Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Hmmm, then I guess I didn't do something right the first time I tried > cgdisk then. It said it wasn't aligned right but I couldn't figure out > how to get it to do it. Then I used Gparted and it seemed to do it > without me telling it anything. The only difference I saw was the > lit

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet? [SOLVED, maybe]

2012-08-10 Thread walt
On 08/09/2012 01:19 PM, walt wrote: > > ...the ebuild is using only one CPU out of four, so this is taking > much longer than before. Ugh. Well, since there are at least four of you who don't have any problem with libreoffice it must be something on my two machines with the same trouble. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 13:53:22 Dale wrote: > I don't use USB for drives, except the USB stick thingys. > > I have a question sort of related to this. Anyone can share info. I > see boxes that hold drives in them and connect via ethernet or something > like that. Do those work really well?

[gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am getting a new laptop from dell that will dual boot windows (in case I need dell maintenance) and gentoo (real work). I have done this often, but there are three new aspects this time. 1. ssd. 2. new udev (/usr part of boot partition?) 3. grub2. My plan 1s to have / + /usr one partition a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.08.2012 08:56, schrieb Jesús J. Guerrero Botella: > It could be anything. Maybe some orphaned process was running in the > background and leaking ram, or something. It's futile to speculate now > about that. > > Also, the -recently added- "pgo" USE flag could have something to do > with that

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 10.08.2012 08:56, schrieb Jesús J. Guerrero Botella: > > It could be anything. Maybe some orphaned process was running in the > > background and leaking ram, or something. It's futile to speculate now > > about that. > > > > Also, the -

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
120810 Michael Mol wrote: > On Aug 10, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> The latest thing of any significance I can think of >> is the removal of lumpy reclaim in 3.4 >> which has something to do with reducing memory fragmentation >> in systems under memory stress. LWN has a subscriber-o

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:25:51 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I am getting a new laptop from dell that will dual boot windows (in > case I need dell maintenance) and gentoo (real work). I have done > this often, but there are three new aspects this time. > > 1. ssd. > 2. new udev (/usr part of b

[gentoo-user] Invalid modules format?!

2012-08-10 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! I have installed "wanpipe" from freeswitch overlay, and figured after long time out, that if I manually load the module "modprobe wanrouter", I have the error on the screen: WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. FATAL: Error i

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You also don't need an IO scheduler - ssd access is random like > RAM, no heads moving in and out so no sector ordering to worry about. > Configure the scheduler as NOOP in kernel config if all drives are ssd's I've read some contradictory r

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid modules format?!

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people! > I have installed "wanpipe" from freeswitch overlay, and figured after > long time out, that if I manually load the module "modprobe wanrouter", > I have the error on the screen: > > WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.co

[gentoo-user] Still got problems with help2man and Perl

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, ** H!!! No problems now. Whilst writing this, and doing the steps, the problem has now resolved. Read on if you have any interest in Perl and portage going feral. ** I made a post about a week ago regarding this, got a few replies, accidentally deleted said replies

[gentoo-user] OT: "Bright" colours in xterm?

2012-08-10 Thread Walter Dnes
When I fire up vim in a true text console, some of the colours are bright. When I do so in an xterm, the bright colours ar there, but as soon as I hit a printable or arrow key, the brightness disappears. I.e. bright blue turns to dark blue, yellow turns to brown, etc. Is there some setting I c

[gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo wiki discussion notification options?

2012-08-10 Thread Walter Dnes
Yes, I am a noob at wikis. I was doing the final edits on the USB-automounting-under-mdev gentoo wiki page, and I wondered what the "Discussion" tab was. I clicked, and saw that a couple of people had asked questions weeks ago. Is there some way I can be notified when a change occurs in the di