Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

[Neil Walker]

On 26/03/10 20:47, Daniel Quinn wrote:
> I don't know why it's happening.  I've tried various kernel options with no 
> change in behaviour.  Outside of that though, I don't know what to try.  
> Suggestions welcome :-(
>   

It sounds very much to me like a lack of physical memory and your
system is resorting to the swap partition. What does free report?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

[Neil Walker]

On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote:
> I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers.
>   

I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific
drivers have always worked better for me.

> Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the
> motherboard, since it is running 6 hdd's and 1 DVD-ROM. I'll have to
> research to see which voltage is related to this. (X58 motherboard)
>   

No, no, no! Don't touch the motherboard voltages! They have nothing
to do with the connected drives. Surely you must have noticed that
power to the drives comes directly from the power supply. If the
drives are not receiving sufficient voltage, a new, bigger power supply
is the only option.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

[Neil Walker]

On 26/03/10 20:02, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there a file anywhere that I can edit, which mandates that to use the
>> vdpau "use" flag, I have to have the vdpau package installed?
>
> geze.. there it is in the ebuild.
>
> Removed the dependency and all compiles/works well.

Obviously you didn't look at the ebuild for libvdpau. It's only a
wrapper. On
my system, it's a mere 5960 bytes. libvdpau_trace is only another 51040
bytes. Quite why you felt you had to jump through such hoops to create a
potentially broken system is beyond me. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

[Neil Walker]

On 22/03/10 20:33, Mike Edenfield wrote:

> "Sure, we'll happily sell you one of three crappy laptop models with
> Ubuntu pre-installed, at a slight discount, while bombarding you with
> 'Dell Recommends Windows' ads while you shop.  What's that?  You want a
> desktop machine with Linux?  Are you insane?"
>   

The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

[Neil Walker]

On 22/03/10 19:21, KH wrote:
> Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick:
>
>>
>> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows
>> tax on
>> all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular
>> laptop.
>
> You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are
> lucky, the vendor will give you some money back.
>
> kh
>
>

Actually, you don't need any luck. It's been a few years now
since Microsoft were ordered by the courts to give refunds. The
vendor doesn't even come into the picture. Return Windows
unopened to Microsoft and they HAVE to refund you.


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Re: [gentoo-user] SSH sessions hanging in VPN

[Neil Walker]

On 19/03/10 20:38, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Occasionally, and apparently triggered 
> randomly[1], all existing ssh sessions freeze and never come back (even after 
> several hours). The connections are still up and do not die on the remote 
> end. 
> Mail connections stay up and the browser tabs continue to work as well[2].
>   

It's probably totally unrelated but I have just been having problems
with one of
my servers since the openssh update a few days ago. SSH sessions were dieing
after a few minutes even when I was actively using them. I tried
everything I
could think of but couldn't trace the problem. In the end, emerge -C openssh
followed by emerge openssh cured it. 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Neil Walker]

On 13/03/10 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote

> Ah. So now it builds ok (18 min here) but when I call "kompozer" from a 
> command line I get:
>
> /usr/lib/kompozer/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 13315 Segmentation fault  
> "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
>   

All I know is that it worked here from when I installed it in October
until I removed it a couple of weeks ago.

I tried re-emerging it and got the same result you did. There is an updated
ebuild on bugzilla (#146761
) but it doesn't change
anything in this respect.
Maybe you would like to add your comments to that bug and see what
happens.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Neil Walker]

To those people still trying to download the files, please

note there is NO full stop (period) at the end of the ebuild

filename. The two files you need are:

http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild

and

http://www.neiljw.net/mozconfig-0.8_beta1

;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Neil Walker]

On 12/03/10 23:21, Peter Humphrey wrote:

>> I got an ebuild somewhere, probably bugzilla. If you want a copy,
>> I've put it on http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild.
>> 
> I tried this just now. I saved your ebuild as /usr/local/portage/app-
> editors/kompozer/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild, then ran ebuild [...] 
> manifest on it, then tried to emerge it. I got this configuration error:
>
>   configure: error: --enable-application=APP is required
>
> which I've seen before when trying to compile this program. I didn't 
> manage to solve it then, and i haven't this time either.
>
> Any clues? Thanks for the help so far.
>   

Sorry about that. It's been a few weeks since I did this and had forgotten
that another file is needed:

http://www.neiljw.net/mozconfig-0.8_beta1

Put that file in the files subdirectory of wherever you have the ebuild then
remake the manifest. The emerge starts with a warning about mozconfig.eclass
but you can just ignore that. Then go read "War and Peace" or something
because it takes a while even on four cores. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Neil Walker]

On 09/03/10 20:56, Neil Walker wrote:
> If you want a copy, I've put it on 
> http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild
>   

Hehe. It seems a few people wanted that but I did see a couple of
http 404s in the logs. That's because you included the full stop.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Neil Walker]

On 09/03/10 15:41, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but
>> quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
>> 
> Well, as this box is ~amd64 I shouldn't need any of those. But kompozer 
> isn't in portage as far as I can see, so how did you get it installed?
>   

I got an ebuild somewhere, probably bugzilla. If you want a copy, I've
put it on http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer

[Neil Walker]

On 09/03/10 12:14, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Has anyone here got kompozer to build on a Gentoo ~amd64 box?

