[gentoo-user] /etc/portage files and dirs?

2011-10-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
Anyone knows of an exhaustive documentation (with examples) for the files and directories under /etc/portage ? Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-24 Thread András Csányi
On 24 October 2011 07:57, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: Also if you dont want to do thos globbaly for all your packages you can make use of /etc/portage/env/. For example this is what i have for amarok in /etc/portage/env/media-sound/amarok CFLAGS=-march=core2 -O1 -g

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-24 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 08:36:07 András Csányi wrote: Thank you very much! I'm going to do this way. If I make a file under /etc/portage/env/ directory, for example Amarok than in this file Under /etc/portage/env/ you need to make a directory with the category name and in that directory a file

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage files and dirs?

2011-10-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Mon 24 Oct 2011 11:37:00 AM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: Anyone knows of an exhaustive documentation (with examples) for the files and directories under /etc/portage ? Rgds, It's documented quite well in man portage. Don't know about examples though. -- Nilesh Govindarajan

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-24 Thread András Csányi
On 24 October 2011 08:54, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: ps. Also note theres another(probably more) way to do this, remeber seeing it mentioned in an old thread here. Thanks again! By the way, I haven't realized that how configurable gentoo is. :) -- - - --  Csanyi Andras

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:24:20 +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote: Also note theres another(probably more) way to do this, remeber seeing it mentioned in an old thread here. There is, you put your options in a .conf file in /etc/portage/env, say /etc/portage/env/debug.conf. Then you can you can enable

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage files and dirs?

2011-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:41:38 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Anyone knows of an exhaustive documentation (with examples) for the files and directories under /etc/portage ? It's documented quite well in man portage. Don't know about examples though. There's not much need for examples as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:10:59 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On my wired machine that works out of the box I have: [wired-default] [snip] On the machine I have to issue a manual dhcpcd eth0 I have: [wired-default] [snip] Don't know whether the missing values make a difference. I

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage files and dirs?

2011-10-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 14:48, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:41:38 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Anyone knows of an exhaustive documentation (with examples) for the files and directories under /etc/portage ? It's documented quite well in man portage.

[gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2011 11:24 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: Mother Board : ASUS M2A-MX Graphics Card: ATI 4350 Sound card: using on board audio Help needed On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: I am new to gentoo. Installed

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 02:40 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: Greetings, emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck. --- i5 hafi #

[gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 11:10 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/23/2011 11:24 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: Mother Board : ASUS M2A-MX Graphics Card: ATI 4350 Sound card: using on board audio Help needed For your graphics card, install this firmware package: x11-drivers/radeon-ucode Then, enable the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Vishnupradeep
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: In your /etc/make.conf, use this: I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that VIDEO_CARDS=radeon r700 ref:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

[gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: In your /etc/make.conf, use this: I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that VIDEO_CARDS=radeon r700 No. There is no driver called r700. The driver

[gentoo-user] Problem with sound card

2011-10-24 Thread Lavender
I have asked the question in gentoo forum , but it seems that very few people like hanging around in forums , I didn't get useful method. My sound card can't work normally , when I use music player there is no sound . Someone said that I need low-level codec support , I'm not sure whether it is.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with sound card

2011-10-24 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 20:35 +0800, Lavender wrote: I have asked the question in gentoo forum , but it seems that very few people like hanging around in forums , I didn't get useful method. My sound card can't work normally , when I use music player there is no sound . Someone said that I

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with sound card

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 04:31 PM, Lavender wrote: * Looks like maybe you have 2 sound cards. Are you going through the correct card for output? It's not like that . I only have one sound card and one HD audio controller, Er, if you have one sound card and one

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with sound card

2011-10-24 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/24 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com:   * Looks like maybe you have 2 sound cards. Are you going through the correct card for output? It's not like that . I only have one sound card and one HD audio controller, I don't why there are card0 and card1.   * Did you go into 

[gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread 4k3nd0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi guys, somehow my fglrx is unstable. Got sometime a crashing fglrx that pulling down the hole system. Someone maybe a idea to fix this? http://pastebin.com/izFnWD7N I'm using the 11.9 ati-drivers, i got a ATI Readon HD6990 M uname -a Linux Slaxy

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2 [SOLVED]

2011-10-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.10.2011 03:15, schrieb Michael Sullivan: On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? Nope: It

Re:[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with sound card

2011-10-24 Thread Lavender
Er, if you have one sound card and one audio controller, then doesn't that make two sound cards? :-/ (One actual sound card (PCI or PCIe) and one integrated into the mainboard?) Ha, I'm not comprehend with hardware . You didn't install it then. It's in the media-sound/alsa-utils package.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 16:36:00 schrieb 4k3nd0: hi guys, somehow my fglrx is unstable. Got sometime a crashing fglrx that pulling down the hole system. Someone maybe a idea to fix this? http://pastebin.com/izFnWD7N [fglrx] ASIC hang happened is a message indicating a deadlock

