[gentoo-user] Re: Keep DPMS off?

2012-08-15 Thread Grant
>> I'm running into a bug with xf86-video-intel and SNA that is causing X >> to crash whenever I close my laptop's lid. I can prevent it if I >> issue 'xset -dpms'. The problem is that xlockmore turns DPMS back on >> whenever it is executed. Is there any way to prevent this or work >> around it?

[gentoo-user] hostapd fails to start

2012-08-15 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi! I have a TP-Link wlan stick, which works fine on my gentoo box! i want to use this stick as a wlan accesspoint. Now my problem is that hostapd tells me: " * Starting hostapd ... rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd'

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:14:50 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > I think that current versions of fdisk also provide a 1M boundary, or > > is it 4M? Someone more up to speed on this can comment. > > I think basically everything* except for cfdisk defaults to 1M boundary > now. > > * "everything" m

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Mick wrote: > > I think that current versions of fdisk also provide a 1M boundary, or is it > 4M? Someone more up to speed on this can comment. I think basically everything* except for cfdisk defaults to 1M boundary now. * "everything" meaning fdisk, gdisk, part

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-15 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 17:42:02 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:33 PM, J.Marcos Sitorus wrote: > > Hi guys, after quick read about ssd, I have a couple of question: > > 1. My friend have new server with a ssd installed. He plan to RHEL 5.7 > > (I don't know why he choose this) on

[gentoo-user] Re: Keep DPMS off?

2012-08-15 Thread Grant
> I'm running into a bug with xf86-video-intel and SNA that is causing X > to crash whenever I close my laptop's lid. I can prevent it if I > issue 'xset -dpms'. The problem is that xlockmore turns DPMS back on > whenever it is executed. Is there any way to prevent this or work > around it? Als

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:33 PM, J.Marcos Sitorus wrote: > Hi guys, after quick read about ssd, I have a couple of question: > 1. My friend have new server with a ssd installed. He plan to RHEL 5.7 > (I don't know why he choose this) on it. On redhat website, it say > something like this: > "Howev

[gentoo-user] Keep DPMS off?

2012-08-15 Thread Grant
I'm running into a bug with xf86-video-intel and SNA that is causing X to crash whenever I close my laptop's lid. I can prevent it if I issue 'xset -dpms'. The problem is that xlockmore turns DPMS back on whenever it is executed. Is there any way to prevent this or work around it? Also, I've tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 15:31 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 18:36 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > > I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern > > > > features like reiser4 or xfs > > > > > > Unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 18:36 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern > > > features like reiser4 or xfs > > > > Unfortunately btrfs is still generally slower than ext4 for example. > > Checkou