Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Thomas Chef schrieb: [...] But there is a lot of work left before it's complete: * APCI don't work (powerbutton) Try acpid. It should have a default entry doing a shutdown when you press the power button. [...] * Mouse-support (maybe this comes with the framebuffer, as I can see it detects

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: Hi all, I am trying to get my wireless adapter (Intel 3945ABG) running. following the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Iwlwifi I compiled the kernel accordingly. Now the howto states: For kernel 2.6.27 and later, use the second slot(version 228.57.2.21)

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Marco schrieb: [...] You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to iwl4965. If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything. I'm on 2.6.28

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Wyatt Epp schrieb: Evening, Lately, for at least a few months, actually, I've been completely unable to sync normally. I'll get the following sort of thing three times from three different servers. [...] receiving incremental file list timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: hi All I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 - could not find/identify it. Will appreciate any help in this. Nitin I suppose with gentoo you mean portage, right? In that case

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

2009-05-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Valmor de Almeida schrieb: Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at the console the motd appears (twice; why?) and

[gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event

2009-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
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Re: [gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event

2009-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Thu, 07 May 2009 12:30:52 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. Does this switch generate an ACPI event? Unfortunately not. Nothing on dmesg, /var/log

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Jim Cunning schrieb: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

2009-05-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Peter Humphrey schrieb: Hello list, I've acquired a DVD of a concert performance which I'd like to put on the choir's Web site. It's too big, though, at nearly 1 GB, so I wondered about extracting just the audio from it and putting that up instead. Is there a Gentoo-ish way of doing

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb: Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make something like a pdf gallery to find pdfs faster...

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Matt Harrison schrieb: I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current

[gentoo-user] USE=custom-optimization

2009-05-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm wondering how to interpret the custom-optimization use flag which has become much more common in the recent weeks/months. I mean, I understand the basic concept: it either uses the cflags from my make.conf or its own set. But what exactly does the dev want to tell me when she uses

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=custom-optimization

2009-05-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:30 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm wondering how to interpret the custom-optimization use flag which has become much more common in the recent weeks/months. I mean, I understand the basic concept: it either uses the cflags from my

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Maxim Wexler schrieb: Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the

Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Maxim Wexler schrieb: On 5/28/09, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: Maxim Wexler schrieb: Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: My girlfriend is at her wit's end with her SSD netbook and is now hogging my laptop. Her netbook has 1GB RAM that could be upgraded to 1.5GB, but I've read that it's a pain. It already runs xfce4, and I've just made these optimizations based on past discussions: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. [...] The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the server, then the logs get filled with entries like

[gentoo-user] Seahorse freezes gpg key unlocking

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Recently - I don't know when exactly - anything which wanted to get access to my private gpg key (gpg itself, enigmail when signing or decrypting) simply froze when it would usually ask for the passphrase. I tracked the problem down to seahorse. The app itself worked but apparently the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

2009-06-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: Hi, I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list: ~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv Helvetica:style=Oblique Helvetica:style=Bold Helvetica:style=Regular Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

2009-06-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Florian Philippli...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Marco schrieb: Hi, I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list: [...] It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system. Nevertheless, they don't

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config for eee w/Atom N270 CPU

2009-06-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Maxim Wexler schrieb: On 6/11/09, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Maxim Wexlermaxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Been tracking down other's kern config for 900A w/ N270 Atom cpu and notice, so far, everyone goes for CONFIG_SMP=y. Why,

[gentoo-user] OT: Choosing a graphics tablet

2009-06-12 Thread Florian Philipp
new don't configure me, I configure you mentality? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Trouble installing Plone

2009-06-12 Thread Florian Philipp
and plone-3.1.7 with zope-2.10.7. [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Plone I hope someone has an idea. Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config for eee w/Atom N270 CPU

2009-06-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Paul Hartman schrieb: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Kelly Hiraike...@met.fsu.edu wrote: the N270 is a single core with hyperthreading, which will apear as 2 cpus (with the same core id) in dmesg. Ah, I forgot about hyperthreading masquerading as multiple CPUs. In that case, Maxim can

