Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?
Hi, add to your /etc/portage/package.license : net-im/skype skype-eula This will unmask skype. regards, Boris On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:27, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This is confusing me ... I have skype-2.0.0.72 installed for some time now. eix -l skype shows: [I] net-im/skype Available versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s amd64 x86 [qt-static] ~ 2.1.0.81+i!m!s ~amd64 ~x86 [qt-static] Installed versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s(06:22:21 04/15/09)(-qt-static) Homepage: http://www.skype.com/ Description: A P2P-VoiceIP client. However, after updating portage I see: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! The following installed packages are masked: - net-im/skype-2.0.0.72 (masked by: skype-eula license(s)) A copy of the 'skype-eula' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/skype- eula'. Is portage telling me that I need to do something about the eula? eix does not show this version as being masked. -- Regards, Mick -- 42
Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?
Mick wrote: This is confusing me ... I have skype-2.0.0.72 installed for some time now. eix -l skype shows: [I] net-im/skype Available versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s amd64 x86 [qt-static] ~ 2.1.0.81+i!m!s ~amd64 ~x86 [qt-static] Installed versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s(06:22:21 04/15/09)(-qt-static) Homepage:http://www.skype.com/ Description: A P2P-VoiceIP client. However, after updating portage I see: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! The following installed packages are masked: - net-im/skype-2.0.0.72 (masked by: skype-eula license(s)) A copy of the 'skype-eula' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/skype- eula'. Is portage telling me that I need to do something about the eula? eix does not show this version as being masked. 1. Go to Google (or your favourite search engine) 2. Search for gentoo license mask 3. Follow instructions from several previous threads John Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?
On 24.01.2010 23:38, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. Any input welcome. I need this for a road warrior setup. Assuming you will want to support windows clients as well, openswan and openvpn are the populer choices. There has been some mention of questionable code quality for openswan so you might want to check if openvpn fits your needs first. Personally, I would stay away from kame/racoon. -- Eray
Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?
2010/1/26 John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au: Mick wrote: This is confusing me ... I have skype-2.0.0.72 installed for some time now. eix -l skype shows: [I] net-im/skype Available versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s amd64 x86 [qt-static] ~ 2.1.0.81+i!m!s ~amd64 ~x86 [qt-static] Installed versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s(06:22:21 04/15/09)(-qt-static) Homepage: http://www.skype.com/ Description: A P2P-VoiceIP client. However, after updating portage I see: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! The following installed packages are masked: - net-im/skype-2.0.0.72 (masked by: skype-eula license(s)) A copy of the 'skype-eula' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/skype- eula'. Is portage telling me that I need to do something about the eula? eix does not show this version as being masked. 1. Go to Google (or your favourite search engine) 2. Search for gentoo license mask 3. Follow instructions from several previous threads Nice, thanks. :-) -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
hello list, i purchased recently an external usb disk (HP SimpleSave, 1.5 TB). i re-formatted it with an ext4 file system, but i can't get rid of the virtual cd created by the manufacturer with some backup software. when i connect the disc, the system sees two devices: a hard disc (for example /dev/sdb, that i can format with the usual tools) and a virtual cd-rom (sr1 or sg1), that i'd like to erase but i don't know how to manipulate. here is the relevant part of dmesg: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 5 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access HP External HDD1028 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 3:0:0:1: CD-ROM HP Virtual CD 4607 1028 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 2928904192 512-byte logical blocks: (1.49 TB/1.36 TiB) sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 51x/51x caddy sr 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 sr 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 usb-storage: device scan complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 10 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk and of ls -l /dev brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 ene 26 10:02 /dev/sdb brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 17 ene 26 10:02 /dev/sdb1 brw-rw 1 root cdrom 11, 1 ene 26 10:02 /dev/sr1 any help would be greatly appreciated, i've been searching the web for days and found many people asking the same question, but no solution yet... best, lj
Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 24 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine it, or has something else happened? Sorry if this is a dumb response, but have you partitioned /or formatted them? Here I would use `ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/` to find UUIDs. A drive that was hot-swapped in, partitioned formatted since the system was booted is showing. Please excuse me if I'm misunderstanding your question. Stroller. As it happens, these were Fantom Green drives, which come with NTFS, but I had just reformatted with ext4. Thanks, though, I didn't know about that /dev/disk thing either... -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] system freeze
Hello, My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze?
