Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 22:28 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier a écrit : > > What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the > > deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? > > If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read > > Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if thing

[gentoo-user] evince, MIME, and old user together make a strange bug

2006-07-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
I've got a strange bug, probably linked with the recent gnome-2.14 upgrade: Whenever I try to open a pdf file with evince (0.5.3 or 0.5.4), I have the following error message: Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-extension-pdf' However everything workd fine when I do one of the fo

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-07 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 16:51 -0700, Ow Mun Heng a écrit : > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 01:43 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : > > > > Check your xorg.conf for the following: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-06 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > > I installed ati-drivers and "partially" works correctly: > > > > As user nothing works: > > --- > > [...] > > direct rendering: No > > --- > > > > with roo

Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

2006-06-14 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 17:30 +0800, 张 韡武 a écrit : > Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying "Star > map". By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as > well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. I think the keyword to google at is

Re: [gentoo-user] Tomboy - Does it have Alerts?

2006-06-02 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 01 juin 2006 à 11:37 -0700, Ow Mun Heng a écrit : > I just installed tomboy, seems nice. > > Is there capability to add in Alerts/alarms? Ther is the tomboy-reminder plugin, but I don't know it's current state (ant it's not in portage yet) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83060

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 20:18 +0200, Sascha Lucas a écrit : > # lsattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint > lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on > /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint/a Same "problem" here. But man lsattr says it's for ext2fs only. However getfattr works well. Hope this helps

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : > Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and untar it ... Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 18:32 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an > > updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an > updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is > finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process > logged.

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : > reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), because > it saves a lot of space. However, reiserfs suffers from fragmentation in the long term. A laptop (slow disk) with a single reiserfs partition and

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 19 avril 2006 à 10:41 +0800, David a écrit : > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:59:00PM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: > > I'll try when I'm back home (in may) > If you are in Beijing, > it is easy to do the test using an external usb hub with it's own > power supply for free. Because Beij

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 11:47 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:14, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > > Any idea left ? > > So, you definitely have a hardware problem. Digging for the id of your device > 1043 8006 reveals a linux kernel mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 06:25 -0700, Richard Fish a écrit : > On 4/18/06, Frédéric Grosshans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first time I saw those 32 MB (a few days ago, when the key worked > > and was almost empty), df -h told me there was 1006 MB left on the k

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk.[SOLVED (sort of ...)]

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node > but no /dev/sda1 . (snip) I finally managed to plug this disk onto a windows machine. Windows sees the disk, but can neither read it nor format

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:37:54 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > > There is indeed an encryption feature on this key. I've never used it (I > > haven't even downloaded the windows-only software allowi

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 15:37 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > So my next steps are : > 1. Switching back to usb-storage > 2. Trying to dd the disk > 3. That doesn't work, trying to get access to another computer and see > if I can do something. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:12 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:04, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > Any other idea ? > > Never give up. That seems to be your moto :-) > Try hexdump on the device above: > hexdump -C /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/uba1 with Klingston usb disk.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node > but no /dev/sda1 . I've just tried the ub driver, and it's the same problem (/dev/uba node but no /dev/uba1), with the following dmes

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 13:20 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > L > > Which in turn come from the table in > > /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h. Maybe you can try > > adding an entry for your device to that table? Something like: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 20:44 -0700, Richard Fish a écrit : > On 4/17/06, Frédéric Grosshans > This doesn't really matter. It comes from the database at > http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids OK. Thanks > However, I think the kernel doesn't fully recognize your device. You

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node > but no /dev/sda1 . When I try to access /dev/sda, I've the following > errors : [...] Thanks for everyone who has helped. To have

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 20:22 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > Good. According to processed events, there is a raw disk dedected properly > but > no partition processed. If you still do not see /dev/sda, try to look for > your disk at folowing locations: > > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*something* > and

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 18:51 +0100, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko a écrit : > On the example of the SD card reader, when you insert the card, /dev/sdb > appears, but not the actual partition (/dev/sdb1) > > So you have to do fdisk /dev/sdb, then quit, then the /dev/sdb1 is > magically available for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 20:53 +0200, Regis Decamps a écrit : > You should be able to mount /dev/sda directly > fdisk /dev/sda will fail or displays a broken partition table. I think, /dev/sda1 has worked before anyway, mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk/ fails with the following error message : mount:

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 18:23 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > On Monday 17 April 2006 17:49, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 17:26 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > > This is (sadly) consistent with the lack of /dev/sda1 device. > > So be it, let's

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 17:26 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > On Monday 17 April 2006 16:24, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > > > This is a not an iCreate 32MB drive, but a Kingston DataTraveler Elite > > 1GB drive. I did some first tests with small files, and it worked OK. I >

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Hi Jeff Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 10:52 -0400, Jeff a écrit : > Is the USB key in question formatted with a FAT partition by chance? I think, if it was a format problem, I would see a /dev/sda1 node, but wouldn't be able to mount it. I don't even see that /dev/sda1 , and fdisk has no access to /

[gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . When I try to access /dev/sda, I've the following errors : sanduleak ~ # fdisk /dev/sda Unable to open /dev/sda sanduleak ~ # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null dd: opening `

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 12:07 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : > > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > > > It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice >

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real

2006-04-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 05 avril 2006 à 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:18 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: > It would be nice if there was a nice command for making disk access nice > so I could nicely say `nice emerge -uD world` and it wouldn't take a > whole lot of disk time away fr

Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc

2006-03-23 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
> Question is, why other guys do not start a real open source project to > make a phone application? tou mean like ekiga http://www.ekiga.org ? Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 16:14 -0500, Ernie Schroder a écrit : > !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. I had the same problem yesterday, but it seems solved today after an emerge sync. Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 17 février 2006 à 16:07 +, Neil Bothwick wrote, using Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > So do I, but I don't like GNOME > SCNR :) But apparently, you like GTK+ software enough to use it to write this Gnome-bashing answer ;) SCNR ... Fred PS: I

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 16 février 2006 à 16:32 +, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:50:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I found xdiskusage to be a very practical tool to findout where space > > > is wasted on a disk. [...] > Filelight is another useful program here... and with more eye-

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-16 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 04:42 -0800, Mark Knecht a écrit : > OK, good info - but what can I remove? Or more important how can I > find what's talking up too much space. I know you've already solved that problem, but I think the following might be interesting. I found xdiskusage to be a ve

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick convert utility; latest version has problems

2006-02-10 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 10 février 2006 à 02:25 -0500, Walter Dnes a écrit : > The latest unstable builds complain about not finding libMagick.so.6. More or less random guess : did you revdep-rebuild ? Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

2006-01-25 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 09:39 +0100, Holly Bostick a écrit : > I'm sorry not to be more precise, but I suspect that I may not have the > calendar application you are using. But here is what I found: I guess he speaks of the calendar which appears when you left-click on the clock-applet. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Latex spacing problem

2005-10-05 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 04 octobre 2005 à 18:16 -0600, Joseph a écrit : > Is there any Tetex/Latex guru on the list? > > I've tried to copy the formating string from invoice.tex form (that > correctly wraps up the description column): > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}} The kind of column you want ar the X columns of the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Kernel

2005-05-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
book-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 The same in french: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 To update a kernel configuration, copy the old .config file into /usr/src/linux and make oldconfig . hope this helps, Frédéric -- Frédéric Grosshans

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked GCC question.

2005-05-09 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
ile > and then emerge it? > Is there a Gentoo-related guide to this somewhere? To unmask a package, the guide is here : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 But gcc is probably something special, and I never dared to touch it... Fred -- F

Re: [gentoo-user] getting hard nmasked packages

2005-04-27 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
e/xorg-x11-6.8.99.3" >>/etc/portage/packages.mask Isn't it package.unmask ? Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 18 avril 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Richard Fish a écrit : > Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > >I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a > >kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? > > > > > > Well, from googling around

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
> stuffed. post your /etc/adjtime and see what it says... I've already played with it / deleted it and it doesn't seem to change anything. My current /etc/adjtime is 0.00 1113497480 0.00 1113497480 LOCAL and didn't prevent any drift -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 08:43 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > >>do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? > > > I don't think so (it's not a laptop). H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 02:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles a écrit : > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes: > > > > > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
hwclock man page says, you might want > to do this with adjtimex instead. I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? And Thanks to everyone for the help. Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
e correct > drift and adjustment values. ntp doesn't work anyway :-( (I'm behind a firewall) And playing with /etc/adjtime didn't help when I tried it: it changes the hardware clock, which is correct, and not the system clock, which drifts. Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
AP=y Thanks for the suggestion anyway, Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Anyone knows how to avoid this ? (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
atch up like that. You can have the patchlist here http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-sources/release-11.09/patchlist.htm (the equivalence 11.09 <-> 11-r6 is guven here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-sources/releases.htm ) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Evolution 2.0.{3,4} crashes with aspell 0.60.3

2005-04-14 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
hat's happening? And how I could have spell-checcking back in Tomboy without making evolution crash ? Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques UMR 7162, CNRS/Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7 - Case 7021 Couloir 24-25, 1er étage. 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris ce

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of "etcat use"?

2005-04-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
-] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-extras-0.7 (0) [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.0 (0) [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/gnome-themes-extras-0.8.1 (0) * overlay tree (/usr/local/bugzilla-portage) The interesting part is difficult to find in equery's output ! Fred -- Frédér

Re: [gentoo-user] More acroread weirdness

2005-04-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
tter looking toolbar). I don't know with acroread 7, but acroread 5 was not a very nice plugin here (it eated a lot of cpu). The solution was the noplugin USE flag. It might help you with acroread 7 Hope this helps, Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list