM and see if the computer boots with the new RAM only. Alternatively, you could just run memtest, as it is included with many BIOSs now. It doesn't take long to identify problems, if there

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Hal Martin
He states on his blog that he currently works for E*Trade, a company specializing in electronic ticker tape services for individuals and corporations. -Hal Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although he works for Microsoft,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Hal Martin
options are suddenly very limited. Just my two cents. -Hal Martin Michael Schmarck wrote: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, basicly telling people You have to depend on / use other distros to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide this sounds a little

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-11 Thread Hal Martin
I'll keep that in mind when I am sending email to the list from Thunderbird. I'm also aware that many corporations block HTML mail to lower the risk of a staff member opening up an infected/laced email (generally on a Windows computer) so text emails are more advantageous in that regard. Randy,

Re: [gentoo-user] Update After A Year

2008-01-10 Thread Hal Martin
. Thanks! Hal Martin Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:57:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Generally you can just emerge -uND world and we done with it. But life isn't always so simple. I can think of a few updates in the last while that were problematic, but I think they were all

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

2008-01-08 Thread Hal Martin
I have a Western Digital 250GB SATA-II drive on an NForce4 integrated SATA-II controller, here are my readings... hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i dma DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1646 MB in 2.00 seconds = 823.19 MB/sec