Re: [gentoo-user] xfree fails with kernel 2.6.3-rc2-mm1

2004-02-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 15 February 2004 18:56, Jakob Schiøtz wrote: > Hi! > > I (finally) decided to try the 2.6 kernels, but I ran into a problem. > X cannot start, I get the following messages in dmesg, and I only see > the nVidia spash screen, then it is back in text-mode. > > atkbd.c: Unknown key released (

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4

2004-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 12 February 2004 23:07, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I'm testing using kernel 2.6.3 (mm-sources rc2). > On my system, everything is a little slower under 2.6 then it used to be > in 2.4. > measurable performance is only slightly worse (like dvdrip getting 2 fps > less, 20 fps less for glxgea

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise

2004-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Wednesday 11 February 2004 07:26, Dennis Robertson wrote: > The noise starts on boot when alsa is detected and is amplified with mouse > clicks, disk activity etc. It tapers off after about 15mins but is always > there in the background. Turning off alsasound has no effect. Trying > variou

Re: [gentoo-user] any problems with gcc 3.3?

2004-02-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:15, Collins Richey wrote: > My experience has been that all too frequently something slips by the > quality control process (not too surprising with all the permutations > and combinations). Just check the archives for the fallout from the > latest gcc, if you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...

2004-02-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 09 February 2004 22:20, Brendan Sullivan wrote: > > I've used nvidia's drivers with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels with very little > problems at all...is this the exception rather than the norm??? no, but the one with the problems are whining around, while the satisfied users are quiet. I a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 09 February 2004 05:49, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:03 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Monday 09 February 2004 04:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Checking things out, I find that agpgart and nvidia-agp (both >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 09 February 2004 04:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Checking things out, I find that agpgart and nvidia-agp (both built as > modules) are loaded at boot and trying to rmmod them fails saying > they are in use. Does this happen due to frame buffer? > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y somebody should put

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...

2004-02-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 09 February 2004 02:28, Stroller wrote: > On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:19 am, Manuel McLure wrote: > > Stroller wrote: > >> ...Which will give best bang-per-buck..? > >> - 64Mb ATI 7000 DDR with TV/Out for £23 > >> - 64Mb ATI Radeon 7500LE SDR AGP TV Out for £30 > >> - 128Mb ATI Radeon (Sapphire)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage update

2004-02-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 07 February 2004 22:08, Anthony Hoppe wrote: > Is it safe to update Portage? I've been reading about the problems some > people have been having. Has anybody been successful with the update? > Should I update? > > ~ Anthony no problems here. -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight,

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't update linux headers ! NEW Gentoo install broken

2004-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 07 February 2004 15:30, Michele Alzetta wrote: > Il Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:43 +0100 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: > > try to execute ldconfig, it can help. > > Didn't think of that; I reformatted the partitions and started again from > scratch. Almost through emerge system now. > Hope I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Saturday 07 February 2004 18:16, Ernie Schroder wrote: > I also have the a7nx8 and a ti4200 I am seeing about a 10% decrease > in framerate with glxgears, and am having lockups. The lockups occur > more frequently with a GL screensaver running, but do occasionally > happen with a rap

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some advice on to switch from mandrake to gentoo.

2004-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 07 February 2004 03:56, Grendel wrote: Hi, I have a lot slower box (AMD XP 2000), so you should be able to top this times: Sat Jan 31 13:17:14 2004 --> x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 merge time: 57 minutes and 58 seconds. Sat Jan 31 17:47:44 2004 --> x11-libs/qt-3.2.3-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 06 February 2004 23:30, Arne Vogel wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Friday 06 February 2004 15:58, Arne Vogel wrote: > >>The first problem was that KDE would refuse to start, complaining about > >>a missing symbol > >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 06 February 2004 15:58, Arne Vogel wrote: > The first problem was that KDE would refuse to start, complaining about > a missing symbol > _nv22 in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (which pointed to the new version > of that NVIDIA library). > GNOME would work fine. I could resolve this b