I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but
quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords.


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Re: [gentoo-user] timezone-data: missing digest for timezone-data-2010d.ebuild...

[Neil Walker]

On 08/03/10 19:44, Jarry wrote:

> Calculating dependencies | * Missing digest for
> '/usr/portage/sys-libs/timezone-data/timezone-data-2010d.ebuild' 
>
> What does it mean,

What it says, I should think.

> and how can I fix it?

emerge --sync and try again.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

[Neil Walker]

On 08/03/10 18:25, Tanstaafl wrote:

> Almost forgot - are there any substantive advantages to moving to it,
> other than just getting it done now so you don't have to do it later?
>   

Let me turn that around. I decided to switch to baselayout-2/openrc this
morning on this machine. It took around 2 minutes, was totally painless
and I have not discovered a disadvantage all day.


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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

[Neil Walker]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it
>> work with 2.6.33.
>> 
>
> Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers 
> with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site.
>   

emerge =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.53-r1

nvidia-drivers-195.36.03 also compiles with kernel 2.6.33 as that is
what I'm
using here - but I had to unmask it first.


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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

[Neil Walker]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> and from this nVidia page seems to be supported by the 173.xx series drivers:
>   

Yes, but I don't think they are compatible with the 2.6.33 kernel. There
was a
patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with
2.6.33. Try
that.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Neil Walker]

Neil Walker wrote:
> I use http-proxy now.
>   

Sorry, that should be http-replicator.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Neil Walker]

walt wrote:
> On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote:
>> I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but...
>
> Are you using something else instead now?

I was using nfs for portage on my local network. I use http-proxy now.
For everything else, I use ssh.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Neil Walker]

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> e.g. 'lockd'?
> If so, which ebuild installs it?

I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
internally by the kernel.


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Re: [gentoo-user] any advantage to dbus or hal on minimal system

[Neil Walker]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
> installed?
>
> I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
> log server.
>
> Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
> removed? 
>   

They are totally redundant.

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Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

[Neil Walker]

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec
> 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right?
>   

It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you sure that's right for your system?

> If I'm buying drives in the 1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect
> hardware RAID and how do you get around it?  (Never set up a HW RAID
> card before)
>   

You would need to check with  Adaptec. The latest BIOS is 2 years old so
it may not support the latest drives.


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Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

[Neil Walker]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 18:03:39 Neil Walker wrote:
>
>   
>> Be lucky,
>>
>> Neil
>> 
>
> How would I go about doing that?
>   

Well, you need a rabbit's foot, a four leaf clover, a horseshoe
(remember to keep the open end uppermost), a black cat, 

;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

[Neil Walker]

Hey guys,

There seems to be a lot of confusion over this RAID thing.

Hardware RAID does not use partitions. The entire drive is used (or,
actually, the amount defined in setting up the array) and all I/O is
handled by the BIOS on the RAID controller. The array appears as a
single drive to the OS and can then be partitioned and formatted like
any other drive.

Software RAID can be created within existing MSDOS-style partitions -
indeed must be if the array is to be bootable.

The OP seems to be doing the latter so the comments about removing a
drive and re-formatting are perfectly valid.

In order not to confuse the matter further, I deliberately left out the
pseudo-hardware controllers on many modern motherboards. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0.0.23: Incorrect date format.

[Neil Walker]

John H. Moe wrote:
> Neil Walker wrote:
>   
>> Setting LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale works for me.
>> 
>
> Is this the "Gentoo" way of setting this?

Yes, of course it is.

>   I've always used .bashrc to
> set up LANG and LC_ALL

The only difference there is that .bashrc is per-user whereas
/etc/env.d/02locale
is global. On most systems, setting globally probably makes more sense.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0.0.23: Incorrect date format.

[Neil Walker]

ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> I am trying to get Thunderbird to correctly display the date format in
> my locale: EN_AU
>
> Does anyone have any tips?
>   

Setting LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale works for me.


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Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

[Neil Walker]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no
> mention of stable or testing builds.

It might have been what you were thinking but it wasn't what you said.

Remember, some people are very uncomfortable with testing ebuilds.


