Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 04:54 P, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I thought that pcmanfm, the LXDE file manager, had a context menu > option to unmount. > Me too, and I think that a long time ago I did have it, but now it's not there. Probably I'd better try on the lxde mailing list. thanks, raf

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't use print after installed CUPS ?

2011-11-17 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:41 AM, 俞强 wrote: > i had installed CUPS-1.4.3 from source(configure, make, make install) > > now i can configure print via localhost:631, and the test page is perfect. > > but the problem is, why can't i see the print in programs ? (etc. in > firefox, file->print, there

[gentoo-user] why can't use print after installed CUPS ?

2011-11-17 Thread 俞强
i had installed CUPS-1.4.3 from source(configure, make, make install) now i can configure print via localhost:631, and the test page is perfect. but the problem is, why can't i see the print in programs ? (etc. in firefox, file->print, there is no print in print dialog) thanks all -- Good Luck

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:51:55 -0600 Dale wrote: > Érico Porto wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to > > embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. > > > > Érico V. Porto > > Someone put Gentoo on a guitar once. Think I'm kidding rig

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:37:59 -0600, Dale wrote: Also, this will only work if the VG has sufficient unused space (eg. not used by LVs) on the other disk(s) to accomodate the data moved. Thanks. Clear as mud now. lol I'm getting there. Is there a tool to see if there is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 18, 2011 6:54 AM, "Dale" > wrote: > > Érico Porto wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. >> >> Érico V. Porto > > > Someone put Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 18, 2011 6:54 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Érico Porto wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. >> >> Érico V. Porto > > > Someone put Gentoo on a guitar once. Think I'm kidding right? > > http

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread James
Érico Porto gmail.com> writes: > Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to > embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Yes, on lots of arch's all sorts of small file systems. You should post to the list gentoo-embedded. SH, ppc, arm, mips and many other a

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions >> > arranged into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device >> > that is then partitioned? >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions > > arranged into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device > > that is then partitioned? > > > > If the latter, you should certainly work with the md device. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the >> size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical >> partitions independently? (/dev/sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:13:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Right now I have everything built with rather CPU-specific CFLAGS. > > Specific L1/L2-cache-sizes and stuff, set after doing something like > "gcc -Q --help=target -march=native" (gentoo wiki). > > I wonder if this C2D-E6600-

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the > size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical > partitions independently? (/dev/sdwhatever instead of /dev/md6 > directly?) > > Is there a rea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Érico Porto wrote: Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto Someone put Gentoo on a guitar once. Think I'm kidding right? http://www.gentoo.org/news/20100125-misa-guitar-interview.xml http

[gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Érico Porto
Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto

Re: [gentoo-user] sdhc card on eeepc701 running gentoo

2011-11-17 Thread Érico Porto
You are correct, the internal card reader was the problem, I tried today in a Dell Vostro running ubuntu, and everything worked nice, even tried in another Dell laptop with windows, and the card was recognized as well. It seems the problem is indeed my hardware, so I'm buying a usb card reader to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-17 11:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 2011-11-17 02:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:33:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >>> I think i7-2600k is the sweet spot right now. >> >> It's working nicely for me. I can't believe the difference in >> compile tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:01:44 + Mick wrote: > I did not manually edit anything on the addressbook in question (and > the user in question would not know how to do that). I am told that > she just pressed the F5 button and bang! All contacts gone in an > instant! To me this is rather catastr

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 Nov 2011 09:44:35 James Broadhead wrote: > On 17 November 2011 08:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > +1 for dropping kdepim. I used to love kaddressbook and kontact (but a > lot of that was enthusiasm about features that "were just around the > corner"). I found that I was having cons

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:59:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Yes, resize would be done to /dev/md?. I agree. However I don't >> believe that I'd use Neil's suggestion of fdisk block numbers on >> /dev/md, right? That doesn't make sense to me

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:17:23 -0600, Dale wrote: FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox parallel-fetch --keep-going" Shouldn't --keep-going be in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? It should and it was. I must have pasted it from somewhere and not noticed it. No need in it being in both place

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Ok, I thought you had it clear how you were going to resize the raid, >> and needed help resizing the filesystem that already ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:59:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Yes, resize would be done to /dev/md?. I agree. However I don't > believe that I'd use Neil's suggestion of fdisk block numbers on > /dev/md, right? That doesn't make sense to me and I don't beleieve > Neil was suggesting anything like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Ok, I thought you had it clear how you were going to resize the raid, > and needed help resizing the filesystem that already existed on top of > the RAID. I interpreted Mark's instruction

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-17 Thread James
Willie Wong math.princeton.edu> writes: > > It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus > > (potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded > > performance. > Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the kernel option > descriptions and have so

