Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: > > Now I remember why I stopped using prelink: > > "The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a > library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable." > > I knew there was a reason I stopped. I never could remember to run it > after

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > I'm confused... what is the diff between pi-x pci-e and pci? The card that > Neil pointed to is a PCI card. Is that what he wanted? pci is a parallel bus. 32bit, 33mhz pci-x is an 64bit, 66mhz enhancement of the pci bus - backwards compatible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Stroller wrote: PCI-express has > _signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently > that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network > card & that onboard gigbit network ports are faster. PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision > driving it, it will probably do what it's been doing for 18 months - > going nowhere. that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would now it. > > And it's highl

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: > > If I recall correctly, he is accused of killing his wife. Since he was > the one that was leading the project and he is well, busy, then things > have sort of slowed if not stopped all together. Hans was never one of the programmers. He had the visio

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hans is accused of murdering his Russian bride wife. Without a body ever found. His son supporting his story (before he was brought to Russia by is grand mother - against court rulings). Oh, and Nina's lover is a serial killer. -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision > > > driving it, it will prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
So, you have the symlink useflag enabled? Just look into your old kernel-dir. And don't remove that stuff. You might also find the config in /boot. If you used make install to install your kernel. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] printer uses UHCI instead of EHCI. Why?

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Jens Krahe wrote: > Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > > Ehci module is loaded, all MB USB ports are USB 2 ports, printer is "USB > > 2 (Full Speed)" printer. > > And there is nothing wrong. EHCI handles only the High Speed mode of USB2! > Low and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, James wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > > that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would now it. > > > > > > It's been languishing in -mm for ages, never mind any progress that >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:41:36AM +, James wrote: > > That's the whole rub (in essence) as to why reiser4fs will never make it > > into the kernel. Lots of kernel folks *do not trust Hans Reiser*... > > > > His abusive shenanigans a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > So Hans and others could develop very cool features that 'plugin' > > > to reiser4fs, but, if they choose, folks would have to *PAY* for > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, James wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> > > writes: > > > > > that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would > > > > > now it. > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] printer uses UHCI instead of EHCI. Why?

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Jens Krahe wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Jens Krahe wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: > > > > Ehci module is loaded, all MB USB por

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:41:36AM +, James wrote: > > > > That's the whole rub (i

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, KH wrote: > James wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > Current CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" > > > > > > I want to add "-fomit-frame-pointer" to my > > CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running > > for months. > > > > > > Is this safe or do I have to rebuild eve

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I generate libguile-ltdl.so?

2008-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: > I just updated portage and tried to update gnucash. The compile errors > out trying to find libguile-ltdl.so.1 and libwthreads.so.12. I have > tried to re-emerge guile, g-wrap and slib, none of them build the > library that I need. (slib

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I generate libguile-ltdl.so?

2008-02-22 Thread volker . armin . hemmann
On Freitag 22 Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: > >> I just updated portage and tried to update gnucash. The compile errors > >> out trying to find libguile-ltdl.so.1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 25. Februar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: as Alan wrote killall is your friend. It does not need a pid. pidof can tell you the name of an app. And with strace you can look for yourself where gnome-panel hangs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: > maxim wexler ha scritto: > > Hi group, > > > > If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you > > come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 > > pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. "New in Box!" Don't buy > > it. You'll get the Dynex box alright an

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I changed the monitor on a box that runs kdm/KDE and the fonts on KDE apps > are giving me a headache from eye strain. This is particularly bad when > working at a console (white letters on black background) and KDE text > editors (with black let

Re: [gentoo-user] what's PMS?

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > In GMN20080218, there is a section: > > EAPI=1 (Where is the specification?): The general agreement was that > any new EAPIs should not be added until EAPI=0 is fully approved. > However, there wasn't any consensus on changing anything about EAPI=1. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > well, I buyed hardware over 40 times on ebay - and I > > was always a very > > satisfied costumer. From mainboards, cpus to > > tapedrives and libs, I always > > got the right stuff. > > Me too. This has been my first experience of outright > fraud.

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Mick wrote: oh god. I hate this automatically generated xorg.confs. They are filled with rubbish. *sigh* hm, could you try without this? DisplaySize 360 290 #digital, oh wait, you said that doesn't change anything. Hm. You can set your DPI with the nvidia driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. März 2008, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release > (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? security problems popping up always at the wrong time made it almost impossible. So they scrapped it and concentrated on doing the u

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. März 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have > found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with > my graphics chipset. > > Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the > kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Saturday 15 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the > > > > > same address as what sent it. This is pretty usual behaviour > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Alan Milnes wrote: > On 15/03/2008, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the same address > > as what sent it. > > That's unfortunate as it screws up GMail's conversation feature - also > the list email serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 15. März 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > | Chris Brennan wrote: > |> How come I don't see my own posts to this list? > | > | You seem to be using google for mx... ;-) > > Indeed I am, appeears to be the only reliable free mail service I have > access to at the momen

