On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:34:22PM +0100, pk wrote
On 2012-12-17 17:23, Walter Dnes wrote:
snipped a whole lot...
1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which
is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at
their native resolution So
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote:
I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
in /etc/rc.conf
Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The
following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf.
Anyway I tried downgrading
Francesco Turco wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote:
I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
in /etc/rc.conf
Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The
following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf.
On Dec 18, 2012 9:53 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Francesco Turco wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote:
I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
in /etc/rc.conf
Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote:
If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it. There are lots of
settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you
need to.
It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file are lowercase
(for example rc_interactive,
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:58, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
IIRC all possible settings should be documented in man filename.conf
On my system:
$ man rc.conf
No manual entry for rc.conf
On Dec 18, 2012 11:59 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote:
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:52:43 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:40:44 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote:
On 12/17/2012 08:00 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On Tuesday 18 December 2012
2012/12/18 Francesco Turco ftu...@fastmail.fm
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:58, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
IIRC all possible settings should be documented in man filename.conf
On my system:
$ man rc.conf
No manual entry for rc.conf
I'm not on my system at the moment, so I can't check it,
Walter's Excellent Adventure Chapter 2
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:17:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
I ran emerge -pv mesa, and discovered that mesa had been merged with
USE=-xorg. This is what I get for starting USE with -*...
Hi all,
I'm having an issue with the Slim Login Manager and it's AutoLogin feature.
With the AutoLogin flag set to no, when I login, gnome-keyring unlocks
itself fine, with Evolution being able to utilise it.
However, when the AutoLogin flag is set to yes, Evolution invokes
gnome-keyring to ask
On Tue, December 18, 2012 04:44, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
SNIP
Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL
connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all activities
except some torrent downloading for which I want to use my ADSL
connection.
Once I'm able to
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Griffiths st...@stevegriff.com wrote:
Is there some kind of rule where if you AutoLogin, you require some kind of
authentication when it comes to unlocking the keyring?
That's how the keyring works, in principle. The keyring is a
password-protected
Thanks for you reply Mark.
The way you put it makes sense. I guess the option is whether I would like
to have the security risk of having my passwords open without needing any
kind of authentication. But that depends on whether I can bypass needing to
enter a password on autologin in the first
Bryan Gardiner bog at khumba.net writes:
I did recently put these into my package.keywords.
=sys-fs/udev-196-r1 ~amd64
=virtual/udev-196 ~amd64
=sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1 ~amd64
My guess is that you've unmasked sys-fs/udev-196 only partially.
Portage tries to calculate the
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
When I need a new web-based software tool, I consider writing it myself and
if that isn't feasible I try to use something open-source and self-hosted.
I need something for chat, task management, resource management, and code
Am Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:46 -0800
schrieb Grant emailgr...@gmail.com:
[...]
XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete,
telepathy and a hots of others.
Servers are another story. All of them that you can lay your hands on
seem to suck big eggs big time. ejabberd is
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:02:54 +0800
Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
That was the original reason for having / and /usr separate, and it
dates back to the early 70s. The other reason that stems from that
On Dec 18, 2012 6:33 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:46 -0800
schrieb Grant emailgr...@gmail.com:
[...]
XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete,
telepathy and a hots of others.
Servers are another story. All of them that you
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:30:16 +0100
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:46 -0800
schrieb Grant emailgr...@gmail.com:
[...]
XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete,
telepathy and a hots of others.
Servers are another story. All of them
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:44:13 +0800
Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
Well fair enough. This stuff is becoming more myth than fact as less
and less people are around to remember how it really went. There may
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:07:02 + (UTC)
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Bryan Gardiner bog at khumba.net writes:
I did recently put these into my package.keywords.
=sys-fs/udev-196-r1 ~amd64
=virtual/udev-196 ~amd64
=sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1 ~amd64
My guess
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 03:41:44 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tue, December 18, 2012 04:44, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
SNIP
Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL
connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all activities
except some torrent
Thankfully, I've never had to
maintain systems whose disks were small and low performing enough that
it actually mattered to separate / from /usr.
So you don't understand it much at all. Actually many of lennarts pages
such as his security.html are full of wildly incorrect claims and
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:02:54 +0800
Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
That was the original reason for having / and /usr separate, and it
dates back to the early 70s. The other reason that stems from that
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely:
Now, why is /usr special? It's because it contains executable code the
system might require while launching.
Now there are only two approaches that could
Am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:50:51 +0200
schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:30:16 +0100
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:46 -0800
schrieb Grant emailgr...@gmail.com:
[...]
XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick:
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SNIP
Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL
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On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin
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Walter's Excellent Adventure Chapter 3
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:02:32AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
The net change is that...
* the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode
* X now has hardware acceleration
I ran emerge -pv --deep --newuse world to make sure
Am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:34:07 +
schrieb Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk:
[...]
Going back in time
his claim of pulse audio being good for professional audio was also
completely off the mark. Seperating Gnome and pulse can now cause pro
audio users on binary distro's major headaches
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely:
Now, why is /usr special? It's because it contains executable code the
system
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
* X now has hardware acceleration
I ran emerge -pv --deep --newuse world to make sure everything was
OK. It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the
changes in VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf. While I was at, I
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:55:16 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
#2 already has a solution, it's called an init*. Other solutions exist
but none are as elegant as a throwaway temporary filesystem in RAM.
I find virtually nothing elegant about a temporary filesystem in RAM.
It duplicates code that
1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing
wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard
Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop.
mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a picture...
xv X11/Xv
Walter Dnes wrote:
1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing
wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard
Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop.
mplayer now has 5 video output modes that actually show a
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote:
Walter Dnes wrote:
1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing
wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard
Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop.
Bruce Hill wrote:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote:
Walter Dnes wrote:
1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing
wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard
Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to
Kevin Brandstatter kjbrandstatter at gmail.com writes:
route add -host hostname gw 192.168.0.32
and it's pretty much working, except that I've to add a route to
every host for which I want to use the ADSL connection.
If I do the same on my local machine, it doesn't work and packets
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 04:59:47PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I
can now dump the Nvidia card.
Can you give me some guide, or advice for this ... other than the
Is it possible to create slide show (pictures) on USB stick and play on a TV?
In the past I've used dvd-slideshow but that is a bit of work. I had to
re-size the pictures add background music etc.
DVD only holds 4GB
USB sticks have larger capacity.
--
Joseph
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:55:16 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
#2 already has a solution, it's called an init*. Other solutions exist
but none are as elegant as a throwaway temporary filesystem in RAM.
I find virtually
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:38:26PM -0600, Dale wrote:
Rather than downloadhelper and a web browser, try:
mingdao@workstation ~/test $ youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube]
All dvd-slideshow and co. do is to resize images (that's a one liner with
imagemagick's convert tool) and then join them to compose a video file,
muxing it with the chosen audio tracks. You can easily do that with ffmpeg,
mencoder or some similar tool of your choice if the menu-driven program
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