Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, Platoali wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > if you want to make a political statement: buy ATI > > > > if you want to use the card with almost no

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison > Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:48:33 + (UTC) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:47:19 -0700 > From

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glib

2008-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, Grant wrote: > I downgraded from glib-2.17.2 to glib-2.14.6 and had problems so I > went back to 2.17.2. How can I make this downgrade successfully? > > - Grant revdep-rebuilt afterwards? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 17 Jun 2008, at 17:18, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > ... > > 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 > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > This comparison seems to rather neglect Intel. > > > > because Intel does not produce amd chipsets. > > > > > IMO Intel deserve our thanks for this for more th

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: > On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Hi List, > > I have a very strange thing here. I don't know when this started, but my > > feeling is, that it was around kernel 2.6.15 and it's getting worse with > > each >

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > > On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote: > > > On Tue, February 6, 2007 9:29 pm, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > > I don't think, swap is the cause of this. This system has 1,5GB Ram, > > > swap is nearly never touched :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: > > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > hdparm /dev/hda > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > multcount= 16 (on) > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 21:19 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > > On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 7. Fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi list, > > I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a > compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't > confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been > compiling things each

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would go with Hammann with > > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." > > > > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how > > major an effec

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 12. Februar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would go with Hammann with > > > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." > > > > > > Many people neglect to reali

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel randomly locking up, no error messeges, no panics nothing.

2007-02-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: > On 2/14/07, Duane Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SysRq-t? Sorry can't find it in portage, can you explain please? less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007, brullo nulla wrote: > > Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the > > system and niced times as well. > > > > p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies. > > Don't believe the readings they give, rather interpret them in context. > > sob.

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 02:48:18 pm Pongrácz István wrote: > > 2007. 02. 14, szerda keltezéssel 13.28-kor Jerry McBride ezt írta: > > > I tracked my 100% cpu usage to FAMD... Killing it instantly freed the > > > > cpu... > > > > Change to

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, Aggelos wrote: > > I would not define such a mail as spam. > Aggelos I would. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > Hi, > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with > SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs > file too. My question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have > to do. And if it is

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > > > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook > &

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 26. Februar 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Dale wrote: > > OK then. I'm going to start selling Viagra. I'll just put off-topic in > > the subject line and it will be OK. ;-) > > What's happening to everyone here!?? > > CAN'T YOU SEE THE DAMN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL SPAM AND SOME POOR S

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

2007-02-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 26. Februar 2007, b.n. wrote: > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > On Sunday 25 February 2007, Mick wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on > >> hold. Once I close Amarok then all system (KDE) notifications > >> suddenly sound at once!

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

2007-02-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 26. Februar 2007, Mick wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote: > > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > > On Sunday 25 February 2007, Mick wrote: > > >> Hi All, > > >> > > >> It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on > > >> hold. Once I close Amarok then

Re: [gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

2007-02-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just switched monitors and X now starts in 640x480. I intend to > make it work at 1280x1024, and have changed DefaultDepth and Modes > lines in xorg.conf accordingly. The console works at 1024x768 as > usual, but I have compi

Re: [gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

2007-02-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 2/28/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have just switched monitors and X now starts in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo weekly newsletter

2007-03-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. März 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > This is completely unimportant, but I've been wondering about > it for a several months. > > At www.gentoo.org, there are links to the Gentoo Weekly > Newsletter. What does the "Posted on" date mean? There seems > to be an average of about 1.5-2 w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo weekly newsletter

2007-03-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. März 2007, Mick wrote: > > the gentoo weekly news mailing list. You should add yourself to that > > list. Every gentoo user should be subscribed to that list. > > Yes, including me. ;-) However, I have not been able to subscribe to it > despite trying for a number of times. Am I

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

2007-03-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 7. März 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:22:24 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work. > > If you have MAGIC_SYSREQ enabled in your kernel config, you can do a > clean reboot fro the majority of lockups by

