Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

2023-06-09 Thread Robin Atwood
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 03:11:57 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support HTTPS, > so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? I stopped using ddclient years ago because my D-Link route

[gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled [REPOST]

2020-06-28 Thread Robin Atwood
0 > Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > User-Agent: > Cyrus-JMAP/3.3.0-dev0-543-gda70334-fm-20200618.004-gda703345 > X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:55 AM Robin Atwood > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:55:18 +0700 > > Robin, > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build > > a new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer and > > set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". >

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-24 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 tedheadster wrote: > Robin, > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build a > new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer and > set "console=ttyS0,115200

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-24 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:54:32 -0400 Jack wrote: > I can't answer your question, but I can suggest that you start a new > thread with a new message, not replying to an old message, even if > you do change the subject. Many email readers thread discussions > using internal message headers, not jus

[gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-24 Thread Robin Atwood
n 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1114668-highlight-.html -- ------ Robin Atwood. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to Qt 5.12.4 makes some applications invisible

2019-07-12 Thread Robin Atwood
idn't fix it. > > Have anyone else encountered this? Yes, I can confirm this behaviour with Clementine. I thought it was more Plasma video instability, I'm glad it's not! Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me some

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Robin Atwood
0 476G 0 part / lsblk *is* nice, thanks! Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-06 Thread Robin Atwood
ch would have grown till it filled the empty space on the > partition. Yes, that's what it did, though it didn't fill the partition up. Phew, that's a relief, I was worrying I had overwritten the BIOS or something! Thanks Robin -- -----

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:47:04 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:44:46 BST Robin Atwood wrote: > > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > > Cool, I hope you didn

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:34:18 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote: > > > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT > > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I > > tried to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500 Vladimir Romanov wrote: > Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken > really? > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood : > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 > > Vladimir Romanov wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 Vladimir Romanov wrote: > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you > need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood

[gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Robin Atwood
anks Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from

Re: [gentoo-user] /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/ missing

2017-09-19 Thread Robin Atwood
ersion of openrc installed. Openrc-0.31.1 is now available so I installed that and the problem went away. Cheers Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain&

[gentoo-user] /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/ missing

2017-09-18 Thread Robin Atwood
a long time so I did that and still got the messages. Fortunately the system still comes up. I must have missed a config update somewhere I guess but I cannot find any useful hits when I search. Any idea what I am missing? Thanks Robin -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 14 August 2017, Mick wrote: > On Monday 14 Aug 2017 19:31:48 Robin Atwood wrote: > > That's very interesting and would explain a lot except that I don't have > > a dock! So does anybody have an idea as to why the TP has decided it's > > been docked whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 14 August 2017, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 13 Aug 2017 20:27:12 Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Saturday 12 August 2017, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > However, grepping dmesg was interesting: > > > > # grep HDA /var/log/dmesg > > [ 10.981754] input: HDA Digit

Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 12 August 2017, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > What's the output of these command lines? > (1). lspci -vnn | sed '/Audio/,/driver/!d' > > (2). grep -Ei '^[^#]*(snd|hda)' linux/.config >

Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-12 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 12 August 2017, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 12 Aug 2017 20:49:48 Robin Atwood wrote: > Which device does alsamixer or pulseaudio show as being active? I found on > some PCs that HDMI is now set as the default audio device and I had to > change the configuration to make an

[gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound

2017-08-12 Thread Robin Atwood
t help. This problem has been dragging on for some years and I am contemplating a complete re-install from scratch. But before I do that does anyone have any idea what I could try? TIA Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me

Re: [gentoo-user] After KDE5 install massive depclean list

2017-02-15 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 15 February 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/02/2017 15:14, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Having finally got a stable KDE5 system I did an emerge depclean and got > > 288 candidates! I am not sure which packages I need to keep and which > > can go. I assume any packa

[gentoo-user] After KDE5 install massive depclean list

2017-02-15 Thread Robin Atwood
-15.12.3 which are slotted as 4 but have upgrades to 16.08.3. Do I still need these? Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandm

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

2017-01-09 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 08 January 2017, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > Try to login as a new user (or move your home directory out of the > way). If it works start selectively deleting dot files/directories > from your home directory. Start with .cache, .kde4 and everything that > starts with a k in .config and .l

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

2017-01-08 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 08 January 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT Robin Atwood wrote: > > I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first > > machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving > > blockers), so I tho

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

2017-01-08 Thread Robin Atwood
ht just be in there somewhere. I followed the KDE5 Plasma upgrade guide. I selected the plasma profile and installed plasma-meta. After which, I did an update/world. Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

2017-01-07 Thread Robin Atwood
n settings. Plasma is the one for standard KDE5 and that's the one that gets the black desktop. Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten

[gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

2017-01-07 Thread Robin Atwood
rrent workaround is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit rough around the edges. Cheers Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ai

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-09-21 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 20 September 2016, konsolebox wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > > Anybody got any idea what the problem with kde-sunset is? > > Custom repositories listed in /etc/portage/repos.conf/ are > synchronized with `emerge --sync`.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-09-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 17 September 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/09/2016 15:26, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Monday 15 August 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > >> On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-09-17 Thread Robin Atwood
s immortal expression, "functionally stabilised"! It does everything I need it to so updates are not really necessary. I looked into the KDE5 upgrade recently and what I read did not inspire me with confidence. Robin -- -------

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-09-17 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 15 August 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. > > > > I had that problem too, it's not listed there. > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. > > I had that problem too, it's not listed there. > > If you want to use it, create /etc/portage/repos.conf/kde-sunset.conf >

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 14 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 22:54:19 Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > > > > And the next problem: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > > And the next problem: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. > > !!! One o

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 15 July 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2016, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > > 2016-07-09 8:52 GMT-05:00 Robin Atwood : > > > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-15 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 12 July 2016, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > 2016-07-09 8:52 GMT-05:00 Robin Atwood : > > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > # emerge -uDv @world > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Robin Atwood
fore I knew it I was > unmasking a load of packages that don't belong in a KDE-4 system. > > What to try next? Indeed. The situation seems to be that Gentoo is not upgradable unless KDE5 is installed. :( Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best

[gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-09 Thread Robin Atwood
mistake? Has anyone found a solution to this? Thanks Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can rais

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi gets MySQL errors after upgrade

2014-04-15 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:17:01 +0100 Mick wrote: > > When I update mysql I run: > > mysqlcheck --all-databases --check-upgrade -u root -p > > Not sure if it will help your case, but I'm throwing it out there > just in case. You may need to point it to wherever your akonadi db > may stored. Than

[gentoo-user] Akonadi gets MySQL errors after upgrade

2014-04-15 Thread Robin Atwood
After the latest KDE upgrade to 4.12.4 I logged on and Akonadi won't start. It is still at 4.4.11.1 and normally runs faultlessly. Now I get $ akonadictl start Starting Akonadi Server... done. Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QStrin

Re: [gentoo-user] rfcomm0 interface missing

2013-11-23 Thread Robin Atwood
; How should I troubleshoot this further? > > Could someone please hold my hand to set up ppp so that I can avoid kppp > and its freezing behaviour? Have you started the rfcomm service? I remember having trouble until I did that. HTH Robin -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Acer Aspire One D255

2013-06-06 Thread Robin Atwood
: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi There is a very useful site to identify drivers: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/. Just paste in the output of "lspci -n" and it does the rest! HTH -Robin --

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.10 and plasma crashing

2013-02-10 Thread Robin Atwood
gt; nearer, the source is that I won't have to upgrade KDE again when it's > fixed ;-) The issue is now moot, if you sync and upgrade you will get a new qt-core and plasma-workspace which work happily when compiled with -O2. :) -Robin -- ---

