Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in > > my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it > > will never be able to do the other stuff PA handles. > > This seems like a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:45:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > QUESTION: As for ensuring that every package actually has a > corresponding tbz2 file in the packages directory, would > > emerge -ek @world > > install everything from packages except in the case of something not > existing in which case

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail > opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? Because KDE is so weird all over the place. > I can't see any material difference between the two links. Yes, there is none. This doesn't happen here,

[gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread trevor donahue
Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am left without disk space... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 + trevor donahue wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for > several months now and I simply lllooove it! > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without > updating the current pack of ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 trevor donahue wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for > several months now and I simply lllooove it! > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without > updating the current pack of installe

[gentoo-user] Re: Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 13:37, trevor donahue wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -u

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:37:44AM +, trevor donahue wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for > several months now and I simply lllooove it! > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without > updating the current pack o

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread trevor donahue
wow that was fast thanks a lot guys! done some research, turns out in home there is a .cache and the folder chromium there takes nearly 600mb, cleared chromium browsing / download history, cleared the cache. that freed it. Nikos Chantziaras, thanks, will test it tonight YoYo Siska, thanks fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
trevor donahue writes: > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without > updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am > left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting > /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:50:02 +, trevor donahue wrote: > YoYo Siska, thanks for the good idea, put -doc in make.conf and "nodoc" > in FEATURES You may want to reconsider the latter. The doc USE flag controls extra documentation, such as API stuff, while still installing man ages etc. FEATURES=

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation > you will get.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell behavior

2012-02-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.02.2012 21:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 2012-02-20 19:29, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > >> What does ~/.xsession-errors says? > > checked that already, I didn't see anything obvious in there (at least > for ME) ... will check back tomorrow, I am not at the particular machine > ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 + > trevor donahue wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for > > several months now and I simply lllooove it! > > So here's the thing. When I use g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:45:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> QUESTION: As for ensuring that every package actually has a >> corresponding tbz2 file in the packages directory, would >> >> emerge -ek @world >> >> install everything from packages

[gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo? I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs: # rpm -qa | grep cyrus cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 portage gives me cyrus-imapd-2.4.12 which is fine but I don't know if upgrading thi

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

2012-02-28 Thread James Broadhead
On 28 February 2012 00:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 27 February 2012 23:29:35 Robin Atwood wrote: > >> "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 Kip

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

2012-02-28 Thread James Broadhead
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 reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of > options were no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail > > opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? > > Because KDE is so weird all over the place. Well I just hope the team get it sorted ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread James Broadhead
On 28 February 2012 11:37, trevor donahue wrote: > In situations like this I start deleting > /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even a revdep-rebuild > to fix something, but even then I'm left with no more then 100 mb, which > obviously is not enough ... Lots of good advice a

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:16 +0100 schrieb YoYo Siska : > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > > dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in > > > my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it > > > will never

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: > > This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until recently > > and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS > > applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, which > > on

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 reorganised some time af

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-28 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Wow. Thanks for all this knowledge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Willie Matthews
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman > >> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark > >>> Knecht wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more > > > fragmentation you will get. > > > > Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the > > need for fragmentation. I routinely use 0 on non-system filesys

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for > the superuser, which is 5% as default: > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you > will get. > I have a question on this. I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space > > for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > > tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation > > you will get. > > I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more > > > > fragmentation you will get. > > > > > > Why is that? I would have expected more usable space to reduce the > > > need for fragmentation. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:49:40PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > I suggest splitting this step into two: > > 3a) Create /sbin/linuxrc containing at least ... chmod ... > > 3b) Append "init=/sbin/linuxrc" to bootloader line > > Slightly less confusing :-) OK. I'll modify it as suggested. Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > >> I have a question on this. I have a drive that I use for movies and >> such. There is nothing OS related on that drive. Would it be safe to >> set this to say 1% or even 0? > > I'd say 1% is okay. For 0% I'm not sure, I avoid that, but maybe there > wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 > > Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that > then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. It does. -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:05:41 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so > > fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). > > Uh, really? I wouldn't think so. With m > 0, there is much space left, > in large contiguous chunks, e

[gentoo-user] firefox shows as "Aurora"

2012-02-28 Thread Thanasis
Installed www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 and it shows as "Aurora" in Help->About screen.

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox shows as "Aurora"

2012-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/02/12 08:42, Thanasis wrote: Installed www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 and it shows as "Aurora" in Help->About screen. Yeah, I had that problem too. It was an error in the mozconfig-3 eclass. This has been fixed, so simply resync your portage tree and rebuild firefox.

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 >> >> Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that >> then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. > > It does. > > Apparently I am missing somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, February 28, 2012 4:34 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, > > does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo? > > I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs: > > # rpm -qa | grep cyrus > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3 > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3 > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > >> Alex Schuster wrote: >> >> Also, it is already set up with LVM and >> ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? > > Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /dev/mapper/whatever or > something, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 8:10 am, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >>> tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 >>> >>> Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that >>> then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy.