[gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hi, I got a second monitor and have KDE running in xinerama big screen mode without problems. Most everything works great but every game that I tried was streched over both screens when in fullscreen and gets so unplayable for me. Xinerama useflag is set and xinerama is loaded by X without

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 01.01.2013 13:21, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: Hi, I got a second monitor and have KDE running in xinerama big screen mode without problems. Most everything works great but every game that I tried was streched over both screens when in fullscreen and gets so unplayable for me. Xinerama

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Francisco Ares
2012/12/31 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:35:52 -0200 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: If my colleagues would at least be kind enough to have OpenOffice installed on their machines also... Will they let you boot a usb? I don't think so. Most of them

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Francisco Ares
2012/12/31 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: ... The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. But h264 in an AVI is invalid. AVI

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2013-01-01 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/31/2012 17:10, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there with UUID, but

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: The other wiki has a page[1] about building an initramfs that includes a section on writing a linuxrc script to support exactly that. I have since switched to Genkernel, but I used to have a hand-built initramfs

[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Analuin Abyssbeholder
Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy tav...@gentoo.org tav...@gentoo.org (21 Mar 2006) # masked pending unresolved security issues

[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Analuin Abyssbeholder
I'm sorry for the last email. My gmail made a mistake by sending an incomplete draft. Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 Analuin Abyssbeholder cntq...@gmail.com wrote: Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2013-01-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but now it's gone. I don't know if anyone is working on bring it back. found this:

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2013-01-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but now it's gone. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but now it's gone. I don't know

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-31, Francisco Ares wrote: 2012/12/30 Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: [...] Keep in mind that the support for videos in powerpoint presentations will vary greatly across different powerpoint versions, windows versions and even across

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: ... The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. But h264 in an AVI is invalid. AVI is dated and just plain

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 Analuin Abyssbeholder cntq...@gmail.com wrote: Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:16:25 -0200 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think so. Most of them are very basic level users, and they just have to have the same software, and it's gotta be from M$ - nothing out of main stream. But what is your point? Boot an OS with office that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: ... The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread James
Hello, Background: I have a gentoo system with a fried ethernet (interface) on an older motherboard. I installed a pci ethernet card that works fine for years. Lately, udev and the myriad of related upgrades, have made it so services (sshd, cupsd, etc) are wigged out now. So I rebuilt the 3.4.9

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Background: I have a gentoo system with a fried ethernet (interface) on an older motherboard. I installed a pci ethernet card that works fine for years. Lately, udev and the myriad of related upgrades, have made it

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
130102 Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask the version in Portage. The bug is that any user in the games group can edit all save files, so if

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2013-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/12/12 15:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to use that works, it's probably only

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 01.01.2013 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: With that, fullscreen applications work for me. Some still deactivate the second display or change the resolution but otherwise it works just fine. I tried it and it does not help at all, nothing changed. The games still stretch over both screens