Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.10.2011 07:16, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Just stumbled upon this blog: >> >> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html >> >> anyone got any experience with zram/compcache on Gentoo? > > I'm using zram in a g

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Just stumbled upon this blog: > > http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html > > anyone got any experience with zram/compcache on Gentoo? I'm using zram in a gentoo server with only 256mb of RAM, only used for a f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which sound codecs do I need?

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:52:54PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> Or lspci -k would tell what driver the CD was using, if sound worked >> which I bet it did. > >  That tells me which *DRIVER* is in use (so does "lspci -v" for that > matter).  It does *

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >>> Mark Knecht writes: > I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there?? >>> >>> There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th:

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Mark Knecht writes: >>> I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there?? >> >> There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th: [...] > Interesting. I guess I'm no longer subscribed 'cause I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which sound codecs do I need?

2011-10-17 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 16:58, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:58:24AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote >> On 10/13/2011 02:35 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> > I'm installing Gentoo on an older Intel Core2 Duo machine from Dell >> > for some testing.  Checking with "lspci -v" from the ins

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-17, Florian Philipp wrote: > Ugh, sorry. Just ignore that. I didn't see the second line in > config_eth1. The odd quoting confused me. Sorry about that. I was trying various quoting schemes I'd found in examples. My current configuration works: modules_eth0=( !plug ) config_eth

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax >> I found at >> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1 >> >> But, it doesn't work. >> >> Here's my /

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild >> about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were >> showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this >> point

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.10.2011 23:42, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 17.10.2011 23:25, schrieb Grant Edwards: >> I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax >> I found at >> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1 >> >> But, it doesn't work. >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.10.2011 23:25, schrieb Grant Edwards: > I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax > I found at > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1 > > But, it doesn't work. > > Here's my /etc/init.d/net file: > > config_eth

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax > I found at > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1 > > But, it doesn't work. > > Here's my /etc/init.d/net file: > > config_eth0="192.168.

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/17/2011 05:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed li

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild > about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were > showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this > point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/17/2011 05:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild >> about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were >> showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange

[gentoo-user] How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax I found at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1 But, it doesn't work. Here's my /etc/init.d/net file: config_eth0="192.168.8.4/16" routes_eth0="default via 192.168.0.254" conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/17/2011 05:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild > about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were > showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this > point in the life of a desktop PC so I added

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which sound codecs do I need?

2011-10-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:52:54PM -0500, Dale wrote > Or lspci -k would tell what driver the CD was using, if sound worked > which I bet it did. That tells me which *DRIVER* is in use (so does "lspci -v" for that matter). It does *NOT* tell me the *AUDIO CODEC*. "lspci -k" shows... 00:1b.0

[gentoo-user] Did I not get the memo about perl & python?

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.conf and the machine is once aga

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which sound codecs do I need?

2011-10-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:58:24AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > On 10/13/2011 02:35 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm installing Gentoo on an older Intel Core2 Duo machine from Dell > > for some testing. Checking with "lspci -v" from the install CD shows... > > > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Cor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re:Don’t doubt! It really works! It can help you right now!

2011-10-17 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 17, 2011 8:50 PM, "Torsten Veller" > wrote: > > * Michael Mol mailto:mike...@gmail.com>>: > > Can Dennis be dropped from the mailing list? > > Should have happened: bug #387401 > Whoa... never knew you can /dev/null someone through b.g.o ...

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2011 12:22 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> Now, in general, don't mix 'em, but here's my package.keywords file >> for my compute server:: >> >> >> Most of this is due to me wanting newer versions but I think a few may >> not have

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 18, 2011 12:22 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:59 AM, wrote: > > Mark Knecht [11-10-17 18:40]: > >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk > >> > and graphicsmagick exhibit

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread justin
On 10/17/11 6:59 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mark Knecht [11-10-17 18:40]: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk >>> and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: >>> >> >> I got similar errors for some other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re:Don’t doubt! It really works! It can help you right now!

