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

2010-09-20 Thread Wil Reichert
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Frank Peters posted on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:49:33 -0400 as excerpted: After doing my periodical emerge update, I notice that gcc-4.5.1 is now unmasked and presumably stable.  I also notice that a couple of new options are

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /etc/conf.d/rc

2010-07-07 Thread Wil Reichert
2010/7/7 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org:  What package owns /etc/conf.d/rc ? # equery b /etc/conf.d/rc  * Searching for /etc/conf.d/rc ... # (~amd64, default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib) Don't include the path on equery b. That said I don't see that file on my system, tho vaguely

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

2009-12-15 Thread Wil Reichert
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel        Kernel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New video card, finally!

2009-12-09 Thread Wil Reichert
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: As regulars are aware, I /was/ running an old Radeon 92xx series card, r200 series chip.  My system was /relatively/ good, even if it's half a decade old now, because it's a dual socket Opteron, which I had upgraded to

[gentoo-amd64] What happened to sun-jdk?

2009-11-10 Thread Wil Reichert
Never seen a license block a package before: $ emerge -p sun-jdk These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy dev-java/sun-jdk have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your

Re: [gentoo-amd64] What happened to sun-jdk?

2009-11-10 Thread Wil Reichert
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote: or add a line to /etc/portage/package.license if you want to accept a license to one specific ebuild. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Branko Badrljica bran...@avtomatika.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP

Re: [gentoo-amd64] howto find overlay with a package

2009-06-26 Thread Wil Reichert
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Steve Herberher...@thing.com wrote: What is the best way to search all the overlays looking for one that may support a utility not in the primary portage tree?  What I would like is a tool like eix but that uses a list of non-installed overlays that it could

[gentoo-amd64] bad drive?

2009-06-13 Thread Wil Reichert
I think one of my drives is on its way out, tho I've never seen a drive fail like this before. Drive is a year old WD 640G I use it as my system drive. Via SMART, I've been doing daily short weekly long tests since I installed it. Starting last week I woke up to my keyboard lights blinking and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] bad drive?

2009-06-13 Thread Wil Reichert
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Florian Philippli...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Wil Reichert schrieb: I think one of my drives is on its way out, tho I've never seen a drive fail like this before.  Drive is a year old WD 640G I use it as my system drive. Via SMART, I've been doing daily

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Wil Reichert
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Gregjour...@raven.ontheside.net wrote: I've been having trouble determining if my processor has hyper-threading. I'm thinking that it does. I know that it isn't a dual-core. If it is a hyper-thread processor, I can't seem to figure out exactly how to enable

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

2009-05-18 Thread Wil Reichert
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org wrote: I've been extremely busy lately and have let my updates get way behind. Part of that is my need to keep kde-libs-3.5 on my system for K3b, etc, part of that is just too much else to do. The problem I've encountered is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] I can use only 3GB aout of install 6GB

2009-05-06 Thread Wil Reichert
2009/5/6 Nadav Horesh nad...@visionsense.com: I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a test program I ran recognize 3.2GB. My system configuration: cpu: core2 6600 chipset:  

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

2009-04-28 Thread Wil Reichert
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2009-04-28 Thread Wil Reichert
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de posted gt7r28$cq...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on  Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:05:33 +0300: I have defaults,noatime and yet mount reports: /dev/root on / type ext4

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

2009-02-19 Thread Wil Reichert
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 19 Februar 2009, Harry Holt wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Martin Herrman schrieb: 2009/2/19 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org

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

2009-02-19 Thread Wil Reichert
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 02/19/2009 06:53 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: 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

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

2009-02-19 Thread Wil Reichert
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: For processor 0 only? Strange! On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Wil Reichert wil.reich...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I had the exact same behaviour on my Asus Maximus - no speedstep incorrect cpu info. My current DFI X48

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

2009-01-30 Thread Wil Reichert
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve Herber her...@thing.com wrote: I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. I just never had as

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support

2009-01-26 Thread Wil Reichert
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Wil Reichert wil.reich...@gmail.com posted 7a329d910901260906o48cd0908w5760bf08444b8...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:06:25 -0800: *grub-static-0.97-r9 (03 Jan 2009) 03 Jan 2009; Christoph

