Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
#x27;t be the issue, since you can easily specify the depth used to create images on server ('-depth' option in tightvnc), like 8 bits, in case of very slow connection, regardless of depth actually used in underlying systems. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Python module problems

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
manually see how to solve each by reinstalling the missing module. Now, > with that said, has this just been an ebuild issue to not pull in the > dependencies or what? "python-updater" as root. It's useful to read emerge messages. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:08:50 +0100 Mick wrote: > I tried EXA but it made no difference. Prehaps you forgot to setup dri? If so, try x11-misc/driconf. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:33:10 +0100 Mick wrote: > Thanks Mike, how do you mean set up dri? It is shown as 'yes' in glxinfo. ... > On Saturday 11 April 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Just try this tool, it's GUI, written just for that pur

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
e change is to allow hotplugging these devices. Strangely enough, I do it more than ten times a day, and it works perfectly with old-style configuration. Same thing worked for PS/2 keyboard/mouse, unlike M$-OS. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:14:55 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Jacques Montier > wrote: > > Mike Kazantsev a gentiment tapote: > >> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 > >> Philip Webb wrote: > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 17:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go > > through the install process, but just add it to world. Or just edit the > > world > > file by hand. > > > > You sure about the -1 option?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:26:19 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2009 11:26:11 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > > If so, try x11-misc/driconf. > > Is this for ATI only? On my box I get a complaint about libGL being too old. > Actually, it's absent altogether

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
ed you from the mismatched driver versions. That was a problem entirely between the xorg-server and xf86-* driver modules. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
y laptops, I have (with zero effort on my part) a working Synaptics touchpad with actual Synaptics features AND X recognizes my hot-plugged USB mouse. HAL++. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
ot; it with hal may not provide much in the way of benefits. But the same argument can be made just on the decision to upgrade to 1.5.3 -- if your current version "works", why the motivation to upgrade? If its just to have the "latest and greatest" -- well that's hal. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
t;>keyboard goes into /etc/hal/fdi/policy/keyboard_driver_ftw.fdi and restart hal. Since hal lets you "merge" arbitrary keys to its database, Xorg will also look for any input.x11_options.foo keys, replacing everything that went into xorg.conf. ---Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update add hald default or boot?

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Edenfield
at the earliest after your local mounts, clock, etc. are started. If you put them both into the boot runlevel I don't see why it would necessarily hurt, but it doesn't need to be there to work properly. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
laptop should have amd64-compatible processor, so just try this one. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ebuild package-ver.ebuild help That command allows you to execute all the ebuild steps separately. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:28:31 +0400 Vasya Volkov wrote: > Mike Kazantsev пишет: ... > lame_opts="--vbr-new -V 2 -B 256" ... > > flac -c -d "$FLAC" | lame $lame_opts - "$MP3" ... > > Script actually depends on following packages (main tree

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
using the same one. I typically include both vga= and video= lines in my grub command to get this to work. --Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout slot issue, portage wants to downgrade everything

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ble with stable (by gentoo developers' estimation) baselayout. Newer, ~x86, portage will probably downgrade it automagically, since it's only reasonable option without overriding masks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and -match=native

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
so there should be no point to insert them anywhere in x86 binary. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge fontforge

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
't have this file with cairo installed, it should be a bug. Possible workaround is to install another version of cairo - prehaps it was somehow omitted in your version, quite unlikely though. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] denyhosts shows "crashed" status in rc-status, but seems to work fine

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
rom "eend $?" to "eend 0" (so it'd always be considered as "started cleanly"), but I'd suggest running the program from the same user with all the same options by hand to see why it returns an error, filing a bug if it's unexpected and undocumented behavior. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and -match=native

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ve/core2 or any profile with all the optimizations your cpu has should produce most code with most optimizations, but in case of ssse3 on i686 it's a minor gain, if any. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 - Intel unable to pin 'front buffer'

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
parameters from grub line, if it's enabled, of course. Also, there's a video_modesettng switch on 2.6.29+ kernel for intel drm. If it's enabled (by default it isn't), intelfb shouldn't be in grub at all. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
s? I remember fixing similar problem with "xhost +localhost" line. Don't really remember why it helped, since I lack basic knowledge of X authentication mechanisms. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:48:51 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > And remove poppler-bindings from world. And note that >=sys-apps/portage-2.2 will resolve that automagically - without user (your) intervention. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:14:23 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On 26/04/09 Mike Kazantsev said: > > > And note that >=sys-apps/portage-2.2 will resolve that automagically > > - without user (your) intervention. > > sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 > > Wil

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
e a huge world file. How does one clean up > such a beast? I go through my /var/lib/portage/world file in nano from time to time, just killing (^K) the lines I don't know about (mostly it's some packages I checked out and forgot to remove), looks easy enough, since it has no pl

