Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:57:41 you wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:15:17 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt. Out of ideas then. FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find what is killing

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:43:39 Ralph Slooten wrote: On 18 March 2010 09:40, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: You can comment that out and then those annoying run-cron entries won't be logged. Yes, dropping those entries on the client side is an option, however then I have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-18 Thread Dale
stosss wrote: On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else. I send pics and other things to other folks. Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:57:59PM -0700, walt wrote: On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too forgiving and fuzzy! By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign speeches should be written in

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Cool. Didn't know about this yet. Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top, even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with no

[gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a receipt). I run something like: mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o video_final.avi but I get the error: [...] Selected

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread o0o . atlantis . o0o
Le Thursday 18 Mar 2010 à 12:06:12 (+0100), Alex Schuster a écrit : Mick writes: In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Cool. Didn't know about this yet. Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/18/10 12:20, schrieb Arnau Bria: Hi all, I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a receipt). I run something like: mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o video_final.avi

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
o0o.atlantis@gmail.com writes: Same thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like yours I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now. The question is why is the file not having the right syntax? here: top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64 I tried with

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:38:01 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, Hi Norman, i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly: mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=abitrate -o result_path I don't get it source file is

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:20 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: I tried with sys-process/procps-3.2.7, sys-process/procps-3.2.8 and sys- process/procps-3.2.8-r1 (all x86), all without the problem. I had a similar problem in that I could save changes as a user but not when logged in as root. In that

[gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Hello, I've successfully set up many printers, using cups and HPLIP before. I prefer to use CUPS. So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer: OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver: HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. Everything works, admin from localhost:631 for CUPS; HP

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, I've successfully set up many printers, using cups and HPLIP before. I prefer to use CUPS. So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer: OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver: HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. Everything works, admin from localhost:631

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/18/10 13:14, schrieb Arnau Bria: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:38:01 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, Hi Norman, i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly: mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac mp3lame -lameopts

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:34 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top, even from the same

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:54:12 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: Um...it is not the exact command you should use in your case with the subs, it is an example on how to bypass the lavc problem. Producing a working command, that suits _your_ needs is still your job ;-). Oh! thanks, going to see into it!

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=400875#400875 I tried those drivers: 6450 and the clj2605 and it made matters worse. Any other ideas? Maybe I need to start hacking the /etc/cups/printers.conf file? thanks, James

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=400875#400875 About the third one down. Maybe that will help. The best driver I have found, is the HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C Foomatic/cdj550 (color). It works fine except no duplex printing. Maybe

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts surely one of the more astute admins will jump in? (and keep me from looking.foolish?) So

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: Hi all, I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a receipt). I run something like: mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale
James wrote: Jameswirelessat tampabay.rr.com writes: Maybe some printer wiz will figure out how to just edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file directly Well, I hate to keep answering my own posts surely one of the more astute admins will jump in? (and keep me from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk for this to work? If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also work? Isn't grub's hd0 always

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb walt: On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too forgiving and fuzzy! By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign speeches should be written in C. Well,

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I think ppds and hpcups is the key ones. I would at least start with those. So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one or the other? You use the hpcups flag and not the new-hpcups flag? James

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB I could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:14 + (UTC), James wrote: So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one or the other? hplip is a set of drivers, for use by CUPS and other programs. -- Neil Bothwick Programmer (n): A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:29:00 Dan Wallis wrote: On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On a x86 system, oocalc launches, I use the file and when I close it shred removes it. On the amd64 system, the file is shredded as soon as it is opened. This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:50:14 + (UTC), James wrote: So hplip and cups work together? I thought is was one or the other? hplip is a set of drivers, for use by CUPS and other programs. I think Neil is correct. I have both. I don't know if it will work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] top does not save settings

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 14:07:37 Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:34 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get: Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc' Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 18 March 2010 21:55:14 Dale wrote: James wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 19:55:14 Dale wrote: James wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE=X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd LINGUAS=en -de -es

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
James schrieb am 18.03.2010 14:37: So I cannot find an explicit listing for this new model HP printer: OfficeJet Pro 8500; so I'm using this driver: HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. According to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html your printer is supported sine hplip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/18/2010 3:55 PM, Dale wrote: I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. May as well be Greek. ;-) Zeroconf is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.03.2010 19:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: If you are on linux soft raid you might check your disks for errors with smartmontools. Other than that the only thing I can think of is something like a performance regression in the ide/scsi/sata controller (on host or virtual) or mdadm on

[gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Carlos Hendson
Hello, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5 hard drives setup using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half and all's been working well. I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in the softraid-fail.txt attachment. Initially I

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5 hard drives setup using software RAID1.  I've had this computer for about a year and half and all's been working well. I've experienced intermittent software RAID

[gentoo-user] Setting up WLAN and VPN the right way

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Schulte
Hi at all, I'm trying to setup VPN on my Laptop but I'm stuck. When I'm at the university I have to connect to their WLAN and then setting up a VPN-Connection. All packets should take the VPN-tunnel. Here's what I've got so far: 1) W-LAN connection works and I get an ip, default route and

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 03/18, Carlos Hendson wrote: === I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in the softraid-fail.txt attachment. === That's most likely your disk starting to fail. -- Keith Dart -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Wallis
On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? I guess something like this might do the trick: while pgrep ooffice /dev/null; do sleep 1; done Although

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro

2010-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
100318 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: hpcups Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver. hpijs See above. Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' my printer wouldn't work, so I restored 'hpijs' dropped 'hpcups' all was ok. It's an ancient Deskjet 500C with the b+w '500' driver.