[gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

2010-04-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, gentoo-users, yesterday at last I put my Intel SSD X25-M G2 into my Thinkpad. Works fine so far ... I use the kernel 2.6.33-tuxonice on this machine, which should support TRIM. I also use ext4 for / which also should support TRIM if I mount it with the option "discard". Is this enough

[gentoo-user] [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-09 Thread Harry Putnam
This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example. I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run cvs -n update 2> /dev/null I've apparently lost the ability to remove stder from output. I used that command to trim out file descriptor 2 which used to leave a list of any chan

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-09 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
This is a late reply and you might have already solved the issue, however, I was running into this problem as well, and it was resolved for my by backing my X packages back down to stable as I was running a stable kernel. Another fix was to upgrade to an unstable X. I was informed that there have b

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: > nVidia at the moment is a bit of a risk, as there is a whole raft of > issues going on with nVidia hardware. If their drivers work, they will > likely give better performance and features than AMDs options, and so > long as the hardware holds

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables: how can I include multiple hosts/IPs in "-s" and "-d"?

2010-04-09 Thread Stefan Schulte
Hi, you can define a rule like that: iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.235.43,192.168.235.46 -d 10.0.0.1,192.168.0.1 -j ACCEPT it will create 4 rules. be sure to activate Networking support->Networking options->Network packet filtering framework->Core Netfilter Configuration->iprange address rang

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes, how to troubleshoot?

2010-04-09 Thread Ngoc Nguyen Bao
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:57 PM, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > This is a late reply and you might have already solved the issue, > however, I was running into this problem as well, and it was resolved > for my by backing my X packages back down to stable as I was running a > stable kernel. Another fix w

Re: [gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

2010-04-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.04.2010 09:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Greets, gentoo-users, > > yesterday at last I put my Intel SSD X25-M G2 into my Thinkpad. Additional thoughts ad "ssd, linux, laptop": * running hdapsd seems useless now ;-) * what about laptop-mode? gotta look through /etc/laptop-mode/la

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-09 Thread walt
On 04/09/2010 08:19 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example. I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run cvs -n update 2> /dev/null I've apparently lost the ability to remove stder from output. I used that command to trim out file desc

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I did my updates a bit ago. I notice xorg and a lot of friends were updated. The update went fine as far as it compiled and installed fine. I did my config updates and such as well. To make sure everything stayed sane, I logged out of KDE, then went to single user mode and back

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread meino . cramer
Dale [10-04-10 05:08]: > Hi folks, > > I did my updates a bit ago. I notice xorg and a lot of friends were > updated. The update went fine as far as it compiled and installed > fine. I did my config updates and such as well. To make sure > everything stayed sane, I logged out of KDE, then

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-04-10 05:08]: Hi folks, I did my updates a bit ago. I notice xorg and a lot of friends were updated. The update went fine as far as it compiled and installed fine. I did my config updates and such as well. To make sure everything stayed sane, I logge

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread meino . cramer
Dale [10-04-10 05:48]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Dale [10-04-10 05:08]: > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>I did my updates a bit ago. I notice xorg and a lot of friends were > >>updated. The update went fine as far as it compiled and installed > >>fine. I did my config updates and such as we

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-04-10 05:48]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, Somne shots into the dark: I am running a non-kde and non-gnome Gentoo here (Openbox is my friend) and after upgrading X nothing works. I rtecompiled openbox, lxpanel and the X11-drivers like xf8

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread meino . cramer
Dale [10-04-10 06:16]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Dale [10-04-10 05:48]: > > > >>meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>Hi Dale, > >>> > >>>Somne shots into the dark: > >>>I am running a non-kde and non-gnome Gentoo here (Openbox is my > >>>friend) and after upgrading X nothing w

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-09 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-04-10 06:16]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale [10-04-10 05:48]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, Somne shots into the dark: I am running a non-kde and non-gnome Gentoo here (Openbox is my friend) and after upgrading X no