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
position. You should have better luck tweaking GTK/QT settings, since pretty much every button is drawn using a standard widget from one of these two. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot

2009-04-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
something with fsck - prehaps the system will just boot. Then, if the rest of the initscripts won't throw some similar errors (possibly exposing the real problem), you can probably insert a lot of echoes/einfos to that initscript to see at which point everything hangs and check what's wrong with the command causing it. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Kazantsev
lemented via emerge hooks. Can you please explain a little, so I can put my mind at ease? ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Kazantsev
oved or > transferred to world. That brought me to an idea that a simple wrapper script with "echo && emerge" will suffice. Nice idea, thanks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
to be backed-up are FreeBSD. So I thought there's gotta be something that fits these criterias, but so far I've found only "dar" and it seems quite slow and a bit unsuited for these needs. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ut, but I'm afraid that live network backups aren't the best solution in my case. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
with a few other people, so I can't just roll freebsd7 or solaris onto it, but I guess fuse-zfs and compressed fuse filesystems should be worth a try indeed. Besides, I've got some strange idea that to make squashfs you don't really need its support in kernel... All in all, m

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
them together all the time, so no increment gets lost, but then my laziness and certain relucance to complicate things (so no one else will be cursing me under his breath, sorting out why it lost some data) always seem to get the upper hand :( -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
me, if you're using pam, of course. Try 'euse -i pam' to see if it's enabled. If that's the case, first of all I'd suggest to check etc-update. Then look through /etc/pam.d, especially system-* files. There you can remove some of the required (for successfull auth

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
't find anything else > that works. I've read much criticism of imap protocol, but with such widespread adoption I doubt there can be anything more versatile at the moment. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
probably get a bit more sleep :) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nanosleep broken on ~amd64?

2009-05-04 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 03 May 2009 14:14:38 -0700 walt wrote: > Could someone else compile the test and confirm that it returns 119 on > ~amd64 instead of 0? 119, x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Synaptic touchpad sensitive after upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Mazur
xt in the browser. I tried increasing the FingerHigh option, but this seemed to disable the click-drag feature altogether. Which option do I need to tweak to turn down this sensitivity? Thanks, Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
unnecessary syncing of portage trees (even with one local server) you can just mount it when needed, along with the packages, since it doesn't need write access anyway. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
f) root on top of remote, so only few dependencies' (not present in root overlay) headers and remote /var/db/pkg entries would be actually transferred over the network connection, not the whole root. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
to 'localhost:12345' or use HTTP_HOST var from CGI interface (since it'd be set to the same localhost), using *_X_* vars instead. Alternative is, again, to install something that can mangle headers and that's any of the daemons mentioned above. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptic touchpad sensitive after upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Mazur
that in the example fdi policy file. This setting so large, every time I moved my mouse pointer across the screen in multiple swipes, synaptics treated it as a double-click. Thanks again, Mike

[gentoo-user] Enable scrolling on external USB IBM UltraNav keyboard

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Mazur
B key, but the page does not scroll. Any pointers? Thanks! Mike [1] http://fula.jp/blog/image/ThinkPlus_USB_Keyboard_with_UltraNav_Japanese.jpg [2] http://kaeru.my/journal/scrolling-with-thinkpad-keyboard-with-ultranav [2] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_8.10_(Int

[gentoo-user] Re: Enable scrolling on external USB IBM UltraNav keyboard

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Mazur
Hello, On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Mike Mazur wrote: > I have an external USB IBM ThinkPad UltraNav keyboard[1] attached to > my laptop and I'd like to get scrolling to work. Currently to scroll I > mouse over the scrollbar, click and move the pointer. I have looked at > so

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Mazur
nd commands to a 64-bit CentOS VM running on a 64-bit CentOS host on my LAN. But since you're seeing this issue too with existing VMs, perhaps it's related to the recent Xorg upgrade? HTH, Mike [1] http://communities.vmware.com/thread/177321

Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Kazantsev
error code, skipping if clause, and won't break grep operation by adding an unsupported option. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 8 May 2009 16:10:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 08 May 2009 16:01:14 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > > Some greps (like BSD one) might not support '--color' option, so "echo > > hello|grep --color=auto l" will return error code, skipping if clau

Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ser which cares to look at it. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
installed, you can find out which specific versions of bash it depends on using the following command: equery depgraph --depth 1 portage | grep bash Otherwise you can use "portage --tree" or just look for DEPEND and RDEPEND vars in the ebuild itself, which can be found in /var/db/pkg. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:54:34 +0600 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > Otherwise you can use "portage --tree" or just look for DEPEND and > RDEPEND vars in the ebuild itself, which can be found in /var/db/pkg. I mean "emerge --tree", of course ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // f

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
lgorithms to > be used with loop-aes? Ciphers package readme states: [ciphers modules have been moved to loop-AES package on 2007-05-15. See loop-AES source and README files for more up to date information.] So you can probably find it's functionality in the same loop-aes portag

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, "failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting."

