[gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300, 1000). It is possible, but it's a bad idea because non-standard values can result in driver breakage. Some code assu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? >> E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300, >> 1000). > > It is possible, but it's a bad idea beca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/10/2011 04:02 PM, c...@chrekh.se wrote: >> >> There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 >> in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not >> present in older kernels. > > glibc will

[gentoo-user] It *was* -r9 that's problematic... (was: wget killed -- wonder where I went wrong...)

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:24, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:24, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 20:11, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> Hello folks! >>> >>> After installation and successful 1st reboot, all attempts at wget gets >>> killed: >>> >> >> [-- massive s

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2011 10:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? E.g., HZ=500 instead of one of the canned values (100, 250, 300, 1000). It is p

[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38

2011-08-11 Thread che
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > glibc will use things in newer kernels anyway. You don't need to use > NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in order for glibc to use 2.6.38 features; it > will do that by default. NPTL_KERN_VER only omits fallbacks for older > kernels. It's there to reduce the size of glibc. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Walt, Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 16:16:50 schrieb walt: > On 08/10/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 14:40:31 schrieb walt: > >> On 08/09/2011 08:34 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 03:02:33 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi Michael, > thank you for your info ! :) > What do I need for a midi connection (sorry, I am > at the very beginning of exploring these kind of > tools and jack is everywhere... ;) ) do you have midi-ports in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, I had * experiments with jack and nothing works... Sometimes there was no connection at all, sometimes after a short time rosegarden crashes and/or reports taht the connection has gone, and so on May be I has simply combined the wrong things... I have no midi hardware in the sen

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 11:13:21 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi Michael, > I had * experiments with jack and nothing works... > Sometimes there was no connection at all, sometimes after a > short time rosegarden crashes and/or reports taht the connection > has gone, and so on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, Thank you for your help ! :) Here are the versions: media-sound/rosegarden 11.02 media-sound/zynaddsubfx 2.4.1 media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit 0.118.0 I did a aconnect -lio, which says: client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce'

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 13:04:13 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi Michael, > > Thank you for your help ! :) > > Here are the versions: > media-sound/rosegarden 11.02 > media-sound/zynaddsubfx 2.4.1 > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit 0.118.0 looks ok to me. No idea, why i

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, I will try (again) to be a friend of Jack (NOT "Daniels" ;) )... What I dont understand: Why all this hassle with Jack if Rosegarden has the ability to connect directly to Zynaddsubfx without any other gadget (see Studio->Manage Midi Devices, start Zynaddsubfx first)??? And if in

[gentoo-user] Evolution-Data-Server borked?

2011-08-11 Thread James
Hello, As part of a update @world, kde(meta) was upgraded to kde 4.6.5 A large compile ran overnight (using --skipfirst --resume) to complete. In the AM today, I rebooted and ran a revdep-rebuild to check what needs to be rebuilt. during revdep (error-typical of many) broken /usr/lib64/evoluti

[gentoo-user] Re: Evolution-Data-Server borked?

2011-08-11 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > [ebuild R] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.32.2-r1 > but it fails Mo information: # equery depends evolution-data-server * These packages depend on evolution-data-server: app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1 (eds ? >=gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2)

[gentoo-user] Re: Evolution-Data-Server borked?

2011-08-11 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > [ebuild R] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.32.2-r1 > > but it fails > # equery depends evolution-data-server > * These packages depend on evolution-data-server: > app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1 (eds ? >=gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2) Really

[gentoo-user] cron.daily contents : must they be script?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
I am using sys-process/dcron-3.2.r1 The contents of /etc/cron.daily, must they be scripts? Can I just put a symlink to a binary there? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan

[gentoo-user] Re: cron.daily contents : must they be script?

2011-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2011 04:49 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: I am using sys-process/dcron-3.2.r1 The contents of /etc/cron.daily, must they be scripts? Can I just put a symlink to a binary there? They must be executable. That's the only requirement.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cron.daily contents : must they be script?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 20:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/11/2011 04:49 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> I am using sys-process/dcron-3.2.r1 >> >> The contents of /etc/cron.daily, must they be scripts? Can I just put >> a symlink to a binary there? > > They must be executable.  That's the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Custom Timer Frequency (CONFIG_HZ)?

2011-08-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 15:06, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/11/2011 10:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote: >>> >>> On 08/11/2011 09:56 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to specify a custom timer frequency? >>>

[gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in 3.01 seconds = 83.63 MB/sec # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread covici
Grant wrote: > I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S > > and I get: > > # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb > /dev/sdb: > Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in 3.01 seconds = 83.63

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Grant wrote: > I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S > > and I get: > > # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb > /dev/sdb: > Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 25

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:27 AM, wrote: > What usb3 is supported by Linux?  Is it a pci card? > > -- > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is: > How do > you spend it? > >         John Covici >         cov...@ccs.covici.com > > I have it on my Asus laptop. - Mar

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 11 August 2011, 10:12:54 schrieb Grant: > I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S > > and I get: > > # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb > /dev/sdb: > Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 11 August 2011, 10:30:04 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Grant wrote: > > I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S > > > > and I get: > > > > # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb > > /dev/sdb: > > Timing cached

