Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge failures for libgsf & intltool

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 22 February 2010 15:35:36 YoYo siska wrote: > Is there something along the lines of python-updater for perl? perl-cleaner. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: > write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may > suffer. This rings a bell. Your kernel line in grub.conf has something like "video=inteldrmfb:mtrr:3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please suggest settings and flags in /etc/make.conf?

2010-01-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 22 January 2010 03:05:55 Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/22/10 11:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > > # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is > > provided by the # profile used for building. > > USE="mmx sse sse2" > > No one size fits all, only you can decide the best USE flags c

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 15:38:48 Wil Reichert wrote: > The T61 has audio buttons on it right? Have you tried hitting the up > volume button above the keyboard to see if the hardware mixer is muted > / turned down? That reminds me: on the T61 the sound starts off muted whatever settings you

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

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 23 August 2009 18:04:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Reading your emails takes more time than installing kde. So do what I did a few years ago: put him in your kill file. Peace. -- Rgds Peter.

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

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 14:51:04 Frank Peters wrote: > 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" error? No, it isn't a disk partition. It's a file system in RAM, with

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:36:23 Frank Peters 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 per week, I can e

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unsubscribe

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:48:32 Homer Parker wrote: > What happened to the unsubscribe kit to help people with? ;) Something nasty, I hope. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: upgrade an old system

2009-05-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:37:59 Sami Näätänen wrote: > IMHO You shouldn't use tmpfs for the PM temp dir, until you can give that > around 2GB, which shouldn't be more than half of your total memory. I can't endorse this. I have 4 GB physical RAM on this box, and I have this line in /etc/fstab:

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

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 January 2009 15:54:43 Mark Knecht 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) Just disk, graph

[gentoo-amd64] Problem updating pykde

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello, After a sync, portage wants to upgrade pykde from the currently installed 3.16.0-r1 (which is now masked) to 3.16.2, but source configuration fails with an error: [...] Creating top level Makefile... Creating pykdeconfig.py... [...] sipkdecoreNETRootInfo3.cpp: In constructor ‘sipNETRootI

Re: [gentoo-amd64] quadcore - part 2

2008-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 01 December 2008 20:27:02 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I don't like Zalman. No way to change the cooler. Stupid fastening > system, no pwm. Pwm? Pulse-width modulation? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space?

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:52:59 Richard Freeman wrote: > Paul Stear wrote: > > Hello all, > > How do I list the contents of a disc in size order? > > I need to find out the largest files on a disc. It's my home dir which > > is 98% full, that's over 180GB used, normally its less than half of >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.26 and the RTC

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 September 2008 14:57:23 Guillermo Dutra wrote: > PD: I solved that problem , recompiling my kernel with RTC support , > because when I update my kernel, the option was unchecked > mysteriously , I think it is a problem related when you make the > "oldconfig" genkernel do it automatica

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.26 and the RTC

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 September 2008 14:48:27 Guillermo Dutra wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235647 > This will help you Hmm. Thanks. -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.26 and the RTC

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Since I upgraded to version 2.6.26 I've been getting "Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method" at every boot, and a corresponding error while shutting down. Is this a known problem with this kernel version? I've tried Google but not found anything useful. Oh, and I get this on mo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 23:54:48 Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Peter, > > on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:04:13AM +0100, you wrote: > > You could always allocate another swap partition. One of my boxes has 4 > > 2GB partitions on different disks, though that's far more than I need. > > You still get t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:22:56 Morgan Wesström wrote: > If I understand [...] correctly, I wouldn't be able to compile Open Office > on tmpfs with my 2GB RAM and 1GB swap. I would have to increase the swap > space to be able to hold all the temporary files from the compilation, > wouldn't I?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 17:12:53 Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:32:01 +0100 > > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. > > Google doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:37:16 Olivier Crête wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. Google > > doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's referred to in (I think) > >

[gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. Google doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's referred to in (I think) webapp-config postinst, but I can't find out what it means. Can anyone here help? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OS setting in BIOS

