Re: [gentoo-amd64] ...you have been bouncing

2008-06-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 9. Juni 2008, Dan Reidy wrote: sorry if my 'bounces' have been annoying the list. don't worry, it happens once in a while. Sometimes weeks go by with no bounce, sometimes they are several at one day. I blame the ml-server and my 'isp' mail server being pissy at each other like 13

Re: [gentoo-amd64][OT] ...you have been bouncing

2008-06-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 9. Juni 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Ya ... since when is top-posting a nono requirement of this list? since its 'conception'. Top posting is no-no on almost all lists. Except ones for 15 year old msn-using-myspace-kiddies. -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-06-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: On Saturday 31 May 2008 20:25:42 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: New in pkgcore: --ignore-failures: [snip] people who asked for a similar functionality in paludis were called stupid. (asking for skipfirst equivalent) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: On Friday 30 May 2008 23:17:55 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: So, in my opinion, you are just a pro-paludis troll. And in my opinion, you are just an obsessive, delusional, anti-Paludis fundamentalist. Whenever it (or Exherbo) is mentioned

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. Mai 2008, ionut cucu wrote: 2.when it comes to speed paludis is much faster i use pkgcore. It can't go faster than 'instantly' -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. Mai 2008, Beso wrote: another good thing of paludis is the use of sets that include a list of packages. i've actually been using them to update live packages without putting them all hand by hand everytime. http://www.pkgcore.org/trac/pkgcore/wiki/Features

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, Duncan wrote: I've not done paludis due to its lack of binary package support. Even tho I'm running only a single computer there is another reason not to use paludis: you can't go back. At least not easily. With pkgcore you can switch between pkgcore and portage

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: On Friday 30 May 2008 21:16:06 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, Duncan wrote: I've not done paludis due to its lack of binary package support. Even tho I'm running only a single computer there is another reason

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: On Friday 30 May 2008 21:16:06 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, Duncan wrote: I've not done paludis due to its lack of binary package support. Even tho I'm running only a single computer there is another reason

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: On Friday 30 May 2008 22:10:00 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: oh really? I don't think so. You also think that * it's Paludis's fault that the maintainers of some of the overlays I use chose

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 31. Mai 2008, David Leverton wrote: typical paludis-supporter behaviour: http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2007/01/be-careful-when-you-are-on-paludis.ht ml ciaranm, known to game the system. Abusive against users. rbrownspb, just removed because of their abusive behaviour.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

2008-05-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, Mark Haney wrote: Do I NEED kde-meta-4.0 installed? The HOWTO says otherwise. I'd prefer to have a chance to fall back on to 3.5.9 if I need to. you can have kde-meta-4.0.4 and kde3.5.9 installed at the same time. I do... -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: firebird and qt

2008-01-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Duncan wrote: snipsomewellresearchedstuff nice work Duncan. -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

2008-01-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 7. Januar 2008, Mark Haney wrote: I noticed on the notes after the upgrade that k3bsetup isn't included in the ebuild now. So, my question is, how do I fix this, or is it even a problem? k3bsetup is not installed anymore because our super-devs think it is not needed anymore...

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

2008-01-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Quite uncertain. The machine is very stable w/o the NV drivers. But just loading the kernel module and waiting a few mins ends up in an total lockup. I could 100% reproduce

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 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 improvements. It works for me on GeForce 7300.

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

2007-12-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Jan Jitse Venselaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having the same problem, with a Geforce 8800 GTS and nvidia-drivers 169.04. Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100). All the versions I tried (all from

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

2007-12-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Actually, Nvidia's binary crap *never* worked for me (GeForce Go 6100). All the versions I tried (all from portage, even the hard masked), crashed the whole machine (!) a few

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

2007-12-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 22. Dezember 2007, Duncan wrote: B Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:32:30 -0500: I can't change to console mode. The only key presses that appear to do anything are ctrl-Alt-Del. The screen goes to black and the drive

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

2007-12-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, what about 169.04 or the latest releasse .07? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

2007-12-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007, Mark Haney wrote: Beso wrote: by chance are you using fglrx of the ati-drivers8.42.2?! it has a memory leak bug that makes your pc crash after you've been using opengl stuff (firefox, amarok, and other apps usually use it) if your is an opengl screensaver

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest firefox-bin libstdc++ errors

2007-12-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007, Mark Haney wrote: I updated to the latest firefox-bin and tried it out yesterday and had it bomb with this error: /opt/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-amd64] stale files clean

2007-11-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 26. November 2007, Beso wrote: i'd like to do a thorough clean of my system, since i still get some problems with orphaned and stale files. is there a script or something that could help me do this?! i usually do manual remove when i remove a package from the system but this is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Replacement for Thunderbird.

