Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > > > Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give > > digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't > > connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card > > reader, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-03-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: > > > I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both > > are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt > > container file

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:03:36AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:46:17 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time > > > it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. Ah thanks for the notice, another n

[gentoo-user] Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello list It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this comes to be, since I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. I am in the middle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports > > considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything > > exc

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:25:09PM -0800, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > > gwenview. Part of KDE suite and depends on KDE libraries. Also, > > F-Spot (It's a photo manager I guess). > > > > Here's another vote for Gwenview... Once it's set up to have all of > Gthumb's keyboard shortcuts ;). The only

Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

2012-03-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:11:47PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Since I am planning to encrypt only home/ under LVM control, what kind > > of overhead should I expect? > > What do you mean with overhead? CPU utilization? In that case the > overhead is minimal, especially when you run a 64-bi

Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

2012-03-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 07:58:55PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> From what I can see in the kernel sources, there is a generic AES > >> implementation using nothing but portable C code and then there is > >> "aes-i586" assembler code with "aes_glue" C code. > > > >> So I assume the i586 > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:25:32PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Mar 18, 2012 3:52 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > >> > >> If the config file doesn't exists, the service will not start, and you > >> can check the reason why

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for saving power needed... particulary on laptops

2012-04-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:22:50AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > admin of a colo-center keeps complaining my server is going > > > a little over power-limit (which they have set as ~120W per > > > 24h/avg, while my server needs ~130-135W). So I need to find > > > a way to save a

Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Note, however, that you *need* GRUB2 if your kernel lives in an ext4 > partition that it's not longer compatible with ext3. Don't do the > change without migrating to GRUB2 before. Hm... I wonder what I’m missing in my setup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24:38AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > > Note, however, that you *need* GRUB2 if your kernel lives in an ext4 > > partition that it's not longer compatible with ext3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey bookmarks file location

2012-04-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 08:03:53PM -0500, »Q« wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:06:01 + (UTC) > James wrote: > > > […] > > What I'm after is manually coping the bookmarks > > for seamonkey to another (kde)workstation. > > As pk says, the bookmarks are now stored in an sqlite database, along >

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:20:57PM -0400, Norman Invasion wrote: > On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > > videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seeing > > these "green" drives that are mad

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-05-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:58:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Sorry for necro-posting, but I wanted to “add my mustard”, as we say over here. > > > Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT? > > > > Your guess is as good as mine! > > […] > > Perhaps the ability to hear the computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:38:34AM +0200, David Haller wrote: > >I bought my current internal laptop disk for Christmas 2008. It's a Samsung > >HM500JI (with 500 GB). Early on I noticed that, according to smartctl, its > >Load_Cycle_Count is increasing every 2 or 3 seconds. I even asked Samsung

[gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Peters
le to the USB drive with a utility like dd? Or are there some special files that need to be copied to the boot sector? Unetbootin (unetbootin.sf.net) is a GUI program that claims to do this, but there must be a simpler CLI alternative. Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Peters
an MS Windows machine to copy the Gentoo Live DVD iso to a USB thumb drive. I'm just wondering if there is a CLI procedure to copy same from Linux. Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-30 Thread Frank Peters
the capability to use EFI and I will shortly be experimenting with EFI/elilo. My needs are simple and simple tools are appropriate and available. Wouldn't it be a shame if, by popular assent, nothing else were maintained other than grub. Frank Peters

[gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard

2012-07-01 Thread Frank Peters
somewhere the kernel-3.4.4 must be broken. The only related report that I could find is here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1122440 Can anyone confirm or refute this? Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard [Solved]

2012-07-01 Thread Frank Peters
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:39:07 -0400 Frank Peters wrote: > > After configuring with the same .config file that I used for 3.4.0, > the new 3.4.4 kernel boots but it cannot read the USB keyboard. > Presumably the USB mouse is also affected. > The problem has been traced to a certai

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard

2012-07-01 Thread Frank Peters
USB system. The problem arose because I manually set some "expert only" parameters during the kernel configuration. For reasons that I can't explain, this messed up the USB system. Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] "Leap Second" 'bug'

2012-07-02 Thread Frank Peters
in several places that any potential problem on Linux systems had been traced to a bug that was fixed several kernel releases ago. Anyone who keeps up to date should have experienced nothing. Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] error compiling kernel: watchdog missing?