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Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

[Neil Walker]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> % emerge --info
> Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 
> 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
>
> % qlist read-edid
> /usr/share/man/man1/get-edid.1.bz2
> /usr/share/man/man1/parse-edid.1.bz2
> /usr/share/doc/read-edid-2.0.0/NEWS.bz2
> /usr/share/doc/read-edid-2.0.0/README.bz2
> /usr/share/doc/read-edid-2.0.0/AUTHORS.bz2
> /usr/share/doc/read-edid-2.0.0/ChangeLog.bz2
> /usr/sbin/get-edid
> /usr/sbin/parse-edid
>   

The stable version (keyworded amd64, as you said) does not install
get-edid. Try reading the Changelog.

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

[Neil Walker]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my
>> monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in
>> 32bit env.
>> 
>
> What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and
> works fine here.
>   

get-edid is not installed on non-x86 platforms, only parse-edid.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with manifests for xulrunner

[Neil Walker]

Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just ran revdep-rebuild and came across this problem:
> 
> # emerge -1Dv '=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.6'
>   

xulrunner-1.9.2 emerges fine - did it a few hours ago. Try that.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

[Neil Walker]

Mike Edenfield wrote:
> XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that
> can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries
> that don't need to know anything about the contents or meaning of your
> configuration data beforehand.  This means I, as a developer, don't
> need to write any code to read and parse configurations, validate the
> syntax or structure (only the content), or persist it back out.

So, convenience for the lazy programmer should take precedence over
usability for the end user?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

[Neil Walker]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL.
>>  ;)
>> 
>
> That might not be a bad idea
>
> I never agreed with the implementation of hal. An abstract layer sounds good, 
> but why must it abstract ALL hardware? Most software already knows what type 
> of devices it is going to use, so that software should either do it's own 
> abstraction, or a utility library should do it, but be limited to what 
> devices 
> it deals with.
>
> Most devices fall into one of two groups: storage and I/O. Auto-mounters do 
> not care about your keyboard, whereas X needs to know about your monitor, 
> card, keyboard, mouse. Why does hal try and abstract both? Seems silly to me.
>
> One could also argue that the developer's state of mind is reflected in the 
> chosen method of configuration - xml files. This just defies all 
> understanding. Apart from the fact that real-world xml is almost unreadable, 
> the conditions that make xml useful are simply not present in hal...
>
> xml works well when you have system A talking to system B and neither A nor B 
> (nor user C) know in advance exactly what the other is. They might not even 
> know much about the data schema being used, so that metadata is in the xml. 
> This is so completely not the case with hal on a local machine, that it 
> defies 
> description why the dev thought it might be useful.

I can't argue with any of that, which is why I decided to quote it in
full - it's worth
repeating.

It seems xml is the fashion with certain programmers. Totally
unnecessary. :(


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Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

[Neil Walker]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> how do we
> prevent that DeviceKit will become the same desaster as hald?
>   

The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

[Neil Walker]

Eray Aslan wrote:
> It is usually done right in the third version.  First one too small,
> second one too big, third one just right :)
>
> I think it is called "Second System Effect"
>   

No, it's called "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

[Neil Walker]

Mikie wrote:
> I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS
> root.
>
> My question is:
>
> Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for
> certain root dir?
>
> Should Tmp  be local rather than on the NFS root?
>
>   

Had you ever thought of asking this on an Ubuntu list rather than a
Gentoo one?


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Re: [gentoo-user] kde wont log in user

[Neil Walker]

James wrote:
> Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
> 8 months.
>
> It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
>
>
> ssh works fine and all packages are current.
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to get this fixed?
>   

Sorry, my psychic powers are not functioning today. You give nothing
to go on whatsoever. ;)

A quick stab in the dark - are you trying to log in as root? KDE will
not allow that (by default) for obvious security reasons.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Database only server

[Neil Walker]

Laurent Kappler wrote:
> But there might be from 5 to a 100 e-commerce application with like
> between 20 and 5000 products...so it can be small but it can looks
> huge to me :)

So, what you are talking about is a really tiny database. Hmm. You could
run that pretty well using a straight text file on an 8 bit computer. ;)
If you
want scalability  for the future,  I still think  mysql  is  the best
option.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Database only server

[Neil Walker]

Laurent Kappler wrote:
> I'm looking for some information about the configuration for a server
> used only for a huge database.
> I guess dépendanding on which database server used Mysql or Berkley
> the hardware should not be same.
> Or is it all about having a lot of RAM ?

I think you will find it's more about the disk sub-system than anything
else.

> Could I do that using only Mysql or is it possible to have Mysql and
> Berkley, or should I have just Berkley ... ?

My choice would be mysql. It's used for one of the largest databases on
the planet - s...@home. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

[Neil Walker]

bn wrote:
> Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes
> back.
>   

Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you
tried
a different cable?

