[gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days? It used to work fine years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's Quicktime player. :-( I looked for mplayer USE flags to enable it, but can't find any. I did find media-libs/libquicktime, but I am not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 03/22/2010 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days? It used to work fine years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's Quicktime player. :-( I looked for mplayer USE flags to enable it, but can't find any. I did find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Forgot to give kernel version: uname -r 2.6.33-gentoo I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able to see a solution. I've make the propers kernel settings and the w83627hf modules is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM

2010-03-22 Thread ich bins
Am 21.03.2010 09:46, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 20 March 2010 15:16:57 ich bins wrote: Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: Hi All, I want to map a OEM keyboard button to suspend the PC to RAM, but I am not sure which command KDE4 is using in its menu for suspending to RAM. I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On 22 March 2010 09:26, ich bins imehl_adre...@gmx.net wrote: Am 21.03.2010 09:46, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 20 March 2010 15:16:57 ich bins wrote: Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: in the shortcuts section you have to define a new dbus-call org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil suspend 2

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM

2010-03-22 Thread ich bins
Am 22.03.2010 12:17, schrieb Mick: On 22 March 2010 09:26, ich bins imehl_adre...@gmx.net wrote: Am 21.03.2010 09:46, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 20 March 2010 15:16:57 ich bins wrote: Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: in the shortcuts section you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
Thanks Daniel, On 22 March 2010 07:29, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On 03/22/2010 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days?  It used to work fine years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's Quicktime player.  :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On 22 March 2010 11:24, ich bins imehl_adre...@gmx.net wrote: because of the missing kaction in 4.3.5 it worked for me only since 4.4.0 Thanks for that, I'll wait until 4.4.0 goes stable and try again. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-22 Thread Arnau Bria
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:32:42 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Freitag 19 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially support srt subs. It worked for me:

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: On 21 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Forgot to give kernel version: uname -r 2.6.33-gentoo I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able to see a solution. I've make the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] - Mark Hi Mark, What do you mean by green drives? I had been told - but never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Harry, first of all, have you enabled Device-Drivers/Hardware monitoring support/ AMD Phenom/Sempron/Turion/Opteron temperature sensor ? and then Winbond W83627EHF/EHG/DHG, W83667HG I have an ASRock M3A790GXH/128M board. I'm running the 2.6.33-gentoo kernel, as well. (It's the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised that the inability to copy settings from one profile or machine

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised that the inability

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: [...] So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB green drives. [] -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 17:05:12 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Christian Schulze
Hi, I installed www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.2 (masked with keywords ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86) recently and this works great with the Apple Trailers. It pulls in gnome-mplayer, which requires mplayer of course. I compiled them with the following use flags, just in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 01:42:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:34:07 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: I realized the KTTSD popup only shows up when I click the X button. if I close by a menu entry, for example (like File Close), it doesn't happen. I see that KWin has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are lucky, the vendor will give you

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 19:18:48 Christian Schulze wrote: Hi, I installed www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.2 (masked with keywords ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86) recently and this works great with the Apple Trailers. It pulls in gnome-mplayer, Thanks Christian, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back.

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: Hi Harry, first of all, have you enabled Device-Drivers/Hardware monitoring support/ AMD Phenom/Sempron/Turion/Opteron temperature sensor ? and then Winbond W83627EHF/EHG/DHG, W83667HG I have an ASRock M3A790GXH/128M board.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/22/2010 10:33 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
On 22/03/10 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
On 22/03/10 20:33, Mike Edenfield wrote: Sure, we'll happily sell you one of three crappy laptop models with Ubuntu pre-installed, at a slight discount, while bombarding you with 'Dell Recommends Windows' ads while you shop. What's that? You want a desktop machine with Linux? Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 March 2010 21:19:16 Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 01:42:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:34:07 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: I realized the KTTSD popup only shows up when I click the X button. if I close by a menu entry, for example (like File Close), it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:19:16 Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 01:42:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:34:07 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: I realized the KTTSD popup only shows up when I click the X button. if I close by a menu entry,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. So that deals with the over-priced issue... -- Neil Bothwick Standard: (n., adj.) a design target which manufacturers may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/22/2010 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:19:16 Mick wrote: I thought that KDE4 uses KDEWM not KWin ... ? Dunno where you got that name. There's no such thing, and I don't think there ever has been: There is such a thing but it appears to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:02:54 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:00:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. So that deals with the over-priced issue... The Dell XPS M1530

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 21:46:43 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:19:16 Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 01:42:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:34:07 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: I realized the KTTSD popup only shows up when I click the X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 22:04, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Crístian Viana
I see that KWin has a notification event for Delete Window, could this be involved? how do I check what's set up for that event? there's nothing unusual in Notifications System Notifications The KDE Window Manager nor in Window Behavior Window-Specific.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 22:04:24 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 22:00:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. So that deals with the over-priced issue... I did some research to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft. I'll try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Oh and all of this started with a email just saying help. Wander what another word could have done. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Oh and all of this started with a email just saying help. Wander what another word could have done. kh Maybe he should have said PLEASE help. lol Where is the OP anyway? Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:46:43 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 21:19:16 Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 01:42:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:34:07 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: I realized the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:56:33 +, Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 22:00:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. So that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: -- Neil Bothwick If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. You sig was sort of ironic considering the subject discussed. That thing have ESP or something? Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread walt
On 03/22/2010 04:21 PM, KH wrote: ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done without installing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

2010-03-22 Thread Crístian Viana
I see that KWin has a notification event for Delete Window, could this be involved? hey, I just found out what the problem was :-) in the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kwin.notifyrc, there was an entry in Event/close which was telling KTTS to say out loud Good bye (so lame of me, isn't it). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 23:21, KH wrote: ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done without installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 22:51, Mick wrote: ... In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 22:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: There is nothing unfair about this. No vendor has a *duty* so sell you what you want and they cannot be forced to. Microsoft does not enforce that vendors sell Windows-only machines (and they proved as such to the relevant Commission).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 17:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even