Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > >> ... > >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced > >> bread . . . > >> especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sur

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This > > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company > > as Maxtor I wonder? > > I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscription

On Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007, Kelly Stewart wrote: > Can i please get some help unsubscribing from this mailing list please? > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com look at the raw code of the messages from the list, it is even written there: List-Post:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on > opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: > > * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration from single to dual core

On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > So it's back to the old threads about whether 64 bits is superior to > 32, etc.  My question now is, given that the system is working damned > well now, what is the best way to handle this: recompile everything? > Should I recompile gcc and the li

Re: {Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Neil Walker wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. > > Not true. Here is just one recent example: > > http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp completly different things. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-01-02, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The problem with this is that Nvidia license non-free code for use in > >> their drivers. They are not allowed to distribute the source, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:00 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for >

Re: [gentoo-user] Best route forward?

On Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008, BRM wrote: > I installed KDE yesterday via "emerge kde -vuD", and just remembered > today about "kde-meta", which installs a lot more. In running "emerge > kde-meta -vuD", I get 250 new packages, and 245 blocks, with 1 upgrade. > What is the _best_ path forward? Should

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in

On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: > My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is > booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, > /dev/mmcblk0 never appears. Is there any way to get the running > system to check for a card in the slot? > > - G

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

On Freitag, 4. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: > > > Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a > > > recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv > > > gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. > > > > But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. > > Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and

Re: [gentoo-user] A pared down kernel config

On Samstag, 5. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you want to read this: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ configuring a kernel is a matter of minutes. And seconds, if you just copy over the old config and do 'make oldconfig'. It is not hard - the first time read all the help texts and think about t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

On Samstag, 5. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Samstag, 5. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > you want to read this: > > http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ > > Thanks... I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

On Sonntag, 6. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > to de-junk a default config - even if you don't know what you do, > >> > is in realm of half an hour to an hour. If you read everything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for additional campaigns for games-strategy/wesnoth

On Freitag, 11. Januar 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Hi, > > Before I open a bug for this, are ther any such ebuilds? I know they don't > exist in portage, but maybe in some overlay I'm not aware of. > > Thanks... > > Dirk you can't do that because the user generated scenarios/campaigns are

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for additional campaigns for games-strategy/wesnoth

On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > > On Freitag, 11. Januar 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Before I open a bug for this, are ther any such ebuilds? I know they > > > don't exist in po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, James wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier googlemail.com> writes: > > Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is going on! > > Excellent idea. > > Is there a place where we can conveniently read this list, and not have > posting privileges? > > An archive list se

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 07:34 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: > > >> Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the > > >> foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of y

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:22 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Although he works for Microsoft, Daniel is the one who created this > > > project. > > > > H

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

On Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008, Richard Cox wrote: > Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like > it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. what do you mean with crashed? The 'too many connections' error? That happens sometimes and is not a crash.

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

On Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008, Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote: > Naga Toro wrote: > > On Sunday 13 January 2008 15.07.57 Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote: > >> I guess you don't get the point of being also in a flame war with a > >> ex-dev who although very bright lacks in all the social skills. I read > >> the thread

Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?

On Montag, 14. Januar 2008, Wayne Clement wrote: > On 1/14/08, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Am Montag, 14. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: > > >> > > >> SVG is an OpenSource replacement for Schlockwave-Trash, to be used for > > >> > > > >creating singing/dancing webpages. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

Open webpage right click open with... choose kate or any other editor. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Quo vadis Gentoo [WAS: Daniel Robbins' come back ?]

On Samstag, 19. Januar 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > that is one of the most stupid things I ever read on this list. So users > > should never be part of discussions? Their needs? Their opinions? >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

On Samstag, 19. Januar 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > after the painful and time-consuming creation of > > > /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, > > "=kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" tells me: [blocks B ] > > > > > kde-bas

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade of xorg-server

On Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008, econti wrote: > Hi all > I should upgrade xorg-server from 1.3.0.0-r2 to 1.3.0.0-r4. > But I read in another mailing list that the new version of xorg-server > has some (many?) bugs. > Is this true also for the gentoo version? Should I wait before upgrading? > > Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade of xorg-server

On Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008, econti wrote: > > > Hi all > > > I should upgrade xorg-server from 1.3.0.0-r2 to 1.3.0.0-r4. > > > But I read in another

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Dave Oxley wrote: > I've got KDE4 installed and running mostly fine. It loses some > configuration on a log off and on and it shows 2 batteries rather than > the 1 which is the only one the laptop has! But other than that switched > to it by default now. How do I prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. > > Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: > > zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM > CONFIG_SHMEM=y > # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > CONFI

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: > Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying > KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something? yes, but gentoo's kde will create a new (and empty) .kde4 dir for you. More surprising was that kde4 cleaned all the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying > >> KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something? > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

On Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd hazard a guess that you may have hit a bigger problem than your > > comment indicates. I'm pretty sure there would be great pressure to > > use `quick and dirty hacks' to get stuff done whe

