Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in
With Flash drive partitions labeled, the mounting is consistent. I have a
git bare repo directory, on each of two flash drives to keep certain
directories in sync on three machines. The repos are found consistently by
git this method. I don't remember any specific method I used to get this
mounting behavior into place, but I have had to specifically set GID for my
user account on each machine to keep permissions in line.
By the way, when I reformatted a drive, I just used the same label, which
seemed to work fine. I wonder though whether this system might be defeated
by convolutions of various kinds outside my control at a future time.
Alan
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote:
On 3 Oct 2009, at 20:11, daid kahl wrote:
...
Another useful notion is to use udev to automount flash drives (or
external usb harddrives) to a specified location based on serial number.
... I can either give an overview or dig up the url if anyone likes.
I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual automount drives with
udev guides. Am I wrong?
This is the way I have always intended to approach this problem, so I'd
be grateful to be corrected in advance if there's a better way.
That's correct, except not all of these guides discuss the drive serial
number. If you want to ensure that different drives are mounted at
different points, you have to rely on the device serial (since the /dev
nodes are filled in order of the device connection, regardless of which
drive it is).
There are plenty of guides that mention how to find the serial number and
how to write the correct udev rules, but most the guides are outdated and
suggest use of the symlink udevinfo, which was removed upstream recently.
So, to get a device's serial number, for example (replace /dev/sdb with the
correct node) :
# udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep
ATTRS{serial}
and use the (first) serial that doesn't have colons and periods. Then for
the udev rule you just need to include ATTRS{serial}== 00
This is also useful when you have external harddrives that use ext3
formatting and flashdrives that don't.
Ops... I omitted a paste - I went to a terminal to check the details
and then appear to have completely forgotten to include them. Thus my
question is misphrased incomplete.
I intended to ask:
I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual automount drives with
udev guides, but based their entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid/. Am I wrong?
How do you find the serial, please? I'm guessing from `dmesg`?
I think the entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ may change if you reformat the
drive, so your response is most helpful.
Thank you for your help,
Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an Apache configuration guide for gentoo?
I gave up on apache. I'm positive the permissions are right, and coughed it up to not understanding the config files. I use nginx now. http://djuhl.homedns.org:8181/files/snapshots/Screenshot.jpg http://wiki.nginx.org/Main Dave On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 08:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 08:28:16 schrieb David Juhl: so if it is read only why can't I read? You don't have permission to access /~david16/ on this server Does the user that runs the server process have permissions to read from tha directory? Bye... Dirk
[gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password
Hi All!! Long time since last time I bothered you all! ;-) I googled around and found many people having my same problem, but could not find any solution. Sudo works just great on my machine, while kdesu always says 'Bad password'. Have you any idea about what I can check to fix such issue? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password
On Montag 05 Oktober 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi All!! Long time since last time I bothered you all! ;-) I googled around and found many people having my same problem, but could not find any solution. Sudo works just great on my machine, while kdesu always says 'Bad password'. Have you any idea about what I can check to fix such issue? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano and your user is in group wheel?
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password
Hmmm. No, I wasn't. Now it works. Thank you very much! Very prompt answer/solution! Probably it's my ignorance, but, my kdesu is configured to use sudo. Why did sudo work while kdesu didn't ? Thanks, Massimiliano On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Montag 05 Oktober 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi All!! Long time since last time I bothered you all! ;-) I googled around and found many people having my same problem, but could not find any solution. Sudo works just great on my machine, while kdesu always says 'Bad password'. Have you any idea about what I can check to fix such issue? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano and your user is in group wheel?
