Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-08 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Way back when I first got an X2 they couldn't keep time for whatever reason. I used to have to add something like clock=pmtmr notsc to the kernel command line to make it behave. That issue was fixed in a later kernel, but you could start adding clock options to your kernel command line and pray

[gentoo-user] FATAL: unsupported DVB API Version 5.2

2011-01-08 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, while I trying to create an new channels.conf with w_scan -ft -c DE as root I received the following output: solfire:/rootw_scan -ft -c DE w_scan version 20090918 (compiled for DVB API 5.0) using settings for GERMANY DVB aerial DVB-T Europe frontend_type DVB-T,

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf - txt

2011-01-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/06/2011 05:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). What tool/s are worth being tried out for this task?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-08 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 01/07, James wrote: === Any other thoughts / ideas? === Works for me on my Lenovo Edge. Use the new InputClass section rather than InputDevice in the config. Make sure to use 'MatchIsTouchpad on' to match the touchpad. -- Keith Dart -- --

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Andrea, Andrea Conti wrote: Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC (Asynchronous SCSI scanning under SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce the randomness you

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:33 on Friday 07 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: On 7/1/2011, at 6:26am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8/1/2011, at 1:24pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... I've just tested on another machine. It seems like if I set it to match the first machine with both environments in the /etc/env.d/02locale: $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=POSIX $ sudo env-update source /etc/profile $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-08 Thread dhkuhl
- Original Message - From: Volker Armin Hemmann Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:25 pm Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:51:38 KIM WHALEN wrote: I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf -amp;gt; txt

2011-01-08 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: Can you give me a hint, how to create ASCII text from pdf files The simpliest method is to install app-text/acroread There is a button at the top to save out the pdf file into an txt file --File--Save as Text Other tools, such as the one I mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -amp;gt; txt

2011-01-08 Thread meino . cramer
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [11-01-08 17:16]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: Can you give me a hint, how to create ASCII text from pdf files The simpliest method is to install app-text/acroread There is a button at the top to save out the pdf file into an txt file

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread walt
On 01/08/2011 05:07 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: The easiest solution to this problem would be to ensure that the USB-subsystem is not scanned before the boot-device is identified by the kernels boot- process. This can be achieved by configuring the USB-mass-storage

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Simon
Hi all, thanks for all your help. I'll try to reply to everything, but first let me annouce the issue is now resolved and gentoo was not at fault. The virtual HD is physically on a raid (unknown config). Mark, the sector size issue you mention, does it have to do with aligning real HD sectors

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Glad you have a root cause/solution. On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP The virtual HD is physically on a raid (unknown config).  Mark, the sector size issue you mention, does it have to do with aligning real HD sectors with filesystem sectors (so that stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-08 Thread James
Keith, Can you please send me the relevant snippet of your configuration? Thanks! -james On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 05:54, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Fri, 01/07, James wrote: === Any other thoughts / ideas? === Works for me on my Lenovo Edge. Use the new InputClass section

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I've emerged grub-2 to play with but it's quite different from legacy grub and I don't yet have a good feel for it. If it solves this problem I'll let you know later. I wouldn't mind a new thread and you posting how it works and all. I wouldn't mind switching at some point

Re: [gentoo-user] No module named sqlite3

2011-01-08 Thread Xavier Parizet
Le 08/01/2011 22:46, Daniel D Jones a écrit : I'm trying to install keepnote: http://rasm.ods.org/keepnote/ It's not in portage but there's a downloadable ebuild at the site. Emerging the package, I get the following error: File /var/tmp/portage/app-

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-08 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 22:48:27 Dale wrote: Any other ideas? You could still try chrony. Success !! Check this out: r...@fireball / # ntpdate -b -u -q pool.ntp.org server 169.229.70.183, stratum 3, offset 0.009525, delay 0.12221 server

Re: [gentoo-user] No module named sqlite3

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Am 08.01.2011 22:46, schrieb Daniel D Jones: I've run python-updater, re-emerged sqlite and pysqlite and am still getting the error. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated. I had a similar problem. If I remember correctly (and I am not sure that I do) I solved it by re-emerging python

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 January 2011 21:45:45 Dale wrote: Now, with ntp, it logs to messages when it syncs, resets the clock and such. Does chrony do this somewhere too? I have this in my conf file: [...] logdir /var/log/chrony You need to uncomment the next line too - the one that specifies what

[gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-08 Thread walt
About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list, building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to get it working for the *BSD family. Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the other OS's from my machines, including

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 January 2011 22:59:59 Peter Humphrey wrote: Incidentally, chronyd logs a cannot open error the first time it tries to write to a log or dump file; it seems to be harmless. Correction: that only applies to dump files; it creates log files quietly. -- Rgds Peter. Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] No module named sqlite3

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 January 2011 21:46:08 Daniel D Jones wrote: I've run python-updater, re-emerged sqlite and pysqlite and am still getting the error. How many versions of python do you have installed? I found I had three: $ eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.6 *

Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 08 January 2011 15:36:49 walt wrote: About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list, building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to get it working for the *BSD family. Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Simon
Just a final word on this... The problem is effectively resolved... i was able to rebuild the system, then world with zero issues. I then ran revdep-rebuild, no issues and no broken links found, I then recompiled pkgs with deps against glibc and ran revdep-rebuild again. The whole thing ran at

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-08 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2011 21:45:45 Dale wrote: Now, with ntp, it logs to messages when it syncs, resets the clock and such. Does chrony do this somewhere too? I have this in my conf file: [...] logdir /var/log/chrony You need to uncomment the

Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-08 Thread Dale
walt wrote: About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list, building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to get it working for the *BSD family. Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the other OS's from my machines,

[gentoo-user] HOWTO enable Broadcom BCM57780 ethernet chip

2011-01-08 Thread Walter Dnes
I recently got myself a shiny new toy, a 14 notebook, and installed Gentoo (naturally). The biggest struggle was getting the Broadcom BCM57780 ethernet chip recognized. For the benefit of anybody else who runs into problems, here is the step-by-step solution... as root... cd /usr/src/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO enable Broadcom BCM57780 ethernet chip

2011-01-08 Thread 李健
It always. 2011/1/9 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I recently got myself a shiny new toy, a 14 notebook, and installed Gentoo (naturally). The biggest struggle was getting the Broadcom BCM57780 ethernet chip recognized. For the benefit of anybody else who runs into problems, here is

Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-08 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 01/08, walt wrote: === grub2 is enough different from legacy grub to make the learning curve very steep === I did get into grub2 recently, myself. It's hard to imagine anything worse... It's supposed to be just a f* bootloader, not an OS. It needs a complete OS install just to