Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/26/2010 10:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful > >> lot of debug messages o

Re: [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 27 Februar 2010, walt wrote: > There's been some talk here recently about partitions versus cylinder > boundaries, and when or even if they need to line up properly. > > I'm confused. For many years now I've ignored "cylinders" completely > because I've read that modern disks are addre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, KostyaSha wrote: > The same annoying thing. > What is doing `kdebugdialog`? you can turn messages on and off. Turn all of them off (there is a switch for that) you are are spared all the crap.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cpufrequtils needed these days?

2010-02-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: > As I am working my way through this new box I am not sure if cpufrequtils > is necessary for the kernel to manage the CPU. Is this still necessary, no. I have never needed it. > or is the kernel itself clever enough to manage the hardware directly > these

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs > Konqueror - cpu goes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . > emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. > > Is there something easier than > eix --only-names -I 'kde-base/*' | xargs emerge -uv1 -j4 --keep-going > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 3 Mar, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . > >> emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 03.03.2010 14:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Does anyone know what I need to do to correctly adress such a drive? > > > > I have the modules "usb_storage" and "st" loaded but I don't get any > > /dev/(n)stX ... > but you do get /d

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Mick wrote: > So how 'safe' is it these days to build a 64bit only system? Would you end > up having to rebuild with multilibs because many apps which won't work on > a pure 64bit build? no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > >> no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > >> profile and start installing. If something ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: > > I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - > if I could choose "no-multilib" now and change my mind using eselect > later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the > moment & blow them away if I find I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: > I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't find the > ati module, so I added radeon in VIDEO_CARDS and it now comes up with this > error: > === > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: > > > I first tried radeonhd, but Xorg.0.log complained that it couldn't find > > > the ati module, so I added radeon in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2010 18:43:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 March 2010 16:08:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > On Samstag 06 März 2010, Mick wrote: > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 07 March 2010 02:21:39 Dale wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: > > >> Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx. This is doing my head in ... > > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz effects vs kwin

2010-03-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 März 2010, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less smooth than > that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster in both kde4 and > in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in speed) and wondering if > this is normal, or something to

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 März 2010, Carlos wrote: > Keith Dart wrote: > > === On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === > > > >> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in > >> the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment. > > > > === > > > > That's most likely your disk starting to fail.

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 25 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver > versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports > Xorg-7.x . > > From the bug report > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 > it looks like v

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system). > > yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > want to keep my system compact. well, in that case yo

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > >> want to keep my system compact. > > > > Then why are you using GN

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? and that was how many years a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]: > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: > > > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap > > > part

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, William Kenworthy wrote: > My experience was with raid 0, while the higher raid redundancy will > shift the reliability figures back the other way. wrong. Raid0 is meant for 0 redudancy and reduced reliability for more performance. Before you start talking about Raid a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks. > > Do you have something to back that up? > > > You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using > > > it for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
5850 or 5870. You have a hard time to get anything besides a 250 from Nvidia (and Charlie predicted and explained that ...). And a 250 is just a twice rebranded 8800

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 > it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . > Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? no

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] cpufreqd cannot start

2010-04-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 April 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it > fails to start. and the error message is: > " > * Caching service dependencies ... > [ ok ] > * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_

Re: [gentoo-user] raid autodetection uuid differences

2010-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 April 2010, David Mehler wrote: > Hello, > I've got a new gentoo box with two drives that i'm using raid1 on. On > boot the md raid autodetection is failing. Here's the error i'm > getting: > > md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect > md: If you don't use raid,

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > b > the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green > 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" > which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes. > > To use i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use X configure or driver from Ubuntu

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø wrote: > Dear all, > > I use a Compaq 7550 monitor. It's a CRT. > > Currently, I can not adjust the refresh rate under Gentoo, but it was > adjustable when it was running Ubuntu. I think I may need to copy the > X configure file or some sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use X configure or driver from Ubuntu

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø wrote: > Thanks for your reply Hemman! I'm using HAL to configure X. Currently > not xorg.conf is placed under /etc/X11. Shall I copy the xorg.conf > file from Ubuntu to Gentoo? you could do that. But check for changes. You could also post it he

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those > of gentoo-sources). > But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to > ck-source

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > >> I could only see they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> has anybody experien

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [10-04-24 17:20]: > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Mick [10-04-24 16:56]: > > > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > Not sure if it will help, but try setting your

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 25 April 2010, Adam wrote: > Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two > speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any > ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? look for a not contested channel?