2008-05-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 25 May 2008 17:02:07 Mike Doty wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > | I was poking around in my BIOS this morning and rediscovered a setting > | to define the installed OS. I'd wondered about it some time ago and > | then forgotten about it. > | > | I can s

[gentoo-amd64] OS setting in BIOS

2008-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
I was poking around in my BIOS this morning and rediscovered a setting to define the installed OS. I'd wondered about it some time ago and then forgotten about it. I can set the BIOS setting "OS Installation" to "Other" or to "64bit Linux 2.6.9". I have it set to Other at the moment. My questio

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: building emul-linux-x86 files

2008-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 24 April 2008 04:20:11 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > People who care about bandwidth shouldn't subscribe to a high volume list > anyway. They're supposed to remain ignorant instead? -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Good Postfix / Mail Server how to...

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 28 January 2008 23:24:47 Mark Haney wrote: > Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I just want to ask if anyone know any good howto for Gentoo about > > Postfix and simple mail server? I've seen current howto on gentoo-wiki > > and it's old. Any tips or links? > > Not sure exactly

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update?

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:15:12 Nicolas Litchinko wrote: > There's a variable in /etc/conf.d/clock that controls whether or not > /etc/localtime should be updated when a new version of > sys-libs/timezone-data is merged: TIMEZONE. If this variable is set, the > specified timezone data file is

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

2007-11-11 Thread 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 that can not be split up > into two jobs. But in this cas

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB?

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > I'd say the second partition is only a problem if the first is "seen" > > by Winblow - that is if it has any filesystem readable by it. > > I have /dev/hda1 ext2,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I'd say the second partition is only a problem if the first is "seen" by > Winblow - that is if it has any filesystem readable by it. I have /dev/hda1 ext2, /dev/hda2 ext2, /dev/hda3 HPFS, then various logical partitions up to /dev/hda12. /dev/hd

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Oh, I forgot to add: welcome to my kill file, where you are in very select company. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Duncan wrote: > By the time I switched to GRUB, I was off of MS/proprietaryware forever > (or at least until it's no longer proprietary- aka slaveryware) So what is your qualification for pronouncing on it? > What MS OSs *DO* seem to require is that the boot partition be a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Load NTLDR from GRUB?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 Oct 2007, Julien Cassette wrote: > Hello, > I needed to install Windows XP on a logical partition, but I found that > it can't boot from such a partition because NTLDR needs to be installed > on a primary one. > So I set up the following partition scheme: > /dev/sda1 ext3 Gentoo ro

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 15 Sep 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > FWIW, I use app-backup/backuppc to backup some boxes. It runs as a daemon > (ie, not from a cron job), can use a variety of transport protocols > (ssh, rsync, smb - this lets you backup windows boxes), runs as an > unprivileged user on the server, do

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 15 Sep 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 15 September 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Those are the articles I said I'd read in my first e-mail. They make > > it clear that ssh is intended for interactive use only. > > They also make clear that, using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Or, you can use keychain. > Read these articles for a good introduction to keychain (and ssh key > management): > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p1.xml > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p2.xm

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > So far I haven't tried specifying a remote destination to rsnapshot, which > seems to assume it will be running on the backup host. If that's feasible, > of course I'd prefer to do so. I'll try it and see. Nope. Only lo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Wil Reichert wrote: > I'm assuming since you're asking this question your firewall is locked down > pretty tight. Not particularly, but it seems silly to take needless risks. It has shorewall to manage iptables, but I still let it run squid, ntpd, dnsmasq and a few other l

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Hamish wrote: > WIth ssh you can use a public/private keypair to do the authentications. > The sequence is something like > > 1. Create a keypair on the CLIENT side of the connection > 2. Copy the PUBLIC part of the keypair from the client to the server and > append to the f

[gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Here's today's problem. I have a firewall-cum-gateway box between my tiny LAN and the Internet. The gateway runs constantly, while the internal boxes run when needed (they're my laptop and workstation). I want to use some space on the gateway to store backups of the other boxes, and I'd like th

