Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I want to compile hydrogen cleanly. Since the ebuild of hydrogen fails to compile because the system linux3 is not known (which happens even when compiled on a linux-2.6*-booted machine)... You may want to try the ebuild again.

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing x86 and amd64 distcc?

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Can amd64 distcc compile for a gentoo x86 setup? Or do I need a 32bit chroot? chroot is not needed, at worst you would need to use crossdev, but if you use multilib and both hosts are using the same

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing x86 and amd64 distcc?

2012-02-18 Thread 2sb7vwu
2012-02-17 09:24:10 +0200, Coert Waagmeester: Hello all, Can amd64 distcc compile for a gentoo x86 setup? Or do I need a 32bit chroot? Regards, Coert Waagmeester emerge crossdev

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [12-02-18 09:04]: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I want to compile hydrogen cleanly. Since the ebuild of hydrogen fails to compile because the system linux3 is not known (which happens even when compiled on a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:56:03 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Exception: Platform 'linux3' not supported: File /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/hydrogen-0.9.5/work/hydrogen-0.9.5/Sconstruct, line 378: includes, a , b = get_platform_flags( opts ) File

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:56 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: As mentioned in my previous post, the problem is not the kernel version and after getting over this bug there are others ahead. Sorry, I didn't see the other thread. It's strange that it emerges normally for me, and the program

[gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and downgraded to 3.3.4. Any idea ? Thank you, Cheers, -- Jacques

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [12-02-18 10:28]: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:56:03 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Exception: Platform 'linux3' not supported: File /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/hydrogen-0.9.5/work/hydrogen-0.9.5/Sconstruct, line 378: includes, a , b =

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell 9128 controller and SSD in Gentoo

2012-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 01:25:24 schrieb Paul Hartman: Hi, I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3 chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always exclusively from the

[gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Is there any truth to this mess? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky:

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky:

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky:

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? If there is a few computers still running that have a connection, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and downgraded to 3.3.4. Any idea ? Thank you,

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and downgraded to 3.3.4. It seems like it was compiled using CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2012 7:27 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:02 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke.

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at all. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: Indeed. In fact, easier than that. Just inject false BGP routes into one of the backbone level routers, and see how wide the Internet becomes 'impacted'. Do it to maybe 5 or 6 other routers that watch guard over the transatlantic and transpacific routes, and watch as

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread James Broadhead
On 18 February 2012 05:45, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Walter Dnes writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote Then my hardware broke, and I got new one...   I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***.  In My case it was a 4+ year old

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at all. Wonko When trying to compile media-sound/museseq it complains that QTDIR is not set

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 18/02/2012 13:54, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and downgraded to 3.3.4. It

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [12-02-18 14:40]: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at all. Wonko When trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2012 8:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Indeed. In fact, easier than that. Just inject false BGP routes into one of the backbone level routers, and see how wide the Internet becomes 'impacted'. Do it to maybe 5 or 6 other routers that watch guard

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Le 18/02/2012 13:54, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [12-02-18 14:40]: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ? QTDIR ist for Qt3 only, AFAIK Qt4 does not use it at

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 18/02/2012 14:51, Dale a écrit : Jacques Montier wrote: Le 18/02/2012 13:54, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 15:08]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [12-02-18 14:40]: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 14:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: How do I have to set QTDIR correctly under Gentoo/Qt4 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Le 18/02/2012 14:51, Dale a écrit : Jacques Montier wrote: Le 18/02/2012 13:54, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

2012-02-18 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! Already reported in Bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404139 Greetings, -- Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com http://www.jorgeml.net       Google Talk / XMPP: jorg...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread pk
On 2012-02-18 13:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: basically, yes. Take down the core routers and backbones and everything falls apart. Which is easier said than done, IMO... but on the other hand, five of the major tier 1's is in the good old USA so if you take those down you still have five

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? If there is a few computers