> Well, yes, this "brute force" approach could theoretically help, but if
> there's any chance of narrowing down this I'd be happy. I don't exactly
> have the time to recompile 7 kernel versions and try until I find the
> golden one.
>   

I have a similar chipset in this desktop:

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 00ba

It's worked perfectly with the sky2 driver in all kernel versions since
goodness knows
what. It certainly worked with all of the 2.6.31 releases. It's
currently on gentoo-sources 2.6.32-r1.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

[Neil Walker]

Dale wrote:
> Me again.  I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my
> /home directory.

I use a simple rsync cron job to backup entire servers every hour. Does
the job for me. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

[Neil Walker]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I have to ask - what the blazes are those servers doing???  :-)
>   

HTTP, SMTP and IMAP, mostly. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

[Neil Walker]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running 
> Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB.

Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top that
in a few hours.   ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD

[Neil Walker]

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Meanwhile, I'll wait and see; the problem was intermittant; sometimes
> the SOD appeared in a few minutes, sometimes it took days.
>   

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD

[Neil Walker]

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Anybody guess what's happening here?
>   

Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it
sounds like either a problem with the video driver or
a hardware problem. :(

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

[Neil Walker]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   A bit of spelunking indicates that both available xorg-driver ebuilds
> explicitly blacklist VGA,

Well, as VGA only officially supported up to 640x480, it's probably not very
useful for anything these days.

> so I have nothing to fall back to.  Thanks for
> nothing fellas.  Meanwhile, the microKnoppix "live CD" (actually on a
> USB stick) has no problems running at 1024x768

Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual
fallback.


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Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

[Neil Walker]

Dale wrote:
> Living on disability sucks,
So why do you?

> If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does.

You really don't have to be living like that if you don't
want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at
neil-at-neiljw.net if you want to change things. :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

[Neil Walker]

Mick wrote:
> Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of 
> network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and 
> computers) which is routable:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology)
>
> The word packet also has other meanings like: a 'small amount of', a 'package 
> of' and can be used in the context of money (one's salary or earnings), 
> crisps, condoms, chewing-gums, etc.
>
> Therefore the word packet can be ambiguous in English too, if the context in 
> which it is mentioned is not known.
>   


Errrm .. no ambiguity there.  That is just an illustration of it's use:
a packet of [data] [money (common use "pay packet")] [data] [crisps]
[condoms],
[chewing gum] [etc..]


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

[Neil Walker]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> If it had the same name everywhere... Paul Hartman wouldn't have
> called it `Midnight Commander' would he.
>
> So it has at least 2 names   Jesus bud, lighten up or quit the
> thread,  if it getting to be too much for you.
>   

It has one name - Midnight Commander - BUT is know just about
everywhere by the abbreviation mc. If you want it in ANY distribution,
you look for mc.

I think you are the one who needs a rest - especially as you are totally
blind to smilies. :P

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

[Neil Walker]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Dirk Heinrichs  writes:
>
>   
>> Hmm, "Not commonly used", don't know. First versions of autofs date back to 
>> April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in 
>> Linux, 
>> it's there for over a decade now.
>> 
>
> At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'.
>   

Quite honestly, your age is irrelevant in this context.

> Linux is much older than 1997... 

Not at all. Linus made his first announcement in August 1991. The first
files appeared on
the Internet in September 1991. It wasn't an operating system at that point.

> The newbies like me were definitely not using it linux then took much
> more config than it does today... even on gentoo today.  You could easily
> spend 2 or more wks getting X up... or even getting it to boot.
>   

Hmm. Most of the people who used (actually, played with because it
wasn't a usable operating
system until much later) Linux in the early days came from Minix.
Remember that? Newbies
to Linux were not newbies to computers and operating systems. Far from
it, most were pretty
adept DOS hackers.

> Building your own kernel was well out of the grasp of newbies at that
> time.
>   

Definitely not.

> So in that atmosphere... its not true that automount was in common use.

You seem to have entirely forgotten what Linux actually was in the
1990s. It was actually a hacker's
paradise. There were NO newbies in the sense of people who were new to
computers using Linux. The
very nature of Linux users in those days was that they were
experimental, had some (if not considerable)
knowledge and were keen to try any new gizmo that came along and, if
there wasn't one, develop their
 own. Indeed, that's exactly how and why Linux is where it is now.

FWIW, I have been involved with computers one way or another since 1969
(a few months before Man
set foot upon the moon).



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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

[Neil Walker]

Arthur D. wrote:
> James Ausmus, I solved this proble long ago. I just curios,
> why it's not solved by portage? So the users should spend their
> time diggin in manuals to find why is sudo not working in Gentoo
> like it does in LFS or any other distro?.. Is this the Gentoo way
> or something?
>

Perhaps you should find a distribution more suited to your
abilities/expectations. Clearly,
Gentoo is not for you.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

[Neil Walker]

Arthur D. wrote:
> Many of us prefer editors other than nano. 

