Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID on new install

2011-04-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:16 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes: The last guide recommends using raid0 on some partitions; everytime I use LVM2, I use nothing but raid1 partitions.  I'd rather have the full raid1 than partial raid 1 + speed

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, guides and documents to reference are all welcome. I have this link, which is down as the best example:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: SNIP Another update.  It seem all I need to do to get sound back is run alsaconf (take all the defaults) and reboot.  I'm not sure why it stops working after two or three reboots, but if I run alsaconf again and reboot it's

Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:22 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 25.03.2011 05:48, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I don't think we want to break something,

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:33:14 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Aren't those manually added to the list by python-updater? So you need to use -dmanual to prevent further rebuilding of them. I guess I'm not clear on the use

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:26:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Manual means manually added to the list by python-updater, rather than using any sort of detection. OK, I won't bother with the many definitions of the word

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

2011-03-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:42 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/27/11 22:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:50:36 CJoeB wrote: Hi All, See output below.  I understand what this is telling me.  However, the issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with emerge after update world ?

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
2011/3/26 Andrzej Styczeń styczen_andr...@o2.pl: On Saturday 26 of March 2011 17:17:41 Mick wrote: What does eselect python list shows? The same as 'eselect read 1' # eselect list !!! Error: Can't load module list exiting So I suspect you were actually trying to get to eselect news read

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with emerge after update world ?

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
2011/3/26 Andrzej Styczeń styczen_andr...@o2.pl: On Saturday 26 of March 2011 17:45:47 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: On Saturday 26 of March 2011 17:17:41 Mick wrote: What does eselect python list shows? I'm very sorry for previous mail, I wrong read your question: # eselect python list

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:09:50 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I think wicd rely on python 2.6 currently. This is my setup on my laptop ! (trying other version break networking with wicd). Wicd works fine with 2.7. There

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2011 19:10:12 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:09:50 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I think wicd rely on python 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I had nothing linked to libmpfr.so.1 so that wasn't the root cause/ In my case it seems to be driven by bugs like this: http

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:10:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I've been through this 2.7 update process on 4 machines now. It seems on all of my machines the python-updater thing is pretty much always broken with respect

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2011 15:06:31 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: Just because something works for most people, doesn't mean it will for everyone either.  If you lose data, it doesn't matter.  LVM just adds one

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:37:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Out of curiosity, how long you, or someone else, been using python 2.7? I install 2.7 on August 10th and removed 2.6 on October 5th. -- Neil Bothwick Do you recollect

[gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Mark Knecht
One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version python be selected first as the active python 2 version and then run

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with X fonts when restarting from hibernate-to-disk

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  I'm not sure where to look.  I've recently started having font problems when restarting my PC from hibernate-to-disk.  Here are the symptoms... * I hibernate my home desktop machine when not using it * when I restart

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:05 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Walter Dnes waltdnes at waltdnes.org writes:   WINE, which runs some Windows apps, will not build on a 64-bit system without multilib support.  I found that out the hard way after installing pure 64-bit on my machine.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: So if you were installing a system, just to run wine, would it be multilib or hybrid (64 and 32 bit) ? There's no such thing as a hybrid system. Multilib is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP it would seem that the 32ul-11.0.iso version would be the one to run 32 bit software on? SNIP I cannot speak for the LiveDVD as I've not tried it but remember there are still lots of older machines running

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:55 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Hybrid runs on either 32-bit or 64-bit hardware. MultilLib requires 64-bit hardware. Thanks Mark, Yep, got that. There is no hybrid profile? Not that I can find. Is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Anybody get a brief explanation or summary between the hybrid and the multilib versions? Hybrid runs on either 32-bit or 64-bit hardware. MultilLib requires 64-bit hardware. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: SNIP I think I have made some progress.  After getting a new sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi) and building X-Fi in the kernel I have some sound, but it sounds terrible.  It's mostly a static noise with a hint of the actual audio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? For audio work I have six. 2-3 sound cards/machine. Typically 1 card/machine is dedicated to junk system sounds. The others run Jack for more interesting audio work. (Recording

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS or what

2011-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:55 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:  alain.didierjean at free.fr writes: I'm starting to think about my next development desktop. One question haunts me:is the BIOS still a fatality? Is there a known and tested  alternative available UEFI? Open Firmware?