2012-07-02 Thread Frank Peters
to the kernel mailing list, LKML. A released kernel should always compile. The error possibly refers to missing #include statements or even an incorrect compiler option. On LKML, a failure of the kernel to compile will usually get immediate attention. Frank Peters

[gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

2011-06-20 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi, how is it possible to reinstall an older Package from /usr/portage/distfiles/, when the corresponding ebuild /usr/portage///.ebuild does not longer exists? Is there an option, to keep older ebuilds intact during emerge --sync? thanks in advance regards f. schwidom

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Stefan, Am Freitag, 24. Juni 2011, 11:15:54 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Greets, > > I am looking for a nagios-type monitoring system which I can run on gentoo. > > The requirement is that the customer should be able to add/edit hosts > and services via web-GUI ... there is no cli-motiv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: > > I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset > > (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it > > just sounds the system bell (or whatever you call it). > > No, it doesn't do that for me, and I do

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

2011-11-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:11:27PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Right now I use some package.mask-list from a posting in the > gentoo-forums I'd be happy if the maintainers would provide us with > a way to easily chose to stay w/ long list of packages to mask). > > Stefan > Though

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:17:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new > TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm > wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my > laptop the it

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

2011-11-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:53:10PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in > the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the > command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip > or other GUI apps. I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-11-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:49:26PM -0600, Dale wrote: > I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot > to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with > the full path: > > /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-11-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:22:18PM -0800, bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: > […] > Sent from my HP TouchPad which is really braindead when trying not to toppost. …and at providing a plaintext version. Stupid modern fingery-touchy-swipey gloss-only facebook interface devices. (Nothing against you or

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:42:04AM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. > >> They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all > >> contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. > > I see you've rename

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:50:37AM +, Stroller wrote: > > On 1 December 2011, at 10:42, Dale wrote: > >> ... > >> sys-apps/renameutils should be installed on every system, IMO, and aliased > >> thus in your .bashrc: > >> > >> alias qmv="qmv -f do" > >> alias qcp="qcp -f do" > >> > >> Set $E

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 07:53:58AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Dec 3, 2011 3:06 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > > > LinuxIsOne wrote: > >> > >> Why I asked to just know if Gentoo is better or openSUSE is better for a > novice who want to learn Linux, just coming directly from Windows...that's > why...Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:09:38PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of the > > box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that > > hasn't made it yet to the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Indi wrote: > About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused > portage to lose the ability to work verbosely. > Ever since it looks like this: > > idd@gh:[~]9:07:23 $ sudo emerge -vauND adobe-flash > > These are the packages that wo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:27:33AM +, Mick wrote: > > > Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge portage, > > > etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output from emerge > > > anymore no matter what. Other than that everything is working fine, but > > > I do nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:23:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for > >> beginners! It is typical then > > > > Whaddayatawkinbout, gentoo is more than great, it's awesome! > > Gentoo isn't intended for beginners, and makes no cla

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:13:22PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Indeed, that change gave me a 'wtf moment' for awhile. I used --jobs, and > the one time I purposefully emerge using single job to debug a failure... > the output is still MIA. Luckily it wasn't an emergency so I still had the > mind

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:53PM +, Mick wrote: > Thankfully eselect news spells it out and this link makes me thing twice > about > my next steps: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDEPIM-4.7_upgrade > > Following Alan's disastrous experience where he saw all his messages > disappear >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:42:22PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> That sounds like KMS kicking in and reducing the resolution to what it > >> thinks your hardware can handle. There is a kernel option to enable it, I > >> can't remember the exact syntax but Google can. > > > > You might have somet

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:47:22AM +, Mick wrote: > > > Following Alan's disastrous experience where he saw all his messages > > > disappear before his eyes I am doubly cautious. > > > > > > Has anyone tried the migration to 4.7 yet? > > I installed my first 4.7.x kdepim on 30th of July. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:09:34PM +, Mick wrote: > > > Ubuntu is great for "it just works." Ubuntu isn't so great for "it > > > just keeps working." Neither is Gentoo, for that matter, but, at least > > > with Gentoo, you'll know how to fix it. > > > > Ah, thanks for the nice suggestions, I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.7.3 hits the stable tree ... brrrrr!

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:26:27PM +0700, Dương "Yang" ヤン Hà Nguyễn wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi, > > In the KDEPIM full stack, I use only Kopete. Today I upgraded both > kdepimlibs and kopete to 4.7.3. After the upgrading, Kwallet did not > work properly (it displ

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 01:02:14AM -0200, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > Wait a minute, an actual doctor installed and maintain Gentoo boxes? ?? -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. A hammer is a wonderful tool, but it is plain unsu

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0200, luis jure wrote: > >As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend? > > i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered > links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links > interface was much better, a

[gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello, a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with imagemagick. Now some of the nam

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:59:27AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger writes: > > It seems you can install graphicsmagick along with imagemagick, if the > imagemagick USE flag ist not set. That’s what came to my mind also while I was reading Francisco’s first answer

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:15:52PM +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote: > I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and > /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to > move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" > again, though i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:27:09PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > I'm sure they are. In the interview [1], Lameter said that > > > NASDAQ uses a modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution. > > > > > > > > > "modified version"? That practically screams "ricers!" to me :-D > > > > I didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:34:22AM -0600, Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Nor would they wanna say they were using some stock Linux. After all, the > > financial market is the most important in the world and the best on the > > planet > > is hardly good en

