Re: [gentoo-amd64] Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,

2009-08-24 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Sonntag, 23. August 2009 19:04:45 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Sonntag 23 August 2009, Duncan wrote: Those of you kde-ers, particularly kde3-ers (aka stable kde-ers), heads-up! If you aren't aware of the current gentoo kde (especially kde3) situation, you *NEED* to subscribe to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Recover files on ext4 partition

2009-07-09 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2009 03:09:59 schrieb Duncan: Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net posted pan.2009.07.09.00.51...@cox.net, excerpted below, on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:51:32 +: Beyond that, I'd suggest contacting the maintainer (Ted Ts'o) himself, or more accurately, the ext4 list (much

[gentoo-amd64] Recover files on ext4 partition

2009-07-08 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, does anyone of you have some experience in recovering a wiped out ext4 partition? I accidentially ran mkfs.ext4 on a ext4 partition for which I do not have a backup (I wanted to format sdg but instead I accidentially took sde :( ). Is there a way to recover the data in this case? Rgds

[gentoo-amd64] weird sound problem

2008-01-29 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, I did a kernel update to 2.6.24 (gentoo-sources), a update to the linux-headers 2.6.24 and a world recompile. After the recompile sound stops working. Every time I try playing sound under kde (gmplayer, amarok/xine-lib) I get the message could not open sound device. mplayer gives me this:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] weird sound problem

2008-01-29 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Dienstag 29 Januar 2008 schrieb Bernhard Auzinger: Hi, I did a kernel update to 2.6.24 (gentoo-sources), a update to the linux-headers 2.6.24 and a world recompile. After the recompile sound stops working. Every time I try playing sound under kde (gmplayer, amarok/xine-lib) I get

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 + xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart

2008-01-01 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Dienstag 01 Januar 2008 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Yuval Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried their latest, x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.07 ? I am not following closely, but it should have major fixes and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: compiling on dual-cores - only 50% usage per cpu

2007-11-11 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
KDE user here too. =8^) I use ksysguard in the panel, with 4 CPU monitors, one for each of my dual cores on each of my Opteron 290s. Oh, it's 4 cores, not 8. But not bad either. Rgds Bernhard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] compiling on dual-cores - only 50% usage per cpu

2007-11-11 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Sonntag 11 November 2007 schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Saturday 10 Nov 2007, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: it's not a important question, but has anybody of you noticed when compiling certain packages the load on both cpu's is only about 50%. I have the feeling that it happens with packages

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon?

2007-11-11 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Samstag 10 November 2007 schrieb Kris Kersey (Augustus): Conway, While it doesn't include Barcelona, you probably would find my review on LinuxHardware.org very useful in your decision making process. It included the latest Xeon and Opteron processors using Tyan boards. Here's the link:

[gentoo-amd64] compiling on dual-cores - only 50% usage per cpu

2007-11-10 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi everybody, it's not a important question, but has anybody of you noticed when compiling certain packages the load on both cpu's is only about 50%. I have the feeling that it happens with packages that can not be split up into two jobs. But in this case one cpu should be on 100% load and the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] compiling on dual-cores - only 50% usage per cpu

2007-11-10 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Thank you for your explanations. It seems to make sense that the job hops from one CPU to another, just too fast to be seen on the averaged processor statistics. I think I'll take a look at schedutils. The xfce-cpuload-plugin seems to be nice, but I'm kde-user :). Rgds Bernhard -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] conversion sda to lvm2 questions

2007-10-13 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Samstag 13 Oktober 2007 schrieb Beso: can i use raid even if i got a single hd and a non raid board?! i think i missed this thing. i knew that i could use raid on 2 separate disks of the same ammount and only if i had a raid compatible board (with hardware or software) but i didn't know

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64

2007-09-21 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Donnerstag 20 September 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht: It has been a long time since I've looked at Java on my AMD64 machine. I run into links, etc., and they don't work. It was frustrating two years ago. It just didn't work. On my machine still it doesn't, but maybe this is because I haven't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] can not unmount cifs (samba) share

