Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-19 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:36:59AM +0800, microcai wrote: rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree, that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror. I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor of 26. I think the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:10:40PM +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:27 +0200 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards

2014-02-03 Thread Amankwah
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:36:29PM +0200, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Hi all   I am doing a new Gentoo installation and I cannot get my network cards to work. I have two cards   1) eth0 =  Realtek RLTl8111e 2) wlan0 = RaLink RT2561/RT61   Gen Kernel has support for both.   

Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards

2014-02-03 Thread Amankwah
application. you can just check the basic configurations by the command iwconfig and iwlist first, if it's OK, and your wireless has encryption, you should configrue the wpa_supplicant correctly or using the NetworkManager to manage your wirless connection. On 2/3/14, Amankwah amankw...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] System hangs when poweroff with NFS mounted

2014-01-31 Thread Amankwah
pulseaudio[3301]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. 1?? 24 21:55:01 diamond sudo[3362]: amankwah : TTY=pts/4 ; PWD=/home/amankwah ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/sh 1?? 24 22:34:32 diamond systemd[3061]: Stopping Default. 1?? 24 22:34:32 diamond systemd[3061]: Stopped target Default

[gentoo-user] System hangs when poweroff with NFS mounted

2014-01-19 Thread Amankwah
Hi all, I swithed to Gnome3 last week, and the systemd is needed by gnome3.8, so I used systemd to replace the openrc now. Howerver, my system always hangs when I try to poweroff. I have NFSv3 filesystem mounted via WiFi, it's managed by the Networkmanager. so it seemed that the wireless

[gentoo-user] HD7870 AMD Catalyst no framebuffer console

2013-04-18 Thread Amankwah
Hi all, I have a video card HD7870, I tried install the AMD Catalyst driver ~amd64 in portage, it works well under X. But when I press ctrl+alt+F1, the screen is blank?? Although I googled this problem I add nomodeset and radeon.modeset=0 video=uvesa to the kernel cmdline in

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing static IP remotely...

2013-02-27 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:48:02AM +0100, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo users, what is the proper way of changing static IP-address remotely without the need to restart the whole system (or locking me out)? I have one interface with static IP, so first I'm going to edit /etc/conf.d/net. Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 07:28:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Amankwah
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:32:22PM +0100, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm)

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes

2011-03-21 Thread Amankwah
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:44PM -0400, Michael George wrote: I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime types. I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had mutt-1.5.20-r18 and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and firefox-3.6.15.

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Amankwah
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote: I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -