Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

Michael Mol writes: > My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is > that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another > instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, > and never addressed a detailed technical report of a systemic problem

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

Alan Mackenzie writes: > On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed > out, the volume can't be said to be louder than "comfortable and > sensible". In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise > of the power supply. I know from plugging in my iPod that the

Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute?

Florian Philipp writes: > Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick: > > Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop? > > > > An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss. > > It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the > old 2.0.3 version from sourceforg

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot?

Jarry writes: > just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 > filesystem even for separate /boot partition? Yes. But a separate /boot partition is small, it is seldomly being written to, it is often unmounted anyway, and a fsck is very fast on such a small partition. So there is not mu

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

Grant writes: > I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in > 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is > always kept up-to-date and works great. After rebooting, the keyboard > on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work. The keyboa

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

Jarry writes: > On 15-Nov-11 20:36, Andrey Moshbear wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:58, Jarry wrote: >>> today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version >>> But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged >>> and my "world" file is somehow larger. To my surprise, >>> it con

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

Dale asks: > OK. Everyone duck, I been thinking on this and Neils info above. lol > This is what I sort of figured out and tell me where I am off here. I > have to reduce the file system, change the partition in cfdisk (?), > resize the lv, then reduce the vg, then I can run pvmove? After

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Michael Mol writes: > http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ 404, but http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ seems to work. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

Pandu Poluan writes: > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty > complex. I really don't think so. pvcreate creates a physical volume, v

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

Róbert Čerňanský writes: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100 > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > pvcreate /dev/sda5 > > vgcreate myvg /dev/sda5 > > lvcreate -n usr -L 10G myvg > > mke2fs -j /dev/myvg/usr > > > > Of course, just using /dev/sda5 fo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Michael Mol writes: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > I'll steal your 1.6 factor, and give: > >    MAKEOPTS=-j <2*N> -l <1.6*N) > >    PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average<1.6*N>" > > a try. > > Ah. Which file does PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS go in? It doesn't appear to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

Dale writes: > No flames from me. I agree. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to someone who > has no, or even very little, Linux experience. Looking back, I was one > heck of a noob when I installed Gentoo. It had to be fools luck that I > got it done. Then again, the docs were, and still are, r

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

James Broadhead writes: > On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry wrote: > > I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version > > I want to update system too. > > But it wants to emerge > > baselayout-2 as dependency of system: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/baselayout" h

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

Frank Steinmetzger writes: a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, > Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at > Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of > imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with imagem

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

Daniel Troeder writes: > I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and > /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to > move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" > again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

Joseph writes: > On 12/12/11 12:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >Hello :) > > > >I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and > >/var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to > >move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" > >a

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works: > >> How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command? > > AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs. > Have you tri

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

Michael Mol writes: > And by "other", this time I mean "Windows". > > Has anyone done something like "Gentoo on mscc+Win32" or "Gentoo on > mingw+Win32"? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package > management. Have a look at this thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_0c

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: > On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: > > Reemerge all xf86* packages > > Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server > > version, driver version mismatch) > I looked right at it and missed the obvious! Thanks for the > clue-by-four. BTW, e

[gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Hi there! I'm currently upgrading my little sister's PC from an x86 Sempron to an x86_64 AMDS A6 processor. So Gentoo is being installed from scratch. But some packages fail to build. I filed a bug [1] for media-libs/libggi-2.2.2, but a similar problem is happening for pygtksourceview now, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

I wrote: > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I > have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be > wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aa

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Pandu Poluan writes: > On Dec 27, 2011 6:01 AM, "Alex Schuster" <mailto:wo...@wonkology.org>> wrote: >> >> I wrote: >> >> > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin >> > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

I wrote: > The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin > /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I > have no idea why this happens, and how to solve this. Something must be > wrong on my system. But what? For libggi, emerging with USE=-aa

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

Walter Dnes writes: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote >> The problem is that in the libtool linking phase the arguments "/usr/bin >> /usr/sbin /bin /sbin" are given along the libraries and library paths. I >> have no idea why this

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

Mick writes: > ... or what the unbelievable lack of maturity of KDEPIM devs has landed us in: > > I have upgraded KDE on my old laptop to see what gives. Surprisingly, it was > not *too* bad; i.e. my old emails were not corrupted, deleted or otherwise > affected. I am doing the same on my sis

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

Mark Knecht writes: >Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x > processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, > Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend Oh my, this is fast. > server is an old PowerPC which takes lit

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

dhk writes: > I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this > kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and > purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you probably have to install logrotate. Wonk

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

Maximilian Bräutigam writes: > You should backup all in / except > /tmp/* > /sys/* > /proc/* > /lost+found/* > /dev/* Attention here, you need at least the null and console entries in /dev, or the system will not come up. I also have tty and tty1 in there, I think those were neede for tuxonice.

