Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > > X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. > > > > > > Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Announcement: KrcStat 0.6 available for KDE 4.2+

2009-08-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 22 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/22/2009 05:09 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > From the gratuitous self-publicising department: > > > > My GUI replacement for rc-update/rc-show is now available for KDE 4.3. > > You can find it at > > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KrcS

Re: [gentoo-user] Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

2009-08-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > is there an application, which is able to physically decrease > the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of > sound quality. > (Background: I am merging video parts done with my webcam > with sound trailers. Volume

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P > > jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this > failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output > I posted). > If I install it, many packaged n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Paul Hartman [09-08-26 18:30]: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin > > > > Hemmann wrote: > > > On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:

Re: [gentoo-user] Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

2009-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Hi all, > > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in > KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give > a definitive answer :( > > Thanks... > > Dirk look out for multiple .desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to > boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there > is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type > 'ext2'. I have fol

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured > gentoo-user > 2009, 11126 emails > 2008, 15269 emails > 2007, 13643 emails > 2006, 25954 emails > 2005, 15378 emails > 2004, 545 emails > the numbers are incorrect.

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start > gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no > direcotry message when I log in using console. > > Regards, > Ninus > well, do you have /ho

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root > user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries > useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. > > fstab - dev/sda3/

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is > getting the errors described above. > well - you shall never log into X as root anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 04 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: >Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox > > I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of > gimp (wrapped for mail). > > Calculating dependencie

Re: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is > working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs > called "BFS": > > http://lwn.net/Articles/350100 > > Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experien

Re: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Volker Armin > > Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is > >> work

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am having no luck at all trying to emerge vmware-server 1.0.9 using > kernel .30 r5. I know vmware 2 can be instlled easily using layman but I > do not want that clunker on this 16 core server. The show must go on... > wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > I was thinking XEN how will that par up compared to virtualbox? > I don't know. I never tried xen and I try to stay away from it.

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Rohit wrote: > Hi there, > > I rejoin the list after 5-6 years. Was able to fix most of the things > myself but this one has me totally bowled over. > > I have an IDE disk enclosure (can house 2 disks per IDE channel, a total of > 4 currently plugged in) which makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. September 2009 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > On 09/05/2009 03:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > well, and your workload asks for rt. But rt also means overhead, > > > reduction of performan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. September 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > > There are lots of people mentioning interactivity problems on their > > > > Linux machines when compared to Windows or OS X. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/05/2009 05:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> 1000 Hz timer freq > > > > change that to 300 > > > >> Did you mean tickless system with "noticks"? I have this enabled ATM > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 00:48:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > Also, have you considered that you got it all backwards? The kernel > > > configuration tells you that for lower latencies, you should use 1000Hz > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 01:48 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/05/2009 05:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>>> 1000 Hz timer freq > >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I got caught, apparently like many others, installing Gentoo to another PC. > I've been running Ubuntu (probably Intrepid Ibex, two versions ago), so I > know this video adapter is supported. But various issues have ambushed me > in trying to ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 02:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Sunday 06 September 2009 00:48:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>>> Also, have you conside

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I don't know. Maybe it's just that you're as perceptive as the average > turtle. > oh, and now we are going down the insulting lane? Well done.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 02:26 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/06/2009 01:48 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 03:44 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I don't know. Maybe it's just that you're as perceptive as the average > >> tur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 03:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/06/2009 02:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan Mc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 03:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/06/2009 02:26 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 05:08 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > You are complaining here, but I can not remember one single mail from you > > on lkml. > > > > Why? > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/199 > a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 05:10 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/06/2009 03:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> and maybe you should decrapify

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 03:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/06/2009 02:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan Mc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > The command is : > > emerge -uD --tree world > > The output is in the attached file > > > Thanks you all! > nice wicd really pulls in a lot of crap. Or to me more accurate gksu pulls in a lot of crap. Nautilus? Just to ask for the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > equery d bluez did not return anything... > > localhost ~ # equery d bluez > [ Searching for packages depending on bluez... ] > localhost ~ # > > Any other idea? > > Thank you!! > yes, get rid of wicd and its dependencies.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 14:14:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > > equery d bluez did not return anything... > > > > > > localhost ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 14:56:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 14:14:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Thank you people!! > > I'm trying Alan's tip. I'll let you know when I'll finish : it must perform > 26 compilations :-( ) > > Just one question : how did you notice the problem was kdesu? I didn't see > any > dependency from bluez...