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

2007-09-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 Sep 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote: > Well, I found more in the x11-proto section. > > Since I want to proceed, I used ebuild xxx.ebuild digest. Very dangerous! How do you know it's the digest that was faulty? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

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

2007-09-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 Sep 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote: > 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? It installed ok here. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > You have selected: > first page; sata first disk to boot from; > second page; disk order 'raid sata 1', 'raid sata 2', 'old sata', ide; ? Correct. > Currently, after a boot/reboot to BIOS setup, does the third page still > show the hard disk is 'ra

Re: [gentoo-amd64] root partition full?

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, Marek Wróbel wrote: > Dieter Ries wrote: > > I don't know what you are using this machine for, but I think 2.8G for > > / is not much. > > It is enough. Here is the output of `df -h` from one of my machines > (353 MB is used on /). > > FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, I wrote: > So now I have the BIOS disk order, the boot-time grub disk order, the > device.map file order and the grub on-line disk order all the same. That > must be the end of the exercise, I hope. Also, I forgot to say, the disk order implied in grub.conf. -- Rgds Pete

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 27 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > Suggest: > use fdisk to flag partitions /dev/sda/b/c1 bootable. Ok. Done that, and it's made no perceptible difference. > Notes: [...] > 3. Gentoo Linux x86 with Software Raid and LVM2 Quick Install Guide does > not mention setting bootable but is no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 26 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > This part of the action is in accord with the grub manual. > if there is no device.map and --device.map is invoked a device.map should > be generated. > if there is no device.map and --device.map is not invoked a device.map > should not be generated. >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 27 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > More dumb questions: > The rescue system used is the one on the IDE drive? > You booted the rescue system by setting up the BIOS boot order to boot the > ide first? > You booted the rescue system by setting up the BIOS boot order to boot the > old sata

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > dumb questions time: > after editing /boot/grub/device.map did you reinstall grub using either > grub-install --device-map (hd1) > [where hd1 can be hd0 or hd2 or hd3] > or > grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map > to invoke grub command line usin

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 24 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > Your board is Supermicro H8DCE? If so, the User's Manual does hurt. > I suspect BIOS upgrade will not change the behavior you've seen. No, I don't really expect anything wonderful either. > All I've seen says grub must adapt to BIOS vice any other ch

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > That's the answer - thanks! I spoke too soon. Correcting the device.map file made no difference; my problem is clearly in the BIOS. What follows refers exclusively to the BIOS setup process; grub is not involved, let alone Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote: > if the device maps are different or not what you thought when you wrote > grub.conf . That's the answer - thanks! I have this: # cat /boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/sda (hd3) /dev/sdb Thi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 19 Aug 2007, Duncan wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 19 Aug > > 2007 11:34:56 +0100: > > This box now has a slightly odd arrangement of disks. It has two new > > SATA disks on the first two

[gentoo-amd64] Disk boot order in grub

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
This box now has a slightly odd arrangement of disks. It has two new SATA disks on the first two SATA interfaces, another SATA disk on the third SATA interface, and it also has the original IDE disk for the odd occasion when I want to run Windows. The two new disks have been set up with LVM2 an

Re: [gentoo-amd64] qt compile problem

2007-08-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 13 Aug 2007, Ian McCulloch wrote: > I concur on the expat problem, I had exactly the same problem on my amd64 > system last night. It probably saves some time to do > revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 > as many of the programs/libs that depend on expat.so.0 (and there were > qui

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Sandbox violations

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 20:33, Joerg Gollnick wrote: > [Bug 135745] gcc tries to write gcda files in wrong dir (read-only by > sandbox). Secure: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135745 > > There was a comment, hth. > --- Comment #42 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-07-30 14:48 > -

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Sandbox violations

2007-08-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 11:14, B. Nice wrote: > I am curious why you had to turn sandbox off for nvidia-drivers. I've > never had to. If memory serves, the last time I had trouble with the > sandbox was firefox-1.5.xx. I get the sandbox violation immediately after: >>> Source compiled