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > There is an option in the kernel that will make it "see" all the 4GB. Set > the option for up o 64GB in the kernel and you may use your 4GB. and slow down memory access a lot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your maiboards bios maps pci-space at the 3,6GB-4GB range. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > > >> That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > >> That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Enviado por: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 24/01/2008 17:00 > Por favor, responda a gentoo-user > > Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > cc: > Asunto: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > -mcpu is deprecated, according to the examples file as of gcc 3.4, SO: > > > > > > CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2452.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome! [SOLVED]

On Freitag, 25. Januar 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:04 +0100, b.n. wrote: > > I fixed it. Somehow some permissions on some directories on /tmp got > changed. I changed them back, and it seems to be back to normal now... which will only help you until the next reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

As soon as you update KDE to a not years-old-version, kllike 3.5.8, all your 'can't satisfy' problems will be gone. As a bonus, all KDE related expat errors will be gone too. So start updating. Your box is almost hopelessly outdated. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > So start updating. Your box is almost hopelessly > > outdated. > > I knew it would catch up with me eventually. But my > connection is so slow I've just been emerging packages > and installing from tarballs as required and ignoring > the big upda

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote: > Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast. > But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with > portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal > compression algorithm! > The WIKI articel pretends a gain of spee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > > liveCD > > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I > > can start playing with this whole USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] live cd, ip fail

it would have been helpfull if you have told us the ifconfig output of the livecd. btw. in the documentation is a nice part about configuring networking - and if you are lucky all you have to do is /sbin/dhcpcd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I've been using Kmail for some time but am running into a couple of issues. > I'm not sure if they're actually Kmail issues and if they're actually > outside the Kmail program. > > First, using spamassassin, Kmail freezes every time it checks my mai

Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:

On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > >>> On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:55, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of > > > messages. > > > > yes it does. > > > > > I have one

Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:

On Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > >>> On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

On Donnerstag, 8. November 2007, James wrote: two things: memory. Every mb wasted for X - or even worse gnome, the biggest memory hog out there - is a mb that can't be used by gcc. Thus a graphical environment slows down installation. cd/dvd space. Every mb wasted for a full blown X and a hard

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade -> re-emerge system?

On Donnerstag, 8. November 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > This morning, I upgraded to glibc 2.7 from whatever used to be current > in ~x86 before that (2.6.). > > Do you guys do a "emerge -e system", ie. recompile everything, after such > an upgrade? > > Thanks, > > Alexander Skwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > or some other access error.  But I don't > have anything else to go on. > > As for portage, > > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > emerge --info > > Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you mean what emerge --info reports, that too was in my original > email: oops... here is a bug that sounds exactly like your problem : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509 you can add yourself to it or post a me too ;) -- [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

On Freitag, 9. November 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 21:55:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [ ok ] ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > > ... > > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > > --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

On Freitag, 9. November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:09 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > [...] > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ? > > > > > > Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ? > > > > -r2 is bugged too: &

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

On Samstag, 10. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: > > > On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with hdparm and SATA-controller

On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, Marc Blumentritt wrote: > Hi, > > I want to optimize the "sound output" of my shiny new sata disc, but I > have some problems to set hdparm options. My options look like this: > # SATA Disk > sda_args="-d1 -c1 -u1 -A1 -S6 -M128 -B1" which are all wrong for sata

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, pepone.onrez wrote: > There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a > copy of the partition table? testdisk can do it gpart can do it maybe parted can do it too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, Mick wrote: > I haven't used gpart, or parted for this job, but have successfully used > testdisk. yeah, testdisk worked for me too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs: Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long

On Montag, 19. November 2007, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > >> > >>From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >Is this execution ti

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

On Montag, 19. November 2007, Teng Wang wrote: > Hi there, > > Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that > was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my > laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it > really matter? Or what s

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan libraries in my system

On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I found these libraries hanging around. Should I be deleting them or am I > going to bork my system? Wouldn't mind leaving well alone if there is a > suspicion that I may break things. > > # q

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan libraries in my system

On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I found these libraries hanging around. Should I be deleting them or > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] radeonfb and fglrx don't mix - why?

On Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007, Andrey Vul wrote: > I finally got X to work with fglrx and RTFMing said that radeonfb was > crashing my X. My question is why did radeonfb mess up X and fglrx? > > If this is strictly kernel-related, I'll send this email to lkml. because two different drivers driving

Re: [gentoo-user] New hibernate modules in 2.6.23-gentoo-r3

On Freitag, 7. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Could you please help me understand how I should be setting hibernation for > my laptop: > > There an new hibernate options in the new stable kernel: > > [*] Suspend to RAM and standby > [*] Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk') > (/dev/hda1)

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, James wrote: > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set betwen 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 the new scheduler was introduced. Most people (like me) have had positive results related to gaming. But maybe bzflag is stupidly coded? Nonetheless you should try 'voluntary' preemp

