Re: [gentoo-user] switching between nvidia / nouveau drivers

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to prevent next disaster with nvidia driver/kernel combination. I'm running nvidia driver and installed nouveau as module. If for any reason nvidia or nouveau will stop working I want to just run a sript and use

Re: [gentoo-user] switching between nvidia / nouveau drivers

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to prevent next disaster with nvidia driver/kernel combination. I'm running nvidia driver and installed nouveau as module

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:12 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/13/2013 04:23 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: All the progress I see from Gnome3 (and I get this only from blog posts on the tubes) is that stuff is being ripped out and replaced with mostly nothing. That's exactly my problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon-Instant video

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Brandstatter kjbrandstat...@gmail.com wrote: I just got amazon prime for the instant videos (among other things) and figured i should be able to watch it on linux since its in flash. However, I have had no luck getting it to play an instant video, i've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-02-11, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: whinge I tried doing an emerge -auvND world today. It's been three days since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-02-07 4:25 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I think that a lot of people will misread that like I (we) did

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-02-07 12:53 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2013 17:40:39 Tanstaafl wrote: So, since I have: shm/dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents generated by MS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so

Re: [gentoo-user] no audio on cisco webex

2013-02-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Douglas J Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a brand new 64bit install of Gentoo here with Java and Flash and it absolutely will not provide the audio portion of any Cisco Webex meeting. I can see the presentation part w/o issue, I can watch Youtube

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For the first one, host is 127.0.0.1, wizard validates it as saves it as localhost. For the second one, host is again entered as 172.0.0.1, which is a different string to localhost, validation succeeds and config is

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification Applets

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, is there a way that i can change the design of the Desktop Notification Applet? This PopUp Windows which come with messages, that i have wlan or umts, new email etc. I use XFCE and a dark theme, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL startup problem - interface does not have an address yet.

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Manuel McLure man...@mclure.org wrote: I'm having a problem with booting my Gentoo system due to MySQL hanging at startup. My system is up-to-date stable (including udev-197, although I believe the problem started while I was still on 171) except for the

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL startup problem - interface does not have an address yet.

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: If the nature of your configuration is such that a specific interface must be up then you can insert the following lines in /etc/conf.d/mysql: rc_use=net.eth1 rc_after=net.eth1 This is a better solution than what

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Questions

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 06:33:38PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Anything newer is a vast improvement, especially Core2 and newer. As long as you ignore the unfixable security issues even by microcode of core2 duos ;-).

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/net/wirelesslessness

2013-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM, ☈king rking...@sharpsaw.org wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel with this Atheros AR9287 wifi card. I had it working last week and rebuilt the kernel without saving my config, now I'm kind of stuck. The most immediate problem I see is that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Combine AVSEQxx.DAT files into Matroska

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello list! I know this is kind of off-topic... but as we all know this is a list where the SNR is perhaps the highest one can ever find in the Internet, so... Let's say I have a bunch of AVSEQxx.DAT files, ripped from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0600 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: But, in the failures I've been seeing today

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange keyboard problem

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an ~amd64 laptop, running latest portage version of packages and kernel 3.7.2. It was set up with fbsplash and quiet boot, so I don't see any kernel/openrc messages, just the splash screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: But, in the failures I've been seeing today, it's not getting to agetty. The clear screen and halt happens at the waiting for udev events step... FWIW I have also noticed on my machine that somewhere in the middle

[gentoo-user] Strange keyboard problem

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have an ~amd64 laptop, running latest portage version of packages and kernel 3.7.2. It was set up with fbsplash and quiet boot, so I don't see any kernel/openrc messages, just the splash screen and progress bar prior to the X login screen. It is using radeon KMS driver. For the past few

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of old gcc?

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gentoo users, I just updated gcc from 4.5.4 to 4.6.3, switched compiler version, rebuilt libtool, but emerge --depclean still does not want to remove old gcc. equery list gcc shows both are still installed: [IP-] [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think my UPS is dying. Time to get a new one. It's been years, so there may be new tech out there I don't know about. My normal usage is * 1 LCD monitor 24 * 1 (sometimes 2) desktop PCs connected to the monitor *

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I think my UPS is dying. Time to get a new one. It's been years, so there may be new tech out there I don't know about. My normal

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hi list! I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own private stuff, too. Solving the problem is easy enough: - Record

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resetting USB flash

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some cryptic hdparm command I could run on it to reset it? I mean, it's bricked as is anyway, so it can't get *much* worse. hdparm -z /dev/sdX will force kernel to re-read the partition table, which should be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Powering down the USB controller

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get a USB sound card to behave in a certain way which requires it to think the computer has gone to sleep. I'm told the specific signal the sound card looks for is if the USB controller has been physically

Re: [gentoo-user] Ram Problem!

