Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 01/17/2013 07:47 MA, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Cinder wrote: >> Thank you Canek. I have always used nouveau driver. > > [ huge snip again ] > > Everything looks OK. You have the kernel configured to use nouveau, > and you have the X.org driver and the corr

Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Cinder wrote: > Thank you Canek. I have always used nouveau driver. [ huge snip again ] Everything looks OK. You have the kernel configured to use nouveau, and you have the X.org driver and the correct VIDEO_CARDS setting in /etc/portage/make.conf; I don't under

Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Cinder wrote: > Thank you Canek. No luck. Without an xorg.conf my /var/log/Xorg.o.log looks > like this: [ huge snip ] > [ 8532.166] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.0.0 > [ 8532.166] (EE) No devices detected. Nouveau complains about not finding your d

Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Cinder
Thank you Canek. No luck. Without an xorg.conf my /var/log/Xorg.o.log looks like this: [ 8532.004] X.Org X Server 1.13.0 Release Date: 2012-09-05 [ 8532.014] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 8532.017] Build Operating System: Linux 3.4.9-gentoo-rt17 x86_64 Gentoo [ 8532.021] Current Operat

Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Cinder wrote: > Hello there! I updated my macbook pro 7,1 about a month ago and X broke. It > has an nvidia 320M chipset(id:08a0) I have rebuilt the kernel modules. I have > moved /etc/make.conf to /etc/portage/make.conf. I'm not sure if I need to > split my xor

Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Dale
Cinder wrote: > [ 638.685] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for > additional information. > [ 638.685] (EE) You may want to post that log too. The one listed above in the error. It looks like it is not finding your card. Makes me think it is the wrong driver or

[gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Cinder
Hello there! I updated my macbook pro 7,1 about a month ago and X broke. It has an nvidia 320M chipset(id:08a0) I have rebuilt the kernel modules. I have moved /etc/make.conf to /etc/portage/make.conf. I'm not sure if I need to split my xorg.conf into seperate xorg.conf.d entries. I haven't used

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:56:01 -0500 >> Michael Mol wrote: >> >>> On Jan 16, 2013 3:52 PM, "Alan McKinnon" >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:21:03 -0500 >>> > Michael Mol

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:56:01 -0500 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Jan 16, 2013 3:52 PM, "Alan McKinnon" >> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:21:03 -0500 >> > Michael Mol wrote: >> > >> > > Has anyone had any success with app-text/calib

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

2013-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:56:01 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > On Jan 16, 2013 3:52 PM, "Alan McKinnon" > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:21:03 -0500 > > Michael Mol wrote: > > > > > Has anyone had any success with app-text/calibre on Gentoo? On > > > Ubuntu, it picks up that I've plugged in a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Jan 16, 2013 3:52 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:21:03 -0500 > Michael Mol wrote: > > > Has anyone had any success with app-text/calibre on Gentoo? On Ubuntu, > > it picks up that I've plugged in a device and happily allows me to > > manage it. On Gentoo, it doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0600 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: > > > > But, in the failures I've been seeing today, it's not getting to > > agetty. The "clear screen and halt" happens at the "waiting for udev > > events" step... > > FWIW I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

2013-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:21:03 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > Has anyone had any success with app-text/calibre on Gentoo? On Ubuntu, > it picks up that I've plugged in a device and happily allows me to > manage it. On Gentoo, it doesn't seem to notice a thing. For now, it > works fine as an ebook reade

[gentoo-user] Re: java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Isn't IcedTea OpenJDK, or at least the name of the bundle OpenJDK + build system? > Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb "Michael Mol" : > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell >> wrote: >> > On 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I have had systems in the past who refused to boot because the > motherboard time was off, and at first it looked like that was the > problem again. OpenBSD takes the time from the filesystem in that case and boots. I wish linux did. I had a mate who used to ring me up everytime his mother in la

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > But, in the failures I've been seeing today, it's not getting to > agetty. The "clear screen and halt" happens at the "waiting for udev > events" step... FWIW I have also noticed on my machine that somewhere in the middle of the OpenRC boo

[gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
Has anyone had any success with app-text/calibre on Gentoo? On Ubuntu, it picks up that I've plugged in a device and happily allows me to manage it. On Gentoo, it doesn't seem to notice a thing. For now, it works fine as an ebook reader, but not so great for managing devices. $ eix calibre [I] app

[gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-16, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard >> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is >> set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, some

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:55:56PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> His system clock runs slow, it's not a matter of the CMOS battery >> being dead. If it were dead, the clock would be years off. > > Experience has shown that when the voltage get

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:55:56PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > > His system clock runs slow, it's not a matter of the CMOS battery > being dead. If it were dead, the clock would be years off. Experience has shown that when the voltage gets low, this happens. Here's an article ... first hit: http

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard >> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is >> set from the motherboard clock. I

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:43:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard > clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is > set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init > system seems to pa

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard > clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is > set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init > system seems to pan

[gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in the future. Just to m

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange keyboard problem

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ~amd64 laptop, running latest portage version of packages > and kernel 3.7.2. It was set up with fbsplash and quiet boot, so I > don't see any kernel/openrc messages, just the splash screen and > progress bar prior to the X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 08:37:09 PM IST, Nicolas Richard wrote: > Nilesh Govindrajan writes: >> My question is which load average it checks? I'm assuming it checks >> for the 15 minute average? > > I certainly don't know much about C, but from me grepping the source of > make, it seems that j

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working--WORKS!

2013-01-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Jan 15 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working. >> I tried a keyboard and that failed as well. >> >> There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the >> ke

[gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nicolas Richard
Nilesh Govindrajan writes: > My question is which load average it checks? I'm assuming it checks > for the 15 minute average? I certainly don't know much about C, but from me grepping the source of make, it seems that job.c does "getloadavg (&load, 1)". Moreover "man getloadavg" says that the '1'

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. >>> >>> --jobs and --load-averag

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: >> Hi, >> >> Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. >> >> --jobs and --load-average >> >> Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7 >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb "Michael Mol" : > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell > wrote: > > On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: > >>> I'm cur

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: >>> I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I >>> would think that since the icedtea vm

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: > Hi, > > Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. > > --jobs and --load-average > > Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7 > > It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7. No, i

[gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. --jobs and --load-average Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7 It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7. But which load average does that check? One minute, five minutes or fift

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:46:42 +0530 Yohan Pereira wrote: > On 16/01/13 at 02:34am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I just checked now and I don't even have kde-base/nepomuk > > *installed* anymore. I wonder how that came about, I thought > > nepomuk was mandatory for KDE4? > > you probably have USE="-se