Re: [gentoo-user] why emerge --config don't work

Zhu Sha Zang writes: > Hi there, why this command don't work in zsh: [...] > [r...@sakurazukamori /usr/src/linux]$ emerge --config > =sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 > 9:44 > zsh: sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 not found Interesting. Looks like zsh treats a '=' character specially.

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese

Wow, what's going on here? Alan McKinnon writes: > Like Eskimo's with 20+ words for different kinds of snow. > Say "snow" to any Eskimo, see what happens :-) Actually, they have only two words for snow: qanik for falling snow and aput for lying snow. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] --buildpkg and doing a dry run on a upgrade

Dale writes: > I'm wanting to install the latest KDE 4.5 which is in the kde overlay. > I got everything unmasked, keyworded and ready to go. Since this is a > large upgrade and will take some time to compile, I would like to just > build the binaries then come back and install them when the comp

[gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

Hi there! I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C This script is called every minute via an fcron entry, output goes into a log file, and I use the file mon

Re: [gentoo-user] creating ssh account without directory browsing

Tamer Higazi writes: > For a project I need to create ssh accounts (based on shared keys) who > would be loged in a specific directory. They should only be able to > login in the desired directory, but not be able for outside browsing. If you need this only for things like scp, net-misc/scponly m

Re: [gentoo-user] chrony logrotate script EOF error

Mick writes: > The chrony installed logrotate script keeps erroring out: > > logrotate_script: line 5: warning: here-document at line 2 delimited by > end- of-file (wanted `EOF') > Unrecognized command > =

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

Stroller writes: > On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:25, Alex Schuster wrote: > > ... > > I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a > > little > > script that gives me this output: > > > > sda: standby > > sdb: standby > &

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently t

Re: [gentoo-user] open-iscsi-2.0.871.3 compile fail on 2.6.32-openvz-budarin.1 kernel

Xi Shen writes: > i got this error while trying to emerge the open-iscis-2.0.871.3: > > be2iscsi.o transport.o iscsid.o > iscsi_sysfs.o: In function `iscsi_sysfs_get_blockdev_from_lun': > iscsi_sysfs.c:(.text+0xe71): undefined reference to `S_ISLNK' > iscsi_sysfs.c:(.text+0xed3): undefined refere

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

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/hdstate.log sleep 10 done > Running a scr

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

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

KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

Mick writes: > On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: > > BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, > > they are not even mounted. > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gma

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

James writes: > My friend threw a theory out there -- maybe the beginning of the > partition is incorrect on the drive? The drive originally had an NTFS > partition. By blowing away the beginning of the drive and then > rewriting the partition table, maybe the kernel was using the original > "begi

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm

I wrote: > Mick writes: > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 > > > > I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have > > set up and p*sses me off. o_O > > > > As soon as KDE starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

Kevin O'Gorman writes: > This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it > somehow. I know this effect, this happens from time to time. At the moment it is working fine, but I got used to killall kdm when the init script did not work. It did not bother me too much, so I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Support for Netbook

Aaron Bauman writes: >I bought a new Toshiba T215D-S1150 with a AMD Athlon II Neo > Processor. I am currently having issues with the livecd not booting. > Everything seems to get stuck on an NeT RPC error while the kernel is > booting. I was able to successfully install Ubuntu (Netbook Remi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still > use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. > Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA > drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name t

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

Al writes: > 2010/8/23 Paul Hartman : > > confcache > > configure knows the option `--cache-file=file': > http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14 > > Does emerge make use of it? Is there a way to tell emerge to use it, > without writing an overlay to each package? Em

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. mkswap hast the option -L for this. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. > It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages > tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. > I looked into LVM a good while ago. It's just to much for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

Pau Peris writes: > Hi, after following your tips the code gets like the following one: > > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}=="VNVB05G2RKTRZH", NAME="hda" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}=="9QK0T4WM", NAME="sda" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}=="3QD0X58D", NAME="sdb" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", AT

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

Arnau Bria writes: > I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. > so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a > local overlay. > > *I had a problem when adding > "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" to my make.conf. That file > does not exi

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Dale writes: > I'm no expert on this package so take this with a grain of salt. Mine > just updated and portage said to run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" which > I did. Thing is, one of the packages failed to emerge so here I sit. > The error says something is missing which is the same reason the