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa ; System beep

2004-02-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:32, Ralph Slooten wrote: > 2) Question: Since a while back I see that OSS in the kernel is > depreciated, and ALSA is recommended, but for the life of me I cannot > see what the advantage is of ALSA. AFAIK everything I use uses the OSS > system (OSS-emulation i

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 02 February 2004 16:32, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > No, actually i haven't even heard about it. Could you send me some > > reference regarding this (e.g. link) > > > >>Do u remember the nvidia benchmark tests scandal ? > >>They probably repeated the old trick

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 02 February 2004 14:46, Collins Richey wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:41:20 +0100 > > Jakub Krajcovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to make an update to the original question about speed: > > > > I just tested the 4496 driver and the 5336-r1 driver, and the 5336 is > > a LOT fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 02 February 2004 05:00, Tommi Pirinen wrote: > For me this bug has appeared on nvidia drivers as long as I can > remember, and I did start using nvidia in version 0.9-something. The bug > occasionally changes from displaying textual carbage to graphical > garbage, and it occasionally

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:54, Matt Wilson wrote: > I've noticed that whenever I try compile things up that some headers > from the kernel, they fail unless I have linux-headers-2.4.* merged > (when merging something from portage they automatically try merge that > as well). So I was wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6

2004-02-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Sunday 01 February 2004 17:16, Sean Johnson wrote: > Just adding to the list of "good news". I've got 2.6.x kernels running > on two x86 systems, both with nptl turned on. One is my desktop system, > a dual athlon rig, and one is my internet box, a dual PIII Xeon rig. No > problems at all w

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-01-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Saturday 31 January 2004 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote: > Is anyone takling suggestions for Gentoo improvements??? > > A few I would like to see... in order... > > > 1-PROGRESS BARS... man-o-man would I love a progress bar during an emerge > update, instead of all the text that gets listed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Games Suggestions

2004-01-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:08, Wayne Oliver wrote: > Hi All > > Can anybody suggest anything from portage ??? > vegastrike, it is simple cool, single&multiplayer, some realy beautiful graphic effekts. wesnoth, single&multiplayer for a little fun while watching TV xskat,single player lgeneral,s

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree performance

2004-01-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 30 January 2004 17:53, Koala wrote: > excuse me. Here the attached file. > > Koala wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed xfree on netvista. I configure it with the command > > Xfree --configure, but the performance are not so good. > > Attached there is my XF86Config. > > > > Any s

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia performance so bad...

2004-01-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Sunday 25 January 2004 19:17, Sensei wrote: > Hi. > > I'm currently using an old GeForce2 MX/400, with the original NVidia > drivers (from nvidia's site). I set up my machine as I did for the slack > I always had before this Gentoo system (which I like s much!): > > - agpgart module wit

Re: [gentoo-user] White noice in sound

2004-01-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I had the same board... sound sucked from the first day on ;o) Your problem sounds like a PSU problem to me (this or some capacitors, that are getting old). If the PSU is driven near the top end of its specs or a little bit older, hearing any disk-and memory-access is not uncommon (at least

Re: [gentoo-user] DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)

2004-01-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Tuesday 13 January 2004 00:33, Richard Revis wrote: x > x x x [ ] Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support x you should enable this AND the drivers for your chipset. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I share the soundcard?

