[gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my beloved Gentoo got a little outdated. So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give emerge -e @world a try, this should sort out the

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 12:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my beloved Gentoo got a little outdated. So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give

[gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1

2013-10-04 Thread Andreas Prieß
Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here are the symptoms: Ever since media-libs/mesa = 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that the switch from Xfce on VT7 back to VT1 on shutdown fails. The screen goes black and does not show anything, but the system halts as

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 13:20, Andreas Prieß wrote: Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here are the symptoms: Ever since media-libs/mesa = 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that the switch from Xfce on VT7 back to VT1 on shutdown fails. The screen goes black and does

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/10/2013 11:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my beloved Gentoo got a little outdated. So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:50:51 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: mail-client/claws-mail:0 (mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0 required by (mail-client/claws-mail-address_keeper-1.0.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1

2013-10-04 Thread Andreas Prieß
On 04.10.2013 13:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 13:20, Andreas Prieß wrote: Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here are the symptoms: Ever since media-libs/mesa = 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that the switch from Xfce on VT7 back to VT1 on

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1

2013-10-04 Thread Andreas Prieß
On 04.10.2013 13:20, Andreas Prieß wrote: Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here are the symptoms: Ever since media-libs/mesa = 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that the switch from Xfce on VT7 back to VT1 on shutdown fails. The screen goes black and does

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to VT1 on shutdown fails with mesa = 9.1

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 14:39, Andreas Prieß wrote: On 04.10.2013 13:20, Andreas Prieß wrote: Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here are the symptoms: Ever since media-libs/mesa = 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that the switch from Xfce on VT7 back to VT1 on

[gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread James
Howdy one and all, Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me from time to time, called me in the middle of the night. He, being an eceptionally bright and

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Kerin Millar writes: On 04/10/2013 11:50, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] (mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0 required by (mail-client/claws-mail-address_keeper-1.0.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:02:07PM +, James wrote: Howdy one and all, Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me from time to time, called me in the

[gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-04 Thread Dale
Sometime last night while I was sleeping, my network sort of hiccuped. If I went to a Konsole, I could ping google so it appears the network was working on the lower level but not one browser that was left open would work. It also didn't/couldn't download new emails. When I restarted the

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-03, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 03/10/2013 20:27, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's say you wanted to configure routing of TCP packets based on destination port like in this example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.netfilter.html [which contains

[gentoo-user] Re: Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread James
Bruce Hill daddy at happypenguincomputers.com writes: computer gaming (yawn)... think database acceleration, load of additional mathematically tuned addtional hardware for both MIPS/MOPS etc etc think: an order of magnitue more hardware campacity of the workstation or server, now fully

[gentoo-user] Re: Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: computer gaming (yawn)... The Kalman filter operates recursively on streams of noisy input data to produce a statistically optimal estimate of the underlying system state. [1] (sounds like a database admin's dream tool, huh?) clean usage from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:49:24PM +, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: computer gaming (yawn)... The Kalman filter operates recursively on streams of noisy input data to produce a statistically optimal estimate of the underlying system state. [1] (sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 18:04, Bruce Hill wrote: If this is true, it is a GAME CHANGERS (could not resist the pun). So: A. it is time for me to dig into this issue. B. Are any of the folks on this list working to get Mantle support available on Gentoo? C. Anyone tested one of the Hawaii

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 18:09, Dale wrote: Sometime last night while I was sleeping, my network sort of hiccuped. If I went to a Konsole, I could ping google so it appears the network was working on the lower level but not one browser that was left open would work. It also didn't/couldn't download new

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 17:40, Alex Schuster wrote: Well. Sort of. Emerge also wanted to re-merge libreoffice, I have no idea why. The same happened yesterday when I upgraded portage. Whatever :) This time, I used --exclude app-office/libreoffice to avoid this. probably a poppler or icu or java update,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 04/10/2013 18:09, Dale wrote: Sometime last night while I was sleeping, my network sort of hiccuped. If I went to a Konsole, I could ping google so it appears the network was working on the lower level but not one browser that was left open would work. It also

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming. What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, graphics

[gentoo-user] OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
Let's posit two network interfaces net1 (192.168.x.y/16) and net2 (172.16.a.b/16). There's a NAT/gateway available on each of the networks. I want to use the 172.16 gateway for TCP connections to port 80 and the 192.168 gateway for everything else. I'm primarily following this example:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/10/2013 21:55, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's posit two network interfaces net1 (192.168.x.y/16) and net2 (172.16.a.b/16). There's a NAT/gateway available on each of the networks. I want to use the 172.16 gateway for TCP connections to port 80 and the 192.168 gateway for everything else. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:35:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote OHCI is a USB 1.1 implementation, I can't imagine why you have it loaded. Surely you do not have USB 1 only hardware? USB2 deals with that nicely. It is possible that you have a shit storm of USB weirdness going on and this in

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/03/2013 04:28 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: The iptables runscript is ideal for persisting the rules. However, during the initial construction of a non-trivial ruleset, I prefer to write a script that adds the rules. An elegant way of doing this is to use iptables-restore with a heredoc.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Dragostin Yanev
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 20:55:25 + (UTC) Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Let's posit two network interfaces net1 (192.168.x.y/16) and net2 (172.16.a.b/16). There's a NAT/gateway available on each of the networks. I want to use the 172.16 gateway for TCP connections to port 80

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-04, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 04/10/2013 21:55, Grant Edwards wrote: I then add an iptables rule like this: iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 80 -j MARK --set-mark 1 I'm about to try adding a second iptables rule to us the nat table to rewrite

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-04 Thread Dragostin Yanev
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:58:14 -0400 Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 10/03/2013 04:28 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: The iptables runscript is ideal for persisting the rules. However, during the initial construction of a non-trivial ruleset, I prefer to write a script that adds

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-04, Dragostin Yanev gentoo+u...@netixen.com wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 20:55:25 + (UTC) IOW I've succesfully re-routed TCP _packets_ but not the TCP _connection_. How do I tell the TCP stack that it's supposed to use the 172.16 inteface/gateway for connections to port 80?

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-04, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-10-04, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 04/10/2013 21:55, Grant Edwards wrote: I then add an iptables rule like this: iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 80 -j MARK --set-mark 1 I'm about to try

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-04, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-10-04, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-10-04, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 04/10/2013 21:55, Grant Edwards wrote: I then add an iptables rule like this: iptables -A OUTPUT -t