Re: [gentoo-user] Drafting or simple blue print creation

2008-01-18 Thread b.n.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Searching with `eix -S draw' Dredges up a lot of hits I'm looking for something to help me draw a simple mechanical drawing. Just a wooden rack for a 5th wheel flat top trailer. The only linux type tool I've ever used for something like that was xfig and

[gentoo-user] Cowon iAudio u5

2008-01-19 Thread b.n.
(I crosspost it here from the forums because I have no answers there...) Hi, I'm considering buying this mp3 player: http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u5/#specs What I don't understand, is if it's Gentoo-friendly. Cowon x5 and i7 units, apart from being high quality players, used to be

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-22 Thread b.n.
Jason Dusek ha scritto: I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought I'd share how I did that with everyone. Cool! Post it on the Gentoo wiki! m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome!

2008-01-25 Thread b.n.
Michael Sullivan ha scritto: I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome, and a whole bunch of error messages popped up. They all said basically this: There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global. (Failed to contact configuration server;

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam recommendation

2008-01-26 Thread b.n.
Mike Diehl ha scritto: I'm looking for an inexpensive USB webcam that works with both Linux and Windoze. Something that I can pick up at Walmart or Circuit City would be best. Any recommendations? TIA, -- Mike Diehl I think the Logitech Quickcam is the general answer to that question. I

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread b.n.
Cristian Gary ha scritto: probe VirtualBox . Any more info on how does it compare to vmware or qemu? m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xeffects overlay

2008-02-01 Thread b.n.
Qian Qiao ha scritto: b.n. wrote: Hi, It's a bit the xeffects overlay seems unreachable. I had a (admittedly brief) look on the web and it seems they are moving/rebuilding/refactoring it, but I had no info on how to find it now and/or when it will be back alive. Where can I look

[gentoo-user] xeffects overlay

2008-02-01 Thread b.n.
Hi, It's a bit the xeffects overlay seems unreachable. I had a (admittedly brief) look on the web and it seems they are moving/rebuilding/refactoring it, but I had no info on how to find it now and/or when it will be back alive. Where can I look for instructions? m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-04 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line

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

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
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 nothing heavy going on. All input appreciated My

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

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
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 a MacBook and I'm just wondering if anyone knows

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

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
Florian Philipp ha scritto: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even without its delayed disk write feature. Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact. :) 2. Displays are by far the biggest energy consumers. Lower its

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

2008-02-19 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Florian Philipp ha scritto: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even without its delayed disk write feature. Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact

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

2008-02-20 Thread b.n.
Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? I'd not be surprised if it did. Windows drivers work around buggy BIOSes all the time. Right. So, how can I know it? When I googled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread b.n.
maxim wexler ha scritto: Hi group, If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. New in Box! Don't buy it. You'll get the Dynex box alright and a new PS but it's just a run of the mill, noisy,

Re: [gentoo-user] using torrent

2008-03-03 Thread b.n.
Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, I have a couple of dvd's as torrent files.Will someone explain how to create the dvd's since I have found noclear help on the www. I inst. ktorrent but it hs no help. Just open the torrent files with ktorrent (File - Open) and let the program download the

[gentoo-user] kopete and msn contacts

2008-03-11 Thread b.n.
Hi, I switched from aMSN to Kopete to have a decent msn client that also works with gtalk. Unfortunately I found that kopete has some kind of bug with MSN contacts. It's apparently impossible to *add* a new contact (if I try, it says nothing just like it's working, but the contact is not added

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

2008-03-12 Thread b.n.
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 MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem is, my keyboard

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

2008-03-13 Thread b.n.
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 MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) And it asks me

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-02 Thread b.n.
Michael Higgins ha scritto: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:10:20 -0300 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, [8] i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint.

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions?

2008-04-10 Thread b.n.
Mark Knecht ha scritto: Pretty much the same here but this is old hardware and a complete emerge -DuN world would break the machine Why? I'm curious about that. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread b.n.
Hi, I have a problem with dvd playback/decryption. I'm trying to see a (Monty Python) dvd on my Macbook Pro laptop with Gentoo. What happens is: -mplayer segfaults -xine starts, and libdvdcss seems to find the keys. however it stops before reaching the menus, saying that the DVD is

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread b.n.
Albert Hopkins ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote: where could I look to understand what's different between the two systems? The DVD drive? :) I thought about that. However I wanted to be sure that I don't miss something at the software level, before accepting

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread b.n.
Hal Martin ha scritto: Is Mac OS X able to play the DVD? That should determine if it is hardware, not software. Right. I checked now and, yes, OS X reads the dvd fine. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:10:30 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: While I agree that this might not have been the most clever idea they ever had, I would like to point your nose to