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot setup acpi
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 23:40:01 +0900, daid kahl wrote I'm trying to setup acpi, but I cannot get it work Hello, I didn't set up acpi for power save yet, but I did do it for getting my laptop to go to sleep on lid close, and it was really easy. Since I imagine this might be a function you also want (and I got it working really easily), you might try your hand at this first to be sure acpi events are generally working. If others had given some more knowledgeable and specific reply, I'd omit comment, since my response is somewhat peripheral. But at least this might be somewhere to start. I attach my log file for setting up sleep (I omitted what kernel configurations I set, so if you need me to try and figure that out, let me know, since I should have included it in my own log file). I think this requires at least kernel 2.6.27. ~daid Thanks, but problem is the events are not fired and I'm afraid I've did somethink wrong during kernel configuration - missing something :-( Thnaks for your time. Pat --- Modern Hosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/
[gentoo-user] debug and regular library
HelloI would like to install the debugged version of glibc. Compiled withsymbols and minimal optimization. I don't want it to be the default libc in mysystem. I want to link it only with some programs.I'm familiar with the following document:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml?style=printableHow can I solve my problem.Great thanks for help.10 minut do cennych nagród, wykorzystaj szansę!Kliknij:http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http://corto.www.wp.pl/as/pentagon_serwery.html=877
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?
On 5 Oct 2009, at 02:44, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:31:53 +0900, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: ... I was getting some Japanese-bought DVDs ... to rebuild kaffeine (or mplayer, etc) Nope. What you have to do is to set up the correct use flags for xine-lib (dvd). I think the css USE flag may also be required, at least by some packages. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in
Sorry, Alan.
The comments before yours were bottom-posted.
I'm afraid under these circumstances I can't find your top-posted
comments pertinent.
I simply can't make any sense of them.
Your mailer also used HTML.
If you wish to make postings of this kind then I would be grateful if
you could place me on your ignore list, and not make such replies to
my messages.
Stroller.
On 5 Oct 2009, at 09:02, Alan E. Davis wrote:
With Flash drive partitions labeled, the mounting is consistent. I
have a git bare repo directory, on each of two flash drives to keep
certain directories in sync on three machines. The repos are found
consistently by git this method. I don't remember any specific
method I used to get this mounting behavior into place, but I have
had to specifically set GID for my user account on each machine to
keep permissions in line.
By the way, when I reformatted a drive, I just used the same label,
which seemed to work fine. I wonder though whether this system
might be defeated by convolutions of various kinds outside my
control at a future time.
Alan
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
wrote:
On 3 Oct 2009, at 20:11, daid kahl wrote:
...
Another useful notion is to use udev to automount flash drives (or
external usb harddrives) to a specified location based on serial
number. ... I can either give an overview or dig up the url if
anyone likes.
I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual automount drives
with udev guides. Am I wrong?
This is the way I have always intended to approach this problem, so
I'd be grateful to be corrected in advance if there's a better way.
That's correct, except not all of these guides discuss the drive
serial number. If you want to ensure that different drives are
mounted at different points, you have to rely on the device serial
(since the /dev nodes are filled in order of the device connection,
regardless of which drive it is).
There are plenty of guides that mention how to find the serial
number and how to write the correct udev rules, but most the guides
are outdated and suggest use of the symlink udevinfo, which was
removed upstream recently. So, to get a device's serial number, for
example (replace /dev/sdb with the correct node) :
# udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep
ATTRS{serial}
and use the (first) serial that doesn't have colons and periods.
Then for the udev rule you just need to include ATTRS{serial}==
00
This is also useful when you have external harddrives that use ext3
formatting and flashdrives that don't.
Ops... I omitted a paste - I went to a terminal to check the
details and then appear to have completely forgotten to include
them. Thus my question is misphrased incomplete.
I intended to ask:
I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual automount
drives with udev guides, but based their entry in /dev/disk/by-
uuid/. Am I wrong?
How do you find the serial, please? I'm guessing from `dmesg`?
I think the entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ may change if you reformat
the drive, so your response is most helpful.
Thank you for your help,
Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:00:46 +0100, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 5 Oct 2009, at 02:44, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:31:53 +0900, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: ... I was getting some Japanese-bought DVDs ... to rebuild kaffeine (or mplayer, etc) Nope. What you have to do is to set up the correct use flags for xine-lib (dvd). I think the css USE flag may also be required, at least by some packages. For each package it might be different (which can be confusing) but for xine-lib, it's the dvd use flag which controls this, and trigger the dependency of xine-libs upon libdvdcss. You just need to look into the ebuild to see it: $ grep dvd /var/portage/media-libs/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.1.16.3-r1.ebuild IUSE=-aalib -libcaca -arts esd win32codecs nls +dvd +X directfb +vorbis +alsa dvd? ( =media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.7 ) -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?
