[gentoo-user] Corrupted font in gtk apps.

2012-01-27 Thread Robert David
Hi, after recent update I encountered a problem with fonts. They looks ugly and somehow corrupted. I see that in gtk apps I use, but maybe it is also in other apps. I encountered it on two computers, both amd64. Before a week it was fine. I use gentoo stable. I have fixed it partly by using

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop

2012-01-27 Thread Robert David
Hi, what does xrandr say?? Connect the external monitor and type xrandr on console. Than something like: xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto Robert. V Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:03 + (GMT) dhk...@optonline.net napsáno: I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop which has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop

2012-01-27 Thread Robert David
. Also you can use the tools for your DE, for example krandrtray for KDE or gnome it has in Settings I think. Robert. V Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:13:10 + (GMT) dhk...@optonline.net napsáno: - Original Message -From: Robert David Date: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:00 amSubject: Re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupted font in gtk apps.

2012-01-29 Thread Robert David
07:36:04 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com napsáno: On 01/27/2012 04:23 AM, Robert David wrote: Hi, after recent update I encountered a problem with fonts. They looks ugly and somehow corrupted. I see that in gtk apps I use, but maybe it is also in other apps. I don't have that problem now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupted font in gtk apps.

2012-01-29 Thread Robert David
Thanks for your help, I have found the problem. After checking my homedir I observed I have accidently uncommented some old xft stuff in .Xdefaults file. That cause the problem. Robert. V Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:35:42 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com napsáno: On 01/29/2012 08:54 AM, Robert David

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?

2012-01-30 Thread Robert David
V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800 Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au napsáno: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of memory during GCC compile

2012-02-06 Thread Robert David
V Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:33:21 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com napsáno: I'm trying to compile GCC on a remote system with 192MB RAM. It's completed successfully before but now it uses up all RAM. The compile doesn't stop but it must be thrashing. I have MAKEOPTS=-j1 in /etc/make.conf. Am I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Robert David
V Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:08:43 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com napsáno: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system.  Is there a safe way to do this?  The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me.  When does that ever work? You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Robert David
V Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:32:20 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com napsáno: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system.  Is there a safe way to do this?  The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me.  When does that ever work? You can press ESC in the Grub screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Robert David
V Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:50:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info napsáno: On Feb 26, 2012 2:05 AM, Robert David robert.david.pub...@gmail.com wrote: V Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:32:20 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com napsáno: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Displaylink adapter and setting up X

2012-03-14 Thread Robert David
V Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:24:47 -0500 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com napsáno: I feel really stupid asking this, but I want to use an HDMI component to output one of my PCs to the TV set. I've followed all of the wiki entry at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/DisplayLink, but there's something

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for saving power needed...

2012-04-02 Thread Robert David
Hi, maybe write your hw configuration first. Eg: CPUs, graphic cards, HDDs (size, speed, type) and others. Also provide lspci output and /proc/cpuinfo. Then this is a server, maybe with more than one GB nic. If you dont use spare nics disable them in bios. Do the same with other unneeded

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ath9k: can't authenticate

2012-04-13 Thread Robert David
Hi, Check in wicd settings which routing tool you use. Select route when using ip. I got some problems with wicd and ip. I just using similar ath9k card on 3.0.x with no problem. I always use wifi as module. And I don't use genkernel, just my plain config and easy initrd for lvm root support

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Robert David
Hi Helmut, this is common problem with nfs. I would suggest investigate more about nfs4 (better caching). And try to play with mount options rsize=1024,wsize=1024. I think default is 8k. Robert. V Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:29:57 +0200 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de napsáno: Hi, on

Re: [gentoo-user] I've met strange message when i execute vim

2012-04-22 Thread Robert David
Hi, do you have clean environmet, eg: revdep-rebuild ?? What kind of terminal you using? Because vim does not use glib, as I know. Try to run the same in xterm or other terminal. Robert. V Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:58:44 +0900 Seong-ho Cho darkcircle.0...@gmail.com napsáno: Yes. I can edit text

Re: [gentoo-user] I've met strange message when i execute vim

2012-04-22 Thread Robert David
to register gtype 'GSocketMsgFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' meow@darkcircle ~/xfce-ko $ 2012/4/22 Robert David robert.david.pub...@gmail.com: Hi, do you have clean environmet, eg: revdep-rebuild ?? What kind of terminal you using? Because vim does not use glib

Re: [gentoo-user] I've met strange message when i execute vim

2012-04-22 Thread Robert David
is attached. I think that this problem caused by pygtk-related component. I did re-emerge pygtk related packages (pywebkitgtk python-gtkmvc pygtksourceview pygtkhelpers pygtkglext gtkspell-python pygtk) but I didn't fix this problem : ( 2012/4/22 Robert David robert.david.pub...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone setup Gentoo on an Archos 101

2012-04-24 Thread Robert David
Nice project. I dont know this tablet, but I have similar project that want to realize when time will arrive. I have Asus eee note, nice grayscale tablet with wacom digitizer. I want to make some guide and build environment to prepare image for that. If you want to install gentoo there, I suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] System cold crashing when too much memory is used?

