Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-09 Thread Danis Petkakis
2009/2/9 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 01:37:00 +, Stroller wrote: ok thank you for your response...will do as suggested... The suggestion was not to top-post... He was replying to one of my messages, and I did not suggest that. No, although the response

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-08 Thread Danis Petkakis
almost always something waking it up if it's still mounted. It makes perfect sense you don't need to ask any further questions. Stroller. On 7 Feb 2009, at 19:19, Danis Petkakis wrote: you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep? because it is mounted

[gentoo-user] Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
appreciated... thanks in advance... Danis Petkakis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
2009/2/7 Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com Danis Petkakis wrote: hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power saving scheme as far as hard disks are concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not being accessed after a defined period of time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
it is working or not...how can i make sure it actually works? 2009/2/7 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Danis Petkakis wrote: 2009/2/7 Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com mailto:remy.bl...@pobox.com Danis Petkakis wrote: hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
to Danis Petkakis wrote: ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if the disk is in sleep mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up again...also 'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with 'hdparm -S12 /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

2009-02-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
in both drives i try to spin down i use ntfs as filesystem... 2009/2/7 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Danis Petkakis wrote: you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep? because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep? If you have a journalized file system, you may

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-30 Thread Danis Petkakis
well i did boot with windows cd did a fixmbr, then reinstalled lilo in mbr and now it seems to work...when i choose windows the entry of the ntldr shows up and then i choose to boot to windows without any problems...could i somehow put an entry in ntldr so that instead of booting to windows to

[gentoo-user] Kaffeine audio problem

2008-04-30 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there i try to play .mkv files with kaffeine but there is no sound...when i play some .avi files the sound is proper...also when i play .mkv files with vlc sound is also ok...what might be the problem and i don't have any sound in .mkv when using kaffeine?? this seems to happen only for .mkv

[gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-29 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there...i have a little trouble booting to windows from lilo...windows is on sdb1 and gentoo on sdc2...when i try to boot to windows i get an error ntldr is missing...my lilo.conf is as follows boot=/dev/sdb prompt timeout=50 default=Gentoo # Gentoo-2.6.24-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] Fusion-icon

2008-03-20 Thread Danis Petkakis
modules installed?? On 19/03/2008, birbilis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re-emerge dev-python/sip and probably all the python modules you have installed (?). There must be a script for this though i don't recall it :| Στις Τετ 19 Μαρ 2008, ο/η Danis Petkakis έγραψε: hello

[gentoo-user] Fusion-icon

2008-03-19 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i accidentaly unmerged python and borked my system...i managed to get my system back to work but since then fusion-icon doesn't work...here is what i get when running it from konsole jrn23@ ~ fusion-icon * Detected Session: kde *

Re: [gentoo-user] Fusion-icon

2008-03-19 Thread Danis Petkakis
, birbilis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re-emerge dev-python/sip and probably all the python modules you have installed (?). There must be a script for this though i don't recall it :| Στις Τετ 19 Μαρ 2008, ο/η Danis Petkakis έγραψε: hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-13 Thread Danis Petkakis
: On Thursday 13 March 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote: any ideas on what might have been wrong?? thanks in advance... I don't really know, because I have never used krusader, but see below: On 07/03/2008, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kdeinit could not launch '/usr/bin/krusader

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-13 Thread Danis Petkakis
that...it starts just fine issuing 'krussader' at konsole...however 'krusader /home/jrn23' gives me the same error you posted... On 13/03/2008, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5356 2008-02-03 22:47 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/konqueror

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-13 Thread Danis Petkakis
noticed it without your help...thanks again for your help... On 13/03/2008, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5356 2008-02-03 22:47 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/konqueror -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2106844 2008-03-07 21:28 /usr/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-12 Thread Danis Petkakis
any ideas on what might have been wrong?? thanks in advance... On 07/03/2008, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well revdep-rebuild -p gives no errors...i still reemerged krusader with the useflag debug and when i run it from konsole it gives the following output jrn23@ ~ krusader

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-07 Thread Danis Petkakis
it gives me the same error kdeinit could not launch '/usr/bin/krusader' ...something else i could do?? On 07/03/2008, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Danis Petkakis: hello there i'm trying to make krusader my default file manager...so when i'm double-clicking on a directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-06 Thread Danis Petkakis
yes that didn't help...any other ways of showing you some info on what might be wrong in order to solve this?? On 06/03/2008, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Did you restart your WM? Danis Petkakis wrote: | hello there i'm trying

[gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-05 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there i'm trying to make krusader my default file manager...so when i'm double-clicking on a directory it should be opened by Krusader...i try to set it up correctly in kcontrol-kde components-file associations-inode-directory and choose Krusader in the application preference box but when i

[gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-03 Thread Danis Petkakis
-- hello there i'm trying to make krusader my default file manager...so when i'm double-clicking on a directory it should be opened by Krusader...i try to set it up correctly in kcontrol-kde components-file associations-inode-directory and choose Krusader in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-03 Thread Danis Petkakis
some of these USE flags. You can loose more functionality than you might expect. Right? If yes, then I'm out of ideas except to contact vlc devs. On Dec 2, 2007 7:56 PM, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just compiled the latest unstable version but still the problem remains...any

[gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example the music that plays in the background and not the people talking in the movie...subtitles and

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 2, 2007 6:16 PM, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc and no sound...

2007-12-02 Thread Danis Petkakis
just compiled the latest unstable version but still the problem remains...any other suggestions?? On 03/12/2007, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i don't have the latest version of vlc compiled as suggested from the link you gave me so i will add vlc in portage.keywords for now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-18 Thread Danis Petkakis
i think that sda option might be removed for newer kernels and that you should go along with hdx...when you boot and you get the grub screen choose the entry of your new kernel and type e so that you can edit that entry...then you have to choose the appropriate root partition to boot with...i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with vlc

2007-10-18 Thread Danis Petkakis
check out this http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-600869-highlight-.htmlpost in gentoo-forums...there seems to be a problem with linking vlc with ansi although unicode flag is enabled and wxGTK aswell... On 18/10/2007, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:59

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

2007-08-26 Thread Danis Petkakis
(see the recent Rolling upgrades thread) ...excuse me but where can i find this thread to read about such automated procedures?? thanks in advance... On 24/08/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Samsung 971p

2007-08-16 Thread Danis Petkakis
would help me control the monitor or is ddccontrol all i need?? thanks... On 16/08/07, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 August 2007, Danis Petkakis wrote: hi there...i'm thinking of buying the tft monitor mentioned in the subject of this topic and i would like

Re: [gentoo-user] Samsung 971p

2007-08-16 Thread Danis Petkakis
could you point me to the right software if it is in your knowledge for colour calibration?? what other test tools might be necessary?? On 16/08/07, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 August 2007, Danis Petkakis wrote: post back.is there any other software other

[gentoo-user] Samsung 971p

2007-08-15 Thread Danis Petkakis
hi there...i'm thinking of buying the tft monitor mentioned in the subject of this topic and i would like to know how it comprehends with gentoo...i'm a little confused because the monitor doesn't have any switches to control it rather Samsung gives a software called magictune to do all of the