On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:00:46 +0100, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 5 Oct 2009, at 02:44, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:31:53 +0900, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: ... I was getting some Japanese-bought DVDs ... to rebuild kaffeine (or mplayer, etc) Nope. What you have to do is to set up the correct use flags for xine-lib (dvd). I think the css USE flag may also be required, at least by some packages. For each package it might be different (which can be confusing) but for xine-lib, it's the dvd use flag which controls this, and trigger the dependency of xine-libs upon libdvdcss. You just need to look into the ebuild to see it: $ grep dvd /var/portage/media-libs/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.1.16.3- r1.ebuild IUSE=-aalib -libcaca -arts esd win32codecs nls +dvd +X directfb +vorbis +alsa dvd? ( =media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.7 ) I didn't mean in any way to debate your statement about xine-lib - just to add that css may be required for some _other_ packages. It transpires that the only packages I seem to have on my systems using the css USE flag are rippers (undvd k3b), so I apologise for my mistake. I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that the devs might have separated the decryption and playback components: one could imagine it being legal to play back a region 0 DVD in some territories, but not to install or operate encryption circumvention software. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont
Xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 is now stable on x86.
I see the following in the ebuild
RDEPEND=hal? ( sys-apps/hal )
tslib? ( =x11-libs/tslib-1.0 x11-proto/xcalibrateproto )
dev-libs/openssl
=x11-libs/libXfont-1.4.0
I believe this says that libXfont = 1.4.0 must be present.
But eix -e libXfont reports
[I] x11-libs/libXfont
Available versions: 1.3.1-r1 1.3.4 ~1.4.0 {debug ipv6}
Installed versions: 1.3.4(09:46:47 10/05/09)(ipv6 -debug)
Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: X.Org Xfont library
which asserts that no version =1.4.0 is stable.
I have resynced since I first noticed this and it is still the case.
Naturally this prevents my emerge ... world
from completing.
I can certainly add libXfont to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but I
find it strange that a stable package (xorg-server) requires a testing
version of another package (libXfont).
Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.
thanks,
allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:22 +0100, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that the devs might have separated the decryption and playback components: one could imagine it being legal to play back a region 0 DVD in some territories, but not to install or operate encryption circumvention software. Yes, I agree, USE flags are a bit fuzzy. Even if legality wasn't a problem, still it's not accurate to use such a name for an use flag that adds support for decryption. It's even funnier when you realize that you don't even need to enable it to play all the dvd's (only encrypted ones). In such cases, the best thing is to fill an enhancement bug and hope for the best. I might do that later if I manager to remember it. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:43 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I can certainly add libXfont to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but I find it strange that a stable package (xorg-server) requires a testing version of another package (libXfont). Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. The stabilization process is not over for x86, and you synchronized your tree in the middle of the process. See the stabilization list in bug #282290. You should wait a few hours until next sync, and use package.keywords in the meanwhile for missing stable packages. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/282290
Re: [gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont
At Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:07 +0200 Fab net...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:43 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I can certainly add libXfont to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but I find it strange that a stable package (xorg-server) requires a testing version of another package (libXfont). Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. The stabilization process is not over for x86, and you synchronized your tree in the middle of the process. See the stabilization list in bug #282290. You should wait a few hours until next sync, and use package.keywords in the meanwhile for missing stable packages. Thank you, that explains it. I will wait. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont
Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:07 +0200 Fab net...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:43 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I can certainly add libXfont to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but I find it strange that a stable package (xorg-server) requires a testing version of another package (libXfont). Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. The stabilization process is not over for x86, and you synchronized your tree in the middle of the process. See the stabilization list in bug #282290. You should wait a few hours until next sync, and use package.keywords in the meanwhile for missing stable packages. Thank you, that explains it. I will wait. allan We all should give a big props to Christian Faulhammer, who is commiting like hell since hours!! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password
On Montag 05 Oktober 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hmmm. No, I wasn't. Now it works. Thank you very much! Very prompt answer/solution! Probably it's my ignorance, but, my kdesu is configured to use sudo. Why did sudo work while kdesu didn't ? I don't know. Never used sudo. I do not trust it.
