Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

Apparently, though unproven, at 00:12 on Tuesday 24 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: > > Configure your syslogger to devnull these specific entries. > > All three common sysloggers (syslogd,syslog-ng,rsyslog) all come with > > extensive documentation on how to do this. > > Hmm, okay.

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

Just checking, you ran mkreiserfs against /dev/sdf1 not /dev/sdf didnt you?

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +, James wrote: [...] > try www.namesys.com/support.html, and for > $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you > through it all. Did you try that? ;) It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back... Not sure why you had to dd

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > >> On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >>> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, >

[gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

All, I'm in desperate need of some help recovering a reiserfs partition that went awry for some unknown reason. A quick list of events: - purchased brand new WD "My Passport" drive -- 320GB, 2.5GB - cleared partition table with a "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=5M count=10" - created one singl

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got > a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running > 1280x1024, inste

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

> I guess I've gotta look for a video card, but all I have is PCIX slots, so > I don't want to put a lot of money into it (I'll be upgrading the mobo when > finances permit -- which is not right now.) > > "newer 3.3-volt PCI cards will work in a PCI-X slot" - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new > ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, > instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of > lack of video

[gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of lack of video memory (using the ATI on the motherboard). I can make the screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex > Schuster did opine thusly: > > There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output > > every minute: > That will tell fcron not to log stuff. > It will not tell other apps to not stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

Stroller writes: > On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Stroller writes: >> >>> The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. >> >> No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called >> by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> while : >

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

>> >> I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks. >> >> Al > > cmake. Didn't know that, Time to study the build tools, even if I am not a C-coder. > > It really does decrease the amount of time in the configure step - witness > KDE4. > > Then promptly causes a huge rash of

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al wrote: > Some thoughts of the day > > With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The > bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before > compilation. Each  program das it again and 90% of the checks check > the same stuff. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Monday 23 August 2010, Al did opine thusly: > Some thoughts of the day > > With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The > bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before > compilation. Each program das it again and

[gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

Some thoughts of the day With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check the same stuff. I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repe

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate >> ~/log

[gentoo-user] Firefox-bin/Hulu - complete X crash

Hi, I haven't seen any posts on this nor found much using Google as of yet. Is anyone seeing complete crashes of X - back to the gdm login screen - when they try to play a video in Hulu using firefox-bin? This is a 64-bit machine, up to date, mostly stable. I switched to firefox-bin due to the s

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

Thanks Mark, I'll look into that config option, and try again with top open. In this case I was doing a home backup to a 1TB WD Caviar black formatted as ext3. I also have a raid0 with 2 other non-WD sata drives, and a single WD velociraptor I can test with. It also doesn't sound too far off tha

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Alan Warren wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have > a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc > memory. > > On occasion (seems random so far) my system feels like a Pentium II

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Alan Warren wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have > a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc > memory. > > On occasion (seems random so far) my system feels like a Pentium II t

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

On Sunday 22 August 2010 21:04:56 Robert Bridge wrote: > Well, the fix is in the line for 2.6.36 IIRC, so wouldn't be in an > 2.6.35 kernel. > > That said, the problem supposedly being fixed goes back well before > 2.6.34, so if that kernel works, it suggests that it is a different > issue you ar