2012-10-21 Thread Robert David
Hi, what rebooted Dom0 or DomU? Have you some special need to run kernel 3.4.9, try 3.0.35, I dont have any issue on server with 3.0.x. Other thing, try to disable swap and run the script. Could be disk problem or bus/controller problem when copying pages from swap. Robert. On Friday 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Robert David
Hi Patric, what about iperf? Robert. On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 20:36:54 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2012-12-28 Thread Robert David
Hi Kevin, what exactly you missing on screen lock in E17? I use E17 and screen lock is ok when suspending. It does not need some xscreenlock stuff, it is just part of e. Just check settings-sceen-screen_lock and checkin lock_on_suspend. Thats all:) If you missing something, just make sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] How broken is my raid device /dev/md6?

2012-12-28 Thread Robert David
Hi, what does say: cat /proc/mdstat This happened on running system? The root is still running fine I suppose. Try run smartctl test on both drives. And do not rebuild or recreate md before you do not know all information, you can terribly broke your root. Robert. On Sun, 23 Dec 2012

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2013-01-03 Thread Robert David
is greyed out and uncheckable. Did try building with all modules -Kevin On 12/28/2012 04:16 AM, Robert David wrote: Hi Kevin, what exactly you missing on screen lock in E17? I use E17 and screen lock is ok when suspending. It does not need some xscreenlock stuff, it is just part of e. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2013-01-03 Thread Robert David
change the settings. no dbus problems that i can see -Kevin On 01/03/2013 04:26 AM, Robert David wrote: Did you try e with new config with e-17 release? Or you had some previous configs and was replaced with release. Because there was some config upgrade and old configs did not work

[gentoo-user] Firefox and ssl

2013-01-04 Thread Robert David
Hi all, anyone have problem with firefox and selfsigned ssl? I tryed firefox and firefox-bin. Firefox: Problem loading page: Secure connection failed. Firefox-bin: No problem loading page. I tryed with/without system-sqlite. Rebuild nss. Nothing helped. Robert David

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and ssl

2013-01-04 Thread Robert David
This is not the problem. With firefox-bin I can normaly accept the certificate, compiled firefox does not give me the option. Robert. On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:13:20 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 04 Jan 2013 12:45:01 Robert David wrote: Hi all, anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2013-01-05 Thread Robert David
. On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:20:24 -0600 Kevin Brandstatter kjbrandstat...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, ive attached one to this email. -Kevin On 01/03/2013 03:08 PM, Robert David wrote: This is wired, can you post screenshot? There does not seem to be some condition in code. Robert

Re: [gentoo-user] howto on setting up rootfs on ZFS?

2013-05-22 Thread Robert David
Hi, I use grml livecd for various recovery/livecd purposes. I just add an script to my boot partition to compile current zfs. Since it is debian based it contains installation through aptitude. Robert. /boot/zfs # ls install_zfs* spl-0.6.1.tar.gz zfs_create zfs-0.6.1.tar.gz /boot/zfs #

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread Robert David
Hi Frank, On Tuesday, June 29, 2021 3:56:49 PM CEST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello fellows > > This is not really a Gentoo question, but at least my NAS (which this mail > is about) is running Gentoo. :) > > There are some people amongst this esteemed group that know their stuff > about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-04 Thread Robert David
On Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:01:25 PM CEST antlists wrote: > On 01/07/2021 14:47, Robert David wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > > > > > > > In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the > > MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Robert David
Hi John, my approach is to have EFI partition with staticly compiled grub, alpine linux rescue system and kernel with tiny initramfs for zfs root. It works really well, only thing you need to consider is when upgrading root pool, you will not be able to boot to previous BE with old zfs. Without

Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

2022-01-19 Thread Robert David
Hi, to the downgrade thing it can be partly done using the squashfs portage snapshots laying on every portage mirror. There is a long history list there. https://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/squashfs/ So you can migrate your portage tree from plain files to the squashfs. But actually the