Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Wolfgang Liebich wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich wolfgang.lieb...@siemens.com wrote: Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install uvesafb from this page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ However, it does not work. Is it required to use initrd

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc, two problems

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Hi! I use ~amd64. 1. Just after synching I have: emerge -pvDuN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-4.2.4-r1 [4.2.4]

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Wolfgang Liebich wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Wolfgang Liebich wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM, rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb as a module. Oops! Compiled it as Y instead of M and now I have a pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Build failure hwinfo both stable and testing

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:04 PM, rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I tried to install hwinfo today and failed with the latest ~hwinfo-14.19. I couldn't make anything usefull of the failure message so backed off to the stable version 13.28. I got the same failure so wondering if anyone can make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look squished in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from terminus-fonts) and it's pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver version in gentoo-sources

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: How to determine? cat /usr/src/linux/include/sound/version.h (replace linux with specific version if not your current) Also you can see the currently running version with: cat /proc/asound/version

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, I'm not used to seeing all the additional messages below the blockage indication. Can someone possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith tfn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when clicking the Create a new virtual machine button. It gives no error nothing it just quits the

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, John Smith tfn...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith tfn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19 Jan 2009, at 20:36, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-19, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I would favor the original (with Alan McKinnon's change). It is somewhat wordy but this issue has caused

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net wrote: 2009/1/20 Alejandro elcorreode...@gmail.com 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
the exact same problems when using the 32-bit flash in 64-bit pluginwrapper If you're not using that setup, then ignore this message :) Paul

[gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
I've got USB Suspend/resume support in my kernel, and according to the kernel docs the usbcore.usbsuspend default delay is 2 (powertop suggests changing it to 1). Powertop's refresh delay is 5 seconds. Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, b.n. brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the last few years is that there is a _anxiousness_ in the portage

[gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
in the first place? Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
know what that translates to in your machine speed. I have 6000 bogomips for each core according to /proc/cpuinfo (I know it's not a benchmark) Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-21, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: (I believe my OOo emerge just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much further it's got to go Latest OOo 3.0 source compile for me took

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: I'm using the online denyhosts synchronization database, I think that may negatively affect how often it blocks hosts locally, because it waits until it does a remote sync to scan the local file

[gentoo-user] Better way than ifplugd?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
-ending polling of eth0 can't be good for my laptop battery life... Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: The shared list of attackers doesn't have anything to do with it. Denyhosts checks the logs every X seconds. I think 30

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
repeated failed login attempts? Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for login attempts? The most

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for java to work? Which java

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
is a wiki article about removing PAM: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Remove_PAM good luck :) Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set WindowlessDisable = 1 and see if that helps. Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I researched my error: $ firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to change this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
). But I appreciate this is less elegant than just using the same swap partition for both o/s. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 There is a registry setting in Windows to clear the pagefile.sys at shutdown. What does clear mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I don't know. Paul

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 23 January 2009 22:22:17 Paul Hartman wrote: I essentially want it to work the other way around. Deny access by default unless there is an allow rule. I don't think I can do that, though. If I put ALL: ALL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote: ... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 There is a registry setting in Windows to clear the pagefile.sys at shutdown. What does clear mean? To overwrite with 0

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to port 22 and got the expected bombardment

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After setting up public key

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
... works great. Whenever I'm running low on space I run it and it zaps a few gigs of unneeded stuff without deleting the distfiles of active packages. Paul

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
a user for it and run it under that user account so it can't touch anything else. Also, a lot of more simple programs don't even need to be installed. Just untar it, configure it, make it and run it from the directory in which the source resides. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Writing an ebuild is best, but sometimes you just want to give a program a try without writing an ebuild (like everyone else running Linux does

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
97-2003 (binary .doc) format. I think Go-OO has an odf-converter program that can convert OOo documents to OOXML but I don't think there is a gentoo package and last time I read about it, it was very raw (you'll lose data/formatting when converting). Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net wrote: 2009/1/26 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Other than Office

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to mask the package? The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
for sharing documents.. You can even have multiple people editing in real-time and see each other's work. It's kind of fun, and all you need is a web browser. Again, irrelevant to the OP since he can't change his company's policy... but good to keep in mind for anyone who can :) Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1691 (89728-89777)

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Pitkin wrote: unsubscribe Didn't work did it? Try gentoo-user+unsubscr...@gentoo.org and follow the instructions it sends you back. Or read the headers. Specifically: List-Post: mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Daniel da Veiga danieldave...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 15:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Paul and Alan for your advices. OT: For me it's hard to drop amarok because I cannot find all of its funtionality in one player. For now I'm using mpd+sonata. They're great, but it's just not the same. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage cruft removal

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: If you are installing a package by hand and wants to revert back to the previous state, best is to : - when you ./configure it, use the various --prefix directives (do a ./configure --help for information on that) - when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort of a mess so

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:30:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be unmasked. emerge autounmask.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net wrote: 2009/1/27 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: My dad

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was surprised too. My laptop and the remote system are 15 feet away from each other on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
param value Are we talking about the same thing? iw: nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng - Grant Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
param value Are we talking about the same thing? iw: nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng - Grant Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. Paul I've got aircrack-ng installed and I get: # emerge -pv iw These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? Does WPA2 require

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
-entry-client.html http://www.symvpn.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductId=17 I believe Windows Mobile devices have VPN support built in, but I've never tried it. For iPhone or other phone OS i have no idea as I've never actually used them. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
-ng start wlan0' does put wlan0 into monitor mode (as verified by 'ifconfig') but I don't get any airodump-ng results unless net.wlan0 is started. Does madwifi-tools not work with ath5k? I thought it was compatible... The previously mentioned iw package might be able to do it, too. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow small...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks for all the asian characters. I've been through the gentoo documentation utf

Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 090129 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow small...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 This page works fine on default fonts of other distros

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE=kdeprefix kontact semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook 0 kB [ebuild NS ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca fa...@free.fr wrote: reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote: reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add an entry

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman-3 wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy (cp) my whole root-dir

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: . [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: Hi all, i just had the idea to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful to that OP. I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:34 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta but it takes next to no time instead of hours and hasn't build the binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Stroller wrote: ... Bigger than my monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. ... This is definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:15:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality reconstruction, where GL, *fps* and such are needed, used, told about.

Re: [gentoo-user] ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's this:

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD RW (recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:04 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello SATA or Eide on DVD rw choices (internal unit). Any cheap DVD rw that have success writing to the many forms of rw DVDS, that one would recommend? Any bands (plextor?) to avoid on gentoo? I think they should

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:29:01 -0800, Grant wrote: Is portage supposed to pick up on this with 'emerge -avDuN world'? Not if these are build-time dependencies, in which case they'll only be picked up when you use

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:29:01 -0800, Grant wrote: Is portage supposed to pick up on this with 'emerge -avDuN world'? Not if these are build-time

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone once in awhile. Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages that don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's advantage: optimized for your system -- huh?

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's describe as a system similar to BSD ports where you build packages from source. The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get better performance because all executables

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
/secure-entry-client.html http://www.symvpn.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductId=17 I believe Windows Mobile devices have VPN support built in, but I've never tried it. For iPhone or other phone OS i have no idea as I've never actually used them. Paul It looks like those 3 do work on an N82

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone once in awhile. Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of

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