Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

2009-09-25 Thread forgottenwizard
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:06:16PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect. So I ran

[gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Hi, I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend. I found where it says you can adjust brightness and contrast but they don't do anything. The screen looks fine outside of watching a show. Here

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Graham Murray
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend. I found where it says you can adjust brightness and contrast but they don't do anything. The screen looks fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:12 -0500, Dale wrote: Weird huh? Can't win either way. Maybe we need a 60 day burn in period before being sold. That should help a little at least. It's cheaper to let the customer do that and cover it under warranty. -- Neil Bothwick Those who can, do. Those

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Graham Murray wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend. I found where it says you can adjust brightness and contrast but they don't do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:12 -0500, Dale wrote: Weird huh? Can't win either way. Maybe we need a 60 day burn in period before being sold. That should help a little at least. It's cheaper to let the customer do that and cover it under warranty. Yea,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.1 : further queries

2009-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
090924 Philip Webb wrote: Thanks to all for the clarification re 'Systemsettings': I may try installing it + dependencies see whether it helps. Yes, it's installed works doesn't seem to do any damage. Moreover, it does allow modification of the toolbar eg in Okular, which is a definite

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago. I thought it was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago. I thought it was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man page and -I doesn't seem to show that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:16:58 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I downloaded CSI and a NCIS video a while ago. I'm trying to watch it but it is really dark. I am using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend. I found where

[gentoo-user] Bash Script that wraps Mplayer/Mencoder.

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Marza
I have a script currently called rip that rips DVDs to H.264 using x264 with mencoder. It always does 2 passes and runs 2 threads(uses two cores). It has many lines but I'm sure if we work together we can shorten the number of lines and add more functionality. Uhm...for now, it does what it is

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

2009-09-25 Thread Neil Walker
Maxim Wexler wrote: I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect. So I ran distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: iptables w/ 2 web servers

2009-09-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:30:51 James wrote: One last thing. I can get a small subnet of say 5 IP address from my ISP for an additional 20/month. That that help me? Possibly. If you manage to get two public IPs, each website using one, you can then DNAT requests arriving at the first

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-25 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 25 September 2009, James wrote: Hello, I keep getting this mesaage on one particulary system: existing preserved libs: package: sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3 * - /lib64/libreadline.so * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5 * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2 * used by

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-25 Thread James
Jonathan Callen (ABCD abcd at gentoo.org writes: Rather than rebuilding kalgebra, unmerge it completely then emerge it again. It might be a problem with the emerge process for that package not using the latest version for some reason, so it is rebuilding against the old libs (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd-5.1.1 compiling error

2009-09-25 Thread Hung Dang
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/25/2009 03:22 AM, Hung Dang wrote: walt wrote: On 09/24/2009 02:06 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I get the following errors when compiling net-misc/dhcpcd-5.1.1. Do you know which package net/if_dl.h and net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.h are belong to?

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-25 Thread James
Robin Atwood robin.atwood at attglobal.net writes: I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by deleting /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry with no ill effects (since revdep- rebuild was clean). I did this as well as the previous suggestions. I also rebuilt xulrunner, in an attempt

[gentoo-user] ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000081

2009-09-25 Thread Carlos Moyano Cubillos
Hi all, i geting this log every 2 seconds, it's filling up my logs (at this moment 17MB in /var/log/messages) don't know what means this or how to handled it. Can someone explain me its meaning and how to handle this event ? thank you very much in advance to all. here is my

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:16:58 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : further queries

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: Thanks for the advice so far. Here are some more obstacles encountered. Kworldview : no longer an independent app (as in 3.5.10), but seems to have been incorporated into Marble (no problem with that). I have a file

[gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Grant
Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Xavier Parizet
Grant a écrit : Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? Here with a Dell XPS Laptop M1330 and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M GS, it works fine with nvidia-drivers just plug it, and all its ok :) - Grant -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :C7DC B10E FC21 63BE B453 D239

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Grant
Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? Here with a Dell XPS Laptop M1330 and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M GS, it works fine with nvidia-drivers just plug it, and all its ok :) Thank you. I'm planning on getting a laptop with the Intel GMA 4500MHD. I thought HDMI had some type of copy protection

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

2009-09-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
That's why I never set up a linux system without mc. It's just so much easier when you can look inside an archive and manipulate files just as if it were part of the file system. :) I remember Midnight Commander from the old days but forgot how useful it could be. Anyway, the archive has

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 13:04 -0700, Grant wrote: Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? - Grant Here on a Sony Laptop with ATI/AMD Radeon gfx it works perfectly with both OSS drivers as well as the commercial drivers. They do also distinguish between the HDMI and the VGA output. Can be set

[gentoo-user] Re: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000081

2009-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/25/2009 10:26 AM, Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: Hi all, i geting this log every 2 seconds, it's filling up my logs (at this moment 17MB in /var/log/messages)... When did this begin? Did you just upgrade something, new kernel, etc?