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I have unmerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input- keyboard and also removed mouse and keyboard from my /etc/make.conf, which now only contains: INPUT_DEVICES=synaptics evdev However, portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Not to long ago, there was only a 150 or so packages for system regardless of the USE flags. I think that you are just mistaken about this point. I have pretty much always been able to make @system package count blow up by

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for recursive search. Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/25/2011 03:10 PM, Dale wrote: I got a good power supply but it could still be that. Even the best and most  expensive break from time to time. I think I could swap mine out from my old rig if needed. This new rig doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something.  I'm getting random reboots here.  When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button.  It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this.  I noticed the first time the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:03:06 -0600, Dale wrote: I just wonder if the devs have noticed how much this has grown when packages with X flags are included in the system set?.  Would Gnome do the same?  What

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   I posted something a couple of years ago about using -java in make.conf because I found with +java I got almost twice as many packages in @system. (Except it wasn't @system at the time) I started putting java

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I been doing a little testing here.  I notice something weird here.  Did I do this somehow?  Why are these part of the system set? root@fireball / # emerge -ep system | grep kde [ebuild   R   ~] kde-base/kde-env-4.6.0 [ebuild  

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 23:05:50 Stroller wrote: On 21/2/2011, at 8:20pm, Mark Knecht wrote: ... You didn't say which groovy new laptop's keyboard you are trying to make light up, so I can only guess

[gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there either a kernel config option or additionally some application that allows me to turn on and off the lights underneath this groovy new laptop's keyboard? They flash on when booting, and work in Windows, but I don't know how to control them in Linux. I haven't found any function key that

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 21 February 2011 19:40:33 Mark Knecht wrote: Is there either a kernel config option or additionally some application that allows me to turn on and off the lights underneath this groovy new laptop's keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] New drive devices after install

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:54:56 -0700, Mike Diehl wrote: I just finished a new (RAID1) installation and most if it is working just fine. However, I don't have any drive device files in /dev/.  I'd expect to see hda,

Re: [gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though, running win7 in vbox works but I shouldn't have to do all that... Doesn't the Moonlight

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: [...] I do wish netflix would go with something other than silverlight though

Re: [gentoo-user] dual boot RAID

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Recently this link was posted: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software I am looking at  new systems, and this link got me thinking. Dual boot linux with Windows7 all on a Raid (0) array? I found a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com  wrote: This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne

[gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor email

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm curious about setting up my compute server to monitor RAID array status and have it email me information at my GMail account. Does anyone have info on setting this up on Gentoo? In general I'm following: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software but it seems there are a few holes

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor email

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/13/2011 11:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP 4) Assuming I do get this working, while testing can i have the program email me every 60 minutes whether things are good or bad, just to test that it's actually

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor email

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
] 395387904 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [U] md126 : active raid1 sdc5[2] sdb5[1] sda5[0] 52436032 blocks [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: none On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I added '--test' to the config file and restarted

[gentoo-user] vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in dmesg. The machine

[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die quietly

[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com  wrote: This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Hello, So looking at the handbook, I was wondering why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels during the installation process. Dunno. So I poised this question on gentoo-doc and got this encouraging

Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 02/09/2011 12:56:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:38:37 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: Another way to do it is with find: find /home/mark/Builder -type f -iname '*csv' -exec cp {}

Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 06:46:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: One thing I didn't make clear in my original post - it didn't seem important to confuse my real question which was the copy itself and not locating the files

[gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I can find with locate and grep: c2stable ~ # locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv

Re: [gentoo-user] copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 08.02.2011 19:27, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi,    Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I can find with locate and grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/06/2011 12:08 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'll take a look at it. Do you recommend the testing 2.0 versions or stable 1.3? SNIP Never mind on the 2.0 item. I run stable and that would require about 15 qt packages to be unmasked. Not interested in going

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: SNIP As for the C vs C++ issue, I only say C because the NVidia nvcc compiler seems to be primarily a C compiler. It's not until you get to Appendix D in the programming guide that they even mention C++ in the context

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Cedric Sodhi man...@gmx.net wrote: There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially not) the distfiles should reside in /usr. SNIP I have no opinion on the subject really, but can't you build a link from /usr/portage to anywhere you want

[gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I can compile right in the IDE. I've starting writing something. It's hundreds of lines long in 1

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I

[gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] Linking to a non-standard library installed using portage

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This is going to be trivial for anyone who actually programs. Thanks in advance. How do I link to a library I installed using portage? If someone could show me an example make file that would be great. I've no real experience in C and what I did have was in Windows years ago so I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: [Slightly OT] Linking to a non-standard library installed using portage

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   How do I link to a library I installed using portage? SNIP And in this case it was simple once I found the right examples: nvcc -lta_lib ta-lib-ma.cu -o ta-lib-ma Sorry for the noise. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 and RTL-8168

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? I

[gentoo-user] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: X/4018

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I haven't used the closed source ATI driver for long but I don't remember seeing this dmesg error before. It's not high priority for me as I'll be switching out the graphics card to an NVidia card hopefully tomorrow, but is this something that should get reported somewhere, or is it just

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: X/4018

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sunday 30 January 2011 12:40:29 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I haven't used the closed source ATI driver for long but I don't remember seeing this dmesg error before. It's not high priority for me as I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: X/4018

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I use gentoo-sources and have been getting that for as long as i've used fglrx (since 9.6, ie driver version 8.62). I don't notice any issue so just ignore it. Thanks Adam! I guess it's been there for the last week

Re: [gentoo-user] Curiosity...