2004-01-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Sunday 04 January 2004 19:35, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > Now the obvious question is - How do I share the soundcard in a way that I > don' t have to kill some processes in order to make others work? you need alsa. Kill artsd, alsa-capable apps should be able to use the dmix plugin like thi

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious acts by emerge -e gcc [really weird]

2004-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 02 January 2004 19:52, Redeeman wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:16, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Friday 02 January 2004 00:47, Redeeman wrote: > > > freetype > > > ttmkfdir > > > > I think, this ones are your culprit

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI install

2004-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 02 January 2004 16:37, Mac Intyre, Steven wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there possible a GUI install interface for Gentoo - similar to > Mandrake. no, and I hope, that there will be never one. genflags/genkernel and the rest of this crap is newbie-friendly and non-working enough. A graphic in

Re: [gentoo-user] out of disk space, now kde broken

2004-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 02 January 2004 14:35, Peter Lord wrote: > But, kdm seems to have changed behaviour. First I didn't get the choice > of kde. I fixed this in the "Login Manager". Then, when I select kde I > just get one xterm with no window manager running (although I can > manually run startkde

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious acts by emerge -e gcc [really weird]

2004-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 02 January 2004 00:47, Redeeman wrote: > freetype > ttmkfdir I think, this ones are your culprits. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash th

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 02 January 2004 00:20, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > If it sucks with any os, it must be a big shit and writting > drivers for it is wasted time. > I am spending some time on the ocworkbench forum. There are a lot of boards with the cm9739 out there nowadays. And most of them suck.

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms very fast

2004-01-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 01 January 2004 22:22, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > I have problem with xmms ... > it "plays" 4 min's song in cca 2 seconds (silence on output). as Mr Wesley said, the diskwriter plugin is the culprit, change it to something else. > Another bad thing is, I c

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 27 December 2003 08:16, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: > The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. > > Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and > toward udev? First, obsolete means not, that it will disappear suddenly. There were functions obsole

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] xfs, ext3, jfs, reiser fs

2003-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Saturday 13 December 2003 09:18, Miroslav Ris wrote: > hmm, > > in this time i am migrate from freebsd to linux (gentoo, maybe). > on bsd i am using ufs (stable, but very slow, etc) > > best solution for heavy loading: > 1. web server (apache with php, perl and mysql, many virtual domain, t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -S/eupdatedb problem

2003-12-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 12 December 2003 20:40, Marius Mauch wrote: > Check your overlay, it's likely a misnamed ebuild. I removed almost all files from /usr/local/portage and it works again, thank you very much! Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federat

[gentoo-user] emerge -S/eupdatedb problem

2003-12-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, for some time emerge -S always file with such an error: energy root # emerge -S monopoly Searching... |Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1995, in ? searchinstance.execute(mysearch) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 455, in execute full_package = portage.p

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs, ext3, jfs, reiserfs

2003-12-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 12 December 2003 17:23, Redeeman wrote: > i read it was merged into 23 no, have a look here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107107425916108&w=2 Here goes 2.4.24-pre1... The XFS filesystem has been merged. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fi

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs, ext3, jfs, reiserfs

2003-12-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 12 December 2003 16:03, Redeeman wrote: > i am looking for a filesystem where its almost impossible to loose data, > i experience power loss quite often and i HAAATTTEEE when the filesystem > dies, i never lost files when i used fat32, but i want a unix > filesystem, so far i think e

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia acceleration problem

2003-12-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 December 2003 04:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > first, i tried using Gentoo's emerges 'nvidia-kernel' & 'nvidia-glx'; > in XF86Config, i commented 'load "dri"' & changed to 'Driver "nvidia"'; > i also did 'opengl-update nvidia' & 'modprobe nvidia'. Do not modprobe the nvidia modul! Th

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I get into the kde or gnome (GUI) enviorment

2003-11-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 30 November 2003 22:21, Alexander A. Koulouris wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally I got it to work, I installed a STAGE3 as per the installation > instructions step-by-step, now my installation boots up to the $prompt. > But I need to know how I get to the kde or gnome or the Graphical User > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6

2003-11-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 30 November 2003 09:59, Leonid Podolny wrote: > I intend to install kernel 2.6 on my machine. Is there something I need to > know before I start? Do I need to compile in the devfs support -- it's > marked as obsolete at kernel documentation, but AFAIK mandatory for > gentoo-operation.

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:38, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:28 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about > > > 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it the fastest?