Re: [gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

2011-12-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > Happy hollidays, season's greetings, etc. :) Don’t bee too politically correct. Even though I’m not religious myself, I’d still say Merry Christmas. > * >/^\ > //^\\ > ///^\\\ > | > > I had to fight hard to not le

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 03:51:02PM -0500, CJoeB wrote: > > Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed > > ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers > > > > # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) > > It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:13:22PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and > > neither my keyboard nor mouse work […] > > Well then leave the graphical login out. […] Whoops, that’s what you get if you send

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 06:05:38PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Thursday 29 Dec 2011 12:11:54 Mick wrote: > > Thanks Frank for your words of encouragement! I'm inching closer to mutt > > by the day ... unless KDEPIM 4.7 has become usable by the time 4.4.11.1 is > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:43:39AM +, Mick wrote: > For now I have masked KDEPIM 4.7 on all of my remaining boxen. This is too > messy to have to fix more than once, if I can fix it at all that is! > > The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut commands > that I nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CLI Torrent client(s)?

2011-12-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 07:25:22PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 18:07, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I'm wondering: what's your recommended CLI Torrent client(s)? And why? > > > > To be clearer: a curses-based Torrent client is preferred, but if the > best recommended is a pure

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:26:02AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > So when the user tells portage to emerge (not merge) something it goes > > in world as obviously that's what the user wanted. Presumably the user > > knows what they are doing an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] £ sign in OpenOffice

2010-08-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 17. August 2010 schrieb Mick: > > > > I am puzzled by this problem. One box of mine seems to be unable to > > > > show the GBP sign in OpenOffice. In any OOo application it shows a > > > > capital A with umlauts and then shows the £ sign. > > > > > > > > In the OOo Language Setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] £ sign in OpenOffice

2010-08-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 schrieb Mick: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:58:14 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console. It is the X > > > applications (including terminals) that seem to have the problem with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera and Konqueror won't print, but FF works fine

2010-09-14 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Mick, Am Montag, 13. September 2010, 23:09:03 schrieb Mick: > Konqueror won't even go as far as that. It only shows: > > I [13/Sep/2010:22:04:57 +0100] [Job ???] Request file type is > application/pdf. In case of priting with KDE applications you may be hit by this bug: http://bugs.gent

[gentoo-user] In search for different variant of terminus-font

2010-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi list A few months back I switched to Debian (due to hardware problems) and came back a few weeks ago. But ever since I came back, my terminus font in KDE’s Konsole looks different and I don’t know why. It seems I have installed a different variant (it has more space between letters and the g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search for different variant of terminus-font

2010-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Monday 20 December 2010 23:42:17 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Frank, > > A few months back I switched to Debian (due to hardware problems) and > > came back a few weeks ago. But ever since I came back, my terminus font > > in KDE’s Konsole looks different and I don’t know

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in "world" - howto

2010-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 19:24:22 Pau Peris wrote: > n=`wc -l /var/lib/portage/world|awk '{ print $1 }'`; > for i in `seq 1 $n`;do > pkg=`cat /var/lib/portage/world|head -n$i|tail -n1`; > echo -e "Packages depending on $pkg." >> /tmp/auditWorldFile.log > equery d $pkg

[gentoo-user] Linux and the Higgs

2012-07-05 Thread Frank Peters
nsel these scientists to be better able to discern the quality of a Linux distro. Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Frank Peters
the world file I will make the backup. My whole system I will backup once a week, and all very important new data will be backed up (almost) immediately. Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2012, 15:33:05 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: > > I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: > > it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. > > > A quick look at what was available in April suggested

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-08-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:28:15PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > […] > > 1) Hibernate has disappeared from the "Leave" option in the KDE menu > > 2) My Dolphin has lost some mappings to an NTFS disk that I dual boot > to. On the left hand side of Dolphin there's a panel, "Places" I think

[gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still functions alright, but I don’

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 06:33:03PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > From Kindle so very short response for now. > > 1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit? Yup. Well, I installed the 64 bit into a temporary partition that I created, so I still had the working 32 bit system in case something goes

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments > > > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean > > > > install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m > > > > having: I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has". > > The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession. > > The confusion arises bec

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:14:11PM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything > >> special to get it going other than the correct path in > >> /boot/grub/grub.conf; > >> e.g. > >> > >> default 0 > >> timeout 30 > >> splashimage=(hd0,9)/boo

[gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hey there As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after some convinction work done by the ML and a friend. In order to justify the switch for myself, I made some performance comparisons. So, in case anyone is interested, here are my results. The only thing I don't re

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:20:04AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 13. August 2012, 20:55:23 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > > Hey there > > > > As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after some > > convinction work done by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparison between 32 bit and 64 bit