2011-10-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 17, 2011 8:50 PM, "Torsten Veller" wrote: > > * Michael Mol : > > Can Dennis be dropped from the mailing list? > > Should have happened: bug #387401 > Whoa... never knew you can /dev/null someone through b.g.o ... O_o Can I /dev/null my boss using a locally-installed bugzilla? ;-) Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:59 AM, wrote: > Mark Knecht [11-10-17 18:40]: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM,   wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk >> > and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: >> > >> >> I got similar errors for some other p

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM,   wrote: >> Mark Knecht [11-10-17 18:40]: >>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM,   wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk >>> > and graphicsmagick exhibit bu

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM, wrote: > Mark Knecht [11-10-17 18:40]: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM,   wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk >> > and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: >> > >> >> I got similar errors for some other

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread meino . cramer
Mark Knecht [11-10-17 18:40]: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk > > and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: > > > > I got similar errors for some other package on my wife's machine last > night. In that c

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk & graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk > and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: > I got similar errors for some other package on my wife's machine last night. In that case they were solved by using the ~amd64 version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:08:51AM -0700, walt wrote: > On 10/16/2011 03:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo! > > I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 in X11. > > My mouse pointers have all acquired unwanted borders. That is to say, > > where there used just to be a solid black arrow, it is now sur

[gentoo-user] Re: My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help!

2011-10-17 Thread walt
On 10/16/2011 03:11 PM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > I have no idea if the default X pointer theme has changed lately. Yes, gnome-themes-standard just updated to gnome3, which I don't much like. The gnome control center doesn't have any way to set a mouse pointer theme AFAICT, but the opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re:Don’t doubt! It really works! It can help you right now!

2011-10-17 Thread Torsten Veller
* Michael Mol : > Can Dennis be dropped from the mailing list? Should have happened: bug #387401

Re: [gentoo-user] Re:Don’t doubt! It really works! It can help you right now!

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Mol
Can Dennis be dropped from the mailing list? I sent him an email off-list a week ago, but we're still seeing these. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Dennis Preus wrote: > ...Experiment in your sexual life > more!  http://www.letm.fr/com.friend.php?ukid_hotmail=03u4 > -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.10.2011 14:40, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Mon, October 17, 2011 12:35 am, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > >> >> I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants >> to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for >> the first time so I doubt he va

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:39:40 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Is it up to an init script to do that either? I'd say no. either way > > seems wrong, but having the network config check that the interface is > > available before trying to bring it up seems somewhat less wrong. > Yes, I intended it

Re: [gentoo-user] Apologize to everyone for my nonprofessional

2011-10-17 Thread du yang
On Saturday 10/15/11 00:05:35 CST, Lavender wrote: > It's my fault, there're no line-breaks because I wrote the letters > exactly like what the screenshot shows . I will write just like > this letter. No more questions , good evening and tomorrow is > a nice day ! > A little tip about your mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, October 17, 2011 12:35 am, Florian Philipp wrote: > > I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants > to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for > the first time so I doubt he values his time very high ;-) ), I suggest > he either im

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.10.2011 13:30, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:19:16 +0100, Mick wrote: > >>> This seems more elegant than a separate init script, but do you want >>> it to return 0 unconditionally? If the modules fail to load, surely >>> you want the attempt to bring the interface up to abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:19:16 +0100, Mick wrote: > > This seems more elegant than a separate init script, but do you want > > it to return 0 unconditionally? If the modules fail to load, surely > > you want the attempt to bring the interface up to abort? > > In my head I find it less elegant to

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread Mick
On 17 October 2011 09:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:35:35 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> preup() { >>     if [ "$IFACE" = eth0 ]; then >>         ebegin "Reloading broadcom and tg3 modules" >>         modprobe -r foo bar && >>         modprobe broadcom && >>         modprob

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:35:35 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > preup() { > if [ "$IFACE" = eth0 ]; then > ebegin "Reloading broadcom and tg3 modules" > modprobe -r foo bar && > modprobe broadcom && > modprobe tg3 > ewend $? "Failed to reload modules" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-17 Thread czernitko
Thank you James! I totally missed the existence of gentoo-embedded list, I I'll post my questions there. 2011/10/16 James > czernitko gmail.com> writes: > > > > Hello!I started playing a little bit with cross compilation > > for ARM architecture. Using crossdev I created a toolchain > > for arm