2003-11-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 28 November 2003 17:36, Oliver Lange wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > -s what is that? static? don't do that! > > This is a linker option which strips some unneeded information > from an executable, but i guess this shouldn't be used when > linki

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it the fastest?

2003-11-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 28 November 2003 14:59, Vít Vomáčko wrote: > Athkon-TBird > I want stable and fully optimized systemIs something wrong or I canus > it? Some comments? CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -s > -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -frerun-cse-after-loop > -frerun-loop-opt -f

Re: [gentoo-user] volume control with XMMS and Alsa

2003-11-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 27 November 2003 13:01, Tony Scharf wrote: > Ok, Ive got XMMS running through ALSA, however every time the system boots, > the volume is shut off AND the volume control only turns the sound on or > off - i have to control level at the speakers. > > I am very new to Gentoo, though I have

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs undelete ?

2003-11-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
ymore and b) with this nice journaling fs.. are you sure, that th write-command really hits the platters? I am not man. That you can do some forensics on harddisks is a completly different topic and if you have the money to buy the hard&software to do that, or pay a labor to do it for you,

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs undelete ?

2003-11-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 19:31, Oliver Lange wrote: > Redeeman wrote: > > its not a minus, its also a feature, sometimes if i delete data i really > > want it to disappear! > > Well if i want to delete a file forever, there are many tools out there > which do the job. For example, Krusader offer

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.2 question

2003-11-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 08 November 2003 23:54, Chris wrote: > thats what i thought until it did the following: > > bash-2.05b# emerge -p '/home/chris/Desktop/downloads/kde 3.2/ > arts-20031107.diff.bz2' > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies > emerge: there are n

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 03 November 2003 02:05, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: > What do people do / recommend for backing up? a scsi tape drive from ebay, some quality tapes, tar ;o) -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the E

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-11-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 01 November 2003 21:17, Dennis Freise wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:13:22 +0100 > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Volker, > > > hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 should be save. > > Are you sure that -u1 is safe? I've read

Re: [gentoo-user] Israeli Processor Computes at Speed of Light

2003-10-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:24, dave willis wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/t0gl > > install gentoo about as fast as you can download it. that never will be happen. It is only a dsp. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even w

Re: [gentoo-user] optimum disk performance

2003-10-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 should be save. The udma level is set by the kernel and should not manipulated by the user. (I do not have to touch hdparm at all, do you have the correct kernel settings?) Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Wednesday 29 October 2003 22:27, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Crossover Office uses Wine? If so, shouldn't they have to distribute the > source for *free* since Wine is licensed under the GPL? imho the licence changed last year from bsd-style to LGPL because of transgaming. Everything before

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse

2003-10-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 October 2003 23:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wondering if there is an ebuild for Eclipse. I looked around a bit and did > not find anything myself. it is there, but from my experience, very useless. At the end, I installed eclipse into my home-dir, to be able to use it as user.

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT: c++ performance: gentoo vs. debian

2003-10-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Tuesday 21 October 2003 19:56, Matt Garman wrote: > For what it's worth, the Debian system used: > > g++ (GCC) 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease) > > And the Gentoo system is using: > > g++ (GCC) 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r2, propolice) I am using: gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I have one computer, gentoo only. No need for another OS. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.4 upgrading?

2003-10-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 20 October 2003 22:14, FX wrote: > any thought on how to force it or do i need to remove xawtv? that is not xawtv. xawetv has nothing to do with kde. That is a timidity problem. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. E

Re: [gentoo-user] cmedia 8738 + bt878, no sound

2003-10-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 00:58, Greg Donald wrote: > I have been using Gentoo for about a year now on servers. Last week I > decided to turn my WinXP system into a dual-boot Gentoo/WinXP setup. I've > since been installing lots of software and customizing things. I like to > figure stuff out o

