[gentoo-user] cannot burn dvd

2008-12-04 Thread Andrey Vul
cdrecord (2.01.01a53) hangs when trying to write to a SATA dvd drive using libsg. When I set SATA mode in BIOS to Compatability, the burning works but somehow the 8x speed is reduced to 1x. Chipset: Intel ICH9M (AHCI) DVD Burner: Hitachi-LG DVD-Multi mini-SATA None of the google links helped me.

[gentoo-user] fixed in cvs - which cvs ?

2008-12-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, reading bug reports, I often see 'fixed in cvs'. Which cvs and how can I check it out? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn dvd

2008-12-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord (2.01.01a53) hangs when trying to write to a SATA dvd drive using libsg. When I set SATA mode in BIOS to Compatability, the burning works but somehow the 8x speed is reduced to 1x. Chipset: Intel ICH9M (AHCI) DVD Burner: Hitachi-LG DVD-Multi

Re: [gentoo-user] fixed in cvs - which cvs ?

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/4 Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reading bug reports, I often see 'fixed in cvs'. Which cvs and how can I check it out? This means the CVS-repository holding the portage tree. Take a look here [1] in the gentoo-x86 repository (aka portage-tree). There is no need to check it out

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-sharp or glade-sharp : what to do

2008-12-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Dec, Florian Philipp wrote: Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, some packages need gtk-sharp, others glade-sharp and mono-tools needs both. But gtk-sharp-2.12.6-r1 has a negative dependency on glade-sharp. So, one cannot install both. Who cuts this Gordian knot? Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:10:06 +, Mick wrote: Despite that the concatenated file often works (e.g. if it is a video file it'll play alright). Can you explain this? Should I be using a different check to verify the integrity of the ftp'd file? An MD5 check will fail if one bit is

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-sharp or glade-sharp : what to do

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/4 Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unfortunately, that's not a solution emerge dev-dotnet/art-sharp gives All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-2.12[glade] are masked. Do you use stable portage? So I guess after All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Evgeniy Bushkov
Steve пишет: I've recently discovered a curious pattern emerging in my system log with failed login attempts via ssh. Previously, I noticed dictionary attacks launched - which were easy to detect... and I've a process to block the IP address of any host that repeatedly fails to authenticate.

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Steve
Simon wrote: Since it is very unlikely that the attacker is targeting you specifically, changing the port number (and removing root access) will very likely stop the attack forever. Though, if the attacker did target you, then you will need some more security tools (intrusion detection,

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a go at adding: UseSTARTTLS=YES and remove: UseTLS=YES -- Thanks for the suggestion, but ssmtp doesn't like it: [-] 220 smtp119.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ESMTP [-] EHLO tobey [-] 250 8BITMIME [-] STARTTLS [-] 502

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn dvd

2008-12-04 Thread Andrey Vul
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 03:43, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord (2.01.01a53) hangs when trying to write to a SATA dvd drive using libsg. When I set SATA mode in BIOS to Compatability, the burning works but somehow the 8x speed is reduced to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:08:53AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: The answer is not in the ebuild, it's in the eclass. You will find it at $PORTDIR/ecalss/enlightenment.eclass. I'll take you through the relevant bits step by step. Lines 34 to 58 are the relevant ones, and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 December 2008 16:50:20 Willie Wong wrote: It's a convention. No sane coder will ever release a package with version , that is conventionally used by devs for their development stuff in cvs/svn/git/whatever, so vapier is just falling in line. Not exactly what I meant. But

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn dvd

2008-12-04 Thread Andrey Vul
That didn't help, and I still get the error. At least now it shows the ata exception that can be found in dmesg logs from googling cdrecord ahci sata. It looks like a controller timeout (this has happened before, causing DMAR error lines in dmesg). Is it worth disabling AHCI or not? And should

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Erm - surely I either need to set up my client to port-knock... which is a faff I'd rather avoid... in order to use the technique. nope. just start connection. wait a minute. cancel. start another one. wait a minute. cancel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in Linux? I sure don't. My first Linux printer was a *used* Apple LaserWriter (with serial port). I knew

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
G'day; Most Manufacturers support Post Script out of the box (it's a 30 year old standard); you just need to make sure that your kernel has the appropriate driver. And you have the appropriate sub-system installed. (LPR, CUPS whatever). HP makes a concerted effort to support all operating

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Does anyone have a good way of

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 03.12.2008, 20:29 -0800 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: Thanks for the idea. I'd not heard of them. TurboPrint is actually a port of an old Amiga software. They already were

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dominic Kexel wrote: That's right, i totaly agree. If you buy a HP-printer, you (almost) can't do something wrong. I am using a HP Deskjet F2180 (40€). Printing and scanning both work without problems. On Wed, 3 Dec 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in Linux? I sure don't. [snip] My suggestion would be not go go

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Thomas
If you don't need color, I would seriously look at b/w personal laser printers that are network-ready; newer HP models like the 1000 series work very well and and can be found for less than $200. Older HP lasers like the 5si models are built like tanks and are extremely durable and long lasting.