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread 4k3nd0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/11 17:31, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 16:36:00 schrieb 4k3nd0: hi guys, somehow my fglrx is unstable. Got sometime a crashing fglrx that pulling down the hole system. Someone maybe a idea to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 24 Oktober 2011, 16:36:00 schrieb 4k3nd0: hi guys, somehow my fglrx is unstable. Got sometime a crashing fglrx that pulling down the hole system. Someone maybe a idea to fix this? http://pastebin.com/izFnWD7N I'm using the 11.9 ati-drivers, i got a ATI Readon HD6990 M uname

[gentoo-user] [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread walt
I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station. Not so good :( After getting some unreliable results with hdparm, I settled on copying one 3GB file from one partition of the outboard

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station.  Not so good :( After getting some unreliable results with hdparm, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 18:11:45 schrieb 4k3nd0: On 10/24/11 17:31, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 16:36:00 schrieb 4k3nd0: hi guys, somehow my fglrx is unstable. Got sometime a crashing fglrx that pulling down the hole system. Someone maybe a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 18:49:36 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Montag 24 Oktober 2011, 16:36:00 schrieb 4k3nd0: hi guys, somehow my fglrx is unstable. Got sometime a crashing fglrx that pulling down the hole system. Someone maybe a idea to fix this?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 08:28 PM, walt wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station. Not so good :( [...] Over at least six trials on each docking station I consistently get 105

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic fglrx

2011-10-24 Thread 4k3nd0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/11 20:27, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 18:11:45 schrieb 4k3nd0: On 10/24/11 17:31, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2011, 16:36:00 schrieb 4k3nd0: hi guys, somehow my fglrx is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:28 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station.  Not so good :( I think, generally speaking, a SATA drive plugged

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: In your /etc/make.conf, use this: I am using ATI 4350 card. so is that

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-24, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station. Not so good :( After getting some unreliable results with hdparm, I settled on

[gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 10:59 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: In your /etc/make.conf, use this: I am using ATI 4350

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.10.2011 22:02, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-10-24, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station. Not so good :( After getting some

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed

2011-10-24 Thread Hartmut Figge
Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/24/2011 02:40 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: i5 hafi # emerge --sync [...] ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2' For future reference, instead of deleting (which can be a bad idea since new ebuilds can depend on

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-24, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 24.10.2011 22:02, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-10-24, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-24, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 24.10.2011 22:02, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-10-24, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 21:35:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/24/2011 10:59 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:36:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/24/2011 11:28 AM, Vishnupradeep wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various specific software they need. Stable so far. Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try. reply 2, new thoughts (perspective: running *one* Windows-XP-VM on a desktop-machine, for some

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread walt
On 10/24/2011 10:28 AM, walt wrote: ... Over at least six trials on each docking station I consistently get 105 seconds for USB and 84 seconds for e-sata, a 5:4 ratio in favor of e-sata/sata over USB3/sata... Wow, lots of great answers, guys, thanks. Enough material to give me lots more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Oct 24, 2011 7:21 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/24/2011 10:28 AM, walt wrote: ... Over at least six trials on each docking station I consistently get 105 seconds for USB and 84 seconds for e-sata, a 5:4 ratio in favor of e-sata/sata over USB3/sata... Wow, lots of great

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Oct 24 2011, Michael Mol wrote: On Oct 24, 2011 7:21 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Now, lack of DMA is another story for hard disks, certainly. Here's where my ignorance of hardware limits my thinking: AFAIK the device driver *always* sits between the disk drive and the DMA

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices

2011-10-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:07:23PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote In that case, you have a different situation since there is clearly a partition on the disk. The partition table may be slightly faulty, hence the need for fdisk. Recreating the partition table with fdisk should fix that

[gentoo-user] Strange issue about package.mask

2011-10-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I don't want to compile the big thing - libreoffice, so I use libreoffice-bin instead. To prevent myself from emerging libreoffice by mistake, I add it to package.mask But there's a strange thing going on here. If the contents of package.mask are like this: app-office/libreoffice equery u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Adam Carter
USB does use DMA. Check the kernel source doco Documentation/usb/dma.txt

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2011 12:21 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/24/2011 02:40 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: i5 hafi # emerge --sync [...] ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2' For future reference, instead of deleting (which can be

[gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2011 12:58 AM, Mick wrote: Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf? Yes. Everyone who uses an AMD card should have radeon in VIDEO_CARDS, followed by either r300 or r600. Of course only when we're taking about the X.Org drivers. If you're going to use the Catalyst proprietary

[gentoo-user] Re: Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2011 01:12 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 20.10.2011 18:47, schrieb Mark Knecht: Gentoo hosts run KVM, in there virtual Windows-machines for various specific software they need. Stable so far. Good to know. Maybe I'll give it a try. reply 2, new thoughts (perspective: running

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (unknown)

2011-10-24 Thread Vishnupradeep
Thanks, Effects is working.. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 10/25/2011 12:58 AM, Mick wrote: Does this need adding to /etc/make.conf? Yes. Everyone who uses an AMD card should have radeon in VIDEO_CARDS, followed by either r300 or r600. Of