Re: [gentoo-user] Cowon iAudio u5

2008-01-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 01:10:22AM +0100, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: Hi, I'm considering buying this mp3 player: http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u5/#specs The best chance you'll get an answer is probably from the Cowon forums. I own a JetAudio M3, and it is extremely linux

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:41:04AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and the like. Prefer command line/ncurses. One of my friends coded something like this once as a plug-in for XMMS. Can't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:27:24PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out |play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3000 - play soxio: Failed reading `-': unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:06:38PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: compile it, run it like ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - This works, sort of. Sounds like a dentist drill going in an out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out | aplay -t

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:22:00PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked OK, got it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ sox -t nul /dev/null sine.wav synth 10.0 sine 440.0 | aplay sine.wav Playing WAVE 'sine.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono Better yet (I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils speaker-test question

2008-01-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:20:48PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: speaker-test 0.0.8 Hum, that is rather old. Try upgrading alsa? The stable, unless you are on mips, is at least 1.0.14 W -- Four can study together, if three of them are dea... ~Daniel Jonathan Peng Sortir en

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils speaker-test question

2008-01-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:55:28PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Do you mean alsa-utils. Here's alsa: yes. Sorry for the confusion. localhost heathen # emerge -avuD alsa These are the packages that would be merged, in order: snip I note two curious things(at least): alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:32:02AM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: After running emerge -uD alsa-utils I ran revdep-rebuild and was greeted by page after page of this ... broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkabc_newexchange.so.1.0.0 (requires libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0

[gentoo-user] Qt3 and Qt3support

2008-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
What actually does the qt3support USE flag do on the qt4 ebuild? Does it enable some sort of compatibility library for qt3? For example, I want djvu with the djview viewer built, which requires the qt3 flag set for the djvu ebuild. Currently I have both qt3 and qt4 installed on my system. Does the

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: ... [blocks B ] =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) emerge --unmerge eselect-opengl eselect emerge --oneshot eselect eselect-opengl -- Yan Can Cook and George Lucas have a

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff command, but for RGBA images). I tried compare A.png A.png difference.png. This should obviously produce some kind of blank image because A.png and A.png

Re: [gentoo-user] Depgraph failure WAS audio gone!

2008-01-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:59:29PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Uh-oh, localhost heathen # emerge -auvD world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been !!! pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up after overdue -uD world

2008-01-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:01:26PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: Just wondering, if this all goes as planned, and I don't have to start answering my own e-mails again, I would like to clean up and dispose of about 2yrs of garbage on my HD.(The original install was via the 2006.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS emerge -uD world dies: Unable to build

2008-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:13:15AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: This gentoo user had a problem very similar to mine but since the conversation is in Chinese I was unable to determine the outcome. Maybe there's a clue in there that will help me resolve my issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:11:55PM +, Mick wrote: From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim installed? Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:21:49PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I routinely read $PORT_DIR/profiles/packages.mask after a sync to check what has changed recently and do something about it before it bites me in the ass Last rites and removals are also announced in GWN/GMN. W -- Willie W.

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based email clients

2008-02-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:05:58PM +0100, Penguin Lover Udo Kempen squawked: Jason Carson wrote: I am currently using squirrelmail. What are some other web based email clients I can try out? http://roundcube.net/ Be a man, and use a Java-applet-ssh-client with a cli mail client. Like

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: Either is good; however you are going to need a different MX host for your mail I'm afraid. Since hosts can't connect to 25 they can't send mail directly to you. COX probably has provided an outgoing relay host, but didn't expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:18:50PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dan Farrell squawked: I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid myself of this nonsense. Don't assume DSL will be better. They often

Re: [gentoo-user] No ping man page

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:12:47AM -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping? I know I've looked I have a ping manpage. There is a -doc use flag, which if problably disabled by default. USE=doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE=-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr) # equery depends pwdb [ Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb module, and if you do, warns you about it. I for my part just removed pwdb, and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Not so fast. Check to see if you do have the xattr flag enabled. In the kernel config probably? No, I mean the USE variable. The entry for attr is a conditional dependency: you don't need it if you don't have the xattr