[gentoo-user] Guesstimates of KDE4 going stable?
Hello everyone, I have some planning to do. I like KDE4, but I will not upgrade any more systems (from kde 3) nor install any new systems until KDE4 goes stable. I have 4 already and the issues are too time consuming for my needs. Any guesses as to when that will happen (KDE 4 going stable) with Gentoo ebuilds so I can plan some new installations for my friends are greatly appreciated. tia, James
Re: [gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont
At Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:46:07 +0200 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:07 +0200 Fab net...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:43 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I can certainly add libXfont to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but I find it strange that a stable package (xorg-server) requires a testing version of another package (libXfont). Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. The stabilization process is not over for x86, and you synchronized your tree in the middle of the process. See the stabilization list in bug #282290. You should wait a few hours until next sync, and use package.keywords in the meanwhile for missing stable packages. Thank you, that explains it. I will wait. We all should give a big props to Christian Faulhammer, who is commiting like hell since hours!! Indeed. I saw the list in bug #282290; it is impressive. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor
2009/10/4 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe. It doesn't trash my file every 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (probably several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. What editor do you prefer, then? I'm an emacs guy. I've been using emacs (or various clones such as jove and jed) for 25 years now. IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts. I don't have any problem learning keystrokes. I do have problems with vi's modality. That's just one of the things I dislike about vi and all the vi clones out there. To me it is like the difference between edit to live and live to edit. It's a good editor and I respect people who like and use vi, but I refuse to use it unless there's absolutely no other option. I've been using vi (or vim, where available) for a few years, and I really like some of the features. What I like most is the double mode (command and edit). I find it really easy to use and saves me a lot of time. But I'm pretty sure that's just because I didn't bother learning any other editor (like emacs), and vi can be found at almost ALL linux distros I've come across in the last few years... It's a matter of taste. Some may argue about that (completely pointless), and that just proves that's useless. You like it, you use it, advocate it, but never impose it. -- Daniel da Veiga
[gentoo-user] Re: Guesstimates of KDE4 going stable?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Any guesses as to when that will happen (KDE 4 going stable) with Gentoo ebuilds so I can plan some new installations for my friends are greatly appreciated. The stabilization bug was filed earlier today as bug 287697 [1]. This is an indication that the KDE team feels that KDE 4 is ready to be stabilized, and is a request for the various arch teams to proceed with stabilization. In order for the stabilization to continue, however, there are a few other packages that need to be stabilized first. These are listed in the bugs listed as blocking bug 287697. So, to answer your question, Real Soon Now™. I expect it will be stabilized on x86 and amd64 fairly quickly, with other arches to follow. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/287697 - -- Jonathan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrKbAEACgkQOypDUo0oQOqzTgCgtFJvfHUSXQepUwPh35nPQIM5 WmIAn2G3tAJpOg5vKTcU3ET5ahbNzqqG =gf4l -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in
I simply can't make any sense of them.
Your mailer also used HTML.
If you wish to make postings of this kind then I would be grateful if
you could place me on your ignore list, and not make such replies to my
messages.
Sorry. This should be regular text now.
How do you find the serial, please? I'm guessing from `dmesg`?
Just a re-post on how to find the serial on a usb drive, where the USB
device in question is at node /dev/sdb :
# udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep ATTRS{serial}
You might get more than one return on this command. Us the first
serial, and it is also the one without colons or periods, just numbers
and letters.