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Simon
It is my opinion that benchmarks should be done with a real benchmark tool. Try with bonnie++ This will really show you the strengths and weaknesses of your setup. Good luck, Simon On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am Donnerstag 11 Au

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread pk
On 2011-08-11 13:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > How can I prevent to scratch my skin by the roses of this garden over > and over again.? Quick question, have you tried this?: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK Disclaimer: I haven't used nor am I using Jack at the moment. Best regards

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
>> I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S >> >> and I get: >> >> # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb >> /dev/sdb: >> Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec >> Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seconds =  83.63 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
>> I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S >> >> and I get: >> >> # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb >> /dev/sdb: >> Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec >> Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seconds =  83.63 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S >>> >>> and I get: >>> >>> # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb >>> /dev/sdb: >>> Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec >>> Timing buf

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
>> > I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: >> > >> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S >> > >> > and I get: >> > >> > # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb >> > /dev/sdb: >> > Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec >> > Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seco

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S and I get: # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 252 MB in  3.01 seco

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu 11 August 2011 11:50:17 Grant did opine thusly: > USB 3.0 throughput is said to be 625 MB/s so I must be running up > against the speed of the disk itself in USB 3.0 mode, > correct? Here's what I get from my internal SATA hard drive, but > it is surely a much faster disk: > > # hdparm -t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu 11 August 2011 11:27:13 Grant did opine thusly: > >> I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: > >> > >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S > >> > >> and I get: > >> > >> # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb > >> /dev/sdb: > >> Timing cached reads: 8006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4004.33 >

[gentoo-user] new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-11 Thread Alexandre Riveira
Good afternoon am a New User gentoo and I appreciate everyone's help. My problem is set up and dhcpcd with rc-update add dhcpcd default when I try to wget is always HTTP request sent, Awaiting Response ... 200 and not out of it OK if I put fixed IP it works normally. Interestingly, with dhcpcd pin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Grant wrote: >>> > I'm testing this USB 3.0 bus-powered hard drive: >>> > >>> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041OSQ9S >>> > >>> > and I get: >>> > >>> > # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb >>> > /dev/sdb: >>> > Timing cached reads:   8006 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4004.33 MB/s

[gentoo-user] Re: new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-11 Thread Alexandre Riveira
I discovery values from routes: dhcpcd Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 - 255.0.0.0 ! 0 -0 - 192.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 14:15:32 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi Michael, > > I will try (again) to be a friend of Jack (NOT "Daniels" ;) )... > What I dont understand: Why all this hassle with Jack if Rosegarden > has the ability to connect directly to Zynaddsubfx without

[gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's one problem that I just can't fix or find relevant discussio

[gentoo-user] Re: fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread James
Matt Harrison genestate.com> writes: > Hi list, > I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an > old laptop up to date. It hasn't been sync'd for at > least 8 months so you can imagine the hell it's been. livedvd-amd64-multilib-11.2.iso 06-Aug-2011 07:12 2.8G Boot it up and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new user and dhcpcd problem

2011-08-11 Thread Mick
Hi Alexandre and welcome to Gentoo! :) On Thursday 11 Aug 2011 21:32:58 Alexandre Riveira wrote: > I discovery values from routes: > > dhcpcd > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote about [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts: [snip] > No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know > X stuff that well), I cannot get a decent keyboard layout in gnome. If you're using the evdev driver for key

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi list, > > I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to > date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the > hell it's been. > > Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but t

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:00:47PM +0100, David W Noon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote about > [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts: > > [snip] > > No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know > > X stuff that well), I cannot get a

[gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello, I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: media-gfx/imagemagick. [ebuild N ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 USE="X bzip2 cxx jpeg openmp perl png svg zlib -autotrace -corefonts -djvu -fftw -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -jbig -jpeg2k -lcms -lqr -lzma -opencl -op

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
>> USB 3.0 throughput is said to be 625 MB/s so I must be running up >> against the speed of the disk itself in USB 3.0 mode, correct? > > Processing power of the external USB<->SATA controller chip could also > come into play. But in your case I think you're getting the maximum > speed possible fr

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Carlos Sura writes: > I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: > media-gfx/imagemagick. [...] > * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 failed (install phase): > * emake failed > * > * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info > =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0',

[gentoo-user] Assigning an IP in AP mode

2011-08-11 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to assign an IP address to a wireless interface in AP mode? It can't be specified in /etc/conf.d/net because /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 is not executed since hostapd handles the whole thing. 'ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1' works but I know I've done it before without issuing that com

Re: [gentoo-user] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 emake failed configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-corefonts

2011-08-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 August 2011 20:07, Alex Schuster wrote: > Carlos Sura writes: > > > I'm using Gentoo LVM2, ~AMD64, and I'm trying to install: > > media-gfx/imagemagick. > [...] > > * ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.1.0 failed (install phase): > > * emake failed > > * > > * If you need support, post

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
pk [11-08-11 20:12]: > On 2011-08-11 13:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > How can I prevent to scratch my skin by the roses of this garden over > > and over again.? > > Quick question, have you tried this?: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK > > Disclaimer: I haven't used nor am

Re: [gentoo-user] Assigning an IP in AP mode

2011-08-11 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to assign an IP address to a wireless interface > in AP mode?  It can't be specified in /etc/conf.d/net because > /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 is not executed since hostapd handles the whole > thing.  'ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1' works