Re: [gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:51:51 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (2) IIRC I'm signed up for Gentoo lists as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', so it looks as if I will need to resubscribe under the new ISP (I have a reply-to header pointing to my UoT address, but I delete it from

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 08:06:38 Robert Bridge wrote: I have done this a couple times and it has always worked well for me. Hope that helps. Or just run your own email server... It makes life so much easier. :) Or just get a gmail address for mailing lists, then there's no maintenance at

Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable the display power save mode

2008-08-26 Thread Zhou Rui
2008/8/25 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 25 August 2008, Zhou Rui wrote: 2008/8/25 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or if you want to save the planet you could just press Alt every time you want to wake up the console screen - it works over here. You know, I'm testing some application would

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

2008-08-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say, minutes)? Software? Steps?

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Can anyone suggest how to revert to my xorg.conf configuration, and to make left shift a proper modifier key, again? Thank you, Liviu The easiest way probably is to disable input hotplugging: Put the following line in Section ServerFlags in the xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices false -

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

2008-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34:00PM +0400, Penguin Lover Andrew Gaydenko squawked: I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say, minutes)? Software? Steps? If you worry just about display, look at

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

2008-08-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Willie Wong wrote: === On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34:00PM +0400, Penguin Lover Andrew Gaydenko squawked: I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say,

[gentoo-user] Re: OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-08-26, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2008 08:06:38 Robert Bridge wrote: I have done this a couple times and it has always worked well for me. Hope that helps. Or just run your own email server... It makes life so much easier. :) Or just get a gmail

[gentoo-user] Re: building kde-meta

2008-08-26 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Is is OK (a good idea) to place -nsl into the make.conf settings? Gut feel tells me to leave well enough alone in this case. Well, I did it anyway and all is fine. I intend to add -nls, to servers, firewalls, routers, GNAP and such, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
080826 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-08-25, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. (1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers Zoom x4 ADSL : = 8

[gentoo-user] prelink on AMD64 with no --conserve-memory

2008-08-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
(I originally posted this on gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64, but even though GMane authorized me to post there, my posts don't get through. So I'm reposting it here.) Usually, when prelinking a system, it's recommended to use prelink's -m (or --conserve-memory) option: When assigning addresses

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thank you a lot, Sascha. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following line in Section ServerFlags in the xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices false This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 20:06:57 schrieb Liviu Andronic: Thank you a lot, Sascha. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following line in Section ServerFlags in the xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices false This worked like a charm. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink on AMD64 with no --conserve-memory

2008-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 26. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: (I originally posted this on gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64, but even though GMane authorized me to post there, my posts don't get through. So I'm reposting it here.) Usually, when prelinking a system, it's recommended to use prelink's -m (or

[gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4

2008-08-26 Thread James
Hello, It fails to build on one particular system: Traceback (most recent call last): File configure.py, line 30, in module import sipconfig ImportError: No module named sipconfig make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. * ERROR: dev-python/PyQt4-4.3.3 failed. * Call

[gentoo-user] solved: dev-python/PyQt4

2008-08-26 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: OOPS, Further goolgling led me to bug 218874: reemerging dev-python/sip fixed this bug for me. fixed and closed. James

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? It would, but I find runtime-tuning much easier and transparent. input-hotplugging really is a fine thing, if you get a little time

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 23:09:37 schrieb Liviu Andronic: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? It would, but I find runtime-tuning much easier and transparent.

[gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Oxley
All, I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. So using fdisk I deleted partition 4 and recreated it from the same position