Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where is my automounting coming from?

2009-03-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [16.03.09 02:43]: Grant wrote: When I plug my USB cell phone into my laptop I get an icon on my xfce4 desktop which mounts the volume if I double-click it. The icon doesn't appear on another Gentoo laptop and I can't figure out why. I thought it was

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

2009-03-16 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:48:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: 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. If you can do it with wvdial, it can also be done using gentoo net.*

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

2009-03-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: 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? Yes, you are mistaken. mpd does not need to use gstreamer. To the OP, I

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

2009-03-16 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] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-16 Thread Damian
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: 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

2009-03-16 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:19:54 -0400 Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: The use flags look alright, I think, the only differences are: -ipv6 +mikmod +musepack on my desktop. But yet I have a lot more support codecs then you do: ... Supported formats: mp3 mp2 ogg oga ogg flac wav au aiff

Re: [gentoo-user] simple A/V recording software to grab Internet seminar?

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Jake Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going

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

2009-03-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. I'll try to make some time to

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

2009-03-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Mar 2009, at 13:16, Damian wrote: ... The strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. ... That's a bit inconclusive, because mplayer seems very forgiving. You can put completely invalid codecs into a container format and mplayer will just be all ok, I can work out what this

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

2009-03-16 Thread Damian
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The strange thing is

Re: [gentoo-user] simple A/V recording software to grab Internet seminar?

2009-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Jake Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700 Mark Knecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection

2009-03-16 Thread Dan Farrell
Hi again. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dan. No matter what I do, I can't get the other laptop to communicate with my laptop. It can ping the router which is between us, but it can't get to the other

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both me, but with different UIDs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Farrell d...@spore.ath.cx wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for user B on machine Y to

[gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails and

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Justin
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. When the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get work done,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 16 März 2009, Justin wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget about it in the rush of trying to get

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Justin
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before you had a chance to update the config files. power failure is always something extra ordinary! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. Don't do what I did and postpone the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router

[gentoo-user] are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?]

Re: [gentoo-user] are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Justin
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Dale
Justin wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before you had a chance to update the config files. power failure is always something extra ordinary! It's not here. Our power goes out sometimes just because

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection

2009-03-16 Thread Grant
Hi again.  Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dan.  No matter what I do, I can't get the other laptop to communicate with my laptop.  It can ping the router which is between us, but it can't get to the other

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:34:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: And the screen is almost unreadable (it wasn't three years ago...) Pixels shrivel with age ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Fasten your seatbelt ... I wanna try something. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off

[gentoo-user] Re: are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:01 -0400 ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of

[gentoo-user] Procmail mail ownership

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Oxley
Since late February any mail delivered to folders other than inbox using procmail have been given ownership of root:mail instead of david:users as it was previously. A new version of procmail was installed on 21 Feb so I'm assuming thats caused this issue. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix

[gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to 2.24. Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, I can get in and work, but whenever I try systempreferencesappearance I get a dialog box saying