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/4/08, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any problems. Did not have to by new color jet. I have been told I can print 7000 pages before I have to :-) You can go cheap and good. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:18 AM, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in Linux? I sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Arttu V. schrieb: On 12/4/08, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any problems. Did not have to by new color jet. I have been told I can print 7000 pages before I have to :-) You can

[gentoo-user] xulrunner and swt (Gentoo bug 241400)

2008-12-04 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! The problem is decribed here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241400 Has anybody success strory wrt resolving (working around) the isuue? It's real showstopper for me. Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Thomas
I've heard the some Samsung laser printers will only print a pre-set number of pages for each toner cartridge even if you have toner remaining. I would probably stay away from the 510s. http://www.dunfield.com/clp510/ -Chris On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arttu

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Christian Franke
On 12/03/2008 09:02 PM, Steve wrote: I've recently discovered a curious pattern emerging in my system log with failed login attempts via ssh. I'm not particularly concerned - since I'm confident that all my users have strong passwords... but it strikes me that this data identifies a bot-net

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Chris Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard the some Samsung laser printers will only print a pre-set number of pages for each toner cartridge even if you have toner remaining. I would probably stay away from the 510s. http://www.dunfield.com/clp510/

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:18 AM, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins schrieb: Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any problems. Did not have to by new color jet. I have been

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.12.2008 04:31: I have solved my little problem with a tool called fatsort. Just another update. Today fatsoft entered the portage tree [1]. [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/fatsort/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.12.2008 04:31: I have solved my little problem with a tool called fatsort. Just another update. Today fatsoft entered the portage tree [1]. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dominic Kexel wrote: That's right, i totaly agree. If you buy a HP-printer, you (almost) can't do something wrong. I am using a HP Deskjet F2180 (40€). Printing and scanning both work without

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 4, 2008, Christian Franke wrote: I just don't see what blocking ssh-bruteforce attempts should be good for, at least on a server where few _users_ are active. Considering how much creative paranoia I've exposed in this thread it might come as a surprise, but I do agree with the

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread ms
John Blinka wrote: I recently switched to att from another isp. At that other isp, my ssmtp setup worked perfectly. With att, a similar ssmtp setup (modified appropriately to point to att's smtp server) does not work at all. ATT told me to use the server smtp.att.yahoo.com and port 465. So

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel, compiz, mplayer -fs file.avi freeze

2008-12-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot solve your problem because I know little of X and nothing about compiz (which I consider futile), but for this kind of problem, you may want to know about the magic SysRq key. It allows you to at least reboot your system

[gentoo-user] Re: Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-04, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend that owned a business that was closed on weekends. Every Monday we had to fan the paper and take out the toner cartridge and give it a little shake. I have heard that if it is a humid location that you either have to leave the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-12-04, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend that owned a business that was closed on weekends. Every Monday we had to fan the paper and take out the toner cartridge and give it a little shake. I have heard that if it is a humid location that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 December 2008 21:03:17 Christian Franke wrote: On 12/03/2008 09:02 PM, Steve wrote: I've recently discovered a curious pattern emerging in my system log with failed login attempts via ssh. I'm not particularly concerned - since I'm confident that all my users have strong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP My friend had two printers. I think it was the OLD Apple printer that did that. The HP, in another room, never had a problem. Might I add, the HP printed faster too. ;-) We seem to like HP on this list. lol Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP My friend had two printers. I think it was the OLD Apple printer that did that. The HP, in another room, never had a problem. Might I add, the HP printed faster too. ;-) We seem to like HP on this

[gentoo-user] [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I've seen it discussed here about how to access other repositories besides the default ones shown on the mirrors link at gentoo.org. But am completely drawing blanks now trying to remember how I might go about accessing other repos... also could use a word of advice as to which are reliable or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-04 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 4 December 2008, 23:16, Harry Putnam wrote: I've seen it discussed here about how to access other repositories besides the default ones shown on the mirrors link at gentoo.org. But am completely drawing blanks now trying to remember how I might go about accessing other repos...

