Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Dale wrote: > > That's all true, hence my question. I'm not sure I want to use the very > first version so I thought it worth asking first. Since it is a fork, > one could think it would be safe enough but then again, it is the very > first one. It is stable acc

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm updating a system that's probably gone 2 or 3 months since its > last update. > > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel" has unmet > requir

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > > If you don't miss features I say good riddance to xorg.conf. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp Yeah, I agree in general, but in this case how does one determine that on a remote machine? I run KDE, my dad runs Gnome. How would I know if th

Re: [gentoo-user] disk accesses per subdirectory tree

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to put some subdirectory trees (of / and of /usr and of /home) onto > an SSD. > For that I'd like to count the disk accesses which go to a given > subdirectory tree > in some given time intervall. > > Is there any utility w

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:56 PM, luis jure wrote: > > hello list, > > i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device > (samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS. > > as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device > as a good old USB mass storage de

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:09 AM, luis jure wrote: > on 2012-12-21 at 14:26 Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> I managed to mount it successfully using jmtpfs from the poly-c overlay. > > thank you mark, i got it working now. i created an entry in fstab, and i > can mount/umount

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:35AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of > attachments? > pastebins? > Felix, Personally, after years reading LKML, I have no problem with i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale wrote: > The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should > it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to > resize easily. If I put / on LVM, I need a init thingy. I don't want a > init thingy Is that really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Dale wrote: > One of the reasons I left Mandriva was because of the init thingy. If I > wanted one and liked having one, I would have never switched to Gentoo. > The init thingy was not the only reason but it was one of them. The > reason I do not want one is be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 > Bruce Hill wrote: > >> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic. >> Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram >> filesystem) became vogue for the Gentoo camp, rather than initrd

[gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >>With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. > > F

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> >>>>With the pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into >> making my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. >> > Create a plain text config file detailing the contents of the >> > initramf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>>> The right tools are included, and documented, with your ker

[gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, OK, it's the day after Christmas and this little kid wants to play with the new toys Uncle Neil gave us yesterday - a copy of his well worn setup file for building an initramfs into the kernel - a copy of which I place here: [QUOTE] This is the file I use on a system that has / on a LUKS f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Todd Goodman wrote: >> * Bruce Hill [121225 18:30]: >> > > >> > > Try reading the kernel Documentation. (e.g., >> > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.) >> > > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:58:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> 2) Contained executables, as I understand them, either need to be >> built with the static flag or you have to include all the libraries. >> Static seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> One interesting small point I got out of the docs that Neil pointed me >> toward: That since linux-2.6 we're all using an initramfs "The 2.6 >> kernel build process always creates a gzipped cpio

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > One other question came up. So I build the kernel, and the kernel build > creates the initramfs image and embeds it in the kernel. Is there a tool > that would allow me to query the embedded image prior to booting > so that I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Actually, I think the initramfs wiki covers this, albeit it's 'not > easy'. Their words. > > I think I'm covered for now. > > Cheers, > Mark While extracting it from the kernel image may be involv

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> At this point I don't know that 1) the image is actually in the >> kernel, or 2) that my "init thingy" ;-) image would work, but at least >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:19 PM, wrote: > Finished the bisect between 3.6.10 and 3.7. Here's the log. The suspect > patch has an interesting name: > > ahci: implement aggressive SATA device sleep support > > I'll send email to the patch author too. > > I should make it clear that this is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM, wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 08:53:14PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Possibly related? >> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881 > > Indeed :-) The patch author directed me there, I've applied the 51881 &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Dale wrote: > > I think your analogy actually proves my point. Instead of just getting > in the car and turning the key, they want to reinvent the engine and how > it works. It doesn't matter that it is and has been working for decades, > > Thanks for proving my

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> At this point I don't know that 1) the image is actually in the >>> kernel, or 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> 1) initramfs. It's not that hard >> 2) early mount script. It's not that hard. >> 3) modify your udev ebuild to install to /. It's not that hard. > > > If you'd read the thread (and/or related ones), you'd know he tried to go > the initrd

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>> At this point I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Joseph wrote: > trying to emerge: gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 > and I'm getting a strange error: > > -- > Joseph > Saw the same thing here this morning, and have seen it a couple of times in the past. My strategy is to sync tomorrow and try again or mask the package i

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Yeah, bugs happen. Like I said, wait a day and try again.