Me included. I don't have nano installed here - I use LE.

> The package SUDO. It is one of the most mandatory packages in distro.

Hmm. It's not even installed on any of my 15 systems - no use for it
whatsoever.

The default editor is set in /etc/rc.conf. Never had a problem with that.

Methinks RTFM applies?


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Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

[Neil Walker]

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> I remember Midnight Commander from the "old days" but forgot how
> useful it could be.
>   

It's always the first program I install on a new system.

>> Anyway, the archive has a directory inside it (linux-2.6.29). That's
>> where all the files are.
>> So it would be /linux-2.6.29/Makefile.
>> 
>
> No leading '/', actually
>   

Just goes to show how often I do this kind of stuff from the naked
cammand line. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

[Neil Walker]

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I
> tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The
> Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect.
>
> So I ran
>
> distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile
>
> which told me 'tar: Makefile: Not found in archive'
>
> So where can I locate the Makefile for my kernel, assuming the above
> command is correct?
>   

That's why I never set up a linux system without mc. It's just so much
easier when you can
look inside an archive and manipulate files just as if it were part of
the file system. :)

Anyway, the archive has a directory inside it (linux-2.6.29). That's
where all the files are.
So it would be /linux-2.6.29/Makefile.

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Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

[Neil Walker]

Crístian Viana wrote:
> www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world

For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the
line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise
the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should
NEVER EVER rely upon that.

> I don't think this behavior is consistent, comments shouldn't matter.
> is that a desirable feature or a bug?

It's totally consistent and highly desirable.


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Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
> wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
> upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm
> running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day

10Mbps should be fine for that. Actually, most companies provide 100Mbps
as the lowest now. I use RapidSwitch. http://www.neiljw.com is one of
several websites running on a 100Mbps connected server there. It has
coped very well with 10,000+ hits per day.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Firefox crash

[Neil Walker]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

Opening the following page:

  http://mybrute.com

in a new tab, and then trying to close that tab again crashes Firefox 
3.0.8 immediately on AMD64.  Can anyone confirm?




Doesn't here.


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Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

[Neil Walker]

Xav' wrote:

What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with
updated software.
Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many
updates to deal with, and many more when going under unstable tree...
A new release mean for me that the postinstall process to get an up-to-date
and running Gentoo is shorter than with ageing stages.
I know that i can build up-to-date stages from myself, but i'm thinking
about those people who wants to start with gentoo and face too early with
updating problems, that maybe can disappoint them to continue with gentoo.

But it's just my opinion.
  


You need to have a look at Funtoo. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] KVM recognition changes in recent kernels

[Neil Walker]

Harry Putnam wrote:

I have to have a second keyboard connected direct if I want to mess
around with grub or something... while testing kernels.


The kernel isn't even loaded at that point so how can you blame it? It 
looks like a hardware/BIOS problem to me from what you have said. FWIW, 
I am currently running Kernel 2.6.28 on 8 machines through a Starview 8 
port KVM without any problems.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

[Neil Walker]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
>   

It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on
any of my machines. However, when I did, I didn't have to do anything
special to print from Windows (WinXP) to a Gentoo CUPS server, I didn't
have to do anything special at all. It certainly didn't involve Samba as
I've never had any use for it. I wish I could remember more to help you.


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Re: [gentoo-user] usb to ethernet

[Neil Walker]

James wrote:

http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP

My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo,
or a similar product from another vendor?
  


Errm ... quite honestly, why would you want to?

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Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

[Neil Walker]

Budd, Tracy wrote:


Card GeForce 8600GT. nvidia-drivers 173.14.09.



That's exactly the combination I have on this machine (and several 
others).  No issues here so it suggests to me you have a configuration 
problem.


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Re: [gentoo-user] A few questions on trying to install

[Neil Walker]

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power 
failure.
  


Nor mine. I have machines with ext3 and reiserfs here. There is also one 
with xfs. Recently, I had problems with an over-sensitive breaker 
tripping at irregular intervals. The only machine that didn't have fs 
problems as a result was the one with xfs. ;)



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Re: [gentoo-user] KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

[Neil Walker]

Harry Putnam wrote:

Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition?
  


I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It 
supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both types 
terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using the USB 
option and didn't have to do anything, it just worked. I do have USB HID 
support compiled into the kernel, though. Do you?


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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Neil Walker]

Matthew R. Lee wrote:
So I should comment out the 
line "splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz"


The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though
  


Maybe it does - but the path you have entered in grub.conf doesn't. ;) 
There should not be a space after "(hd0,0)".



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

[Neil Walker]

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 think it came in with gcc 4.2.