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble installing Plone

2009-06-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I'm currently trying to install the Plone-CMS on my vServer. However, for some reason, Zope and Plone just don't get together. I've followed this howto: [1] I've also looked at other docs around the net as well as Plone's readme. Zope runs and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble installing Plone

2009-06-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I'm currently trying to install the Plone-CMS on my vServer. However, for some reason, Zope and Plone just don't get together. I've followed this howto: [1] I've also looked at other docs around the net as well as Plone's readme

Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem

2008-07-14 Thread Florian Philipp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon schrieb: | It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer | than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little | tribute here: | | http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 | | What that page

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:25:58PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-07-15, Nicolai Beuermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking into IMAP but I can't really figure out how it works Maybe one can compare it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:00:22AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote: I've always had just

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub --Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist-- grub root (hd2,0) --If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)-- grub setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.

2008-07-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Jayson Smith schrieb: Hi, I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I try to log in at the console, it takes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Simon schrieb: Your email is very long, so I'm not sure if I've taken it all in, but what I'd suggest is a shared /usr/portage directory (easily done by NFS) and distcc. This creates a dependency on the host that contains the portage tree. It also remove some flexibility. For example,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge -auvND world wants to install old gentoo-soruces?

2008-08-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant Edwards schrieb: I've got gentoo-sources 2.6.25-r7 installed, and that's the only verions of the kernel sources that I have installed. Suddenly (starting today) emerge -auvtND world wants to install an older version of gentoo-sources (2.6.25-r6), and I can't figure out why: Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] X doesn't work with Intel 915GM

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Zhou Rui schrieb: Hi, I'm using a Intel 915 on board VGA card. After I install the Xorg, and run: # Xorg -configure # X -config xorg.conf.new The X startup failed but there is now error reported... I cannot find what's wrong with my config, so what should I do in this situation. For a start,

Re: [gentoo-user] X doesn't work with Intel 915GM

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Zhou Rui schrieb: 2008/8/7 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Zhou Rui schrieb: Hi, I'm using a Intel 915 on board VGA card. After I install the Xorg, and run: # Xorg -configure # X -config xorg.conf.new The X startup failed but there is now error reported... I cannot find what's wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] X doesn't work with Intel 915GM

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Zhou Rui schrieb: 2008/8/7 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Zhou Rui schrieb: 2008/8/7 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Zhou Rui schrieb: Hi, I'm using a Intel 915 on board VGA card. After I install the Xorg, and run: # Xorg -configure # X -config xorg.conf.new The X startup failed

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
b.n. schrieb: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems using completely non-standard userlands... let's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] stretching AVI in time

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Andrew Gaydenko schrieb: Sorry, my initial message wasn't clear: the final goal is to prepare DVD to adjust a geometry of a TV with CRT. P.S. Oh, this mencoder magic... :-) Most DVD-players nowadays can handle photo-CDs/DVDs. Have you tried to just put the JPEG on a CD? signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Benoit St-Pierre schrieb: I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am considering using RAID. My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Matthias Bethke schrieb: Hi Florian, on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM +0200, you wrote: Note1: NEVER EVER build some kind of RAID other than Linear (also called JBOD) over two IDE disks on the same cable. Performance will suffer greatly as will security because most simple onboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and journalling isn't needed for filesystems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote: You should also consider putting them near the beginning of the disk. You can do this by booting a live-CD and use gparted to move your root-partition. These days you have absolutely no guarantee

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
is this quicklauncher? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Justin schrieb: Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-03 Thread Florian Philipp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, since I own a LG HD-LT-DT GSA-4163B bruner, which allows to burn DVDRAM discs I try to generate a setup, which successfully writes data to a DVDRAM. Everything else works fine. But writing a complete DVDRAM takes hours. As recommended I use UDF as the

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel, hdparm not happy

2008-10-06 Thread Florian Philipp
David Relson schrieb: Greetings! I've recently updated from kernel 2.6.20 to 2.6.24 a little used machine. The new kernel is working quite well. However hdparm isn't happy. Running either hdparm -d0 /dev/hda or hdparm -d1 /dev/hda gives a HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Simon schrieb: Storing data on a dvd is always quite useful and dvds cost much less than usb keys or other... I've been thinking about one thing. Is there any such thing as an incremental filesystem for write-once-read-only media (ie. DVD+-R)?... UDF is supposed to support this (see