2007-09-16 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Sonntag 16 September 2007 schrieb Tonko Mulder: Did you just send that message like 5 times? Regards, Tonko What do you mean with like 5 times? I sent this mail one time on 16.09.2007 at 10:33am CET. Rgds Bernhard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] can not unmount cifs (samba) share

2007-09-15 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, I'm using cifs to mount samba-shares and recently noticed that I can't really unmount the shares. I can unmount them, they will be away but listed in the mtab forever. I'm mounting/unmounting the shares as a normal user like mount.cifs //server/share /local_dir and unmount with

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xextproto - filesize does not match

2007-09-08 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Samstag 08 September 2007 schrieb Herbert Laubner: Hi, I am installing xorg-x11 on an amd64 machine. On xextproto-7.0.2 the digest verification failed. Is there a change giong on or is there a bugy file on the server? Regards, herb Hi, change the GENTOO_MIRROR and the digest

Re: [gentoo-amd64] complete crash with ondemand scheduler

2007-08-05 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
the ondemand governor steps the processor between the least step to the most one. for example, i have a turion 64 with steps from 800mhz to 2ghz. the ondemand governor would step from 800mhz directly to 2ghz when the cpu is under load and then return to 800 mhz when the load drops down. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-08-01 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 schrieb Richard Freeman: Bernhard Auzinger wrote: My question is if it makes sence to move these partitions to another harddisk? Others have responded to this well already - one thing I might add is to check out lvm if you have so many drives. Once you've used

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-07-20 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Is there any way to get a unique identifier for a drive - such as a UUID? Do you want the uuid or something else. With udevinfo you get a lot of information. udevinfo --query=all --name=/dev/sdb4 --root Rgds Bernhard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-07-20 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Spreading them across drives could result in faster access if the controllers the drives are atached to allow overlapping commands. IDE doesn't do this and can only have one drive active on the bus. They are two IDE-drives and two SATA-drives. The IDE drives are each on a separate controller.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 3200+ - X2 4000+

2007-07-12 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
bogomips: 3611.22 TLB size: 1024 4K pages bogomips: 1603.39 TLB size: 1024 4K pages 2) Just curious: Why is there such a big difference between the 2 CPUs' bogomips values reported? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Piotr There

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mount by UUID

2007-06-27 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
So when you try to run `umount /mnt/hdd_extern_1` as a plain ole user you get a segfault? That's exactly what happens. If that's the case then I'd say it's probably a bug in either umount or libuuid. Isn't libuuid a part of e2fsprogs? Either way I'm sure the devs would be able to help

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mount by UUID

2007-06-27 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
I exchanged the UUID=uuid_number with /dev/disks/by-uuid/uuid_number and now it works. That's funny. rgds Bernhard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] mount by UUID

2007-06-25 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, I recently chose to mount my external hdd's by uuid. I just replaced the device file (dev/sdxy) by the uuid (UUID=X...) in my /etc/fstab. UUID=1ad24afc-f258-4b9e-a2c3-1e34c59562d8 /mnt/hdd_extern_1 reiserfs \ noauto,noatime,notail,user 0 0 UUID=1f0b0c58-7274-41c8-af00-2fbe5f4fbd6f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia-settings blocks nvidia-drivers

2007-06-23 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Samstag 23 Juni 2007 schrieb david: I unmerged nvidia-settings, looks like it is included in the new drivers. But I still can't update world; amd64 ~ # emerge -p nvidia-settings These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-15 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 schrieb Peter Hoff: I can't even get 2.6.21 to compile. I was getting unhappy about that, but perhaps I've been looking at it the wrong way? My suggestion is to boot without X, without loading the graphic driver module (nvidia, ati) and without any other driver that is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] sound problems on startup

2007-05-14 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Please _do_not_ send html based e-mails. rgds Bernhard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] gnupg: can't generate keys