Re: [gentoo-user] system freeze
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:40 +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: Hello, My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze? 1. check your hw with memtest, livecd, etc 2. set default values at cmos 3. check system log
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:19:36 -0200, luis jure wrote:
when i connect the disc, the system sees two devices: a hard disc (for
example /dev/sdb, that i can format with the usual tools) and a virtual
cd-rom (sr1 or sg1), that i'd like to erase but i don't know how to
manipulate.
If this works like the virtual CDROMS in 3G modems, you can get rid of it
with a udev rule that ejects the device as soon as it is detected.
ATTRS{idVendor}==1410, ATTRS{idProduct}==5010,
ACTION==add,RUN+=/usr/bin/eject %k
was the line I used to prevent one such modem showing up as a CD.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible
I have a TRENDnet TBW-105UB USB bluetooth adapter and Motorola H560
bluetooth headset, and I'm trying to use them with twinkle VOIP
software. I've spent at least 8 hours today following up with every
single lead and I can't figure out how this is supposed to work. I
think I don't have the 2 devices pairing. The instructions here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml
seem to be completely outdated. I installed blueman in the hopes that
it would help facilitate pairing, but I only get python errors when I
try to run the binaries. Is it gnome-only? I'm running xfce4.
Dumb question, Grant, but you are using the right passkey, right?
These headsets have it built into them, and you usually have to do something
like hold down the headset's power button for 4 or 6 seconds (instead of
just pushing it and letting go, as you would normally do to power on the
device) and the indicator light will flash (or flash more slowly than usual,
or change colour or in some other way indicate it's doing things
differently). This initiates pairing mode on the headset, and you have 10 or
20 seconds to pair.
The passkey of the headset is usually fixed at , but check the manual.
You can't change it, and you'll need to match your PC to that.
It seems like you're a bit frustrated by all this, the way you've posted
without giving us any information. If you're struggling with the concept of
pairing, then I suggest you try pairing the headset with your phone using
it, just to get the hang of it. If you don't have a bluetooth phone, maybe
you could borrow one? Usually headsets pair with phones pretty easily, first
or second time, just as soon as you've worked out which of the tiny little
buttons to hold in the right way for pairing. Once you've got this sussed
out it'll pair immediately - or even automatically - with your PC.
The article doesn't look *that* out of date to me, as it mentions ... with
=bluez-libs-3.x and =bluez-utils-3.x, pin helpers have been replaced...
and here on my systems versions 2.25 are still marked as stable. On the
other hand I see that 3.36 is marked as stable, too. :/
Stroller.
Thank you for taking the time to write, and I'm sorry my frustration
shined through. I got blueman running and everything is working now.
To get blueman running I had to use the dbus bluetooth.conf from here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/275470
and run blueman-applet and then blueman-manager.
That Gentoo Bluetooth page really is way out of date. I reverted back
to original everything, and the only info I needed from that page was
the kernel config. Absolutely nothing else necessary except for
emerging blueman, copying the dbus bluetooth.conf from above, and
starting /etc/init.d/bluetooth. That page refers to bluez-utils-3.*
and bluez-libs-3.* which are both deprecated and the config is
different. bluetooth stuff in portage depends on bluez-4.* which
blocks the other two.
Also, it was necessary to add the following to /etc/asound.conf and
specify bluetooth for the alsa devices in twinkle:
pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth
device 00:1F:82:14:7F:11
}
You mentioned that the headset's PIN can't be changed. Couldn't
anybody pair with it if they enter ?
- Grant
Using the blueman-1.21 ebuild is really the secret to success here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289902
All that is required is emerge bluez, reload dbus, start bluetooth,
emerge blueman-1.21, config asound.conf as above, and restart
alsasound.
Has anyone gotten bluetooth pairing without a GUI tool such as
blueman? That's the impossible part.