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:58:03AM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: So, yes, pwdb is a runtime dependency. I don't actually run pam, so can't confirm what would happen if I remove pwdb. Holy shit, what's going on? The ebuild in the portage tree is different than the one in

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:17:35AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: emerge -n pwdb Actually, don't do that. Alan gave the right answer, but it seems that my portage tree was just a few days out of date. flameeyes just removed the dependency for pwdb from pam. (See my other reply for

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:53:57AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted partition then remade the file

Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Penguin Lover Amar Cosic squawked: I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? Thanks sudo chown -R your user the root directory of all the files the -R option makes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:02:28AM -0500, Penguin Lover sean squawked: I was updating my system and the nvidia drivers complained that there was no .config in /usr/src/linux. I looked at it was gone. This has happened before. Is this some bug? I am running on amd64. Unfortunately I do

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL CUPS and SMTP on port 587

2008-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:18:00AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: My ISP (Cox) blocks outgoing port 25 so I can't submit mail to my remote mail server. From what I understand, port 587 is commonly used to get around this. Can I have postfix listen on port 25 and port 587? Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

2008-02-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:26:28PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: ssh -p 443 -L :smtpserver:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and configure your mail client to send to localhost, port . Another alternative (depending upon how many ports you need to forward) could be to use SOCKS. With

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover Rumen Yotov squawked: You're welcome. What I'd like to know is in which universe portage could block bash puzzled It just sounds a bit daft, sort of like OpenOffice blocking mutt... Thinking about it, much of portage is bash-scripts,

Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and

Re: ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:34:54PM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:13:10AM +, Penguin Lover Steve squawked: Thanks for all your suggestions... I will look into fail2ban... that might be what I need... While I could crank BLOCKING_PERIOD for blacklist.py to an absurdly high value, this (AFAIK) will not persist blocks when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:39:15PM +0100, Penguin Lover Anno v. Heimburg squawked: It limits the number of new connections on each port in INPUT_LIMITER_TCPPORTS from any individual host to INPUT_LIMITER_COUNT within INPUT_LIMITER_TIME. My experience suggests that finding the right

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:20:27PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can be made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the original. I found this command online: gs -dBATCH -sOutputFile=4804SR-output.jpg -sDEVICE=jpeg

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:34:30PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Re-emerged gentoolkit. Now I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 [ Searching for packages depending on =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3... ] app-office/dia-0.95.1 (python? snip

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:57:56PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: So this page finally loaded today: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL#nVidia And it says: Please do as you are told and read the OFFICIAL gentoo website?

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:14:02PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: And, as I already posted twice now... I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05. Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen. Oops, sorry about that, short memory. This driver is NOT working with my

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:05:37PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: locutus ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE Current Operating System: Linux locutus.daevid.com 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 #3 PREEMPT Tue Mar 4 18:28:41 PST 2008 i686 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:17:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: I also have a nVidia 440 Go with the same problem. I fixed by including the line Option UseDisplayDevice DFP in the Screen section of /etc/X11/xorg.xonf. However, now I can't use an external

Re: [gentoo-user] midi problem - not working

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:25:05AM +0200, Penguin Lover Dimitrios Ropokis squawked: I emerge -ev kguitar with flag +midi +arts +oss etc, but it's not working, alsa and other players dvd-cd-mp3 etc ok, a litle help pls would be welcome, my laptop is a toshiba satellite a30, gentoo works

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for utility to send X low level events

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:40:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any programs that manipulate X events on a low level? I figure it will need to either record and play back events, or let me describe them in an editable file. I don't know much about the low level X

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do that? Put

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: on second thoughts, /me wonders if I might not be in Michael's killfile by now... That schmuck is already in my kill-file. But please, can we let this thread die? Must we all lower ourselves to the level of

Re: [gentoo-user] Attempting to compile (patched) Qemu

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:15:56PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked: A Google search pointed me to this Gentoo bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207833 Any ideas on why this may be happening? The only thing I can think may be causing this is that I'm compiling Qemu with gcc v4

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it is panicking, so I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows terminal to allow ssh into my Gentoo machine?