2007-05-05 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, I experience some problems when generating keys when using gpg --gen-key. I get the the message: gpg: waiting on lock (held by 17362) ... and gpg never returns. It just keeps throwing that message at me forever and I've no clue what is going on. By the way, the pid (17362) is everytime

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gnupg: can't generate keys

2007-05-05 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Samstag 05 Mai 2007 schrieb Bernhard Auzinger: Hi, I experience some problems when generating keys when using gpg --gen-key. I get the the message: gpg: waiting on lock (held by 17362) ... and gpg never returns. It just keeps throwing that message at me forever and I've no clue what

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to

2007-03-21 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
'unmerge'ing those you don't want will clean up portage's database of installed packages. Doesn't remove /lib/modules/kernel-version/ though or old kernels from /boot/. Seems that manual deletion is required here. That's because one may still want to use a compiled kernel after the removal

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?

2007-03-14 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
swappiness does not help, if swap is really needed (like when compiling kdepim). I did not reconize yet that kdepim is that hungry at compile time :). The 'stupid' thing is, as soon as swap is used, it stays that way, no matter how many hundred mb of ram are free. The reason for that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?

2007-03-14 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
j2 for MAKEOPTS and +kdeenablefinal and after some time each one of the makejobs want 900mb ram. There are two libs where that happens, makes kdepim the slowest-to-compile packet for me. Wesnoth is also an offender. Some versions want 500mb+ at some point when compiling. That's pretty much.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: persistent-net.rules

2007-03-04 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Interesting. I have different hardware, but use the macchanger module to change my MAC at every eth0 up, and don't have the problem here. udev must see the original MAC address on my hardware before macchanger gets to it, and thus set it up correctly. But if it's rewritten @ shutdown, why

Re: [gentoo-amd64] persistent-net.rules

2007-03-04 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Possibly a fix for the MAC address, on the BIOS screen, press shift+f2 then alt+f3 which should reveal extra settings, including the option to enter your own choice of MAC address for the nVidia adapter. The original mac address should be on a sticker above the paralell port. You don't

[gentoo-amd64] Re: persistent-net.rules

2007-03-04 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Only if I delete the udev rule by plugging it to another computer to be able to boot without persistent-net.rules I get a interface eth0. Otherwise it increments every boot (eth0, eth1, . . . ). just for the sake of completeness. I forgot to write hard disk in the sentence above :). by

[gentoo-amd64] Re: System load during emerge

2007-03-04 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
[Later...] I've now found that if I run hdparm -d1 /dev/sda from an X terminal I get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device, but when /etc/init.d/hdparm is run during boot I see [ok] for each drive. Looks like I've got some exploring to do. As far as I know hdparm -d1 is not

[gentoo-amd64] persistent-net.rules

2007-03-03 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, does somebody know how to prevent the persistent-net.rules to be saved during the shutdown process? The background is that I have a network interface with a faulty mac adress (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) on a K8N Neo2 (nforce3 ultra). So the kernel applys a random mac address to the network

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge world via ssh

2007-01-28 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 schrieb Dieter Ries: Hi, how can i run emerge -vD world, when i only have the possibility to access the machine via ssh for a short time? i have tried emerge -vD world but that seems to stop before even the first ebuild is compiled. Then i tried putting the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: MAKEOPTS values for Athlon 64 X2

2007-01-17 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 18:24 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: if you want to spread FUD, and you are doing it right now, inform yourself. Ok? The fix was there in mere days after NVIDIA got the news. The firm who reported the 'problem' confused the NVIDIA problem with a much older Xorg

Re: [gentoo-amd64] fsck seems to screw up my harddisk

2006-11-27 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Montag 27 November 2006 20:32 schrieb Guido Doornberg: Well, I want to use Gentoo but i don't realy like the idea of spoiling my weekend by installing an OS thats gonna stop working 30 times booting later. I doubt this is really Gentoo-specific. - you're right on that, I love gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eselect opengl set xorg-x11 keeps breaking my headers