2011-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when listing my hardware with lshw I find some stuff build into my ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which I seem not to use and I like to know, for what it is good for: These are excerpts from the output of lshw: SNIP but...for

Re: [gentoo-user] Curiosity...

2011-01-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 06:33:39 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:18 AM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when listing my hardware with lshw I find some stuff build into my ASUS

[gentoo-user] Paste into vim keeping indention or original?

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
What is the solution to begin able to paste code I find on the web into a file in vim and being able to keep the indentation from changing? For instance, here's the first few lines of code from a web page: #define ARRAYSIZE(x) (sizeof(x)/sizeof(*(x))) int main(void) { const char filename[]

[gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: What is the solution to begin able to paste code I find on the web into a file in vim and being able to keep the indentation from changing? For instance, here's the first few lines of code from a web page: #define

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/24/2011 05:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hello,    I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language no one here is likely

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/26/2011 12:56 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Michael,    Thanks for the inputs. It gives me more to think about.    In this case the input language is interpreted, not compiled. The trading platform interprets

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/26/2011 02:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP As for testing it _may_ be a slight bit easier than having to get to that level. There is a library in portage called ta-lib which implements lots of standard

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have to change rather complex iptables rules on server and I do not want to lock me out as this server is about 50 miles away. So how should I do it? I can back up the old rules by running: /etc/init.d/iptables save

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 1/24/2011 10:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com  wrote: Hi, I have to change rather complex iptables rules on server and I do not want to lock me out

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:59:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe a cron job that no matter what reloads the old rules 1 hour later? Wouldn't at make more sense? You don't want the thing to keep reloading your old config

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:59:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe a cron job that no matter what reloads the old rules 1 hour later? Wouldn't at make

[gentoo-user] [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Hello, I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language no one here is likely to use (EasyLanguage) into C? As an example I've attached a little EL function that takes buy/sell command data an puts it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - Code translation tools?

2011-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:35 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hello,    I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language no one here is likely to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: SNIP Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes, what is the best test of a hard drive's speed? By running

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules...

2011-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when doing as root    lspci -vk I get all pci devices and bus inhabitants listed. Additionally there are often two lines added to each device saying similiar things like:        Kernel driver in use: XYZ        Kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes, what is the best test of a hard drive's speed? By running a benchmark tool that does exactly this.  IOzone is a nice one:  http://www.iozone.org

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I got a little confused about the sense or nonsense of AHCI vs. IDE. I run a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which BIOS has a menu entry to configure the SATA ports either for IDE or AHCI or RAID. Forget RAID for a momen -- I

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP    I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess as to what you're seeing. you are confusing bios calls and bios programming chips as also - is there any good reason to use

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 21 January 2011 11:12:34 kashani wrote: On 1/21/2011 10:53 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so, why are you doing soemthing incredible stupid in the first place? How about you go have some

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Mark, SNIP I thought (which implies I dont know for sure), that the BIOS do enable/disable certain features, the kernels reads that settings and act accordingly -- but definitely this is not true for all settings.

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Last thing which remains is: Why does the help of the kernel says to both AHCI-settings: If unsure, say N... ? Because if you're not sure you have SATA then you don't need the driver? :-) It could just as easily say Y or M

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP hi Mike, I am talking about this two options: CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y # CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set Best regards, mcc From Niko a few months ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/217204 Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: SNIP You could also dig into the internals of the libahci.c driver to figure out what all of those display items mean.  In this case, your seeing two different PCI busses with slightly different capabilities; just off

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:53 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Dale, *IDEA* Mark said, that the kernel alone is defining, whether to talk AHCI or IDE to the harddisk and there is not a single result here from my experiments, that makes me believe, that Mark is wrong with that...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called SATA Configuration BIOS then gives me another choice Configure SATA as What was that programmer smoking?  Some of the equipment I use

Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: SNIP Hi Mark, I got this (lspci -tv): -[:00]-+-00.0  ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part           +-00.2  ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a23           +-02.0-[08]--+-00.0  nVidia

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati from git?

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible, as it is apparently the reason I don't have 3d rendering enabled on my HD5750 Evergreen card. Is there a good Wiki on how to do this? Also, how does

[gentoo-user] Re: xf86-video-ati from git?

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible, as it is apparently the reason I don't have 3d rendering enabled on my HD5750

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2011 16:05:11 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I have seen some seriously spurious results from glxgears over the years.  I recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xf86-video-ati from git?

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes:    I'm interested in how I would go about getting the xf86-video-ati package from git? I would like to try the newest driver, if possible, as it is apparently the reason I

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