Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread pk
On 2011-08-01 20:35, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know if this is the case? Doesn't seem very Gentoo-like, > although it should minimize package management for the devs which is > good. I assume they're just following kernel.org; since the kernel devs (at least the ones that have to deal with firm

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing partition labels

2011-08-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:12:33AM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Greetings all, > I'm probably in the situation where I can't see the wood for the trees > so a bit of help would be appreciated. I've decided to go the LABEL > route in fstab and have set the labels on my partitions a few days a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID-1 install

2011-08-02 Thread pk
On 2011-08-01 19:49, James wrote: > Sorry for delayed response, I've been reading up > on gpt-fdisk [1]. > Interesting reading on gpt-patch-fdisk Thanks for the link; I haven't done such a thorough investigation as you seem to have done... :-) > So "parted" 2.3 in on the minimal cd I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-08-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 August 2011, at 17:29, Paul Hartman wrote: > ... > You can also buy a hybrid hard drive, it is a traditional HDD with SSD > built-in for caching. That is transparent to the operating system. I looked at these earlier this year. They seem a good compromise of price vs performance. They're f

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread Grant
>> # ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/:04:00.0 >> broken_parity_status      device         irq            msi_bus  reset >>     resource2_wc  subsystem_device  vpd >> class                     dma_mask_bits  local_cpulist  net >> resource   resource4     subsystem_vendor >> config                    dri

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread Grant
> IIRC > 'ifconfig -a' will show interfaces that are physically present, and > the driver available. > 'ifconfig' will only show those interfaces that are also activated or > "up", which means configured up - nothing to do with link. OK, with net.eth0 stopped and the cable unplugged, eth0 does app

[gentoo-user] Nvidia & kernel 3.0

2011-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
Has anyone else run into a problem trying to compile Nvidia with kernel 3.0 ? AFAIK I have the correct symlink to the kernel source root:601 src> pwd /usr/src root:602 src> ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 2 11:04 linux -> linux-3.0.0-gentoo/ drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1648 Dec 14

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia & kernel 3.0

2011-08-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:35:01AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Has anyone else run into a problem trying to compile Nvidia with kernel 3.0 ? > > AFAIK I have the correct symlink to the kernel source > > root:601 src> pwd > /usr/src > root:602 src> ls -l > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-08-02 Thread Sebastian Pipping
I played a bit more and found out a few bits: - Changing "Style" in XFCE's appearance switches the theme for both GTK+ 2.x and 3.x, no matter what key "gtk-theme-name" of /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini say though these files are read according to strace -

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-08-02 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Update: I managed to get the light-themes (Ambiance and Radiance)[1] of Ubuntu running for both GTK 2 and 3. Their GTK 3 versions make use of the unico engine which requires rather recent gtk3 and glib. To get it running you need install x11-themes/light-themes from the betagarden overlay [

Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-08-02 Thread Adam Carter
> so the question becomes why does eth0 > appear under ifconfig on my laptop with net.eth0 stopped and the cable > unplugged? > > I thought it could be wicd on my laptop but I shut down the daemon > with no change. Try disabling the daemon from starting at boot 'rc-update delete wicd' and reboot,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-08-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the > > superblock on /dev/sda, at least. > > > > Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do > > an