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

2007-03-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 8. März 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 070306 Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote: > >> During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes > >> while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites. > >> The only way out is to hit the rese

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 29. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I think you misread me. I'm interested in ext4, and disappointed in > NameSys' > handling of reiser4. I love the *idea* of reiser4, but being able the > resize > the filesystem is *mandatory* for my setup, and I don't get that with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu

2007-03-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. März 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0200, Sylvain Chouleur wrote: > > I check the temperatures whith acpi: > > >acpi -t > > I think some chipset don't give the temperature directly, actually return a > numerical value and you have to run a math

Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-03-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > The neat computers in the world today deserver Linux, and let's face > it, we all deserve to be gurus on 90% of computers and not 5%. > > Sure, I don't want to by a ubuntu install either, but still, I argue > that it's a big step in a good directio

Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-03-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Eez > > a byootiful dai todai': > > On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% / > > > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote: > > Having gotten rather tired of doing this > > manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added > > > > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 > > > > It won't hurt

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. März 2007, b.n. wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > besides critical bug fixes, security fixes and driver updates? > > > > IMHO masking never kernels is a really bad idea. > > Why? because of: - filesystem bugs (2.6.17 and XFS for ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Ridiculous amount of borkage in portage

2007-03-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi > > Am I the only one seeing a ridiculous amount of borkage in Gentoo this > week? So far I have had gcc, perl, perl-dependent packages, autogen and > some other packages fail on me this week. > > yes, you are. Have you filed bugs? -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, b.n. wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is fixed > > in a stable release. > > Stable release? AFAIK, *all* 2.6.x releases are stable releases. No, they aren't. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. April 2007, b.n. wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > On Sonntag, 1. April 2007, b.n. wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > >>> In almost every kernel release a security problem is found, that is > >>> fixed in a stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Shared Libraries

2007-04-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. April 2007, Manish Marathe wrote: > Hello, > > I want to build all components as shared libraries. So I wanted to know, is > there any global USE Flag or any other global change I can make to the > portage environment to make all components build as shared libraries rather > than chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 4. April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:09:30 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > Exactly. So, MHO is that it would be better if all the output from > > > console apps was just plain text with the

Re: [gentoo-user] hp dat 72 compression problem

2007-04-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 10. April 2007, Stefán István wrote: > kedd 10 április 2007 15.52 dátummal Neil Walker ezt írta: > > StefĂĄn IstvĂĄn wrote: > > > Does anybody know how to set up the drive to be able to write 72GB of > > > data onto it? > > > > 72GB capacity assumes 2:1 compression. > > Ok, I know that

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 15. April 2007, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > The mailing list is still active, > but the lack of a current release seems to indicate that the Gentoo > project is no longer truly active. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tom Veldhouse a) gentoo is not about releases. b) the 1.4 release took

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0's profile?

2007-04-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 15. April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > Today after I run emerge --sync, I find that the 2007.0's profile is > added, so what should I do with it? nothing > is that ln -s 2007.0's profile to > /etc/make.profile then emerge -avuDN world just OK? If not, what > sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi, > > I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX > running. > Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. > lspci says: > 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) > (rev a2) 00:0a.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hello Volker, > > * Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17-04-07 10:11]: > > which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it > > with hdparm. > > ah ok, thx for tha

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 16. April 2007, Garry Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no > thumbnails or images displayed) > > Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) > > What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support > for these two applicati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Monitor SATA with smart?

2007-04-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > It really depends. The Google study (one of the links above) says, > that SMART very often does not warn you about an impending failure. > So, even though SMART reports that everything is fine, it may very > well not be fine at all. Classic cas

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Garry Smith wrote: > Hi, > > >> My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no > >> thumbnails or images displayed) > >> > >> Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) > >> > >> What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support > >> for

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run kernel 2.4 with NPTL support?