2008-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:31:56AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm forced to work on some windows machines for the next couple of days and want to find a simple app that would allow me command line access to my Gentoo server. Does anyone here know of one? I don't need anything more than a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:10:48PM +, James wrote: These cards were supported by the Nvidia legacy driver but now that's gone there is no support for these cards. So I guess I'd like to replace them with something that is open source on the driver, so as to keep support a long time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

2008-04-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista laptop use the printer. I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than it was in XP. However, it does not work at all -- I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] different strange kernel name - 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty

2008-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:05:07AM +0800, Penguin Lover Chuanwen Wu squawked: 1, Why I got a new kernel image(2.6.24-gentoo-r4-gb921d0de-dirty) instead of using the old one (2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty) ? As I know if I add/change something as modules, all I need to do is make make

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:43:09AM +0200, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ?

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
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 ebuild (partly because it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:52:10AM -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the following from the command line: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/'

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
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 was in the tree Oh.. that... I

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

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: It basically doesn't say you better upgrade to texlive before tetex goes in the /dev/null department. It says well, tetex maintainer steps down. That's very much different -someone could have stepped in and replaced

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

2008-05-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: * app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 merge time: 1 hour, 15 minutes

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

2008-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: On Tuesday 6 May 2008, 10:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:11:07 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}' This uses three commands when one will do,

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

2008-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:11:41PM +0200, Penguin Lover Justin squawked: your virtual p*n*s length: This should answer your question below. But just in case you are one of those male geeks who never get to experience the joy that is the American high school locker room: yes, the jocks do go

[gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / /dev/root 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / udev 10240

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:18:47PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: For me it started after the upgrade from baselayout-1 to baselayout-2. Same here. W -- omega says hi i think he might be sulking because he has fur ~S Sortir en Pantoufles: up 520 days, 13:42 --

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev squawked: On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:43:35 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15:49AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Hi group, This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season. I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up `du'

2008-05-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:49:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result) I've seen

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --search can't find local ebuild?

2008-05-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:34:10PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: On Wed, 28 May 2008 15:21:53 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I can't figure out why emerge --search can't find a local ebuild, but emerge -av can: The man page states: --search (-s) Searches for

Re: [gentoo-user] codec read/write errors

2008-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:02:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure writing to cs5535 codec Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure reading codec reg 0x7a,Last value=0x7a80 I've got no idea why this started nor what software is responsible for

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:32:39AM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: Jason Messerschmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've noticed an odd visual glitch with blogspot pages- it superimposes my desktop on some pages. It's a bit hard to explain so here's a pic. As far as I know it's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Penguin Lover Joerg Schilling squawked: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP asked a question about why a virtual has a certain default. I answered with the obvious answer which has to do with the point of view of the maintainer (who

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:16:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where is this suggestion mentioned? Is there a bug number? The Gentoo bug is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221141 Ah! Thanks. I see that there is another work

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:38:38AM +0200, Penguin Lover Michal 'vorner' Vaner squawked: Hello On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Mick wrote: Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: :set encoding encoding=latin1 I would guess your UTF-8 file has no

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
The following lines worries me a bit. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Penguin Lover Lingyun Yang squawked: Starting AP scan (specific SSID) Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6): 41 50 54 32 32 42 APT22B Trying to get current scan results first

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

2007-08-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Grant wrote: I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the password they've issued me has a '!' and a '' character in it. I tried escaping those characters like this: wput -A file.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] auto proxy config (Firefox, and more)

2007-09-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:26:43PM +0200, Penguin Lover Benjamin Graf squawked: I tried this as a proxy automatic configuration file (*.pac), but it doesn't work : snip At school, it works correctly (it uses the proxy when it is necessary), but not at home. I think the myIpAddress is maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails at ffmpeg

2007-09-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:38:31PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: eContext' is deprecated (declared at /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/libavcod ec/avcodec.h:2447)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:00:49PM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards squawked: You probably want to disable generic IDE support and enable the combined SATA/PATA stuff in the new one. The ATA stuff has been completely redone between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22. I just installed 2.6.23-rc[some number