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: As this line in my previous posting states, museseq needs Qt 4.*, which is installed...: configure: error: need qt = 3.2.0 Um, huh? If it would need Qt 4.*, it would say that you need qt = 4.something. But it says you need qt = 3.2.0, so qt-meta 3.3.8b-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:18:10 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Indeed. In fact, easier than that. Just inject false BGP routes into one of the backbone level routers, and see how wide the Internet becomes 'impacted'. Do it to maybe 5 or 6 other routers that

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:39:27 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:54:14 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:37:24 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: As this line in my previous posting states, museseq needs Qt 4.*, which is installed...: configure: error: need qt = 3.2.0 Um, huh? If it would need Qt 4.*, it would say

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [12-02-18 16:00]: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:37:24 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: As this line in my previous posting states, museseq needs Qt 4.*, which is installed...: configure: error:

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 18/02/2012 15:42, Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:54:14 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:16:37 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [12-02-18 16:00]: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:37:24 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: As this line in my previous posting states, museseq

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:39:27 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: So, if QT3 is removed from protage, and museseq which still is in portage seems only to build agains qt3, I see a contradiction here... No, it has already been removed from portage two years ago [1], because it still depends on Qt3. So your version probably comes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [12-02-18 16:36]: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:16:37 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [12-02-18 16:00]: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:37:24 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound. There are error messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:44]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: So, if QT3 is removed from protage, and museseq which still is in portage seems only to build agains qt3, I see a contradiction here... No, it has already been removed from portage two years ago [1], because

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:52]: Hi there! I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run games-fps/quake3-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:52]: Hi there! I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:39:27 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:39:27 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers. After all, the internet is supposed to be redundant right? If there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:44]: What about trying the new ebuild for musesq-2.0 [2]? [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/206852 [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/proaudio@lists.tuxfamily.org/msg04170.html Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:52]: I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:39:27 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/18/2012 5:26 AM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I ran across this and though it was a joke. Did a news search and sure enough, it is reported in lots of places. Random linky: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Is

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:31:45 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and downgraded to 3.3.4. It seems like it was compiled using

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:42:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Why not use the source package? What's the point of having an i7 if Like this? # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 17:36]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 16:52]: I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being used.

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
James Broadhead writes: Please try: ~/.mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=2 # Use 128MiB input cache by default. cache = 131072 # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. cache-min = 20.0 Which should eliminate disk IO somewhat James, thanks for your input. I already

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 17:36]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: try (as root) fuser /dev/dsp to figure out, which task helds that device... I get no output at all. ?Hu? The access rights to that device are ok...? Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 18:20]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [12-02-18 17:36]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: try (as root) fuser /dev/dsp to figure out, which task helds that device... I get no output at

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:39:27 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, 06:00:00 schrieb Dale: I don't really think they can

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 23:18, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage And it's not so easy to take the Internet down with injected BGP routes any more, either; most network operators apply some sort of filtering. Yes, there *are* filters against injecting BGP from

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
(Sorry for the top-post...I'm mobile atm.) My understanding is that core network operators filter ASs for which they don't have a contract for transit. I.e, if I were to get my own PI space, I'd have to pay tier 1 networks (or pay someone to ride on *their* contract) for a contract to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 21:36, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And no, the intartubes will NOT be switched off. I don't really think they can unless they just cut power to all the computers.  After all, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
And every time that's successful, it's because some idiot admin wasn't filtering their incoming BGP traffic properly. Ditto the network in Florida which acted as a black hole for the entire Internet in the late 90s. Proper training and filtering helps prevent these kinds of issues. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diskette into A: Cracks about how if the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 19, 2012 1:15 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: (Sorry for the top-post...I'm mobile atm.) My understanding is that core network operators filter ASs for which they don't have a contract for transit. I.e, if I were to get my own PI space, I'd have to pay tier 1 networks (or pay

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT: Any truth to this mess?

