Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can initrd and/or RAID be disabled at boot?

2013-07-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: This is related to my thread from a few days ago about the disappointing speed of my RAID6 root partition. The goal here is to get the machine booting from an SSD so that I can free up my five hard drives to play with.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether there's a better set of options. I think that is the typical rsync backup command set as far as I have ever seen. It should work as you expect it to work.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick rsync backup before changing a RAID

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 06/19/2013 10:15 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: I recently rsync'ed a drive between computers, one running a Live CD and one not, over ssh, and somehow got all my user/groups mixed up You should have used

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Measure network speeds between machines?

2013-06-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just taking a shot at the dark on this list before I ask something in the forums. Is there a simple app (or even something at the command line) that I can use to measure network throughput between two Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Advice On Enabling Transparent Hugepage

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: During kernel configuration there is an option called CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE which allows the use of Transparent Hugepages or application memory pages larger than the traditional 4K size. This option has been

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.8 USB Disconnect

2013-03-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, After compiling kernel-3.8 (plain vanilla) I begin to see lots of these entries in the kernel log: usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 4 usb 1-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: here are 3 or now I think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI, UHCI, and then whatever USB 3.0 is using XHCI Furthermore, USB 3.0 has 9-pin ports and cables (for type-A) versus the 4-pin of USB 1/2. The USB 3.0 sockets

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Scherer a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: here are 3 or now I think 4 different USB specs

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: My USB thumb drives can all be successfully recognized with the sg and usb-storage modules (as shown in the commands above).  Is this all I would need to mount a Western Digital USB HDD or is there some other module

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers

2012-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, on kernel revision number changes I ALWAYS wait a minimum of 3-5 days before trying to upgrade. nvidia always seems to need at least a few days to catch up with a new release, or that's been my experience in

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade

2011-07-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: But is there a way to override the emerge refusal to allow a downgrade to glibc?  That is what I need to do. Take a look at this page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Downgrade_Glibc And also this forum topic:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] glibc-2.12.1-r1 failure

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, I think I have a symbolic link problem. Any thought on how to solve this error. ... unexpected reloc type in static binarymake[1]: *** [install-symbolic-link] ... LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed,-O1

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: GCC 4.5.1 with FLTO and Graphite

2010-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:48:24 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Personally, I've been waiting for some general level documentation to come across my radar before I get involved with either of these.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: GCC 4.5.1 with FLTO and Graphite

2010-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dan Reidy dub...@gmail.com wrote:  On 09/21/2010 02:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: add to USE graphite add to CFLAGS -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block doesn't this also need -fgraphite added ? In GCC 4.4.4 at least, that is undocumented. In docs

Re: [gentoo-amd64] install amarok??

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 11 Mai 2010, Paul Stear wrote: Hi, Is it possible to emerge amarok 2.3.0.90 without reducing mysql from 5.1.46 to 5.0.90-r2 with all the problems that would cause. equery d mysql shows:- *

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: RES: install amarok??

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Eduardo Schoedler eschoed...@viavale.com.br wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/11/2010 07:44 PM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote: Paul Stear wrote: I don't even know if I need these packages. # USE=-mysql emerge -va amarok or put in

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: RES: Re: RES: install amarok??

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eduardo Schoedler eschoed...@viavale.com.br wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: How many months is it since you've run emerge --sync? :P Every night! :p I will guess that you have amarok1 in an overlay then perhaps?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days as it wants to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox?

2010-02-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Seems that there are threads in the forums about this not working recently. I'll check that out and get back unless someone posts a fix. I haven't tried hulu in a long time (but it worked last time I tried). There is also a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. (at least

Re: [gentoo-amd64] If CD boots then why won't the hard drive?

2010-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, Same new machine - new thread so as to not confuse the other thread about flags. I made enough headway with grub to get it to find a kernel and try to boot, but fails with the message: VFS: Cannot open

Re: [gentoo-amd64] If CD boots then why won't the hard drive?

2010-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, Same new machine - new thread so as to not confuse

Re: [gentoo-amd64] CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, I have a strange problem that started happening a few days ago. When I boot the machine, the CD/DVD tray partially opens about an inch and stays open until manually closed. I have just noticed that it opens

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine menus

2009-10-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote: Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the Wine menus. Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the windoze apps, such as

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [Slightly OT]KDE hot key?

