[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but I think it may have started with a recent update. (All updated packages are listed at the bottom) [...] i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild fixed that. Thanks... revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but all are related

[gentoo-user] Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I did try downloading the sources from:

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I

[gentoo-user] Re: Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread Harry Putnam
dhk dhk...@optonline.net writes: I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen.

[gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. Ditto in firefox. This was working. But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko installed but in the firefox settings/applications it lists:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- email_acco...@isp.com (reason: 550 5.1.0 nag...@myserver.mydomain.com sender rejected : invalid sender domain) -Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to smtp.ISP.com:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: I think you might avoid the problem by making sendmail Impersonate your isps domain. Using some or all of these settings in sendmail.mc MASQUERADE_AS(`yourISP.domain')dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`youractual.domain')dnl

[gentoo-user] Re: fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When using the line:    @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with    fetchmail -a from the commandline. May be I am a little

[gentoo-user] Re: Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using mplayer

[gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and right mouse. Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text (console)

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: [...] One assumes that console mode means he's not running X. That said, I presume gpm holds the answer. But, I don't run gpm and don't know much about it... James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com writes: [...] then edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button provided on the touchpad) but paste from

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button

[gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

2009-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in firefox. I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the search box where you

[gentoo-user] Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Do we have tools other than Konqueror that are aware of smb/UNK addressing? Before you answer please note that: I know about ssh I know about fuse I know about mount -tcifs I'd really like to be able to use UNK addressing from the cmd line. cd //host/share I don't now how many of you have

[gentoo-user] Re: Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Grant Edwards wrote: SNIP and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. I'm with you Grant. Mine doesn't work that way either. You guys do know that Bill Joy was lopsided drunk when he wrote the bulk of vi ... right? (or so it is said by oldtimers)

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-02 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 10/02/2009 01:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Do we have tools other than Konqueror that are aware of smb/UNK addressing? Before you answer please note that: I know about ssh I know about fuse I know about mount -tcifs I'd really like to be able to use UNK

[gentoo-user] about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
How to make eix search an overlay too. The manpage for layman says: You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on http://overlays.gentoo.org by using eix. Emerge the package and run update-eix-remote update. But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: [...] Well, it sounds like you know more about the subject than I do, but do you know about smbmount that comes as part of samba? Seems to me like that's what you're asking for. I had forgotten about smbmount but that too is not the same as being able to cd

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Emacs is said to be able to do this using tramp but I haven't ever gotten it to work. Konqueror can do it... but I don't run kde, and don't really want to fiddle with it in that direction. Midnight Commander can do it. Haa, there is an

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Hmm, Not commonly used, don't know. First versions of autofs date back to April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in Linux, it's there for over a decade now. At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Hi, I really wonder about this discussion. This tool can do it, that tool can do it, the other one, too. WTF? No problem, don't read it. Just mount the damn share and _EVERY_ tool can access it. So what? Settle down bub... you're not in a

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 17:31:28 schrieb Harry Putnam: `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander' Does it have a different name in portage? No, it has the same name as everywhere: mc ;-) Dirk, Your wisacre additions are really starting

[gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries will include overlays. Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it. However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on portage.

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: [...] Nifty, I didn't know that. Amazing what mc can do. Couple of points that are not obvious in case Harry wants to try mc: it needs to be compiled with the samba USE flag set; and you access your samba shares using the Right or Left dropdown menus at the

[gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: [...] It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how its done. Hi, Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it: * Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays, main

[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Walker n...@ep.mine.nu writes: Linux is much older than 1997... Not at all. [...] I really meant unix... where most of linux cmds and base tools comes from. But as people do unix/linux is often thought of as one kind of thing. [...] Hmm. Most of the people who used (actually, played

[gentoo-user] About layman... and the color output

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
New to layman but after at least a semi-careful look thru man layman I don't find anything explaining what the different color asterisks mean. I didn't read every word but scanned the whole thing twice and did a few searchs like /color and /output But those didn't do much good. Anyone know what

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linux as a first platform? Was: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: In separate posts, Harry Putnam wrote: I started my computer life on linux 1996.. only moved to windows for some things when editing video (I like the adobe tools... and linux just doesn't have anything remotely comparable.) ... I knew

[gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a console. I'll bite ... what is it?

[gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it Alt-SysRq and then REISUB And what is `SysRq' a reference to on a keyboard?

