Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage option --changed-use not working?

2012-01-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:34:52 -0500 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:23:18PM -0600, ??Q?? wrote Thanks for the points you've made about how removal of a flag a user doesn't have enabled could still affect the user. I think I'll still use --changed-use

[gentoo-user] nvidia irq issues; likely problem with kconfig

2012-01-22 Thread Andrey Moshbear
There's something wrong with my kconfig, which is causing the irq snafu, but I can't tell what. Kernel is 3.1.6-pf. /usr/src/linux/.config: http://pastebin.com/9KXQpMdt lspci -vv: http://pastebin.com/gfUF1N18

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage option --changed-use not working?

2012-01-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:23:18 -0600, »Q« wrote: Thanks for the points you've made about how removal of a flag a user doesn't have enabled could still affect the user. I think I'll still use --changed-use routinely and also periodically run an update with --newuse. That's harmless, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

2012-01-22 Thread James Broadhead
Ok, looks as though it's time for a manually-installed version of python to upgrade portage, then a portage-installed python:2.6 to bootstrap your way towards modernity. This is all explained here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml This may also help

Re: [gentoo-user] fonts in gitview

2012-01-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:34:22PM +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is

[gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-01-21, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-01-21, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about it, in your device's case, I suspect you won't want link-local scope to be your only IPv6 address; You're right.  We don't plan on supporting only

[gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
I've seen reports for years about folks having problems with some KVMs under Linux. I've never personally had one myself. However I've been helping a Windows friend break his Redmond addiction over the last few months using Gentoo. He has a nice 3 monitor KDE-based system that's been working fine

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen reports for years about folks having problems with some KVMs under Linux. I've never personally had one myself. However I've been helping a Windows friend break his Redmond addiction over the last few months

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-22 Thread BRM
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: As the system starts to boot-up, it switches like it is going to start X - changing a video mode somehow. I don't have xdm in the runlevels yet, so it can't be starting XDM at all.This seems to happen

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen reports for years about folks having problems with some KVMs under Linux. I've never personally had one myself. However I've been helping a

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 January 2012, at 15:54, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Basically, I looked around in Google for anyone that had real info about why this problem occurs, couldn't find any that made sense, and am wondering how to choose a KVM that's going to work out of the box short of asking for model

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user and (possibly) PID of the connection, but I don't know. lsof -i is

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid | parse-edid. Logically that stuff even working says the VGA monitor cable is bidirectional. I started wondering if the KVM messes up the data coming back, or what else might be going on. Thanks for the ideas, Mark Many

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:07 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid | parse-edid. Logically that stuff even working says the VGA monitor cable is bidirectional. I started wondering if the KVM messes up the data

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 17:54:29 Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993 '

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/22/2012 12:54 PM, Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' mystery.log;

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
`watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' mystery.log;    sleep 1;  done; You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
`watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat -antp | grep ':993 '  mystery.log;    sleep 1;  done; You'll want to

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 22 January 2012, at 15:54, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Basically, I looked around in Google for anyone that had real info about why this problem occurs, couldn't find any that made sense, and am wondering how to

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid | parse-edid. Logically that stuff even working says the VGA monitor cable is bidirectional. I started wondering if the KVM messes up the data

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
`watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' mystery.log;    sleep 1;  done; You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid | parse-edid. Logically that stuff even working says the VGA monitor cable

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 19:29:47 Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/22/2012 02:29 PM, Grant wrote: Since my local firewall is rejecting the outbound requests, the time elapsed between the request and the block should be very short. Is it possible the 'sleep 1' portion of the script is causing the failure to log the connection request? The outbound

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid |

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Also, thanks for the pointer to xvidtune. Interesting little app. QUESTION: Do you know how to get the data for each monitor/video card combo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
I'm still getting the blocked outbound requests to port 3680 on my firewall and I'm running the above script (changed 993 to 3680) on the local system indicated by SRC in the firewall log, but mystery.log remains empty.  I tested the script with other ports and it seems to be working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:18:17 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Also, thanks for the pointer to xvidtune. Interesting little

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:18:17 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP On my setup I use a GTX465 for screen 0 1 but have an NVidia 8400GS for screen 2. On this system I only see the gears on screen 0 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 20:26:13 Grant wrote: I just started running this on the router: tcpdump -i eth1 -n | grep the.offending.ip.address where eth1 is my LAN interface. I figure this will tell me if any requests are being made to the offending IP, including any that aren't being logged

[gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Webb
During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 is now testing, while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in stable. I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago, but PDF export was not working. Has anyone used it with LO 3.5.0.1 ? Also, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1

[gentoo-user] [OT] Transferring old video tapes to disk

2012-01-22 Thread walt
Hi multi-media gentooers, I know you're out there :) A friend just gave me a 15-year-old VCR, and it still works! That's good news because I have some 25-year-old video tapes that I haven't been able to play since my old VCR broke 15 years ago. Now's my chance to save the tapes to a newer

[gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Webb
Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in /usr/portage/packages , I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too. Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way of managing them, esp of deleting obsolete versions, beyond a simple 'rm' ? I notice there's a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Transferring old video tapes to disk

2012-01-22 Thread Andrey Moshbear
Get a tuner card with composite-in support. Recompile your kernel to add V4L support and m the required drivers. Then use vlc, mplayer, etc to capture to file.

Re: [gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

2012-01-22 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in /usr/portage/packages , I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too. Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way of managing them, esp of deleting obsolete versions, beyond a simple 'rm'

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-22 Thread BRM
From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

2012-01-22 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:04:48 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Webb wrote: Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in /usr/portage/packages , I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too. Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
Ok, looks as though it's time for a manually-installed version of python to upgrade portage, then a portage-installed python:2.6 to bootstrap your way towards modernity. This is all explained here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml This may also help

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 is now testing, while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in stable. I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago, but PDF export was not

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 23, 2012 12:57 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: - 8 snip Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to ifconfig, but the 6 blocks from ifconfig do match 6 of the blocks reported by

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 23, 2012 12:10 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 23, 2012 12:57 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: - 8 snip Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
Ok, looks as though it's time for a manually-installed version of python to upgrade portage, then a portage-installed python:2.6 to bootstrap your way towards modernity. This is all explained here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml This may also help