Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote: so you set VIDEO_CARDS=vesa? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse? I'm using virtualbox on both variables and it's not working.

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 07:48:33 Jim Cunning wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:48:33 -0800, Jim Cunning wrote: I had the same problem turning it off on KDE3. It's a system setting, Konqueror does the same. ISTR it's in the Accessibility section of systemsettings. Firefox does not exhibit this behavior, Of course not, it's not a KDE app.

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see below). Can

[gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, again, I have to work around a broken Gentoo system. (I cannot re-install kde-base/step) Because of that I have to replace emerge @preserved-rebuild by something which just updates all packages depending on media-libs/jpeg . Here, equery -qC depends media-libs/jpeg or probably equery -qC

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect KMail too, or KMail will have a similar setting. I guess that’s because - similar to Outl**k using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA.  I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Crístian Viana
maybe this works: equery -q d jpeg | sed -e s/^/=/ | xargs emerge -j 4 -1 I don't know how do to that using only portage utilities, but sed and xargs are always allowed, I guess :) On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, again, I have to work

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Jan, Crístian Viana wrote: maybe this works: equery -q d jpeg | sed -e s/^/=/ | xargs emerge -j 4 -1 I don't know how do to that using only portage utilities, but sed and xargs are always allowed, I guess :) Thanks this works! (One just cannot use the --ask option to emerge but has

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 01:53 PM, Xi Shen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Fernando Antunes: Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there are difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source version. In that the OSS version does not support USB at all. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Do not

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Fernando Antunes wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com mailto:rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Joseph
On 01/20/10 21:24, Adam wrote: On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see below).  Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
This is weird. On Wednesday 20 January 2010 04:40:04 Xi Shen wrote: did you compile your sound drivers into the kernel, or as a module. i had a similar issue before on my thinkpad t61. i compiled all the intel-hd related sound drivers into the kernel, but the sound system does not work. but

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:51:22 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: Because of that I have to replace emerge @preserved-rebuild by something which just updates all packages depending on media-libs/jpeg . Here, equery -qC depends media-libs/jpeg or probably equery -qC depends

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 20 Januar 2010 12:53:23 schrieb Xi Shen: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. Who says we don't? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 23:58:24 schrieb Grant: I should be able to use flashrom to flash my motherboard's BIOS? Do I need to check compatibility, or do I just go for it? This exercise is left to the interested reader ;) Seriously, of course you should check compatibility before you use

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never letting the user see the contents of the XML. Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-20 Thread james
ubiquitous1980 nixuser1980 at gmail.com writes: I know I'm coming in half way here, but have you logged in using kdm or just straight in via the cli? The kdm display manager will let me log in and start kde4. I can ssh in or kill off xdm and log in on console just fine. If I use the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. -- Neil Bothwick If man ruled the world: Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread pk
BRM wrote: The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you are debugging the UI or the program itself. While a UI is important; a good UI is key. And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody knows how to use it. Why bring in another extra (translation)

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 02:57:30 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect KMail too, or KMail will have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:01:47 pk wrote: BRM wrote: The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you are debugging the UI or the program itself. While a UI is important; a good UI is key. And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody knows how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because without them we couldn't flash stuff?

[gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/arts:3.5. I tried a -t, but it didn't give me

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:41:54 +0100, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:04:41 + (UTC), james wrote: If I use the old org.conf file, it boot but the kdm login manager app never starts and It does not allow login on console. It is a dell laptop. I think the xorg.conf file needs work, but, it's only a guess. That sounds a good guess, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because without them we couldn't flash stuff? /facetious reply Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or

Re: [gentoo-user] [CLOSED] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Stroller wrote: [snip] I would try running fsck on a copy of the image. I did try and thought I would post here some final info just for the record. I proceeeded with the command r...@sysresccd /root % ddrescue -r 1 /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log which took ~50 hours to finish with the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS)

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread walt
On 01/19/2010 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: = I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. [snip] Perhaps equery belongs arts could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:19:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because without them we couldn't flash stuff? /facetious reply Don't tell my motherboard that or it

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. emerge gentoolkit equery d arts

[gentoo-user] Re: cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-20 Thread walt
On 01/19/2010 09:04 AM, Joseph wrote: ... When I open a firefox with one of the tab pointing to: localhost:631 (cups) the cups is being shut down by: cupsdAcceptClient: 11 D [19/Jan/2010:09:39:59 -0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 11 from localhost:631 (IPv4) D [19/Jan/2010:09:39:59 -0700]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or other. So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code somewhere that might not be in .exe or ELF format) how does

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:37:55 +0100, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. facetious reply because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or other. So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code