[gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-06 Thread walt
On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > What happens is that when I (cold) boot my desktop, my external Toshiba 3TB > drive (which is always connected via USB3) is detected, but cannot mount. It > *does* work once I unplug the USB3 plug and plug it back in. I once hated replies containing

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread wabenbau
Am Freitag, 06.03.2015 um 22:42 schrieb Grant Edwards : > What is a good acroread replacement? I use qpdfview. I like it because of it's bookmarks, tabs and rendering quality. If you don't want QT stuff then you can try atril instead. It is a very simple but also very fast PDF-Viewer. With bot

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/15 00:42, Grant Edwards wrote: What is a good acroread replacement? Not sure if it's a good replacement, but I'm using Google Chrome. It has a built-in PDF viewer. (I just drag&drop PDF documents into an empty tab.) It can also print. It might be worth checking out.

[gentoo-user] Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
What is a good acroread replacement? I'm not sure what changed, but as of a few weeks ago I can no longer install acroread on my AMD64 system (something to do with x86 emulation librarys being blocked by something in the Xorg server). I decided to try to live without acroread. I've been using ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:37:38 + (UTC), James wrote: > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l10" > > Might not be the best settings? [1] > Look for these lines in the reference thread and translate > to a makeopts syntax? Interesting discussion. There was also a discussion on this list a year or two ago, wher

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/06/2015 11:57 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> I wasn't aware you had e1000e hardware - those are about as reliable as >> they come. I've used many of them and never had the slightest trouble at >> all. By all means study up on firmware and driver options - if you don;t >> know much about that area

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:35:45 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 06/03/2015 20:45, Marc Joliet wrote: > > First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. > > > > I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made > > changes to the DHCP server that appear to have

[gentoo-user] External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi again This has been frustrating me ever since I bought the drive, but I have pushed off looking into it for a while. Part of the reason is that my desktop used to run pretty much 24/7 before I moved, so I rarely had to deal with this issue. However, now I'm more interested in not pointlessly w

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/03/2015 20:45, Marc Joliet wrote: > First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. > > I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made > changes to the DHCP server that appear to have worked around whatever the > issue > is. > > I don't fully understan

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 06.03.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Grant: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote >> I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to >> somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Grant
>> I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to >> somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to >> back up. Any ideas? Rewritable Blu-Ray? >>> It would seem that this is a backup to a backup. I think I read earlier >>> that the OP already

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Marc Joliet
First of all, thanks to everybody who responded so far. I wanted preface my reply to Alan by mentioning that the local sysadmin made changes to the DHCP server that appear to have worked around whatever the issue is. I don't fully understand the error analysis (something to do with the DHCP clien

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.03.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Grant: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote > I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to > somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to > back up. Any ideas? Rewritable Blu-Ray? >> It

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread wabenbau
Am Freitag, 06.03.2015 um 09:10 schrieb Grant : > >>> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote > I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like > to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of > data to back up. Any ideas? Rewritable

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > I'm not sure the arch of a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800; > > isn't that compatible with i686 binaries? I found this: > The Geode LX800 is more like an i486. I used to use a box based on one > (not as a router) in the days before the Raspberry Pi. I used to bu

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} offline backups

2015-03-06 Thread Grant
>>> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:51:35AM -0800, Grant wrote I have several encrypted backup repositories online and I'd like to somehow mirror that offline. I currently have about 20G of data to back up. Any ideas? Rewritable Blu-Ray? > > It would seem that this is a backup to a bac

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread James
Nicolas Sebrecht laposte.net> writes: > > > For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: > > > http://www.alpinelinux.org/about > Sorry, I can't. I don't have them anymore while I'm sure they are still > used in production. It's something easy to do, though. The scripts > themselves are dis

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reliable USB extender?

2015-03-06 Thread Grant
>> I need to connect a Zebra LP2844 USB label printer at about 35 feet >> from a Gentoo machine. I got this: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L14ZTC >> >> but it is proving to be unreliable. The printer stops responding many >> times per day and needs to be power cycled. Is there a rel

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox-guest-additions-4.3.24 breaks 3D acceleration in linux guests (?)

2015-03-06 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > Downgrading Virtualbox to 4.3.20-r1 fixes the problem on one ~amd64 > > > machine but, of course, not the other one . > > (not the xf86-* > File a bug at b.g.o. > what you describe has much potential to trip up many people Well, I have to concur with wh

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +, James wrote: > > For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: > > http://www.alpinelinux.org/about > > Why would that be better than putting lilblue (gentoo) on > the board. Maybe somebody who has success with booting off > of usb (and that definitely i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:03:48 + (UTC), James wrote: > I'm not sure the arch of a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800; > isn't that compatible with i686 binaries? I found this: > > " When it comes to compiling, just compile with -march=geode. That > option is defined on any i386/x86-64 gcc, so no real need