2012-02-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 19, 2012 1:27 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And every time that's successful, it's because some idiot admin wasn't filtering their incoming BGP traffic properly. Ditto the network in Florida which acted as a black hole for the entire Internet in the late 90s. Proper training

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:57:17 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: OK, if you want to play genlop Top Trumps [root@hactar ~ 0]% genlop -t libreoffice * app-office/libreoffice Wed Feb 15 10:23:58 2012 app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 merge time: 40 minutes and 52

[gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use elogv as a regular user. Something had changed the permissions of the /var/log/portage and

[gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:44 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant claws-mail It takes

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird?  I'm looking for something simple and minimal. I still stick with Thunderbird or

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use elogv as a regular

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alecks Gates
I've never used it, but I've heard good things about Sylpheed. I'm using Evolution now and it's nearly the opposite of lightweight, but I love its integration into GNOME 3. On Feb 18, 2012 3:30 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys)

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:44 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird?  

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird?  I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant claws-mail It takes some getting used to as all the nice cute gui stuff is not present. It

[gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
Has anyone set up lightdm? I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log. gdm works fine. Any ideas? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: If you're already building KDE, KMail was decent. Yes. It was. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:26:42 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: If you're already building KDE, KMail was decent. Yes. It was. Wonko How true. kmail jumped the shark at 4.3, jumped the couch at 4.4 and everything since has been a descent into

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone set up lightdm?  I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log.  gdm works fine.  Any ideas? I'm not using lightdm, but my understanding is that it's as minimalist as

[gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
Has anyone set up lightdm?  I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log.  gdm works fine.  Any ideas? - Grant I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to restart and/or shutdown from the login screen. I had to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
Has anyone set up lightdm?  I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log.  gdm works fine.  Any ideas? I'm not using lightdm, but my understanding is that it's as minimalist as you can get while still technically using a display manager.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Cook
On 02/18/2012 05:15 PM, Grant wrote: Has anyone set up lightdm? I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log. gdm works fine. Any ideas? - Grant I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to restart and/or shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Urs Schutz
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:04:07 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: ... Then I tried another video, again with the settings you suggested, and it stuttered. There were small pauses when the system did some stuff, and when I did my dd test, the pauses were as long as five seconds.

[gentoo-user] python 2.x vs 3.x

2012-02-18 Thread Mark Knecht
In a current thread started by Meino where he is having trouble emerging hydrogen he reported the following quoted data to Neil. I don't believe Neil has responded yet but Meino's data brought me back to a question I've meant to ask for a while so I'll take this opportunity. From Meino: QUOTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
Has anyone set up lightdm?  I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log.  gdm works fine. Any ideas? - Grant I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to restart and/or shutdown from the login screen.  I had to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Urs Schutz writes: Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... smartctl -t short /dev/sda and after some minutes smartctl --all /dev/sda If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could try the extended or long tests with smartctl. I have smartd

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird?  I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant claws-mail It takes some getting used to as all the nice cute gui stuff is not present. It

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Trausch
I liked Claws when I used it before. If you really want lightweight, though, try mutt, which is a terminal-based mail program that supports OpenPGP and IMAP. There is also a new option, but it is written in Ruby and is therefore not lightweight. But it is also a terminal client and allegedly is

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Grant
I liked Claws when I used it before. If you really want lightweight, though, try mutt, which is a terminal-based mail program that supports OpenPGP and IMAP. There is also a new option, but it is written in Ruby and is therefore not lightweight. But it is also a terminal client and allegedly

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.x vs 3.x

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: In a current thread started by Meino where he is having trouble emerging hydrogen he reported the following quoted data to Neil. I don't believe Neil has responded yet but Meino's data brought me back to a question I've

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use

[gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 months ago or a year ago), I

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread ny6p01
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Grant wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant I like mutt. Takes some work getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote: I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it spits out this when I try

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.x vs 3.x

2012-02-18 Thread meino . cramer
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [12-02-19 03:13]: In a current thread started by Meino where he is having trouble emerging hydrogen he reported the following quoted data to Neil. I don't believe Neil has responded yet but Meino's data brought me back to a question I've meant to ask for a