- Grant
[gentoo-user] xfce4 systray malfunctioning
My wife and I have identical Dell Vostro 1320 laptops and I've always tried to keep their configs the same. The xfce4 systray on mine works perfectly, but my wife's has always malfunctioned and I've never been able to figure out why. xfce4 panel plugins work perfectly, but other applications such as orage, blueman, wicd, and twinkle which should appear in the systray do not. The systray icon for twinkle actually shows up in the center of the screen, but the icons for the rest do not show up at all. I'm not sure where to start with this, does anyone have any ideas? I just completed an emerge -e world so nothing should need rebuilding. - Grant
[gentoo-user] POT (partly offtopic): Firefox + Polipo + Tor switching advice needed...
Hi, I successfully configured firefox to work with tor over polipo. And I successfully configured firefox to work with polipo without tor. But anything I tried to conveniently switch firefox to either use tor or not to tor ended up in ugly scripts, which switch config files for polipo and/or tor before killing tor/polipo process and restart new ones ended in mess and misbehaviour. I tried torbutton and read bad things of disappearing bookmarks when doing so. I tried foxproxy and read on the torbutton homepage, that this is not save. For unknown reasons, DNS calls leaked unencrypted when using tor. Something with socks seems not to work in/with firefox?!?!?!?! I am using firefox 3.5.7. My goal is to have ONE button to safely and securely switch between firefox with and without tor both with polipo. If someone know the ultimate solution or reason, why I am to [CENSORED] to manage this task; PLEASE HELP ME! : Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
[gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?
Hi, I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l 256 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l 325 They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm surprised to see so much of them... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?
Jarry writes: I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l 256 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l 325 They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm surprised to see so much of them... Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] system freeze
ok, it happened in X, and happened several times. I suspect it happens only when the screen is supposed to go to standby, but it's only suspicion, not a fact. I've changed the kernel settings lately, without installing the new kernel yet, and I'm about to do that now, with magic SysReq, just in case. I'm not sure if the system is really ideal, or just that application are unresponsive. While writing this mail I've managed to recreate the symptoms by pressing ctrl+alt+F1. I have an intel video card, and remember having some problems with it. What log should I check? I never tried to track down this kind of error in the past. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: Hello, My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze? What was it running at the time? (Was it *truly* idle or was it just not running userspace applications?) Was this in X or on the command line? It it was in X, have you tried the Magic SysReq Keys (provided that you have that compiled into the kernel; there have been many threads on this mailing list with more details, you can search for it)? If you reboot, is there anything suspicious in /var/log? Is this recurring, or has it only happened this one time? Have you performed any software/firmware/hardware updates recently? These are just some of the questions that immediately pop into my head. If you provide more information, I'm sure the list can help you sort this out. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?
On 26. 1. 2010 18:57, Alex Schuster wrote: I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l 256 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l 325 They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm surprised to see so much of them... Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines. Wonko Thanks for info. FYI I just checked some debian-machine and it has only 63 tty's and none pty. I always thought it had something to do with number of terminals started by inittab. Anyway, it looks so that udev is not dynamic for all kind of dev-files... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?
Am Dienstag 26 Januar 2010 19:20:27 schrieb Jarry: Anyway, it looks so that udev is not dynamic for all kind of dev-files... Well, it is. Lookup /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules, you'll find the rules for creating [pt]ty nodes there. Debian may have different rules in place. Bye... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?
Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l 256 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l 325 They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm surprised to see so much of them... Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines. Wonko Same thing here. It's a old install so I expected some old things before udev took over. I guess udev cleaned it up some. Seems normal tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
on 2010-01-26 at 14:28 Neil Bothwick wrote:
ATTRS{idVendor}==1410, ATTRS{idProduct}==5010,
ACTION==add,RUN+=/usr/bin/eject %k
was the line I used to prevent one such modem showing up as a CD.
thanks for your answer, but i take it that this only hides the
partition? any ideas how i can effectively delete it?