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Sandbox violations

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 20:06, Beso wrote: > have you switched to the no-multilib profile by chance?! If I'd tried anything of that magnitude I'd not have been puzzled by such a small consequence as this. > or do you have an nvidia package?! Yes, I have nvidia-drivers. It's one of the package

[gentoo-amd64] Sandbox violations

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Has anyone here had problems with emerge's sandbox? This is an amd64 box, not ~amd64, and a few days ago the kernel was upgraded from 2.6.20-r8 to 2.6.21-r4. Since then I've had quite a few packages fall over with a sandbox violation. I get this line from each one, on the screen and in a sandbox

[gentoo-amd64] Rsync server performance problem solved

2007-08-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
A few months ago I described a problem in which my gateway box, acting as an rsync portage server to my desktop and portable boxes, was taking several minutes to create and transfer the file list. The transfers of files to synchronise the local portage database with that on the server worked jus

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Layman overlays site down?

2007-07-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 July 2007 15:37, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:18:37AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk vmware-overlay > > > > That's the step that's failing. On further checking,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Layman overlays site down?

2007-07-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 July 2007 21:31, Christoph Mende wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:48:32 +0100 > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the last couple of days I've been unable to connect to > > http://overlays.gentoo.org. Can anyone here say what its fate is

[gentoo-amd64] Layman overlays site down?

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
For the last couple of days I've been unable to connect to http://overlays.gentoo.org. Can anyone here say what its fate is? I'd quite like to get a copy of the vmware overlay. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 16 July 2007 09:33, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday, 15. July 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think I'd prefer to find out why that script isn't being run > > from /etc/init.d/vmware, or if it is, why it isn't setting up the network > > conn

Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to best run a script at boot

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 15 July 2007 10:15, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > My problem is that while everything installed well, on the next start I had > no network more. I've found out that running > /usr/lib/vmware/net-services.sh creates the missing /dev/vmnet0, so now I'd > like that script to be run every start

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java Firefox plugins

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 July 2007 15:55, Christoph Mende wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:44:12 +0100 > > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas on why I get (-nsplugin) on all these? I have USE=nsplugin > > in /etc/make.conf, but it's being overr

[gentoo-amd64] Java Firefox plugins

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Time for another problem :-( On this newly installed system (amd64, not ~amd64) I have both 32- and 64-bit Firefox browsers, and I can't get java plugged into either of them. $ eselect java-nsplugin list Available 32-bit Java browser plugins Available 64-bit Java browser plugins $ java-config-1

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

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 July 2007 15:01, I wrote: [various things] I meant also to say that I started out on this new build using the same CD as I'd used before: 2006.1 minimal. When I'd installed a bare system it booted OK and seemed healthy enough, but then if I ran "emerge -e system", the resulting sy

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

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 June 2007 10:52, Duncan wrote: > Let me know how this goes [...] as I'd like to follow it too. Well, after quite a bit more work, I'm still none the wiser. I've built a new installation from scratch without the ~amd64 key word, and I've tried many combinations of kernel parameter

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

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 June 2007 10:52:33 Duncan wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > top - 09:04:59 up 23 min, 5 users, load average: 3.60, 4.79, 3.91 > > Tasks: 124 total, 2 running, 122 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > > > Cpu0: 0.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0

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

2007-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 June 2007 00:47:27 Duncan wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Jun > > 2007 19:10:44 +0100: > >> What I'm wondering, of course, is whether you have NUMA turned on when > >> you

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

2007-06-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
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, wait for .22 kernel.