2006-06-29 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Mittwoch 28 Juni 2006 01:12 schrieb Alex Bennee: Despite no longer having the emulation libraries installed eselect keep screwing up my headers to point at 32 bit glx stuff. This obviously breaks various X related compiles. Does anyone know how I can stop it doing this? Unfortunately its

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eselect opengl set xorg-x11 keeps breaking my headers

2006-06-28 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Mittwoch 28 Juni 2006 01:12 schrieb Alex Bennee: Despite no longer having the emulation libraries installed eselect keep screwing up my headers to point at 32 bit glx stuff. This obviously breaks various X related compiles. Does anyone know how I can stop it doing this? Unfortunately its

Re: [gentoo-amd64] totem is not starting

2006-06-11 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
I had similar problems when I was upgrading my memory. Finally it was a known issue with the Winchester's memory controller. It can't handle fast timings in dual channel mode, when all memory banks are filled. So I switched to a slower RAM timing and all worked fine. rgds Bernhard Am Sonntag

Re: [gentoo-amd64] totem is not starting

2006-06-11 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Sonntag 11 Juni 2006 09:16 schrieb Bernhard Auzinger: I had similar problems when I was upgrading my memory. Finally it was a known issue with the Winchester's memory controller. It can't handle fast timings in dual channel mode, when all memory banks are filled. So I switched to a slower

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems after upgrading to 4GB Ram

2006-06-11 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Sonntag 11 Juni 2006 20:10 schrieb Nuitari: Thanks for the suggestion. They are 4 matching 1GB sticks from Crucial. It's worked perfectly today with any 2 of them - just not when I fit all 4. It didn't work *at all* when I first put in 4GB, I had to recompile the kernel with IOMMU

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 32-bit chroot

2006-05-31 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Read these and they were very informative but didn't answer my basic question as to whether I can use my existing x86 partition as the chroot system. I kinda get the impression from the howtos that this might not be the best idea. It will be a big fat chroot :). You may uninstall unneeded

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: urgent: Segfaults after synchronously emerging|downloading 30GB|burnng a DVD iso image

2006-05-29 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
What tool or command do you use to make your copies? I remember seeing an invocation of tar piped to tar to ensure that all dates, permissions etc are preserved, even on pipes and other esoteric things, but my memory being what it is of course I can't remember it. I'm using flexbackup.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia forcedeth driver.

2006-05-26 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
I think something else has gone wrong with your forcedeth driver. Gordon, maybe you could post the detailed feedback your system gives to you when try using the forcedeth driver. Sometimes it's a little bit confusing, which of both LAN adapters is eth0 and which eth1. I guess you have to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Giving up 64 platform

2006-04-23 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi Allan, I' m running a gentoo-amd64 system with multilib. Mplayer and Java work just fine for me and I did not recognize any instability at all. If you need help, there would be a lot of people in the forum inclusive myself, who would help you to solve your issues. Don't give up on amd64. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 3.5 and K3B

2006-02-20 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Please characterize your issues more detailed. Post the error messages and tell us more about your configuration. Rgds Bernhard Am Montag 20 Februar 2006 15:48 schrieb Mark Haney: I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.1 and I must say it's fantastic. The only issue I seem to be having is some sort of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

2006-02-09 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
May I put my oar into your optimisation dicussion. It's funny, Duncan. On the one side you are saving every byte of cpu-cache. On the other side, you are happy by having forked bashes in your main memory. But how do you take control about that? I mean, how do you get the code of your forked

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Feasibility of Gentoo on ancient hardware?

2005-06-22 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Oh, I saw it but now. You did a stage1/stage2 install? I think you seem to be hardcore. With a stage3 install, you can save a lot of time. For addictional packages use the packages cd. I think there exists one with precompiled packages for i586.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE-meta

2005-05-21 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.0 (masked by: missing keyword) With this, portage wants to say, that the package isn't masked by any keyword. It's unstable and if you want to use it, you have to add the am64-keyword by inserting it into /etc/portage/package.unmask either. Am Samstag 21 Mai 2005 12:44