Re: [gentoo-user] OT - memory testing

2014-01-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2014 23:11:24 Skippy wrote: > "Have you ever found a program in linux that allows you to locate bad > dims if you have faults? I’ve tried memtest86, memconf, memtester and > none of them can point out what slot on the motherboard has the bad RAM. memtest86+ is what I use, but

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, wrote: >>> >>> My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say >>> that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized >>> that it has a

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-21 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, wrote: >> >> My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say >> that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized >> that it has a build in webcam. What software do you recommend a

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-21 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, wrote: >> >> My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say >> that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized >> that it has a build in webcam. What software do you recommend a

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/01/14 07:05, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 21.01.2014 18:03, schrieb Jarry: >> Hi Gentoo-users, >> >> I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation >> to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not >> guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, >> if I u

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot boot using systemd and initrd

2014-01-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:38 AM, wrote: > Hi. I am having a problem booting using systemd and an initrd generated > by genkernel. > > I get the message that says (may be slight paraphrase) that > /dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root does not appear to be a valid /, try > again. > > Now in the gento

[gentoo-user] OT - memory testing

2014-01-21 Thread Skippy
Got a question from a friend of mine who works in IT. He's very new to Linux. Here is his question: "Have you ever found a program in linux that allows you to locate bad dims if you have faults? I’ve tried memtest86, memconf, memtester and none of them can point out what slot on the motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 21.01.2014 18:03, schrieb Jarry: > Hi Gentoo-users, > > I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation > to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not > guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, > if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server > lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-21 Thread hasufell
On 01/19/2014 05:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to mount an NFS share from XFCE4? I suspect the answer > might have something to do with gvfs or fuse, neither of which I know > anything about. > > Ideally after emerging or USEing I will have a "Connect to server" entry >

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 21-Jan-14 18:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:03:08 +0100, Jarry wrote: >> >>> I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation >>> to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not >>> guess how much do I n

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread Jarry
On 21-Jan-14 18:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:03:08 +0100, Jarry wrote: I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /va

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-21 Thread Joseph
On 01/21/14 18:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:48 -0700, Joseph wrote: >What is the different between the output of this on both machines? > >grep -r tty /{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d I did asked for the difference, not the whole damn lot. You have to do some of the work yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:48 -0700, Joseph wrote: > >What is the different between the output of this on both machines? > > > >grep -r tty /{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d I did asked for the difference, not the whole damn lot. You have to do some of the work yourself. However, a quick glance shows thi

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-21 Thread Joseph
On 01/21/14 17:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:39:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: So the settings is identical, and I don't remember entering my own rules for ttyS0. But something may have, like... Though one server is running hylafax the other doesn't. That could well be relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:03:08 +0100, Jarry wrote: > I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation > to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not > guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, > if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server > lowers bu

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:39:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: > So the settings is identical, and I don't remember entering my own > rules for ttyS0. But something may have, like... > Though one server is running hylafax the other doesn't. That could well be relevant as the hylafax ebuild does set some thi

[gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread Jarry
Hi Gentoo-users, I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server lowers buffers/cache to nearly zero and starts swa

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-21 Thread Joseph
On 01/21/14 08:22, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] I recompile the VirtualBox-bin but it doesn't help it still complain about the /dev/ttyS0 access and upon rebooting the /dev/ttyS0 has permission and ownership as: crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jan 20 19:14 /dev/ttyS0 and it should be uucp:dialo

Re: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up

2014-01-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2014 15:07:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:10 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > But cairo was last emerged 16 days ago and cdrtools last September, so > > why have these dependencies suddenly appeared today? Portage has been > > at 2.2.7 since last year too. Eme

Re: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up

2014-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:10 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > But cairo was last emerged 16 days ago and cdrtools last September, so > why have these dependencies suddenly appeared today? Portage has been > at 2.2.7 since last year too. Emerge --info doesn't mention lzo. # ChangeLog for x11-libs/ca

[gentoo-user] Re: New dependencies suddenly popping up

2014-01-21 Thread eroen
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:10 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > After my daily sync today, portage wanted to emerge two new packages: > dev- libs/lzo and x11-misc/makedepend. No other packages were > mentioned. Odd, I thought, so: > > $ equery d lzo > * These packages depend on lzo: > [...] > X11-li

[gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up

2014-01-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, After my daily sync today, portage wanted to emerge two new packages: dev- libs/lzo and x11-misc/makedepend. No other packages were mentioned. Odd, I thought, so: $ equery d lzo * These packages depend on lzo: [...] X11-libs/cairo-1.12.14-r4 (dev-libs/lzo) $ equery d makedepend *

[gentoo-user] Kworker use >80% of CPU

2014-01-21 Thread Gleb Klochkov
Hi. After computer starts, in top, I have kworker used 80% of cpu. It is a problem with ACPI IRQs, because it come to normal after i run echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe08 > echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe1B > I tried to do it on startup by adding script t

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:31:56 -0700, Joseph wrote: > I recompile the VirtualBox-bin but it doesn't help it still complain > about the /dev/ttyS0 access That is a binary package. You are not compiling it, merely unpacking it. No matter how many times you do this, the binaries it installs will not c