Then for the udev rule you just need to include ATTRS{serial}== 00
Regards,
daid
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts. ISTM the problem with pcio / nano is that advanced users find it too simplistic. Stroller. I encourage anyone who, like me, struggles with those arcane and nonintuitive keyboard codes to take a look at Blair Thompson's X2 Programmer's Editor http://www.tangbu.com/x2main.shtml, which, while it does come configured with a plethora of such codes, allows them to be redefined via a simple configuration file. It has easily remembered sequences for the most usual operations (mark line, mark block, move, copy) and powerful command-mode commands which are not cluttered with the usual escape sequence requirements. Give it a try. Leslie
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
Output from rc-update show ? On 10/4/09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm fires up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. Alt+F7 brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong. I suspect that this is caused by dhcpcd getting an IP address, or vixie cron (the last two things shown on the console when the user gets dumped back on it) but I can't understand why these two services will cause such a problem on this machine, when other machines with the same services work fine. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this one? I can't see anything amiss on dmesg, or messages/syslog. -- Regards, Mick -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg upgrade problem
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:43:07 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ...[snip]... (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] radeon kernel module version is 8.55.2 but version 1.17.0 or newer is needed. [dri] Disabling DRI. sweet. You once upon a time installed the ati-driver package - maybe without using portage. And that is still hurting you. Step one: remove it. Step two: remove all related orphaned files. True. I definitely had the ati-driver package. It was installed with portage and removed with portage. and a bit down: (II) RADEON(0): I2C device VGA-0:ddc2 registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device VGA-0:ddc2 removed. (II) RADEON(0): Output: VGA-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 (II) RADEON(0): I2C device VGA-0:E-EDID segment register registered at address 0x60. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device VGA-0:ddc2 registered at address 0xA0. Dac detection success (II) RADEON(0): Output: VGA-0, Detected Monitor Type: 1 you see the difference? I see it, but don't understand it ... (II) RADEON(0): I2C device DVI-0:ddc2 registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device DVI-0:ddc2 removed. (II) RADEON(0): Output: DVI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 invalid output device for dac detection finished output detect: 2 finished all detect I) RADEON(0): I2C device DVI-0:E-EDID segment register registered at address 0x60. (II) RADEON(0): I2C device DVI-0:ddc2 registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(0): Output: DVI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 finished output detect: 2 finished all detect and more of that 1.6.3.901 and 1.5.3 detect different monitors attached it seems. Interesting that they think there are different monitors. The only monitor I've had for the past 5 years is a Viewsonic PF790. It is connected via a KVM, but that hasn't changed for 10 years... And both complain about missing monitor sections. how about setting up a nice xorg.conf? Define nice :- It is often said that with the new X11 it is no longer necessarey to have xorg.conf. Experience indicates that isn't quite true. My present xorg.conf is pretty small and has neither video nor monitor information (see the end of this message). I can always add the monitor section from my last working full featured xorg.conf. As it happens, I logged out yesterday and logged back in and now have the higher resolution I wanted. 'Tis all very peculiar. Regards, David begin /etc/X11/xorg.con Section ServerFlags Option AllowMouseOpenFail true EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection end /etc/X11/xorg.con
[gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?
I am trying to find away to access files securely from my home computer. The network I am on is really strict on email attachments and no usb drives are allowed, so I possibly thought of a website that uses ssl and a password to access the files. I really don't know where to begin. Since the files have personal information in them, I need to make sure no one can ease drop. I have a Linux machine at home, and the computers at work run Windows. There is really no hope in installing additional software on the computers at work. Hell I haven't even had time to ask anyone if accessing my computer via the web would be a problem. I have a domain name from dyndns.org. I can only use a CD-R which gets cumbersome at times... Sometimes I only need to bring in work I did that is less than 10M, and what a real waste of a CD-R. I rather just go to the files and do what I need. Any thoughts are appreciated... -- David L. Juhl
[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg upgrade problem
On 10/05/2009 05:30 PM, David Relson wrote: ...As it happens, I logged out yesterday and logged back in and now have the higher resolution I wanted. 'Tis all very peculiar. (Doing my part to lower the signal-to-noise ratio ;o) I've noticed in the past month or three that when I reboot the machine or even just restart X for some reason, very rarely the the X server starts with the wrong screen resolution(!). All I need to do to fix the resolution problem is to log out of the X session and restart X. At this point I am firmly convinced that sunspots and/or cosmic rays are flipping random bits in my machine's memory. Although there are no other random flakey events that would suggest hardware failure. I'm mystified -- but at least the workaround is trivial, and the box is rock solid until the next time it happens.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an Apache configuration guide for gentoo?