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 25 April 2010, Adam wrote: > >> Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two > >> speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any > >> ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? > > > > look for a not contested channel? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 01 Mai 2010, Graham Murray wrote: > Kraus Philipp writes: > > Hello, > > > > I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run the > > 2.11.1 now but for one tool I need a previous version (2.6.1). > > How can I compile the glibc without changing my system glibc. I would

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: > For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : > > root:503 ~> emerge -Dup world > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies | > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated q

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: > > > For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : > > > root:503 ~>

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole refresh laggardly

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. > in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not > refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some > content in the konsole to force it ref

Re: [gentoo-user] Package blocks

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really > helped. > > The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked > by lzma-utils. > > One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package o

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently > > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. > > dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it woul

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This > > bug ridden zombie is still around? > > thanks for the heads-up - I guess I shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 08 Mai 2010, Crístian Viana wrote: > hi everyone, > > something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it > says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of free > space! the output of "df -h" is: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use%

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 > > machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install > > a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the sam

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: > > > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 11 Mai 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:15:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I still have huge breakage with gnomecanvas and other things, meaning > > > that lots of gtk apps are broken right now for me. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's > navigation bar I get an error message: > > "Protocol not supported AudioCD" > > What am I missing? multimedia-kioslaves?

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > On 14 May 2010 14:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > >> When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's > >> navigation bar I get an error message: > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuttering DVB-T video output

2010-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I am using dvb-s with kaffeine and ati and don't have any stuttering. Do you have effects turned on? Turn them off. Are you using the nvidia driver? Or nv? nouveau? Use nvidia. Do you have any stupid governor turned on - like userspace? Use ondemand.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/21/2010 09:26 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Then why does dmix lag? > >> Then why does dmix lag? > > > > I don't know; I don't care. I don't use dmix, I use PulseAudio, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Grant wrote: > > if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't. > > Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the > BIOS and I can select either "Unassigned" or "Reserved" I think. What > affect will reserving an interrupt have

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt

2010-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Grant wrote: > >> > if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't. > >> > >> Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the > >> BIOS and I can select either "Unassigned" or "Reserved" I think. What > >> affect will reserving an

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge building a binary from installed package

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I think there is a way to do this but it's not sticking out at me on the > emerge man page. I'm doing a install and want to build a binary package > from my running system and install it on the new install. Basically, I > don't want to recompile, I j

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS > support and use ALSA or Pulse instead. > sure?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS > >> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziara

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Dale wrote: > > "Another usefull thing you can do is control the volume of every > application seperatly, even if the application can't do it on its own." > > It's the third sentence on the page. I'm not sure how you could miss > that. I need new glasses and have one ey

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > [...] > > > because you're not using software that needs good latency, like software > > synthesizers) but I do. > > Then you're doing it wrong. If you are doing professional audio (a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 07:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Latency is the delay between giving the order to play a sound and the > >> sound actually being played. It's usually around 30m

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 23 May 2010 12:21:39 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > It would be great if mailing list software could be configured so > > that only users who demonstrate they know how to unsubscribe could > > subscribe in the first place. Example: > > > > - user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Barry Jibb wrote: > On 22/05/10 21:26, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Nikos Chantziaras > > wrote: [snip] > > > >> I don't do professional audio. I have a normal PC. And just like I > >> sometimes use a synth in Windows (I'm just a hobbyi

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 23 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Sunday 23 May 2010 12:21:39 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > > It would be great if mailing list software could be c

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, kitti jaisong wrote: > Hi All, > > I just install sparc machine. i found error "failed: No space left on > device (28)" when i check inode by df -i command don't hijack other people's threads.

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
don't use df. Use cp -a. Also, the exact errors would be helpfull.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Grant Edwards [10-05-26 17:19]: > > On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from > > > hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). > > > > > >[...] > > > > > > dd if=/d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are "only" SATA1... > > > is it this, which cause the problems? > > > > usually i

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 28 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > > > > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? > > > > % whatis hdparm > > hdparm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote: > > ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA > > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in > > > > res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus > > error) > > > > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > > ata1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:16:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > > ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA > > > > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:

Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?