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 071214 Shawn Haggett wrote: > >> CONFIG_HZ_100=y > >> # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set > >> # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set > >> # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set > >> CONFIG_HZ=100 > > > > Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Jason Carson wrote: > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... > > AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems > and IDE disks > > ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: > Jason Carson wrote: > > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which > > says... > > > > AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems > > and IDE disks > > > > ... I have a server, not a desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: > >> Jason Carson wrote: > >>> I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which > >>> says... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Jason Carson wrote: > > > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which > > > says... > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Grant wrote: > > > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > > > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > > > things being improved as quickly as possible. > > > > Where do you find it is slowed? > > I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > IMHO, python is a very nice object oriented language and C++ is no > > better (unless you need particular features of the language). I > > suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. As I > > underst

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > one reason pro phyton and contra c and c++ has always been: segfaults. > > > > And with c++ comes another one: abi changes. > > > > Just think about this horror: gcc/libstdc++ up

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX)

On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The kernel config does NOT set CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN, if that makes > any difference. it should. Please set it. Oh, and don't forget - in 'single disk mode' you might loose everything if one of the two disks dies. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX)

On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:00:32PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > don't ask me, I only work here... but I have a "multimedia unit" that > > has 4 card reader slots, a HD, an LCD and USB2. Only /dev/sda shows up > > if I don't set the multip

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

*removedlotsofideas* your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its structures: no matter how hosed your 'data', you can repair it with cp, mv, an emerge sync and a text editor. Which is all not true, if you start using some database crap. Go, look at /var/db/pkg - you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, Raphael wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 11:55 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *removedlotsofideas* > > ?? > > > your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its > > structures: no matte

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:27:58AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > but you also know a little more than you did yesterday. That's the main > > thing! > > I know how I misthought things. I had thought USB was a dumb protocol > and that the

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've figured out how to force a hard lockup on my system, by trying to > log on to my ADSL service when the modem is switched off. Yeah, I know... > Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do that. > Doctor: In that case... *DON'T DO THAT*. > > Dur

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on > > laptop with Gentoo. > > > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now > > - ext3 looks slow some time

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > > > Hi gu

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 2:56 PM, Sergey Kobzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > [...] > > > - ext3 looks slow some time > > The defaults are slow, but you can change them and make it OK. Not > super fast, but OK. Check out > /usr/src/l

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 6:40 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > > On Dec 18, 2007 2:56 PM, Sergey Kobzar <[EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now > > What do you base that assessment on ? It's true > that RFS 4 was going nowhere even before its creator's legal problems, > but RFS 3 is still well-supported as a Gentoo pkg, is

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:53:18AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > > > Another thing you can try: add something you want to be done (like > > switching to a vt or a certain sysrq-key) to your acpid config and let >

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, purple wrote: > after a while a built new desktop with xfce and since than i have issues > with sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 when running revdep-rebuild because revdep constandly > rebuild sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 over and over again every time i run it.. > sample output from revdep-reb

Re: [gentoo-user] performance enhancement using x86_64-pc-linux-gnu?

On Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007, Richard Marzan wrote: > Hello, > > > Today, I thought about changing the CHOST, even if it means performing > a fresh install, to the one in the subject line for performance > improvement. Am I wrong to assume that changing the CHOST to > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up `du'

On Sonntag, 25. Mai 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 25 May 2008, at 00:24, Willie Wong wrote: > > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:49:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > >> ... > >> I use Reiserfs with default sizes. In some situations like a large > >> cache of nntp messages of s

Re: [gentoo-user] our favorite openrc

On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, ionut cucu wrote: > Upon rebooting today openrc backfired on me...it was about time, I was > felling neglicted by it. So after ver 0.2.4-r1 stopped to fsck my > hard-driver, I managed to update it to 0.2.5 but same issue remains: it > fails to fsck all the filesystems,

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk priority

On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > Michal 'vorner' Vaner skrev: > > Hello > > > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > >> I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk > >> quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. > >> I know it

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 080608 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > >> We try to translate the GMN to our local language, > >> but I found it was really hard to understand the section > >> of "Council Meetin

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

On Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: > > Using Thunderbird it appeared to be a new thread, the same applies to > > the GMail web interface. > > Interesting. I wonder what mechanism those clients use to determine > threads then (I use neithe

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, William Kenworthy wrote: > at one time I had a couple of people have a go at me over thread > hi-jacking. Turned out to be a bug in THEIR version of KMail. I did > enjoy sticking the boot in as one of them was most ungracious about it. > > Moral: make sure you are ri

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, William Kenworthy wrote: > too old to stop now ... been at it since the 90's when I first started > using email ... I am sure even back then people told you to stop it. Or did you only mail AOlusers ;P -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions

On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer, > audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio. > However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS > emulation still works. works perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

On Freitag, 13. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:16:11 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Who has a shorter way? ;-) > > In Claws Mail, hit New while in the ML folder :) what if I am in a ml folder but don't want to send a mail to that ml? Removing adress again? -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

Hi, if you want to make a political statement: buy ATI if you want to use the card with almost no problems and good performance: buy nvidia. Yes, ATI has released docu. Yes, everybody is working on the drivers. But the open ones only do 2d so far and the closed ones are horrible. There are pr

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