Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] mounts options on a laptop

2011-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:16:23 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:47:39 Kent Hagebrand wrote: (Odd: I haven't received this e-mail.) Yes, I use tmpfs on /vat/tmp/portage to reduce the disk i/o on my laptop. Here is the line I use in the /etc/fstab: none

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: On 02/15/2011 02:43 AM, dhk wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:29 PM, walt wrote: On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote: What are the Intel HD Audio codecs? I don't remember doing anything explicitly for them. How do I check them? Thanks. Under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 March 2011 00:29:59 dhk wrote: On 02/26/2011 04:53 PM, walt wrote: On 02/15/2011 02:43 AM, dhk wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:29 PM, walt wrote: On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote: What are the Intel HD Audio codecs? I don't remember doing anything explicitly for them. How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 March 2011 02:39:34 Kevin McCarthy wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:51:54PM -0500, dhk wrote: On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: I installed xdm and slim, but strange things happen with that. When I run /etc/xinit.d/xdm start the slim login appears, but the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got audio only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules, but he has no idea why (nor do I) but, as no one yet has a better idea, I'd try it as an

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing Gentoo initscript question

2011-03-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.03.2011 02:25, schrieb Jake Moe: On 03/06/11 09:31, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 05.03.2011 23:47, schrieb Jake Moe: I'm currently trying to write a simple initscript to run minecraft-server on one of my boxes. I've looked at the ebuild provided via java-overlay, but it turns out it uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 March 2011 09:28:39 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got audio only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules, but he has no idea why (nor do I) but, as no

[gentoo-user] Re: tmux first impression

2011-03-06 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Walter Dnes wrote: 4) I entered the line set -g prefix C-a in ~/.tmux.conf because every site on the web that reviewed it said that was the way to go. Apparently, the developer uses {CONTROL-B} as the default hotkey to avoid colliding with {CONTROL-A}

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2011 09:28:39 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got audio only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules, but he has no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tmux first impression

2011-03-06 Thread Dale
Nuno J. Silva wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Walter Dnes wrote: 4) I entered the line set -g prefix C-a in ~/.tmux.conf because every site on the web that reviewed it said that was the way to go. Apparently, the developer uses {CONTROL-B} as the default hotkey to avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: --nextPart2016980.EoLg6xAmlW Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 06 March 2011 09:28:39 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: There is a very recent post

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MS Windows-scanners [Was: Boot Partitions]

2011-03-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 06.03.2011 07:57, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: Might not be entirely what you're looking for, but when I borrowed a slide photo-scanner, I also wasn't able to get it to work with Sane. I did, however, manage to run the scanner from an MS windows onstall under Virtualbox and passing the USB-slide

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-06 Thread dhk
On 03/05/2011 09:39 PM, Kevin McCarthy wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:51:54PM -0500, dhk wrote: On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: I installed xdm and slim, but strange things happen with that. When I run /etc/xinit.d/xdm start the slim login appears, but the right half of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread dhk
On 03/06/2011 04:28 AM, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got audio only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules, but he has no idea why (nor do I) but, as no one yet

[gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it was still checking. After 2 hours more (so it took 12 hours total) it finally finished. The output was:

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

2011-03-06 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:02 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn: David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com [11-03-05 15:43]: [snip] I need to specify the full path to the executable, /usr/bin/sa-learn, when I use sudo to run it as amavis. [Note that

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it was still checking. After 2 hours more (so it took 12 hours total) it

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

2011-03-06 Thread meino . cramer
David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com [11-03-06 18:16]: On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:02 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn: David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com [11-03-05 15:43]: [snip] I need to specify the full path to the executable,

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/06/2011 07:25 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it was still checking. After 2 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.03.2011 18:07, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it was still checking. After 2 hours more (so it took 12

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

2011-03-06 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:00:02 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn: Does your amavis user own a home directory? Yes. It is /var/amavis. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 March 2011, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 06.03.2011 18:07, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: SNIP I think I have made some progress.  After getting a new sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi) and building X-Fi in the kernel I have some sound, but it sounds terrible.  It's mostly a static noise with a hint of the actual audio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? For audio work I have six. 2-3 sound cards/machine. Typically 1 card/machine is dedicated to junk system sounds. The others run Jack for more interesting audio work. (Recording

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread James Wall
Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? On Mar 6, 2011 12:55 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: SNIP I think I have made some progress. After getting a new sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi) and buil... SNIP I've

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread james
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: smartmontools may be of interest to you http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Thanasis
on 03/06/2011 07:07 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 You can check the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: on 03/06/2011 07:07 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 You can check the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and