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Yep, sorry. > > Same question : how did you notice the problem was gksu? I didn't notice > any dependency from bluez... > > (I'd like to be able to solve these problems without bother you) > > Thanks, > Massimiliano > from your eme

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 08 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 17:11:33 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Still no luck... > > > > Attached my new log... > > > > Any other idea? > > From your log: > > [nomerge ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.13 USE="dbus gnome startup- >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

2009-09-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I > tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: > === > $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe > Archive: wg51

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 18 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:25:24 Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Hmm, you already complained about installation (or compile) time in the > > > cfg- update thread. Why did you choose Gentoo, if you don't like > > > compiling stuff? > > > > That is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 18 November 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.11.08 07:53]: > > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > > > I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo > > > compiles everything from scratch, its

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 3405 Raid performance

2008-11-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 20 November 2008, Vernon A. Fort wrote: > Anyone have one of these raid cards? The disk performance is horrible. > > The setup: > ASUS P5Q > kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 > Adaptec 3405 Firmware version 5.2-12415 (June 7th 2007) > XFS file systems with LVMS > > I have put t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Dale wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: > >> I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I > >> think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. > > > > Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: > > > > 1

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: > > Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) > > Well, with its inventor being imprisoned for the next 15 years or so, > you'll have to be patient. I for one wait for b

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:49:38 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: > > > > Maybe it will survive.  

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Christian wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers > version 8.501 won't compile. is there a good reason to use acient drivers?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for > > > everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with > > > r4+compression. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:15:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > > btrfs loo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have > > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is > > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my > KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any > options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? /etc/portage/package.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: > >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless > >>> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I was able to recover much of the data with reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, > but some of the files had part of their content replaced with a string > of null bytes. I heard somewhere that reiserfs is infamous for > replacing file conte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the > > filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously > > bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is > > also hardly affecte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower > > but a lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs > > don't care about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance > > g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a > > cronjob write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure. > > I live in Brasil, and due to huge taxes, poor infrastructure and the > currency exchange ratio, comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 25 November 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of > bug 246672. > > Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to > emerge it, I get: > > Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions' > Please che

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is > > still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file > > system. > > > > Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has broug

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft in /etc. How to clean in out.

2008-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Dale wrote: > > Open to ideas. > app-portage/findcruft

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, James wrote: > I've got an ati/amd64 system that no matter what combo > of xorg-server, xorg-x11 and ati-drivers, I cannot get > it to work. > > lspci shows: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc > RD580 [CrossFire Xpress 3200] > Chipset > Host Bridge > 00:02.0 P

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Andrea Momesso wrote: > I have an usb external disk attached to a machine running > gentoo. > > > I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes > some > backups, and then umounts > it. > > > > I'd save a lot of electrical power (and I think also di

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: > I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance > and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering > getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system > on it. There is a roundup on tomshardwa

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: > >>> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance > >>> and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering > >>> getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system > >>> on it. There is a round

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? > > cfdisk - 18mb/sec? > > You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. > > The OCZ SSD I tested last week give

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > well, harddisks go up to

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Thanasis wrote: > Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, > but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a > RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. > In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Quieting a 2-speed, loud CPU fan

2008-11-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 28 November 2008, Grant wrote: > I just upgraded my AMD X2 4000+ to a 6000+. The fan that came with > the 4000+ always sounded like it had one speed and it was quiet. The > 6000+ comes with a fan that seems to have two speeds and the faster > speed is pretty loud. Can I get the fan to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quieting a 2-speed, loud CPU fan

2008-11-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 28 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008, Grant wrote: > >> I just upgraded my AMD X2 4000+ to a 6000+. The fan that came with > >> the 4000+ always sounded like it had one speed and it was quiet.