2012-08-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:23:25AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > so all in all you got performance improvements you had to spend several > > > hundred of dollars for just through recompiling. Should give you food for > > > thought. > > > > I don't understand that sentence. Where did I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > > > I'm currently just using a single large partition & ext3. I didn't > > do anything special in fdisk so the partition might not be aligned as > > best it could be. I don't know. > > […] > The size of an

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:22:47AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it > > > would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M > > > would avoid this. > > > > Unless the filesystem knows this and start

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:54:27AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I have this little weather "applet" thingy down at the bottom of my > desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather > thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of > KDE, reset the n

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Well, I removed it but it seemed it was still there somewhere. I found > out a while back that sometimes a little applet whatyoumacallit can get > stuck behind another one. Yep, I actually seen that once a while back. > I added a applet an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:36:25PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 > Andrey Moshbear wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras > > wrote: > > > On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: > > >> > > >> Hello, > > >> because I broke me PC and I need

[gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Verwendung der Fernbedienung nicht möglich. [MENU] Kann Menü-Konfigurationsdatei nicht öffnen: /home/frank/.mplayer/menu.conf Spiele LowEndCo1985_256kb.mp4. libavformat version 53.32.100 (external) libavformat-Dateiformat erkannt! [lavf] stream 0: video (mpeg4), -vid 0 [lavf] stream 2: audio (aac

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:51:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:41:20 +0200 > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Hi List > > > > Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from the > > intertubes. It just crashes on load, it

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: glibc detected memory corruption

2012-09-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:25:26PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > VO: [gl] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 > > *** glibc detected *** mplayer: malloc(): memory corruption: > > 0x01957a60 *** > &g

[gentoo-user] heartbeat problem

2012-10-16 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, i've tried to use heartbeat (v 3.0.5). It starts, but a bit later it kills himself. I complains that it can not access /var/run/heartbeat/*.pid which is true. The directory /var/run/heartbeat does not exist. Also - as far as i can see /var/run is cleaned at start of a system. So any manu

[gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This will run on an Gentoo host having at least 2 network interfaces to be connected to the device under test. re

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Petric Frank
. regards Petric Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2012, 10:37:02 schrieb Robert David: > Hi Patric, > > what about iperf? > > Robert. > > On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 20:36:54 Petric Frank wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-11-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2012, 10:52:37 schrieb Markos Chandras: > Yeah, it is a lightweight-KDE if I may say. It is pretty stable though > and upstream is very responsive to bugs and > feature requests. Go for it ;) I tried it, too, last week or so. It is still quite limited, although many ne

Re: [gentoo-user] qfile alternative?

2012-11-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2012, 16:15:54 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > qfile doesn't find the corresponding packages all the time > […] > Is there an alternative to qfile to find out the 'owner' of a file? equery b(elongs)? (filename|path) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share a

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello For everything there is a first time. So after years of coping by myself, this is the first time I need an advice on a shared libary that can't be found. My problem: $ ams ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:56:12PM -0800, walt wrote: > > Hello > > […] > > $ ams > > ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > I ran revdep-rebuild -pvi twice, the result was that only ams needs to be > > re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:44:07AM -0800, walt wrote: > > I suppose it’s an error in libclalsadrv, because it doesn’t install a *so.1 > > symlink. > > Ah, well, you didn't tell me that. Withholding evidence! :p In fact I did; right at the bottom of the OP. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:08:37PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:56:12PM -0800, walt wrote: > > > > Hello > > > […] > > > $ ams > > > ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open > >

[gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello list Long time no read... :) It follows a verbose preamble. For the actual questions see dashed line below. TL;DR summary: it’s all about ricer-performance questions on a netbook. I have the luck of having obtained a used netbook for free (Atom N450, single- core with HT, 1 GB memory, 54

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:20:55PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > * From my observations, the benefit of 64 bit over 32 is much smaller for an > > Atom than it is for my Core2. Am I right to assume thus that the Atom > > architecture doesn’t have much to offer to 64 bit (such as extra > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:16:58AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >>> * The last thing I’m going to set up is filesystem encryption, at least > >>> for ~. > >>> I already know/think that AES would be the best choice due to limited > >>> CPU > >>> power, but what else is there to heed beside

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage/env for a whole category

2012-12-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello again, I would like to include debug info into more of my system, but still not the whole userland. So I'd like to start with libs. But how do I tell portage do to it? I've been using portage/env before for selected packages, namely: $ cat /etc/portage/debug-build CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/env for a whole category

2012-12-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I would like to include debug info into more of my system, but still not the > > whole userland. So I'd like to start with libs. But how do I tell portage do > > to it? > > I've been using portage/env before for selected packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/env for a whole category

2012-12-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:41:52AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/12/12 01:56, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> If you really want "-ggdb" instead of just "-g", then use that instea

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