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

Tanstaafl writes: > On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage > > 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, > > You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage?? No, but I replied to Dale, and he apparently does. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho. I would > like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first. Does it > have a little info on screen on what does what at least? I think the > edit screen does but not sure about this part. Grub comes with

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

Dale writes: > Robin Atwood wrote: > > I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have > > installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input? > > Otherwise I will go with choice 2! I am running 4.5.0 for a while now, and for me it is the best KDE4 ever. Which does not mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

Dale writes: > I do only have KDE on here. The bad thing is, I use kdm for my login > manager. Even that was broken. I had no GUI and no way to login to > KDE or anything else. Log into a text console, and start KDE with 'XSESSION=KDE-4 startx'. Replace KDE-4 with anything from /etc/X11/Sessi

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

Dale writes: > Looking forward to seeing how your upgrade works out. Everything compiled without a problem, and so far things seem to work fine. Well, as fine as before. Konqueror still cannot open the correct URL when clicking a link in kmail or kopete. Kontact is still at version 4.4.5, but

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

David Relson writes: > Having my own domain, I run my own mailserver -- but it's not on my > gentoo development machine. I read the emerge python code, > specifically mail.py, to find how PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is handled. > Reading the code lead me to (finally) realize that I need to have a > PORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

I wrote: > So far, I see no difference from 4.5.0. Nepomuk crashed two times while indexing stuff. I rebuilt it with debug flags, but could not reproduce the bug yet. But 4.5.1 just got masked, so better wait a while until trying to do the upgrade. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

Ajai Khattri writes: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Dale wrote: > > Try this: > > > > emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 > > # emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 > > * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news to read news items. > > > These are the packages that w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

Al writes: > being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical > heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server. > At least a news server is not offically announced on > http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read > some, not all of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

Ajai Khattri writes: > OK, Ive managed to proceed a little further, but now Im encountering > this: > > # emerge -uDtpvk world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slo

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

SpaceCake writes: > Is there a user friendly guide or howto to help me to migrate my 32 bit > gentoo to 64 bit without loosing my settings? A similar question came up just yesterday, look for the 'Gentoo 32bit- >64bit: How?' thread. Wonko

[gentoo-user] X11 traffic analyzer

Hi there! Is there such a thing as a traffic/protocol analyzer for X11? I have a self-written application (using the old XView toolkit), and under certain circumstances some dialogs do not react. I had this 2 years ago under KDE 3.5, and some people now experience the same when SSH'ing from an

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 traffic analyzer

Adam Carter writes: > Wireshark has an X11 decoder. For tcpdump you could try -vv or -vvv but > i would just go straight to wireshark it will almost certainly be more > useful. Of course if its inside an ssh tunnel you will only see ssh > with a packet sniffer. If you're on the local box sniff lo0

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask

J. Roeleveld writes: > Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. I do. > What does "eix pykde4" say on your system? > On mine it says: > *** > $ eix pykde4 > [I] kde-base/pykde4 > Available versions: > (4.4) ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1] **4.4.!m!t[2] > (4.5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I plan to "convert" (==reinstall) my system to be 64bit. > Since I have an already working and configure 32bit Gentoo- > system I would like to do the migration as follows: > > Create another / partition somwhere on my harddisk > Install/Create a new 64bit Gentoo roo

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I think there is some misunderstanding: > > Before migration to 64bit: > > /dev/sda3 is mounted on / and contains the 32bit Gentoo > > /dev/sda10 is mounted on /home/mcc/migration and will contain the > stuff of the 64bit Gentoo > > After migration I will *not* mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > I also cannot evaluate the real impact the position of the /-partition > on the harddisk has on system performance. I read about it years ago > and since than I always put the partitions always in the sequence of > "boot","swap","root","home" onto the harddisks. May b

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 < unlock 14274560

Valmor de Almeida writes: > Filesystem isclean > * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... > * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager ... > Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 < unlock 14274560 > Internal error: Maps lock 14274560 < unlock 14278656 > Internal error: Maps lock

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

Florian Philipp writes: > I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for > breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage > grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. I was just about to write something about this. I suffered from bad

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, > Florian Philipp did opine thusly: > > I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for > > breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage > > grows significantly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card

Jeff Cranmer writes: > I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo > box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. > > When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa > driver. Same here, with OpenGL working fine: wo...@weird ~ $ fglrxinfo IRQ's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

Jeff Cranmer writes: > Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open > source driver instead of ati. I think this is correct? Sounds right. > The kernel options are configured as follows > > Device Drivers -> > Generic Driver Options -> > <*> Userspace firmware loadi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

Adam Carter writes: > I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/" > EndSection > > Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in > the second

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > >[...] > > > > You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is > > not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. > > Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arc

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade - rebuild everything?