2007-11-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 17. November 2007, Florian D. wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Well, I'm sitting here reading about the lack of thunderbird devel over the next year or two until the new Mozilla project (or whatever you wish to call it) gets rolling and I'm wondering, what is a good replacement for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compiz-Fusion and amd64

2007-11-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 3. November 2007, Beso wrote: 've read about some nvidia bugs with that serie. but they were corrected in the later driver releases. so update to a newer release and see how they've improved. there should be not only a bugfixing but also a performance gain in the latest drivers.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compiz-Fusion and amd64

2007-11-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 3. November 2007, Beso wrote: try the nouveau driver, the oss reversengineering nvidia 2d/3d driver. I know nouveau. I have read their irc logs from the beginning. And I will certainly not try a driver that crashs my box, has no 3d and low 2d performance. Besides AFAIR nouveau

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compiz-Fusion and amd64

2007-11-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 2. November 2007, Mark Haney wrote: if you are using a nvidia 8xxx card, performance is extremly low - see the threads on nvnews. I installed the latest compiz - and it really does not work. Oh I can maximize and minimize windows. But I can't change size, move them or do anything

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compiz-Fusion and amd64

2007-11-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 3. November 2007, Beso wrote: it is not the processor. It is the 8XXX series. Really, go to the nvnews forums. People have seen huge performance problemsn when switching from a 7xxx card to an 8xxx card. There are several threads about it. It is the 8xxx series and drivers and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compiz-Fusion and amd64

2007-11-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 3. November 2007, Beso wrote: what's your card? a) AFAIK does my card not change frequencies. b) while beryl works. but is unusable slow, compiz-fusion does not work at all. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list 8600GT I did not haver that problems with a 6600. -- [EMAIL

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

2007-07-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: CFLAGS=-march=amd64 -msse3 and O2 ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-07-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007, Thanasis wrote: on 07/11/2007 05:16 PM Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote the following: On Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: CFLAGS=-march=amd64 -msse3 and O2 ;) I don't see _any_such_flags_ in /etc/make.conf.example. I use: CFLAGS=-march=k8 -fomit

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

2007-07-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007, Fernando Boaglio wrote: Thanks a lot guys, I love this place, I always learn something new =) Anyway, switching only the processor : 3200+ to X2 4000 and keeping the same machine (Asus A8V Deluxe + HD IDE 2x80Gb + 2Gb RAM + GeForce 7600GS) how much improvement

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

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, James Ausmus wrote: to get the cooler to install into the MSI K9N6PGM-F motherboard), but have been very happy - the fan's maximum speed is 2000 rpm, it is very quiet (very bright LEDs, but if you can live with that), and does an excellent job cooling the CPU - I've

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

2007-06-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 30. Juni 2007, Regis Decamps wrote: Fernando Boaglio a écrit : Hi guys, I bought a new X2 4000 processor and I have 2 questions: Seems we are having the same choices: I had an AMD 3200 (box version) and I bought a AMX x2 4000 (box version too) I bought an 4600+ boxed. And

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

2007-06-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007, Fernando Boaglio wrote: Hi guys, I bought a new X2 4000 processor and I have 2 questions: -- can I use the same cooler (my processor uses the deprecated Socket 939) ? no. Btw, the if you buy 'the real thing' the dual cores come with a nice self-regulating

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

2007-06-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: On 6/23/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I emerge -C sensors-applet that removed the block. Not sure what that has to do with nvidia. sensors-applet has a nvidia use flag. so the latest nvidia-drivers come with settings in one

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Identifying CPUs in the kernel

2007-06-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm beginning to think there must be a problem with my motherboard. Can anyone suggest something else for me to check? yes, wait for .22 kernel. AFAIR There is a bugfix about scheduling on dual core cpus in the upcoming release. Aside from

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Identifying CPUs in the kernel

2007-06-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 16:01:56 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm beginning to think there must be a problem with my motherboard. Can anyone suggest something else for me to check? yes

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some better way to do this with other software? I've fiddled around

Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

2007-06-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine? yes I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer. because you can't mix 32 and 64bit code in one app.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Time Drift

2007-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, Richard Freeman wrote: I just noticed that my time was off and after checking the logs I saw that ntpd was adjusting the time by 5 minutes several times a day for the last month. Searching around I found some hints that disabling apic might help. This is on a K8V

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL

2007-05-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 28. Mai 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Things will also be nicer under the GPLv3, because they've extended optional or any greater version published by the FSF to be an optional or any license approved by foo where foo could be Linus Torvalds, X.org, or the Gentoo Foundation.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't build kernel

