Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-21 Thread YoYo Siska
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:33:22PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09:27PM +, Mick wrote Indeed, the Gentoo Alsa Guide still says pretty much the same thing: Please note that for ease of use, all examples show ALSA built as modules. It is advisable to follow the

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

2011-02-21 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:39:43AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 110220 Philip Webb wrote: 110220 Florian Philipp wrote: Just change your cron job to look like 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid fetchmail' That's by far the simplest it still fetches the mail, so we'll see if it also avoids the

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

2011-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:10:18 -0500, David Relson wrote: You're suggesting that the RUN clause be RUN+=pmount /dev/PNY right? Right. Most importantly, stop using mount -a. -- Neil Bothwick If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

2011-02-21 Thread Adam Carter
btw, if I need to check if the network is up in a script, I usually do ping -q -c1 -w4 some.remote.host /dev/null 21 command-to-run-if-remote-host-reachable It the advantage that it checks directly connection to the host you wish to connect to, so it also won't run the command if your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-21 Thread Mick
On 21 February 2011 04:27, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried: CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=radeon CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware This

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Radeon HD 4350

2011-02-21 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i FIRMWARE CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=radeon/R700_rlc.bin CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware/ CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y # Firmware Drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 04:07:20 Valmor de Almeida wrote: otherwise my keyboard keybindings do not work. I have also tried the pointer InputClass outside the xorg.conf file, that is, inside the xorg.conf.d/ directory. As long as the 10-synaptics.conf file is read first, the keyboard config

[gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there either a kernel config option or additionally some application that allows me to turn on and off the lights underneath this groovy new laptop's keyboard? They flash on when booting, and work in Windows, but I don't know how to control them in Linux. I haven't found any function key that

[gentoo-user] plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-21 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. After checking it out I have found a lot of messages like this: 2011-02-21T03:49:21+00:00 obelix sshd[19767]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Version;Remote: my.ip.add.ress-56254;Protocol: 2.0;Client: OpenSSH_5.8p1-hpn13v10 This message

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 19:40:33 Mark Knecht wrote: Is there either a kernel config option or additionally some application that allows me to turn on and off the lights underneath this groovy new laptop's keyboard? They flash on when booting, and work in Windows, but I don't know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 21 February 2011 19:40:33 Mark Knecht wrote: Is there either a kernel config option or additionally some application that allows me to turn on and off the lights underneath this groovy new laptop's keyboard?

[gentoo-user] [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to get some definitive starting points. When you see net adapters online they are always rated like 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into megabytes? I think those numbers stand for bits, right? But

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:11:54AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote Run alsamixer, pres F4 (capture) and either look for - a mic control (along with CD, Line, Aux,... controls), then make sure it has a red CAPTURE text (spacebar toggles CAPTURE) Thank you very much. That was the last step that I

[gentoo-user] Re: plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-21 Thread walt
On 02/21/2011 11:48 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. That's interesting. I have no such logfile. Did you change something in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Oh, wait, I'm running openssh-5.8-p1, and my config file says the logging configuration has

[gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-21 Thread David Relson
G'day, My USB subsystem is working much better now (than it was this weekend). /etc/fstab had a reference to /dev/hdb which no my current kernel no longer supports. Removing this has improved flash drive mounting a whole lot! I've also modified /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to use pmount

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to get some definitive starting points. When you see net adapters online they are always rated like 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into megabytes? I

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:58:38 -0500, David Relson wrote: I've also modified /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to use pmount device label rather than mount -a. This is mounting flash drives in /media as desired: mount -a was always a bad idea, because it could potentially affect drives other

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Adam Carter
I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to get some definitive starting points. When you see net adapters online they are always rated like 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into megabytes? That notation is in megabits per second, or

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-21 Thread walt
On 02/21/2011 03:14 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: ffmpeg -y -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 audio1.wav ffmpeg -y -f oss -i /dev/dsp audio2.wav I understand the /dev/dsp, but where did plughw:0,0 come from? After googling around a bit, I must say I've rarely seen such opaque documentation as I've just

Re: [gentoo-user] plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. After checking it out I have found a lot of messages like this: 2011-02-21T03:49:21+00:00 obelix sshd[19767]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Version;Remote: my.ip.add.ress-56254;Protocol: 2.0;Client: OpenSSH_5.8p1-hpn13v10

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-21 Thread Jarry
On 22. 2. 2011 0:42, walt wrote: On 02/21/2011 11:48 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. That's interesting. I have no such logfile. Did you change something in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? I forgot to say: I have set up filter for ssh-messages. They