=== On Mon, 10/05, David Juhl wrote: === I gave up on apache. I'm positive the permissions are right, and coughed it up to not understanding the config files. I use nginx now. === I use lighttpd and don't have any problems with it. Its configuration is a bit obtuse, however, so i have had to wrap wrapper scripts to configure it. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an Apache configuration guide for gentoo?
I found nginx But the documentation on it is a little hard to understand. I tried to follow some examples... I got it working... I'll need to play with it some more.. -- David L. Juhl
Re: [gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?
Apache2, mod_ssl, self signed certificate, htaccess/htpassword via digest. Done deal :) On 10/5/09, David Juhl commo_p...@yahoo.com wrote: I am trying to find away to access files securely from my home computer. The network I am on is really strict on email attachments and no usb drives are allowed, so I possibly thought of a website that uses ssl and a password to access the files. I really don't know where to begin. Since the files have personal information in them, I need to make sure no one can ease drop. I have a Linux machine at home, and the computers at work run Windows. There is really no hope in installing additional software on the computers at work. Hell I haven't even had time to ask anyone if accessing my computer via the web would be a problem. I have a domain name from dyndns.org. I can only use a CD-R which gets cumbersome at times... Sometimes I only need to bring in work I did that is less than 10M, and what a real waste of a CD-R. I rather just go to the files and do what I need. Any thoughts are appreciated... -- David L. Juhl -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
Re: [gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?
=== On Mon, 10/05, David Juhl wrote: === Any thoughts are appreciated... === Find another job? -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===
Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in
On 5 Oct 2009, at 23:52, daid kahl wrote:
I simply can't make any sense of them.
Your mailer also used HTML.
If you wish to make postings of this kind then I would be grateful if
you could place me on your ignore list, and not make such replies
to my
messages.
Sorry. This should be regular text now.
Not you. It was the top-posting when the thread was already so
consistently bottom-posted that wound me up. And that wasn't you, but
another poster. Unfortunately, the HTML made it difficult to correct
this, which did piss me off further.
How do you find the serial, please? I'm guessing from `dmesg`?
Just a re-post on how to find the serial on a usb drive, where the USB
device in question is at node /dev/sdb :
# udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep ATTRS
{serial}
I'm really sorry. You said this before, and I didn't read it properly.
Thanks for posting.
Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?
I was getting some Japanese-bought DVDs ... to rebuild kaffeine (or mplayer, etc) Nope. What you have to do is to set up the correct use flags for xine-lib (dvd). I think the css USE flag may also be required, at least by some packages. Well, dvd and xine are both in my world file. I tried adding css, but there was nothing to rebuild (only about 8 packages USE css). Maybe the question I should be asking is why libdvdcss wasn't pulled in when I had the dvd USE flag turned on globally (since forever). Regards, daid
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?
2009/10/5 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:22 +0100, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that the devs might have separated the decryption and playback components: one could imagine it being legal to play back a region 0 DVD in some territories, but not to install or operate encryption circumvention software. Yes, I agree, USE flags are a bit fuzzy. Even if legality wasn't a problem, still it's not accurate to use such a name for an use flag that adds support for decryption. It's even funnier when you realize that you don't even need to enable it to play all the dvd's (only encrypted ones). In such cases, the best thing is to fill an enhancement bug and hope for the best. I might do that later if I manager to remember it. Yeah, I'm agreeing about this notion. Particularly with the legality issues, there might be some desire to separate watching unencrypted DVDs from encryption. I suppose if the enhancement bug is filed, a suggested name for the new USE flag is something like dvd-crypto. Regards, daid