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 16. März 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: > hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to > launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can > i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t > show anything > thanks make sure th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete 3.5 and 4.0 can't be install at the same time

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 17. März 2008, cypherstrong wrote: ls -lh /var/db/pkg/app-crypt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 18. Jan 21:50 qca-1.0-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 29 10. Feb 19:09 qca-2.0.0-r2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28 10. Feb 19:10 qca-ossl-2.0.0_beta3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 10. Feb 19:02 qca-tls-1.0-r4 b

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > hi > > can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > 3/19/08, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you mean battery out and back in? > > Battery out, short-circuit it's contacts on the mobo while pressing the > power button and then put it back and try to turn it on. But that is the > raw

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
every mobo manual I ever read (and I read a lot) said the same: set the jumper and don't turn on the box. Never turn on the box with the jumper set, or mainboard might be destroyed/rendered unbootable. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 22. März 2008, Grant wrote: > I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating > AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much > faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys > think? price/performance still favours AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Neil Walker wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > price/performance still favours AMD. > > How on earth do you justify that statement? AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed) Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 234€ Intel® Core 2 Duo E4700 134€ (not boxed).

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS > > (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition > > table and now there are two lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: > > Hi! > > I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows > > (that i use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware > > compatibility with linux. > > > > I'm planing

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between > > > nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. > > > > I'll let someone more current answer that - I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest > and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I > found the output crowded with puffy, oozing > electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for > Fuhjyyu on Google revea

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 27. März 2008, Grant wrote: > Whenever I unplug a USB wireless adapter I must reboot in order for it > to be recognized again. Is there a way to avoid the reboot? > > - Grant making usb modular and unload/reload the modules? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ????

2008-03-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm updating my newer machine (the hot-backup). Last time was in > mid-February. After doing an emerge --sync and updating portage, I'm > getting a mysterious message at the end of... > > emerge --pretend --deep --update --world > x > > ...namely

Re: [gentoo-user] memory upgrade

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: > Hello, > > I want to buy additional memory for my computer. > I would like to know how do I find the vendor/frequency etc of my currently > installed ram module. lshal gives a lot of output. What should I look for? > Is there another way? install lm

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 1. April 2008, James wrote: > hello, > > I have a couple of old 32bit amd athlon XP systems: > > They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards: > > NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] && NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] > that is not true. Both cards are still supported by nvidia drivers. The Gf2

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ????

2008-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:48:22AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > emerge unmerge openmotif > > emerge openmotif > > Thanks; it worked. Actually, I unmerged openmotif, and then went > right to the upda

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish > >>> should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] old ebuild

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > Hi > > I need apache 2.0.63 but it is not in my portage ... do i need to do for > it? or does where i read for it? it is in the cvs-tree (or is it subversion)? http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-servers/apache/?hid

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: > >> Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>> By the

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?

2008-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: > I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I > installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was > preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from > eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 9. April 2008, Grant wrote: > I received my RMAed motherboard back from MSI today, and although it > powered right on, the BIOS wouldn't post unless I disconnected the > CDROM drive and used a different CPU. I had been overclocking an > AMD64 X2 but luckily I had a Sempron to test wit

Re: [gentoo-user] python - *** glibc detected ***

2008-04-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 10. April 2008, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: > Hello list, > a few days ago my creative urge forced me to learn python. As a first step > I wanted to control ecasound by script. > What a pity that it doesn't work. > > kernel: > It's a 64bit applepro with Linux 2.6.22-sabayon #16 SMP PRE

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 7. April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: > Maybe I have to set some USE flags? Thanks in advance! more likely that some lib used by the games needs to rebuilt. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating to a new box 2: Users

2008-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 11. April 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I apologize for sending an email that was near 1MB; as I said this > morning, I was panicking. The problem seems to be fixed now. As for > the other users, how do I move them? Do I just copy over /etc/passwd > and /etc/shadow, or are there mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 11. April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > I use revdep-rebuild everytime I upgrade my system. (emerge --sync && > emerge -uD world && revdep-rebuild && etc-update). > I think revdep-rebuild know what libs are broken. revdep rebuild does not see all brokeness. ldd the games and rebuilt a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] what 'hdparm -tT' is good for SATA HDD?

2008-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 11. April 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > I see, "good" tells nothing. I mean cases with most currently spreaded > HDDs on workstations. Say, with SAMSUNG HD401LJ I have ~3700 MB/sec and > ~65 MB/sec. Is it "normal"/expected? yes, its in the normal range. The first result is eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink > > to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both. > > Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little s

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 14. April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > vi is a sane program and will in all likelihood respect this > almost-universal standard. If anyone wants different behaviour (can't > think why...) then configure vi to use a different directory as a > scratch pad it is not sane, but it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?

2008-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Bob Young wrote: > I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going to bed > I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the 82nd build (out > of 162) had failed with the following error: > > > 1450K .. .. .. ..

Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?