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Teodor Spæren teodor.s...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello! I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu and the ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:23 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Google does not enlighten me. One suggestion was change the SATA cable, but this is definitely a change from 3.6.10 to 3.7.1. I can't find where I read it, but just yesterday I was reading a somewhat recent LKML post which mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device (samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS. as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device as a good old USB

Re: [gentoo-user] slideshow on USB stick

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to create slide show (pictures) on USB stick and play on a TV? It may depend on specific TV brand and model that you own. For example, my Philips branded HDTV can play a slideshow of images (optionally with mp3

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks

2012-12-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks: For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard

[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Hartman
For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5 VFAT disk) it does nothing. No error, just nothing... I have not tried this in well over a year, but it used to work. The /dev/fd0 device works normally, I can access it with mtools and use dd and even access disks in virtual machines

Re: [gentoo-user] hard disk name changes within initramfs

2012-12-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: Once you find the UUID to use it's easy and alleviates lots of problems in the future. I agree. Depending on your setup and bootloader you may need to use labels instead of UUID. /sbin/blkid can tell you the names, labels

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:19 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I have thunderbird-10.0.11, and it works OK. It has simple things missing, like the ability to set what app to handle .ppt files Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? I use it every day, it works for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: Latest cairo 1.12.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pckeyboard.com/ I was thrilled when I saw they offered a spacesaver M model. I thought it was going to be a clone of the IBM 84-key model M space saver that IBM sold back in 87-89. Nope. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

2012-11-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or Thunderbird in remote NX session

Re: [gentoo-user] Who is mounting /lib64/splash/cache?

2012-11-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I have a system where I disabled the fbcondecor kernel option (gentoo-sources), and the system boots in standard VGA text mode (80x25). Additionally, I have removed the fbcondecor service from startup. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-11-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Kerin Millar wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: It looks as if Eric Sandeen has

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firmware update for an external (USB) hard drive

2012-10-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, googling didn't help me. I've just got an Intenso Memory Center. According to smartctl it contains a Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001-9YN166 hard disk. And smartctl reminds me to check for a firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. Has it always done this? If not, did anything change around the time the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Paranormal Gentoo?

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when I am watching TV via DVB-T with Kaffeine and do a sudo eject /dev/dvd2 the TV freezes and start to work again when the DVD is completly ejected. I have no clue how that can happens... Any ideas? Best

Re: [gentoo-user] From Unstable to Stable: Screen share in Google Hangout and Skype no longer works

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to get screen share to work again? Would this depend on unstable OpenRC? Or a later udev? Or a later kernel? Try to upgrade to the latest unstable version of xrandr.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Packages webpage - empty page

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: When try to access: http://packages.gentoo.org/ I get: Empty Page! If you expected a real website instead something must be wrong. :-( Where did it go? IIRC there was a server crash about a week ago, affecting many gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange console font: m looks like small M

2012-10-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just installed Gentoo on one box and noticed one strange thing when I'm in console: Small letter m looks more like M reduced in size. And small w looks more like small and rotated M. How can I fix it??? Maybe the

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD

Re: [gentoo-user] qcad

2012-09-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, is there a way to install qcad? I have try the overlay, but want not work. Qcad need QT3 but i find not on the system. Has someone a idea? librecad is a port/fork of qcad to Qt4. I have not personally used it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparing kernel configurations...

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:29 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, are there any tools beside diff, vimdiff, kdiff3 and such which supports one in comparing two differen .config from the linux kernel? sys-kernel/kccmp is in portage. * sys-kernel/kccmp Latest version available: 0.3

[gentoo-user] x2go and KDE

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I am trying x2go for the first time. Everything worked easily so far (except x2go client on MS windows does not support ecdsa keys and does not tell you this in the error message...). LXDE and XFCE work normally, but KDE has no taskbar panel! The desktop shows up, the activities button on

[gentoo-user] Re: x2go and KDE

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying x2go for the first time. Everything worked easily so far (except x2go client on MS windows does not support ecdsa keys and does not tell you this in the error message...). LXDE and XFCE work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! I filed a bug now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435540 Everyone who's

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: SNIP If you use the nvidia-drivers package you should also emerge nvidia-settings, which has a nice GUI that will let you configure

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd got away with it before. The strangest thing I fried via hotplug was an Ethernet card via cat5 cable insertion! It made a little electrical pop sound

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:30:52 -0500, Dale wrote: One would think that modern stuff would have some sort of protection. Odd. indeed. The modern stuff with protection is called 'usb'. Well, I meant for the

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: New question about HDMI. I have a pretty nice video card that has a 15 pin connector and HDMI. Do I have to do anything special to use the HDMI or does it just send the same signal to both connectors? I have my monitor hooked

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Newegg just had a sale on a really nice UPS. I got one. Anyway, it has both serial and USB connections. I have a question about these. I could use either one but not sure if it matters. Does the USB connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Offline Update

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It's been a while since I did this so, does he need to run emerge --metadata like used to be needed a long time ago? Metadata is included in the tree now, so probably not necessary I would guess.