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
fre 2009-09-25 klockan 13:25 -0700 skrev Grant: Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? Here with a Dell XPS Laptop M1330 and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M GS, it works fine with nvidia-drivers just plug it, and all its ok :) Thank you. I'm planning on getting a laptop with the Intel GMA

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? Here with a Dell XPS Laptop M1330 and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M GS, it works fine with nvidia-drivers just plug it, and all its ok :) Thank you. I'm planning on getting a laptop with

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:48 -0500, James Erickson wrote: You have to en/dis/able: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y CONFIG_KVM=m # CONFIG_KVM_INTEL is not set # CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set # CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set Daniel i am getting the following error: make[1]: Entering

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Grant
Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? Here with a Dell XPS Laptop M1330 and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M GS, it works fine with nvidia-drivers just plug it, and all its ok :) Thank you.  I'm planning on getting a laptop with the Intel GMA 4500MHD.  I thought HDMI had some type of copy

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd-5.1.1 compiling error

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/25/2009 07:08 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/25/2009 03:22 AM, Hung Dang wrote: walt wrote: On 09/24/2009 02:06 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I get the following errors when compiling net-misc/dhcpcd-5.1.1. Do you know which package net/if_dl.h and

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:58:35 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by deleting /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry with no ill effects (since revdep- rebuild was clean). No apparent ill effects. You now have the old, orphaned version of the library on

[gentoo-user] re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find that, naturally, many other files were missing too. I gave up after the third

[gentoo-user] Re: can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

2009-09-25 Thread walt
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 14:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: That's why I never set up a linux system without mc. It's just so much easier when you can look inside an archive and manipulate files just as if it were part of the file system. :) I remember Midnight Commander from the old days

Re: [gentoo-user] re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find that, naturally, many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000081

2009-09-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 September 2009, walt wrote: On 09/25/2009 10:26 AM, Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: Hi all, i geting this log every 2 seconds, it's filling up my logs (at this moment 17MB in /var/log/messages)... When did this begin? Did you just upgrade something, new kernel, etc? Not

[gentoo-user] Re: re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 12:35 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find that, naturally, many other

[gentoo-user] Re: re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread walt
On 09/25/2009 02:35 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find that, naturally, many other

[gentoo-user] How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-25 Thread KostyaSha
How to hotplug IDE hard drive? I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: How to hotplug IDE hard drive? I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? hdparm but you really don't hotplug ide devices. That is evil...

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

2009-09-25 Thread Neil Walker
Maxim Wexler wrote: I remember Midnight Commander from the old days but forgot how useful it could be. It's always the first program I install on a new system. Anyway, the archive has a directory inside it (linux-2.6.29). That's where all the files are. So it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-25 Thread KostyaSha
What key ? It's not an evil on windows hotplug works fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: What key ? It's not an evil on windows hotplug works fine. man hdparm look for -U and -R and read the text carefully. 'works fine' means 'I was lucky' or 'I have rare hardware that truely supports hot swapping', Because a lot of 'hot swap'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile goneFOUND

2009-09-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
drag-and-drop, too. I'll bet kde probably has a similar thing. Yeah, Konqueror has it, just click on the archive, but not Thunar, unless there's some config setting I'm not aware of. mw

[gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've done an: emerge --pretend -NuD world and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded the package is removed and I in turn do another emerge --pretend

Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've done an: emerge --pretend -NuD world and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded the

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-25 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: No apparent ill effects. You now have the old, orphaned version of the library on your system and unknown to portage. Portage deletes these after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged packages depending on it. OK, so now I just

[gentoo-user] bzflag is broken

2009-09-25 Thread James
Hello, I recently upgraded ati-drivers to 9.9-r2 also to xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 bzflag fails to run from the kde menu. trying to launch it from the command line yields: X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 129

Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 26/09/2009 9:08 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 26 September 2009, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've done an: emerge --pretend -NuD world [snip] ... ... [snip] p.s. Tried Google on this and just couldn't seem to get the right keywords o find anything. maybe it is

[gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 04:05 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've done an: emerge --pretend -NuD world and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded the package is removed and I in

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-25 Thread James Erickson
if you have 2.6.31 and want to use kvm-88-r1, kvm-kmod-88-r1 is not required and you can use the in kernel modules. if they release kvm-devel-89 for example, it may have newer kvm-kmod code than what is bundled in the kernel. Daniel, thanks for your help in this matter. i have

Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've done an: emerge --pretend -NuD world and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded the package is removed and I in turn do

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 04:52 AM, James wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded ati-drivers to 9.9-r2 also to xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 bzflag fails to run from the kde menu. trying to launch it from the command line yields: X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting brightness on videos. kmplayer in particular.

2009-09-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:16:58 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Graham Murray wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000081

2009-09-25 Thread Carlos Moyano Cubillos
2009/9/25 walt w41...@gmail.com: On 09/25/2009 10:26 AM, Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: Hi all, i geting this log every 2 seconds, it's filling up my logs (at this moment 17MB in /var/log/messages)... When did this begin?  Did you just upgrade something, new kernel, etc? always.. it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000081

2009-09-25 Thread Carlos Moyano Cubillos
2009/9/25 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Friday 25 September 2009, walt wrote: On 09/25/2009 10:26 AM, Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: Hi all, i geting this log every 2 seconds, it's filling up my logs (at this moment 17MB in /var/log/messages)... When did this begin?  Did you just