2009-05-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
repoman manifest". 11. "emerge gnome-terminal" Congrats, you've created your own patched ebuild ;) Homework: put it into local overlay so it won't be wiped on sync. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs over (lvm over nbd) ?

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
, lustre and several other less-known projects like tahoe or pohmelfs. http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=pohmelfs -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for cvs-version of sci-visualization/paraview

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
"src_unpack" line inside it with cvs_src_unpack. 4. Digest ("repoman manifest" in ebuild path will do) and emerge it. And, of course, read the fine manual: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
unless you're using LVM on top of the raid, kernel with mdraid and fs drivers compiled-in should be able to see it, so you can try booting without initramfs line and hope genkernel hasn't compiled rootfs and mdraid support as modules. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
filesystem > by the way, if i'm booting w/o the initrd, i get a kernel panic because > he is not able to mount/find the raid system -- something with > "superblock not found". -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
an try either compiling the relevant ones in or dropping them from initrd to see if the system can boot (yeah, sounds crazy, but it might be just simplier ;) With some luck, there might be something critical you've just managed to miss, easily detectable at the first glance. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
t for every package in .keywords or mix ~ and stable builds much. In fact, it can probably be considered some sort of a gentoo-specific slang :) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Applying patches without needing overlays and modifying ebuilds

2009-05-17 Thread Mike Kazantsev
class/base.eclass, adding processing of this var and all the patching you need to "base_src_util" function, right after "unpack ${A}". In fact, I think I've seen such thing already implemented somewhere, but prehaps it's just a by-product of my imagination. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage2paludis question

2009-05-19 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ntoo OR gentoo.conf and so on for the > other two? You only need the dirs, specified in respective conf. gentoo.conf, created by po2pal script probably contains /usr/portage, and there should be /var/db/pkg in installed.conf, so you should have these already, but in order to use cache, you

[gentoo-user] Sparse files and df

2009-05-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
n report almost-empty fs to be almost-full? Wonder if anyone can make things a bit more clear for me here. Thanks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sparse files and df

2009-05-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 24 May 2009 12:42:07 +0600 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > Now I know that df can actually show weird results sometimes but I > wonder why (re)moving files from a file system doesn't affect it's > output at all. > Do I really have 5G there which will be depleted soon and t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sparse files and df

2009-05-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
dividually but asks the > filesystem directly. That indeed explains what happened and why re-opening files helped. Somehow, I haven't considered that the files might not be removed if something held the handles to them. Thanks. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] MailScanner: caught SIGTERM, aborting

2009-05-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
can not > re-start Mailscanner. How can I fix this problem? Try using "start-stop-daemon -m/-p/--exec" to start and stop binaries, instead of relying on process names (which can be easily changed, btw) and try to use app-created pidfiles, if the launched app has this capability,

Re: [gentoo-user] MailScanner: caught SIGTERM, aborting

2009-05-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:37:51 +0200 Jarry wrote: > Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > > Looks like there's a line in "stop" section that kills the script > > itself. Try looking for a lines like these: > > pkill MailScanner > > killall MailScanner >

Re: [gentoo-user] MailScanner: caught SIGTERM, aborting

2009-05-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:36:28 +0200 Jarry wrote: > Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > >>> Looks like there's a line in "stop" section that kills the script > >>> itself. Try looking for a lines like these: > >>> pkill MailScanner > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics and HAL Device Information Files

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/26/2009 5:58 AM, Redouane Boumghar wrote: First of all where can I find information about the file names of FDI ? NUMBER-NAME-NAME.fdi Where are the specification of the nomenclature ? I have found different names possible : 11-x11-synaptics.fdi 99-x11-synaptics.fdi > Why the donkey woul

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/27/2009 4:08 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 21:57, Wyatt Epp wrote: Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to have a FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. I honestly don't understand why the user should have to be arsed to set those USEs manually if t

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/27/2009 4:40 PM, Wyatt Epp wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. There's also Windows. For ju

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
Stroller writes: But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying to. What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of instructions" with "-march=" and doing so with USEs? One is for telling gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
confirm the issue - everything seem to be working fine. All three are using nscd (part of glibc) to cache glibc requests, but shutting it down doesn't seem to matter. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
case. LVM is a sorta godsend for me here ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
y free memory will be used for FS cache anyway, so if emerge is working on these files they'll be 99.9% in-memory anyway. I only found it useful for RAM-challenged machines which can't spare any megabytes for FS cache so I'm mostly curious about it's application in home-like env

