Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:32 -0400, Sean wrote: I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into that local, and now customized,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Paul Hartman schrieb: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: [...] 1. run xfce4 (already do) 2. compile with -Os (I was using -O2) 3. use ext2 (I was using ext3) 4. don't use laptop-mode (I didn't know it existed) 5. no syslog (does this mean don't even emerge a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook not

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

2009-03-14 Thread Grant
Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to plug-and-play with one of those modems.  Do you remember the names of the kernel modules?  I've never used PPP software before.  Can you recommend a package? You need usbserial and the Novatel modems use the option module. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-14 Thread Thanasis
on 03/14/2009 12:43 PM Florian Philipp wrote the following: 7. deactivate DRI 7. still holds. What's wrong with DRI ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Find ebuilds that use a flag

2009-03-14 Thread James
Nick Fortino nfortino at gmail.com writes: eix -e -U gpac equery hasuse -p -o gpac Either way you do it, media-video/keno is the only one OK, cool. Got it. James

[gentoo-user] Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Joseph
I need a solution to access Windows XP program running on VirtualBox. I've Windows XP running via VB and I need to run one of Windows XP program from few other machines. I was thinking maybe I'll install run LTSP but I'm not sure it will work. I think I could create VPN between Windows and

Re: [gentoo-user] Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: I need a solution to access Windows XP program running on VirtualBox. I've Windows XP running via VB and I need to run one of Windows XP program from few other machines. I was thinking maybe I'll install run LTSP but I'm not sure it will work. I think I could create VPN between

[gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joseph wrote: I need a solution to access Windows XP program running on VirtualBox. I've Windows XP running via VB and I need to run one of Windows XP program from few other machines. I was thinking maybe I'll install run LTSP but I'm not sure it will work. I think I could create VPN between

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Joseph
On 03/14/09 21:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Joseph wrote: I need a solution to access Windows XP program running on VirtualBox. I've Windows XP running via VB and I need to run one of Windows XP program from few other machines. I was thinking maybe I'll install run LTSP but I'm not sure it

[gentoo-user] Re: WAN-laptop1-router-laptop2 : no laptop1-router communication

2009-03-14 Thread Grant
My laptop is connected to a distant wireless signal with a strong antenna and I'd like to create a local wireless LAN using the distant wireless signal as the WAN.  The layout would look something like this: WAN-(wireless)-laptop1-(ethernet)-router-(wireless)-laptop2 My travel router is

[gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joseph wrote: On 03/14/09 21:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] VirtualBox supports RDP. You can connect to it with any RDP client. I use KRDC for this. I start the XP virtual machine with: VBoxHeadless -startvm Windows XP This will run the VM but will not display anything. You connect

[gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Damian
Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags: Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) (flac) (-icecast) (iconv) (ipv6) (-jack) (-libsamplerate) (-mikmod) (mp3) (-musepack)

[gentoo-user] Gallery slideshow Java applet: certificate expired

2009-03-14 Thread Johannes Geiss
Hi all, I am using the lighttpd (1.4.20) web-server and gallery (2.3). When I want to view the full screen java applet com.gallery.GalleryRemote.GRAppletSlideshow, I get the following message: com.ibm.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

2009-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:01:38 -0700, Grant wrote: Any better way to manage the connection than 'wvdial' and ctrl+c ? I've used Kppp with simlar settings. It sounds like wicd doesn't support ppp yet. I did read somewhere that it was planned. -- Neil Bothwick God: What one human uses to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Joseph
On 03/14/09 21:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] To run it in foreground, you can start it just as before (that is, without using VBoxHeadless) but you need to enable RDP in VirtualBox's settings. VBoxHeadless is only for the case where you don't want to run it in the foreground on the PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags: Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) (flac)

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Thanasis schrieb: on 03/14/2009 12:43 PM Florian Philipp wrote the following: 7. deactivate DRI 7. still holds. What's wrong with DRI ? As I wrote in the original post, this is a tip from ArchLinux for freeing up to 32MB of RAM. Of course, if deactivating DRI causes more CPU load with

Re: [gentoo-user] WAN-laptop1-router-laptop2 : no laptop1-router communication

2009-03-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: My laptop is connected to a distant wireless signal with a strong antenna and I'd like to create a local wireless LAN using the distant wireless signal as the WAN. The layout would look something like this: WAN-(wireless)-laptop1-(ethernet)-router-(wireless)-laptop2 My

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Damian
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags:      

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Robert Bridge
Damian wrote: Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags: Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) (flac) (-icecast) (iconv) (ipv6) (-jack) (-libsamplerate)

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Damian
I'm going to ask the really irritating tech support question: Is ALSA muted? Is the volume set to zero on the speakers? haha I'm perfectly capable of making that mistake. However, this is not the case. Playing mp3 files works fine. One of the mpd developers told me that the version I have (the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Saphirus Sage
On Mar 14, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags: Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) (flac) (-icecast)

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Damian
Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged? So, this would imply a buggy ebuild?

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Saphirus Sage
Damian wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged? So, this would imply a buggy ebuild? Maybe, I had a similar issue getting rhythmbox to play ogg files, despite the ogg use flag in my make.conf. Looking through

[gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joseph wrote: On 03/14/09 21:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] To run it in foreground, you can start it just as before (that is, without using VBoxHeadless) but you need to enable RDP in VirtualBox's settings. VBoxHeadless is only for the case where you don't want to run it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Damian
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote: Damian wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged? So, this would imply a buggy ebuild? Maybe, I had a similar issue getting rhythmbox to play

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Joseph
On 03/15/09 00:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] XP (that is good), but: 1.) the terminal I'm connecting to has to accept my connection, is it possible to set it up so I connect to it automatically. 2.) I'm taking control of the mouse and keyboard of the remote workstation (in this case my

[gentoo-user] Re: Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joseph wrote: On 03/15/09 00:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] XP (that is good), but: 1.) the terminal I'm connecting to has to accept my connection, is it possible to set it up so I connect to it automatically. 2.) I'm taking control of the mouse and keyboard of the remote workstation (in

Re: [gentoo-user] WAN-laptop1-router-laptop2 : no laptop1-router communication

2009-03-14 Thread Grant
My laptop is connected to a distant wireless signal with a strong antenna and I'd like to create a local wireless LAN using the distant wireless signal as the WAN.  The layout would look something like this: WAN-(wireless)-laptop1-(ethernet)-router-(wireless)-laptop2 My travel router is