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support

2009-01-26 Thread Wil Reichert
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bob Sanders rsand...@sgi.com wrote: Morgan Wesström, mused, then expounded: I answered that initially. Grub does not support ext3 or ext4. # mount | grep boot /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime) GRUB working fine with ext3 here... /Morgan For

[gentoo-amd64] grub fs support

2009-01-25 Thread Wil Reichert
Anyone know if grub-static-0.97-r9 supports ext4? There seem to be patches floating around which add support, but I'm unable to tell if the gentoo version has this or not. Wil

[gentoo-amd64] genkernel changes

2008-12-19 Thread Wil Reichert
I build my own kernels but since my / partition is lvm I use genkernel to create an initrd. Previously 'genkernel --lvm initrd' did what I wanted but it seems that the since genkernel-3.4.10.902 thats no longer the case. Reading the man page it seems that the initrd parameter has been replaced

Re: [gentoo-amd64] hardware choice

2008-12-14 Thread Wil Reichert
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Iliev daniel.il...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:57:00 +0100 Branko Badrljica bran...@avtomatika.com wrote: Given your CPU choices, it is obvious that you are ignoring i7, I suspect beacise the price. Correct. After all even the platform

Re: [gentoo-amd64] quadcore

2008-11-26 Thread Wil Reichert
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Klüsener, mused, then expounded: I'd change that to 'march=amdfam10' or 'march=native' if your gcc is a recent one. Recent means =4.3. True. I'm running stable - 4.1.2, thus that option isn't available. Native

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

2008-08-12 Thread Wil Reichert
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Beso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/12 Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beso [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:30:44 +: if you're still using something the kernel won't kill nothing. the behaviour you're

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java in Firefox??

2008-01-26 Thread Wil Reichert
Theres currently work on a 64-bit plugin. Add the java-gcj-overlay and emerge dev-java/gcj-jdk with the nsplugin use flag. Then 'eselect java-nsplugin list' shows: Available 32-bit Java browser plugins Available 64-bit Java browser plugins [1] gcj-jdk-4.3 current and in firefox

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Testmail für die Liste

2007-10-16 Thread Wil Reichert
On 10/16/07, Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Dennis Bungart wrote: Hallo Leute, dies ist nur eine kurze Testmail da ich das Proxynetzwerk hier testen muss. Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis - wollte nicht stören - zumindest noch nicht. MfG Jan This is an english only list.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup

2007-09-14 Thread Wil Reichert
On 9/14/07, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ?

2007-09-12 Thread Wil Reichert
On 9/11/07, Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 23:33 +0300, Thanasis wrote: on 09/11/2007 11:14 PM Thanasis wrote the following: uname -r 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel: grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\#

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Wil Reichert
On 8/1/07, P.V.Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and running at

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

2007-07-19 Thread Wil Reichert
On 7/19/07, Bernhard Auzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 schrieb Johan Andersson: On 2007-07-19 21:48, Peter Humphrey 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? I'd quite like

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

2007-07-16 Thread Wil Reichert
On 7/16/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 16 Juli 2007 14:31 schrieb Mark Haney: Okay, here's just a general question I'd like to get some info (or at least opinions) on. I've been reading up on the changes to the latest stable kernel (2.6.22) and the rewrite of the WiFi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)

2007-05-29 Thread Wil Reichert
On 5/29/07, Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:33:18AM +0200, Florian D. wrote: FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the preferred way nowadays. Information on how to setup an initramfs can be found at:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)

2007-05-28 Thread Wil Reichert
Sebastian Redl [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 28 May 2007 20:38:01 +0200: I've got baselayout 2 on my experimental partition (seemed to need it for getting lvm2 to work with root on a logical volume) and it's working just fine. Haven't done much yet on

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

2007-05-27 Thread Wil Reichert
On 5/27/07, Isidore Ducasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: le Sun, 27 May 2007 23:32:49 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Not necessarily (or likely) /all/ their software, but significant parts of it. OpenSolaris is currently CDDL, which /is/ OSI approved as a real open license, but