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Zhengquan Zhang zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com writes: 2009/10/9 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi, Gentoo users, I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show where a package is installed? which file is installed in which directory? Thanks a lot,

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi, Gentoo users, I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show where a package is installed? which file is installed in which directory? Thanks a lot, I'm not sure this is what you are talking about but

[gentoo-user] [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

2009-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I once was a KDE desktop user... Lasted quite a while. But over time I went to Xfce4 Been using it now a good while, but one applet from KDE is sorely missed. There was some kind of panel applet, that was URL aware. Any time you highlighted text that looked like some kind of URL, a dialog

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz writes: Then, whenever I know I have some url selected (I don't need an applet to tell me) I just have to press the key combination and off it goes. :-) Thanks for the input and example. The applet I'm remembering was very unobtrusive... the one recommended here

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
hp_sebastian hp_sebast...@supersein.de writes: xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-plugin Thank, that looks pretty flexible.

[gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
My profile has been ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of ln -sf

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7]

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Callen a...@gentoo.org writes: Harry Putnam wrote: In fact what does `developer' buy you? Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly for Gentoo Devs, people who are going to be doing

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you? x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited (tweaked) for that kind of usage. [...] Nice.. thanks I see I

[gentoo-user] Re: public mail server for ELOG?

2009-10-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes: [...] So I need a relay somewhere along with ssmtp to get a message to an email address? Yes, and I know of at least one that will work for you. If you have a newsguy mail account, newsguy's smtp servers will allow you to connect regardless of your

[gentoo-user] video capture from min-dv... kernel params

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
My windowsXP video editing machine where I use various adobe tools to capture and edit video, has lost use of the ohci ports, and seemingly the usb ports as well. I've been seeing problems with those inputs for a while and today, finally the machine simply is not `seeing' the video cam attached

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about it a few times. At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion of the symlink follows. It appears you are

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled. Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely correct. It is required only when you want to build something

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-) Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe. But I might yet acquire full rights to it.. So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at /usr/src/linux for files? For example, if

[gentoo-user] More about hal

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I have no `hal' installed. I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember

[gentoo-user] libsxlt and aclocal/autoconf failing during emerge

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt. First it failed on aclocal... I re-emerged emerge -v sys-devel/aclocal-wrapper Tried again and it failed on autoconf emerge -v sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper But that didn't help it ...

[gentoo-user] Re: libsxlt and aclocal/autoconf failing during emerge

2009-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 10/31/2009 06:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt. ... * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * /var/tmp/portage/dev

[gentoo-user] Re: libsxlt and aclocal/autoconf failing during emerge

2009-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 10/31/2009 07:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: ... /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/temp/autoconf.out * autoconf * * PWD: /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/work/libxslt-1.1.26 * autoconf configure.in:120: error: possibly

[gentoo-user] When masked pkg not in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it

2009-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
When a package comes up as masked in an eix search, they are usually found in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but if a particular masked package is not listed there... where else would it be. I see libtool is masked above version 1.5.26-r1, but is not in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask...

[gentoo-user] Re: When masked pkg not in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: failing that, look in /etc/portage/package.mask* Sure enough... I masked it.. but like Dick Cheney, I don't recall it. Ahh the joys of senility

[gentoo-user] Re: libsxlt and aclocal/autoconf failing during emerge

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de writes: Wait, but those are small 'm's. That means they must have been masked manually. As Alan McKinnon mentioned in your other thread (When masked pkg not in [...]profiles/package.mask, where is it), you might have an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask. My

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: You read the message, run @preserved-rebuild and x now links to the new y library. When everything in @preserved-rebuild has been rebuilt, portage knows that now nothing links to the old y library, and removes it. Alan, I haven't followed the

[gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have forgotten why I had it masked. I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could expect in the way of problems. Would I need to re-emerge just

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: Harry asked: Would I need to re-emerge just about everything? Volker answered: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gentoo+gcc+upgrade+guidel=1 Quoted from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml , | To be completely safe that your

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the past. And in fact, I didn't record my first builds on this kernel but I'm pretty sure my

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. Did you follow

[gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. So I'm back in the soup. [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters. Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. But even that, is a lesser problem than my kernel build ends up in a kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: There's no reason to use menuconfig after running oldconfig, If your old kernel was using all of the hardware, then the new kernel should, too, just with oldconfig. I don't know about that. I found a whole lot of stuff different when I ran menuconfig and

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
hamilton hamil...@pobox.com writes: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au writes: I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX requires) is deprecated. From the help on it: Do you notice some kind of difference from switching?

