[gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe

2008-01-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I'm currently trying to set up a personal video recorder in form of a headless server using mencoder and freevo. What I would like to do is watching the movie while mencoder is realtime encoding it to x264/vorbis in a Matroska container. I already tried it using sshfs. Unfortunately, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe

2008-01-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:43 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:35 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: #!/bin/bash mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the streaming app. However, vlc seems unable

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe

2008-01-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:29 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I'm currently trying to set up a personal video recorder in form of a headless server using mencoder and freevo. What I would like to do is watching the movie while mencoder is realtime encoding it to x264/vorbis in a Matroska

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-25 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 19:19 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: [...] and as the client (from `mount`): nfs:/mnt/storage on /home/media/storage type nfs(rw,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,soft,timeo=300,addr=192.168.1.88) /etc/fstab on the client looks like: nfs:/mnt/storage /home/media/storage

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 10:29 +, Stroller wrote: On 25 Jan 2008, at 22:40, Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 19:19 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: [...] and as the client (from `mount`): nfs:/mnt/storage on /home/media/storage type nfs(rw,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 10:58 +0100, Justin wrote: Hey guys! Yesterday I found this article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Speed_up_decompression_with_pbzip2 and was very happy, because I'm an owner of an Q6600. So I tried to reproduce the benchmark from the wiki article but got that bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? I fear, no easy one. Of course, since emerge is just a python script, you could rewrite it but 7z-syntax isn't compatible with bzip2 or gnu-tar so it will be some work. I also tried to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote: Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast. But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GUI swf encoder in portage?

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:02 -0800, Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a front end for ffmpeg or any GUI in portage that will convert .mov files to .swf? - Grant You could use mencoder, part of mplayer-ebuild: mencoder *.mov -oac copy -ovc copy -of lavf -lavfopts format=swf -o *.swf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 15:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:51 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 + Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a

Re: [gentoo-user] load too high

2008-02-12 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 07:55 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext James: I did not try this. what's the option to boot into single user mode? No need to boot, just telinit 1 from a running system. And later switch back to normal with telinit 3. Just to

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 20:21 -0500, David Relson wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:29:58 + Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 22:58:13 David Relson wrote: Have you thought about a PS/2 to USB adapter? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:57 +0100, Erik wrote: Alan McKinnon skrev: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... I wondering where this fs will go now ? It's in the -mm tree since a long time now and AFAIK one or two former namesys employees are still working

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:47 +0100, Erik wrote: What do you mean by Hans is a weird person.? Do you know him personally or did you just read it somewhere? I only saw a video lecture with him talking about namespaces and filesystems (he seemed perfectly normal there at least). And I use his

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:36 +0100, Strong Cypher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm looking for an alternative to ext2/3. I have put reiser3/4 out because of project seems to be off now ... or not really active I really want an active project. Is they a

[gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! For some time now, there's a very odd situation: There are two computers, DAU and NOTE. I can use ssh to login from DAU to NOTE but not vice versa. I've played around with several settings before this happened but I'm sure it worked after my last change. Well, ultimately I've unmerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 20:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! For some time now, there's a very odd situation: There are two computers, DAU and NOTE. I can use ssh to login from DAU to NOTE but not vice versa. I've played around

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 21:05 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to /, /usr, /var, /home, /usr/portage, /mnt/storage the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around 12000) and movies...

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 00:32 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: To your filesystem scheme: Why do you use xfs for usr? AFAIK XFS is good at write speed but not worth the trouble when reading data and data in usr is usually written once, updated every few months and read many times a week (on

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-16 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 06:33 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: it's done, thanks, BTW what's your home partition FS? your choice is ext3 or reiserFS?? I use reiserfs3.6 without notail but that doesn't mean that it would be a good choice for you. I'm on laptop and disk space efficiency

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-16 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:54 -0800, Tim Garton wrote: Try adding a: LogLevel VERBOSE or LogLevel DEBUG to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarting the ssh server, and see if it gives you any more info. Thanks! That did the trick! Now there was an entry about tcp wrapper denying access in

Re: [gentoo-user] changing dvd - hdd on the fly

2008-02-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:39 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, I have notebook IBM TP43 and I have second HDD in the box. The box can be plugged in instead of the DVD drive. And I want to be able to switch these (HDD - DVD) on the fly (this is possible in windows so why not in Linux ?-) ). The

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:28 +0100, b.n. wrote: Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: Hi. I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering if anyone knows how many hours I will get out of it if I run Gentoo. I mainly use a bunch of terminals, gvim and some lightweigth gtk app so

Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-19 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: Ritesh Kumar ha scritto: On Feb 19, 2008 12:09 PM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:28 +0100, b.n. wrote: Lowe Schmidt ha scritto: Hi. I'm planning on buying myself

[gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
should be unnecessary for such a simple task. Long story short, can I somehow tweak the scheduler to be more aggressive when it comes to high nice-levels? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:29 +, Stroller wrote: On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. ... ... My problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:34 -0800, Grant wrote: I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:58 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:27 -0700, Jonathan Haws wrote: I am having a major problem right now with my laptop. I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but

Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 13:40 +0100, Erik wrote: Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove automatically when the file is modified? Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it should

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent/mkv

2008-03-07 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:00 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi ctorrent produced the trilogy in mkv format, as far as I can tell this needs modifying before I can burn. What's the best way todo this pls? GAVIN I suppose you want to create a video DVD (Mpeg2), or do you want a divx DVD? In any

Re: [gentoo-user] Bogofilter under Thunderbird

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
As far as I know, Thunderbird doesn't support external filters (imho a very big disadvantage). You could get around it by using a local mail server. If you find another way, let me know. I'm interested in this as well. On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:47 +0100, cypherstrong wrote: Hi, Do you know

Re: [gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:56 +0100, b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote: Hi, After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message: /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck

Re: [gentoo-user] Bogofilter under Thunderbird

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:11 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: As far as I know, Thunderbird doesn't support external filters (imho a very big disadvantage). You could get around it by using a local mail server. If you find another way, let me know. I'm interested in this as well. On Thu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount NTFS read-write

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 09:48 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:33:09 +, Stroller wrote: It's kinda late by my erratic bodyclock, so I'm assuming I'm doing something stupid. Can anyone slap me with a kipper, please? Don't try to write with the in-kernel NTFS

Re: [gentoo-user] jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:27 +, James wrote: Hello, I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and and old 4 gig ide disk: /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104400244 81% / /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot I have a 4 gig Cf card

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 16:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:35:32 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Dale wrote: | Chris Brennan wrote: | How come I

Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.

2008-03-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo onto. Bios is AMIBIOS. The system supports dual CPU but only has one. It currently has WinXP running on it fine. But every Linux install/boot CD I've run

[gentoo-user] graphic card driver status

2008-03-17 Thread Florian Philipp
? Is the closed source driver still such a pain to setup? How about VIA or Matrox? I'd buy an Intel but I don't think they produce AGP- or PCI-cards, do they? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:47 +, Stroller wrote: On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:10, James wrote: ... Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? Almost certainly not, I'd have thought. Aren't those boards just dumb pin-convertors? CF cards talk IDE.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 12:45 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's

[gentoo-user] Initrd-script questions

2008-03-18 Thread Florian Philipp
to ask... Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]nfs question

2008-03-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 18:37 +0200, ionut cucu wrote: Hi list! I want to share my files in my lan with various files systems. I've tried so far sshfs and now nfs but both have the following issue: should the router/hub go down, or one of participants to my inner-circle sharing buddies close

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-20 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something

[gentoo-user] WLAN performance

2008-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Can anyone tell me how I could find the bottleneck on my wireless network? According to iwconfig, both cards are cofigured for 54 MBit/s but I only get about 13 MBit/s, both on NFS and scp. Might it be the driver (iwl3945, rt61 from kernel 2.6.24)? Unfortunately, iwspy doesn't work on

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Playback Problem

2008-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 08:55 -0500, CJoeB wrote: Hi Guys, First, let me say that I did search this problem on Google. I found a somewhat relevant solution, but before I try it, I thought I would post here. The problem is jerky playback of the dvd when I try to play it using kaffeine.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 17:39 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant I work at the

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:44 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think?

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic video editor in portage?

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Grant wrote: I have some video clips I'd like to trim the beginning and end from. Is there a simple tool that will do this? I'm emerging lives but I think it's overkill for this. - Grant You could use mencoder (part of mplayer): mencoder -ss 1:10

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:39 -0500, Dale wrote: Grant wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? - Grant I think you can boot into

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 09:32 -0700, Grant wrote: On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance

2008-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:28 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using the iwl4965 driver which is included in the kernel 2.6.25-rc6. Everything works fine (Networkmanager, WPA2, etc.) The only thing I experience is a very bad performance. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but I am having some trouble with the initrd image. (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list,

Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:24 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded #

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 23:58 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, I have a Dell 1400 laptop. The touchpad can implement most functions except vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling and dragging (not only in firefox, and also other applications). I have followed this guide

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use torify Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large downloads is neither nice nor fast. I'd say, try http.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:13 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Thanks. FWIW, AntiVir,

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package to build install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:42 -0400, Richard Marzan wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:52 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these:

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:02 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: For custom scrips, you can add a preup, failup or postup-function to /etc/conf.d/net, there should be examples in the file. Something like pastup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then iwconfig

[gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-29 Thread Florian Philipp
[...] ___ I've read the warning in /etc/conf.d/cryptfs about /usr on a separate partition and followed their advice. However, the setup doesn't work. I'm not asked for the passphrase, the mappings are not created. What did I forget? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a plaintext file on /var. See below. But while we're

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied)

2008-04-07 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 20:09 +0200, Justin wrote: Igor Mikushkin schrieb: Hello! I have a problem. emerge -av eclipse-sdk failed with this: [ebuild NSF ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17 USE=X alsa -doc -examples -jce -nsplugin -odbc 35,525 kB Why the fetch is restricted? And

Re: [gentoo-user] mtune=k6-2 and a *small* upgrade

2008-04-08 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:43 +0100, Anthony Metcalf wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: � � But what else? Will mtune=k6-2 make executables that will run on an Athlon 64? Anyone tried this? Would I get to a point where I could make -e world

[gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-13 Thread Florian Philipp
whether tracker writes to /tmp or /var/tmp? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth-Hotspot

2008-04-15 Thread Florian Philipp
tried it though). Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Universal PPC ISO size?

