Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Elias Probst
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 14:54:15 schrieb Erik: I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff command, but for RGBA images). I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and A.png are the same file,

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Server Tools

2008-01-13 Thread Elias Probst
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 09:53:36 schrieb Sergey Kobzar: I prefer to use portage tree for additional software. That's why I chose Gentoo. -- Sergey Use the open-vm-tools. They work quite fine and contain all features provided by the previous closed source ones. Regards, Elias P. -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Elias Probst
Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 11:40:10 schrieb Mick: Hi All, Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have repeatedly failed to log in? I think you're looking for: net-analyzer/fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org) Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number:

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

2007-09-26 Thread Elias Probst
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 20:59:55 schrieb Herbert Laubner: I think, it has to be a stupid mistake. I did windose ~ # chown herbert /home/herbert/.ssh windose ~ # chgrp users /home/herbert/.ssh but this did not help?? Do a 'chown -R herbert:users ~/.ssh' because your executed command

Re: [gentoo-user] Elicit choice of browser when highlighting URL

2007-09-14 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 14 September 2007 15:54:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At some time in the recent past, something in my desktop setup knew when I highlighted a URL, and a little list would pop up in the bottom right corner of desktop with a short list of possible browsers to handle that type of URL. I

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernets

2007-09-11 Thread Elias Probst
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 20:51:44 James wrote: I assume that the eth1 problem is a vestige of removing an old card and replacing it with a newer one. I just cannot find what to remove or re-initiate to get the sequence of nic assignments to be eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3. I looked at

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to make an ebuild

2007-08-29 Thread Elias Probst
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 21:11:14 Noud Aldenhoven wrote: I was trying to make an ebuild for a small MUD client (tinyfugue). But it doesn't seem to work correct. When I try to compile it I get an ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ERROR from sandbox because I tried to access /usr/bin. I'd recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 19 August 2007 19:52:01 Florian Philipp wrote: Sort answer: No. Long answer: Yes, but it's complicated. Look at this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/186864/focus=186874 An easier way: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/181809/focus=181813

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.cflags

2007-08-10 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 10 August 2007 22:16:31 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! Is there any sensible reason why it is not possible to change cflags and cxxflags on a per-package base like useflags? I think gcc's default behavior is to use the last given setting if you specify for example -O2 and -O3 at the

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Elias Probst
Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller: Hi there, I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number:

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching virtual desktops in KDE with Xinerama

2007-07-06 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 06 July 2007 23:36:29 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi Can I switch virtual desktops in KDE with Xinerama separately on each screen? I know that it can be done without Xinerama(by using two X11 screens), but I might have the ability moving windows between screens - with Xinerama I can

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI tools for iptables?

2007-07-01 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 01 July 2007 12:42:33 Paul Waring wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:05:14PM +0800, sain yan wrote: It`s dificulte to me for setup iptables!!! Are there any GUI tools in profiles??? There are plenty of GUIs out there - just google for 'iptables GUI' and you'll find dozens of

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 04:53:36 Dale wrote: Well, I read through the how to, I had all that done already, I just never had removed the arts USE flag. The sounds works but it is slow to respond and sometimes it just doesn't catch up at all. This is mostly while switching desktops or something

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:38:49 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 16:38:35 Mick wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 15:06, Dale wrote: If it wants to play more than one sound, it only plays one. One way I noticed this is if I put my mouse on the bottom where the desktop selection thing is then move the wheel, it only plays one sound, the

Re: [gentoo-user] slow vmware guest

2007-06-20 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 21 June 2007 02:35:25 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Has anyone found a solution to a linux guest under a linux host where the guest's clock ticks slowly or quickly depending on different factors? Take a look at VMware's timekeeping guide:

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Elias Probst
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:20:22 Thierry de Coulon wrote: Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? Thierry IMHO aRts isn't necessary any longer since there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and

Re: [gentoo-user] some scratchy/static noise from Intel High-Def Audio

2007-06-02 Thread Elias Probst
Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2007 08:11:11 schrieb Denis: When I first installed and configured all ALSA-related things, the sound was working perfectly fine, and I was quite pleased. Now, about a week later, I've started picking up this rather annoying scratchy static noise while using Audacious. It

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail

2007-05-20 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 20 May 2007 14:53:06 Jure Varlec wrote: As, for the solution, it seem Kleopatra wants app-crypt/dirmngr, emerging it solved my problem. I'm not sure why relevant KDE apps don't depend on it. If kleopatra and other KDE apps really need dirmngr and it's not yet set as a dependency in

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote: Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that Linux is also

Re: [gentoo-user] should dual-core Pentium Processor Extreme Edition be recognized as two processors or one?