2007-04-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 20. April 2007, Zhixu Liu wrote: > Does anyone know how to run kernel 2.4 with NPTL support? Thanks. > > I'm running fine with kernel 2.6, but for some special requirements, we > need to switch to kernel 2.4, then the kernel just panic. > glibc is compiled with nptl, no nptlonly. Any su

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove > what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other > "good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll > back ... :) emm, no. Not danger

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:12:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only > > > remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CFLAGS

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 28. April 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > > What would be the best way to do this? complete reinstallation. > I thought about unpacking > a stage1 tarball, changing CFLAGS, calling bootstrap.sh and doing > an emerge -e world, but this would overwrite things in /etc and > clutter my fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing CFLAGS

2007-04-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 28. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Samstag, 28. April 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> BTW: What exactly are the benefits from using march instead of > >> mcpu? Is there a noticeable diff

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, ruscook ozbike wrote: > Hi all, > I realise this is the gentoo forum, but I've had this problem out on the > sabayon forum (which is not as busy as here) and got no feedback as yet. > So, I'mputting my question out here as well. > > I just went to upgrade to 3.4 loop 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

2007-04-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > At times, I don't see the point of so many groups. Here's my > "/root/bin/u_add" script, which I invoke as... > > u_add newusername > > #!/bin/bash > useradd -g users -G > audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s > /bin/

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

2007-04-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:50:04 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > #!/bin/bash > > > useradd -g users -G > > > audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s > > > /bin/bash $1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > The new kernel panics at a typical place: > <...> > VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,7) > > then just below this appears: > > <6> Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. > > > The root fs is reiserfs and *is* part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi guys! > > I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or > reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. > However, it would be great to preserve a way to shutdown or reboot without > making a backup when I've me

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi guys! > > I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or > reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. > However, it would be great to preserve a way to shutdown or reboot without > making a backup when I've me

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) > which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. > > But when I try to do 'emerge system', portage is > trying to emerge linux-headers also. How can I prevent > it ? why

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: > I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer. > I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has > gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the > theory being that I would assign space as

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: > On 4/30/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) > > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > > > Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y > > > > that is not the reiserfs option. > > I'm aware of that. But another PC with the 2.6.19 > kernel and an IDE drive panicked until I set > CONFIG_UNIX=y. Didn't help in this case. well, you should have set sockets, becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Nope, Unix sockets are usually not the commonly chosen way for > kernel<->userland communication. They're used for machine-local (w/ > exception of clusters) inter-process communication. But I think that > init would struggle w/o CONFIG_UNIX

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? > > > > yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will w

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to the VM > > > subsystem. The whole point of the swap par

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > no, I trust the kernel devs how said, that a swapfile in 2.6 should not > > be slower. > > "should not" is not the same as "is not" > > I better trust my own experienc

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

2007-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 7. Mai 2007, David Harel wrote: > As so many times before, openssl fails to compile. > > Top most error is: openssl.c:(.text+0x15c): undefined reference to > `OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf'. Two other packages that give me > trouble are: glibc and python. All attempts are after sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. > I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only > enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the > kernel at all. > > Is there a better way to go? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > It *P*DEPENDs on them. That's an (strange) kind of special dependency > which is pulled in *after* install, instead of *before*. But still > it is an dependency. > > So, Xserver dependens on driver(s), drivers depend on Xserver. > Circular dep

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, David Harel wrote: > Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this > problem. The bad file is alutInit.c > > the bad line is: > > if (!alcCloseDevice (device)) > > > I couldn't find where the function is but obviously it returns the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 02:36:06 +0300 > > David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this > > problem. The bad file is alutInit.c > > > > the bad line is: > > > > if (!alcCloseDevi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > /etc/genkernel.conf > > MENUCONFIG="no" > MRPROPER="no" > CLEAN="no" > BOOTSPLASH="no" > SAVE_CONFIG="yes" > DEBUGLEVEL=5 > BOOTLOADER="grub" > USECOLOR="yes" > > > cd /usr/src/linux > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > make oldconfig > genkernel --kern

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 - need to rebuild system?

