[gentoo-user] severe tearing and system lockup

Hi all, I've had this problem with various nvidia-drivers and never been able to track it down. AFAIR it only happens during certain (one?) xscreensaver hack. One of the 3d ones, but not necessarily one named GL* When the hack starts, I see multiple tears every 1-2cm (10-15 in all), each one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

> > What do you have in /etc/env.d/gcc/? I have this: > > #ls -l /etc/env.d/gcc/ > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2010-02-08 11:53 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-01-29 12:33 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-07-04 09:02 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition > 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't > worry about it. I don't know... Would that be when there’s a + sign behind the end sector? I believe t

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:20:47PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server > Configuration HOWTO", section 3. "Configuring Xorg" says: > > "Hal comes with many premade device rules, also called policies. > These policy files are availa

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:05:11AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > Hi Willie, > >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > > default value

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 19:36:49 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I actually meant to try the lower case L. Mine shows some ant stuff >> which I think you were having trouble with, at least in the compile >> messages? > > Hmm. That gave me the clue

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my head in shame and apologise for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

On Monday 08 February 2010 19:36:49 Mark Knecht wrote: > I actually meant to try the lower case L. Mine shows some ant stuff > which I think you were having trouble with, at least in the compile > messages? Hmm. That gave me the clue; yes, freemind was throwing an ant error during compilation (b

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: ... - probably about the worst value it could be. Hm what about those first 62 sectors? If I'm understanding correctly, then the drive will *always* have to start at the 63rd sector, then swing back round and start reading a 1st sec

[gentoo-user] Am I an Erasee ?

Hi, I wanted to unsubscribe from this list, but the mlmmj said, that I cannot unsubscribe since I am not subscribed. Which isn't quite right as you can see here. I fear if I would subscribe now a second time and unsubscribe than, I will become two erasees... What can I do to become real ag

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> Hi Willie, >>    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me >> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using >> default values it had the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:03:19 -0800, Grant wrote: > 2. I'm using a USB->serial converter and I get a permissions error > when trying to print unless I chmod /dev/ttyUSB0. The file shows up > before chmod as: > > crw-rw 1 root uucp > > The problem with chmod is it resets after unplug/plug. My

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now > suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts > of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient > free space (or free time) t

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:02:51 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see > signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making > it come in with new profiles or something. > > I don't know how LVM works but I assume that rootf

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly >> explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my >> head in shame and apologise for the noise

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Willie, >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 Same here. > - probably about the worst va

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC.  It > only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel > in a trial run.  :-) > > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running.  "The

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It > only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel > in a trial run. :-) > > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server > Configuration HOWTO

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly > explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my > head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-) I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in the near

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:20 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! OH HAI! [snip to the crux:] > Can this new-style fragmented XML configuration do anything that a good > old-fashioned, human-readable and compact xorg.conf can't? If so, what? > What am I missing here? presumably you're miss

[gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

Hi, Gentoo! I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel in a trial run. :-) However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. "The X Server Configuration HOWTO", section 3. "Configuring Xorg" says:

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

>>> I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will >>> get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the >>> same spot and the LED just blinks. >> >> Does it do the same with standard printing jobs? I ask because I have an >> Epson printer that failed on the CU

Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6

>> I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will >> get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the >> same spot and the LED just blinks. > > Does it do the same with standard printing jobs? I ask because I have an > Epson printer that failed on the CUPS tes

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

On 02/07/2010 10:19 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Keith Dart mailto:ke...@dartworks.biz>> wrote: === On Sun, 02/07, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: === > Ok, nice approach. The problem is that no package can be installed > because the compiler gcc is

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] >> >>This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better >> results also. > [snip] > > These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older > computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS wo

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On 8 Feb 2010, at 05:25, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong > wrote: [snip] OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it had the s

[gentoo-user] OT?: Gentoo hosted web services

Hello, Kind of a strange request here. I'm looking for somebody to hire to create a sports (basketball) web site, host it for a few months, until I get my new network (& location) all set up and then transfer the website to my servers. I'll be running apache and both prim/sec DNS servers, event

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair > with the "testdisk" tool (after you make a full backup of your > disk.) That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition table, minus one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 18:12:58 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> What do you see with java-config -l ? > > $ java-config -L > The following VMs are available for generation-2: > *)      IcedTea6-bin 1.7 [icedtea6-bin] > 2)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.22 [s

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

On Monday 08 February 2010 15:02:51 Mark Knecht wrote: > Did you intend to have 3 100MB partitions at the start of your drive > and then everything else inside of an extended partition? It's not > wrong - it was just unexpected for me. I did, but I think I'll revert to just a single boot partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

On Monday 08 February 2010 13:05:25 Arttu V. wrote: > But you could try running a small sanity check for java: > java-check-environment It reports sanity and offers me congratulations. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] > >This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better > results also. [snip] These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS would not boot from the toshiba drive I mentioned earlier. However when us

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

When is a disk not a disk? According to Dell: when you source it from a 3rd-party. http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041274.html Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:42:18PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me >> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using >> default values it had the starting sec

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > 3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've > never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in > any way. If there is such an option, disable it. Sometimes referred to as "virus

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> sorry to have forgotten is but simply do >> >> df >> >> and see what it says is mounted > > $ df > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on > rootfs                 60G

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

Am Montag 08 Februar 2010 01:27:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello again List, > > $ sudo fdisk -l > > Unable to seek on /dev/sda > > What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the > underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at > the moment. Google

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

On 2/7/10, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Can someone who knows more Java than I do see what's missing? I claim no knowledge over java on Gentoo (they changed it again when I just thought I had it figured out). But you could try running a small sanity check for java: java-check-environment -- Arttu V

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:25:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You said that Google didn't help, but still, I've found some info about > it. In short, I've found two things: > > a) "cfdisk" might work while "fdisk" does not. Interesting. My personal experience has been the opposite: cfdis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > a) "cfdisk" might work while "fdisk" does not. I get the same from cfdisk: "FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive" > b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair > with the "testdisk" tool Good idea. I'll hav

[gentoo-user] Request of emerge --info =CAT/PKG-VERSION

Hi all, if you are filling a bug or if you will be asked to provide emerge --info =CAT/PKG-VERSION then please provide not only the output of emerge --info but the output including the =CAT/PKG-VERSION. One the one hand this shows which *FLAGS etc. are actually used for building this package an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

On Monday 08 February 2010 02:11:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > and what happens if you don't use crap - aka sudo but do it the right > way - aka su to root? Exactly the same, of course. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi All, > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. > > Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/mdstat ") > > Is there a way th

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sa

Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" - what's that?

On 8 Feb, Justin wrote: > On 08/02/10 09:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement >> RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" >> >> Does anybody know what that means? >> >> Does it indicate that this package needs Python-3.x ? >> >> (Reason, it

Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" - what's that?

On 08/02/10 09:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement > RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" > > Does anybody know what that means? > > Does it indicate that this package needs Python-3.x ? > > (Reason, it fails here to install. I have masked

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 > James Ausmus wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson >> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 >> > Willie Wong wrote: >> > >> > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: >> > > >

[gentoo-user] RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" - what's that?

Hi, the recent dev-python/matplotlib-0.99.1.1-r1 contains the statement RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.*" Does anybody know what that means? Does it indicate that this package needs Python-3.x ? (Reason, it fails here to install. I have masked Python-3.x here) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helm