Grant writes: > I just upgraded from gcc-4.4.3-r2 to gcc-4.4.4-r2 and I'm wondering if > I really need to rebuild everything as it says in the guide: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml The guide seems to be wrong here. Rebuilding does not harm, and it makes use of tall the cool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

Dale writes: > So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I > get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver > issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the top? If not, your're using soft

Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal

Dale asks: > They are probably already moved away from hal. Everybody knows it is > going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too. I'm still on > 1.7.*. Me too. > Which brings me to my next question. How is xorg 1.9 working for ya? > Any gotchas? May try it here. X starts, but crash

Re: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME

Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: > I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will > not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. [...] > It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd. > Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be th

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

Kfir Lavi writes: > Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not > currently installed in the system? Have a look here: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 This is not 100% reliable, as sometimes the files that get installed depend on USE flags and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

Am 04.11.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Try conf-update, you might like it. It's a good middle-ground, I find. I like cfg-update [*]. I use it with kdiff3, but you can use about any merge tool you like, be it GUI or CLI. Looks quite sophisticated to me. I only worry that it is not being dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

Indexer writes: > Another thing to check, is that the folder is marked +x in chmod. > It may be that on reboot some automated cleaning script re-added > that flag. > > Folders can only be listed if they are +x btw Right, but Harry would have gotten a permission denied error in this case, not a h

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc gives strange error

Maximilian Bräutigam writes: > I'm trying to update my glibc for now 2 weeks or so and it doesn't > matter what I'm doing, I run into a strange error. > > """ > /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.12.1-r3/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-li > nux-gnu-nptl/libc_pic.a(init-first.os):(.data+0x0): multiple d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

Dale writes: > Well, I worked on my air compressor and played in the dirt in my garden > for a while and now I get this again: > > 2 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.263 FPS > 2 frames in 7.7 seconds = 0.259 FPS D'ouch! > I don't know what the issue is but it is getting on my nerves. I have > not e

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > Hi Everyone , > I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question > is a newbie one. Welcome :) > anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to > compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : > > emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

Benyamin Dvoskin writes: > In the proccess of trying to understand my possible mistake > I'm wondering , > which stage3 file should I use ? the i686 or the i486 ? > > I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEPC 1005ha netbook i686 if you want a 32 bit OS, x86_64 for 64 bit. > which stage should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

Mick writes: > I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. > > I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it > is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: [...] > I've run a short and long test with smartmontools and it passed both. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

dhk writes: > On 11/10/2010 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:20 -0500, dhk wrote: > >> Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only > >> happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 > >> box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. >

Re: [gentoo-user] after update ssh with shared_keys don't work

Tamer Higazi writes: > I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH > through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time. As Willie writes, you do not provide much information. Try ssh -v , this gives some debug information. Also try -vv and -vvv to get even mor

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

J. Roeleveld writes: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces > > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is > > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it > > up to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

J. Roeleveld writes: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces > > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is > > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it > > up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it?

Alan McKinnon writes: > If I reboot this machine and start KDE, Nepomuk starts a rather > long-lived index of my home directory. It takes up about 30-40% cpu > and lasts as much as 15 minutes sometimes. This is annoying because > after a reboot I usually want to catch up on mail, rss feeds and fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

Robin Atwood writes: > On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on > > > my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. > > > Everything seems to work al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

Stroller writes: > All I want is a simple email notification when $string appears in the > log. > > I'm actually a little surprised that there isn't a syslogger which can > parse stuff as it writes it out, and thus perform actions, such as > mailing. I'm assuming there isn't, since no-one has men

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

Alan McKinnon writes: > I need to get to the work CVS server from home. It's not exposed to the > internet but never fear! we have ssh -L and a convenient sshd host that is on > the internets. So, locally > > ssh -Llocalhost::cvs.example.com:22 a...@gateway.example.com > > and tell cvs tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

Adam Carter writes: > Hmm, I don't get it. Why would this .ssh/config not work? > > Host gateway >Hostname gateway.example.com >User alan >LocalForward cvs.example.com:22 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

Alan McKinnon writes: > I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre: > > Activities. wtf are those? I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably never will. But I'm not the average user. I have six virtual desktops (current screenshots are at http://www.wonkolog

Re: [gentoo-user] udev: renaming eth0 to eth1 ???

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > unfortunately I had to change my motherboard (the replacement is > exactly the same model/type of the previous on). > > I booted the new board and: NO Lan. Eth0 dead it seems. > > It took me several long minutes before I found the following > line in dmesg's lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex > > Schuster did opine thusly: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > Activities. wtf are those? > > > > I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and

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