Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance

2009-04-03 Thread Pongrácz István
Hi Mike, Thank you very much for your help, it is really detailed :) More than I expect :) I already read some (short) documents about GEM and now I have a tiny picture about it. Following your way I try to rebuild my X. I missed the x11 overlay eredeti üzenet-

[gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread alain . didierjean
Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and performed "emerge system" ? What gives ? Any problem ? Is it worth it right now ? Please tell... -- ~adj~

[gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says "click anywhere to open the console" nothing happens. I've not used v2 be

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says "click anywhere to open the console" nothing happens. I've not used v2 b

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Performance, on Intel Graphics

2009-04-03 Thread Pongrácz István
eredeti üzenet- Feladó: "Thomas Kahle" tom...@gmx.de Címzett: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, linux-think...@linux-thinkpad.org Dátum: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:32:32 +0200 - > Hi everyone, > > I use the thinkpad X61s

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant > start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console > to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says > "click anywhere

[gentoo-user] Xorg Performance, on Intel Graphics

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi everyone, I use the thinkpad X61s with Intel Graphics Mobile GM965/GL960 running Gentoo. Since an update on Monday I cannot get my X to work the smooth way it was working before. 1) The 2D performance feels very slack, Redrawing Windows just takes longer than it took before and reaction times

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
2009/4/3 Adam Carter > > > I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant >> start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console >> to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says >> "click anywhere to open the console"

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and > performed "emerge system" ? > What gives ? Any problem ? Is it worth it right now ? Please tell... > > -- > ~adj~ > Yes, I did it at the beginning of the year, it was more or less painfree.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Performance, on Intel Graphics

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
Pongrácz István wrote: eredeti üzenet- Feladó: "Thomas Kahle" tom...@gmx.de Címzett: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, linux-think...@linux-thinkpad.org Dátum: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:32:32 +0200 - Hi everyone, I us

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Performance, on Intel Graphics

2009-04-03 Thread Pongrácz István
> > Well 2.5.3 is not in the tree anymore and 2.5.1 results in X crashing on Sorry, I made a mistake: I wanted to write 2.5.1-r1.. > start with garbled screen. But I will avoid the upgrade after checking > that bug :) Thanks for warning You are welcome. I got a hint and I successfully remov

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Masood Ahmed
alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: > Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and > performed "emerge system" ? I did upgrade to 4.3 gcc series from 4.1. There was no compile error's (I'm using ~x86 branch). Both emerge -e system and emerge -e world done using new gcc. > W

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Performance, on Intel Graphics

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I use the thinkpad X61s with Intel Graphics Mobile GM965/GL960 running > Gentoo. > > Since an update on Monday I cannot get my X to work the smooth way it > was working before. > > 1) The 2D performance feels very slack, Redrawing Windows just takes > longe

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Performance, on Intel Graphics

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Kahle
Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I use the thinkpad X61s with Intel Graphics Mobile GM965/GL960 running > Gentoo. > > Since an update on Monday I cannot get my X to work the smooth way it > was working before. > > 1) The 2D performance feels very slack, Redrawing Windows just takes > longe

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon alain.didierj...@free.fr: > Has one of you guys already switched from gcc-4.1.2 to gcc-4.3.2 and > performed "emerge system" ? > What gives ? Any problem ? Is it worth it right now ? Please tell... Thanks for the fast answers. It seems there's no problems... -- ~adj~

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-03 Thread maxim wexler
> I used eeXbuntu to install mine. > > Hi Neil, OK, I'll try it. First some questions? Is eeeXbuntu an install/live distro? Was there any wifi issues? Must have wifi throughout the process. Do you use an SD card? If so, are there issues with regard to r/w times as compared to an SSHD? Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx - cookies

2009-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
090402 Joseph wrote: > Can anybody provide configuration for Lynx to accept cookies. > I only want to accept the cookies on case-by-case bases > and store the default setting, same as Firefox behaviour. You should ask this on the lynx-dev mailing-list, where you are likely to get a very prompt rep

[gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that are *not* myself and my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > How can we forget ... > > > > :D > > But I may take out something important. :/ I try to do that but I am > getting older. I forget. > > I guess I made a lasting impression, albeit bad I guess. Nah! Far from it, not to me anyway. :)

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that ar

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. that

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE4

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Hartman
Does anyone know how to transfer files over bluetooth with KDE4? It used to "just work" in KDE3 by plugging in my bluetooth dongle, but I don't know if it's the recent masking of bluez stuff or KDE4 but now it just doesn't do anything. I feel like I'm missing something really simple :) Thanks, Pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Wyatt Epp wrote: > > Greets, > > > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that > > I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things > > like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only sho

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Wyatt Epp (wyatt@gmail.com) [03.04.09 20:00]: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I > had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the > danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
2009/4/3 Sebastian Günther : > Well honestly: nothing lately. depclean had never removed something what > a -avtDuN and a revdep-rebuild couldn't repair. See, though, that's exactly the problem I'm talking about. :) Right now it seems a good chunk of the population uses it as a list command with

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Wyatt Epp wrote: > >>> Greets, > >>> > >>> So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > >>> that I had come to accept as normal that I

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Hartman
2009/4/3 Sebastian Günther : > Well honestly: nothing lately. depclean had never removed something what > a -avtDuN and a revdep-rebuild couldn't repair. I use depclean after every update of world for the past 5 years and never had any disaster... I always thought the warnings (which have been ton

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Jarry
Wyatt Epp wrote: BTW: There is no need for an installer... I'm inclined to agree with this. Installers lack flexibility. I'd like to have a possibility of unattended installation. Some kind of script which loads a prepared text-file with parameters and does the rest. There is a lot of typin