(sorry for my bad english :)


Your English seems fine to me - better than some native English speakers 
I know. ;)



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

[Neil Walker]

Mark Knecht wrote:

That surprises me Neil. It seems more 'automatic' than a nuts & bolt
guy such as you might choose.
  


Well, it seems to do a pretty good job and, with 14 machines with a mix 
of Intel and AMD processors, it makes maintenance a lot more 
straightforward.  In the past, I spent a lot of time fiddling around 
with processor/compiler flags only to find that most have little to no 
noticeable effect in the real world. ;)


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

[Neil Walker]

Mark Knecht wrote:

Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf?

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
  


That's what I would be using on my single, dual and quad cores if I 
weren't using "-march=native". ;)



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Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

[Neil Walker]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

2008 hasn't been released yet. Switch to 2007.0 for now, then it will be
less of a change when 2008.0 is released.
  


It was released on April 1st. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

[Neil Walker]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite
clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge
--sync.
  


I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread. 
However, it cannot be assumed that everyone does. That particular post 
could easily have misled someone just dipping in for the first time into 
believing that "emerge --sync" is dangerous. I felt it necessary to 
correct that. :)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

[Neil Walker]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Saturday 26 April 2008, Neil Walker wrote:
  

Mark Knecht wrote:


I log in and want
to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type
emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong.
  

What the heck are you talking about? "emerge --sync" doesn't delete
ANY files from your system.



Oh yes it does. 
  


Oh no it doesn't. :P

The portage tree is not required to even be present. Nothing will stop 
working without it (other than portage itself - and "emerge --sync" will 
fix that). The OP made it sound like running "emerge --sync" had trashed 
his system by removing key system files. That is not the case. ;)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

[Neil Walker]

Mark Knecht wrote:

I log in and want
to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type
emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong.
  


What the heck are you talking about? "emerge --sync" doesn't delete ANY 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux

[Neil Walker]

Yoav Luft wrote:
I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices, 
specifically, ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux 
user and an electronics technician, and know nothing about programming 
operating systems. Are there any relevant  projects, specifically  
Gentoo flavored once for embedded computing? I did come across 
commercial embedded oriented distrobutions such as MonteVista Linux 
and such. I am a hobbyist, I can't afford a hundreds of dollars 
development kits, and I would like to use tools that I already somehow 
familiar with, such tools as Gentoo's. But are they? can anyone point 
me to someone, somewhere, beneath web-sphere?


You mean something like this?:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/index.xml

;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers

[Neil Walker]

James wrote:
How/where did you learn which nvidia cards are supported by which version of the 
nvidia-drivers?
  


It's in the README file in the package. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers

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James wrote:

I'm using 2.6.24-gentoo-r3.

Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.01 


*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***
  


Do you have the /usr/src/linux symlink pointing to the kernel source 
tree you are using?



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

[Neil Walker]

Dan Farrell wrote:

Install from 2007.0 with interet:
- most recent stage3
- most recent portage
therefore most recent system
Install from 2008.0-beta with internet:
- same stage3
- same portage
therefore same system

net benefit of 2008.0:  none.
net drawback of 2008.0: hassle (beta)


Wrong. There is a 2008.0-beta stage to go with the Install/LiveCD. 
Alternatively, you can use an updated  2007.0  stage  from  Funtoo  
(Daniel  Robbins) with either. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

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James wrote:

They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards:

NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] && NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
  


Utterly wrong. ;) The GeForce2 is supported by the 96.43.xx series of 
drivers and the FX5200 is still supported by the unified driver. :)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

[Neil Walker]

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 to buy a core 2 Duo platform with a nvidia 8800 GT, but i am very 
confused about the motherboard. The cheapest shop vendor only have asus 
motherboard so i don't have much choice. 
- Asus P5E X38 DDR2 for 189 €
- Asus P5K/pro iP35 for 114 €  	  
- Asus P5N32-E/SLI 680i for 199€
- Asus P5N-T dlx 780i 232€ 

Someone have one of those cards or know a good site with information about 
linux compatibility for those cards? 
  


I've never had a problem with Asus motherboards and Linux - in fact, 
they are my preferred manufacturer.  My last Asus board was  an M3A  for 
an AMD Phenom CPU which is irrelevant to your case, unfortunately. 
However, my last two build have been using Intel Q6600 CPUs (Core 2 
quad) using J&W motherboards with the Intel  P35  chipset  so I can say 
that  chipset  works absolutely fine with Linux. :)


I believe any of those boards you list should be fine but the P5K/Pro 
iP35 seems to offer the best value for money.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:

Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted?  I'm
using courier-imap and postfix.  I'd like to keep the old stuff for
longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.
  


Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole 
point of IMAP. Mail is only deleted by the email client. ;)


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

[Neil Walker]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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).
  


There is no equivalence there in terms of actual processing power. The 
best buy on the market for "bang per buck" is the Intel Q6600. Also, 
whilst nominally a 2.4 GHz chip, it runs happily at 3.0 GHz with the 
standard cooler - some examples even faster.  ;)


From Overclockers.co.uk:

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 
2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM 



Quad Core Technology, 2.40GHz clock speed, 8MB L2 Cache, Intel 
Speedstep Technology, EM64T 64-Bit Technology, Execute Disable Bit, 
Energy Efficient Version, 1yr Warranty.


Average rating of 5.0 
 
	Intel 	10+ in stock 	£123.99

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

[Neil Walker]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

price/performance still favours AMD.
  


How on earth do you justify that statement? I am an AMD fan and have 
been since the 486/133 (was a Cyrix fan before then) but I can certainly 
tell you that the performance of the Intel Q6600 makes the AMD Phenom 
7600 look decidedly  pathetic and the Intel is cheaper - at least where 
I shop. I have both so I am talking from practical experience. I have an 
AMD Phenom 7500 sitting on the floor behind me which isn't even worth 
sticking in a motherboard. Another Intel Q6600 arrives on Tuesday. I 
really hope AMD get their lead back but they are struggling at the 
moment. :(



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Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

[Neil Walker]

Jesús Guerrero wrote:

My problem with these kind of questions if that I sometimes go mad when I see
them continuously arising every few days over and over during 4 or 5 years
(you see, the longest dead ever).
  


Oh no - I think OS/2 holds the record for that - and it's still alive 
and kicking. ;)



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Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

[Neil Walker]

ionut cucu wrote:
> Yeah well it's a campus *(1) switch, the campus's *(2) lan, the
> campus's *(3) gatewayso on so forth till the A class IP so I can do
> nothing about it
>   

You could try telling (asking nicely ;) ) the campus  tech guys to get
their  act together.   It seems,  from what you have said,  that you are
at their mercy.  :(


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Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

[Neil Walker]

Alois Hammer wrote:

Suggestion: put your Portage and database trees on flash storage.


There is no way I would do that or recommend it to anyone. Those devices 
have a very, very short life if written to frequently. Portage isn't a 
big problem because an emerge --sync will restore it - but database 
trees? You have to be kidding.



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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

[Neil Walker]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace 
*multiline* blocks.
  


My favourite editor - app-editors/le :)


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

[Neil Walker]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want.  But I have an 
external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard.  Not internal, and not 
PCI-E.  Anybody know of such a beast


A quick Google led to this: 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003


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Re: {Disarmed} [gentoo-user] Portage issue

[Neil Walker]

Robert Stockdale IV wrote:
I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. 


Sabayon creates a complete mess. You have 3 alternatives:

1. Wait for the next Sabayon release and install that.
2. Remove Sabayon and install Gentoo.
3. Spend weeks trying to turn Sabayon into Gentoo. It can be done in 
days if you really know what you are doing but it's a lot of work.


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Re: [gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

[Neil Walker]

John covici wrote:

Thanks all -- I have a 32-bit profile, so I guess I will not be able
to use ncona -- is this correct?
  


No, it's not correct. "march=nocona" is just as valid under 32 bits as 
64. It simply defines the capabilities of your processor to gcc. It does 
NOT force gcc to produce 64 bit code. With later versions of gcc, 
"march=native" may be a better choice but, with the current stable gcc, 
"march=nocona" is the best choice.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Via vb70001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo

[Neil Walker]

Drew wrote:

I'd agree with you for motherboards but not the mini-ITX all-in-one
boards. I bought a used SP13000G (CN400 based) before Christmas to use
as a (nearly) silent front end for MythTV and it's been rock solid.
  


It's the newer chipsets that are the real problem - especially in regard 
to the graphics support. VIA have shown no real interest in this respect 
to Linux users. Somewhat surprising considering their drive to market 
their products in countries like Brazil. The Openchrome project is doing 
sterling work but progress is frustratingly slow. Fully working and 
stable video drivers for Linux are still a very long way away. :(


In general, I would have to say, if you run Linux, stay away from VIA.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

[Neil Walker]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

So I guess I'd have to say googles'  claims are mostly baloney


I've been using Foxmarks for a while now and have no complaints. It 
works fine with Flock, too. :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Via vb70001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo

[Neil Walker]

Hal Martin wrote:

IF the BIOS gives you the option of changing the RAM timings,


It's got nothing to do with RAM timings and everything to do with the 
fact that VIA couldn't care less about Linux users. One thing I have 
learned in th last few months is don't touch VIA with a bargepole.  My 
VIA-based laptop went in the bin and I am now enjoying the luxury of an 
Intel-based laptop with nVidia graphics. :)



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Re: [gentoo-user] External ISDN modem

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:

Has anyone used an external ISDN modem with Gentoo?