2007-05-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > I am upgrading from gcc-4.1.1-rX to gcc-4.1.2... Is it safe to just > emerge the new version yes > , or do I need to do "emerge -eav system" and > "emerge -eav world", as the gcc upgrade guide suggests? Do I need to > rebuild libtool every time I upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok, track length and moodbar problem...

2007-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 21. Mai 2007, Nistor Andrei wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some > weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length > is not displayed. I'm unable to scroll forwards or backwards in the song, > and moo

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, Here goes... > > > How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the > portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory > of the average server? dunno, but huge. > > Would it be possible to dr

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A The

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three > install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before > moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch > the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three > >> install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before &

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > hi folks ! > My gentoo desktop needed to be reinstaled this week, and i did it :) > well, all compiled, without a single error, kernel 2.6.20-r8 installed, ok. > when i start my kde, it hangs, showing only the X window with mouse cursor, > when i

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel > after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a > fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick > install guide. > > Here's the error I get at

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 > processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all > the controllers on the board are Intel. > > I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. > > One

Re: [gentoo-user] is it ok to set local flags using ufed?

2007-05-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 28. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > Is it safe setting local flags using ufed (i.e., in /etc/make.conf) if > you know you dont need them disabled for any packages? yes since all packages that don't have that flag ignore it, it is safe. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is it ok to set local flags using ufed?

2007-05-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 28. Mai 2007, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:45:21AM -0400, Penguin Lover Denis squawked: > > Is it safe setting local flags using ufed (i.e., in /etc/make.conf) if > > you know you dont need them disabled for any packages? > > Short answer: yes. It is safe. You won't br

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 1. Juni 2007, James wrote: > Mark Shields gmail.com> writes: > > Have you bothered to look at the app-mobilephone/kmobiletools website, > > http://www.kmobiletools.org ? It states that it supports the RAZR v3x > > series. > > Yes, I installed version '0.4.3.3' > But could not get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 2. Juni 2007, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > But could not get the usb configured. > > > > you need cdc-acm support (or 'usb modem' support) as a module/in the > > kernel to talk to the phone. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > you do have switched the phone to modem mode? > > On the Razr it's called 'tty' and yes, I'm using that > setting > > I'm not sure that and the afore

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > Any documents I can read about KmobileTools? > > > > there isn't much - but I could successfully get stuff, like sms or phone > > numbers from my Razr v3i with kmob

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007, Denis wrote: > > Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a > > drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and > > organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and > > seeing cover art from amazon.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > just as I thought, certain folks had their lessons now it's > maybe worth contributing someting, it starts again: > Critical bugs are simply declared invalid. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935 > > Again the old philoso

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > so first you went to the wrong bugzilla and made a big fuss. > > Then you went to the gentoo-bugzilla and made even more fuss. > > Yes, I first ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > seems, certain wranglers are for killing bugs of > > > > specific persons ;-O > > > > well, Jakub is very fast closing bugs - and sometimes he closes > > them too fast... this is nothing new - and arguing with him in a > > civil manner usually so

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm some bit confused that the wranglers should do such decisions > > > at all (if they're not also involved in the affected package). > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really. If you think there's a problem, explain it. You get attacked? > > Insist. Prove them they are wrong. > > Just curious: Did you ever try this with Jakub? > I did. And after some arguments a different dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? nope. cp -a if you really want to use copy. But doesn't kill that the ctime/mti

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, b.n. wrote: > Kent Fredric ha scritto: > > On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ( probably releated to it being a > > generally harder distro to use that *cough* ewwbuntu *cough* > > unlinspired *cough* or *cough* deadrat *cough* ) > > OT: Ubuntu distros (Kubunt

Re: [OT] Ubuntu isn't the devil (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid)

2007-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] > > The slowest boot of all > > times? > > My Gentoo boots more slowly, but that's pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, »Q« wrote: > In <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Really. If y

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