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: > Sorry for replying to my own; must have deleted OP. > > This morning's world update only wanted to rebuild gconf because they made the > gtk dep optional and dropped the doc USE: > > [ebuild R] gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4:2 USE="gtk%* intros

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools - can not download it

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Joseph wrote: > Where is "module-init-tools-3.16-r2"? > My system wants to upgrade it and it is mark stable but I can not download > it at all. > > I know "kmod" is going to replace it eventually but it is not mark stable > yet. > > -- > Joseph > I have module-in

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools - can not download it

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Joseph wrote: > > Thaks Mark, yes your mirrors worked. It makes me wonder what is wrong with > my mirrors (they all failed) :-/ > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ > http:

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Ma

[gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't think this is likely to be a Gentoo issue but I figured I'd ask here first before going elsewhere. (LKML, linux-raid, elsewhere) Additionally it's not a critical problem at all but rather something I'd like to try and understand and then report if appropriate. On my main i7-980x

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Mark. > > I seem to remember that to be able to use LABEL for the root= line requires > an init* as you need userspace utilities to read the labels. > > You could try the UUIDs instead. B

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label to >> read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff in

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states "Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there with UUID, but it works with LABEL as well, I have tried it. Also, *don't*

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > The other wiki has a page[1] about building an initramfs that includes a > section on writing a linuxrc script to support exactly that. I have since > switched to Genkernel, but I used to have a hand-built initramfs containing > very littl

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James wrote: > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. HTH, Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ l

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, > etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. > > Does anyone know which font to install? > > These are the fonts presently inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> > > Turns out that it's a character in CJK. > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 > Installed bitstream-cyberbit. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > http://nileshgr.com > Glad it worked. PLEASE - trim your responses when poss

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: ... I don't think I have this problem here but I'd need to emerge a specific game that runs full screen to test. Could you please provide the name of something easy to emerge and test. I ran a game called 0ad a couple of months ago and I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:57 PM, james wrote: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > > >> > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent >> > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > >> Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. Th

[gentoo-user] http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
I find this very strange, or am I just blind? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> I find this very strange, or am I just blind? >> >> Mailing list archives have been screwed

Re: [gentoo-user] http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > Gmane has it going back as far as this message: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/1 > Thanks. I never think to use Gmane. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Mark Knecht: > > [gentoo-user] >>Also, are _very_ old archives available anywhere anymore? > > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user > > If you use the second entry 'On the web, using a blog-like, flat &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
re out the names of a couple of folks I was thinking about this last weekend. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: >>> Mark Knecht: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:23 AM, James wrote: > > > Does this look normal? > > > James Does anything when you are running unstable (~amd64) and then trying to push it toward stable? That's always been difficult and dare I say unsupported. OK, I only run stable so I have no experience in this ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > james wrote: >> >> After deleting the 70-persistent-net.rule file >> >> udev does not re-create it. All is now fine with rc-status >> only showing net.eth0 which is set up how I like it >> per /etc/conf.d/net. All services are fine > > > Beware

[gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this morning. Not a single machine has /dev/cdrom anymore, nor /dev/dvd or any of the other incantations that

[gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to > dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine > but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this morning. Not a > s

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:36 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Mark. > > Not seen this behaviour myself. But I also only have one machine with a > dvd-drive in it. And that one has not been updated in several months. (It's > scheduled for a complete rebuild) > > Did you try temporarily removing that ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick wrote: >> Maybe this post will save someone else some time. > > Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't it > a bug? > > PS. I also have cd & dvd /dev links missing. > -- > Regards, > Mick I'd say it's a bug. Waiting for it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of > adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: > > fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist > > Or something like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: > > I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a > good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it > was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't have, and have > not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:53 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >>> good while back. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale wrote: > This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you > will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by > NeddySeagoon. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6362608.html#6362608 > > More info: > > http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-01-07, Dale wrote: > >> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it >> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. > > It's been som

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm not getting anywhere with X, and the scripts themselves seem to be > screwed up. > I've re-emerged x11-apps/xinit to no avail, and I'm current with > revdep-rebuild.  I have no idea what else to try. > > Here's a transcript; no log is crea

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> I'm not getting anywhere with X, and the scripts themselves seem to be >>> screwed up

[gentoo-user] mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found

2009-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm back trying to see if I can get these old Asus Pundit-R machines to do anything at all with the newer kernel and the ATI Open Source drivers. I've got fluxbox emerged and I'm trying to start xluxbox using the xstart .xinitrc method. (Hope that's right?) Anyway, when I run startx I se

Re: [gentoo-user] mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found

2009-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
I didn't. Am I better off to change the default to something else? (1?) Or how do I turn it on with the kernel? I'll go look for some docs. Thanks! - Mark On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 20 Juli 2009, Mark

[gentoo-user] Re: mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found

2009-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > myth12 mythtv # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > Current Operating System: Linux myth12 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #4 PREEMPT Fri > Jun 26 09:51:45 PDT 2009 i686 >        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. &g

[gentoo-user] Re: mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,4000000 found