Yep. I used USR Courier IModems (both internal and external) to run a 
BBS for a few years. Originally, I used OS/2 but I switched to Gentoo 
Linux eventually.

I see there are a couple articles about setting up ISDN but they seem to be for 
internal
cards.  This device uses USB, ethernet, or serial.  Just wondering if it might 
be a big task or not.


The IModems were serial only but trivial to set up - exactly the same as 
any serial modem. Given your options, I would almost certainly go for 
ethernet. Whatever you choose, I can't see huge problems - more trial 
and error. ;)





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{Spam?} [gentoo-user] 64-bit blues: ndiswrapper

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:

Which version of madwifi-ng are you using?


0.9.3.3

What does it say in dmesg?


ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.3)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 24
PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.3.3)
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 10.0 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5424/2424: mem=0xca80, irq=24


Is your card built into a laptop?


Yes.


  If so, which brand?


It's made by Evesham Micros, a UK company, based on a Mitac chassis.




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{Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit blues: ndiswrapper

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:

The built-in Atheros AR5006EG wireless adapter in my Acer Aspire 4720Z
laptop doesn't work with madwifi-ng yet.


Hmm. My AR5006EG works just fine with madwifi-ng. ;-)


64-bits just aren't worth it on the desktop.
  


They are if you have 4G RAM or more. ;-)


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{Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

[Neil Walker]

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time.


Not true. Here is just one recent example:

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp



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Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

[Neil Walker]

David Relson wrote:

I've gotten this same NMI error the last 4 times I've booted -- even
using a second copy of the 2007.0 LiveCD that I happened to have
  


Given that you have stated that you want a command line, dump the 
LiveCD. Use the Minimal Install CD or, better still, SystemRescueCD - 
which includes many tools which can make life easier during installation 
or maintenance. :)



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Re: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

[Neil Walker]

Uwe Thiem wrote:

Is it simply not supported yet, or does anybody know a trick?
  


I know from experience (having spent the last few months struggling with 
a VIA-based laptop) that VIA chipsets are just not worth the pain. :( 
However, the trick in your case may be to load the right driver. If it's 
anything like my laptop, you need the hda-intel driver. This is the 
lspci from my laptop:


00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge 
Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge 
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port 
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev a0)

00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 
(rev 7c)

00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Chrome9 HC IGP 
(rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 
802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
06:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio 
Controller (rev 10)


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Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

[Neil Walker]

Please, please, please do not top-post. :(


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Re: [gentoo-user] splash boot messages

[Neil Walker]

Mick wrote:

Hi All,

I updated splashutils and noticed the changed init scripts (from splash to 
fbcondecor) at etc-update.  Anyway, when I boot I get warnings 
about "/etc/init.d/splash missing! skipping . . ."  fbcondecor kicks in fine 
and I get all the prescribed eye candy.


What is trying to pull in the /etc/init.d/splash script?  Do I need perhaps to 
recreate my initrd (haven't done this for years it seems).
  


You just need to remove it - "rc-update del splash". That's all. ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

[Neil Walker]

Tapio Raevaara wrote:
Weird, as far as I remember, I've always had the correct symlink and boot on a 
separate partition... No matter, thanks a lot for the explanation, that 
pretty much clears it up!
  


Just to explain a little further, the stage file creates /boot and 
/boot/boot. Thats fine if you want /boot on the / partition. If you want 
/boot on a separate partition, you need to mkdir /boot and mount that 
partition on /boot BEFORE you untar the stage - or create the /boot/boot 
symlink manually.


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Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

[Neil Walker]

Tapio Raevaara wrote:

try:
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3

why:
/boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while
grub is running you're starting from the boot partition's filesystem
root. Easy mistake, I do it all the time when I try to do something
fancy with grub.



Aren't they both supposed to be OK? /boot/boot is a symlink to /boot, I 
believe the idea is that (hd?,?)/boot/ works regardless 
whether /boot is a partition or not.


Or is it time for me to go to bed?
  


If /boot is on a seperate partition, the /boot/boot symlink never gets 
created - or at least not in the correct place - unless you are aware of 
the problem and take steps to correct it. That is one reason why I do 
not advocate creating a seperate /boot partition unless you really know 
what you are doing. ;)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

[Neil Walker]

Francesco Talamona wrote:
IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot 
partition.
  


Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;) Furthermore, 
in this day and age, why would you even want a /boot partition? FWIW, 
using reiserfs on my 64bit systems (Opteron, Athlon64, Pentium D, Athlon 
X2, Core2  Duo) works fine without any issues or hoops to jump through 
with  /boot  on the  / partition.



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