Re: [gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > > 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to > change the boot message "size" during boot? yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Pupino wrote: > Hi all, > i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. > Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near > 1k per minute. > I have just few programs running and none of them should save that > much information on the disk. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-11-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 01 December 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > >> 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to > >> change the boot message "size&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse & keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 Dezember 2008, Erik Hahn wrote: > I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now > keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals > work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers didn't help > > I attach emerge --info output, this is my packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can > actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in > Linux? I sure don't. > forget the 'opensource' printers, and buy a turboprint licence. It rocks. It reall

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that yo

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers won't compile

2008-12-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Dezember 2008, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I can't get ati-drivers to compile. I'll post the entire output at the > bottom of the message but the error seems to be: > > firegl_public.c:41:2: error: #error unknown or undefined architecture > configured > > There have been known issues with

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Dezember 2008, pat wrote: > Hello, > > I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My > question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits > are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. > > The applications are: > - Seamoneky/Fire

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1

2008-12-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Dezember 2008, András Csányi wrote: > Hi all! > > I want to upgrade my kde from 3.5.9 to 4.1.x and I look some tutorial > or guide how I can do this. > I searched in the archive emails without results. > > Thanks for the suggestions! set the kdeprefix useflag emerge @kde-4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to recover corrupt disk drive...

2008-12-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Dezember 2008, Mike wrote: = > > So, I'm looking for advise. What should I try before I just blow it all > away and start over? I REALLY would like to get my system > restored/fixed, though. testdisk. It can find and recover partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to these lists. > I have just come up with an ebuild for the most recent ATI driver for > FirePro/FireGL chips. > Previous ebuilds didn't work due to problems compiling fgl_glxgears; > so this one is better because it solves thes

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > for 8.11 there is already a bug open. > > for 8.12 the ebuild of 8.11 - edited and renamed works fine (I am using > > it since yesterday). > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just do this: > > kill X > > eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > > emerge -C ati-drivers > > emerge =ati-drivers-8.552-r2 (for 8.11 - you don't miss

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Miguel Ramos <2...@miguel.ramos.name>: > > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : > >> Just do this: > >> kill X > >> eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > >> emerge -C ati-drivers > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann : > > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: > >> Effectively, I didn't need anything more than picking the 8.552 ebuild > >> (which does not need Xserver 1.5), ch

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been looking for an ATI graphics card > > with a water cooling system built in. I'm very > > tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. > > > > Any suggestions? It doe

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant > > aftermarket heat sink preinstalled > > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134050), > > totally passive fanless and silent,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature > > > of and of the new video cards? > > > > with ati: aticonfig --odgt > > I have this instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Try aticonfig --od-enable and then --odgc odgt not odgc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > no, that has nothing to do with the kernel. > > Maybe you need to turn on overdrive first. > > Try aticonfig --od-enable and then --odgc > > aticonfig --od-enab

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to enable AMD Hyper-Transport?

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > Do I need to do anything for my system to take advantage of AMD's > Hyper-Transport on my 6000+ CPU? > > - Grant no, it should work even if you disable interrupts for hypertransport devices. It doesn't harm turning it on.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > >> This system > >> is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea > > > > Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? > > That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with > sound. The only fans are the CPU fa

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to > 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 and have run into a snag. > > With the 2.6.25 kernel, the boot proces displays > > ...[stuff]... > Loading modules > ... libata ... > ... scsi_wait_scan ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Aram Havarneanu wrote: > Hello, > > I have followed this guide: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid and practically > everything is working. However, I want to make things better. > > I have used genkernel (with a custom config) because it is very e

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:58:17 +0100 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > > > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to > > > 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 15 Dezember 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say > > the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with > > the underlying volume. Seeing as L

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was > planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love > RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily > backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 doe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 17 Dec 2008, at 10:25, KH wrote: > > ... > > Also there have been articles that if one drive of a raid dies there > > is > > a chance that you cannot recover your data. This is based on the > > theory, > > that one of the other drives have hidden e

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:30 -0800, kashani wrote: > > Grant wrote: > > > Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? > > > > No need for RAID1, brand new technology always works right in the first > > generation. There are neve

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