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging

2013-01-12 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 11 January 2013, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:46:29 +0700 > > Robin Atwood wrote: > > Thanks for the tips, now I can get more output to tty1 if I want. I > > still can't get any systemd messages to syslog-ng, however. A bit of > > a m

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging

2013-01-12 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 11 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Robin Atwood > > wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Robin Atwood > >> > >> > >> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging

2013-01-10 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 10 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I have temporarily shelved my problem with mounting since my work-around > > seems adequate. But I have some questions about logging. Journald works > > fine b

[gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging

2013-01-09 Thread Robin Atwood
TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Processes hang - system dies

2013-01-08 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 08 January 2013, Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > ** > > > > I have a very severe problem after a recent disk replacement. After a few > > > days running, all new processes just hang. The kernel reports: > M

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm

2013-01-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 06 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood > >> > >> wrote: > >> > Having

[gentoo-user] Processes hang - system dies

2013-01-05 Thread Robin Atwood
or any suggestions! TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm

2013-01-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood > > wrote: > > Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a > > laptop. It actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. > > However I a

[gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm

2013-01-04 Thread Robin Atwood
d Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas? TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can rai

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - mesa-9.0 needs media-libs/glu in addition

2012-10-10 Thread Robin Atwood
glu.h file. I found the same problem with KDE. media-libs/glu should become a dependency! -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Command

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012, James Broadhead wrote: > On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from > > release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, > > it looks like it got

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-27 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: > On 26 February 2012 15:12, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: > >> if your run: > >> > >> # sdptool browse > >> > >> it will list a number of services that the device supports aft

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: > On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: > > > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood > > wrote: > > > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my

[gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-23 Thread Robin Atwood
works fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by. TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
g-server (1.10.2@25/06/11): X.Org X servers [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (275.09.07@25/06/11): NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries I am running kernel 2.6.39-r2 but i don't believe that is critical. HTH -Robin -- ------ Robin A

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote: > > > It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain > > > niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-04-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Robin Atwood wrote: > I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else > on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked > out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, > the fin

[gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Robin Atwood
"Linux Certified" machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Comman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-23 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 11/23/2010 02:20 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > >> On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-23 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/23/2010 02:20 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-22 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > >>> I have just gone through the steps to use the Rad

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-22 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Mick wrote: > On 22 November 2010 17:02, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old > > laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to > > work all right and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-22 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old > > laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to > > work all righ

[gentoo-user] Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-22 Thread Robin Atwood
esktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? TIA -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is lik

Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

2010-11-16 Thread Robin Atwood
of ’*’, the auto-added rule would never be reached)." HTH -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Robin Atwood
It sits and chugs away at 1.0% CPU like it used to with Qt/KDE 3.5. No other graphics related packages were updated at the same time, so it's definitely Qt which made the difference. HTH -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 08 November 2010, Dale wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote: > >> Dale wrote: > >> > >> > >> This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried > >> to watch a video a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-07 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 08 November 2010, walt wrote: > On 11/06/2010 01:06 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > ,,,I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use > > 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly > > updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-06 Thread Robin Atwood
stantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy. HTH -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Setup for two graphical logins on one machine

2010-11-04 Thread Robin Atwood
! I have kdm here which does it all in one big kdmrc file, so I can't tell you exactly. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size

2010-10-25 Thread Robin Atwood
ing a good copy of asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz to your /usr/portage/distfiles and then cd /usr/local/portage/layman/voip/net-misc/asterisk/ ebuild asterisk-1.4.22.1.ebuild digest which should get the tarball and the ebuild in sync. HTH -Robin -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in chroot on s390

2010-09-30 Thread Robin Atwood
nd chroot. Have fun! -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-26 Thread Robin Atwood
packages again. > > This is weird. Works one time then stops again. I always run several apps under kdesu and sometimes they don't start. Once I did an strace and found it hanging opening /var/tmp/kdecache-user; deleting all those solved the problem. HTH -Robin --