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel rollback

2007-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:24:11AM -0300, Penguin Lover Danilo Marcelo squawked: yesterday i did a kernel update using emerge gentoo-sources, but i have other drivers, like ieee80211 and ipw2200 which was installed using old kernel. How can i rollback the kernel update? Can i use emerge -C

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:00:17PM -0400, Penguin Lover Mark Shields squawked: On 10/18/07, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A message body would help ;) Mark, I think this problem is on your end possibly. I got the following message just okay. On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:54:36PM +0800,

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible to compile PyQt

2007-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:24:19PM +0200, Penguin Lover econti squawked: Hi all, the upgrade of my system has had another stop. This time due to PyQt. I googled and found many problems regarding PyQt, but, because of my english, I did not understand what exactly to do. I'm not quite

Re: [gentoo-user] ssl timeout when downloading file(s)

2007-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:15:46AM -0600, Penguin Lover Eric Phillips squawked: I have gnutls and openssl installed, and have run revdep-rebuild. I am able to visit https sites, only downloads are affected. neither wget nor ping will work. wget returns unable to resolve name. however my

[gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-09 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, The situation: I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was not, but the change Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces string matching, as with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: The question: Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow force bash (in the script) to behave like before?

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:46:33PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with expr: - orig use with ~= : # if [[ test

Re: [gentoo-user] oggenc ogg flac files

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:25:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp squawked: Can anyone confirm that it is not possible to transcode ogg-flac files to ogg-vorbis although the necessary use flags are set (vorbis-tools +flac; flac +ogg) and the man page says it's possible? Yes, I just

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in gimp I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:09:44PM -0600, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: Alpha: rgba(0,255,0,1)#00FF Background color: black Transparent color: rgba(0,255,0,1) It claims that the background is black, but the gif doesn't show a background at all, and the BMP shows a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:55:02AM +0100, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: It's 4 years I'm using Gentoo and I can still be surprised by it. :) This doesn't look right. Why do devs upgrade ebuilds and do not increase the -rX versioning? Look at the Gentoo Developer Handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:57:40AM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have both USE flags and have *noticed* any problems. However, I prefer to avoid rather than fix problems. Can you point me at documentation for when one should have firefox and/or xulrunner USE flags? C.f. this thread

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:58:08PM +, John wrote: Whenever I logout my machine crashes to a black screen and is unresponsive. I cannot get into any terminals and have to reboot. It is a problem with my nvidia-drivers - have uninstalled nvidia-drivers and used X11 nv

Re: [gentoo-user] Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think there way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and Xterm in a X session on another machine. I may not have sound enabled... not sure right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:11:17PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm curious how'd you know it was readline related? Since it also appears in SSH, it is something wrong with the box, and not how you interface with it. You said Ctrl-v fixed it, so odds are that you are not in the wrong keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X Program to show tty messages

2009-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:39:58PM -0200, Penguin Lover Fernando Antunes squawked: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. I looking for a way to see/monitor messages sent to the tty when a running X programs. I tryed xconsole, but it only works

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

2009-01-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it is, the author of the message is certainly not a native English speaker. You have way too

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout and openrc issues from inside a vserver

2009-01-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:28:05AM -0800, Penguin Lover kashani squawked: I don't run the host OS only the vserver. The latest changes to profiles depreciated my old profile last night so I updated. I'm now using /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/vserver as eic-sync suggested. The

Re: [gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

2009-01-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:55:58PM +0800, Penguin Lover zhangwe...@realss.com squawked: zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ LANG=en_US abiword However this method doesn't work for firefox and thunderbird. Both always starts in German (note German is the last, a.k.a. least preferred language for me, in

[gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-20 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I need some help with my memory. Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found and on the TTY where I issued X init, a similar message is shown, but the message is not echoed in

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Hi list: I need some help with my memory. Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:39:32AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: Also, what is this MTRR cleanup option? I can't seem to find it? are you using a recent kernel? 2.6.27 or 28? Sorry for the late reply, I was having some problems with my mail. I am using 2.6.26 right

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote: Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the sys log: Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found

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