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, I suppose you use a wrong username. According to http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287 you have to use the full mail address. Otherwise check your password for correctness. Tried that. Didn't help. I've been known to

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Since this thread has been going on for so long without a resolution, I thought I'd mention that I recently switched to nullmailer from ssmtp. Im using port 587 with STARTTLS, and I find nullmailer way easier to set up. Just put --user and --pass parameters in /etc/nullmailer/remotes.

[gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread darren kirby
Hi All, I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, cedillas etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying as I have a lot of 'world music' that uses such characters. Can audacious be

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
Also take a note that there are no known-compromised hosts What about hosts listed in RBLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists.

[gentoo-user] Cannot authenticate successfully with SSH

2008-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Anyone know if RSA keys are incompatible between ssh-3.8 and sshd-4.2? I have this combination between 2 clients and 1 server. RSA keys consistently fail, DSA keys consistently succeed. The clients are on FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.5, server is FreeBSD 6.1 I found one report on google of a similar case

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 04/12/08 Dale said: Yep, I had to add that option to mine a while back for --depclean to work. Add that and it should run cleanly afterwards. You could also --oneshot those in the list and it should work. I haven't tried that yet but read it works. The docs on this seem wrong.

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
Open a Wiki page on Wikipedia, update it every so often and provide simple parser for it so others can recycle same IPs. Since it's a Wiki page - others can update it as well (including botnet owners, but then they'd have to reveal themselves - tricky situation) :) Reveal themselves in what

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 04/12/08 Michael P. Soulier said: The docs on this seem wrong. And yet they're not, since this is an update and not a depclean. I'll be quiet now. Mike pgp1Jsqf0XLxk.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
Also take a note that there are no known-compromised hosts What about hosts listed in RBLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
KH wrote on 04/12/08 19:47: I have been told not to touch the Samsung drivers. I am using net-print/foo2zjs. foo2zjs works well with the cheap HP CLJ1600 laser printer. Cheap, fast, no more expensive dried-up inkjet cartridges, good deal. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
darren kirby wrote on 04/12/08 23:32: I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, cedillas etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying as I have a lot of 'world music' that uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Jones: darren kirby wrote on 04/12/08 23:32: I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, cedillas etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying as I have a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Shawn Haggett
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: well. Nobody but you knows your requiremens and specifics - we're just listing options. It's up to you to either take 'em or leave 'em ;) Fair enough - but I've still not found an option for sharing/using

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On December 4, 2008, Adam Carter wrote: Open a Wiki page on Wikipedia, update it every so often and provide simple parser for it so others can recycle same IPs. Since it's a Wiki page - others can update it as well (including botnet owners, but then they'd have to reveal themselves -

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 4 December 2008, 23:16, Harry Putnam wrote: I've seen it discussed here about how to access other repositories besides the default ones shown on the mirrors link at gentoo.org. But am completely drawing blanks now trying to remember how I

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

2008-12-04 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Håkon Alstadheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Since this thread has been going on for so long without a resolution, I thought I'd mention that I recently switched to nullmailer from ssmtp. Im using port 587 with STARTTLS, and I find nullmailer way easier to set up.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
e17 doesn't like transparency and compiz-style effects. You can get it to work with the bling module or by using a compositing manager like xcompmgr or a derivative, but I found it wasn't exactly stable on nVidia. You may have better luck with ATI. Going offtopic, I for myself don't care

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I should give e17 another try when it gets a little more stable, or when at least Vapier finds the time to update the snapshot ebuilds (which, last time I checked, were horribly outdated). Regards, Jorge Peixoto Oh, great, it seems vapier updated the snapshots! Alan, would you recommend

[gentoo-user] gentoo package source CD available?

2008-12-04 Thread hiren joshi
Hello, Want to swith to gentoo, but - no internet connection and - still want to compile the source for my specific architecture/processor to make my system speedy Are there CD/DVDs available that contains sources (burn to CD/DVD at a point of time) of all the gentoo packages? If yes, pls point

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update pulling in enlightenment-0.16.9999.050

2008-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 05 December 2008 05:46:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I should give e17 another try when it gets a little more stable, or when at least Vapier finds the time to update the snapshot ebuilds (which, last time I checked, were horribly outdated). Regards, Jorge Peixoto

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Steve wrote: Simon wrote: Since it is very unlikely that the attacker is targeting you specifically, changing the port number (and removing root access) will very likely stop the attack forever. Though, if the attacker did target you, then you will need some