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:14 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin > > Atwood did opine thusly: > > On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 Sep

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin > > Atwood did opine thusly: > > I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt > > to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the b

[gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
7;merge') pulled in by >=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.5.1[-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/kopete-4.5.1', 'merge') >=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.3[-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-ba

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Robin Atwood
ile://" doesn't seem to be supported. > > Is there any alternative? > > Thanks for a hint, > Helmut. > > (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68) "ln -s /usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles" maybe? HTH -Robin --

[gentoo-user] Lost some favicons

2010-07-23 Thread Robin Atwood
n" in the bookmarks dialogue. However, a couple are stubbornly stuck as "?". Does anyone know how to reset this? Removing ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc made no difference. TIA -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood.

Re: [gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-28 Thread Robin Atwood
ng turns up a lot of out-of-date blogs/wikis. My CPU... I installed OS/2 Warp 4 with KVM and it "just worked" (TM)! It is also incredibly fast (on a Core2 Duo). HTH -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-22 Thread Robin Atwood
with the --debug option on the command line. -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)

2010-05-22 Thread Robin Atwood
; Code: > > > > * Starting ldap-server ... [ !! ] > > > > When I go to /var/log/messages nothing is logged there. Anything I can do > to fix this? Take a look at /var/log/ldaplog! HTH -Robin -- ------

Re: [gentoo-user] STARTTLS verification problem

2010-04-10 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 10 April 2010, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2010 16:32:37 Eray Aslan wrote: > > On 10.04.2010 18:12, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > That's very interesting, I have puzzled about STARTTLS stuff for years! > > > How do I make sendmail trust the CAs? &g

Re: [gentoo-user] STARTTLS verification problem

2010-04-10 Thread Robin Atwood
#x27;,`CERT_DIR') define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR/cacert.pem') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') where I m

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission

2010-03-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 29 March 2010, Joseph wrote: > On 03/28/10 23:48, Robin Atwood wrote: > >On Sunday 28 March 2010, Joseph wrote: > >> How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? > >> Which program controls it owner and permission? > >> Is it possible to change it with

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission

2010-03-28 Thread Robin Atwood
-1 This is set by parameter "DeviceMode: 0660" in file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS0. You are asked in the setup script. HTH -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-16 Thread Robin Atwood
tal speakers. If they are analog the S/PDIF slider must be *muted* or there is no sound. This is counter-intuitive since one's first action with Alsa is to unmute everything! HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Robin Atwood: > > Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have > > set my middle mouse button to "Start window tab drag" but when I try it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 13 February 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have > > set my middle mouse button to "Start window tab drag" but when I try it > >

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Atwood
on't think there is a USE option I have missed. Anybody have better luck? TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an&

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids

2009-12-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 14 December 2009, Matthias Krebs wrote: > Am Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009 16:44:49 schrieb sean: > > Robin Atwood wrote: > > > Since the massive Qt 4.6.0/KDE 4.3.4 update I have noticed that the > > > search widget for the various weather plasmoids always returns

[gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids

2009-12-11 Thread Robin Atwood
ce this? TIA -Robin -- ---------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for x86 or AMD64 disassembler

2009-12-06 Thread Robin Atwood
al and disassembler modes. HTH -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] NFS poor performance, high system load

2009-11-25 Thread Robin Atwood
192.168.80.0/24(async,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash,insecure) > > That's fixed it! Thanks! I'm now getting ~50MB/s over NFS. System load > is still up around 6, but I can live with that. FWIW, I think it is the "async" option that makes the difference. It certa

[gentoo-user] KDE4 Solid a bit wobbly

2009-11-02 Thread Robin Atwood
too distro thing? None of the unselected use flags (-networkmanager, -wicd) seem appropriate, the machine is basically a server. TIA -Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-10-29 Thread Robin Atwood
ra or emerge sometimes confuses itself. My solution was eventually to delete /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry and then revdep-rebuild to CYA. :) HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling --

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