Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 May 2014 10:33:19 William Kenworthy wrote: Note that as I said in my original email, dirvish really hammers a file system and only reiserfs seems to withstand it though I have gotten errors with it in the past. Ive tried ext4 (takes only a couple of backup sessions and its

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread William Kenworthy
On 05/11/14 16:53, Mick wrote: On Saturday 10 May 2014 10:33:19 William Kenworthy wrote: Note that as I said in my original email, dirvish really hammers a file system and only reiserfs seems to withstand it though I have gotten errors with it in the past. Ive tried ext4 (takes only a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:43:53 William Kenworthy wrote: One reason I am moving from reiserfs is bitrot - I can see that reiserfs is losing favour. I'd been given that impression too, so a month or two ago I converted my few reiserfs partitions to ext4. When I came to restoring the

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.05.2014 13:14, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Looking forward to more learning. At first now a bit of weekend, afk. I also had ~180 GB free on one of my thinkpads so I also added a btrfs-root there just for fun ;-) Had a bit of fiddling with the boot-options but now I successfully booted

[gentoo-user] No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get a blank screen. I tried setting:

Re: [gentoo-user] No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 14:41, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/14 15:54, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.05.2014 14:41, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. [...] Does that help, maybe - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864113 ? Nope.

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I

[gentoo-user] Getting in to the Funtoo Tree

2014-05-11 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hi abl. I want to get the Debian-Sources kernel, as provided by the Funtoo tree. How do I add this tree to my Portage? They don't advise using the Overlay, and Google searching how to add trees just pulls up how to add overlays. Perhaps there's a section of the handbook I am reading past that will

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting in to the Funtoo Tree

2014-05-11 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:40:35 -0400 Hunter Jozwiak hunter.t@gmail.com wrote: Hi abl. I want to get the Debian-Sources kernel, as provided by the Funtoo tree. How do I add this tree to my Portage? They don't advise using the Overlay, and Google searching how to add trees just pulls up how

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Philip Webb wrote: On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ... One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error, but at the end announced

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/05/2014 14:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:43:53 William Kenworthy wrote: One reason I am moving from reiserfs is bitrot - I can see that reiserfs is losing favour. I'd been given that impression too, so a month or two ago I converted my few reiserfs partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 14:35, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 10.05.2014 13:14, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Looking forward to more learning. At first now a bit of weekend, afk. I also had ~180 GB free on one of my thinkpads so I also added a btrfs-root there just for fun ;-) Had a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/11/14 20:43, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. OK is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. For both I am using the nouveau driver [...] This could be the

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 May 2014 18:17:40 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.05.2014 14:35, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 10.05.2014 13:14, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Looking forward to more learning. At first now a bit of weekend, afk. I also had ~180 GB free on one of my thinkpads so I

[gentoo-user] Re: Lable Printer for gLabels

2014-05-11 Thread James
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: On 05/10/14 16:57, James wrote: Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: Does anybody know if there is any label printer that will work with gLabels It's been a while since I used stick-on labels. But we use to by letter sized papers, covered

[gentoo-user] Re: Lable Printer for gLabels

2014-05-11 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: It's been a while since I used stick-on labels. But we use to by letter sized papers, covered on one side with stick-on labels all of the same size. We mostly put mailing address on each label. We used an hp printer and the particular sheets we

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:43:59PM -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. OK is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. For both I am using the nouveau driver and kernel 3.12.13. My only monitor is a 2560x1600 dell

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
After some initial learning and fiddling I have to say that I really like the features and possibilities of btrfs so far. OK, features bring complexity as well ... some technology hides that more, some less. ... but it is really nice-to-have the option to snapshot your root-fs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 May 2014 15:34:32 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. I had done exactly that prior to posting When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card,

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, May 11 2014, Walter Dnes wrote [snip]: Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so That's a really bad idea. If the driver is there, and Allan didn't rememeber being the one that put it,

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Is that (filesystem-)logic vald?

2014-05-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have an embedded system with internal flash memory. The internal flash memory contains some static files, which are only be read and others, which get written from time to time. The internal flash has a FAT32-formatted filesystem and no real partiton (the device is directly fomratted as

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Running cryptsetup under mdev

2014-05-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, May 08, 2014 02:36:29 PM Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2014 20:57:29 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: On 7 May 2014 20:11:10 CEST, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:11:02AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 05:34:52