Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-08 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:23:13 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Set in in xorg.conf. there's a thread on the forums that deals with this using HAL fdi files, but those are not deprecated for Xorg. Whoops, don't know how that not crept in, HAL

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 04:33:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I tried chvt 1 by hand and it generates the same color flash as the automatic switch to the console while shutting down my box. I suspect this may be an artifact from your monitor switching resolutions, in which case the fix is to

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Where's the common ground to combine all of that into one repository? The idea is a pipe dream. Fairly simple: use different branches. Hopefully, several distros would aggree on a common base, but thats not mandatory. The main point is, that

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:30:55 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf Which list? You've been cross-posting to multiple lists, was that announcement cross-posted

[gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Remy Blank
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can just be sourced by another bash script, which could

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 00:56:52 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. Are you running some kind of propaganda campaign here where you whinge about

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I was trying to slog through all the libpng problems on one of my machines last night but ran into a different issue late in the evening where cmake wouldn't build. I haven't been reading this list all

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-08 Thread covici
Kyle Bader kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Iotop is for io and the kernel support is through netlink. Aside On 7/7/10, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Jarry mr.jarry at gmail.com writes: I would like to see in console current network transfer rate for given interface, similar as

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:30:55 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf Which list? You've been cross-posting to multiple lists,

[gentoo-user] udev boot errors - unable to access device

2010-07-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, I updated sys-fs/udev-149 yesterday and noticed some uevent errors during boot today. They went by too fast for me to catch them, but they said something about udevent: unable to access device/000/000 . mouse and another about event9. Do I ignore, delete permanent udev rules, or do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as mplayer-git, before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt patch, mplayer-uau adds more

[gentoo-user] vim(1) barks at root, and no other

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
For some reason, when I use vim as 'root' I get sporadic messages no protocol specified that show up on the console, in such a way that I think it's going to /dev/console. It gets into the text I'm editing, but isn't really there because ^L clears it. Save for some abbreviations related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    I was trying to slog through all the libpng problems on one of my machines last night but ran into a different issue late in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 06:59 PM, Stroller wrote: On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as mplayer-git, before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt

[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, I get configuration error -

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, I

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: I see there's a 2.8.1-r2 release this morning. Hopefully that will solve my problems. Cheers, Mark Ahhh, you are running unstable. I'm stable and using dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3 so the fact that I have had no issues may be because I am still on stable. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Grant
Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? mplayer-mt is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. Is there a way to either do that specifically, or to follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jul 2010, at 18:37, Grant wrote: ... Also thanks to Stroller for clearing up the mplayer/mplayer-uau situation. I have to admit that I'm not entirely clear on the matter. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jul 2010, at 17:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Are you sure about this characterisation? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/56008 Thanks. I missed that one. I would have expected to have caught it, had they cross-posted to -user. AIUI Uoti maintains that

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 08:37 PM, Grant wrote: Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? mplayer-mt is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:10:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out: On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [snip] Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the greeting? If you are using PAM for

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? /etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. I thought /etc/issue was for the *getty programs to emit a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Grant
Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? mplayer-mt is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding.  I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support.  There

[gentoo-user] emacs font problem

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
Recently emacs (running in X window mode) seems to have developed a font problem. There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and unfilled rectangles: 1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops up containing nothing but black filled rectangles.

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs font problem

2010-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: Recently emacs (running in X window mode) seems to have developed a font problem. There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and unfilled rectangles: 1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 11:28 PM, Grant wrote: Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? mplayer-mt is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest

[gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
How should I view .m4v files with totem. Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? I have used the following, which works, but the video quality is bad ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi totem file.avi thanks, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? /etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff like telnet and rlogin, never

[gentoo-user] Cannot upgrade kde-base/superkaramba

2010-07-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I tried the last days to do a emerge -avuDN world but it fails at the package kde-base/superkaramba-4.4.4 I get the error message: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libsuperkaramba.so CMakeFiles/superkaramba.dir/python/meter.o: In function `QString2PyString(QString)':