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-15 Thread Wil Reichert
Now wait a minute, not everyone has $100k to spend on a brand new laptop. I'm a student, and I have a single computer to last me through two years of highschool and and at least a few years of college, and there's no way I'm going to screw up my computer without some insurance, ok? Before I run

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-14 Thread Wil Reichert
mobo == motherboard I always use matched ram. I also stick to well known name brands (corsair, kingston, OCZ, etc). With todays dual channel RAM controllers you _really_ want your RAM to have identical timings, voltages, etc. If all your sticks are following JEDEC standards it shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-13 Thread Wil Reichert
On 5/13/07, Peter Davoust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I just conquered my gdm issues in a previous thread, and now I'm finding that gentoo is crashing on me! Twice so far, gentoo has crashed at fairly inappropriate times. I've used gentoo before, and not once has it crashed meaninglessly.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AGPART

2007-05-04 Thread Wil Reichert
On 5/4/07, Jeffrey Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys I have an NForce based motherboard with an integrated [ surprise! ] :) NVidia PCI-X videocard. So, I don't need the agpart driver for my kernel, right? The problem

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel 2.6.21 problem

2007-04-29 Thread Wil Reichert
Well, xorg.conf/xset don't help in console mode. At least here, something does monitor blanking (it doesn't actually turn off) in console mode if I leave it sit. It's not /that/ big a deal here, but it'd be nice to at least know what's responsible and where the config for it is. setterm? So

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: GCC upgrade script

2007-04-25 Thread Wil Reichert
On 4/25/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:03:50 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: If you don't want the versions, as Duncan wrote, I would suggest that you use eix. eix -I will provide a pretty-printed list of all the packages installed on your system. The

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hard Drive Stress Test Application

2007-04-25 Thread Wil Reichert
On 4/25/07, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please share some links to applications that can do some stress test for hard disk. Please note that the application should be command line as there is no GUI like KDE or Gnome. I don't know about stress testing software but I had a handy little

Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble creating an ext3 filesystem 8TB

2007-04-11 Thread Wil Reichert
On 4/10/07, Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After looking through various patches that were posted to LKML, I discovered that passing -F to mke2fs seems to make this work as expected. However, this behavior seems to be undocumented and that makes me more then a little nervous. The

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Anyone using i965 3D?

2007-04-09 Thread Wil Reichert
On 4/8/07, Jack Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:27:46AM -0700, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: Do you have Xorg 7.2? The driver for this card was only included starting from this version, so if you use the current stable xorg you need to switch to the testing version. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amoeba file system

2007-04-09 Thread Wil Reichert
On 4/9/07, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:40:56 Jean-Marc Hengen wrote: Is there any reason why you need Partition Magic? 1. I have never yet found a way to tell grub to boot Win XP - it always either reboots endlessly, or stops after

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Anyone using i965 3D?

2007-04-05 Thread Wil Reichert
Works for me. Not very speedy, but it gets the job done.What exactly isn't working? Wil On 4/5/07, Jack Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to ping the list to see if anyone using i965 embedded graphics was having any luck with 3d/DRI? Regardless of the driver, it seems that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Anyone tried xorg-server-1.2.99.901?

2007-03-17 Thread Wil Reichert
I run KDE here, don't even have GNOME installed as for me as a power user, GNOME's dumb-down-everything-by-removing-most-choices-as-too- complex policy drives me right up one wall and down the other! (I'm with Linus on that one, it seems!) I'm running kwin, with composite functionality enabled

[gentoo-amd64] Anyone tried xorg-server-1.2.99.901?

2007-03-10 Thread Wil Reichert
Saw the announcement on the xorg list, saw it in portage, had to try it. Running ~amd64 so I've had the randr-1.2 upgrade fo r a while. Also upgraded to xf86-video-i810-1.9.91 as well. Pretty painless upgrade - restarted xdm and logged in. Beryl still worked, everything else seemed to be ok.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: firefox 2 on amd64

2007-01-04 Thread Wil Reichert
On 1/3/07, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:11:47 -0500: Ah, now it makes sense. But since I have no intention of building anything to be distributed or used for other than what it was designed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Browsing speed problems - possibly flash related

2006-12-29 Thread Wil Reichert
On 12/29/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:59:15 -0600: On Thursday 28 December 2006 10:01, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Browsing speed problems -