2007-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 21. Mai 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: I also have problems with Kmail on two other e-mail lists, in which the thread busting is far worse than here - sometimes the result is indistinguishable from chaos. I think the fault is in Kmail, as it only started happening with version 1.9.6.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't build kernel

2007-05-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007, Peter Hoff wrote: - Original Message From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I usually remove all the acpi stuff anyway, which is why this message has been particularly puzzling. well, yeah. Don't do that. As you can see from your error, something

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Peter Davoust wrote: I'm also going to try the Linux drivers from the nvidia website. While I trust Gentoo, I'm sure NVidia is more up to date. I don't think I enabled the in-kernel nvidia drivers, so I should be fine. YOU ARE WRONG! DO NOT DO THIS! The latest

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Choice of processor timer frequency?

2007-05-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 18. Mai 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: It's just occurred to me to question this kernel configuration option, which is under Processor Type and Features. We used to have to choose from 100, 250 and 1000 Hz, but recently 300 Hz has been added, with the following Help text:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't build kernel

2007-05-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Peter Hoff wrote: I haven't been able to build 2.6.21. I was hoping it was maybe just a -0 release problem, but I'm getting the same error with -r1. Here it is: drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_bus_generate_event': (.text+0x4325d): undefined reference to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't build kernel

2007-05-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Peter Hoff wrote: I haven't been able to build 2.6.21. I was hoping it was maybe just a -0 release problem, but I'm getting the same error with -r1. Here

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't build kernel

2007-05-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Peter Hoff wrote: By genkernel do you mean the gentoo kernel? I do. How do I switch to vanilla? If I'm going to do that I like to make it permanent. emerge vanilla-sources. mount /boot cd /usr/src/linux-$VERSION make menuconfig make all modules_install install

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007, Isidore Ducasse wrote: le Tue, 15 May 2007 19:58:40 +0100 IIRC, there are issues with nvidia and framebuffer modes. Try booting with vga=normal on the kernel command line. Yes, I use nvidia-drivers and udev keeps loading the nvidiafb LKM, why are you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] X locks up

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 6. April 2007, Michael George wrote: I have been having trouble with my system. For some reason, I've only noticed it recently, but nothing has been updated on the system. try removing the card and put it in its slot again try a different PSU check your board for 'strange' caps.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem

2007-04-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: On syncing today I was offered gentoo-sources-2.6.21. On attempting to compile it I get: drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_rtc_init': glue.c:(.init.text+0x34c2): undefined reference to `pnp_bus_type' drivers/built-in.o: In function

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem

2007-04-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 12:49:07 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: ACPI and switching the monitor off are two completly unrelated problems. ACPI is not evil - and some machines even need ACPI to boot. There is no reason to not have ACPI

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdelibs don't compile after upgrade to GCC4.1.1 UPDATE - AAAGH!

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, Mark Haney wrote: Hm, your problem is strange - a lot of KDE using people did not have your problem. Have you searched the gentoo bugzilla? Honestly? No. But that's not out of ignorance, it's simply a matter of time. I am hoping that at some point, I'll

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdelibs don't compile after upgrade to GCC 4.1.1

2007-04-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 25. April 2007, Mark Haney wrote: I just upgraded to GCC 4.1.1 and when I did my world emerge kdelibs died with this: grep: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.la:

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

2007-03-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 14. März 2007, Jack Lloyd wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:32:45PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: 50mb in swap - and everything is slow. So slow as if every bit is fetched by a mule caravan. And it does not matter if it is a swap partition or a swap file. It is slow

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

2007-03-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 14. März 2007, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: 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 :). j2 for MAKEOPTS and +kdeenablefinal and after some time each one of the makejobs want

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

2007-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, P.V.Anthony wrote: Hi, Is swap really needed when there is a 4g of ram? depends ;) but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile is good enough and more flexible. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: My 50 cents: A swap partition is always faster than a swap file. Not so much, but is faster. nope. That was only true for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. One of the features of 2.6 is that swapfiles are not slower anymore. --

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

2007-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:46:39AM -0300, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: Anthony is really right: it depends if you need swap. In a server with 30 users, problably not, even in the case where the access is simultaneous (by experience

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

2007-03-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a partition or a swapfile... In this situation, a swap partition is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT - Single frame capture from Xine

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, This is a bit off topic but does anyone know of an app in ortage that can do a screen capture if I've paused Xine? Alternatively, maybe a different video app that can play mpg wmv files (MUST be both!) in AMD64 Gentoo, pause and then