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things while using e17. ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge page, and the maintainer is listed as . 18 months is a long time, so this package looks like it's

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet program

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:40:17 -0400, kcc wrote: I want to install telnet client but couldn't find the emerge search net-misc/netkit-telnetd contains client and server. If you just need a client, you can also use the one in busybox: `busybox telnet` It should be

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet program

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:33:56 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: If you just need a client, you can also use the one in busybox: `busybox telnet` Or do sudo ln -s busybox /bin/telnet and you can call it as telnet. In that case, I would link it to /usr/local/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives

2008-11-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to extract lzma archives? by lzma archive, you probably mean a lzma-compressed tar archive. You can extract them with lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f - This

Re: [gentoo-user] Office web filtering

2008-11-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Stroller schrieb: Hi there, Anyone got any suggestions regarding web filtering for a small office of a dozen employees? [...] So what I'd prefer is really some kind of system that pops up a message this site cannot be displayed because it is in the filter category [pr0n|frivolous]; if

[gentoo-user] Bluez hcid.conf syntax

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
disable; } When I use this configuration I'm asked for a PIN for the connection, which - naturally - doesn't work. When I disable auth and encrypt for all devices, it works. Have I misunderstood the syntax for this file? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
at the moment and Gentoo Bugzilla doesn't offer much on these topics. I've attached the kernel config and a part of dmesg where iwlwifi caused an oops after I've restarted the net.eth1 script but then it worked flawlessly. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp kernel_config.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed

Re: [gentoo-user] .mov files not showing video

2008-11-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Michael Moore schrieb: Hi, I received a few quicktime files from a friend; however, when I play it there is no video. The audio stream is fine. My friend can play it fine in the application Media Player Classic for Microsoft Xp. [...] Any pointers would be handy. Can you post the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945

2008-11-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I recently updated from tuxonice-2.6.24-r9 to tuxonice-2.6.26. I hoped it would solve irregular kernel crashes on my Dell notebook and would reactivate the wifi LED. However, it caused more problems than it solved. [...] Is this kernel version

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 13:49:51 schrieb ext deface: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Here's another one: using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into your otherwise self-compiled system is even more idiotic. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Busted

2008-11-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Beau Henderson schrieb: G'day, Sorry in advance if I'm posting this to the wrong list. As of late ( past couple of weeks ), I've been having trouble with flash. Nothing seems to work. Youtube, google video, lastfm doesn't have the little player and worst of all I'm missing out on shiny

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
BRM schrieb: I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!) I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most part. However, it seems that the connection drops every once in a while, and the system

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Iain Buchanan schrieb: Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed as I've been docked for so

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: [...] Reiser tends to self-balance itself out. What is especially noteworthy is that none of the general purpose Linux filesystems provide a defrag utility. Theodore 'Tso and Hans Reiser are both exceptional programmers, if there was a need for such a tool they would

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Iain Buchanan schrieb: R C Mitchell wrote: I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a real distribution :) /flame Typically

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Dale schrieb: I have said myself that Linux does not generally need to be defraged. I have never seen a Linux file system get anything near as bad as windoze. While I don't run windoze I do have family and friends that do so I know how bad it can be. I have seen a lot of windoze be at 40 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and since I don't take new photos every week

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Andrey Vul schrieb: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:29, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h memtest86+ test followed with a 1h cpuburn test. I believe you mean 2d memtest86+ unless computer has DDR9-9 RAM where 100 (full

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-sharp or glade-sharp : what to do

2008-12-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, some packages need gtk-sharp, others glade-sharp and mono-tools needs both. But gtk-sharp-2.12.6-r1 has a negative dependency on glade-sharp. So, one cannot install both. Who cuts this Gordian knot? Helmut. gtk-sharp-2.10 doesn't block glade-sharp. simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluez hcid.conf syntax