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Probably not the right forum, but maybe someone here can enlighten me anyway. I was putzing around this morning waiting for a couple of scripts to run and somehow I managed to get KDE4 to show every desktop and window

Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild vs depclean today...

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I what way can I improve my use of the tools? I don't remember seeing a case before where revdep-rebuild -ip was clean but emerge --depclean didn't want to remove files. I.e. - the sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 message.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New Jpeg-7 -- was Re: kdelibs insanity

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Frank Petersfrank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Since I process a lot of images, libjpeg is very important to me. The new jpeg-7 now includes arithmetic encoding which can produce smaller compressed file sizes and there are also some changes to the scaling and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New Jpeg-7 -- was Re: kdelibs insanity

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW the newly-released gtk+ 2.16.6 of a coupel days ago still has the problem with jpeg-7, but there was a patch in the gtk bugzilla that fixed the problem for me: Argh, the formatting got mangled. Sorry about

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New Jpeg-7 -- was Re: kdelibs insanity

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Mark Haneymha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Also, there was at least one package that needed to be rebuilt despite the fact revdep-rebuild didn't think so: media-libs/sdl-image I'm curious to know if there are any more out there hiding

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Blocks when upgrading to kde4.3 from 3.10 on an amd64 system

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Paul Steargen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, I have followed the guide on the gentoo site and have had to unmask a number of extra packages and well as kde4. I think I have resolved all blockages, keywords and masks but I can not resolve the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Blocks when upgrading to kde4.3 from 3.10 on an amd64 system

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Paul Steargen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 16:12:55 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Paul Steargen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, I have followed the guide on the gentoo site and have had to unmask a number

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

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Frank Petersfrank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: What does KDE, or Gnome for that matter, offer that a simple window manager cannot? I would claim that the benefits are all illusory. The user is deceived by the scintillating visual effects into believing that he

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

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Sebastian Beßlersebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Duncan schrieb: But I finally got so fed up with amarok I found a different solution. They killed all the functionality I actually used, while adding a bunch of junk I'm not interested in. That is exact my

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cross compiler for Windows

2009-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Mansour Al Akeelmansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying but, I can not find any complete documentation for windows. I haven't used overlays before, and it looks like there's a need to use it. I am following http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Crossdev and when I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] MythTV emerge failure

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: What is this failure about? I've seen this on a few ebuilds in the last couple of weeks. Thanks, Mark Failed to emerge media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20877, Log file:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Frank Petersfrank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: However, I am not clear on how tmpfs will fail. If the tmpfs mount becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just another disk partition shouldn't it produce a No more space left on device

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

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bernhard Auzingernordpolcam...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Frank Petersfrank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: After reading through the thread on this list about the benefits of mounting PORTAGE_TMPDIR as tmpfs, I decided that I will be doing this mount from now on. My total RAM is 4G, but since I only emerge world about once

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FF 3.5

2009-07-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mark Haneymha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Okay, based on what I read, the ebuild was masked ~amd64, right? If so, the Accepting the ~amd64 keyword should allow me to install it, right? If that's the case, then my portage doesn't have it. You need to unmask it in

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Alsa Config keeps disappearing

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, seantech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: After a system startup I have to rerun alsaconfig to get sound working. Is anyone able to give me any clues on how to track down why the config needs to be redone after a startup? Do you have RESTORE_ON_START=yes in your

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Terminal resizes very slowly

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Section Device Identifier ** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon] Driver radeon EndSection Try adding this line to that section: Option AccelMethod EXA Nikos suggested it on this list a while

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Terminal resizes very slowly

2009-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Section Device Identifier ** ATI Radeon (generic)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at least in the sense of the apps I had installed and were showing up in Gnome menus are there in XFCE. I don't like that it doesn't, at least out of the box

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: I found that here drag and drop works in a folder but doesn't work on the desktop. When you say you are trying to move them, are you trying to mv them, or just reposition them within the same desktop workspace? (moving

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: I found that here drag and drop works in a folder but doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, you are moving icons around on the desktop but not actually moving files to different directories. That's where I was getting confused. :) No, I'm moving files on the desktop. Desktop is a directory and the files

