Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > When you plug-in your device, what does > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? 120 hw_sector_size says 512 I did another "test": I opened the syslog in continuous output (tail -f) and watched it while copying a file of 350 MB. Coin

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

2009-12-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller > wrote: >> >> On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> ... >> >> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to >> boot a relatively old machine wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Mick
On Thursday 10 December 2009 14:23:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:36:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > The machine I was installing on was a laptop with no available desk top > > to place it on. Therefore I decided to get SSH up and running as early > > as possible so as to do

[gentoo-user] Re: cvs hangs - any idea ? [UPDATE]

2009-12-10 Thread walt
On 12/10/2009 01:32 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've just noticed that cvs does work when run as root. This shouldn't be necessary since as non-root user I have full permission to all involved directories. If it hangs I have to use 'kill -9' One other thing you can check: do you have ~/.cvsr

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

2009-12-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > ... > > I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to > boot a relatively old machine with it. > > Here is where it stops > > ... > > > Have you tried SystemRescue

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Neil and all, On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:23:13PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:36:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The machine I was installing on was a laptop with no available desk top > > to place it on. Therefore I decided to get SSH up and running as early > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Frank Steinmetzger > Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > > > I heard romours of problems with the current FAT implementation due to > > > M$. I went back to 2.6.30 for the moment. So what???s your proposal? > > > Usually I don???t have the nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:36:41AM +, Penguin Lover Alan Mackenzie > squawked: >> How did this breakage happen?  I would guess that at the time the >> installation procedure was devised, this line >> >>     # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gento

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other > > people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I > > save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache > > is emptied,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:36:41AM +, Penguin Lover Alan Mackenzie squawked: > How did this breakage happen? I would guess that at the time the > installation procedure was devised, this line > > # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev > > worked perfectly OK, since /dev didn't have any sub

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D on ATI

2009-12-10 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:40:29 + (UTC), James wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I just saw something very interesting about kernel 2.6.32: > > "3D graphics on AMD/ATI's series 2000, 3000 and 4000 Radeon graphics cards. > Improving 3D graphics support should help improve Linux' standing as a > ga

[gentoo-user] 3D on ATI

2009-12-10 Thread James
Hello everyone, I just saw something very interesting about kernel 2.6.32: "3D graphics on AMD/ATI's series 2000, 3000 and 4000 Radeon graphics cards. Improving 3D graphics support should help improve Linux' standing as a gaming platform, among other benefits." "performing mode-setting for gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:36:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > The machine I was installing on was a laptop with no available desk top > to place it on. Therefore I decided to get SSH up and running as early > as possible so as to do the bulk of the installation from my nice comfy > desktop, monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people > and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save > videos to my disks, and play them back after the file sy

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people > and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save > videos to my disks, and play them back after the file sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Stroller, On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:57:18PM +, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Dec 2009, at 19:42, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >... > >Installation is supposed to be an atomic operation - it starts then > >continues till it ends. It either fully completes or is considered to > >not have happened, mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

2009-12-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 10.12.2009 05:41, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > >> # auto_start_x.sh > > Thanks for that! I will maybe set that up but shouldn't gdm work as > well? I mean it doesn't crash for *all* ~x86-users, correct? > > ;-) Stefan I'd expect it to

Re: [gentoo-user] cvs hangs - any idea ? [UPDATE]

2009-12-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I've just noticed that cvs does work when run as root. This shouldn't be necessary since as non-root user I have full permission to all involved directories. If it hangs I have to use 'kill -9' Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. On 10 Dec, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > on one of my machines cv

[gentoo-user] cvs hangs - any idea ?

2009-12-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, on one of my machines cvs checkout or cvs update hangs for several sites which are accessible from other machines at the same time. My network isn't broken since SVN works just happily as does email. Can anybody imagine a possible reason? (yes, I did re-emerge cvs but that didn't help either)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

2009-12-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.12.2009 05:41, schrieb Joshua Murphy: > # auto_start_x.sh Thanks for that! I will maybe set that up but shouldn't gdm work as well? I mean it doesn't crash for *all* ~x86-users, correct? ;-) Stefan