2008-12-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I have a minor problem: I recently bought a Microsoft Presenter Mouse (I know, shame on me, but it's the only affordable device with this kind of functionality). So far, it works as expected: - it works out of the box with the Microsoft dongle - it works

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: My desktop currently runs one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and heat. So you don't care about

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Mark David Dumlao schrieb: [...] If the memo appears somewhere, it might have to do with some transient step of the subscription process. That does make it hard to find now that I'm looking for it. What's up with html e-mails, btw? Most public emails send html e-mail by default, and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: and which data is not copied? ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If you use ACLs or extended attributes you

[gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
would be the best way to do this? Thanks in advance, Florian Philipp pgpKsWmS1Z0UC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Stuart Howard: I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :) Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now. I shall consider it a lesson to

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 30 April 2007 10:56 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. However, it would be great to preserve

[gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwO3E2pMnjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
up portage? Is there something like alien? Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwG6QaE8n2x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
quoth the b.n.: darren kirby ha scritto: Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 22:29 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Florian Philipp
quoth the Florian Philipp: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? Another thought: Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM for. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] noatime option is ignored for /

2007-05-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 13 Mai 2007 15:48 schrieb Robert Cernansky: Hello, I just found out that 'noatime' mount option is ignored on my system for / (root) partition. In /etc/fstab I have entry for /: /dev/sda6 / ext3 noatime,usrquota,grpquota and 'mount' command shows: /dev/sda6

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Started

2007-05-14 Thread Florian Philipp
://tuxmobil.org/hp.html [2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers Regards Florian Philipp pgpp32GWOpymC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Funny comment made by kuroo.

2007-05-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 21:07 schrieb David Harel: Greetings, Using kuroo, sometimes I get a notice such as: QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random runtime failures. Any idea what trigers such as message? -- Thanks. David Harel, I

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox pluggins

2007-05-19 Thread Florian Philipp
? What packages do I need ? Any tricks to make it work ? Thanks to people who know, - ~adj~ This one worked for me: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64#nspluginwrapper The whole site might be interesting for you. Regards Florian Philipp pgpjWAQzhkK0R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 21 Mai 2007 09:08 schrieb Mick: On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 00:30 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: Yes, it is a RAM defect. Is there a way to define upper limit of RAM, so I can perform some

[gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

2007-05-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! This question is so basic it's nearly embarrassing to ask... Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? For example: # man -k man man: nothing appropriate Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpqzhnBchGEd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

2007-05-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 22:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote: Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? For example: # man -k man man: nothing appropriate sys-apps/man installs a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis. Did you

[gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
-lib but Kaffeine kept using the old lib which was still in RAM, I presume. Naturally, the problem was solved when he rebooted but I wonder how I could achieve the effect without rebooting. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpIgCsINzPLt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 14:31 schrieb Denis: What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32 bit kernel? Use of 64-bit machine code [*], particularly instructions that make use of 64-bit native[**] registers[***]. Is there any slowdown for the 64-bit set-up when it has to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 15:39 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:20 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries Hi! I've already asked this question

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 16:01 schrieb Denis: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 02:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that once my internet access becomes functional (even then it will just be .edu, .org, .gov, and .mil sites), I will see how well the gmane page loads for me. :) I will use it to read the messages, and email to post. How do

[gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! As part of some testing I've decompressed my distfiles into another directory. I've done it that way: cp /usr/src/portage/distfiles/*.tar.bz2 /home/dsl/distfiles bunzip2 /home/dsl/distfiles/*.tar.bz2 cp /usr/src/portage/distfiles/*.tbz2 /home/dsl/distfiles bunzip2

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 31 Mai 2007 02:24 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:34:04 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 31 Mai 2007 18:22 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Thursday 31 May 2007 18:16:13 Florian Philipp wrote: Ah, the possibility I hadn't thought of is the emul-linux-x86-* packages some of which use portage binpkgs in their SRC_URI. In this case it's emul-linux-x86-xlibs/emul

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin OCR plugin

2007-06-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I'd like to know if you have got some experience with those OCR plugins. According to this list [1] there are several such plugins. However, there is only one in portage and it's masked. [1] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins Thanks in advance Florian Philipp

[gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo

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