Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-07 Thread damian
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. Can anyone help with

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine and Mplayer Sound problems

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Marzan
- Original Message - From: sean tech.j...@verizon.net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:17 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Xine and Mplayer Sound problems Recently whenever I try to play a CD, or a file such as an .avi, Xine instead generates a xine-out.wav

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Ralf Stephan
I would like to make FF stick to a specific VT, or just not switch VT when called from another. Possible? Are you talking about that ? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425879 Exactly, thanks! I guess that what you call a VT (virtual _terminal_) is a virtual workspace. To

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm using mutt as MUA in an xterm on VT1 and calling up, via urlview, FF on VT2 with a web page from a mail URL. Up to some time recently, Firefox only switched VT the first time I did this, now it does it every time, annoyingly. I would like to make FF stick to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:36:44PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It does not happen here. I'm on KDE 3.5.10. I'm using Gnome. I guess that the KDE's feature your are talking about is a duplicate feature with a Firefox one. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:36:44PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It does not happen here. I'm on KDE 3.5.10. I'm using Gnome. I guess that the KDE's feature your are talking about is a duplicate feature with a Firefox one. I don't think Firefox has any focus

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 06 January 2009 17:04:57 Mark Knecht wrote: For the sake of conversation how about emerge flags? My server: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python samba ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -slp -static -xinetd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:05:55PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I don't think Firefox has any focus setting. Is this just a FF problem or a general one? It's just a Firefox problem. Looking to the web, it doesn't seem to be WM related as the problem appears on various WM (not only KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:36:44PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm using mutt as MUA in an xterm on VT1 and calling up, via urlview, FF on VT2 with a web page from a mail URL. Up to some time recently, Firefox only switched VT the first time I did this, now it

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 7:08:12 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing On Tuesday 06 January 2009 18:44:46 BRM wrote: 1) Modify

[gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-07 Thread Momesso Andrea
I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness writeable for users, so that I don't need to be root anymore to change the brightness. Of course I can chown or chmod ot in local.start but I'm asking if there is a cleaner way. Also, are there any security risks on changing

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2009 17:04:57 Mark Knecht wrote: For the sake of conversation how about emerge flags? My server: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds

[gentoo-user] gtkradiant freezes all but mouse

2009-01-07 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi, it is very amiga like: the only thing working after starting radiant (gtkradiant) is the mouse pointer, but no window can be moved, closed, no workspace switched, no keyboard input leads to any reaction. I was running revdep-rebuild, but the problem still exists. What can i do to solve

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2009 07:26:44 schrieb Alan McKinnon: e1000e breaks the hardware e1000 does not break the hardware Or maybe it's the other way round Nope. None does. That bug was only present in one or two .27 release candidates and has been fixed since weeks. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-07 Thread Dale
Momesso Andrea wrote: I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness writeable for users, so that I don't need to be root anymore to change the brightness. Of course I can chown or chmod ot in local.start but I'm asking if there is a cleaner way. Also, are there any

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 19:43:54 Dale wrote: I have never did this but since /sys is populated during bootup, anything you change by hand will not survive a reboot. I would think you would have to find out what creates the file and then get it to create it with the permissions you want.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-07 Thread Grant
The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. Can anyone help with this? Chipset of the audio card? Laptop model? It's one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem: basically solved

2009-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
090106 Harry Putnam wrote: Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes: 090106 Willie Wong wrote: you may want to change the root line to root=purslow, so the mail gets sent to purslow instead of postmaster (which according to /etc/mail/aliases becomes root again). That doesn't work, but adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-07 Thread damian
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. Can anyone help with

Re: [gentoo-user] gtkradiant freezes all but mouse

2009-01-07 Thread damian
This don't address your original problem, but it is just a tip to use when X freezes (so you don't have to reboot): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key To use the keys compile the kernel with CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ set. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Frank Schwidom schwi...@gmx.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-07 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 19:43:54 Dale wrote: I have never did this but since /sys is populated during bootup, anything you change by hand will not survive a reboot. I would think you would have to find out what creates the file and then get it to create it with

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either.

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness writeable for users, so that I don't need to be root anymore to change the brightness. Of course I can chown or chmod ot in local.start but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-07 Thread damian
You guys might need to specify your specific model of hda-intel in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa since it may not be auto-detecting the capabilities of which chipset your laptop has. For example on my desktop I added this line: options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig I remember I also tried that, but

[gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-07 Thread Grant
I'd like to restrict the websites one of the computers on my network can access in Firefox. It only needs to access 2 different domain names and I don't want it to be able to access any others. I can restrict it at the router if necessary because the router is a Gentoo system. Does anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to restrict the websites one of the computers on my network can access in Firefox. It only needs to access 2 different domain names and I don't want it to be able to access any others. I can restrict it at the router

[gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH client at work, I don't want a co-worker to be able to login

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH client at work, I don't want a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:01:14 Paul Hartman wrote: I guess I should have tried before asking! Every HOWTO/tutorial I googled seemed to really emphasize the no more password entry! aspect of key login. Thanks. That's right: no more password logins. However, you should (optionaly) lock

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Jones
Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH client at work, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Jones
Norberto Bensa wrote on 08/01/09 01:11: On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:01:14 Paul Hartman wrote: I guess I should have tried before asking! Every HOWTO/tutorial I googled seemed to really emphasize the no more password entry! aspect of key login. Thanks. That's right: no more

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Martin
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:06:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've seen a dev complain that most of the problems he's had to deal with have been due to oldconfig, so I don't use it at all. I copy the config in from the previous tree, then I run menuconfig and search for

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Shawn Haggett
Dave Jones wrote: Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH

[gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the default file every time I reboot my computer. Does anyone has similar problem before? Thanks, Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread KH
Hung Dang schrieb: Hi all, I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the default file every time I reboot my computer. Does anyone has similar problem before? Thanks, Hung I had a problem like this when I used vpn. Never solved it so. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Martin
Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the default file every time I reboot my computer. Does anyone has similar problem before? Thanks, Hung dhcpcd does this. Are you running dhcp on the machine?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Martin
KH wrote: Hung Dang schrieb: Hi all, I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the default file every time I reboot my computer. Does anyone has similar problem before? Thanks, Hung I had a problem like this when I used vpn. Never solved it so. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread Hung Dang
Eric Martin wrote: Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the default file every time I reboot my computer. Does anyone has similar problem before? Thanks, Hung dhcpcd does this. Are you running dhcp on the machine? # Generated by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-07 Thread Matt Harrison
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are any applications still around that haven't moved to ssh. Exposing the root user to an already unsafe transmission is asking for trouble IMHO.

[gentoo-user] Best and most gentoo-compatible PC

2009-01-07 Thread iprmaster
Hi everybody, I am going to buy a new desktop PC and, because of some reasons I cannot explain here in details, I have to choose among these configurations (ordered by increasing price ;-) ): 1. FSC ESPRIMO P5625 E80+ uBTX: MCP78B Chipset AMD Phenom X3 8450 (2,1 GHz) TripleCore(1,5MBSLC),