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

2007-06-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
ich I can tell the kernel > which CPUs I want specific processes to run on. > If you prefer a single do-it-all scheduler-tool, perhaps easier to learn > if you plan to fiddle with more than simply which CPU a process runs on, > and want to learn it all at once, sys-process/schedtool may be more your > style. I'll look into those - thanks. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Identifying CPUs in the kernel

2007-06-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
tion of components. I'm trying an installation of Kubuntu to see if that's any different, but it's a long process getting to an equivalent state so I can't report a result yet. I'm beginning to think there must be a problem with my motherboard. Can anyone suggest some

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:36:46 Richard Freeman wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The kernel includes three schedulers: anticipatory, deadline and (the > > default) CFQ, whereas the author refers only to "old" and "new" > > schedulers. I wonder which o

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
the features he describes are common to all three. I also wonder which kernel version introduced the "new" scheduler. I have a reason for this interest, which I intend to describe in a separate thread. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] System crashes when idle [SOLUTION(?)]

2007-06-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
ia GeForce 7300 GS driving an Iiyama AU4831D screen, and the X nv driver comes from x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2. Or sometimes I play with the nVidia closed-source drivers, but as far as I know that doesn't affect the lockups. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] System crashes when idle

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
r of problems. You could well suspect it if problems don't occur until after the system's been running for quite a while. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
ad 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. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel scheduler seems to be making mistakes

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
ith them and asked on this list for ways of deleting my existence from the BOINC project. I later relented and decided to have a go myself, but this is as far as I've got. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Kernel scheduler seems to be making mistakes

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
very closely at the time I haven't been able to pinpoint the factor that caused the change in kernel scheduling behaviour. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 19 May 2007 17:53:05 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > and 300 is not dividable by 50? How many apologies do you want? -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-05-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:11:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It should say 'divide by', and the frame rate is a property of the > television signal, not the power supply. You're right, of course. Sorry for woolly thinking. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93

[gentoo-amd64] Choice of processor timer frequency?

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
ividing exactly into" than "by". Would anyone like to comment? -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unstable images in Firefox

2007-05-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Well, I had nothing to do with it - I've just had my e-mail returned undeliverable. It seems they don't have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: [OT] AGPART [SOLVED]

2007-05-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
upgrading my entire > platform once again. Don't talk about it, all right? Just don't talk about it. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unstable images in Firefox

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
I've sent it on to the webmaster. Looks like they've fixed it, though I haven't had any message from them. Today when I view the page it works properly. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
not confident that I've found the best arrangement. Anyway, it seems to be working ok. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unstable images in Firefox

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
My screen is at 1600x1200, but still not enough to show this page properly. > If you are not the developer, feel free to forward this message to > whoever is. Hope this helps. Thanks - I've sent it on to the webmaster. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
html. Does anyone else find this? About Firefox says: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070411 Firefox/2.0.0.3. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem

2007-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
is now much longer, but I still get a blank screen eventually. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.21 problem

2007-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
no-X and remerge nvidia-drivers and vmware-server 10. Reboot into KDE and check the system over 11. Celebrate with a pint. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Copying an entire installation

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 15:02:32 B. Nice wrote: > A nice script to do that is mkstage4.sh ... I'll attach it here, so you > can take a look and modify it for your uses. That's helpful - thanks. Also to Neil for his comments. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, A

[gentoo-amd64] Copying an entire installation

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
I think I'd feel happier installing into place. Seems cleaner, somehow. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Off-topic BOINC query

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
ttitude towards its users, particularly in the management of bugs and the publication of information on releases. They need a proper, competent project manager - they may have one, for all I know, but it's hard to find any evidence of it. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Off-topic BOINC query

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
me how I can remove myself from BOINC and from all projects I have run using it? -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] What happened to Simon Stelling (blubb)?

2007-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 21 April 2007 01:59:10 Simon Stelling wrote: > Now I'm almost ashamed of the long mail centered entirely around me, but > hey, you asked for it :P From one you've helped more than once, Good Luck! -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

2007-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:46:56 Duncan wrote: > Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:40:11 +0000: > > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 18 A

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
ike I'm still not thinking clearly.) -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: What happened to Simon Stelling (blubb)?

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
oking just now but didn't find anything. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Is equery broken, or do I need to rebuild something?

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:58:18 Duncan wrote: > Please reply with the bug number so I can add my report too, plus CC and > see how it's resolved. It's number 175050. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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