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-20 Thread b.n.
Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Depends on what you mean with decent. I have a cheap Logitech and it works fine. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for ATI RAdeon HD3650

2008-04-22 Thread b.n.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: What would be the best driver for a ATI RAdeon HD3650 graphic interface ? Preferably Open Source. Thanks for sharing your experience Sorry if stating the obvious, but have you already tried this guide? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_RadeonHD m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-25 Thread b.n.
Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: On Thursday 24 April 2008, 18:54, KH wrote: USE=-ipv6 -ftp emerge -av mplayer To the OP: this is exactly the kind of thing that should be avoided. Yes, but also tell the OP that the correct thing is to edit /etc/portage/package.use appropriately... m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-27 Thread b.n.
Neil Walker ha scritto: Neil Bothwick wrote: I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge --sync. I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread. However, it cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: 1) Yes, switched to TexLive (on at least one box) 2) No, no problems that I can remember. Just need to follow the guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml and make sure to select the modules you need with USE flags. Whoa. I didn't know

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:16:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: Whoa. I didn't know anything about that. Thanks for you linking that. BTW, where should I have read the announcement of that stuff? Behold! The Power of Google! I wanted to test out the TeX Live

Re: [gentoo-user] Announcement of tricky upgrades stuff [was: lyx texlive]

2008-04-30 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:33:04PM +0200, b.n. wrote: ehm, I guess I wasn't clear. You *already* knew: - That there are texlive and tetex - That tetex was EOLed and texlive was the next choice - That tetex and texlive are mutually exclusive - That the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Brandon Mintern ha scritto: I had thought the same thing myself some time ago, and I discovered that there had been work on a FEATURE called confcache. I believe it was abandoned, though, due to major difficulties. This is merely a guess, but I think some of the problems arise in that some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many people

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved yet, so I won't bet on it. I'm not with my EEE right now, so, as soon

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-03 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... You

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: Since we've come this far, I really want to know what is your virtual p*n*s length: echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3/1024/3+}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x

Re: [gentoo-user] Today's sync breaks stuff

2008-05-07 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: Hi all, Here follows a quick heads up to save someone's hair (mine's been pulled out). If you emerge --sync emerge world today, make sure you do it the right way this time: 1. read the elogs 2. revdep-rebuild 3. then and only then, reboot. Better still, exit X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: Sorry, I don't see how firmware can affect sensitivity. I've been involved in writing firmware for RF data communications stuff for a long time, and I've certainly never been able to affect sensitivity. I can say that I was really struggling to get a reliable wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

2008-06-01 Thread b.n.
Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and override the results of all the 02locale and locale.gen things. Now one X restart later, k3b and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Second dvd/cd device confused with K3B

2008-06-03 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: Oooops, If forgot to include this information: l /dev/cdr* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrom1 - sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrom3 - hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrw1 - sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrw3

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Do you like to support software like cdrkit that is published by people who attack other OSS projects? If you like to get rid of the license debates, you need to help to prevent the license attacks done by the people behind cdrkit. I am just a victim of these

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-24 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg, you appear to be making a fundamental error of assumption. It looks like you consider that simply because you think this matter important (and in your life it probably IS important), that therefore it must be important

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing that lately? - Grant Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably it's me not having time at all to iron out

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-27 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: The URLs mentioned did point to disinformation from lwn.net that should be easily identifyable as incorrect claims. If such URLs are published without comment, I asume that the questionair believes the incorrect claims from lwn.net. Would you answer people if they

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-28 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: No, this is your assumption. Mine is the opposite - as I see it, the question is very real and the author admitted that he found those URLs using Google which implies he had nothing to do them. Could you explain me why he did not read the information on the cdrtools

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-28 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you continue to attack me? Do you really believe that this helps? Repeat with me, Joerg. No one is attacking me. Take a deep breath and repeat. No one is attacking me. Again and again and again. Joerg, really. You suffer

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-28 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you continue to attack me? Do you really believe that this helps? Repeat with me, Joerg. No one is attacking me. Just because you did not read it to it's end

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Mark Kirkwood ha scritto: b.n. wrote: (The other is your admittedly elusive attitude to release fully details on what happened, both on your webpages and this thread -for example, we still have *no* link about the supposed attacks you received *before* the relicensing, despite repeated

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, it is entirely possible that Joerg, despite his somehow weird behaviour, could be right. But I fail to see the strong evidence that should backup his strong statements. So you like to tell us that if a few people like

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a web of pointers to copies. I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public) mailing list thread(s) where you discussed with Bloch and you were attacked by him. Where is this thread? Bloch did run

[gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Hi, It is probably a dumb blunder of mine, but it seems that there is something weird with glib on my world file. emerge -pv world fails with: --- !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-libs/glib-2.16 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =dev-libs/glib-2.16 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: # #

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (9 February 2008) # glib-2.15 breaks some packages - dev-libs/glib-2.16.2 (masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Daniel Iliev ha scritto: How about if you remake your site and explain everything there. What happened (chronologically and in detail) and provide evidence. Remake it to be clear with simple sentences and easy for finding the information. Then provide means (as web forum, mailing list etc) for

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: And *why* does an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal? Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is applied to the system as a whole. Yes, I know. What I wondered, is if this is normal policy. It seems that an

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 30 June 2008, brullo nulla wrote: The block will in many cases affect only a branch of the dependency tree. For example, in this case it is all blocked because glibmm wants a masked glib. Portage knows that glibmm wants the masked glib, so it knows that

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a web of pointers to copies. I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public) mailing list thread(s) where you discussed with Bloch and you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be as direct as possible. Please, do the same. I've read your site but I could not find the info I'm looking for. Please, quote the following two lines and provide the relevant text under each of them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Matt Harrison ha scritto: I think it would be in everyone's best interests if we let this thread die now, I've been reading this thread for the past 2 or 3 days and frankly, it doesn't seem to be bringing anything of use to the ML. I don't want to get involved or takes anyone's side, but maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bloch could also well not give a f**k about your claims and maybe does not want to spend money etc. just to sue an upset programmer. I most probably wouldn't sue you, if I was him. You're tiptoeing around the main issue, that is: You

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread b.n.
This thread is getting depressing. I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3 beta on its flagship release. What's wrong? m. --

[gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled. It tells me to install Musicbrainz, but it's installed. What

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-20 Thread b.n.
Ryan Sims ha scritto: On 7/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread b.n.
icephere ha scritto: When I remove fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by emerge anymore... weird Probably the proprietary fglrx module is still not GCC-4 compatible. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!

2007-07-22 Thread b.n.
Ted Ozolins ha scritto: Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0.0.5

2007-07-25 Thread b.n.
fire-eyes ha scritto: i just want to ask if it's ok to update to the new firefox,or if it's a serious sec problem?... :/ thx... It's okay to update, as far as I know it's 2.0.0.5 and before (aka everything...). Your best bet is to not use the password saving features, install noscript

[gentoo-user] [OT] Want to test my little script?

2007-07-25 Thread b.n.
Hi, I just uploaded on Google Code a really simple but maybe useful Python script to convert CHM files into PDF files. As of now is not perfect at all (images are not converted, for example), but mostly it seems to work. Requires chmlib, pychm, htmldoc and pdftk (the script just glues

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?

2007-08-03 Thread b.n.
Grant Edwards ha scritto: Flashplayer 9 doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it in both Opera and Firefox, but for most videos (e.g. nytimes.com) it just sits there with the spinning loading arrow. Clicking play does nothing. Working here. I had a similar problem on a Kubuntu system,

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread b.n.
Christian Heim ha scritto: On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:12:51 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? Alexander Skwar It's being closed until further notice. why? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread b.n.
Walter Dnes ha scritto: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've got a few reasons for wanting the desktop to suspend, or

[gentoo-user] what's happening with kde ebuilds?

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, Coming back from the holidays I sync'd and when I try to emerge world, I find messages like that: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ~kde-base/kdm-3.5.7 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -

Re: [gentoo-user] what's happening with kde ebuilds?

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto: kdm-3.5.7 has been stable for 8 days. Most likely an overlay is overshadowing it (xeffects?). Complain to the maintainer of said overlay. Oh, yes. I forgot about xeffects -most probably it's the problem. Thanks for the hint. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, I'm getting quite desperate. My soundcard is a SiS onboard AC'97 as lshw shows: description: Multimedia audio controller product: AC'97 Sound Controller vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] physical id: 2.7 bus info: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
Mick ha scritto: Just in case this bares any resemblance to my earlier NIC problem, is your box also booting into MS Windows and did you run a MS Windows or OEM driver update since? No, it's a purely Linux box since 2004 :) m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-19 Thread b.n.
b.n. ha scritto: Hi, I'm getting quite desperate. My soundcard is a SiS onboard AC'97 as lshw shows: description: Multimedia audio controller product: AC'97 Sound Controller vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] physical id: 2.7

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
Hans-Werner Hilse ha scritto: Hm. That would include playing with those settings: Master switch, as you can see, digital output (Playback) is enabled, digital input (Capture) is disabled: Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined

[gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
Hi, Due to the age of my current desktop and to the latest woes with the soundcard, I'm planning of actually putting my old and slow AMD Duron 1800 at rest. I'm not that much an hardware guy, and my requisites are pretty simple. So, that's what I want: - A dual/multi-core CPU with good

