Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 01:33:22 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote > > > Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing: > > > > "Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as > > modules. It is advisable to follo

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
110220 Philip Webb wrote: > 110220 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Just change your cron job to look like >> 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail' > That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail, > so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs. Indeed it does: I tried de

[gentoo-user] ramdisk for lm_sensors and gimps

2011-02-20 Thread Andrey Vul
Does the current minimal install cd have a ramdisk driver so that i can extract the stage3 tarball to it and emerge lm_sensors and gimps onto it? I want to make sure my OCed system won't cause bad compiles so I'm going to gimps aka prime95 it for 48h :) DDR1066's timings are a bit high at 200;1:2.6

[gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-20 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried: > CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon" > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" Ok so dmeg says that drm failed. I edited the .config file, using vi, to: CON

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:44:58 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > > As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: > > > > KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", > > RUN+="/bin/mount -a" > > > > a

[gentoo-user] Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-20 Thread James
Ok, so I have this card in pretty much equal AMD64 systems: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]. One system is running ATI drivers and the video game I use to test performance is bzflag; it runs just fine. The second system had an ATI X1900 card but was replace with an identical card as

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:03:24 + Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > > As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > > > is: KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > Have you had a look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. > > Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it >> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and >> wired internet config. This laptop ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote > Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing: > > "Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as > modules. It is advisable to follow the same as it then allows the > use of alsaconf which is a boon w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, e

[gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I lost my keyboard -- Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86- v

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread William Kenworthy
"usb verbose debug" in the kernel? - check dmesg. Mine are always slow to mount if this is on. BillK On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:33 -0500, David Relson wrote: > Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my > PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted unti

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 18 February 2011 05:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text > console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, > the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. It works > under Windows throu

[gentoo-user] ipv6 privacy random addresses

2011-02-20 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Have activated the privacy extensions on a dual stack (native) ipv6 configuration. A random local address is generated for each boot (for eth0). I'd like to be able to change it within a session. ip -6 address flush dev eth0; followed by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart; will generate a new random add

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > > Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? > > > > > > If this is the case, then downgrade x

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread covici
Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? > > > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. > > X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be r

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
110220 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb: >> I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. >> Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs >> before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection >> which results in a

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: > > KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", > > > > RUN+="/bin/mount -a" > > > > and i

[gentoo-user] no emerge of emacs-vcs

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I haven't been able to emerge emacs-vcs for a while now. I know there was some trouble with renaming of the repo more than once but this problem today looks different. Looks like some other kind of change on the repo end. Is anyone else noticing a problem building emacs-vcs? Oh, and in the mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it > exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and > wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no > wired internet is

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: > As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: > > KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", > RUN+="/bin/mount -a" > > and in /etc/fstab is: > > /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3 minutes later at 10:21:05. As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}==

[gentoo-user] Spammassassin: bd path?

2011-02-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to use berkdb for bayes learning. how can I tell spamd/spamassassin where to look for the bayes database? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/20/2011 07:33 AM, David Relson wrote: Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3 minutes later at 10:21:05. As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL=="sd*1

[gentoo-user] Re: net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd

2011-02-20 Thread walt
On 02/20/2011 05:22 AM, Johannes Geiss wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3 portage tells me You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with: saslpasswd2 cyrus But when I try to do this, I get the following error: Password: [passwo

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in four week

[gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-20 Thread David Relson
Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3 minutes later at 10:21:05. As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY",

Re: [gentoo-user] After updating openldap today slapd won't start

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 20 February 2011 13.25:31 Dan Johansson wrote: > Today after updating openldap from 2.4.23 to 2.4.24, slapd will not start. > > # /etc/init.d/slapd start > * Starting ldap-server ... >

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb: > I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. > I also start my Internet connection by hand after logging in: > this is to avoid the jam which arises if it is included in the runlevel > but for some reason the physical Net connection

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Mick wrote: > > > > On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 00:25:24 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: > [snip] > > > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad > > and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the > > synaptics and keyboard input drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread covici
Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text > > > > console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK

[gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. I also start my Internet connection by hand after logging in: this is to avoid the jam which arises if it is included in the runlevel but for some reason the physical Net connection isn't functioning, when Dhcpcd sits there & can't

[gentoo-user] net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3: cannot create saslpasswd

2011-02-20 Thread Johannes Geiss
Hi Gentoo-users, I have a problem. After installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-r3 portage tells me You have to add user cyrus to the sasldb2. Do this with: saslpasswd2 cyrus But when I try to do this, I get the following error: Password: [password] Again (for verification): [same password]

[gentoo-user] After updating openldap today slapd won't start

2011-02-20 Thread Dan Johansson
Today after updating openldap from 2.4.23 to 2.4.24, slapd will not start. # /etc/init.d/slapd start * Starting ldap-server ... [ !! ] and I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 08:50:48 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote > > > >> Ah ... mine have more. in alsamixer brings up all these Capture > >> devices: > >> > >> Front Mic 67<>67 > >> Mic67<>67 > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote > >> Ah ... mine have more. in alsamixer brings up all these Capture >> devices: >> >> Front Mic 67<>67 >> Mic67<>67 >> Capture80<>80 >> Capture80<>80 >> Digital61<>61 >> Digital33<>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-20 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras >>>  wrote: >>> On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > > [...] > I do wish netflix would go with so