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
pfs default 0 0 I'd also suggest to explicitly specify max size of tmpfs mount, since system locking because of wrong cp command is probably the last thing you want. Argument is "size=" (see man 8 mount). > Do you think mounting /tmp in RAM is worthwhile? Mike doesn't seem to &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 31 May 2009 14:14:04 -0600 Adrian wrote: > Anyone know where I might find such a keyboard? Thanks much. One can usually find pretty much anything on ebay, if you haven't checked it already. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] layman tree (re)location - /usr/local

2009-06-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
't used by gentoo at all seem completely irrational to me, why? Oh, and I know that I can keep it all in the same place, of course, and I always do just that, still... -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] generic command monitor

2009-06-07 Thread Mike Kazantsev
oking for a > small utility (script) that can do this in the console: take a > command, re-run it regularly, print the output. Any suggestions? watch(1) (part of sys-process/procps) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Kazantsev
cific to this exact version of package (gmp usually builds, but 4.3.1 fails) and the update itself is not critical to you (like when you don't even know what it'll bring) then you can just ignore it altogether - there's a good chance 4.3.2 or 4.4.0 or whatever-next-version-is will c

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
co] are generated by emerge right after package installaton and these won't come back unless you use these libs as root, since python won't have write access to these paths and will be byte-compiling each script on-the-fly. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
y irrelevant here. Either that, or I completely missed the point. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
p into shell, which can be used at the same time as "I" mode I've described above. You can try disabling one of the scripts mentioned at the beginning of linked log file (my rc.log) by removing +x from them (just removing symlink from runlevel probably won't do, since other scripts might start it as a dependency) to see if boot proceeds a bit further w/o mentioned crash. rc.log: http://dpaste.com/53552/ -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:55:49 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Kazantsev writes: > > >> Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not > >> until I've reached the login prompt. > > > > But linux kernel isn't loaded or used i

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
you won't have to figure them out yourself. You can also remove all the drivers but the one chosen by X and "vesa" (in case something breaks or you get a new card) afterwards. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
d Nvidia. > This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference. echo 'VIDEO_CARDS="i810 intel"' >> /etc/make.conf (i810 is for older ebuilds only) This page might also be of some use tou you: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ork, just won't have a nice warm-start. Of course, that's not a good thing, so emerge compiles them on purpose, and unless you really short on space or inodes there's not much point in removing them. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:56:15 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Kazantsev writes: > > > I also wonder, does BIOS recognize this KVM, can you access it? > > How would I access it? Usually via DEL or F2 keys on boot, as soon as monitor lights up. Look out for message on the b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:02 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Kazantsev writes: > > > Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be > > too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically > > in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost free space on /

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
y (and data written) should be roughly the same, aside from possible fragmentation if you (re)create lv's on a daily basis, so prehaps it's not the disk but the cpu where's the real bottleneck is? -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I exclude a package from --depclean's consideration?

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ass = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet world-candidate = False files = /usr/src And append "@kernels" line to /var/lib/portage/world_sets Now any installed (even with -1) kernel should be safe from ravenous depclean. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I exclude a package from --depclean's consideration?

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
will be lost on the next > # portage update, and configuration errors here might upset portage in > # unexpected ways. Guess it's some kind of mind-habit of avoiding uppercase text in the head of important configuration files, sorry. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Official Gentoo MythTV Install Guide: never installs mythtv

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
iki pages were recovered from google cache and now reside at gentoo-wiki.info. http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Category:MythTV -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ing when I'm > doing the sync so maybe I only figure it out a few weeks later and > then have to mess around building an overlay using the attic. No dev can ever satisfy every requiment of everyone if they are too lazy to lift a finger to type a line or two themselves. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:45:04 -0600 Maxim Wexler wrote: > #shm /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I wonder, what's the rationale behind commenting out shm? -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I exclude a package from --depclean's consideration?

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
ve] class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet world-candidate = False files = /usr/libexec/gcc Looks simplier, but somewhat dirty and probably a bit slower. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
erge Ta da! ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:52:20 -0400 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > On 6/12/09, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:45:04 -0600 > >> Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> > >>> #shm /dev/shm      

Re: [gentoo-user] Prioritizing mpd

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
to execute and just doing "ls" may take ages, not to mention whole X operation... -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Prioritizing mpd

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
n pre-convert all the streams to any given samplerate, but note that you'll probably get far worse results if the target format isn't lossless (flac, ape), even if the source one is lossy, than with worst resampling. And you can get worse CPU/IO load with lossless format in the e

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