[gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Andrey Vul
I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 . -- Andrey Vul andrey dot vul at gmail dot

[gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams. MPlayer (and may be other video-related applikations) does support vdpau. First tests on my

Re: [gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Andrey Vul wrote: I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 .

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 09 August 2009 09:25:08 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams. MPlayer (and may be other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 08 August 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-08, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between my desktop and the modem. Your modem is probably a router anyway. +1 I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?

2009-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 09 August 2009 05:40:07 Stroller wrote: Hi there, I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine. Unfortunately, the fonts are

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-09 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: direct rendering: Yes Great! I thought OpenGL support were better? And there is power saving. Although I have an onboard card, so I would not have a loud spinning

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?

2009-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Did you just install knode, or more than that? knode gives you knode, not the other 50 packages that make up a basic KDE session :-) I just emerge'd knode added xauth when X11 over ssh gave an error. I suspect you might not have the

Re: [gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2009, at 08:01, Andrey Vul wrote: I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 .

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right? Should I be doing more than running this test: smartctl -t long /dev/sda [...] Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell? Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error # 1  

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-09 Thread Eray Aslan
On 09.08.2009 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] When you think about the situation, laptop-mode might actually make the situation worse. You see, it was originally developed to help HDDs staying in standby for longer periods by delaying writes until a read action causes the drive to spin up

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/9 meino.cra...@gmx.de:  as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia  has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is  useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams.  MPlayer (and may be other video-related applikations) does  support

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/9 Manuel Fiorelli manuel.fiore...@gmail.com: 2009/8/9  meino.cra...@gmx.de:  First tests on my Linux-box with    mplayer -vo vdpau video  results in a movie display with best audio, no video at all  and concerns from mplayer: Your command didn't work for me, too. First, I checked

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What do I need to do to be able to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot

[gentoo-user] Re: maintaining clones

2009-08-09 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/net I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating GenToo upto several times a week) and 'rsync' the other ones. Why not

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when

[gentoo-user] {OT} smartctl: read failure

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
I get this on my laptop's internal HDD: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 60% 12400 149547192 after some Googling, it sounds like it's bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC. I have started using flacs - because they can easily be trancoded into mp3 or ogg.

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} smartctl: read failure

2009-08-09 Thread walt
On 08/09/2009 03:15 PM, Grant wrote: I get this on my laptop's internal HDD: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 60% 12400 149547192

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have ATT DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have ATT DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but I'm curious about the details. Can you please elaborate?