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote The effect is quite bizarre it was the gods who saved me : if I hadn't happened to

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4 and glibc

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I got this message in elog: * Messages for package dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4: * Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols. * To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf * and remerge

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: VO: [gl] 320x240 = 320x240 Planar YV12 *** glibc detected *** mplayer: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x01957a60 *** try with -vo xv to see if perhaps it is gl-related... Sometimes I have videos crash mplayer using

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Yes, the 3.4.9 .config has nearly all of those. However, I'm not sure that your logic is the right way round (smile): something is telling Kernel + Udev to recognise only a 3.0 mouse, whereas Mageia/SR recognise a 2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:15:25 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My new machine boots has the basic software installed. Fluxbox starts I can stop it via its menu the keyboard. However, it doesn't recognise my Logitech optical mouse, which doesn't show up in the 'dmesg' list nor as

Re: [gentoo-user] Pacific vs Pacific-New

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Following the handbook, I am now setting my timezone. I am in Los Angeles. Should I select: a) /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific b) /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific-New c) [your answer here] man Pacific

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time format, currency format, etc Josh, Thank you. I now understand what a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge. Supposedly

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I guess the only explanation if what you guys are saying is correct is that I've never done a minor upgrade for the version in the current slot... Basically any slotted package works this way. Upgrades within the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. Step by step here so hopefully you and Neil can follow. Freshly booted system. Clear caches just to be sure emerge foo with portages work directory on tmpfs clear caches again emerge foo with portages work directory on

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation of zero.

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say that here, it is not a whole lot of fragmentation but it does seem a bit faster afterwards. I guess it depends on what

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Edward M martinezedward...@gmail.com wrote: And if the motherboard is somehow shorting out inside the case http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307187-30-motherboard-shorting-case I completely forget that I had this happen once. The case design was such that

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Edward M martinezedward...@gmail.com wrote: And if the motherboard is somehow shorting out inside

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Whatever. Then align to 8K instead. But what does this have to do with the erasable page size? Short answer: Any page written to a block already containing data, the whole block must be erased. This is the erase block

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yesterday I got a new, but rather low-end, PCIe-2 SATA-3 6Gb/S adapter card and a reportedly high performance 128GB SSD drive. (Links below) Other than my swap getting messed up because it didn't use labels (who

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I found the problem: ulimit problem. Not the first time this crap bites me, but I always forget. I just wish this was better documented, somewhere. I tried to use ulimit to change stack size system-wide once, to

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: hm, I also had much besser results with + media. +rw and +r. I always get the + stuff too. No problems so far. knock on wood If it's turning into a survey, these are what I use: Sony/NEC Optiarc

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And there, it just crashed while in the BIOS setup. If you are using a video card (instead of built-in/on-board video) I would try a different video card, if you have an old or spare one. I have had lots of video cards die

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:51 AM, J.Marcos Sitorus gkj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks. So to be on safe side, he should partitioned the SSD using the latest fdisk (booting from sysrescuecd?) and it will automatically align to 1MB, right? Yes, I think util-linux 2.17 or higher will support

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:33 PM, J.Marcos Sitorus gkj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, after quick read about ssd, I have a couple of question: 1. My friend have new server with a ssd installed. He plan to RHEL 5.7 (I don't know why he choose this) on it. On redhat website, it say something like

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I think that current versions of fdisk also provide a 1M boundary, or is it 4M? Someone more up to speed on this can comment. I think basically everything* except for cfdisk defaults to 1M boundary now. * everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: What a pity though -- you just don't get 1400x1050 laptops anymore these days (or any 4:3 laptops for that matter). I also have a 1400x1050 (15-inch screen) laptop and I think this resolution and screen size are hitting

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Aug 14, 2012 11:42 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern features like reiser4 or xfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Michael Hampicke mgehampi...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy gentooers, I am looking for a filesystem that perfomes well for a cache directory. Here's some data on that dir: - cache for prescaled images files + metadata files - nested directory structure (

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after some convinction work done by the ML and a friend. In order to justify the switch for myself, I made some performance comparisons. So, in case

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You also don't need an IO scheduler - ssd access is random like RAM, no heads moving in and out so no sector ordering to worry about. Configure the scheduler as NOOP in kernel config if all drives are ssd's I've read

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid modules format?!

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi people! I have installed wanpipe from freeswitch overlay, and figured after long time out, that if I manually load the module modprobe wanrouter, I have the error on the screen: WARNING: Deprecated config file

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:19 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This has been slow and painful so far. First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol I recently found a box of hard drives in

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent formatting a 100Mb drive and then thinking about how long it will take to do a 3Tb drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. Anyway,

Re: [gentoo-user] crosscompiling...the point of view

2012-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am asking, because I found not only one description of somehow complicated setups to compile a distribution (namely gentoo) for a platform A (Beaglebone TI OMAP4) on that platform with distcc to speedup things or with emulated

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120803 Michael Mol wrote: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/solid-state-drives They have just 1 desktop at 128 GB it costs USD 230 ... ! I'm grateful to VAH for getting me to check out the OCZs, but I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. I didn't notice he was trying to use 3.2 until after I hit send. Bad thing about emails, you can't delete them after they are sent. :/ In the good old days you could compose offline, and not send them until the next time

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