2010-06-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 Juni 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > while still setting up my new system I wonder, whether there > somethning better than 'procmail' to process mails (maildir-format). > I am getting my mails via fetchmail/POP3. > > Any better program for that task? not using all that

Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. > Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. > But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have > binary build-pkgs. > What's the fastest way to restore the portage-relevant > data on the

Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. > >> Unfortunately, the backup version i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, walt wrote: > On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: > > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > >>> And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved > >>> grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six > >>> paragra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, Bill Longman wrote: >I'm sure I can easily start a raging, apocalyptic forest fire by mentioning "man" and "info" > in the same sentence there is no way to reply to this without using lots of highly forbidden words. Also death threats. So I will try to stay calm and dr

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :) > > > cu no bundled libs. when you change the tarball fucking change the versio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: governors (was: Is cpufrequtils needed these days?)

2010-07-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 Juli 2010, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: > > > or is the kernel itself clever enough to manage the hardware directly > > > these days? > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting micro SD cards

2010-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 03 Juli 2010, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: get a new card reader. One that supports SDHC cards.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 03 Juli 2010, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:09:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:37:36 Mick wrote: > > > > Sometimes I receive a personal email response to a message that I > > > > have posted to the list. This seems to happen because the person > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hello All

2010-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 Juli 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'm the jubjub monster from the western plains of Mars. currently vacationing in sub-equatorial Africa?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 22 Juli 2010, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 23:14:35 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > This is a painful process. It's enough to drive a sysadmin to drink > > > > or (god forbid), to Windows. Portage can't help as the ebuild > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo XCB

2010-07-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 Juli 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM, David W Noon wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:01 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user] > > > > Cairo XCB: > > >I have seen messages similar to these: > > > * Messages for package x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4 Wallpapers

2010-07-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 Juli 2010, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > I use a slideshow as a wallpaper on a kde4.4 desktop. Every 20 minutes, a > new painting appear, scaled up to fit my display (1892x1392). They are > .jpeg images, 600 pixels wide and up. > Some appear perfectly scaled up and nice looking wh

Re: [gentoo-user] State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 25 Juli 2010, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility > Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect > Suspend2Ram, depends on a lot more things than the graphic adapter. > 3d acceleration et

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 28 Juli 2010, sam new wrote: > I use emerge -avuNDt world ,find out that is gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.8-r1 > ,and also check the ebuild that depends hal .but I mask it in the > package.mask why still emerge gnome-mount and hal ,maybe gnome-mount > depends hal,and others depends gnome-mo

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm, CONFIG_ATA_SFF and KDE-4.4.4

2010-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 29 Juli 2010, Mick wrote: > The title may not make immediately sense, but this is what I have observed. > > I switched to CONFIG_ATA_SFF instead of the deprecated CONFIG_IDE. Up > until that point I had passed -M 128 to hdparm once and my drive retained > the settings between reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

2010-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > Hi, > > My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from linux, > but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad blocks. it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way it is working 'without pr

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

2010-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51 > > Volker Armin Hemmann napisał(a): > > On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My problem is really strange - I can't access my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

2010-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote: > > Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > > > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51 > > > > > > Volker Armin Hemmann napisał(a): > > >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyńsk

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

2010-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2010 19:04:47 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote: > > > > Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > > > > > Dnia 2010-07-31,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout upgrade

2010-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 01 August 2010, James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > Here's a dev_debate that really muddies these > baselayout waters (at least from where I sit). > > http://www.listware.net/201007/gentoo-dev/9517-gentoo-dev > -the-future-of-sys-appsopenrc-in-gentoo.html > > Any discus

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb KDE Question

2010-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 08 August 2010, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting better recently updated to KDE 4.4 - 200+ packages that > needed to be updated (including those that weren't KDE apps) and I had a > bit of jumping through hoops to get everything installed - build > failures, blocks, etc. but man

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

2010-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 14 August 2010, Adam Carter wrote: > This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? > > File systems; > /dev/sda1 - /boot > /dev/sda2 - swap > /dev/sda3 - / > > So to backup; > 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda > of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 co

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail storage of TLS certificate

2010-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 10 August 2010, Mick wrote: > > Any idea how I can reset this certificate as far as Kmail is concerned? > When has it stored my clicking to save the acceptance of the certificate > and how can I reset this? you can always dive into .kde/ and remove the offending lines from the config

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