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT - Single frame capture from Xine

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, This is a bit off topic but does anyone know of an app in ortage that can do a screen capture if I've paused Xine? Alternatively, maybe a different video app that can play mpg wmv files (MUST be both!) in AMD64 Gentoo, pause and then

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compositing WM

2007-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007, Mauro Maroni wrote: Hello list: Is anyone here using a compositing window manager? I would like to give it a try but I have some general questions: What is the best option for a Nvidia + KDE user? Beryl? Compiz? Are they stable? Anything else that I should

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

2007-01-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 18 January 2007 05:50, Duncan wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:22:16 +0100: NVIDIA was made aware of a problem with our 1.0-8774 driver that caused an X Server crash on July 2006 through a posting

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

2007-01-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:41, Duncan wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:12:53 +0100: So much text from you, but where is the 'I was wrong, sorry'? Even if nvidia should have recognized the bug

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

2007-01-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:47, Duncan wrote: Well, not that, but there /is/ still one slaveryware app I still run. (Note, NOT a binary ring-zero kernel module, which as black-box code at the kernel level exposes the entire system to danger, see for instance the recent NVidia security

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

2007-01-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:02, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: RAM problem with X

2006-11-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:15, Duncan wrote: So... a couple things that could help, if that is the problem One, get that extension that turns flash embeds into click-links, thereby avoiding it running unnecessarily. (I'm a Konqueror fan so don't expect me to remember the name of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Another package that doesn't like GCC 4

2006-11-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 17:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: which one are you talking about? because: [ebuild U ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 [1.9.22] USE=X nls -doc -gpg2-experimental -ldap -openct -pcsc-lite (-selinux) -smartcard 3,780 kB so gnupg installed at least once with gcc4 and without

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: another little problem appeared (ATI driver/direct rendering/kernel)

2006-11-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 20:48, Florian D. wrote: Duncan wrote: Michel Merinoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:34:00 +0300: Well, I had been using the kernel 2.6.17-r8 and everything seemed ok with the subj. But then I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Pango problems

2006-11-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:53, Mark Haney wrote: I'm trying to update a system I have and Pango keeps dieing on compile. It's asking for libexpat.so.1, but I have expat installed and that file isn't there. I also tried compiling it without expat support and it still failed. Does

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4

2006-11-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 06 November 2006 09:17, Duncan wrote: I mentioned that I need to do an emerge -emptytree again, as it has been awhile. where is the logic with that? You don't need to do regularly --emptytree emerges. If you don't change gcc you never need it. So why? -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4

2006-11-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Set Portage_NICENESS to 19, MAKEOPTS ot -jX with X maximum number of cores and activate ccache with at least 4GB and you don't need tempfs to install KDE (all of it), in less than 10h. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4

2006-11-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 06 November 2006 12:48, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 10:47, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Set Portage_NICENESS to 19, MAKEOPTS ot -jX with X maximum number of cores and activate ccache with at least 4GB and you don't need tempfs to install KDE (all

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4

2006-11-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 06 November 2006 13:49, Jack Lloyd wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:05:31PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: lets ask the other way round. Why should it speed up anything to have Xnumber of cores? Instead of a single thread per core, compiling happily, you have two or more

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.18 kernel

2006-11-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 18:23, Mark Haney wrote: Is it just me or is the .18 kernel slow in getting unmasked? I don't recall any other releases taking as long to be marked stable, but then I haven't been quite as anxious to test a new kernel as I have been for .18. I'm sure people are

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1.1 access violation

2006-10-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 30 October 2006 19:57, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 11:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 07:02, Duncan wrote: You /could/ try turning sandbox off (in FEATURES). That's a bit dangerous by itself, but if you turn userpriv

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1.1 access violation

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 07:02, Duncan wrote: You /could/ try turning sandbox off (in FEATURES). That's a bit dangerous by itself, but if you turn userpriv on at the same time, it should be fairly safe. NO! Just no! Never ever turn of sandbox. Without sandbox, files can end everywhere

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 October 2006 03:32, sean wrote: I received the following error running emerge --newuse world. Would anyone be able to explain and advise on how to cure? I was seeing this error recently, even before my recent upgrade of gcc. emerge --newuse world --newuse implies --update...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1.1 access violation

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 October 2006 04:41, Harry Holt wrote: Hmmm... Same error with 4.1.1-r1, so... sandbox issue? Why would the install try to mess with crt1.o? It's not on the list of files for GCC. I don't think so. How about opening a bug? -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Anybody else having problems with audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5?