Re: [gentoo-user] new CPU & march=athlon-xp

2003-10-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 October 2003 22:50, Stroller wrote: > I see that a week or so you recommended for the Pentium 3: > -march=pentium3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mfpmath=sse > but I gather from `man gcc` that -msse & -mfpmath=sse are not > supported on Pentium 2. > > Currently I'm using: >

Re: [gentoo-user] dd question

2003-10-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:42, Monah Baki wrote: > hi all, > > I'm trying to dd over nfs (dd if=/dev/hdc3 of=/mnt/home/gentoo.bin bs=512) > after 2 seconds, the computer that am dd'ing freezes,(the gentoo.bin file > size no longer increases on the remote nfs server) and I can't kill the dd > pr

Re: [gentoo-user] UT2003 sluggish

2003-10-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 05:11, Chris wrote: > I just finnished installing UT2003 on gentoo and winxp but for some reason > it is sluggish. the demo was smooth running but the full version is nearly > impossible to play > Chris > hm, do you have 32bit color? Reducing this to 16bit speeds a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] new CPU & march=athlon-xp

2003-10-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 00:14, mathieu perrenoud wrote: > Hello, > Since two months, everything goes wrong in my pc: erratic disks, mb's > chipset overheating... And since yesterday, my box has freezed 3 times (the > three times during OO1.1 compilation). > So I've decided to blame this on my

Re: [gentoo-user] new CPU & march=athlon-xp

2003-10-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 14:13, Marshal Newrock wrote: > I like Arctic Alumina (available from Arctic Silver), which is nicely > non-conductive. and you can sparte some bucks and use any paste. If you put so much paste on the cpu that its heat transfer rate becomes realy significant, you pu

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo 1.1 and GCC 3.3

2003-10-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Tuesday 07 October 2003 07:56, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:36:02 +0800 > > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does "seem" faster, despite the flags filter. Not definitive, I > > know, but I "believe" I am better off with it compiled. > > Yes, I get the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Spare CPU Cycles

2003-10-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] running, but kill it the moment I start emerging something or play a game. That should be two hours a day the client is running, sometimes longer Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its

Re: [gentoo-user] Does anyone use the Prozilla download excellerator?

2003-10-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 06 October 2003 07:58, Joshua Banks wrote: > I'm trying to find out if anyone is actually using the prozilla download > excellerator for emerging files. > > Very little on Google and on the Gentoo Forums. I used it for some time. For larger files it is ok and indeed speeds up downl

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors ?

2003-10-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 04 October 2003 14:43, Ernie Schroder wrote: > I'm still trying to get lm-sensors working. When I do: > # sensors-detect, it seems to load a module (i2c-philips-par) and then > it moves on to scanning the ISA bus where it fails to pick up the > winbond w83781d (I've loaded the module) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Old Kernels

2003-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:09, Collins Richey wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:36:03 -0400 > > Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Simply go to /boot and rm them. Make sure you update LILO or Grub to > > remove them also. > > > > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:14, you wrote: > > > H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS for p3?

2003-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:38, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > > I'm rebuilding the whole system (including kernel) with -Os > > What is the recommended way to set CFLAGS for the kernel? there is no recommended way to set kernel CFLAGS. Setting CFLAGS for kernel is not re

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for p3?

2003-09-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:29, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: > Hi all, > > Any recommendations for system wide CFLAGS for a P3? > > Rick -march=pentium3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mfpmath=sse -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its n

Re: [gentoo-user] Why the block?

2003-09-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:02, Jerry McBride wrote: > Can someone shed the light on the reason for the portage blocking with > kdelibs 3.1.4 and qt 3.2.1?? > > I've dug around on both TROLL TECH and KDE website and see no mention of > incompatibility between the two, but yet portage blocks th

Re: [gentoo-user] installing fans

2003-09-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Friday 26 September 2003 17:20, Collins Richey wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what is the normal max temperature tolerted by > drives, cpu's, etc? The only tool I have to provide temp info is hddtemp. > hda (older, slower) does not return temp info, but hdb normally is 48C-51C. > Is th

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the CHOST/CFLAGS suggestion utility?