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 April 2009, Jarry wrote: > Wyatt Epp wrote: > >> BTW: There is no need for an installer... > > > > I'm inclined to agree with this. Installers lack flexibility. > > I'd like to have a possibility of unattended installation. > Some kind of script which loads a prepared text-file with >

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wyatt Epp wrote: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I > had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so.  Things like the > danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time.  So >

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:25 +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: > I like the -march=native and -mtune=native options. As long as you don't use distcc with differing hardware. -- Neil Bothwick "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "I can't configure Slackware". signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:14:27 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > > I used eeXbuntu to install mine. > OK, I'll try it. First some questions? > > Is eeeXbuntu an install/live distro? Yes,with a script to copy it from CD to USB stick. > Was there any wifi issues? Must have wifi throughout the proc

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > Greets, > > > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that > > I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like > > the danger of depclean or t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 22:15:40 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > He asked what annoys me, and I answered truthfully :P > > yeah, but if you think about it for a moment you will see that an > installer is the WRONG THING and then you won't be annoyed anymore but > glad. Didn't we have this di

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:27:57 +0200, Jarry wrote: > I'd like to have a possibility of unattended installation. > Some kind of script which loads a prepared text-file with > parameters and does the rest. http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/quickstart.php -- Neil Bothwick We are upping our standards

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:15:21 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:25 +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: > > I like the -march=native and -mtune=native options. > > As long as you don't use distcc with differing hardware. I did that by accident once and trust me, it's a unforgettable les

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing. I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones "show stopper" list of Gentoo defects. Gentoo doesn't *need* an installer and all previous attempts at one have bee

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > portage does not remove the packages from the distfiles directory and all > ebuilds are available from cvs even years after they have been removed. > First comment is incorrect, or correct if you're doing your regular Volker routine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing. > > I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones "show > stopper" list of Gentoo defects.  Gentoo doesn't *n

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: > >> >> portage does not remove the packages from the distfiles directory and all >> ebuilds are available from cvs even years after they have been removed. >> > > First comment is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 April 2009, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing. > > > > I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> wrote: >> >>> >>> portage does not remove the packages from the distfiles directory and all >>> ebuilds are available from cvs even

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > Maybe a "sunset" overlay with old obsolete ebuilds to complement the > "sunrise" overlay of things-yet-to-hit portage? I like the idea but does it solve the root-cause issue - whatever that might really be - for portage maintainers removing

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > >> >> Maybe a "sunset" overlay with old obsolete ebuilds to complement the >> "sunrise" overlay of things-yet-to-hit portage? > > I like the idea but does it solve the root-cause issue -

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
090403 Wyatt Epp wrote: > what have people that are *not* myself and my mate noticed > that is mildly irritating and disruptive to the Gentoo experience? Nothing at all serious: I remain very grateful to those who do the work. But, I submitted Bug 255463 back on 2009-01-19 & there's been no reply

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mick
On Friday 03 April 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 22:15:40 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > He asked what annoys me, and I answered truthfully :P > > > > yeah, but if you think about it for a moment you will see that an > > installer is the WRONG THING and then you won't be

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Arttu V.
Wyatt Epp wrote: So I was curious...what have people that are /not/ myself and my mate noticed that is mildly irritating and disruptive to the Gentoo experience? Mildly irritating, disruptive, etc: - Managing USE flags is sometimes quite irritating, having to fidget around /etc/make.conf, /et

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:45:46 +0800 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: > >> I do understand that getting something stable and working then > >> wanting to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I would still think its a problema. > People would install Gentoo, get a functional system, not read the > handbook, and flood the forums and this mailing list with already > answered and handbook questions. > Daniel da Veiga > I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Wyatt Epp wrote: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I > had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so.  Things like the > danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time.  So I

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Its installer. I would prefer something like Sabayon's installer (which is a Gentoo-based distro.) there is no installer anymore. And th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Its installer. I would prefer something like Sabayon's installer >

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [...] maybe, but at the high time of the installer the forum was full with clueless (and it still is). Following the handbook is not hard. If you don't have a second PC, it's not easy either. And besides, what have the clueless done to you? :D Just let them be.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Saphirus Sage
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Its installer. I would prefer something like Sabayon's installer > (which > is a Gentoo-b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> [...] >> maybe, but at the high time of the installer the forum was full with >> clueless (and it still is). Following the handbook is not hard. > > If you don't have a second PC, it's not easy either. An

[gentoo-user] Re: How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-03 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Higgins wrote: > Looks like I can fix the use flag and clean out ldap if I want to do so, but > I'm stuck with > pycrypto (or the build use flag): Actually, sys-apps/portage has a PDEPEND on "|| ( >=dev-lang/python-2.5 >=dev-python/pycrypto-2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > [...] > > maybe, but at the high time of the installer the forum was full with > > clueless (and it still is). Following the handbook is not hard. > > If you don't have a second PC, it's not easy either. I wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> [...] >> maybe, but at the high time of the installer the forum was full with >> clueless (and it still is). Following the handbook is not hard. > > If you don't have a second PC, it's not easy either.  An

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> And besides, what >> have the clueless done to you? :D  Just let them be. > > well, I try to be a good member of the community - and that means helping in > the forum. And it sucks

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:25 +0530 Masood Ahmed wrote: > alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: > > I like the -march=native and -mtune=native options. It's the new thing > in gcc 4.3 series. -mtune=native can be dropped if -march=native is there already. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signatur

[gentoo-user] LVM2 problem

2009-04-03 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all I have a strange problem with LVM2. I follow this guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml to create the LVM2 volume named vg then create the logical volume /dev/vg/data. Everything went fine and I can mount the volume /dev/vg/data to /mnt/data without any problem. However, when I restart