2008-04-16 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 05:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm going to put Gentoo on my Mac Mini. No one ever uses the machine for anything. So much for OS X I suppose. Anyway, the 2008 beta, located here: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/2008.0_beta1/ is 745MB which doesn't fit

Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...?

2008-04-16 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 07:43 -0700, Bob Young wrote: I do have a second brand new 250G Seagate, is another clean install, with a *second* brand new drive the best alternative, or is some even lower level hardware (i.e. disk controller) the more likely culprit at this point? Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:54 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: As per the subject: I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have tried duplicity, but when many changes have occured, this is unbearably slow

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 20:05 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:54 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: I personally use dar and gpg. Dar can be used to make incremental backups which should partly solve your speed problem. Alternatively you could use tar and gpg or cpio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's why I use rdiff-backup

[gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread Florian Philipp
. It should work with a minimum of additional software, no KDE, minimal GNOME, XFCE preferred. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu use flags

2008-04-20 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 13:39 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an intel core2 duo (currently in 32 bit mode x86). Is there any reason why I should not set the following use flags. mmx, sse, sse2, ssse3 The last one would be a local flag for mplayer. proc/cpu indicates I have this

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth-Hotspot

2008-04-21 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 22:10 +0200, dexters84 wrote: [correcting top-posting] Florian Philipp pisze: Hi list! I could need some help. Long story (if you don't want to hear, scroll down): For six months a year I'm attending a university of cooperative education and although I

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 03:40 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 12:52 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Thursday 24 April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: === ... Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of dmesg | grep drm If I remember correctly, only =x11-base/x11-drm-20071019 worked

Re: [gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?

2008-04-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:15 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Thursday 24 April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: === On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 12:52 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Thursday 24 April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: === ... Yep, I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] automatically set default alsa card

2008-04-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:37 -0300, luis jure wrote: on my laptop sometimes i have to use the internal sound card and sometimes an external usb card. is there a gentoo way to make alsa automatically change the default audio device to the usb card when it's connected and active, and back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump.

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 19:56 +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Hal Martin wrote: I assume you want each piece of this file to be play-able? If you don't care about that, just use split to chop them up into your desired size and then use cat to reassemble them at the destination.

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:43 -0300, luis jure wrote: El Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:06:52 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: mencoder -vf harddup -ovc copy -oac copy -of lavf -lavfopts format=mov -ss 1:30 -endpos 3:00 -o output.mov input.mov explanation: [...] -ss 1:30

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:46 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:14 +0800, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 P2

2008-05-08 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:03 +, James wrote: Hello, I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class machines. Do the 2008.0 iso beta 2 cover this arch? If not, what is the recommend minimal cd to use to install these machines? James The P2 should be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is alive becomes tricky because the final is months late and little motion on the home

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:43:41 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP has inadvertently given us some valuable feedback, which stands on its own and is irrelevant with the fact that he (like many other non-gentoo users) had mistaken Gentoo for yet-another-binary-distro. Having a user

[gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm thinking about buying a BlueRay- and HD-DVD-combo reader. Can I use GNU/Linux standard software (mplayer preferred) to watch HD-movies or does its copy protection stop me from using it? If so, are there any workarounds? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-24 Thread Florian Philipp
, are there any workarounds? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp I think you have to run software to decrypt the DVD on the fly and then have mplayer read the stream. The decryption keys to older bluray titles are available but newer ones might need to be decrypted (rip the movie to your

Re: [gentoo-user] s2ram - on resume : iwl3945 Kill Switch On

2008-05-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 24 May 2008 12:47:35 -0300 Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, I'm giving suspend a try on my Acer Aspire and everything is working fine in both s2disk and s2ram, except from my wireless card Intel 3945ABG which refuse to work when system is resumed. After resuming

Re: [gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:15:34 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 May 2008, at 10:03, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I would avoid bluray until it gets easier to play. Hmm, on which features depends the encryption? Would a Windows Media Player in Wine be able to play it or do I

[gentoo-user] Java default Swing stile

2008-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
have here other than through the functionality in the programs themeselve? Or is it really the Java-VM who's dictating what's the default for a given platform (Windows/Linux)? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Java default Swing stile

2008-05-31 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:04:55 +0200 Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I've recently started both programming and using some Java applications (not that I would have a choice ...). Well, anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:24:57 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen an interesting site using Java for a long while. I recently stumbled across http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ and decided it would be nice to actually view it. I haven't had Java on my machines for

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-04 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:12:51 +0300 ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:37:28 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:24:57 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take Sun JRE. In terms of headaches per month, the quasi standard

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