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: A discussion on another list made me realize I'm a little tired of Gnome. It does what I need, mostly, but it feels sort of old and dry. I haven't run KDE in years but I'm hesitant to build it and keep it up to date. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, I do a lot of audio work using apps and a kernel (rt-sources) from the pro-audio overlay. Jack, Ardour, etc. Really low latency and NO long window manager delays are more important for me that they probably

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e @system is building FAR too many things that shouldn't be part of @system. Nearly half the packages on this computer (339 out of 815) are getting pulled

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone better than I am at this can find the clue in this big, ugly qt blockage? Seems like sometimes possibly it's complaining about qt-4.5 vs qt-4.4 while other times it's complaining about 4.5.1 vs 4.5.1.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Managing CPU usage when doing emerges

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll just echo what Duncan said about nice / ionice. However, you might find the impact of ionice -c 3 on compilation is reduced if you use a tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage. Note that depending on what you're building you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs

2009-05-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Sebastian Redl sebastian.r...@getdesigned.at wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 15:55:38 -0500, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Redl sebastian.r...@getdesigned.at wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Sebastian Redl wrote: Hi, Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that can dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via Google. I want to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Redl sebastian.r...@getdesigned.at wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Sebastian Redl wrote: Hi, Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that can

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com posted 58965d8a0905131352v6cece43ap22447193975cf...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 13 May 2009 15:52:16 -0500: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Redl sebastian.r

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge -uDp wants to downgrade vmware-modules

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009, Duncan wrote: Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu posted 200905031107.24458.dan.johans...@dmj.nu, excerpted below, on Sun, 03 May 2009 11:07:17 +0200: I noticed that emerge wanted to downgrade

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Read/write Access on ext4 disk

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Whats user_xattr ?? Extended attributes... I needed it for some program to function Could it have been Beagle (http://www.beagle-project.org/)? Nope, I've never used Beagle before. I checked

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Read/write Access on ext4 disk

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, what is needed for read/write access on ext4 disk ? My current fstab entry: /dev/mapper/hate /mnt/hate ext4 noatime,noexec,nodev,noauto,user 0 0 Should work. Mine is similar: /dev/mapper/cryptoraid /mnt/raid

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Read/write Access on ext4 disk

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Whats user_xattr ?? Extended attributes... I needed it for some program to function (shake perhaps?).

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Read/write Access on ext4 disk

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyway, if my entry 'should' work, do I maybe just need to chmod the /mnt/hate dir?? I seem to recall needing todo something like this in the past... Yeah, check the permissions of the /mnt/hate after it is mounted, it may

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Unable to read PDF on amd64

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote: Works fine on x86, both with acroread-9.1; other files work here with 9.1 on AMD, so it may be this file... Q: Would anyone else be willing to try opening the file to see if the problem is local to my systems?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Harry Holt harryh...@gmail.com wrote: I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will compile do to error: * The die message: * ati-drivers-8.582 requires support for pci_find_slot.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Harry Holt harryh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Harry Holt wrote: I went to compile the proprietary drivers today from the ati-drivers emerge, but nothing up to and including 8.582 will

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers compile issues

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Harry Holt wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: I don't know if this error exists upstream or not, but I may try installing the 9.3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] cant boot off sata disk

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: (When I had a machine dual-booting to MSDOS and Slackware, I used the DOS MBR and wrote LILO into the boot record of a Linux partition.) When I dual-booted OS/2 and Slackware, I installed LILO to a floppy

Re: [gentoo-amd64] cant boot off sata disk

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com skribis: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: (When I had a machine dual-booting to MSDOS and Slackware, I used

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel-2.6.29-gentoo, network device failing after maybe 10min

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi I've upgraded to the 2.6.29-gentoo sources. I've build everything as usual, and sofar, everything seems to be working. Except that my network device 'dies' (not permanently) after working flawlessly for maybe 10min.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] External HD to work with Gentoo and Vista.

2009-03-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: The reason I asked, was, that I generally get the feeling that ntfs-3g offers relatively bad throughput? Is this actually the case, or just my feeling/setup? Does/Would the in-kernel driver offer better performance?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge of openoffice-3.0.1 fails

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 02/24/2009 08:04 PM Martin Herrman wrote the following: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org mailto:thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 02/24/2009 07:52 PM Thanasis wrote the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge of openoffice-3.0.1 fails

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 02/24/2009 10:03 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 02/24/2009 09:57 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 02/24/2009 08:04 PM Martin Herrman

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is /proc/cpuinfo showing the actual frequency ?