2009-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> myth12 mythtv # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE >> Current Operating System: Linux myth12 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #4 PREEMPT Fri >> Jun 26 09:51:45 PDT 2009 i686 >

[gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-20 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm working on my 80 year old mother's machine remotely and cannot see the screen. I have a few question about this new Open Source Radeon driver. 1) I'm seeing both radeon and radeonfb in memory. Is this OK, or does it imply a problem of some sort? Can xorg-server use radeon while the console is

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mick wrote: > > Or may be John shouldn't be hijacking threads (search for netiquette if you > don't understand what I'm talking about) and Jacob shouldn't respond? > > Back to the OP's questions: > > 1) radeonfb is the framebuffer used when in console to render fo

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mick wrote: > >> > roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels.  Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' >> > to see the dimensions in round

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, walt wrote: > On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >>   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch >> version of Firefox 3.0.  I keep getting the same error message after >> 3 days of re-syncing and retrying.  The build dies early on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, walt wrote: > On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, walt  wrote: >>> >>> On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>>> >>>>   I've been unsuccessfully try

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Brenton wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my > change when I edit in grub.  I make a change then go back to check and it > never saves. > > I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. > > Thanks, > > B

[gentoo-user] Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Knecht
I was updating my wife's machine today and noticed that there are a number of older/stranded gcc-config's left on the machine. I still have gcc-4.1.2 but the other 3.3/3.4 versions should not remain. How would I remove these? Thanks, Mark dragonfly ~ # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I was updating my wife's machine today and noticed that there are a >> number of older/stranded gcc-config's left on the machine. I still >> have

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:03:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: >> dragonfly ~ # emerge -Cp =cat/pack-ver >> !!! '=cat/pack-ver' is not a valid package atom. >> !!! Please check ebuild(5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/03/2009 03:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Again as history, I first noticed this issue when emerging gcc-4.3.2. >> I had 4.1.2 on the system, in use, as well as these old line items in >> gcc-config. Once I had rebuilt the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:35 AM, wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:52:37AM +, Jacob Todd wrote: > >> It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes with >> eix. >> When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to update the eix >> database; but it can be run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, walt wrote: >> > On 08/03/2009 03:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Again as history, I first noticed this issue when emerging gcc-4.3.2. >&

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: dependencies problem...

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > today I did "emerge --full --update --deep --newuse world" > and after that "emerge --depclean". I got these messages: > > > Calculating dependencies... done! Checking for lib cons

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: dependencies problem...

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jarry wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > __ >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>>>>> >>>>>> Checking for lib consumers... >>>>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 15 August 2009 02:33:56 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according >> to the upgrade guide.  It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, >> but it does list a whole series o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/15/2009 03:33 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> >> [...] >> This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according >> to the upgrade guide.  It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, >> but it does list a whole seri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/15/2009 07:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> [...] >>    I agree with your description, but I disagree that the upgrade >> guide is actually very clear about this. It has us upgrade the >> compiler (OK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: >> Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system >> >> # emerge -eav system >> # emerge -eav world > > I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world inc

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with preserved-rebuild

2009-08-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM, wrote: > Hi.  I am having problems with emerge @preserved-rebuild which used to > work fine, but on the latest time I tried it, I got the following > message: > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ... done! > > emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

2009-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I wrote: > >> Shawn Haggett writes: >> > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of >> > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following >> > happens: >> > >> > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi Ben. Thank you too! > >>Duncan brought it up out of concern that KDE3 may be masked before KDE4 is >> marked arch stable, >and wanted to the let the AMD64 community know. > > That's not very nice. I can't update to KDE4 'couse it's

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: >>Instead of Gnome consider something like XFCE > > Already tried some time ago but, for some weird reason, it gave me lots of > problems... > Well, if it doesn't fit then don't wear it. I think the newer versions a similar enough to Gn

[gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then nothing below matters. Not meaning to cau

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at >> how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the >> last couple of ye

Re: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is >> working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs >> called "BFS": >> >>     http://lwn.

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > Can someone tell me what this means? > > r...@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean > >  * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious >  * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always >  * be kept.  They ca

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Can someone tell me what this means? >>> >>> r...@smoker / # emerge -p --depclean >>> &

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Possibly scribus isn't compatible with python-2.6? The few times I've >

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> You actually compile OO? Wow! OO-bin for me. Couple of minutes and >> it's installed. > > Same here. I compiled it for a long time (double meaning!), but when

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> You actually compile OO? Wow!

[gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? It's doesn't have to be securely off, just off, so if it cannot be done by meddling with group membership then doing something in a root owned bash file that executes when the user logs in even that's fine with me. (Uh - even I d

Re: [gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 12 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? >> It's doesn't have to be securely off, just off, so if it cannot be >> done by

Re: [gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 12 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > On Samstag 12 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Is it pos

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