Re: [gentoo-user] system freeze
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:09:27PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: ok, it happened in X, and happened several times. I suspect it happens only when the screen is supposed to go to standby, but it's only suspicion, not a fact. I've changed the kernel settings lately, without installing the new kernel yet, and I'm about to do that now, with magic SysReq, just in case. I'm not sure if the system is really ideal, or just that application are unresponsive. While writing this mail I've managed to recreate the symptoms by pressing ctrl+alt+F1. I have an intel video card, and remember having some problems with it. What log should I check? I never tried to track down this kind of error in the past. kernel log, maybe. (If you use metalog, the default should be under /var/log/kernel/) X log (/var/log/Xorg.?.log) If your computer has sshd open, you can try to ssh-in from another computer. If you can get in, at least you don't have a full-blown kernel panic. What kernel settings did you tweak? Installed a new kernel maybe? Which kernel version? With an intel video card, are you using kernel mode setting? Do you have a previous kernel where everything is working? If so, what are the diffs between the configs? [Yes, a situation like this is why it is nice to either save your kernel configs or save the old bzimage with /proc/config.gz enabled.] Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* tty* - is it normal?
Looks different on my machine: # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l zsh: no matches found: /dev/pty* 0 # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l 65 It may have something to do with your kernel settings. Device Drivers-Character devices-Unix98 PTY support is enabled Device Drivers-Character devices-Legacy (BSD) PTY support is disabled here -Stefan On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:57:33PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l 256 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l 325 They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm surprised to see so much of them... Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines. Wonko pgpCEg6oTcCJ1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:19 AM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, i purchased recently an external usb disk (HP SimpleSave, 1.5 TB). i re-formatted it with an ext4 file system, but i can't get rid of the virtual cd created by the manufacturer with some backup software. I don't think it is possible to remove it. Disks with this kind of helpful stuff are annoying because of violating corporate policies, being seen as non-hdd by some devices that accept external hard drives (like a dvr, media center etc). A quick googling basically said that people who don't like it sold it and bought a different brand... I think Neil's on the right track, you can make a udev rule to hide/disable/eject to it... I do not remember if udev has a blacklist functionality or not. maybe?
Re: [gentoo-user] POT (partly offtopic): Firefox + Polipo + Tor switching advice needed...
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I successfully configured firefox to work with tor over polipo. And I successfully configured firefox to work with polipo without tor. But anything I tried to conveniently switch firefox to either use tor or not to tor ended up in ugly scripts, which switch config files for polipo and/or tor before killing tor/polipo process and restart new ones ended in mess and misbehaviour. I tried torbutton and read bad things of disappearing bookmarks when doing so. I tried foxproxy and read on the torbutton homepage, that this is not save. For unknown reasons, DNS calls leaked unencrypted when using tor. Something with socks seems not to work in/with firefox?!?!?!?! I am using firefox 3.5.7. My goal is to have ONE button to safely and securely switch between firefox with and without tor both with polipo. If someone know the ultimate solution or reason, why I am to [CENSORED] to manage this task; PLEASE HELP ME! : Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc I think the safest way it to use a different user, or a virtual machine, with no access to outside networks, only access to the local tor (which in turn is only able to access outside or proxy). And use a tor-firefox and a non-tor-firefox. Trying to switch between secure/insecure on the same browser with cookies, bookmarks, etc seems too dangerous if you're really using tor for secure tasks. Even if you're just trying for fun beware that you don't know who is spying on your data. (encrypt everything) Also be sure to disable things like phishing site warnings, similar sites recommendations, etc; it causes queries to google/whoever about your current page. I tried Tor with firefox/torbutton/privoxy/noscript and it seemed to work. It was so slow it would take a lot of patience to do anything, trying to load the same page took several tries. It seemed like it can only perform 1 network thread at a time. I don't know if it's a limit of tor or privoxy or some configuration problem on my side.
Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is lightyears ahead of any other and there are clients for windows/mac/solaris and it uses ssh already so no need to mess with tunnelling. It can also proxy local VNC and RDP connections to make them faster, too. I tried nxserver-freenx. The performance is indeed impressive. Yet it didn't work 'out-of-the-box'. I had to assign write perms over /tmp, as nx user is attempting to write to that folder. FYI. Amit
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:56:12 -0200, luis jure wrote:
ATTRS{idVendor}==1410, ATTRS{idProduct}==5010,
ACTION==add,RUN+=/usr/bin/eject %k
was the line I used to prevent one such modem showing up as a CD.
thanks for your answer, but i take it that this only hides the
partition? any ideas how i can effectively delete it?