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Hartman
2009/2/19 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: # uname -a Linux wolfdale 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 18 13:53:22 EET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Overclocked the core 2 duo (E8400) from 3 to 4GHz using motherboard BIOS settings. In

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is /proc/cpuinfo showing the actual frequency ?

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 02/19/2009 06:23 PM Justin wrote the following: Thanasis schrieb: # uname -a Linux wolfdale 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 18 13:53:22 EET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is /proc/cpuinfo showing the actual frequency ?

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Thanasis schrieb: on 02/19/2009 06:23 PM Justin wrote the following: Thanasis schrieb: # uname -a Linux wolfdale 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 18 13:53:22 EET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED but it isn't...

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP it is hwclock on my system. it belongs to sys-apps/openrc-0.4.2 which you may not be using. Everyone's sort of quiet today... So

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Encryption Solution

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi List, Doesn't really belong here, but security seems dead, so... I'm planning on encrypting a 1TB usb-disc that I have, for preserved storage. I've been reading a lot about fde and the other various approaches

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED but it isn't...

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Recently my AMD64 machine has started displaying this message at boot time. I don't know exactly when it started but I suspect it was when I started testing a new kernel that didn't have the RTC enabled when I was first

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED but it isn't...

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Recently my AMD64 machine has started displaying this message

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Should be as simple as copying the data files over to wherever they are stored for your user account, changing owner, and then opening it with the vmware GUI. Yup. Although I thought that vmware

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.2 startup

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: This may be a n00b question, but how the heck do I get KDE 4.2 to start? startkde

Re: [gentoo-amd64] K3b and other KDE 4 apps

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: During all my fun with 4.2 upgrade, someone (or two) mentioned KDE4 native versions for apps like K3b. Can someone tell me what versions of those apps are? I couldn't find them for sure in ~amd64. In the kde-testing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Encryption Solution

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi List, Doesn't really belong here, but security seems dead, so... I'm planning on encrypting a 1TB usb-disc that I have, for preserved storage. I've been reading a lot about fde and the other various approaches

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I'm now officially into #6 above and I don't have a clue where to go. ;-) (Of course, anyone here who has good info I'm up for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if possible. Does stuff like sound work? I don't need any special hardware. (I think)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Paul. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: Are there any flags in /proc/cpuinfo that show this? The processors is a 4 year old AMD64. Likely or not? Check your bios. If your CPU+board support

Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrading kdebase-startkde

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Januar 2009, Mark Haney wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I don't understand how come I can't seem to find that ebuild? do you have kdeprefix set? Yes I do. you could just

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Some strange blocking

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:01 AM, tetSU tetsucc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Im wondering... Why openrc package blocks udev-133 and module-init-tools packages? # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -pv openrc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure how to handle the error message. Also, which of the use flags make sense for a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure

Re: [gentoo-amd64] cnn.com videos crash firefox with a libtotem-complex-plugin.so error

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: libtotem-complex-plugin.so I think that's part of gstreamer, could it be trying to takeover the flash videos before the flash plug-in has a chance? Maybe try to remerge (or unmerge) gstreamer.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] World packages

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Beso givemesug...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/13 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com: I'm curious. I have mplayer installed but amd64codecs is not. What use flag turns that on? first you need to unmask the package (it's hardmasked by portage for security issues)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] World packages

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a few packages listed in /var/lib/portage/world that I was wondering whether they needed to be in there? Thanks in advance, 1) Emulation stuff app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java

Re: [gentoo-amd64] World packages

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks guys. I understand how portage works and what to do to clean things up. That part isn't an issue this time around. I'm more trying to understand whether this is just left over from old installs and hasn't gotten

Re: [gentoo-amd64] World packages

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks guys. I understand how portage works and what to do

Re: [gentoo-amd64] World packages

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to remove firefox from my system and stick with only opera. However, i have run into a dilemma % equery d mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages depending on www-client/mozilla-firefox... ]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:22 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: Many (but not all) of this type of package can be built against xulrunner instead of firefox/seamonkey. Some do it automatically and some need the USE flags to be set up

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2008-11-06 Thread Paul Hartman
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