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: - A dual/multi-core CPU with good virtualization capabilities (so to run everything I want under Xen, KVM, whatever...). No need for extreme performances. amd x2 Looks good. What mobo? - A matching, reasonably good mobo with a *perfectly ALSA supported*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: - A matching, reasonably good mobo with a *perfectly ALSA supported* soundcard or a reasonably inexpensive (60$) perfectly ALSA supported soundcard. It'd be good for you to explicitly state what your want from a sound card: stereo; stereo+subwoofersurround 7.1 all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: videocard too. onboard ;) I have an old but functional ATI Radeon 9200SE. Won't it work anymore? If there's something better, with decent 3D supported and onboard, let me know... m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: On Montag, 20. August 2007, b.n. wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: - A dual/multi-core CPU with good virtualization capabilities (so to run everything I want under Xen, KVM, whatever...). No need for extreme performances. amd x2 Looks good. What mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Audio system? (was: [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?)

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: b.n. brullonulla at gmail.com writes: Your suggestion makes me drool, but how much does a 5.1 setup cost? And how much space does it take? It could be best money I can spend, but my Italian Ph.D. student wage is REALLY low. Well you can find a mobo with 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-20 Thread b.n.
b.n. ha scritto: I think I have to try with the Portage alsa drivers. Ok, alsa-driver does not compile. Now I feel really lost. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Audio system?

2007-08-21 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: for example in /usr/src/linux/sound/pci I see this driver: intel8x0.c Looking at the comments in the driver: ALSA driver for Intel ICH (i8x0) chipsets This code also contains alpha support for SiS 735 chipsets provided by Mike Pieper [EMAIL PROTECTED]. We have no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-21 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: - supported Intel onboard video card with its own video RAM - good supported onboard audio with 5.1 surround you can not put an amd chip on an intel board a vice versa. *bangs on his head* - of course... This thing is becoming harder than I thought. Buy new

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-21 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: Why not go to a friend how nows about hardware and let him built a pc for you? or ask your friendly hardware dealer? Definitely what I will do at last. I hoped it was easier, so I thought to ask here, but it is not. I learned a lot anyway, so this hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-21 Thread b.n.
Hans-Werner Hilse ha scritto: Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:09:39 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b.n. ha scritto: I think I have to try with the Portage alsa drivers. Ok, alsa-driver does not compile. Now I feel really lost. But the error isn't I won't compile., isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-22 Thread b.n.
James Ausmus ha scritto: Just as a note - the Intel HD audio driver is a different driver than the intel_8x0 driver (Which is more a generic AC97 driver that supports Intel 8x0 chipsets, SiS, nVidia, AMD, and ALi AC97 compliant sound chips) - from the sounds of your experiences, I wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-22 Thread b.n.
Hans-Werner Hilse ha scritto: Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:05:59 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Managed to install alsa-driver (the unstable ones were needed). Nothing changes, except that now PCM has no volume bar, too. Sorry, I'm now left to some shots in the dark: Re-emerge alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-25 Thread b.n.
Mick ha scritto: FreeSBIE, This is a FreeBSD live cd. Is it possible to install Gentoo from FreeBSD?? b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised. As for the keyboard, I'd try booting with clock=tsc option. I had a letters repeating problem solved that way on an old

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread b.n.
Walter Dnes ha scritto: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote One problem down and one to go. I can get a limited shell. It doesn't have lspci or fdisk. I want to see what shows up with lspci -v and fdisk -l. I have a floppy if that helps. Why a limited shell? The gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread b.n.
Alex Schuster ha scritto: Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread b.n.
Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto: On Sunday 26 August 2007 23:25:48 b.n. wrote: By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? 1) Nothing does depend on expat-2.0.1. A lot

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread b.n.
Shaochun Wang ha scritto: Hi guys: I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software consumes five hundrend Megabits of memory? On my

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-28 Thread b.n.
Dan Farrell ha scritto: If you change the alsa driver source ,you may want to uninstall, then reinstall alsa-utils after clearing /etc/asound.state. But i do think Hans is onto something here... Solved. It was actually a very mundane hardware issue (cables). And yes, Hans is right. At

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread b.n.
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:39:44PM +0200, b.n. wrote: His knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary has nothing to do with the actual *contents* of his mail, it has to do with just the errors of spelling and grammar. I'm sure he would have done the same

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread b.n.
Dan Farrell ha scritto: On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:41:39 +0200 brullo nulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, Intel onboard videocards were well supported open source... They do a really nice job on 2D in my experience. But if you are accelerating 3d opengl in hardware, like glxgears for

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