2006-10-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 23 October 2006 19:22, Duncan wrote: I've been having all /sorts/ of problems with formerly stable audio and video apps crashing recently. The pattern is a crash at launch most (but not all) of the time, often with some memory error. However, if it /does/ start and works more than

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Anybody else having problems with audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5?

2006-10-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:48, Jamie wrote: snip That's what a backup image, a snapshot of the system taken periodically when everything is known to be working, is useful for. =8^) snip A good piece of advice and one that I really should follow. What is the best way to take an image

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Anybody else having problems with audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5?

2006-10-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
get a tape drive (dlt is great), tar you system onto the tape drive. If something happens, boot a livecd, and untar from the tape into the partitions A great idea, but a DLT tape drive is well over $1000 here in New Zealand, and every tape drive I have seen is far more expensive

Re: [gentoo-amd64] -fPIC - Toolchain broken?

2006-10-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 17:08, Sebastian Redl wrote: So, is my toolchain screwed up? Am I doing something wrong? Is the icu ebuild simply broken? CFLAGS=-O0 -pipe -march=athlon64 maybe that is part of your problem? -O0? NO optimiziation? that is pretty untested, you know... --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to play flac files?

2006-10-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 05 October 2006 05:16, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 18:32 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:25, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: My mail reader shows Patric's original email to be a sub-thread of a previous email with a different

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 28 September 2006 02:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 17:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': On Thursday 28 September 2006 00:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I also like: funit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 07:50, Daniel Iliev wrote: 1) I use CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fpic. P -mfpmath=sse not needed. amd64 uses sse for math by default. remove that flag -msse not needed, see above -msse2 not

Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64 - ~amd64

2006-09-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 21 September 2006 18:26, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: what is the easy way to upgrade to ~amd64 from amd64 ?? please, don't post the same question in several mailing lists. At least wait some time, before you post your question on a second list. That said: On Thursday 21 September

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Updating/ recompiling system

2006-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 01 September 2006 23:16, Vladimir Strycek wrote: Hi, 1, How do I recompile wole system with new flags ? emerge -e world if cflags got changed emerge --newuse world if useflags got changed. But there is no reason to recompile the whole system because of some changed cflags. After

Re: [gentoo-amd64] .local/share/Trash/

2006-08-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:32, Mark Haney wrote: Peter Davoust wrote: I think I've had this problem too, but I don't do too much deleting, so I don't run into it often. What is your desktop environment? I think KDE holds trash in a different place than all others, so that's why I ask.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: .local/share/Trash/

2006-08-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 19:16, Duncan wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:50:41 +0200: there is a simple solution: don't use trash. remove the stuff. Instead of del, hit shift-del. Or remap as I did, so

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vegastrike (game)

2006-08-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 27 August 2006 20:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anybody play in vegastrike on amd64 ? I just cannot install it...install dies with no messages :( I do, but I use the cvs-version. If you don't use it: Go to their site and read the howtos. It is much better than the very

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE is dead...

2006-08-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:24, Peter Davoust wrote: Woah! This is weird, it says that /dev/hda is 100% full! How is that possible? I have a 60 gig hard drive, and I'm on a 27ish gig partition!?! /tmp full or a several gb big ~/.xsession-errors -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE is dead...

2006-08-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:51, Peter Davoust wrote: Ok, so I had a 5 gig disk image I was using for a guest OS. I deleted it and it brought be down to about 93% usage, and gave me back KDE. Then I did a series of du -s /* etc, which took me to a directory I created for a Java application I'm

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: More ATi driver madness

2006-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 14 August 2006 18:11, Duncan wrote: While ArsTechnica tends to be fairly reliable, I've found stories from the Register to be very, very, wrong - the assumptions were way off base or the reporter got the entire story wrong because they ignored documented history. I'd be very wary

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: recommended USE flags

2006-08-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, sorry for the 'are you insane'. I did not realize, that such a harmless question (in a face to face discussion), might come around in such way on a mailing list. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: recommended USE flags

2006-08-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 13 August 2006 12:20, Duncan wrote: Oh, and for local-flags, there are several descriptions, have a look at ufed. For the global ones 'pulls in X' or 'needed for mp3/wmv/avi support' is really enough to know.It does not matter, that the single package does. I want them to have

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: More ATi driver madness

2006-08-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 13 August 2006 11:49, Duncan wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:38:56 +0200: On Sunday 13 August 2006 00:34, Antoine Martin wrote: I can't wait for ATI to open-source their crappy slaveryware drivers

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: recommended USE flags

2006-08-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:35, Duncan wrote: Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:35:43 +0100: Support for X, fine, and as varied as that support might be, that's about as detailed as one can get in use.desc and stay

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