Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 February 2011 23:21:32 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/2/26 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for recursive search. Also, make

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 25 February 2011 18:24:50 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: let memtest86 run - for 12h. increase ram voltage - a bit. Like 0.01V. get a different psu. 12 hours? you are right. 24h is better.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 26/02/2011 13:11, Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit : On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:03:00 Roger Cahn wrote: Hi, Since I have installed kernel amd64 I have nomore cdrom and sr0 in /dev Here is my emerge --info: which is useless. dmesg and kernel config would be much more helpfull.

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible. that's what i'm doing, for sure!

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:52:36AM +, Stroller wrote: AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself. Not necessarily true. On bash if you set the 'nullglob' option, if the shell can't find the file the word will

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Sunday 27 February 2011 12:13:21 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible. that's what i'm doing, for sure! I have read all the discussion, and, unfortunately, I can't help you Luis. But I am asking the way

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
(Sorry for the late replies) Matthew Summers quantumsumm...@gentoo.org writes: paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives [SOLVED]

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 13:51 Paul Colquhoun wrote: Hmmm. equery b for /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf or just /etc/PolicyKit doesn't return any packages on my system. from what i could find on the web, it seems to me that /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf belongs to a deprecated policykit package,

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Grant Edwards writes: On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 27/02/2011 11:32, Jacques Montier a écrit : Le 26/02/2011 13:11, Volker Armin Hemmann a écrit : On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:03:00 Roger Cahn wrote: Hi, Since I have installed kernel amd64 I have nomore cdrom and sr0 in /dev Here is my emerge --info: which is useless. dmesg and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Roger Cahn
Thank you Volker for your answer. dmesg and kernel config would be much more helpfull. dmesg | grep cdrom and grep sr0 didn't give any answer Especially the scsi part of kernel config. Stuff like cdrom support. Here is my scsi config in the kernel: RAID Transport Class -*- SCSI device

[gentoo-user] Xfce: shutdown and reboot normal users

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
i'm posting this to the list in case it's of some use to somebody. trying to get automounting of usb drives working on xfce, as discussed on a recent thread, i recompiled xfce4-session with policykit (polkit) and consolekit. eventually this got me automounting working, but in the process i

Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

2011-02-27 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:10:01 +0100, Mike Gilbert wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17: [snip] Not quite; the 2 values are combined. Yes, I noticed that later. It solves a long-standing bug that

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I have unmerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input- keyboard and also removed mouse and keyboard from my /etc/make.conf, which now only contains: INPUT_DEVICES=synaptics evdev However, portage

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:33:55 you wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I have unmerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input- keyboard and also removed mouse and keyboard from my /etc/make.conf, which now only contains:

[gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-27 Thread dhk
I have a new laptop that I need to set up for dual booting. As much as I despise Microsoft, I have to use it for certain things. Such as some obscure peripherals, like my slide photo scanner, it doesn't support Linux and TD Ameritrade's streaming Java tools don't work the same as on Linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:14:57 Roger Cahn wrote: Thank you Volker for your answer. dmesg and kernel config would be much more helpfull. dmesg | grep cdrom and grep sr0 didn't give any answer complete dmesg would be nice nonetheless. * SCSI CDROM support [*] Enable

Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

2011-02-27 Thread Ian Lee
On 26/02/11 16:41, Mick wrote: Where are being these set? I currently have: $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /etc/xdg $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/local/share:/usr/share I'm asking because although Enlightenment-17 picks up the kde menu from there, it does not seem to recognise the respective

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Pintér Tibor
On 02/26/2011 01:03 PM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hi, Since I have installed kernel amd64 I have nomore cdrom and sr0 in /dev isnt it a pioneer sata device by any chance? t

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Roger Cahn
complete dmesg would be nice nonetheless. But in dmesg there are 1106 lines! Would you like I send all or only a part of them? * SCSI CDROM support [*] Enable vendor-specificextensions(forSCSICDROM) * SCSI generic support try that as module and reload it - what

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Roger Cahn
isnt it a pioneer sata device by any chance? No, it isn't. Thanks for your answer Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-27 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I have a new laptop that I need to set up for dual booting.  As much as I despise Microsoft, I have to use it for certain things.  Such as some obscure peripherals, like my slide photo scanner, it doesn't support Linux and TD

[gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread felix
I have the opposite problem from luis jure. I do not mount drives often, so I am not sure exactly when this problem started, but gentoo is now automounting drives and I have never wanted that. I run fvwm with a lot of xterms, so it is not the window manager doing things for me, it is something

Re: [gentoo-user] automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Sunday 27 February 2011 13:39:49 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 12:13:21 luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote: Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible. that's what i'm doing, for sure! I have read all the discussion,

[gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-26, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Before you start tweaking voltages and replacing PSUs you better test your *new* memory modules thoroughly, even if that means that you will be using your old machine for a day or so. Personally I usually remove all memory modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr wrote: My kernel configuration : # SCSI device support CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y CONFIG_SCSI_TGT=y CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg- drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Jason Weisberger
I actually have 4 gigs of gskill DDR 3 1600 and from experience I can tell you that the stock voltage on those chips is set too low. The company actually recommends that you use 1.9 volts while most motherboards will default to 1.5 or 1.6. Double check this however, because I know they were

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.02.2011 17:02, schrieb Petri Rosenström: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I have a new laptop that I need to set up for dual booting. As much as I despise Microsoft, I have to use it for certain things. Such as some obscure peripherals, like my slide

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 27 February 2011 16:55:26 Roger Cahn wrote: complete dmesg would be nice nonetheless. But in dmesg there are 1106 lines! Would you like I send all or only a part of them? * SCSI CDROM support [*] Enable vendor-specificextensions(forSCSICDROM)

[gentoo-user] [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com writes: On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =) That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any color

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Roger Cahn
and dmesg says what? Because threre are many lines (1106) you can get it at this adress: http://dl.free.fr/eaWeJr0WB I hope it will work!

Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

2011-02-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 February 2011 15:20:25 Ian Lee wrote: On 26/02/11 16:41, Mick wrote: Where are being these set? I currently have: $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /etc/xdg $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/local/share:/usr/share I'm asking because although Enlightenment-17 picks up the kde

[gentoo-user] Re: automounting usb drives [SOLVED]

2011-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2011 04:54 AM, luis jure wrote: PENDING ISSUE: on thunar (and xfce, the other file manager i occasionally use) i can eject the drive but no umount it (i mean the ability to umount the file system but not delete the mount point under /media) The auth/policy landscape has changed so

[gentoo-user] Re: Xfce: shutdown and reboot normal users

2011-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2011 05:55 AM, luis jure wrote: i'm posting this to the list in case it's of some use to somebody. trying to get automounting of usb drives working on xfce, as discussed on a recent thread... Heh. I just replied to that other thread before reading this :) Sounds like you're way

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-27 Thread Grant
I can't get find to work.  This works: locate *foo*.txt but none of these work: find /my/folder -name foo*.txt find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' $ mkdir -p  /my/folder mkdir: cannot create directory `/my': Permission denied $ mkdir -p my/folder

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-27 Thread walt
On 02/27/2011 07:01 AM, dhk wrote: I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the way I wanted. It had the usual Linux partitions and a partition that I was going to use for Window 7. I wanted to make this an LVM2 partition, but that didn't work; Good old fdisk is indeed old, and there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 February 2011 18:04:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 27.02.2011 17:02, schrieb Petri Rosenström: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: First, the observations. I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the way I wanted. I would recommend you use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 February 2011 17:15:40 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-02-26, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Before you start tweaking voltages and replacing PSUs you better test your *new* memory modules thoroughly, even if that means that you will be using your old machine for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:45:53 Roger Cahn wrote: and dmesg says what? Because threre are many lines (1106) you can get it at this adress: http://dl.free.fr/eaWeJr0WB I hope it will work! 497 lines. Could you please: increase the buffer and turn off usb debugging?

[gentoo-user] OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid unnecessary process calls where bash itself is powerful enough. At the moment, I want to replace stuff like this: string='foo:bar:foo' second_field=$(echo $string | cut -d : -f 2) # should read bar My current solution is

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread hamilton
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:01:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid unnecessary process calls where bash itself is powerful enough. My experience (take it for whatever you think it's worth) is that doing so often just makes things

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Dale
Jason Weisberger wrote: I actually have 4 gigs of gskill DDR 3 1600 and from experience I can tell you that the stock voltage on those chips is set too low. The company actually recommends that you use 1.9 volts while most motherboards will default to 1.5 or 1.6. Double check this however,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 17:15:40 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-02-26, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This appears to be a corrupt file somewhere. In my experice, failing RAM often appears as a corrupt file somewhere. Yep, when I had a failing memory

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid unnecessary process calls where bash itself is powerful enough. At the moment, I want to replace stuff like this: string='foo:bar:foo' second_field=$(echo $string | cut -d : -f 2) # should read bar My

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.02.2011 21:09, schrieb hamilton: On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:01:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid unnecessary process calls where bash itself is powerful enough. My experience (take it for whatever you think it's worth)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.02.2011 22:06, schrieb Alex Schuster: Florian Philipp writes: I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid unnecessary process calls where bash itself is powerful enough. At the moment, I want to replace stuff like this: string='foo:bar:foo' second_field=$(echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xfce: shutdown and reboot normal users

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 11:25 walt wrote: Heh. I just replied to that other thread before reading this :) Sounds like you're way ahead of me now, and thanks for the info. hmmm... i wouldn't say so. your other mail actually had lots of information that was completely new for me. pkaction --verbose for

[gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 08:53 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have the opposite problem from luis jure. I do not mount drives often, so I am not sure exactly when this problem started, but gentoo is now automounting drives and I have never wanted that. perhaps you could go the opposite way than me, like

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-27 Thread Dale
luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 08:53 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have the opposite problem from luis jure. I do not mount drives often, so I am not sure exactly when this problem started, but gentoo is now automounting drives and I have never wanted that. perhaps you could go

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 February 2011 20:12:29 Dale wrote: I did overclock my old rig once, folding complained so I set it back and haven't messed with it since. Just an aside, Dale, to satisfy my curiosity: is this the protein-folding BOINC application? What drew you to it? None of my business, I know,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:43:10 Mick wrote: [...] when I had a failing memory module I would often end up with corrupted files all over the place. Think about it, when the memory gave up some write on disk function was invariably foo-barred. What, though, if you get hang-ups in some OSs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:35:55 walt wrote: I've used this product several times with perfect results (so far): http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Of course if you already have a working linux machine you can install gparted and use it that way to move, resize and create

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 20:12:29 Dale wrote: I did overclock my old rig once, folding complained so I set it back and haven't messed with it since. Just an aside, Dale, to satisfy my curiosity: is this the protein-folding BOINC application? What drew you to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Shields
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking: Why is/was webmin dropped from portage? I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but other than offering an ebuild it didn't say. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking: Why is/was webmin dropped from portage? I saw bug 348432 for

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/08/2011 08:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Dale
Jason Weisberger wrote: I actually have 4 gigs of gskill DDR 3 1600 and from experience I can tell you that the stock voltage on those chips is set too low. The company actually recommends that you use 1.9 volts while most motherboards will default to 1.5 or 1.6. Double check this however,