Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > Stroller writes: > > But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional > > instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying > > to. > > > > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of > > instructi

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > Stroller writes: > > But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional > > instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying > > to. > > > > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of > > instructi

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller writes: > But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional > instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying > to. > > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of > instructions" with "-march=" and doing so with USEs? > > Or doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka "Start menu"). Can this be seen as a b

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: >> -> glxgears >> get fences failed: -1 >> param: 6, val: 0 >> >> 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.565 FPS >> 298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.524 FPS >> 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.737 FPS >> 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.884 FPS >> >> > > I have run into this same problem f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's > >> application launch menu (aka "Start menu"). Can this be seen as a bug > >> or am I s

[gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka "Start menu"). Can this be seen as a bug or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself? hmm...k3b- shows

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's > application launch menu (aka "Start menu"). Can this be seen as a bug > or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself? hmm...k3b- shows up in the 'multimedia' sec

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: > Maxim Wexler schrieb: > > Hi group, > > > > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk > > fails: No space left on device. > > > > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. > > Lots of 'No space l

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
> -> glxgears > get fences failed: -1 > param: 6, val: 0 > > 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.565 FPS > 298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.524 FPS > 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.737 FPS > 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.884 FPS > > I have run into this same problem following an xorg-server upgrade, The

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 23:43:19 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the > > partition with a higher amount of inodes. > > Everything? Won't that copy over the extraneous inodes? You appear to not understand what an inode is. The inode IS THE FILE.

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
> My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the > partition with a higher amount of inodes. Everything? Won't that copy over the extraneous inodes? > > This will create a file system with three times as many indoes as you > had before. Is 3x enough? I haven't even gotten off t

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 21:27, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:19, Stroller > wrote: What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of instructions" with "-march=" and doing so with USEs? Or doesn't "-march=" support additional "certain sets of instructions". What do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Jarry
Alan McKinnon wrote: So I have opted for #5: vserver-sources, and I have multiple instances of apache running in pretty good isolated vserver-guests. My €0.0144 ... I used vserver once, and was very impressed with the performance. I didn't use it eventually, as I found administering a real ru

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:19, Stroller wrote: > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of instructions" > with "-march=" and doing so with USEs? > > Or doesn't "-march=" support additional "certain sets of instructions". What > does it do, then? The difference is that with the

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 21:08, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:13, Stroller > wrote: I'm not absolutely sure that the USE flags enable hand-written assembler code, but what I do know is that: Don't make it more difficult then it is. SSE, etc means the CPU support a certain set

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:13, Stroller wrote: > > I'm not absolutely sure that the USE flags enable hand-written assembler > code, but what I do know is that: Don't make it more difficult then it is. SSE, etc means the CPU support a certain set of instructions. When you enable the use flag for i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:51:26 Stroller wrote: > > So I recommend option 4: > > > > Pony up the money for server #2 > > Just for the sake of satanic advocacy, could you indulge me, please? > > Let's say Mick is the administrator for all domains in question. He > decides to run the two sites on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 20:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Your problem will be that only one apache instance can run on port 80. Your options: 1. Run the ecommerce apache on a different port. 2. Install a second NIC with a different IP and bind each apache to port 80 on it's own nic. Or run the s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:34:33 Jarry wrote: > Ad.2: he can assign 2 IPs to single NIC. No need to buy the second NIC. > > BTW, I was in a similar situation: one user wanted to use notoriously > buggy phpBB, but I did not want to risk compromising my other web-pages. > > So I have opted for #5: vs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:33:02 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > A chroot jail is of no real use to you here - it's a development tool and > > amazingly useful for gentoo installs, but has no real security or process > > separation benefits. So says Alan - not me, a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Jarry
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:57:08 Mick wrote: I am considering running an ecommerce website (php+mysql) on a server which is already running apache (with a number of virtual hosts) and a couple of php+mysql driven websites. The ecommerce website is meant to be used to proce

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A chroot jail is of no real use to you here - it's a development tool and > amazingly useful for gentoo installs, but has no real security or process > separation benefits. So says Alan - not me, a different one. OK, thanks for this to both of you!

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:46:03 Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk > fails: No space left on device. > > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. > Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with refer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:57:08 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am considering running an ecommerce website (php+mysql) on a server which > is already running apache (with a number of virtual hosts) and a couple of > php+mysql driven websites. > > The ecommerce website is meant to be used to process c

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 11:17, Daniel Iliev wrote: ... Not the same thing. "-march=" instructs gcc to produce a binary designed to run only on the given CPU architecture, while USE flags instruct the build system to include or not support for a given feature ... Actually, I _think_ in mplayer the d

[gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am considering running an ecommerce website (php+mysql) on a server which is already running apache (with a number of virtual hosts) and a couple of php+mysql driven websites. The ecommerce website is meant to be used to process customer payments. I have not looked into setting up s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: > And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not > having problems. > > It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Maxim Wexler schrieb: > Hi group, > > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk > fails: No space left on device. > > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. > Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to > /var/lib/iinit.d/*

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:46:03 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > I know 4G is pretty small by today's standards but apart from xorg and > firefox everything else on this unit is command-line type utilities > and such. That can't account for 4G already. It can if you have $DISTDIR and $PORTAGE_TMPDIR in

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not having problems. It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x1

[gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the boot console. And this gem: '*E

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. >> Everything in there must not be in your world file. >> >> Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove >> everything >> X11, glib,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. > Everything in there must not be in your world file. > > Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove > everything > X11, glib, gtk from world. kde? qt does not belong there. > > With a litt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not >>> having problems. >>> >>> >> It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. >> >> Thanks, > > Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:44:58 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Anytime I fireup openoffice-3.0.0 components, I get this message at the >> command prompt: >> >> >> get fences failed: -1 >> param: 6, val: 0 > > I used to get this, although it caused no apparent problems. T

Re: [gentoo-user] change output of passwd

2009-05-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 14:55, Raul Gonzales wrote: > To something like: > New UNIX password: > BAD PASSWORD: password must be at least 6 characters long and must contain > at least 1 digit, 1 special character Write a patch for the program? Make a new translation of the program? Ward

[gentoo-user] k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka "Start menu"). Can this be seen as a bug or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself?

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:01:12 -0500 Dale wrote: > > I only have one machine right now. Someone gave me a HP laptop but I > haven't fixed it yet. Power connector is shorted out big time. > Then for example on tty2 start "sleep 300 ; /etc/init.d/xdm stop ; killall X" and on tty1 do "/etc/init

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not having problems. It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:23:52 +0300 "Arttu V." wrote: > On 5/27/09, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to > > have a FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. > > Congratulations, it's already there! Sort of. -march=native ;) > Not the same thing. "-mar

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-28 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > > You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for > > setting your python version, > > U > > % eselect python help > Manage the /usr/bin/python and python.1

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:44:58 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Anytime I fireup openoffice-3.0.0 components, I get this message at the > command prompt: > > > get fences failed: -1 > param: 6, val: 0 I used to get this, although it caused no apparent problems. The message disappeared after upgr

Re: [gentoo-user] how to move overlays to a new storage location

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 06:18:22 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > A recent update of layman changed the storage variable in > /etc/layman/layman.cfg to > > storage : /usr/local/portage/layman > > It was previously /usr/portage/local/layman. As a result I would like to > move things to the n