2007-05-12 Thread Elias Probst
On Saturday 12 May 2007 18:03:07 Denis wrote: But when I load top, it only lists stats about one processor. - Press '1' in top. - Take a look at the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo - .config seems to be ok Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number: 09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-10 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 10 May 2007 09:29:54 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:08, Elias Probst wrote: Oups, you're right. emerge fontconfig did the trick for me! Ugly rendering of Konsole and password bullets has gone. Glad this helped. :) The only thing I noticed is that when I launch

Re: [gentoo-user] I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-09 Thread Elias Probst
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:55:42 Daevid Vincent wrote: I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. Workstation 5.5.3). Works great. I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory called LAMP. I edited the .vmx file changing the appropriate paths. Now when I start the new VM,

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-09 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:33:34 Mick wrote: Unless the string you suggested above is wrong you may want to also emerge fontconfig to see if it makes any difference? Thanks again. :) Oups, you're right. emerge fontconfig did the trick for me! Ugly rendering of Konsole and password bullets

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:02:41 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] lbx and X under Gentoo

2007-05-03 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 03 May 2007 17:49:05 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, is there some black magic or a USE flag one needs to know to get the LBX extension into a X-Server for gentoo? LBX was removed from X.org since 7.1 (7.0 should still provide it). Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop

2007-04-30 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:19:12 Colleen Beamer wrote: Then it says: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device I probably did something wrong, but I've started from scratch 3 times and I get the same problem. I've used genkernel and it looks like sata support has been built in. Try to add

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 30 April 2007 23:18:00 darren kirby wrote: quoth the Roy Wright: Also I don't understand how or where the menu structure is defined on disk. Any good references? Have a look in ~/.kde/share/applnk Take also a look at ~/.local/share/applnk Regards, Elias P. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-19 Thread Elias Probst
On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:36:07 Rostislav wrote: Seems like it wasn't changed with daylight savings change. Use hwclock --systohc to set hardware clock to the current system time. If you don't use a dualboot system, just the this option in /etc/conf.d/clock: # If you want to set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-18 Thread Elias Probst
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 02:29:56 Grant wrote: I switched from The Wonder Shaper and started using shorewall configs and it's working great. I can't get ipp2p to identify bittorrent traffic though, so I have the default set up for really low priority. Thanks for your help! This is fun. -

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel net eth1 but no eth1

2007-04-18 Thread Elias Probst
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:06:46 Helmut Jarausch wrote: How can I make the kernel bring up 'eth0' instead of 'eth1'. Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules If you just delete this file, your devicenames will be regenerated by

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 15 April 2007 14:36:16 b.n. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Notice the sharp drop after 27 years of age and the second irregular distribution around 43-45. I wait for interpretations. I'm going to raise the 20th amplitude even more: eliasp ~ # genlop -c * life-base/age-22

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enable package specific FEATURES and CFLAGS?

2007-04-14 Thread Elias Probst
On Saturday 14 April 2007 13:28:26 Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I always want to build evolution and evolution-data-server with: CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O1 -ggdb -pipe FEATURES=splitdebug http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-472386-highlight-bashrcng.html Using portage-bashrc-ng you can do this. Pay

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:52:01 Pongracz Istvan wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a nice audio subsystem, called 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) I have some problems with it: no master volume, skype

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:06:55 Elias Probst wrote: I have an HP/Compaq nx9420 with an Intel HDA Chipset and Skype/Mic. is working fine here. I remember some troubles concerning KMix switching the capture LED of the Capture-Channel to off after 1-5 seconds, but IIRC it was working finally

Re: [gentoo-user] MSSQL command line Linux interface

2007-04-09 Thread Elias Probst
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 18:56:34 Mauro Faccenda wrote: Hi all, I need to do some simple tasks in a MSSQL Server from a Linux that have no X installed. I know I can tunnel a SSH connection and run any MSSQL in my own box, but I think it's more practical to have a cli gui for MSSQL, but I