2003-09-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 04:55, Chris Bare wrote: > Sorry, but my brain has failed. I cannot remember the name of the > utility that examines your cpu etc and suggests CFLAGS and CHOST > settings. I've googled in vain as well. Can someone please remind me of > the name? genflags, but it was

Re: [gentoo-user] my bookmarks disappeared, where are the mail archives?

2003-09-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
hi, try this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&r=1&w=2 Glück Auf, Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wo

Re: [gentoo-user] DMA messages at bootup

2003-09-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:35, Dane Elwell wrote: > Yeah, the -k1 option is supposed to keep options over a reset, but this > doens't seem to work for me. > > xerxes root # hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount= 16 (on) > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) >

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-problem?

2003-09-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 22 September 2003 17:36, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > Suddenly when trying to run emerge -u on current files I get this message?? > > *** >*** checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc > checking for C

Re: [gentoo-user] XDM behaving strangely

2003-09-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi. from /etc/rc.conf: # XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start # default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit. The default behavior # is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the # value that XSESSION is set to. The support scripts is smart

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia/new kernel

2003-09-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 19 September 2003 16:12, Ernie Schroder wrote: > I've gotten my new kernel (gentoo-siurces-2.4.20-r7) running but I can't > get X to start. I've tried several versions of the nvidia-kernel and > nvidia-glx but startx gives me a blank screen and a completely hung > box. try 2.4.22-aa. aa-

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I think, gentoo-user is a good place for your poll: it is user related, gentoo-user has many subscriptors, and the traffic is so high, that an additional e-mail does not hurt anybody. 27149 emails since the middle of april and 7 of it are the polls. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a s

Re: [gentoo-user] SCO gets personal!

2003-09-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 12 September 2003 16:23, Jay Carson wrote: > All linux users everywhere should chip in a 100 bucks and buy SCO, then > put Unix in the public domain. IF for some reason they are successful in > causing some serious shit. and push their shock price, so they can pay more lawyers? You must

Re: [gentoo-user] Twin Systems

2003-09-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 18:41, Cristiano Paris wrote: > Dear gentooists, > > I've being running Gentoo for about one year, both on my desktop PCs and > some server at the University. On the server side, it would be helpful > to have two systems whose installed packages are identical, some so

Re: [gentoo-user] Some doubts

2003-09-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:24, Davide Brini wrote: > Hello everybody, here are some doubts I have. > > 1. In my /etc/make.conf, I have "-O3" for CFLAGS, but I see that some > packages still compile using "-O2". Is this behavior intentional, for > example because the package or ebuild author

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception

2003-09-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 08 September 2003 19:41, Matthew Vaughn wrote: > hardware. What you're seeing is likely just a fluke, unless it's > repeated with alarming frequency. with latest 2.6.0-test kernels, I get spammed by this messages (and others too). Best is, not to report correctable incidents (ker

Re: [gentoo-user] hd problem

2003-09-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 08 September 2003 13:35, mathieu wrote: > > Is my HD screwed? Yes > Could it be gentoo's fault? No >What can I do, beside cry for my lost datas and buy a new hd? After a backup, get some harddisk tool from the vendor. The error messages of this tools shut up all knowing and unsuppo

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception

2003-09-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 08 September 2003 01:41, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I found this in dmesg: > > MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on > CPU 0. > Bank 0: e61001f5 > > What does that mean? have a look for parsemce, it will tell you something like this: ./parsemce -b 0

[gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test4-mm[45]&net.eth0 problem.

2003-09-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I have to set the MAC of mynetwork card at every boot. I am doin this by: ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:D0:09:E7:F8:A1 ifconfig eth0 up /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart in /etc/conf.d/local.start. Up to 2.6.0-test4-mm4 this is working fine, but with -mm5&mm6 /etc/init.d/net.eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync problem-rsync fails.