[gentoo-user] fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been fiddling with a new kernel, and have had several occasions to reboot lately. If I mounted /boot to cp the new kernel etc over, I have a problem on reboot for sure. Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot). Which means nearly

[gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this question there. Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X. What I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes: The 'make' man page wouldn't know anything about the kernel's makefile. You want the README file that's included in the top of the kernel source folder. That file says, among other things: make oldconfig Default all questions based on the contents

[gentoo-user] Re: Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of my packages that need HAL: I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: If it still won't work, you can also post your kernel config and the output of lspci -vv here and somebody will find out what's wrong/missing. Good input thanks. I did get it working. It was an IDE selection I missed. From the lspci -vv

[gentoo-user] Re: fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote: ... Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot). The first thing I would want to check is the motherboard battery. Is the time correct

[gentoo-user] [OT] Homebuilt Mobo bundles

2009-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
come-on and the price is like that all over. Is there anyone here who is willing to correspond with me privately about this project? Maybe someone who can vouch for some of the more recent equipment out there. Since gmane obfuscates the email address on From line here it is: Harry Putnam rea

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Homebuilt Mobo bundles

2009-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: One caution there -- newer computer hardware demands a great deal of power, and older power supplies may not be up to the task. Don't try to squeak by with a wimpy power supply. I thought maybe a mobo bundle would be a good starting place... I've been

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-07 Thread Harry Putnam
daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/4 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com: I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me

[gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I could be spending reading a good book, instead [1]. Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread. I'm with you Stroller. Although I do have to admit

[gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: configuring is easy. enable the hardware you have. disable the hardware you don't have. read the help to all options that are default on - do you really need it? Really? read the help to all options that are off but might be usefull

[gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it doesn't take long sometimes. Today I started from an OFF machine, booted up, started X did a few things A few minutes later I attempted to login via ssh from a

[gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not give that information (far as I can tell). In fact syscriptor cannot even report pci info and gives the message `cannot open /proc/pci'

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without opening the case. sys-apps/lshw Good call Neil, I found that tool shortly after posting. It gives as good as dmidecode

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of several machines, then getting my beat up old body into some

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net writes: On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling

[gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on either size or age? I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to rotate on more than one condition. I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more than 12 rotations for whatever

[gentoo-user] [OT apache] No cgi scripts work now

2009-12-22 Thread Harry Putnam
This machine was my local lan httpd server, but then I switched that functionality to an opensolaris machine... due to problems with a recent osol build I switched back temporarily. Meantime I must have allowed a new config to get setup ... maybe thru careless allowing of new conf files.

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync reverts to old file versions

2010-01-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com writes: rsync -vr --inplace --delete /path/to/music/ gr...@192.168.1.2:/path/to/music what OSs' are the hosts? I've had that happen a time or two when the source host was a windows machine, having something to do with the way windows handles permissions and dates.

[gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-01 Thread Harry Putnam
I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:32:07 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote. Provided the kernel has ecrypt support and the userspace

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want a back up offsite. The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped, mcrypt'ed on home machine

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:09:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it again? That way you don't need to rely on any encryption

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:27:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Then use rsync instead of tar, then you can mount the remote filesystem using sshfs and encfs to read individual files. It's a little slow as you are layering two FUSE filesystems, but quicker

[gentoo-user] Freeze up during X session

2010-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm experiencing a problem where during an X session the machine inexplicably freezes up... networking along with mouse keyboard etc. No access is then possible via ssh or any other way other than a hard reboot. I've attempted to debug the problem by first searching the logs. But not finding

[gentoo-user] Re: Freeze up during X session

2010-01-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: To exclude a software problem, try booting from a SystemRescue-CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server. Thanks for the recue disk tip. That are the problems that makes one crazy! Well put...

[gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work

2010-01-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is

[gentoo-user] Re: file system failure after emerge -DuN @system

2010-01-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc and udev again? Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file with vi. Try

[gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work

2010-01-15 Thread Harry Putnam
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have made it to the mail/news server] Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did

[gentoo-user] Re: What xorg pkgs needed for X to work

2010-01-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote: [Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have made it to the mail/news server] Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything

[gentoo-user] What role does dev-libs/boost play with encfs?

2010-01-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this, but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs. The home page indicates its something of a helper application for using cpp++ programming language and applications. The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there

[gentoo-user] Re: What role does dev-libs/boost play with encfs?

2010-01-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: If you *really* want to know what encfs uses Boost for you could, of course, examine the source :) But you really only need to know that it's a big C++ library that's used by encfs. Go grab a coffee or do a load of laundry or something. Good

[gentoo-user] Accesssing gentoo repostitories

2010-01-16 Thread Harry Putnam
In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with what portage is looking for and pushing those packages out to repos. I've already forgotten

[gentoo-user] Re: Accesssing gentoo repostitories

2010-01-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: In the course of a full reinstall I've run into several packages that appear not to be findable... watching emerge race all over the glob looking for certain packages...there seems to be some problem with what portage is looking for and pushing those

[gentoo-user] About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-16 Thread Harry Putnam
I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now. So my first question is what does do it?.. I have a nice desktop but no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes: Harry Putnam wrote: So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner understand how to utilize the new proceedure. xorg.conf still works fine with the latest incarnations

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now. So my first

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