Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 00:16:46 Bill Longman wrote: > Well after fifteen minutes of no crashes, here are my settings: > > $ emerge -pv xorg-server mesa cairo $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:26 +, James wrote: > > Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > > > > > > > I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding > > > terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 03:32 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: >> Bill Longman wrote: >>> On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: >> I also have an ATI card an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: I have a very similar setup and it works fine here, AMD Phenom II X4 955 Deneb 3.2GHz with a Nvidia GT-220 video card. I also have the SB700/SB800 chipset as well, Gigabyte mobo. The biggest difference I see is the video card as far

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:30:28 Bill Longman wrote: > On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > > Hi, All, > > > > For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font > > colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a > > black font in my terminals, and that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: > Bill Longman wrote: > > On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: > >>> On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: > I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I s

[gentoo-user] Problems starting OpenLDAP

2011-03-22 Thread Johannes Geiss
Hi there, I try to start an LDAP-service for managing by eMail-Addresses centralised on my server. Unfortunately I constantly fail to start slapd. I tried a lot of documentations I've found on the web, including Gentoo's non-official doc at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml as well

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 21 March 2011 20:32:22 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for "the best" filesystem for a small multi-purpose > server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). > For me very important features are: > > snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) > jo

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread kashani
On 3/22/2011 1:13 AM, Mr. Jarry wrote: Thanks for replies. As I had expected, they brought even more uncertainty then I had before... :-) ext3/4: I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support snapshots (only with lvm, which I do not use, and I've hreard snapshots in lvm are not ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved it by switching back to the classic Mesa

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, All, > > For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font > colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a > black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of > the time. The colors that app

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font > colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a > black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of > the time. The colors that appe

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:05:27 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > reiserfs/reiser4: > > Future of these fs seems to be somehow vague, at least to me. > > And I do not know if it can handle snaphosts and resizing. > Reiserfs-3 supports increasing the size but not shrinking (AFAIK). > Performance char

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: >> On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: >>> I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved >>> it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). >> >> Th

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 22.03.2011 09:13, schrieb Mr. Jarry: > Thanks for replies. As I had expected, they brought even more > uncertainty then I had before... :-) > > ext3/4: > I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support > snapshots (only with lvm, which I do not use, and I've hreard > snapshots in l

[gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread John Blinka
Hi, All, For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are perfect. But th

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Dale
Mr. Jarry wrote: Thanks for replies. As I had expected, they brought even more uncertainty then I had before... :-) ext3/4: I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support snapshots (only with lvm, which I do not use, and I've hreard snapshots in lvm are not very effective, or somet

[gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-22 Thread felix
I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with tab completion without problems. cd $WWW/htph20110318 would expand in steps cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/ cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/20110318 But some recent bash upgrade h

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 08:32:22 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for "the best" filesystem for a small multi-purpose > server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). > For me very important features are: > > snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) > journali

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:13:48 +0100, Mr. Jarry wrote: > ext3/4: > I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support > snapshots (only with lvm, which I do not use, and >I've hreard > snapshots in lvm are not very effective, or something like that). > Next minus-point, I tried resizing of

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Mr. Jarry
Thanks for replies. As I had expected, they brought even more uncertainty then I had before... :-) ext3/4: I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support snapshots (only with lvm, which I do not use, and I've hreard snapshots in lvm are not very effective, or something like that). Ne