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> At this point I was told: >>> >>> "Now, resize your filesystem to use the additional space." >>> >>> So, if at this point the e

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> At this point I was told: >> >> "Now, resize your filesystem to use the additional space." >> >> So, if at this point the end-block of sda6 isn't 976768064 but, let's >> say, 7 b

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:37:59 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Also, this will only work if the VG has sufficient unused space (eg. > > not used by LVs) on the other disk(s) to accomodate the data moved. > Thanks. Clear as mud now. lol I'm getting there. Is there a tool > to see if there is enough room

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>>    I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to >>> RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe th

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to >> RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe the file system itself >> will still be 250GB so I'll need to

Moving partitionless (hypothetical) (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line? )

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to >> RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe the file system itself >> will still be 250GB so I'll need t

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:43:28 AM Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: [...] One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved things over from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to > RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe the file system itself > will still be 250GB so I'll need to resize the file system. In the > past I've done this with gp

[gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a 3-disk 250GB RAID-1 that I use for short term, on the machine backups. It's normally not mounted unless I'm doing a quick save. Unfortunately it's a bit too small these days so I'm therefore going to convert it to a 3-disk RAID-5 which will double it's size. I'm pretty sure I'

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:58:03 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > The ArchWiki link on Udev posted by James shows how to set a rule for > un-mounting: > > ACTION=="remove", ENV{dir_name}!="", RUN+="/bin/su tomk -c > '/usr/bin/pumount /media/%E{dir_name}'" > > Based on your feedback I suppose the sam

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 03:06 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:22:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> 3. uam: does not require fiddling with udev rules but cannot >> un-mount > > 3 is wrong, you can unmount with pmount, exactly the same as with > 1. > > uam is basically a set of udev rule

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:22:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > 1. udev rules: mounts automatically, with pmount can do non-root > un-mounting 2. mdev: according to the man page works only at system boot > 3. uam: does not require fiddling with udev rules but cannot un-mount > > I suppose I'll go w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 11/15/2011 10:55 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I'll answer myself: just pass the option. And when happy, put them in the config file: daniel@moja ~ $ grep threads .mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=4 > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:43:28 AM Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: > [...] > > > One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally > > the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved > > things over from the 750Gb.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 11:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:11 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently >> manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make >> automounting possible? > > The simplest option

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread masterprometheus
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 16.11.2011 19:05, schrieb masterprometheus: > >> Oh I would definitly do that (overclock it I mean). But if there >> isn't someone with the same name, you've said : >> >>> I ask myself if I need the K-version at all, I don't want to >>> overclock ... >> >> Chang

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-17 02:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:33:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> I think i7-2600k is the sweet spot right now. > > It's working nicely for me. I can't believe the difference in > compile times, it's almost like using a binary distro. Wow, sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:11 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently > manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make > automounting possible? The simplest option is to emerge uam. -- Neil Bothwick Will the last

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:17:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox parallel-fetch --keep-going" Shouldn't --keep-going be in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? -- Neil Bothwick Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 17, 2011 4:51 PM, "James Broadhead" wrote: > > On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently > > manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make > > automounting possible? > > > > According to

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread James Broadhead
On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently > manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make > automounting possible? > > According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my > system. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread James Broadhead
On 17 November 2011 08:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: > +1 for dropping kdepim. I used to love kaddressbook and kontact (but a lot of that was enthusiasm about features that "were just around the corner"). I found that I was having consistent problems keeping my contacts between versions (fortunately,

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: [...] > One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally > the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved > things over from the 750Gb. I then added the 750Gb to the VG and > resized the file system. So, in theory

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: >Hartmut Figge wrote: >> Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that >> there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indeed, so it is. How to get this >> directory and how to fill it? :) > >Here you go: > >buildpkg > Binary packages will be created for all packages that ar

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Pandu Poluan: >On Nov 17, 2011 4:07 PM, "Hartmut Figge" wrote: >> Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that >> there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indeed, so it is. How to get this >> directory and how to fill it? :) > >That directory *is* normally empty, unless you s

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Greetings normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will manage. Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indee

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:03:52 +0100 Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings > > normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an > extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but > i will manage. > > Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 17, 2011 4:07 PM, "Hartmut Figge" wrote: > > Greetings > > normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra > partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will > manage. > > Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that > th

[gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising.

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greetings normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will manage. Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indeed, so it is. How to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:46:29 + Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 21:36:14 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 15.11.2011 20:39, schrieb Mick: > > > Thankfully this didn't happen on my machine, but I have to fix > > > this all the same ... > > > > > > Is it possible to press F5 (the user thought