Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-28 Thread forgottenwizard
On 21:42 Tue 25 Mar , Sergey Kobzar wrote: That's one of the reason why I wanted intelfb, but got no luck. I'm using uvesafb at the moment, but still hope intelfb will be fixed soon. I seem to have missed the start of this thread, but if you don't mind, could you give me a quick

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-28 Thread Sergey Kobzar
uvesafb works, but it is a bit slow, and requires user-space programs to run. Its a great peice of code and such, but something that is kernel-space and able to use hardware effectivly would be even nicer. That's why I tried intelfb before... no luck. -- Sergey --

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo 2.4 and Java

2008-03-28 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 03. 28, péntek keltezéssel 05.47-kor Andrew Gaydenko ezt írta: Hi! Have installed OOo 2.4 on ~amd64/x86_64 with these flags: cups dbus eds firefox java kde ldap pam -binfilter -debug ... At starting any OOo programm konsole shows: javaldx failed! Tool-Options-Java dialog

[gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dale
Hi, I had a problem the other day where I needed to shutdown, like in a real hurry. My power supply was packed up and checking out without paying the bill. I was in KDE and just selected logout then shutdown from the menu. Is there a faster way to shutdown so that at least the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/28, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I had a problem the other day where I needed to shutdown, like in a real hurry. My power supply was packed up and checking out without paying the bill. I was in KDE and just selected logout then shutdown from the menu. Is there a faster way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Dale: Is there a faster way to shutdown so that at least the file system is clean? Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Pielmeier: You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, good to know that Wikipedia has it, just in case I don't have kernel sources installed on my Gentoo systems ;-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs |

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/28, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Pielmeier: You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, good to know that Wikipedia has it, just in case I don't have kernel sources installed on my Gentoo systems ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/3/28, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Pielmeier: You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, good to know that Wikipedia has it, just in case I don't have kernel sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Dale: I have never done this before so what if any are the gotcha's with this? None. Anybody ever do it and can tell me how long a shutdown takes? As long as you need to strike the keys.  Also, will this work if I am logged into KDE and in the GUI?

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:20 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Alt-SysRq E I S U B is better as it kills running processes first. If you have time, pause between the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Stroller
On 26 Mar 2008, at 15:19, Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Hi there, Some of the replies to your message are now a little

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Stéphane ANCELOT
I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On Friday 28 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, You should change your server-layout to something like Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen Screen1 InputDeviceKeyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDeviceTouchpad CorePointer

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:33:53 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I'd say, try http. Jeez. You didn't read the original posting, did you? It's FTP, period. It's FTP, which is blocked by the firewall, so use only HTTP mirrors in /etc/make.conf. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/28, Stéphane ANCELOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? Gnome 2.22 is about to be added to the portage tree, be patient! Most components are already there! The meta ebuilds for gnome and gnome-light are still missing!

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, St?phane ANCELOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:12:38AM +0100: I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? You should unmask the Gnome2.22 packages, they are unmasked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask,

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:43:58PM -0500, Dale wrote: I haven't kept up with this but isn't there a hotplug/coldplug monitor that detects things like this? I'm thinking hotplug is the correct one since the machine is powered up. I think it is no longer needed and udev should take

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:11:53AM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Anybody ever do it and can tell me how long a shutdown takes? As long as you need to strike the keys. Not really true. I have set my dirty cache timeout to 10 minutes, so it can hold some few hundred megabytes of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:20 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Alt-SysRq E I S U B is better as it kills running processes first. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:19:58 Alex Schuster wrote: Does it also have the right IDE drivers? This /dev/sda drive is SATA I assume, is this configured correctly in the kernel, and is the SCSI stuff also compiled directly into the kerne? On my laptop I sometimes have to switch AHCI on or

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb devices, laptop modules, PCMCIAs works on runtime. That's fine with most devices,

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Christophe Lermytte
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, St?phane ANCELOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:12:38AM +0100: I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? You should unmask the Gnome2.22 packages, they are

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo 2.4 and Java

2008-03-28 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Friday 28 March 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === Hi! Have installed OOo 2.4 on ~amd64/x86_64 with these flags: cups dbus eds firefox java kde ldap pam -binfilter -debug ... At starting any OOo programm konsole shows: javaldx failed! Tool-Options-Java dialog finds all

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:42:18AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb devices,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: snip FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Grant
I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb devices, laptop modules, PCMCIAs works on runtime. That's fine with most devices, but causes a problem with network adaptors. No hotplug

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Mick wrote: On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anti-Virus on Linux. No. (presuming that you don't run as root, and have lots of unprivileged users for individual applications.) Anti-Malware on Linux. Yes. (Malware gets to the box via spoofed or hacked software

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Stéphane ANCELOT: I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/remi/2008/03/28/the_road_to_gnome_2_22_part_2 -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Stroller wrote: snip important, informative stuff Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I try to avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair, sometimes the best thing to do is simply to back-up reinstall. Think this is a great write up. The last

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:42 -0400, Richard Marzan wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:52 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these:

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:02 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: For custom scrips, you can add a preup, failup or postup-function to /etc/conf.d/net, there should be examples in the file. Something like pastup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then iwconfig [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 28 March 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY- AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can learn about from Windows :-( True, but with one *huge* difference: If something like ActiveX were to be unleashed

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote: I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the   time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a   portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-28 Thread Hal Martin
Michael Schmarck wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very little useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Alan Milnes
On 28/03/2008, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your note is excellent but I disagree with this bit:- If the PC is still slow then check disk-space, pagefile settings (allow the system to manage pagefile size for me, click set) unless as a temporary workaround you should always have the