2008-04-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It's very bad. It indicates file system corruption on the ReiserFS. In > my experience, I have never seen this to be followed by a clean > recovery. > > You can try reiser.fsck with --rebuild-tree (after suitably enough > research and googling)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Roy Wright wrote: > | Grant wrote: > |>> An oc'ed cpu needs a lot more power&generates a lot more heat. Both > > can damage > > |>> the CPU AND the mobo (too much power might fry a regulator, or cook > > a cap). > > |>> Or it might overload the P

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Has anybody else who recently posted to the list gotten an email bounce > for a [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > Overclocking when done properly, is very safe. There are TONS of sites > out there to help with the research. I know that sites. And a lot of ocing results in strange and hidden problems. Add to that my hatred for people RMA'ing boards until t

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:09 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > after upgrading to baselayout-2.0.0 ( and openrc ) I've got some > > unpleasant surprises. > > Because you didn't read the elog messages. it is still not ok to remove /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > fsck runs with the -p option. -p for prune. But xfs does not now the > > -p option > > Just set fsck to 0 in fstab for xfs volumes. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/baselayout/baselay >out-2.0.0.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 oh great, changes without a rX bump. I hate that. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/baselayout/base > >>lay out-2.0.0.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Also this package is in ~arch and left package.mask recently, so it is > under testing and you have to expect problems! problems, yes. The nuking of important config files and non-boot: no. That is complety inacceptable for something that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an > awful long time to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. Couldn't find > anything in the logs. How could I troubleshoot it? lsof &grep can tell you which files are acces

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have noticed that a box running pretty much vanilla KDE is taking an > > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mick wrote: > > > How do you mean I need to run lsof? Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a > > > console quickly while KDE is shutting

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > Question: Is there a way to recover from this? you should have busybox installed. Just create a symlink for every tool needed. ln -s bb ls and something like that. If even ln is gone, do it from busybox itself - it has everything needed built-in

Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 20. April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > 3. external displays (VGA, DVI, LCD and TV-Out, one at a time would be > enough) with different aspects and resolutions with 3D-acceleration on > my Intel i945. don't put modes or modelines into your xorg.conf. Let X figure it out. -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 2. Mai 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Hello Gentoo users, > > I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a > solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to > install a very similarly named package to do this). > > But unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux

2008-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to > install a linux based "operating system" or what ever it takes to play > files. maybe. depends on the player. Also there is one really good project - 'rockbox'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > > 080419 Volker Armin Hemmann & Mick discussed: > > M> a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time > > M> to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. > > VAH>

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls > hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config? hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:03 +0100 > > Neil Walker wrote: > > Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > > > Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. > > > > Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has > > support for it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody > > > polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: > > > > > > Too bloody smart for it'

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently > used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good > condition, currently in my laptop. > > I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, econti wrote: > Hi all > I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran > > emerge -s openoffice > and here is the result > > * app-office/openoffice > Latest version available: 2.4.0 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of files: 247,060 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for > > a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling > > it. > "ccache" in make.

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 > and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded > flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt > konqueror and my amd6

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day > >>> for a year so that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: > > * app-office/openoffice > > > > Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 > > merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. > > > > Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008 >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE > > > 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008, David wrote: > Hi, > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and > rsync to keep it updated. H

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, David wrote: > On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > > +++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: > > > Hi, > > > > > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm > > > not interested in incremental bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is nothing wrong with tar. In fact tar is great for this job. dd > > not. > > Depends. If you backup to tape, like you do, then the Tape Archiver > commonly c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:34:35 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > What is that? I was looking for such a beast a while ago, but could > > > only find read-only filesystems with compression, like squashfs. > > > > http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2008 13:30:40 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > or you can try reiser4 with either gzip or lzo. > > Advantage: it does not try to compress incompressible files... > > Disadvantage: An experimental filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Tony Caudel wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I checked gentoo.org and even a quick search on the forums but didn't see > > anything about a massive boo boo. Just trying to see what is up here. > > > > Pardon th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:50 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > >> To a backup device? Why? > > > > > > Don't Windows users need to backup? > > > > No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. > > Why? You could equally be saying that Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:21:28 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > uuh. Are you sharing your toothbrush too? > > Only when the battery goes flat in mine and I can't be bothered looking > for more, and only then when she isn&

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 9. Mai 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel: > > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering if > > there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates well > > with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappoi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 10. Mai 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 10 May 2008, at 07:07, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> So. We can use the same web pages, read the same email, why not share > >> hardware? > > > > Because it doesn't make sense, to share the same filesystem for > > backing up Windows and Linux? > > You k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 10. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:02:21 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > if you tar 'em up you don't even need to worry about the file > > permission capabilities of the underlying fs. > > Isn't that exactly what I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: > > Any idea ? yeah, you cut away the important part of the error and just posted the gentoo-standard error message. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Dani Crisan wrote: the error starts here: global.c: In function 'shortcut_init': global.c:1036: error: 'do_spell' undeclared (first use in this function) have a look here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221219 your first step should always be bugs.gentoo.org if

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