You can't if it is in the drive's firmware. It's not a physical partition
if repartitioning the drive doesn't touch it. ejecting the CD means it
is no longer present, that's why the device disappears.
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
on 2010-01-26 at 20:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: any ideas how i can effectively delete it? You can't if it is in the drive's firmware. i see. if i understand correctly, i'd need a specific tool to overwrite the firmware. is that correct?
Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 00:01:54 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is lightyears ahead of any other and there are clients for windows/mac/solaris and it uses ssh already so no need to mess with tunnelling. It can also proxy local VNC and RDP connections to make them faster, too. I tried nxserver-freenx. The performance is indeed impressive. Yet it didn't work 'out-of-the-box'. I had to assign write perms over /tmp, as nx user is attempting to write to that folder. /tmp MUST have write permissions anyway. It needs to be 777 plus sticky dir as the entire point of it is for any user to write to it So your box was broken. If it had been fixed, nx would probably have worked out the box -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4rc2 Network Manager Applet
Hi All, I've just installed KDE 4.3.95 from the kde overlay and was expecting the network manager applet to be installed by default but it doesn't appear to be. Does anyone know how I install this? Is it an ebuild that's not part of the @kde-4.4 set? Cheers, Dave.
Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically
I'm still trying to figure this out! Two screens - one screen is easy. When I undock, I just run: $ xrandr -s 1920x1200 to set the resolution to that of my laptop LCD. All good. When I dock however, I have to run this sequence of commands: $ ./nv-control-dpy --probe-dpys $ ./nv-control-dpy --set-associated-dpys 0x5 $ ./nv-control-dpy --add-metamode DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1200 +0+0, DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1200 +1920+0 $ xrandr -s 0 -r 118 The output of probe-dpys gives me the mask to use, and the output of add-metamode gives me 118 which I pass on to xrandr. This lays out the monitors in the right order, but now the external LCD is black except for the cursor! There's stuff on it (I can drag windows to and from it, click on icons)... Any more ideas? Please?! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you.
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
I had this problem with a SanDisk usb drive. Its been years since I did this but If my memory serves me correct I had to go to the SanDisk website and download a program for windows to remove the problem. I don't know if there is a linux alternative to something like this but I know how annoying it can be. I know there not the same brand but have you tried there website for something like this. I would think they would provide an option to remove the annoyance. Of course google might help as well. On 20:29/01/26/10, luis jure wrote: on 2010-01-26 at 20:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: any ideas how i can effectively delete it? You can't if it is in the drive's firmware. i see. if i understand correctly, i'd need a specific tool to overwrite the firmware. is that correct?
[gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam
Not too long ago there was a question here about why pam is needed (or not) but I can't find that thread at the moment :-/ Anyway, I said that I put auth sufficient pam_ssh.so in my /etc/pam.d/system-auth file so that I can ssh between the machines on my home network using my ssh key for login authentication *instead* of a password. Well, Neil said that I don't need pam for that because sshd handles ssh logins automatically, whether by key or password. I deleted that line from system-auth and found that I could indeed ssh between machines using my ssh key, just as Neil said. However... Then I remembered that the *real* reason I added that line to system-auth is so that I can login directly (not via ssh) to my local machines using my ssh passphrase instead of an ordinary password. (This seems inherently more secure to me, but I could be wrong.) After thinking awhile I realized that pam can be used to combine muliple forms of authentication to reduce the well documented risk of single-factor authentication (like our traditional password system). Example: if I have an ordinary password, plus an ssh key stored on a USB stick, plus a biometric device like an eye scanner or a fingerprint scanner, I can then use any or all of those methods to identify myself to the system by configuring pam in the appropriate way. Any sysadmins out there that can confirm my reasoning?
Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically
I configure xorg.conf for the laptop screen only and use nvidia-setting to setup twinview mode for the external screen (it does not require to restart X). It works fine so far. Hope this help Hung On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.auwrote: Hi all, For a long time I've been using nvidia's twinview for two 1920x1200 displays (laptop and external LCD). Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also since two screens is the Default I have to do this when I log in with only the laptop. I am looking for a way to use the command line nvidia-settings (as much as I've studied the help I can't find out how to do it - all attributes seem read-only to the command line nvidia-settings) Then I can call nvidia-settings --some-options on a dock / undock event. Alternatively, I read in the nvidia-drivers README that you can use metamodes and then use the FN-F8 (CRT/LCD switch key) to switch between them. However, when I use metamodes I always get a 3840 wide screen, and I can scroll left and right to the unseen space. These are the metamodes I've tried: 1. The two-screen only metamode: Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0 2. attempt to use a 1920 metamode as well: Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200; DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0 3. attempt 2: Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0; DFP-0: 1920x1200 +0+0, Here's my screen section (all other sections are basic): Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Device0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth24 Option TwinView 1 Option TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder DFP-2 Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0 SubSection Display Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Has anyone done a dynamic mode change with nvidia xinerama? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you have nothing to do, don't do it here. -- Hung Dang New Mexico State University
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:29:53 -0200, luis jure wrote: any ideas how i can effectively delete it? You can't if it is in the drive's firmware. i see. if i understand correctly, i'd need a specific tool to overwrite the firmware. is that correct? Why would you want to do that? The virtual CD is not taking up any space on the disk and it is no longer visible on your system once you eject it. Why would you want to risk turning the drive into a brick to get rid of it when it's not really there anyway? -- Neil Bothwick (A)bort (R)etry (S)ell it signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 18:04 -0700, Hung Dang wrote: I configure xorg.conf for the laptop screen only and use nvidia-setting to setup twinview mode for the external screen (it does not require to restart X). It works fine so far. Hope this help Hung thanks, but I wanted to get away from doing anything manually, and have the screens appear correct regardless of how I have them plugged in :) I'm almost there... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce
Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 01:25 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:29:53 -0200, luis jure wrote: any ideas how i can effectively delete it? You can't if it is in the drive's firmware. i see. if i understand correctly, i'd need a specific tool to overwrite the firmware. is that correct? Why would you want to do that? The virtual CD is not taking up any space on the disk oRly? Toshiba used to sell USB keys that came built in with a cd (or hd?) partition that you couldn't get rid of but it took up space. They provided a windows utility that could erase it, and give the space back to the primary partition. Don't know about the SimpleSave though. and it is no longer visible on your system once you eject it. Why would you want to risk turning the drive into a brick to get rid of it when it's not really there anyway? Because it's annoying? Because it's wrong? Because it's there? You could possibly turn off SCSI CDROM support in your kernel: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=n if you don't use it for anything else. Or you could stop the module sr_mod from loading automatically. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au On a clear disk you can seek forever.
[gentoo-user] Xterm slow start : partly solved
After reporting earlier that I had found a solution to the slow start of Xterm, the bug soon returned. I have had further discussions with Xterm's maintainer Thomas Dickey have made Xterm start instantly via USE=-toolbar. See Gentoo bug 293933 for details. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4rc2 Network Manager Applet
It's ok I found it. kde-misc/knetworkmanager. I had a local ebuild that was overriding it which didn't compile and that was confusing me. Cheers, Dave. On Wednesday 27 January 2010 10:16:37 Dave Oxley wrote: Hi All, I've just installed KDE 4.3.95 from the kde overlay and was expecting the network manager applet to be installed by default but it doesn't appear to be. Does anyone know how I install this? Is it an ebuild that's not part of the @kde-4.4 set? Cheers, Dave.
Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 02:34:56 walt wrote: After thinking awhile I realized that pam can be used to combine muliple forms of authentication to reduce the well documented risk of single-factor authentication (like our traditional password system). Example: if I have an ordinary password, plus an ssh key stored on a USB stick, plus a biometric device like an eye scanner or a fingerprint scanner, I can then use any or all of those methods to identify myself to the system by configuring pam in the appropriate way. Any sysadmins out there that can confirm my reasoning? This is not merely a nice thing you can use pam to do. It is the entirely reason for pam's existence and it was written to do nothing else. If all you need auth to do is validate a username/password you might as well stick with login pam is Pluggable Authentication Modules, meaning you use the modules you want to create the scheme you want. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
