Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for cvs-version of sci-visualization/paraview

2009-05-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 May, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009 20:17:10 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: can anybody please tell me where to find or whom to ask for an ebuild paraview- (the cvs-version of paraview) I'd suggest tweaking latest ebuild yourself. It

[gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD discovered that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found. I've searched the Forum (more noise than signal as usual) Bugs: nothing. I tested the drive: SystemRescue

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 15 May, Philip Webb wrote: For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD discovered that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found. I've searched the Forum (more noise than signal as usual) Bugs: nothing.

[gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and reinstalled kino, but the same thing happens.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread Saphirus Sage
dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and reinstalled kino, but the same

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
090515 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 May, Philip Webb wrote: BIOS reports Auto-detecting PATA primary master: ATAPI CD-ROM. Is your CDwriter a SATA device? Here, 2.6.29-r3 works just fine with my SATA-dvd-writer. Well, BIOS believes it's PATA . Anyway, that didn't change. I suspect some

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
Saphirus Sage wrote: dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and reinstalled

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD discovered that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found. I've searched the Forum (more noise than signal as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 12:25:07 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files? /tongue_in_cheek

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 May 2009 18:03:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: So I think setting it in xorg.conf is easier, but at least it is not absolutely required

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 18:03:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: So I think setting it in xorg.conf is easier, but at

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 18:03:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: So I think setting it in xorg.conf is easier, but at

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Since the new xorg-server was a complete flop here, when will this devicekit option be coming? Please tell me it will be easier that hal is. It (xorg+hal/fdi config) has worked fine for me since day 1 (and continues to work),

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 May 2009 18:42:10 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 18:03:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: So I think setting it in

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Since the new xorg-server was a complete flop here, when will this devicekit option be coming? Please tell me it will be easier that hal is. It (xorg+hal/fdi config) has worked

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Since the new xorg-server was a complete flop here, when will this devicekit option be coming? Please tell me it will be easier that hal is. It (xorg+hal/fdi config) has worked fine for me since

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for cvs-version of sci-visualization/paraview

2009-05-15 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:29:08AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 15 May, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009 20:17:10 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: can anybody please tell me where to find or whom to ask for an ebuild paraview- (the

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 18:42:10 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 18:03:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's design is a mish- mash of stuff throwwn together. At

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's design is a mish-

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Aaron Clark
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and

[gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's design is a mish- mash of stuff throwwn

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 May 2009 22:38:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a

[gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 22:38:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly bare bones, for now, no X, haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 May 2009 22:51:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009 22:38:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread Chema Alonso
maxim wexler escribió: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly bare bones, for now, no

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread Matt Harrison
James Ausmus wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com mailto:bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:07:56 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I for one would be interested in a writeup like this. I've been getting gentoo onto my eee, and its going well. I'm just missing the finer details like hotkeys, suspend on lid closing and tweaking the intel drivers. For suspend, use

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD discovered that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found. I tested the drive:

[gentoo-user] Copying encrypted files from a DVD

2009-05-15 Thread Grant
I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs. The files are encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them up. I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm guessing it's because of the encryption. Does anyone know of a method that would back these

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) gotten my wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I have a full install with kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* smooth and fast

[gentoo-user] Re: Copying encrypted files from a DVD

2009-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs. The files are encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them up. I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm guessing it's because of the encryption. Does anyone know of a method that would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying encrypted files from a DVD

2009-05-15 Thread Grant
I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs.  The files are encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them up.  I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm guessing it's because of the encryption.  Does anyone know of a method that would back these

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying encrypted files from a DVD

2009-05-15 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2009/5/15 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com: I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs.  The files are encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them up.  I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm guessing it's because of the encryption.  Does anyone