Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Szénási István
> BFS is a CPU scheduler, CFQ, Deadline, No-Op, and Anticipatory are all I/O > schedulers... Sorry, I've realized that when I googled for benchmarks and it was compiled against the CFS scheduler. :-) -- Szénási István

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:41:35 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: > Zeerak Waseem writes: > > > I have some questions about sets: > > 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, > > right? > There are other kind of sets, for example, dynamic ones, from the output of a given comm

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-05 Thread Ngoc Nguyen Bao
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost > their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? > > > -- > Best Regards, > David Shen > > http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ > http://meme.yahoo.com

[gentoo-user] kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-05 Thread Xi Shen
hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-05 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single (needed) package has been masked. But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/5/2010 12:53 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Ah well, having the sets in the wrong place would give me an error. And regarding portage version, weren't sets included in v. 2.x.x? My portage version is 2.1.7.16, anything above seems to be hardmasked... No, sets appear start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:09:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data > > is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it > > again? That way you don't need to rely on any encryption software on > > the remote computer. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want >> a back up offsite. >> >> The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped, >> mcrypt'ed on home machine then scp'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread James Ausmus
2010/1/5 Szénási István > And what about the BFS scheduler? I know, that it isn't in the > mainline kernel, bit I've heard a lot of good about that. > If you send me the size and the number of the test files, I'll make an > other benchmark with the CFQ, the Deadline and the BFS scheduler on a > D

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/5/2010 12:53 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Ah well, having the sets in the wrong place would give me an error. And regarding portage version, weren't sets included in v. 2.x.x? My portage version is 2.1.7.16, anything above seems to be hardmasked... No, sets appear starting in portage v2.2. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:53:13 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > >> 3) With set files in /usr/portage/sets and running "emerge -u @foo" > >> portage yields that @foo isn't a valid package atom, any idea why > >> this is? > > > > Your portage is too old? In case of an error, you should get an > > "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jan 2010, at 11:39, Mick wrote: What does experience show to be a best option for a desktop that has: a) Single CPU? b) Dual core? c) Quad core? On 5 Jan 2010, at 12:38, Szénási István wrote: And what about the BFS scheduler? I know, that it isn't in the mainline kernel, bit I've heard

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Grant wrote: > I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi > connects to perfectly, but the exte

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:41:35 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Zeerak Waseem writes: I have some questions about sets: 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, right? I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like system, world, module-re

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Zeerak Waseem writes: > I have some questions about sets: > 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, > right? I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like system, world, module-rebuild, preserved-rebuild and more, defined in /usr/share/

[gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-05 Thread Grant
I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to perfectly, but the external antenna can't find whatsoever, even after a lot of d

[gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Hey guys, I have some questions about sets: 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, right? 2) Can a set be included in the world file? 3) With set files in /usr/portage/sets and running "emerge -u @foo" portage yields that @foo isn't a valid package atom, any i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:35:46 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in > kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. Unmask it. > Dropping kde:3.5 too early is one of the biggest disappointsment of > GenToo! For someone who needs some package dep

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single > (needed) package has been masked. > But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in > kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. > > Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which do

[gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single (needed) package has been masked. But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which don't need this? Dropping kde:3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Szénási István
And what about the BFS scheduler? I know, that it isn't in the mainline kernel, bit I've heard a lot of good about that. If you send me the size and the number of the test files, I'll make an other benchmark with the CFQ, the Deadline and the BFS scheduler on a Dual Core machine. :-) -- Szénási I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-05 Thread Mick
2010/1/5 Alan E. Davis : > It seems to me that it is possible to unmount the drives manually, many > times, if not always, if it is impossible to unmount them via nautilus. > Other File Managers work differently, I think Thunar may be more > straightforward, not sure, though.  Maybe this will all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Mick
2010/1/5 Alan McKinnon : > On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:15:00 Stroller wrote: >> On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower >> >> than the others, for whatever reason. >> >> ... >> > >> > Hmmm ... reading at the help

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 Jan, Kyle Bader wrote: > Any change in kernel configuration or did you copy your old config and > run make oldconfig? The problem seem to be that beginning with kernel 2.6.30 the ide-scsi interface (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) has been dropped. Probably the new kernels are broken with the ATAPI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:15:00 Stroller wrote: > On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote: > >> ... > >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower > >> than the others, for whatever reason. > >> ... > > > > Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote: >> ... >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower >> than the others, for whatever reason. >> ... > > Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the default/best > option for a desktop. Is there such a thing as a