2003-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Monday 01 September 2003 20:12, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: s again. > > > > Any hints? > > Trying backing up your /usr/portage/distfiles and then 'rm -rf > /usr/portage/*' and then 'emerge sync' and see if the problem

[gentoo-user] emerge sync problem-rsync fails.

2003-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, since some days almost ALL emerge sync fail with an error like this: wrote 344 bytes read 1336201 bytes 8595.14 bytes/sec total size is 46754116 speedup is 34.98 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1045) (last line always the same) and starts again. Any h

Re: [gentoo-user] xine sticks when playing DVD

2003-09-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 01 September 2003 16:44, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:53:52 + > > and have you checked that this options are really set/ther after a few > > seconds of dvd playing? > > Yes the settings stay ok, do you have xv support in X and mtrr support in your kernel? -

Re: [gentoo-user] xine sticks when playing DVD

2003-08-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Sunday 31 August 2003 19:03, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > sounds like dma is missing on your hd/cdrom > > i got in /etc/conf.d/hdparm : > > all_args="-d1 -A1 -m16 -c3 -u1 -a64 -M128 -B50 -S100" > > this should be enough i think > and have you checked that this options are really set/the

Re: [gentoo-user] JFS Performance.

2003-08-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Sunday 31 August 2003 20:18, McIntyres wrote: > Just as a matter of intrest, I'm considering using JFS on my next Gentoo > setup I was wondering if anyone has any idea about its performance > compared to say reiserfs or ext3, I want to avoid XFS as it has only IDE > hard disks and no backup

Re: [gentoo-user] xine sticks when playing DVD

2003-08-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 30 August 2003 12:26, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > > when i try to play a dvd in xine the movi and sound sticks (hope i say it > wright) every 2 sec's. I have tried to decrease the buffer but it still > happens. Wat can i do play it non-stop ? sounds like dma is missing on you

Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up

2003-08-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 28 August 2003 21:06, Pupeno wrote: > Hello... I have one HD with a various partitions (10 GB NTFS, the linux > swap, the /boot partition and my main partition), it is an 80 GB HD... I > have another 80 GB HD to make back ups... what method of backing up do you > recomend me ? Something

Re: [gentoo-user] tune2fs and usbmass device

2003-08-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I can't answer your question but I have one for myself: why on earth are you using ext2? I left the stick as it was and everything is fine. HEy, it is a flash device, not a harddisk. And there was a thread on lkml, where someone rendered his stick completly useless by simple fdisk/mkfs. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] What printer should I buy?

2003-08-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:40, Larry Wright wrote: > > Anyone have a recommendation? don't buy Lexmark. They suck out your blood with their heavy overprized ink ;o) After ruining my Epson , I do not print anymore.. if I have to print out a text, a neighbour will do it on his Laserjet... Glü

Re: [gentoo-user] -O and sse/mmx

2003-08-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 25 August 2003 20:39, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: > Hello. > > Does any of -O options include support for sse/mmx/3dnow instructions? > I have my CFLAGS set to "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe". > If -O suppresses use of sse/mmx/3dnow options then will I receive speed > increas

Re: [gentoo-user] moded gentoo distro?

2003-08-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 25 August 2003 06:12, Stephen Turner wrote: > hey love the kernel gen thats super cool, :-p never seen my pc turn off > before after powering down! well anyways are there any plans for a gentoo > firewall/router? how about server specific spin offs? kinda like a > minimalist webserver alm

[gentoo-user] why forced opera downgrad?

2003-08-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, for app. 2 days emerge -pU world wants to downgrade opera: energy root # emerge -puU world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] net-www/opera-6.12 [7.11] höh? Why? Is there any plausible reason to downgrade? 7.11 is w

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 23 August 2003 00:43, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Which he doesn't really have, and shouldn't if any of the recent polls > are considered. SUSE places #6 or 7 in most polls I've seen lately with > about 1/2 the user base of Gentoo. don't mix home-users/enthusiasts with business-users. gen

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